Monday, Dec 23

this is the Barry Richard show wbsm on demand without further Ado wbsm presents the Barry Richard Show streaming live on wbsm.com and the wbsm app call 508 9965 text us using App chat on the wbsm app now the Barry Richard show knock it [Music] out knock out thanks [Music] knock it [Music] out Santa Claus the C straight to the ghetto hit upop your R here go straight to the ghetto Santa Claus go straight to the ghetto feel every stock and you fine the kids are going to love you so leave a to Johnny greetings welcome to another edition of the Barry Richard show Brian sitting in today for Barry you know it and I know it we are two days away from Christmas and Santa Claus is going to be dropping in dropping off some gifts here few gifts there here a gift there a gift everywhere a gift gift feel sorry for Santa this year it's going to be cold riding in that's like no I know I know I know it is December and it's normally cold and in in some parts of the country some parts of the world s's going to freeze his butt you know and what about those reindeer how do Rudolph get that red nose from a from a beautiful day I don't think so at any rate you know what it's like in our backyard why am I looking at somebody walking in this parking lot right now no coat on you have got to be kidding me uh what is the temperature Swansea 22 aush at 24 New Bedford 24 this morning unbelievable I think it was ° women Fred it was 9° it was her turn to get out of bed and turn on the heat are you like that instead of turning the temperature down to let's say 63 64 62 you just turn that sucker off we turn it off at night and turn it on in the morning because it's cold I think um I think it was 57 [Music] 59° it's okay about a half hour it's nice and warm and on the days that she charged with getting up and turning it on I am nice and toasty in between the covers 8996 0500 to get on to the program today speaking of today December 23rd it is human light celebration as in you know like the lights are shining human light celebration now I don't know how many people here in the United States are are really getting down on this but it is also metric conversion day remember all the big talk back in the 1970s we're got to go to the metric system I was running a radio station in I think it was 1978 and I guess I fell into the into the position of saying okay well if if we're going metric let's just blindly go n metric and so I took the studio thermometer which was a digital type of thing and I put it on the Celsius so we were just reading Celsius and folks are saying but if you do that nobody's going to be able to tell you what the temperature is and I said after a while people will start realizing when it's 10° it's either cold or it's hot when it's 30° it's either hot or it's cold no biggie just do it that didn't last too long at any rate Fahrenheit 22 in Swansea 24 in ausnet and New Bedford on this metric conversion day and it's also national roots day know like the root of a tree national roots day not quite sure what that means I do know what this meant when it happened back in 1783 on this very date George Washington who was General Washington at that particular time George Washington resigns as commanderin-chief of the Continental Army great job George you know I I've been told such as to believe and I've done a little reading George Washington did not win a whole bunch of battles I guess we should be glad for the ones that he won is that amazing you know we I as a kid I just thought you know George Washington he slayed the Dragon and I suppose he did but there were lots of defeats [Music] 1888 and I've always wondered about this one maybe you have to 1888 to prove his point and win an argument Vinnie Vincent Van go took a razor and lopped off his left ear and and then and then he had the year sent to a female friend for safekeeping now you you got to love an artist like that I'm proving my point whoop and off goes the year yeah woman friend is an artist I hope she doesn't take it that deep and decide to cut off an ear here's something that yours truly and I hope you have come to regret this particular day 1913 President woodro Wilson with a stroke of his pen and his signature created the Federal Reserve System I remember this this was this was big news during a a very turbulent time after 11 months as prisoners December 23 1968 the sailors on the USS PLO released by North Korea remember that and you know we had Vietnam going on at that particular time and they were s now we're going to go to war with North Korea I mean we've already had something up in the Korean Peninsula that was that was quite the thing in a year where we had already [Music] seen Lyndon Baines Johnson bow out of the [Music] presidency we saw Dr King get assassin at RFK get assassinated of really really scary 1968 the Democratic Convention and then uh some relief when those Sailors were released now I don't know all the EX's and O's and I don't know that we ever will know all of the X's and O's dealing with exactly why North Korea thought it was their [Music] privilege to um to take the to take them as prisoners I I I really don't know and it wasn't a quick 11 months 11 months 1970 the North Tower of the the World Trade Center reaches [Music] 1,368 ft making it the tallest building in the world wow and then September 11th happened and it just crumbled 1,368 ft North Tower after 73 days of resorting to cannibalism 16 survivors of the Andes crash rescued on this date in 1972 I remember writing that and I said to myself you know you had your 50 High School reunion just a few months ago can you imagine what a reunion of of those survivors must be like we made it but look what we did we had to survive but look look what we did to survive imagine what that reunion must be I wonder if they still get together wow and in saying something like that the experience of a of an airplane jetliner crash might change your opinion about ever flying again I wonder if any of them have have boarded an airline to fly from point A to point B for whatever for whatever reason maybe the so-called reunion all right so we get to the quote of the day we manage to hang in there today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough there is a lot of strength in hanging to together that quote from the late actor comedian Jerry Stiller we managed to hang in there together today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough there is a lot of strength in hanging in there Jerry Stiller why why bring that up on this particular day because today is also that day that we call Festivus for the rest of us yeah today the 23rd do ever celebrated or is it just one of those those episodes you love to to see even in repeats because it is funny it is one that I I actually sit there and and pay attention to and watch quite frankly as much as I I liked Seinfeld at the time those episodes are starting to wear on me and so a woman friend you she she just loves them to death but um I stopped I I I just stopped but that episode when it's on I'm into it all right 508 9965 00 is how you get on to the program today two days two days away from from Christmas and I don't know how you celebrate if you celebrate but there are many people that I know that on Christmas Eve they'll either have a big Christmas Eve dinner and then also o have another one on Christmas day there are others that do take out or go out to eat on on Christmas Eve and then have a big dinner on on Christmas night and then there are folks who don't celebrate Christmas what do they do it seems to me there aren't too many restaurants open on Christmas Eve Chinese restaurants yeah maybe the Indian restaurant up the street I don't know but most restaurants are closed on Christmas Eve so so employees can be with their family so I'm looking over the substandard today and uh Faith Harrington has an article greater New Bedford restaurants we said goodbye to in 2024 and I don't know if this list is longer or shorter than last year but as I look at the list I'm saying to myself I hope that the list that comes out for next year is shorter than the list for this year we lost quite a few restaurants Matt's Blackboard and um rockchester Dicky's clamshack you know I I would drive by Dicky clamshack quite a bit I I never went in I never went in maybe that's part of the problem and maybe that's why they're close Dicky Clam Shack on um over by what's that gol a catty Shack over by kades Shack and Dartmouth then of course it was it was a big blow to me probably to you two when freest Stones freest Stones restaurant threw in the towel according to the standard Times article by faith Harrington the co-owner hoe mows said that the summertime was a difficult time for the restaurant however the ultimate decision to close Freeones was after the chef and the cook both resigned wow so I guess in this day and age you lose one Chef you lose a cook and there's nobody else howwi he mows he has his fingers in the pie on on many restaurant establishments in New edford in Freetown all over the place he couldn't talk one of those one of those folks hey can you help me out pay you x amount of dollars freest stones may not have been the very first restaurant in New Bedford that I went into but it was the first restaurant that I frequented I had some neighbors that worked there and I always thought their menu was was very good their prices were a little on the high side but reasonable and I would go back I love their seafood chowder but you know how things go one ownership changes another one comes in and it's and it's not the same and then um some good friends of mine uh one of the one of the uh Dynamic duel Jillian Conor used to come on to this program excuse me on to Bryan's beat on on Saturday with me do company which opened up down in the South End when they closed that completely caught me by surprise and and quite honestly I I I still want to know what the heck happened there Dough Company a combination of economic challenges and and personal reasons boy doesn't that open up a can of worms Mimi's Kitchen on nset that went out of business remember when we heard that comines was going to close was only going to close for a few days and then it was going to reopen well a few days back in October is now stretching like your coffee break into January and I believe don't quote me on this but I believe it's going to be under the ownership of the of the guy who owns the black whale so imagine you've got the black whale you've got formerly Carmines and then I believe I believe the Mexican restaurant that's going to open up at the base of Union in in Route 18 is also going to be what of his restaurants might be a monopoly might not be but at any rate it's funny when you have all these restaurants and in one particular hand or two Rustico never went into Rustico it's on um Maran Road and matap poet that's Route Six in matap poison and then of course golden bamboo and East wereham really good Chinese restaurant Asian infusion I guess you could call it but U really good and your dog Mill supposed to close yeah in a couple of couple of days man it's a lot and then at the beginning of next year Gary's best hot dogs yeah I might have a hard time calling Gary's best a restaurant but it it serves its patrons very very well and you know I saying goodbye is tough I get it wanting to go on and do other stuff with your life have a good time with the rest of your life I get it I get it very well but um you would think somebody would want to take over that kind of place all right 508 996 0500 maybe you missed it Governor Healey says Massachusetts is not I repeat is not a sanctuary state do you believe her right up northr you know that I know make a stop that was me 58 996 0500 Santa Claus going to make a little stomp North Front in Dean Street we'll find out where else he's going to be going over the holiday at any rate Governor Healey having a conversation with the the Boston Herald and a few others and here's a direct quote we're not a sanctuary State we have a limited budget and the emergency shelter system really was meant for Massachusetts families who were experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity and needed a place to go that was temporary H well it seems to me I could be wrong but it seems to me Governor Healey if if that's what it was meant for you have certainly opened up the door to allow a lot more people in you did not to the best of my knowledge and I could be wrong about this but to the best of my knowledge Governor Healey you did not try to get somebody on your staff or yourself to file some type of legislation and send it up to the B Hill lawmakers so they could if they wanted to pass your bill to make this only for families here in the Commonwealth there's no residency Clause you could have put into that but to the best of my knowledge you haven't done that and then you have the nerve to say that Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state I think many people believe that we are in a sanctuary State whether they want to be in one or not I believe that many folks believe that we are I come from the camp that says let's vote on it let's not leave it up to Bacon Hill lawmakers let's not leave it up to Governor Healey let's not leave it up to the attorney general let's let's leave it to the people to decide I think that a ballot question to determine a if we are a sanctuary City another ballot question to determine uh you know because folks might vote it in that we are a sanctuary City Sanctuary state folks might vote it in so then what are the parameters do we just give out tax dollars do we open up even more so the shelter system if the 's and mes don't make a decision somebody else is going to do it and I was reading I don't know if it was in the globe or maybe it was the Boston Herald Governor hey is going to be more more willing to work with and accommodate the Trump Administration and I sat I was reading I was watching the football game a football game I don't think the Patriots were on at that particular time and I'm reading this and I read it to woman friend and you know we we paused for a little bit then I kept on reading and then you know ding ding ding ding ding ding ding it hit home why is Governor Healey trying to break break bread with Donald Trump I don't think she's scared of him but here is what I believe she is scared of she's worried that if she doesn't try to play ball with this Administration that all of a sudden a lot of the money because let's face it the Commonwealth gets billions in other people's including our own tax dollars and if we don't play ball and I'm not exactly sure exact exactly what playing ball means I don't think Governor Healey is sure what playing ball means and it's not just immigration they going to be a lot of games could be education all of a sudden we're not going to be getting money isn't that what yours truly at least has been bitching about it's about the money billions of dollars come in for education for research and development Medical Technology medical dollars Medicare medical insurance banking money all kinds of money comes courtesy of our federal tax back here to the Commonwealth and you wonder why things are so expensive because folks around here can afford it maybe not here in the backyard but certainly here in the Commonwealth all right let's uh let's open it up five8 9960 500 you're first up today hello hello hello I don't want you opening anything up to me all right then good night you just how you doing easy come easy go I'm if I were doing any better I mean I'm I'm I'm ticked there' be two of you three of you yeah I'm yeah I'm I'm a little ticked you know oh she wants to play nice to Donald Trump because she's worried about losing billions of dollars well you asked the question I think or sort of paraphrased the question about uh Massachusetts in a sanctuary State and it said on ju July 2017 massachus Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Court issued ruling in the Lun versus Commonwealth case which effectively made the state a sanctuary State and I don't know that case but that was back in 2017 and the problem is she's you know she's on a a teeter totter by herself she running from one end of the board to the other depending on what end is up in the air I guess kind of like is that like what you lick your finger and then you put it up in the air and see where which way the wind is blowing I don't know that yeah I guess I I mean I I just see the fact that she goes down to the Border while she's not before she was a governor to basically say everyone should come up from Tijana and then you know stop go stop go stop go it all depends right right but but you know if if I believed her then I would see her stopping funding um or trying to fund this stuff but and then I'm sure she'll say that you know she's dealing with the hand she was dealt and uh and Eric Adams was dealt the same hand but he obviously um has changed his tune and you know he's still he was originally a Republican and that doesn't really matter but I think that he sees it like it's not a um it's not very sustainable based on the tax dollars that are coming in and unless the federal government just prints money it's not sustainable so um I can agree with that and I and if I could add on to it I would say he's also hearing from from the people and maybe more a Healy is hearing from the people too who knows because there are plenty of folks here at least in you know the vote in the Commonwealth was overwhelmingly for KLA Harris but there are enough people in the Commonwealth come uh November of 26 is it yeah November of 26 that could easily change that vote around and vote for whatever Republican whatever libertarian whatever green party person well you know I know I have a lot of friends that are Democrats and actually quite a few that are barely left progressives and uh you know a lot of these experimental programs whether it's a new green deal or whether it's opening the borders up or or whatever whatever I don't know that anyone ever really just thought about the consequences they just sort of maybe thought at least the people I talk to they they think that we have an unlimited source of funding and ability to to man manage the world um you know just you know and and and that's not the case I mean it does it does harm people I mean I know that there's crime that is a residual from that I mean I don't blame every illegal alien is not a criminal um but yeah I mean New York City has been having a disaster you saw what happened in New York yesterday they had an illegal alien burn a homeless person on a train yesterday person was sleeping on the train car and the guy lit the person on fire and they were and killed him and he sat in while the train was stopped he sat in a in a bench on the outside and watched it happen and they they busted the guy obviously and maybe the guy got severe mental issues if you're going to do something like that but we we got enough of our own problems you know you think um I I think and I I think we should help people I think that that's the we're coming into the time of uh Jesus and that's what Jesus would have done um to to whatever ability that you can do and I don't think we have you know when we're prosperous I think we have the ability to do a lot for people around the world and if we're not in Wars at the same time so um I'm just hoping for the future you know I got you man hey if I don't talk to you before Mary happy happy Mary Mary happy to you too I really appreciate you on the air man I appreciate it too thank you and I appreciate your call 508 9960 500 it's time to pay one of Barry's bills oh can also do the the south second side too that's James Brown Santa Claus go straight to the ghetto thought that would be appropriate a couple of days before xmus and by the way you ever notice you don't have as many people putting Christmas down as