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Speaker 1: Good evening. I'm Bob Lonsbury, and from the banks of the mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York, this is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. They got this thing called the Law of Unintended Consequences, which means when you do this, you might be surprised that that happens. And while you think doing this is a good idea, you don't want that to happen. Well, you do this, and that happens, and sorry, Charlie. That's the way the cookie crumbles. That is the law of unintended consequences. And you bite it off, you got to chew it. This is, in my mind, because of some numbers that are out. China, last month in September, had a trade surplus of $ 133. 5 billion, which China, a nation very accustomed to trade surpluses, it's the second highest they've ever had. And it comes after a summer of dramatically increased trade surpluses for China. Now, if you're China, that's a very good thing. That means that the net wealth of your nation was increased by $ 133. 5 billion last month alone. Why is this happening? Well, To be honest with you, it's because of American tariffs. That's the most plausible explanation. We have been engaged in this trade war for a little bit since President Trump came back, and it has had an interesting effect upon world trade. It has served as something of a disincentive for trade to between the United States and other portions of the world. We put taxes on their imports to us, and they put taxes on our imports to them. And all of a sudden, doing business with us in an international sphere becomes less desirable to them. More expensive for them, more expensive for us. And so that tends to choke off a little bit of life. They still have commercial needs, stuff they want to buy. There are still things that they are making and producing. And so in the face of President Trump's tariffs, sort of the world trade system has reconfigured itself a little bit with an eye toward stepping away from the United States and avoiding the entanglements and uncertainties. Well, in this world, which is kind of bipolar, sort of like you, there's us and there's China. And if you're not, you know, doing the slow dance with us, there's a really good chance you're doing the slow dance with China. And so the tariffs of President Trump have not yet positively impacted our, you know, balance of trade. They have, however, damn it, had that unintended consequence of significantly improving China's balance of trade. And that's not really a desirable thing if you look at the world as a contest between us and them. Because as we hemorrhage money with our trade deficit, which has astoundingly only grown over the last two years, they are importing money through their trade surplus. And at any rate, that's where things stand. I hate to be the bearer of, I don't know if that's bad news, but it sure ain't good news. That is the way it is. And so anyway, there is that. I wanted to say a little something about Pope Leo. We spoke earlier today to a surgeon from over at Roswell Park, the chief of thoracic surgery over there, about what the Pope probably went through and, you know, what, you know, prognosis might be. What he went through is a lot clearer. Prognosis, like what's coming in the future, is dependent upon, you know, what stage was the cancer? Had it spread? What additional treatment might he be in line for? But, um, The basic lung operation that he had would have involved an incision between a couple of his ribs. They would put a device in there that would allow them to visually inspect the nodule. They probably would have ascertained by looking at it, yeah, that's a cancer. So they make a decision, what are we going to do? The decision was, let's take out this part of this lung, the lower lobe of the right lung. That's too... get any that might have spread. And so that was taken out. Probably also, they would look around inside him with their little device and try to find a lymph node here or there to bring out to send off to pathology as well to see if there's any cancer in there. The Pope, for a while, will probably feel like he's a little short of breath. He will have lost some of his tidal volume. The amount of air he could inhale is reduced by the amount that would have gone into that lobe. He'll have pain at the site of his incision. And if he laughs or coughs or sneezes, such like that, that will also cause him pain. It probably will be about three or four weeks before he could return to work. The report is today that he is up and walking around his room and that he took some food by mouth. And those are all right about where he's supposed to be. And again, I am not a fan of the man's politics and I don't belong to the man's faith, but he seems like a good fellow. And he has worked hard. He's traveled a lot of places. He wants to travel a lot more. Where he goes, very large numbers of people gather and they gain inspiration from him And he has a good and important work to do. And, you know, we all hope and pray that his health and life will be preserved, that he might engage in that important work and benefit people in our world as a result. This is downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Section 3rd Platoon, the debate between the governor candidates, I know this will sound stupid, but I really liked it. I thought it was useful. I thought that both of them did well at presenting their side of things. She talked about Trump a hell of a lot, no doubt about that. And I thought it was two heavyweights. I thought that it was a debate worthy of a great state like New York. Two accomplished people. Again, one of them I agree with, Blakeman. The other one I think is full of crap, Hochul. But If you're a Hochul supporter, you probably think she did a great job. I'm a Blakeman supporter, and I'm damn sure that he did a good job. And so if you somehow haven't decided yet who you want, and if you watch that debate, you saw who he was and what he stands for, and you saw who she was and what she stands for. And that's the purpose. I also thought I also thought that they seemed to have a little, I don't know if respect is the right word, and they both would probably bristle at it, but he'd let her go off trashing him, and then she'd stop, and she'd let him go off trashing her, and then he'd stop, and then she'd trash him and stop. And they didn't talk over each other. They didn't try to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. They understood it was going to be a back and forth. They let it be a back and forth. At one point, he apologized for talking over her. And yeah, I just thought that I was looking at two alphas. One, a common sense American, the other a commie lib, but they were laying out what they believe in. And I thought that they both did a great job. If you were listening to the audio, if you were watching the video, And forgive me for being shallow. You all know I'm shallow and dumb, right? Okay, I mean better looking than you and smarter. And I have a more pleasant aroma about me. But dumb and shallow. But I could not get over, and forgive me, Kathy Hochul, that frigging hair and makeup, right? Right? Maybe we live in an oppressive society where women feel like they have to wear makeup, right? But in my life, I don't see very many women with makeup, right? My wife doesn't wear it. My daughters don't wear it. The ladies at church don't wear it. The moms I sit by, at soccer games, they don't seem to be wearing it. So I'm not condemning it. I'm just saying I guess I'm not used to it. Okay? But like... Kathy Hochul last night, and this isn't her. She probably doesn't do her own makeup. There's probably somebody gets paid damn good money to put that crap on her face. That person right there ought to be deported or something. I don't care if they're citizens. We can deport them anyway. Send them to Canada. Anyway, her hair dye is so unrealistic, so one color, so not the way human hair is, that it demands your attention. And distracts from, I presume, what she's trying to say. Now, people go gray. A lot of people do. Okay, that's fine. Some people choose to dye their hair. Okay, that's fine. It's your hair. Knock yourself out. But any number of ladies at any number of beauty parlors can do a real good job of dyeing your hair, right? We're around people. I don't know if men dye their hair so much. But if a guy dyes his hair, I think we tend to tease about it a little bit. Hey, Grecian formula, you know, like that. A woman dyes her hair. We don't notice, right? But there clearly are a lot of women all around who dye their hair. And it looks fine. It looks normal. I mean, the ladies at the beauty parlor do a good job. Why one of those beauty parlor people can't be up here with Kathy Hochul, I don't understand. Hers looks like crap. And she's got those eyebrows like, hold it, did someone do that with an X-Acto knife? How can it be that precise? And the lipstick, it's like, you know what, when those angels, what's the ones that fly down to Washington, D.C. because they're veterans, right? On her flight, there's always going to be some lady dressed up like it's 1942, and she's one of the Andrews sisters, and she's going to have funny hair and way too much red lipstick on, and she's going to kiss all the frigging grandpas on the cheek and go, ha, ha. Right. Oh, my gosh. You are not Betty Boop. Keep your lips off me. But it's like Kathy Hochul had that same friggin type of lipstick on. And you want to say, again, I'm not going to vote for her because of her friggin policies. All right. And the party she represents. But and I don't care what she looks like. And, you know, she wouldn't care what I look like. But this is on TV now. And it just, again, forgive me, it was to me very, very distracting. So I'm thinking about trail cameras. No good reason for a trail camera in my world, right? I've got this tiny little piece of land, seven acres of hillside swamp, the country land, right? And either a deer walks through or it doesn't. That's it. There's no, well, I've been studying their lifestyle, Bob, and at 10.30 in the morning, the deer will take a leak over here and then walk over here and rub their antlers on this tree right here and then come up into this thicket here where they will copulate madly. I'm not peeking in the window. I don't know what the hell they do. I just know that I'm going to sit in the woods, and if one walks by, I'm going to shoot it. And yet, I also think, wouldn't it be cool to have some pictures like of the deer? So at any rate, we've had trail cams before. And you have to go out every week or so and get the little card and take it back and put it in your laptop. And I'm bored already. Oh, look, there's a picture of frigging deer. And then you got these frenziers. Hey, look at the app on my phone. And you can like see frigging deer in their woods right now. It's like, how could I do that? So anyway, I'm thinking about maybe getting one of those. Not to plug a sponsor, but I saw them advertised at Hep Sales North Main Lumber on their website today. And I thought, I might get one of those. I don't know if you have to, like, get a phone line for your camera or pay some fee or whatever. Anyway, so at any rate, that's where my mind and attentions are right now. Deer in the woods and what the hell is wrong with Kathy Hochul's hair and makeup. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I think that New York City was America's first capital. It was somewhere in the early pecking order, whether it was New York City or Philadelphia or something like that. But I think it was for a while New York City. Do you think that those people back then, when they were wearing them crazy three-corner hats, do you think that they ever thought that one day, right there where they were then, that it would be illegal to have a horse pull a cart? Right. It's 1776 or something like that. And someone is having some kind of looking into a crystal ball predicting the future and said, hey, this is going to freak you out. But one day there'll be a Muslim in charge here. I think they back then called them Muslim or Mohammedans. But there'll be a Muslim guy here from Uganda, which is like not even around here. And he will outlaw horses pulling carriages. You got to think that maybe some of the guys in the Revolutionary Army would have said, eh, not sure I want to fight for that, okay? Good luck, George. Let me know how this works out for you. At any rate, this is a reference, of course, to Zoran Mamdani, who has solved a thorny political issue in New York City of several long years standing, agreeing with city council to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city of New York, particularly around what you call Central Park, where any number of people have proposed marriage, kissed passionately, and enjoyed the clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop of the horse's hooves upon the pavement. The enlightened people of New York City have discovered that this is inhumane, and it also disrespects the horse's. And if there's one thing New York City wants to be known for, it's respecting horses, right? And again, maybe it's because I'm a frigging idiot and I'm from the Southern Tier, but not too many days pass in my life living down in Mount Morris that I don't see a horse pulling a wagon somewhere, right? Usually there's some guy, last name a Yoder, first name Jacob or Isaiah or something along those lines. who's driving the horse and buggy. And he's got his dear bride and their kids in there and they're going about their business, living their lives. You drive past this pasture here, you can see some of the beefier horses. And in another season of the year, they'll be pulling the plow or big giant hay wagon or something along those lines. And these horses don't seem to be victims of man's oppression. They don't seem to be mistreated in any way. They look healthy. They got a lot of flesh on them. They are objectively beautiful, right? And as they clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop down the shoulder of the road, it actually seems to be sort of a sweet and wonderful thing as opposed to something that ought to be illegal. One horse died this year in New York City, and so horse carriages have to go. 51 horses have died at racetracks across New York this year, yet no one is suggesting that racetracks should go. The reason being is that racetracks, unlike New York City, are not run by idiots. They're run by people who are familiar with the real world. Human beings have used horses both as draft animals to pull things like carriages and as animals to be ridden for some 5,000 years. cultures around the world as the horse spread have taken to them naturally and well. And I don't think that that is a sad, heartbreaking story of human abuse of animals. I think it's a wonderful partnership between two species, Homo sapiens and whatever the hell you call a horse, right? In New York City alone, until about 110 years ago, the prime means of conveyance was a horse. In fact, until about 110 years ago, the prime means of conveyance across the United States was a horse. And again, I don't believe that that was some act of continental or continent-wide animal cruelty. I think that humans have learned how to deal with horses effectively and well. And, you know, Jesus, I think, rode into Jerusalem at the beginning of Holy Week on the back of a colt, the foal of an ass. And while a donkey is not the same thing as a horse, it's pretty damn similar. They look a lot alike, don't you think? Yeah. And further, Mr. Mamdani, being a Muslim gentleman, I looked up, did the Prophet Muhammad, is there any record of him having horses? There are names for 14 different horses that Muhammad had. He not only had horses, he chose to name them, And those horses and their names were significantly important to him and to his followers that they've been recorded by history for more than, what, a thousand years or however long Islam's been around, 700, I don't know, however long it was. But it would seem to be, must be those people thought having horses was okay and nothing inhumane or improper about it. Sometimes people can get so smart that they get stupid. Ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth And so it is with our enlightened friends down in New York City. Having horses, using them to take people around parks is inhumane and now illegal. And you just shake your head. Fortunately, there are other cities not quite as stupid as New York City yet, and they allow for these horse-drawn carriages. And you'll have to find one of those cities somewhere and go take yourself a ride. But... It is unfortunate that the capital of America so frequently becomes an example of some of the dumbest thinking we have in our country. It's unfortunate when those who are most prominent are leading us into the paths of foolishness so ardently. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I had sort of a funny coincidence over the last couple, three days. Two of my sons-in-law, both of whom are combat veterans, sent me an episode of a podcast they recommend I listen to. One of them was in the Navy, commanded an EOD unit over in Afghanistan. The other was in the Army, was an infantryman, a paratrooper, and went to Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria. At any rate, each of them had come across this podcast and thought that I might be interested in it. So blip blip in consecutive days there in a little text was a link to this podcast. Well, I start listening to it. It was the Sean Ryan show. I guess he interviews military people. This is the only time I've heard him. Um, and in this one, he doesn't do a very good job, but he has an excellent guest, uh, a guy named James Lechner. And, um, uh, so I'm driving down the road, you know, getting my commute in and I'm listening to this podcast and the Lechner guy right out of the box sounds really squared away. A retired Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army. Uh, he's been there, done that, uh, uh, all over the world. starting out in Somalia, Blackhawk Down. He was on the ground there for that. And he's hit all the big ones since then. And he's telling his story about how he's coming up and such like that. And he mentions in there that he's from Chile, New York. And I go, whoa. And then I go, Lechner. And here's the thing. I am really bad at names. and I've not gotten better with time. Um, and, uh, but I go, hold on. I, Lechner is, there used to be a guy who is fire chief, uh, in, in Chi like his name was Jim Lechner. And I think that I had contact with him, uh, over about a 20 year span. It started out, uh, a fire bank, which used to be a big deal. And, uh, You know, they'd have MCs come out. And I always did those for free. You feed me, I'm yours. And I did a lot of fire banquets back when they were a thing. And Chai Lai was one of them. And I tell you what, I went out there the first time and it was a hoot and a holler. I had so much stinking fun. And the people there, especially this chief, Jim Lechner, were just the best, okay? And at any rate, over the years, there were more banquets and there was more crossing of paths with Chief Lechner. And at any rate, he was just a giant, hardworking man, loud laugh, a big heart, lots of mischief, a big smile on his face. He could give and take help And he was just, again, a wonderful, delightful person. And at any rate, I'm listening to this podcast, and the connection between, hold it, that was Jim Lechner, and this is James Lechner. So last night, I text Dave Dunning, town supervisor out there, that's his name, right? Yeah, David Dunning. I'm texting him, hey, sir, do you know, you remember Chief Lechner from the fire department? Did he have a son? Do you know? And so I sent him a link to the podcast and I said, I wonder if this is his boy. And at any rate, ultimately I tracked down Chief Lechner has a daughter and Amy Tausch. Amy Tausch has been a leader for years and years in honoring and supporting veterans. And I had met Mrs. Tausch and her husband at these veterans events over the years. And so I texted her last night and I go, hold it now. Is this man your brother? And she said, yes. And I'm going to try to track the brother down, see if I can get him on the air. But This is a great family representing the best of what our part of New York State is all about. If you know any of them, you know that already. If not, you have to take my word for it. But here's a thing I would do. The name of the podcast is, and I'm not a big pusher of podcasts, right? I got a radio show. I'm, you know, I We have antennas here. You can catch any of our shows on podcast at your convenience, so whatever. But there's something called the Sean Ryan Show. And again, in this interview with Mr. Lechner, Colonel Lechner, he's not very good, but he's got a popular podcast, so maybe he's better on other episodes, right? But what you want to do is you want to track down the Sean Ryan Show and his interview James Lechner, L-E-C-H-N-E-R. It's episode 346, right? And you'll love Lechner, you'll love his stories, you'll love where he's been, and you'll be inspired by his can-do spirit, a spirit of service and courage and capability and love for adventure that I sure saw in the face of and in the heart and in the stories of his dad, Chief Jim Lechner, of the Chili Fire Department. So at any rate, this is the kind of community that produces giants, and both Jim Lechners were absolutely that. Email is bob at lonsbury.com. You want to drop a note, I'd be very grateful to hear from you. Thank you for listening to this show. I hope you'll tell your friends about it. 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.
Speaker 1: Good evening. I'm Bob Lonsbury, and from the banks of the mighty Genesee in Rochester, New York, this is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. They got this thing called the Law of Unintended Consequences, which means when you do this, you might be surprised that that happens. And while you think doing this is a good idea, you don't want that to happen. Well, you do this, and that happens, and sorry, Charlie. That's the way the cookie crumbles. That is the law of unintended consequences. And you bite it off, you got to chew it. This is, in my mind, because of some numbers that are out. China, last month in September, had a trade surplus of $ 133. 5 billion, which China, a nation very accustomed to trade surpluses, it's the second highest they've ever had. And it comes after a summer of dramatically increased trade surpluses for China. Now, if you're China, that's a very good thing. That means that the net wealth of your nation was increased by $ 133. 5 billion last month alone. Why is this happening? Well, To be honest with you, it's because of American tariffs. That's the most plausible explanation. We have been engaged in this trade war for a little bit since President Trump came back, and it has had an interesting effect upon world trade. It has served as something of a disincentive for trade to between the United States and other portions of the world. We put taxes on their imports to us, and they put taxes on our imports to them. And all of a sudden, doing business with us in an international sphere becomes less desirable to them. More expensive for them, more expensive for us. And so that tends to choke off a little bit of life. They still have commercial needs, stuff they want to buy. There are still things that they are making and producing. And so in the face of President Trump's tariffs, sort of the world trade system has reconfigured itself a little bit with an eye toward stepping away from the United States and avoiding the entanglements and uncertainties. Well, in this world, which is kind of bipolar, sort of like you, there's us and there's China. And if you're not, you know, doing the slow dance with us, there's a really good chance you're doing the slow dance with China. And so the tariffs of President Trump have not yet positively impacted our, you know, balance of trade. They have, however, damn it, had that unintended consequence of significantly improving China's balance of trade. And that's not really a desirable thing if you look at the world as a contest between us and them. Because as we hemorrhage money with our trade deficit, which has astoundingly only grown over the last two years, they are importing money through their trade surplus. And at any rate, that's where things stand. I hate to be the bearer of, I don't know if that's bad news, but it sure ain't good news. That is the way it is. And so anyway, there is that. I wanted to say a little something about Pope Leo. We spoke earlier today to a surgeon from over at Roswell Park, the chief of thoracic surgery over there, about what the Pope probably went through and, you know, what, you know, prognosis might be. What he went through is a lot clearer. Prognosis, like what's coming in the future, is dependent upon, you know, what stage was the cancer? Had it spread? What additional treatment might he be in line for? But, um, The basic lung operation that he had would have involved an incision between a couple of his ribs. They would put a device in there that would allow them to visually inspect the nodule. They probably would have ascertained by looking at it, yeah, that's a cancer. So they make a decision, what are we going to do? The decision was, let's take out this part of this lung, the lower lobe of the right lung. That's too... get any that might have spread. And so that was taken out. Probably also, they would look around inside him with their little device and try to find a lymph node here or there to bring out to send off to pathology as well to see if there's any cancer in there. The Pope, for a while, will probably feel like he's a little short of breath. He will have lost some of his tidal volume. The amount of air he could inhale is reduced by the amount that would have gone into that lobe. He'll have pain at the site of his incision. And if he laughs or coughs or sneezes, such like that, that will also cause him pain. It probably will be about three or four weeks before he could return to work. The report is today that he is up and walking around his room and that he took some food by mouth. And those are all right about where he's supposed to be. And again, I am not a fan of the man's politics and I don't belong to the man's faith, but he seems like a good fellow. And he has worked hard. He's traveled a lot of places. He wants to travel a lot more. Where he goes, very large numbers of people gather and they gain inspiration from him And he has a good and important work to do. And, you know, we all hope and pray that his health and life will be preserved, that he might engage in that important work and benefit people in our world as a result. This is downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Section 3rd Platoon, the debate between the governor candidates, I know this will sound stupid, but I really liked it. I thought it was useful. I thought that both of them did well at presenting their side of things. She talked about Trump a hell of a lot, no doubt about that. And I thought it was two heavyweights. I thought that it was a debate worthy of a great state like New York. Two accomplished people. Again, one of them I agree with, Blakeman. The other one I think is full of crap, Hochul. But If you're a Hochul supporter, you probably think she did a great job. I'm a Blakeman supporter, and I'm damn sure that he did a good job. And so if you somehow haven't decided yet who you want, and if you watch that debate, you saw who he was and what he stands for, and you saw who she was and what she stands for. And that's the purpose. I also thought I also thought that they seemed to have a little, I don't know if respect is the right word, and they both would probably bristle at it, but he'd let her go off trashing him, and then she'd stop, and she'd let him go off trashing her, and then he'd stop, and then she'd trash him and stop. And they didn't talk over each other. They didn't try to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. They understood it was going to be a back and forth. They let it be a back and forth. At one point, he apologized for talking over her. And yeah, I just thought that I was looking at two alphas. One, a common sense American, the other a commie lib, but they were laying out what they believe in. And I thought that they both did a great job. If you were listening to the audio, if you were watching the video, And forgive me for being shallow. You all know I'm shallow and dumb, right? Okay, I mean better looking than you and smarter. And I have a more pleasant aroma about me. But dumb and shallow. But I could not get over, and forgive me, Kathy Hochul, that frigging hair and makeup, right? Right? Maybe we live in an oppressive society where women feel like they have to wear makeup, right? But in my life, I don't see very many women with makeup, right? My wife doesn't wear it. My daughters don't wear it. The ladies at church don't wear it. The moms I sit by, at soccer games, they don't seem to be wearing it. So I'm not condemning it. I'm just saying I guess I'm not used to it. Okay? But like... Kathy Hochul last night, and this isn't her. She probably doesn't do her own makeup. There's probably somebody gets paid damn good money to put that crap on her face. That person right there ought to be deported or something. I don't care if they're citizens. We can deport them anyway. Send them to Canada. Anyway, her hair dye is so unrealistic, so one color, so not the way human hair is, that it demands your attention. And distracts from, I presume, what she's trying to say. Now, people go gray. A lot of people do. Okay, that's fine. Some people choose to dye their hair. Okay, that's fine. It's your hair. Knock yourself out. But any number of ladies at any number of beauty parlors can do a real good job of dyeing your hair, right? We're around people. I don't know if men dye their hair so much. But if a guy dyes his hair, I think we tend to tease about it a little bit. Hey, Grecian formula, you know, like that. A woman dyes her hair. We don't notice, right? But there clearly are a lot of women all around who dye their hair. And it looks fine. It looks normal. I mean, the ladies at the beauty parlor do a good job. Why one of those beauty parlor people can't be up here with Kathy Hochul, I don't understand. Hers looks like crap. And she's got those eyebrows like, hold it, did someone do that with an X-Acto knife? How can it be that precise? And the lipstick, it's like, you know what, when those angels, what's the ones that fly down to Washington, D.C. because they're veterans, right? On her flight, there's always going to be some lady dressed up like it's 1942, and she's one of the Andrews sisters, and she's going to have funny hair and way too much red lipstick on, and she's going to kiss all the frigging grandpas on the cheek and go, ha, ha. Right. Oh, my gosh. You are not Betty Boop. Keep your lips off me. But it's like Kathy Hochul had that same friggin type of lipstick on. And you want to say, again, I'm not going to vote for her because of her friggin policies. All right. And the party she represents. But and I don't care what she looks like. And, you know, she wouldn't care what I look like. But this is on TV now. And it just, again, forgive me, it was to me very, very distracting. So I'm thinking about trail cameras. No good reason for a trail camera in my world, right? I've got this tiny little piece of land, seven acres of hillside swamp, the country land, right? And either a deer walks through or it doesn't. That's it. There's no, well, I've been studying their lifestyle, Bob, and at 10.30 in the morning, the deer will take a leak over here and then walk over here and rub their antlers on this tree right here and then come up into this thicket here where they will copulate madly. I'm not peeking in the window. I don't know what the hell they do. I just know that I'm going to sit in the woods, and if one walks by, I'm going to shoot it. And yet, I also think, wouldn't it be cool to have some pictures like of the deer? So at any rate, we've had trail cams before. And you have to go out every week or so and get the little card and take it back and put it in your laptop. And I'm bored already. Oh, look, there's a picture of frigging deer. And then you got these frenziers. Hey, look at the app on my phone. And you can like see frigging deer in their woods right now. It's like, how could I do that? So anyway, I'm thinking about maybe getting one of those. Not to plug a sponsor, but I saw them advertised at Hep Sales North Main Lumber on their website today. And I thought, I might get one of those. I don't know if you have to, like, get a phone line for your camera or pay some fee or whatever. Anyway, so at any rate, that's where my mind and attentions are right now. Deer in the woods and what the hell is wrong with Kathy Hochul's hair and makeup. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I think that New York City was America's first capital. It was somewhere in the early pecking order, whether it was New York City or Philadelphia or something like that. But I think it was for a while New York City. Do you think that those people back then, when they were wearing them crazy three-corner hats, do you think that they ever thought that one day, right there where they were then, that it would be illegal to have a horse pull a cart? Right. It's 1776 or something like that. And someone is having some kind of looking into a crystal ball predicting the future and said, hey, this is going to freak you out. But one day there'll be a Muslim in charge here. I think they back then called them Muslim or Mohammedans. But there'll be a Muslim guy here from Uganda, which is like not even around here. And he will outlaw horses pulling carriages. You got to think that maybe some of the guys in the Revolutionary Army would have said, eh, not sure I want to fight for that, okay? Good luck, George. Let me know how this works out for you. At any rate, this is a reference, of course, to Zoran Mamdani, who has solved a thorny political issue in New York City of several long years standing, agreeing with city council to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city of New York, particularly around what you call Central Park, where any number of people have proposed marriage, kissed passionately, and enjoyed the clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop of the horse's hooves upon the pavement. The enlightened people of New York City have discovered that this is inhumane, and it also disrespects the horse's. And if there's one thing New York City wants to be known for, it's respecting horses, right? And again, maybe it's because I'm a frigging idiot and I'm from the Southern Tier, but not too many days pass in my life living down in Mount Morris that I don't see a horse pulling a wagon somewhere, right? Usually there's some guy, last name a Yoder, first name Jacob or Isaiah or something along those lines. who's driving the horse and buggy. And he's got his dear bride and their kids in there and they're going about their business, living their lives. You drive past this pasture here, you can see some of the beefier horses. And in another season of the year, they'll be pulling the plow or big giant hay wagon or something along those lines. And these horses don't seem to be victims of man's oppression. They don't seem to be mistreated in any way. They look healthy. They got a lot of flesh on them. They are objectively beautiful, right? And as they clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop down the shoulder of the road, it actually seems to be sort of a sweet and wonderful thing as opposed to something that ought to be illegal. One horse died this year in New York City, and so horse carriages have to go. 51 horses have died at racetracks across New York this year, yet no one is suggesting that racetracks should go. The reason being is that racetracks, unlike New York City, are not run by idiots. They're run by people who are familiar with the real world. Human beings have used horses both as draft animals to pull things like carriages and as animals to be ridden for some 5,000 years. cultures around the world as the horse spread have taken to them naturally and well. And I don't think that that is a sad, heartbreaking story of human abuse of animals. I think it's a wonderful partnership between two species, Homo sapiens and whatever the hell you call a horse, right? In New York City alone, until about 110 years ago, the prime means of conveyance was a horse. In fact, until about 110 years ago, the prime means of conveyance across the United States was a horse. And again, I don't believe that that was some act of continental or continent-wide animal cruelty. I think that humans have learned how to deal with horses effectively and well. And, you know, Jesus, I think, rode into Jerusalem at the beginning of Holy Week on the back of a colt, the foal of an ass. And while a donkey is not the same thing as a horse, it's pretty damn similar. They look a lot alike, don't you think? Yeah. And further, Mr. Mamdani, being a Muslim gentleman, I looked up, did the Prophet Muhammad, is there any record of him having horses? There are names for 14 different horses that Muhammad had. He not only had horses, he chose to name them, And those horses and their names were significantly important to him and to his followers that they've been recorded by history for more than, what, a thousand years or however long Islam's been around, 700, I don't know, however long it was. But it would seem to be, must be those people thought having horses was okay and nothing inhumane or improper about it. Sometimes people can get so smart that they get stupid. Ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth And so it is with our enlightened friends down in New York City. Having horses, using them to take people around parks is inhumane and now illegal. And you just shake your head. Fortunately, there are other cities not quite as stupid as New York City yet, and they allow for these horse-drawn carriages. And you'll have to find one of those cities somewhere and go take yourself a ride. But... It is unfortunate that the capital of America so frequently becomes an example of some of the dumbest thinking we have in our country. It's unfortunate when those who are most prominent are leading us into the paths of foolishness so ardently. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Welcome back. This is Downtown Section 3rd Platoon. I had sort of a funny coincidence over the last couple, three days. Two of my sons-in-law, both of whom are combat veterans, sent me an episode of a podcast they recommend I listen to. One of them was in the Navy, commanded an EOD unit over in Afghanistan. The other was in the Army, was an infantryman, a paratrooper, and went to Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria. At any rate, each of them had come across this podcast and thought that I might be interested in it. So blip blip in consecutive days there in a little text was a link to this podcast. Well, I start listening to it. It was the Sean Ryan show. I guess he interviews military people. This is the only time I've heard him. Um, and in this one, he doesn't do a very good job, but he has an excellent guest, uh, a guy named James Lechner. And, um, uh, so I'm driving down the road, you know, getting my commute in and I'm listening to this podcast and the Lechner guy right out of the box sounds really squared away. A retired Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Army. Uh, he's been there, done that, uh, uh, all over the world. starting out in Somalia, Blackhawk Down. He was on the ground there for that. And he's hit all the big ones since then. And he's telling his story about how he's coming up and such like that. And he mentions in there that he's from Chile, New York. And I go, whoa. And then I go, Lechner. And here's the thing. I am really bad at names. and I've not gotten better with time. Um, and, uh, but I go, hold on. I, Lechner is, there used to be a guy who is fire chief, uh, in, in Chi like his name was Jim Lechner. And I think that I had contact with him, uh, over about a 20 year span. It started out, uh, a fire bank, which used to be a big deal. And, uh, You know, they'd have MCs come out. And I always did those for free. You feed me, I'm yours. And I did a lot of fire banquets back when they were a thing. And Chai Lai was one of them. And I tell you what, I went out there the first time and it was a hoot and a holler. I had so much stinking fun. And the people there, especially this chief, Jim Lechner, were just the best, okay? And at any rate, over the years, there were more banquets and there was more crossing of paths with Chief Lechner. And at any rate, he was just a giant, hardworking man, loud laugh, a big heart, lots of mischief, a big smile on his face. He could give and take help And he was just, again, a wonderful, delightful person. And at any rate, I'm listening to this podcast, and the connection between, hold it, that was Jim Lechner, and this is James Lechner. So last night, I text Dave Dunning, town supervisor out there, that's his name, right? Yeah, David Dunning. I'm texting him, hey, sir, do you know, you remember Chief Lechner from the fire department? Did he have a son? Do you know? And so I sent him a link to the podcast and I said, I wonder if this is his boy. And at any rate, ultimately I tracked down Chief Lechner has a daughter and Amy Tausch. Amy Tausch has been a leader for years and years in honoring and supporting veterans. And I had met Mrs. Tausch and her husband at these veterans events over the years. And so I texted her last night and I go, hold it now. Is this man your brother? And she said, yes. And I'm going to try to track the brother down, see if I can get him on the air. But This is a great family representing the best of what our part of New York State is all about. If you know any of them, you know that already. If not, you have to take my word for it. But here's a thing I would do. The name of the podcast is, and I'm not a big pusher of podcasts, right? I got a radio show. I'm, you know, I We have antennas here. You can catch any of our shows on podcast at your convenience, so whatever. But there's something called the Sean Ryan Show. And again, in this interview with Mr. Lechner, Colonel Lechner, he's not very good, but he's got a popular podcast, so maybe he's better on other episodes, right? But what you want to do is you want to track down the Sean Ryan Show and his interview James Lechner, L-E-C-H-N-E-R. It's episode 346, right? And you'll love Lechner, you'll love his stories, you'll love where he's been, and you'll be inspired by his can-do spirit, a spirit of service and courage and capability and love for adventure that I sure saw in the face of and in the heart and in the stories of his dad, Chief Jim Lechner, of the Chili Fire Department. So at any rate, this is the kind of community that produces giants, and both Jim Lechners were absolutely that. Email is bob at lonsbury.com. You want to drop a note, I'd be very grateful to hear from you. Thank you for listening to this show. I hope you'll tell your friends about it. 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.
