Tuesday, Dec 31

this is the Barry Richard show wbsm on demand news without further Ado wbsm presents the very 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 should all the quance be forgotten and never brought to mind should all the qu be forgotten and days of all for all L my for all L we take a c of kindness yet for 207 on a Tuesday afternoon 508 9960 500 it is New Year's Eve and it is a beautiful beautiful afternoon and as she just heard Phil deit say should be okay for the fireworks tonight but later on in the evening there could be some rain and um so keep that in mind if you're going out uh partying later on and um plan accordingly right bring an umbrella with you but don't drive you don't want to be on the roads trying to drive and then have uh wet roads and all that kind of stuff either right you don't want you don't want to do that all right just before the break we we got into a conversation about something I mentioned in the first hour and that is the fact that Puerto Rico is experiencing a massive blackout on the island and could take two to four days to uh to get everything back up and running the the power company down there says it's a uh an underground uh cable they're investigating it and so on and so forth but it could take a while power grid in Puerto Rico has you know it's like Fred Flintstone Fred Flintstone's uh you know uh a power grid it's that old and IND just repair and they had a big hurricane Maria back in 2017 and that further decimated it but um it's been held together with Elmer's Glue Scotch tape and you a few other adhesives since then and has been much done to repair it and U over the course of the last few years there has been uh um corruption prosecuted in Puerto Rico the mayor of the capital city has been um indicted and I'm not quite sure if um what the results of the trial might have been at this point I just I don't recall um but in any event that has happened and there is it's it's complete the island is completely run by democrats and um you know my question to you and our good friend who calls us uh who's a native of Puerto Rico you talked about4 billion dollar in female money being spent in Puerto Rico since Maria um that's only a drop in the bucket and it's only a drop in the bucket compared to all of the money that we send there annually and when you send money to gez particularly one of your one of your own provinces you would expect that the money not only is being used wisely um but it is there's some kind of oversight and that somebody's making sure that the money is being put to good use and you obviously cannot [Music] uh count on the folks in [Music] um in the Puerto Rican government to do that but what about here in the United States isn't anybody conducting any kind of over oversight at all I mean look we're sending billions down there for a a power grid that we know has been you know decimated since before the hurricane in 2017 already in bad shape and so we're going to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the the power system and it obviously we haven't done it and they haven't done it and we haven't checked we haven't said we're going to withhold money until you get that power system fixed we haven't done that so who's who's watching this is you know this is the pisser about you know government Aid going to places we send money and we don't make sure that it's being spent properly but you know the other it's one thing you know you can look at Puerto Rico and say you know the the four folks in Puerto Rico they're being screwed over by you know by the United States is not taking care of them this is their property why AR theying care of well the people of Puerto Rico are voting for the same Crooks the same crooked system they don't want change oh no we got to keep the Democrats in the Democrats have kept them in the shape that they've been in for years but yet they resist change and they'll complain well the United States hasn't taken good enough care of us you know Washington isn't taking good care of us we are property after all of the of the United States we should be we should you know be be in good shape or we're not so something needs to be done to make the system work better the people in Puerto Rico deserve a a power grid they can count on the United States the people of the United States that live here on the mainland deserve to know that the money that they're sending to PTO Rico is being spent wisely I made the analogy in the last hour about you know how the kind of relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico is like a you know a divorce situation so you got you got Daddy over here right and daddy and mommy split up and then Daddy and Mommy have a couple of kids so Daddy goes his own way and he's sending sending the alimony and the child support every month as he's supposed to do but he's not checking in to see how it's being spent or that the kids are being brought upright he just writing the checks and then then just and Mommy On the other hand's got a drinking problem and Mommy's going out leaving the kids with babysitters and stuff like that so she's not exactly using the money wisely or or raising their children properly so you've got children that are being caught up in the middle that are suffering same thing with our relationship with Puerto Rico you know Daddy Uncle Sam is sending the [Music] um sending the check totally ignoring how it's being spent mommy on the other hand is using the money for things other than what it was intended for not taking care of the children just somebody needs to step in and somebody needs to say that the relationship between the mainland and the island of Puerto Rico needs to change there needs to be a change there and and maybe we will do that through the Doge do or Dodge however they pronounce it and um and figure out a way to get a reliable infrastructure to the people of Puerto Rico that the citizens of America are paying for including the Puerto Rican our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters are paying for and deserve and we're not just throwing money in the in the in the ocean which continues to be the situation but again you know the people always have a responsibility the people need to elect better leadership in Puerto Rico or the island they need to they need to elect better leadership people that are going to be responsible and responsive and not corrupt and people that are going to um perform oversight and Puerto Rico has representation in Washington they're not voting members of Congress but they are there why are they not sounding the alarm why why does the media not talk to people from Puerto Rico nobody seems to care you know it's like Haiti off the coast of uh it's not a US property but I mean hades's off the co we send billions of dollars to Haiti too we don't give a damn what goes on over there we don't care about it if we don't want to be there maybe we should get out of there I'm not quite sure but uh speaking about wasting our money Immigration and Customs Enforcement ice has ended two programs that provide Social Services to illegal immigrants who are released into the United States interior telling lawmakers that one brings immense cost with little Improvement and that another is out of line with Isis Mission the agency responded to representative Byron donals of Florida and 15 members of Congress who wrote to ice in May asking for more information about the alternatives to detentions program which monitors illegal immigration not in ice detention the um or illegal immigrants are not in ice detention the agency defended the program and said it was um an efficient and effective program for monitoring a segment of the illegal immigrants on Isis non-detained docket ice only has around 40,000 beds available at one time and while it has a um non-detained docket of nearly 7.7 million people a number that has soared during the bid administ ation 181,000 are enrolled in the alternatives to detention monitoring program where migrants are monitored either by an app check or a GPS monitor but in recent years the agency has also created separate programs to offer various services and assistance to those not in detention in the letter the agency says some of those programs are ending one is the wraparound stabilization service which ice says began in February of 2020 and involves working with NOS to offer services that provide psychosocial and behavioral health support for vulnerable immigrants and their families who would benefit from additional stabilization Services I say the program stopped referrals in July and that the program was ineffective in what it sought to do having only a 2% higher compliance rate from those who took part in Services compared to those who did not it's amazing yet we can uh keep on spending money uh for these programs and um so I'm glad to see that even before the new sheriff arrives in Washington ice is taking steps to save you and me money on these insane programs initiated by this current Administration 50899 60500 thanks for hanging on you next to wbsm oh hey Barry happy New Year Happy New Year my friend how are you fine thank you thanks yeah um when I'm done with you at 3 o'cl I'm going to go outside and plant my garlic yeah this is the time of year you plant your garlic um plant it in the winter and it'll be done by uh late June I oh I'm sorry I didn't hear that last part oh um you you plant it now you plant it in the winter it's a cold it's a cold plant a cold weather plant yep gar just like broccoli kale potatoes that's why broccoli and potatoes grow well up in Maine um including garlic but but you plant the garlic now the cloves and I I just opened up a clove I'm want to plant 12 little cloves out of a pole clove light in my big pot outside I'm going to do that when I after you're done yeah I didn't know you could do that yeah this is right right now every year I plant my garlic right on the 31st of December okay well I'm learning something new from talking to you I and I I I love it that's what I love do about doing this job I'm always learning something new you learn something what do you think's going to happen with the atlas tax um is that is that ever going to be taken down or from what I understand all that's left there is the office building there like a shell of the office building and um I guess they did a remedial cleanup there and yeah I'm not sure the extent of the of the environmental impact if it is still um if it is still dangerous there I mean I you know I would imagine that even though I I don't think they did it like an extensive cleanup like they did out in the harbor that's taken years and years and years I think it it was what about a year year and a half that they they took to clean up that site yes and it's been what about eight nine years now and they took that chimney down also and I was a friend you remember the old town bar over there right across the bike pass where the and now they're on A Street in East for Haven yeah no I don't I don't remember that no they were located there and my friend Larry he bought that property oh probably about 15 years ago and he was the only only one that bid on it he got it for a quarter million dollars right across the old BPW land over there he rents it out to small businesses and stuff like that but he told me something very interesting about 10 years ago what's going to happen with that Atlas taac bar the Steamship Authority has rights to that property and even Larry's property at the the Old Town Baron and right now the authorities right at halfway Bry down south street at the bottom on the Krishna River and they're already there um repairing their ships on the fies which I'm sure you've seen over there yeah did you ever hear of that uh that in your grape vine uh your sources that the Steamship Authority has the rights to those to those properties no I didn't know that Steamship Authority what would they do with it I don't know but they have the rights all the way up the bike path right to Buzzard Bay train bridge yeah that's interesting there's an awful lot of development that's going on um um boy I tell you I wish that the we can get rid of these damn windmills and and do further development but um that thank God we have Donald Trump in there so maybe maybe he'll do something about that yeah well I think he will he says he will anyway we'll see thank you my friend I appreciate it thanks uh for the for the topic 508 9960 500 you're up next in wbsm thanks for hanging on hi good afternoon Barry hi happy New Year to you happy New Year yeah so I just wanted to touch upon a few things because you know was interesting I was listening to Chris's show and and um you know it got me to thinking how all these cities talking about Brockton and New Bedford have so many problems but like you said they're all run by democrats yeah you know and and it's high time that people I hope that your listeners and everybody make their New Year's resolution to start paying attention to what is going on locally and start paying attention to what your elected officials are doing are not doing for you because there's so much that they are are not doing for the taxpayers that it's absurd and we have got to start really putting our foot down in making these people do their jobs and I'll give you a perfect example with our legislature and people can read about this if they go online to um uh massresistance dorg Mass fiscal is a great group mass resistance.org is another great group that expose all that is going on in Massachusetts along with the newspaper the Boston broadside which exposes a lot of things that people really are totally unaware of but um you know basically on Massachusetts uh legislature is scamming our citizens because what they're doing is they are voting like one person they're talking about this they're informal sessions where they have one House of Representative voting to pass a 700 $30 million bill one person one person yeah now the Massachusetts state constitution demands that there is a quorum when they're passing bills but yet they don't care the representatives don't care they don't even show up so they call it an informal session and you know they're not showing up they're not doing their job but yet they're still getting paid no I agree with you 100% I st it earlier that you know if I was a member of the legislature I would be there even though um just because it was my job I mean I would at least feel an obligation to be there even though all the actions happening in Clos behind closed doors yeah but they don't care they don't care you know this this one woman Kathy lint she's a state committee woman she had the mass GOP um State committee members take a vote and a lot of these people voted no that they did not want want to demand that there was a quorum and some of the people who voted no are our own some of our own local um State committee people who claim to be conservatives who claim to be Republicans but they're not they're all part of the Rhino uh package you know so that's the other thing that anybody who's an independent or a republican you really have to start breathing down the the necks of these people who you know uh to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk they better start walking the walk otherwise they're going to have to go we have to call them out we have to pay attention and we have to get things changed because this state is really um you know we're going to be in deep doodo in 2025 if we don't get going the other thing is this NB um NBTA housing extortion yeah you know a lot of these communities we a lot of the communities are not part of the MBTA communities but yet uh Mara hey and the Attorney General they've changed like the Attorney General changed the rules to be like any Bus Station instead of an MBTA bus station you know so if you have a bus station you have bus service in your town oh you're a you're a a joining NBTA town no you're not so you know again you got to talk to your your planning uh people on your planning board you select people and make sure they stop pushing back but it takes we the people to do this so you know new I think a good New Year's resolution for everyone is to start like Donald Trump said fight fight fight well you know if you're remember back during the Obama Administration Obama had um passed these through executive order uh to force communities um to build um you know rural communities to build uh low-income housing and and apartments that they they didn't want to do and and Obama uh tried to force that Trump um overturn that immediately upon taking office and uh and then the Biden people put it back and now you've got um you've got Mora Healey and her attorney general that are trying to force in fact they're suing local communities to force them to build housing out in places like Berkeley and and Milton and other places against the will I'm not sure that that's going to withstand Supreme Court muster uh because I don't know it hasn't it hasn't in some towns but it's called the NBTA Community well it's it's going before the state Supreme Judicial Court it hasn't been heard yet um but it will be heard in 2025 but we may have uh we may have um the the new Trump Administration step in before the ever even heard I don't see where uh it is constitutional to tell a community you've got to build uh this kind of Housing and you got to put it here I think that that's an overstep uh by state government it's an overstep by federal government uh to tell local communities what they want to do or to threaten to withhold state aid or federal aid from them if they refuse to do that so we'll see uh what happens and I'm looking forward to seeing a resolution to this case yes but we all you know we all have to stop putting our noes to the ground RH Stone and uh forget about texting tweeting and all this other stuff and start paying attention start reading things and people attending meetings that's the other thing attend your local meetings go to your town meetings go to like your um you know when they're planning the budget get you know get involved in that and see where your money is being spent because everybody complains about everything but they don't really do anything so you know we need to start changing the state because no one can CH no one can save it but us I mean the politicians certainly aren't going to going to change it I mean some of the new we've elected a few new conservatives and and I know some people are true blue conservatives there are a few others that really aren't so hopefully some change will take place but they need people to stand behind them and uh help them you know they need our help so and we need more people to run for office too younger people with uh yeah with with high energy that want to go in and fight the fight Kathy appreciate it my friend thank you and you have a happy New Year I've got to take a break 508 9960 500 we're coming right back after this day with us right here in I'm that and it's 2:31 on a Tuesday afternoon 508 9960 500 Happy New Year to you and all of your family and friends and all of that just a programming note for you beginning on Thursday um the hoe car show is Shifting its hours it is going to uh run from 3: until 6:00 p.m. now instead of 3: to 7:00 and so we will be featuring uh the best of howy car from 6:00 to 7:00 but um starting Thursday howy car live uh will be 3 until uh 6:00 and the best of Hoe from 6 until 7 o'clock right here on wbsm so you still be able to get your daily fix of hoe and um and then a little bit of uh reminiscing with Howry for an hour each afternoon right here on wbsm all right 50899 60500 let's get to you calls and you're next in wbsm thanks for hanging on Hey Barry hi New Year to you and your family happy New Year uh the reason why I'm calling is that you was talking about Puerto Rico and um what why don't they just make Puerto Rico a state you know I don't understand that why don't they make them a state yeah not make a mistake well there's been quite a bit of debate about that for a long time and um it's not clear at this point there's been various polling over the course of the years about whether not the folks in Puerto Rico even want to become a state um so I mean there there's a lot that needs to be worked out uh before that could happen um and as a friend from Puerto Rico pointed out a little while ago there's so much corruption in Puerto Rico the government system there is uh very much different from here uh on the mainland so there would have to be a lot of reforms and but I'm not sure there's there's a consensus um here on the mainland or even in Puerto Rico as to whether or not that that's uh something that everybody wants to do but wouldn't that clean it up I mean if they you know voted in people that were you know the people they want that they trusted yeah but you can't force the people of Puerto Rico to become a state if they don't want it um I'm not too sure about no not might as well be a state I mean they come and go as they please and you know everything is the same St well there's some in Puerto Rico that still like the idea of self-determination and and um so I I'm not sure I mean I think there certainly should be a discussion on it and there has been both in Puerto Rico and here in in the United States and um so I'm not I'm not sure that that uh that is even close to any kind of a resolution at this point or that that were even close to any kind of a um um you know unanimous decision on this I think there's still a lot that would have to be worked out before that I was to go forward I believe the people of the United States would have to vote on that too it would have to be U because that would change the Constitution if I'm not mistaken and you would need to have a vote of the people to do that yeah I was one that's why one of the questions I was going to ask you next but I guess you just answered it well what do you think about what's going on I mean the situation is one where we are I mean they are a property of the United States we're providing them with millions of dollars and yet we are not you know forcing them to do what they need to do to take care of their people right that's why I you know I you know I was just kind of thinking about it and I said Gee you know I hear you know corruption this and Corruption that but their government and I said well if the people you know were in charge where they could vote in you know their people the people that they trusted and you know they had some sort of representation and then you know maybe that would be the answer to solving the corruption well keep in mind that would mean changing the political structure that would change um that would change two instead of having 100 Senators we now have what 102 senators and we have more members of Congress so there's a lot of things to consider I mean um you know just saying oh let's add this place as a as a as a state and you know there's a lot of things to consider a lot of things for the people to consider and and and not just the people here but the people on the island as well so I don't know um certainly I'm always open to the discussion I'm I'm not again I you know I I I'm not for forcing people to become uh a state if they don't want to be a state and um so I'd have to hear more about what folks in Puerto Rico think about this you know you would think it would be the right thing you you know United States promotes democracy I mean we fought well you would think that right you would think that the you know George Bush told us that if we go and invade Iraq and throw uh Saddam Hussein in the in the hcal that the people there would pour out into the streets and welcome an American democracy and that wasn't the case was it and we found that we we do that all over the world we go into countries and we Nation build and tell them how to run their place and um you know even though Puerto is a province it's still you know an island off the coast of the United States I'm not sure they want to be told what to do yeah that's that's it would be nice if you if there was a way that you could put that to a vote with with the with you know the state I mean uh the province of Puerto Rico to find out exactly you know instead of just here say well some people want it some people don't but if they put it to a vote it would give it a better barometer of what they really want yeah no I I agree with you 100% I mean I would like to have more clear uh reporting on the issue and and and finding out you know exactly what the folks in Puerto Rico think and also what the people um on the mainland think yeah that would be yeah that would be something to explore yeah that makes sense yeah but yeah I mean because it would have certainly would have a a great impact on all of us so I think that I think we need to have a national discussion but I'm not sure we're close to that point at this at this time I'm not sure that uh somebody just texted me why don't we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland um so and so I I don't know I mean you know again we you've got to to some extent you got to hold the people in Puerto Rico uh maybe to a large extent if they keep voting for people in Puerto Rico that are going to take and misuse the billions of dollars that we're sending an aid you know something's not right there I know if I was uh you know from Puerto Rico I would vote you know to become a state and you know get people in there that's going to represent them in a better way than what's going on I mean anything is better than what they have yeah me well some people might disagree with that I don't know and again I haven't gotten inside the heads of the people in Puerto Rico so um I don't know enough about how they feel at this point but I'd like to find out more uh good uh discussion my friend I appreciate it Happy New Year to you and your family 508 996 0500 you're next to wbsm good afternoon hi Barry hi I just wanted to say I didn't I didn't get a chance to talk to you yesterday and um say hey welcome back from your vacation oh yeah and now you get to go have fun tomorrow Yeah tomorrow's a day off and then we're back on Thursday and then it's right back to the grindstone now no vacations for a long time no no hey at the top of the hour you sounded you know your voice you still sound very sick you know but now I the last hour I'm like geez your voice is starting to sound a little better well that's good and maybe you're just getting used to hearing it I don't know I I still I have a cold it's not I'm not dying but you know how cold you are right it's tough to breathe sometime with a cold and is oh yeah it's definitely difficult to hear because my head is blocked up and I wear hearing aids anyway so it's it's makes it a little bit more difficult to hear but other than that I'm going to be all right well I look forward to talking to you on on Thursday I want to go over something with you I've been waiting for you and um so yeah I but I definitely wanted to wish you a happy New Year well I appreciate 25 woohoo yeah can you believe that 2025 seems like it was just 1975 yesterday I know time is flying but you know what I've been waiting until this year I'm just so excited I'm just I think this is going to be a really really I just got a great feeling about this year I think so for myself for everybody I certainly hope so yeah all right well we'll keep the positive energy going and I'll talk to you on first thing thank you my friend appreciate it 508 9960 500 is a number yeah I mean 2025 I mean it just seems so wow so weird um seems like so futuristic wasn't it anybody any fans of the old TV show Lost in Space I'm not talking about the newer one but the old one back in the the 60s weren't they supposed to um I don't know weren't they supposed to be in like 1999 wasn't that supposed to be uh where they were seems so futuristic even 2001 A Space Odyssey remember that with hell the computer so futuristic and here we are in 2025 sometimes I think 2025 in In the Year 2525 remember that song by zegger and Evans it's kind of weird but that'll be here before you know it's only 500 years away right 50899 60500 let me grab a break we're going to come right back after this St thanks to a veteran and service member we can help we can give our veterans a special event where they too can create their own Cherished Memories find out how by visiting www.vettix.org that's www vettix.org find out how you can make a difference in a veteran's [Music] life I want you to imagine for a moment you're in a hospital you are the patient connected to an IV bag there's a constant parade of serious doctors countless tests endless pokes and a serious diagnosis scary surgeries are followed by painful recoveries 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was Z or or Evans uh in the um uh in the duo here but one of the gentlemen is wearing a neckerchief do you remember back in the old days you can see this if you watch the old Scooby-Doo uh run reruns has a necer chief around it I think they would call it a necer chief right around I may be way off but I think that's what they called it and it was like a a a a silk a kind of like um [Music] um what am I thinking of handkerchief right that that you might stuff in your pocket but it's long and it goes around your neck and it was a ring that you slid the two ends through the ring and and pushed it up toward your neck and then you had those two things hanging down you know what I'm talking about right remember those I had forgotten all about him until I just saw that video a couple of seconds ago and was saying wow my God we actually wore those things back in the day uh that was pretty bizarre I mean you know we got some pretty bizarre clothing styles these days too but I mean those those are pretty bizarre out with bell bottoms and stuff like that back in the day um yeah so it's New Year's Eve how about that 34 um perc No 3 and 4% to that three no I'm sorry three4 of a percent three qus of Americans no percent involved let me try that again three quarters of Americans so that's 75% there we go 75% of American voters want Pro Second Amendment judges nominated at the federal level wow 75% of American voters want Pro Second Amendment judges nominated at the federal level so a poll conducted by mcland and Associates H released by the Second Amendment Foundation three quarters of American voters believe it is important to see a pro Second Amendment judge nominated and confirmed at the federal level the poll asked quote how important is it to you to get judges confirmed and nominated to the federal courts who make it a priority to try their best to strictly follow the Second Amendment of the US Constitution 76% of respondents said it is important another question asked how important is it to you that our political leaders in Washington DC protect and defend the Second Amendment rights in the US Constitution of law abiding gun owners 77% of respondents said this is important as well when asked do you think that President Donald Trump will make it a priority to protect and defend the Second Amendment rights of law abiding gun owners 63% of respondents said yes yeah Jim mlin commented on the polls results saying the overwhelming majorities of Voters want their political leaders in Washington to defend second amendment rights furthermore three out of four voters say it is important to nominate and confirm judges to the federal courts who will make it a priority to strictly follow the Second Amendment and nearly two and three voters think that President Donald Trump will make it a priority to protect and defend the Second Amendment rights of law abiding gun owners a fourth pole question asked who do you think will do a better job of protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners in America the republicans in Congress or the Democrats in Congress 59% of respondents said Republicans versus only 24% who said Democrats Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan gotle also commented saying this survey underscores the prevailing public perception the Democrats have become the party of gun prohibition the numbers also Justified saf's commitment to defend Second Amendment and our various Court challenges winning Firearms Freedom one lawsuit at a time it's a lot of Americans we you're talkinging about 75% of Americans that includes Republicans Democrats and independents right so there's an awful lot of people out there who um a part of that signate majority you generally hear from the vocal minority on issues whether those issues be gun ownership and second amendment rights uh even things such as transgender rights um you know so many other issues it's generally the vocal minority that's out there banging drums and screaming and yelling and hey hey ho ho and it makes it almost seem as though that's the mood or the attitude of the country when in reality it is not always but those are the people that make the noise and that get the media coverage you know I mean another example of that is look at the um look at the the story we had been told months ago about how um uh the abortion issue was going to kill Trump because every woman voter out there was Voting from the womb right Trump could never get the women vote because it was all about the abortion thing for women and Women Voters and that proved not to even be a slight factor in the election not at all but yet the vocal minority LED you to believe it and and the media picked up on it and played it played it big you know sometimes it's it's better to listen to what's not being said and who's not saying it than to listen to what's being said and who's saying it because often times the people who are vocal are in the minority and are not expressing the interests and the and the opinions of the majority of the people in this case the overwhelming majority of the people 75% of American voters want Pro Second Amendment judges at the federal level yeah if you'd listen to the politicians and the media that you wouldn't believe that to be true would you but you know just as was the case in 2016 and the case in this recent election people knew what they wanted people had decided on on on what they wanted and they didn't feel a need to go out and yell and scream and bang pots and pans and yell ho hey hey ho ho they just went about their business and then delivered their votes and when you talk about this poll I mean this is certainly the same kind of thing right always interesting stuff when you do hear from the people and you do ask the I'm not going to pretend for a moment that this poll was uh maybe conducted on behalf I mean again we had the uh the poll was conducted by mlin and Associates and released by the Second Amendment Foundation well yeah a little bit of a special interest there right so I guess we take polls with a grain of salt um but we have seen other polling you know like for example immediately after a school shooting or a mall shooting they'll conduct a snap poll and you hear people oh yeah get rid of guns we got to get rid of guns and but the reality is within a couple of weeks of that the the numbers of people seem to um go back to supporting the Second Amendment you got to question the validity of a lot of these polls just ask Trump about the poll in IO all right my goodness all right I'm going to wrap it up right here we're going to take a break we're going to come back and wrap the show so stick around you're listening to WB [Applause] [Music] all right that's going to do it for us for today it is time to head into The Newsroom it is our final show of this week it is our final show of this month it is our final show of this year and so we all take a breather tomorrow and we get back here on Thursday and it's going to be 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