Friday, Oct 30: Toby Leary; Tyler Macallister

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With the Civil Rights Coalition here in Massachusetts, for a long time, the progressives and the left wing in this country have been actively and to some degree successfully trying to disarm Americans and try to do away with your Second Amendment right. Here in Massachusetts, we are one of the leading states in that effort. We've got some of the toughest gun restrictions. And many folks, including Toby Leary, would argue that some of the laws, including the most recent, Chapter 135, which was signed by Governor Moore Healy or even unconstitutional, Toby Leary and the Civil Rights Coalition, Bill Beshant and a lot of other folks have been working really hard to get your attention to ballot question number nine, which appears on Tuesday, which allows you to vote. To override chapter 135 and what I refer to as Maura Healey's gun grab trick question, though, you if you want to repeal the gun law, you have to vote. No, sounds illogical. Right. But that's the way that the state wrote the question. I think they did it intentionally to try to confuse people. If you're going to the polls and you want to vote to repeal, you would think you would vote. Yes. Right. Logic. But not in Massachusetts. If you want to repeal, you got to vote. And so that's the trick here. And it's important for everybody to understand that and to spread the word that you must vote no on question nine on Tuesday in order to repeal chapter 135. Toby's with me on the line right now. Toby Leary, how are you, my friend? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on again, Barry. And thanks for letting us reach out to your listeners along the way and up to now. We're on the homestretch. And Tuesday is a big day for the people of Massachusetts. So what's going on out there now? We've been reading these polls for the longest time that show strong support for keeping a question for keeping Chapter 135. Thirty-Five But we've also begun to realize that the polls may be a bit skewed and not actually telling us the truth. And that's. Very evident in the governor's race where we are hearing that internal polls are showing that the race is very, very tight and it's not a 25, 30 point lead for Maura Healey. So one has to assume that the same thing may be going on with the ballot questions as well. What are you hearing out there? Yeah, that's exactly right. We did a poll with the McLaughlin group, and it said that 73% of likely voters in Massachusetts are... ...supportive of the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms, which is a very good number for us. That is, you know, that certainly steered our campaign. What it comes down to is get out the vote. That's really what happens. Unfortunately, we shoot ourselves in the foot all the time, pun intended, as gun owners in the state of Massachusetts because... So many of us don't vote, and that needs to change if we want to have meaningful change in the state of Massachusetts. We absolutely can win this 100%. If everybody who is either sympathetic to the cause or is a stakeholder because they're a license-to-carry or FID cardholder, if we will just inconvenience ourselves a little bit and go to the poll and bring somebody with us that doesn't normally vote, we win this and we win it big. And the truth of the matter is, Barry, if you look at the 30,000 foot view and break this down to the most fundamental of issues, does the legislature have the privilege to fundamentally change or transform any of our constitutionally enumerated rights? If the answer is no. Then vote no on nine. If the answer is yes, they do have that privilege, then do we really have rights? Or is this just privileges granted to us by the state legislature and they can change them whenever they see fit or for whatever reason they tell you that you should swallow it? And at the end of the day, I think that's really the whole question here. Whether you're pro-gun or anti-gun, you should Think about that and say, man, do I really want the legislature under the hood and monkeying around with my constitutional rights? And if the answer is no, vote no. And if you think, well, maybe they do have the right because there's no such thing as an absolute right. You can't yell fire in a crowded building and all this stuff, right? Well, that's not true. Number one, if you're in a crowded building and there's a fire and you don't yell fire, you are putting your fellow man in... at risk and that's ridiculous. You have a moral obligation to tell people, hey, get outside. The building's on fire, right? And the truth of the matter is we are here in Massachusetts where the government hasn't just got under the hood and monkeyed around with our rights. They have fundamentally usurped them. They have taken them over and treated them as privileges for the last 40 years in Massachusetts and basically dictate the terms. The who, the what, the when, the where, the how, and the why of of legal ownership when it comes to firearms and all the while they leave alone the people who actually cause crime with firearms in in our state so many people have gun charges you know felon in possession drug dealer armed career criminal and they have those charges pled down so that they don't have to do the mandatory minimum and the perfect example of this is This is Tyler Brown, the armed career criminal who shot up... Memorial Drive in Cambridge with firearms that it's not legal for you and I to walk into a gun store today and purchase and magazines that he was in possession of that it's not legal for you and I to have in our firearms unless we're on a state approved shooting range and they were made prior to September 13th, 1994. So the truth of the matter is our rights have been usurped. And we have the Constitution on the ballot this Tuesday, and we can incrementally make it a little better so that we take the emphasis off of the lawful, peaceful gun owner and tell our legislature, hey, go focus on the people who are actually. Well, I like your approach to this today and talking about the constitutionality of all of this because, you know, it is simply true. And I mean, the Second Amendment says a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Now, that is not only the Second Amendment, it's also in the Bill of Rights, which is the first ten amendments. Now, the Bill of Rights were not rights that were granted to us. By the founding fathers and are not granted to us by the Constitutional Convention, that drafted the Constitution are not granted to us by by Ron Mariano or Karen Spilka or Maura Healey. These are rights that came on down from high. These are these are our rights as as people. And, you know, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution just simply put it down on paper, not to tell us what we can do, but to tell the government what they can't stop us from doing. So the Massachusetts legislature and the governor of Massachusetts has no right to attempt to supersede what is written in that Constitution. And it's about time some of this stuff gets to the Supreme Court. Right. Oh, absolutely. And it's funny you say that, because the Supreme Court has taken two cases, the Veramontes and Grant case oral arguments are set for December 2nd. And these probably will eviscerate a whole bunch of Chapter 135. And the Supreme Court's even taking notice of a case that is a direct result of. a legal challenge to Chapter 135 in Massachusetts called Recchia v. Campbell. It's Gino Recchia, a friend of mine, who's a fellow firearms gun store owner, Mass Armament, and he took the case right through district court all the way to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and they dismissed it. Saying, yeah, we've already looked at this, we're bound by First Circuit precedent, and nothing to see here, folks. Go back and comply with our laws. And now the Supreme Court's starting to take notice of that. So I'm very hopeful, and, you know, I know the Supreme Court's going to do the right thing. But getting back to the question at hand, we the people here started a petition drive with... 100,000 people signing it in five weeks without any paid signature gatherer. That's a movement. That's grassroots. That is... What our governor loves to call democracy in action, right? So it was the people, the will of the people coming together and the power under Article 48 of the state constitution to veto bad law. This is a people's veto. It's not even a referendum so much as it is a veto to say, you know what, you guys went way too far. You kicked the hornet's nest and we're telling you. We're not the problem. Let's go after the violent felons, go after criminals, go after bad people with guns, not good people who have an old shotgun in the back of the closet that you now want to put in jail because they didn't register it by the 28th of October. You know, that's where we're at right now, that the state is hostile to legal gun owners. And if I might say one more thing on that, Barry, I have always said, since I saw this law for the first time, I said, this is a solution in search of a problem. But what came to my mind last week was... The way they treat the lawful, peaceful gun owner in Massachusetts is the problem. They treat us as the problem that needs to be solved. And this is how they solve it, by further regulating our lawful behavior so that we run afoul. And guess what? Now we're a prohibited person and now we're... Able to be charged under their moving of the goalposts. So there's people who woke up yesterday having done nothing different that are now felons in the eyes of the state because they didn't register a gun that they might not even remember they have. It's in the back of the closet. It's in the back of the safe. They inherited it from their grandfather or it was their father's gun, whatever the case is. And they didn't register it and now they are a felon in the eyes of the state. That's ridiculous. That's called ex post facto. You can't someone in jail for moving the goalposts. And that's exactly what they did. Well, you know, you look at these efforts, and we've talked about this before, about folks on the left, and you can't get any lefter than Massachusetts or any further to the left. I think I just made up a word, lefter, but it's Friday. Any further to the left than Massachusetts, and, you know, just for anybody out there that's on the fence right now, this is a step toward that. And, you know, just ask the people in France how that worked out for them or ask the people in Venezuela how did that work out for them when they surrendered their guns. And, you know, again, this is why this is, you know, the second amendment, you know, free speech and then this, you know, your guaranteed rights from above is your right to be able to own a weapon and defend yourself. So you've got to think about that if you're on the fence about... You know, allowing this law to stay on the books because it's only one step to an ultimatum, which is to essentially do away with the Second Amendment and disarm everybody. Yeah, I mean, and that's another great point. And I just ask anyone who's on the fence about which way to vote about this. Would you want any other of your constitutionally enumerated rights to be treated the way that the Second Amendment has been treated in Massachusetts? Think about, like, I just noticed before I jumped on with you that the Boston Herald, of all papers, has endorsed the yes online, and they say it's due to the proliferation of firearms in our society. Well, that would be like me saying, Barry, due to the proliferation of fake news, that we are going to now license and do background checks on every editorial board of every newspaper in Massachusetts It's to curb the... proliferation of fake news. You need to go through a government-mandated class. You need to take a test. You need to give a reason why you want to be an editorial writer for a newspaper. You've got to give three references. You've got to give us when you were arrested, and that permit will only be good for five years. You pay a hundred bucks every five years, and if you dare write an article after your license has expired, you go straight to jail. mandatory minimum sentence of 18 months and you and that's the way it's going to be no one would ever tolerate any other right be treated the way that the second amendment has been treated and unfortunately our state has taken a very hostile approach to lawful legal gun owners instead of the people actually doing the crime and the lawful legal gun owners are the most Law-abiding segment of society, even when you compare them to law enforcement officials. We are the most lawful, peaceful segment of society, and we're treated like... We're treated worse than a lot of criminals because the criminals get off and people like Kyle Kolata are facing 17 years in jail for daring exercise a constitutional right in the state of Massachusetts for less than 48 hours. And I could go on and on with names on a list of people who've had their lives ruined by chapter 135. So we need to right this wrong this Tuesday. I think If you haven't voted early, you can do so today. I voted early. I wanted to get out and get it out of the way so I can convince as many people who don't vote to come out with us and join us because your constitutional rights are literally on the ballot this year. Yeah, it's a big day on Tuesday, and as you stated, we need a turnout. And when there is a big turnout, The turnout usually... Um, that brings about change when there's a light turnout, that means things stay status quo. So, you know, I hear it all the time in my job, you know, people are unhappy with the status quo. They're unhappy with the way things are. They always complain. There's no options. I mean, there's some mighty important stuff on this ballot, uh, all the way to the open records, uh, thing and ballot question one to the choice of who's going to be the next governor to, uh, you know, whether or not we, um, allow this, uh, uh, this gun grab to We stand in question nine, and I mean, we seriously need a turnout on Tuesday that sends a message. I mean, this is a statement election here in Massachusetts. Absolutely. I call it the shot heard around the world. We already can boast that the shot heard around the world happened in Massachusetts, but this will be the shot heard around the world when we repeal Chapter 135. It'll get nationwide coverage, no doubt about it. And also, it will bring us back to where we were in 2024, which a lot of people think, oh, oh, yes, because, you know, we need gun laws. We will still have licensing. We will still have an assault weapon ban. We will still have magazine capacity ban. We'll still have red flag laws. We'll still have permitting. We'll still have mandatory classes to exercise your constitutional right. We'll still have the subjectivity of... The police approval, there's so much that we will have. We will still have the most strict gun control regime in the nation when we repeal Chapter 135. So it's not like we're going to become New Hampshire overnight, which, by the way, is the safest state in the nation with none of the gun laws that Massachusetts has. But we'll hold that argument for another day. We won't be New Hampshire after. On Wednesday morning, if we're successful, which I believe we will be, we will still have the most strict gun control regime in the country. And by the way, we also will still have one of the lowest firearm-related death rates in the country. That's where we were two years ago when this passed. That's why I say it was a solution in search of a problem. But unfortunately, the problem... That our state likes to think about and look at are lawful, peaceful gun owners. And I think we need to send them a message that we're not your problem. We're after the violent criminals. And I think we can win, win big on Tuesday. All right, Toby Leary, Civil Rights Coalition. Thanks for spending so much time with us over the last year talking about this. And good luck on Tuesday. Thank you, Barry, for letting us do it. Not everyone's like you and believes in the Constitution. So thanks so much. All right. Thank you, Toby Leary. And we're going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk to Tyler McAllister in just a few moments. Do you know the difference between a caregiver and a care partner? When it comes to dementia, those terms help us understand the shift from two people helping each other more or less equally to one person becoming much more dependent on the other. Are you a dementia caregiver? 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It's happened to me for the last two years. Well, you must look like a dangerous broad. I don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, it's on the form. I saw the question. It's on the form. Wow. I mean, I'm surprised. Like, I don't know if it can't. It's not just me. It's on the form. I actually saw it with my own eyes. So where do you go when you go to your physical in Dodge City or what? It was it was Hawthorne, but now it's Prima over in which Prima, my my first physical. We'll see what their policy is. OK, he's up in January. So I'll let you know in January. But I would like to know if everybody else is getting that on the south coast and Hawthorne, too. I'm not like I don't even I've been seeing the same doctor for like the last 16, 17 years. So I don't even have to fill out a form when I go in for my physical. Yeah, because they know you personally, so you're probably okay. I mean, I don't know, but it is on the form. The government wants to know, and they're having the doctors find out. So don't tell me the government's not looking at your medical record. Is that good? I'm sure the government is. Thank you, my friend. I'm going to hold you right there because our guest is on the line, and I want to get right to him because I know he's got to get back out there on the campaign trail, and we don't want him to miss a minute out there doing that. Tyler McAllister is the Republican challenger in the 9th Congressional District. He's looking to unseat Democrat incumbent Bill Keating. I almost forgot his name there. We never see him, so it's hard to remember the guy, but Bill Keating. And Tyler McAllister's first appearance on the program, Tyler, and welcome. Well, thank you very much. You know, it's the time slot. And as a matter of fact, you caught me in the middle of door knocking. So I raced back to the truck, plugged in, dialed in, and, you know, looking forward to having a conversation with you today because, you know, the conversation you had yesterday with Holly really piqued, you know, my interest in all the work that's being done to benefit the fishing community, the commercial fishing community. You know, how it all originated was a story that should be told and everybody should understand and know. Well, we were talking yesterday, for those who weren't listening about, in fact, I wrote a piece about this. It's on WBSM.com. It went up just a couple of days ago. You can find it without any problem. And it's about how the fishing industry and the city of New Bedford and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts really should be thankful to President Trump for all that he's doing. To help the fishing industry, and of course the New Bedford fishing industry benefits tremendously from this. Everything from, you know, talking about opening the Northern Edge in George's Bank to, you know, getting rid of, you know, catch restrictions to, you know, now this new thing that he's talking about now, which is, what is it, the America First seafood strategy. Yeah, so, and you've actually been involved in some... So to give you some context, back in August of 2025, I was asked by Janet Fogarty, who works for the Office of Advocacy to the USDA and to the White House. To put together a roundtable in New Bedford to start talking about how do we improve fishing under the president's recently signed executive order, the restoration of American seafood competitiveness. So that first meeting that really launched. Many different meetings and concepts and discussions was held at the Port Authority in early September of 2025. And in that room were some of the high liner fishing boats, the fishing group, the fish handlers and processors, the owner of Fairhaven Shipyard. We had, Obviously, the executive director and counsel to the Port Authority. And what we did was we started a conversation. And that conversation grew and spread throughout the country from Maine to Alaska, asking questions about what can we do to benefit the fishing fleet. And in January of 26, we actually had a big powwow in Boston at the Seafood Expo. And we brought forth an agenda, but the interesting outcome from all the conversations we had was... Getting the USDA involved, and what does the USDA bring to the commercial fishing fleet? It brings the ability to market seafood, something that hasn't been available to the commercial fishing fleet up until the recent opening in March of this year of the USDA Office of Seafood. So that concept was a 99 percenter, and I don't know if you know many fishermen, Getting three fishermen to agree on something is almost impossible. And we had 99% of the fishing community agreeing this was the number one need for commercial fishing was to get the USDA involved. From what I've read and what we talked about yesterday, 80%? Is this an accurate figure, 80% of the fish or the seafood in general that's sold in this country is actually imported from overseas? That actually is wrong. The number is 90%. Oh, my God, 90%. Okay. 90%. So I actually took, you mentioned that. So I took the people from D.C. that were up in Boston for the expo, and I took them on the catwalk, which is above the convention center floor, and I asked them the question, what do you see? And they said, a whole bunch of people exhibiting, a whole bunch of exhibitors. I said, yes, there are a lot of exhibitors here, but not a lot of American exhibitors. And when you went to the conference rooms, they were all different countries that had rented these conference rooms. Canada had five rooms alone. And, you know, the investment by our federal government in the commercial fishing fleet is a joke. And working with different companies like Alun Seafood or Red's Best Seafood, I learned quickly that we needed to do some significant investment into our... commercial fishing fleet whether it be shore side support services or opportunities to build new vessels but you can't do that until you start creating a supply of seafood that is consistent and deliverable and that's what we're also working on because of all these regulations some of which were written in the 70s that don't even apply to fishing methodology today That has to be gone through and has to be changed. But bringing in the USDA and also establishing these basic targets. We now have a pathway to support the fishermen like we do support the farmers, for example, fuel subsidies, for example, low-interest loans, for example, bringing in grant programs, which I have actually worked with Red's Best on for some shoreside shared cold storage facilities. And this is what we need. To support the number one fishing port in the country, as well as across the entire United States. Well, Tyler, you're looking to represent New Bedford, which is really the core of the of the district. The ninth district is the largest municipality in the district and the number one most important industry. New Bedford is the fishing industry, and it is also an extremely important industry for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It brings in, you know, gazillions of dollars every year, employs a lot of people, and so on and so forth. So the obvious question is, you've already told me more about the fishing industry in five minutes and shown a greater knowledge of the fishing industry in five minutes than I've heard from Bill Keating in the last God knows how many years that he's been in. Why is your opponent, have you, do you recall a time at all when, well, for that matter, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, or Bill Keating have ever chaired a congressional hearing or done a congressional investigation into any of this stuff? I'm not aware of any. So I have been a commercial fisherman since the age of 12, and I really built my life around commercial bluefin tuna fishing. Yeah. And I've done a bunch of television, but I've also been doing a lot of advocacy over the last 10 years, as well as working on modeling and management strategies because it's an internationally managed species. But just because that... The relationship and also the advocacy for the fleet has now also gotten into the lobster fleet and now the scallop fleet. And it's just the basic understanding of the fishing, you know, operation and the business. That brought me to seek this position because we are at a point now where we could really make some great inroads. It just needs somebody that understands the business. And I also am the founder of a 501c3 called the Bluefin Collaborative, which is a pure research-based nonprofit. And it was Susan Collins, who's been phenomenal to us. That helped us get our C3 designation, as well as some grant funding to do research work off of the Carolina coast as part of the organization's research efforts. So she is the only one that represents the fishing fleet in New England, Susan Collins. And I have not heard anything from any of the other legislators, either in the Senate or the congressional level. Doing anything. So you've got to go to Maine to get a senator to help you out with this stuff. Because our two, and you know, Bill Keating's been in, what, 15 years now? And Ed Markey, Ed Markey has been in the Senate. And I know you're not running against Markey, but just to show how little attention or how little interest our current delegation has in the fishing industry. It must be more. Markey's been in the Congress, he was in the House first and then the Senate, since I was 18 years old, a senior in high school, and I'm 68 years old now. And we have not had anybody show this kind of interest in the New Bedford fishing industry. This is something that fishing industry people that are listening to us right now should be paying an awful lot of attention to. And almost everybody in the city of New Bedford has a connection somehow to the fishing industry, whether they're directly involved or they have family that's involved or whether they have a business that, you know, in some way relates with the fishing industry. What has your... What's the reception been to the folks on the waterfront in New Bedford, your candidacy for Congress? Have you talked to them about the folks down on the waterfront about your experience and your ideas and what kind of reception you're getting? We brought them to the table immediately because they're the stakeholders. So they know they're fully aware. They're getting the same emails I'm getting. They're getting the same calls I'm getting. They're calling me and asking me if I've heard and they're asking me to push it up the food chain. And it's great, you know, because obviously running for this position has opened doors that. We're only, you know, cracked when I was trying to do things prior to announcing this race. But now those doors are much wider open. People are taking my phone calls. They're calling me. I was working with one of Donald Trump's cabinet members on an issue in fishing. And, you know, he called me. Out of the blue, because he was going to sit down with the president the next day. He wanted to confirm everything I had given him for information. So it's been a very open dialogue. And I've been describing our efforts to people as the thousand-foot ladder with six-inch rungs. You know, the government moves at a glacial pace. It's by definition. I mean, they are the definition of slow moving. But I have never seen the government move this fast. To support an industry like fishing, which has been put on the back burner for so long, and I've seen it for so many years of being on the water. Well, that's, you know, and that's true. And it is really inexcusable. I mean, I think the last time we had anybody in Congress that was even remotely interested in the fishing industry was Gary Studs. And that was decades ago, many decades ago. Right. And he's long gone. So, this is an issue... that obviously you can bring A lot to our district. This is important. We're the number one fishing port, again, in the country in terms of dollar amount fish landed. We've had so many people over the years that are making it difficult for our fishermen to go out and fish. So many restrictions, you know, the costs and everything else. So to have an administration in Washington that is friendly to the fishing industry and then having a congressman. That can get something done about this. It's already getting something done about this. And you're not even in office yet. I mean, this would be huge for our area. It's not only New Bedford, though. If you look at the district itself on a map, it starts in Westport. It ends in Cohasset. So it includes the Cape and the islands. And if you, that's the most coastline of all the districts in Massachusetts. I mean, the lobster, I was at a meeting in Marshfield the other night with the Army Corps of Engineers talking about dredge program. Marshfield, that little harbor, Green Harbor, has a significant amount of lobster coming into it every day. So they are dependent upon a clear pathway to get to and from their moorings and offloads. So, you know, if you took the entire district's impact of fishing, whether commercial or recreational charter, I am also a charter captain, there is a massive amount of... Money coming in from this activity and it expands, as you can well imagine, into so many other services, hotels, tourism, etc. So it would serve us very well to support these people. So we now have a federal effort that's well underway to promote the fishing industry and to get out of the way, essentially, and let the fishermen and the fishing industry, the processors, do what they're supposed to do and to be able to compete with some of these 90 percent. Oh, my God, I thought 80 percent was bad. We've had 90% of people that are pouring oftentimes contaminated, toxic seafood and shellfish into our marketplace here. Would the effort reverse that number and prioritize American seafood over foreign imports? Well, I think it will do many different things. Number one is it will bring the attention of the fish you are eating. And to your point, we import... Literally boatloads of shrimp into this country and a little over a year ago, about August of 2025, the shrimp industry was about ready to collapse because... It was so inexpensive to bring it into our country from another country, the frozen prawn product. And if you want to hear really disturbing, the FDA examines about 2% of the shrimp imports and rejects 75% of that 2%. And that's an actual number. That's verifiable. I mean, the... So supporting the shrimp industry when there was a tariff attached in August of 2025 was to raise the ex-vessel price of shrimp from our shrimpers from the Gulf, from Florida, and from the Mid-Atlantics. Um, so they could actually compete, but going back to the 90, you know, 90% versus the 10%, there was 32, one 31 and 32 shrimp importers at the New England Seafood Expo in Boston in January of 2026. That's how many, that's how much competition is going on. And another thing that's not being considered and not talked about a lot. Is that the countries that import also subsidize the fishery. So the fishermen can actually sell their product in cheaper because they're getting a subsidy from the government to sell it into our country. So, you know, this is a big problem with bluefin tuna that we've discovered coming out of the EU. And, you know, those things need to be changed as well. So as the onion is peeled back... The issues become more and more important to address and support our domestic fishing fleet, whether you are catching crab in Alaska or lobsters in Maine. Tyler McAllister, I've got to hold you because I've got a break and I've got to get it in here. I want to have you back win, lose, or draw on Tuesday, and certainly hope you win on Tuesday. But one way or the other, I want to have you back to talk more about this after the election is over. Thank you very much. So good luck on Tuesday. What are you hearing? How do you feel? We're just working as hard as we can. I mean, it's all about knocking doors, outreach. You know, I'm telling people, if you haven't voted early, you have probably another hour and 12 minutes to vote early. If you can, it's just as benefit to all the candidates because then we don't have to spend money sending you a text message. But I'm also asking everybody to get 10 people to the polls. And if you're really enthusiastic, ask them. To bring two people to the polls, because that's how we win this. We've left the candidates. I mean, Mike Minogue, I've done a bunch of stuff with him. I'm with Carrie McRae today. Yeah. We've left it all in the field for you guys. We're asking you now to take the initiative to get us over the finish line. And that's going to be your efforts to get people to the polls either before four o'clock today or on Tuesday. Tyler McAllister, thank you, my friend. Good luck on Tuesday. Well, thank you so much. Enjoy your weekend. All right, you as well. You're going to have a busy one, I can tell. 508-996-0500. Got to get this break in. We're coming right back. This portion of programming on WBSN brought to you by South Coast Health. Advanced medicine. More care. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM. Call 508-996-0500. All righty, welcome back into the program. Tyler McAllister, great to talk to him. And I'll tell you what, anybody in the city of New Bedford with any kind of ties at all to the fishing industry that does not vote for Tyler McAllister, anybody that lives in the city of New Bedford or anywhere within the general area that maybe has a support business or know somebody that... I mean, did you just hear that guy? Have you ever heard an elected member of Congress from Massachusetts talk that way about the fishing industry? Or be that knowledgeable about it? Or even give a damn about it? Keating's been in 15 years. Have you heard him talk about the fishing industry? Or be that involved in the fishing industry? Ed Markey, 50 years. Pocahontas. He had to go to Maine to get Susan Collins to introduce a bill for him. Absolutely amazing. Hey listen, Celtics and Bulls tonight. 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And when you talk to the folks at Riccardi's, please tell them that Barry sent you. Why don't you do that? All right, let's get a break in. We're going to come right back after this. All righty, welcome back to the program. It is 2:58. Told you it was going to be a busy day today. We learned a lot. I did anyway. Hopefully you did as well. And three great guests today. Tim Dunn from the Boston Herald, lead political reporter. And then in the final hour, Toby Leary. Civil Rights Coalition, fighting for your civil rights, fighting for your Second Amendment. And then Tyler McAllister, who is a candidate for Congress against Bill Keating. And both gentlemen, great messages and great information to share with you. And I hope you took it really to heart what they had to say. Out of everything I think they had to say, the most important thing, both gentlemen said you got to get out on Tuesday. And this is something I've been telling you and this is something you've been hearing. If we get out in big numbers, we're going to bring we are going to have a revolution in this state. If we get out in big numbers, especially here in New Bedford, Fall River, we get out in big numbers on Tuesday. We are going to shock the hell out of them. We really are. And we're going to send them all packing. We can do that. It's within our power to do that. We've got to get McAllister elected. We've got to get Mike Minogue elected. All said, Jesse St. Joliet. Yeah. You know, we've got all of the local races, Chester, Tam, and I know I'm going to forget somebody. I should never start listing off things like that. But we have to turn out in big, big numbers to do it. And we can really Really have them all looking down here on Wednesday saying, wow, what a force to be reckoned