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Wham 1180. Next news coming up at 1130. Breaking news when it happens any time. Another hour with Bob Blonsbury starts now on news radio, Wham, 1180. Thanks, sir. I so appreciate that. Good morning, my friend. Thank you very much for tuning in. Flat out beautiful day for a radio program. Flat out beautiful day, period. Can't wait to get done. I'm going to go for a run. Maybe the last truly summer day of this season. The long-term forecast for the next couple weeks seem to indicate that we could get some cool air. Might be a little bit chillier September than we are typically accustomed to. Doesn't bother me any. I am a big fan of autumn. It brings hunting season. Ultimately, it brings deer season. Reference just before the newscast, this sergeant of the Rochester Police Department, James Strassner, who was shot back in 1994. It was Dr. Boris Schmeagle, a whole lot of folks remembered. And he was up at Rochester General, and he still listed on their staff directory there. I know that back during the era of COVID, he was interviewed once or twice, still serving people. And here's the deal. Medical doctors, I know some of the ones we see on TV are a giant pain in the ass, and they've kind of lost a fair amount of credibility. But real doctors... who have real callings and who render real service are an incredible blessing to us individually and collectively. And you think of Dr. Borish Smigel, and he's certainly an example. And hopefully your family doctor is another great example of that. Forever, Dr. Jeff Hansen. And he sadly passed away, but 30 plus years. He was a great friend of our family. And now we got this new Dr. Tallman. And likewise, just the Salt of the Earth guy helping people out. And I'm touched by that. And if I can find something here just for half a second. University of Rochester posted something. I just saw half a reference to about a doctor who we, where'd that go, about a doctor that, you know, used to be, we did the radiothon for Galasano Children's Hospital, and for whatever reason, U of R has stopped doing that. To be honest with you, I have feared that maybe I pissed him off somehow. you know, that, you know, maybe I was, you know, a little unwashed to associate with them. I still, we do the radiathons in Syracuse and Albany, and it's a great opportunity to be with those children's hospitals and see the great work done there. But at any rate,

U of R had something here, the School of Medicine and Dentistry, honoring a Dr. David Coronis. And, you know, they've named some award after him. And, you know, I don't know if he's nearing the end of his career or whatever else like that. But back when we used to do that radiothonic Galesanos, Dr. Kronis, every year they'd bring him by and we'd interview him. And every year, it was personally a delight. He's a relatively physically a smaller man. He's a very humble guy in no way, you know, intrusive or boastful, sort of soft-spoken. But a man who I think primarily is a pediatric oncologist. has fought cancer and kids trying to save lives and reduce suffering. And I'd sit down there with him, and again, extremely humble, extremely compassionate, and you sat there and you knew that you were in the presence of a saint, if you will, in that, you know, none of us are perfect, and neither he or you and or I, right? there are folks who have callings in life, and maybe you're one of them. Don't have to be any big fancy-smancy thing, but like I was put down here for this purpose. And this guy here, he was put down here to take care of kids. And at any rate, I'm not communicating this well. But this Dr. David Coronis, at... University of Rochester at Galesanos is one of the most impressive and moving people I've ever met. He took the talent. God gave him at birth, and he has added decades of hard work, and he has brought that talent to bear again for decades on end to bring deliverance to youngsters in many instances saving their lives. And, you know, I tell you what, To go home at the end of the day or maybe to lie down at the end of your life and know that that was your legacy and that's what you had done, I can't imagine anything better. Right now in America, we don't raise very many doctors. Not very many American students want to go be doctors. And the ones who do overwhelmingly want to go be some kind of specialist. And sometimes I fear that what kind of specialist is driven by what specialist pays the most money. And, you know, I don't begrudge anybody making a living. You and I are hustle around today because we want that paycheck. And the same is true for those good folks who choose to be medical doctors. But sometimes the most useful doctors, the general practitioners, the family practice doctors, they get paid less. But they do an awfully great work. And one thing that I wish that, you know, I could have a talk with all the young people in America who do well in school and urge them to consider becoming a medical doctor. It's a lot of hard work. You're going to be going to school, you know, for a long time. And it's hard as heck. And they're going to treat you like crap. At the end, you'll get paid okay. But you have to pay a big price. But why would you want to do that?

Because you could be one of these people who brings comfort to those who are afflicted. You could be one of these people who brings your knowledge to bear to alleviate the suffering and maybe even extend the life of someone who is ill or injured or something like that. Who's this, and forgive me, I'm no good with names, but this big, tall, heavy set surgeon who's up at U of R now, who's like the master of trauma surgeons. People get shot up, and he and those like him act right now. They dive in, and they put people back together, and on the fly, they're able to do that and save lives. If you could develop that ability in yourself, if you could be that useful to your fellow human being, wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? Again, we all want to feel worthwhile. And we all eventually get around to the point in life, at least most of us do, where you say, man, what I want to be is useful. What I want to be is of service to other folks. And if somehow you could tap on the forehead, the average 18-year-old or 22-year-old who's pretty good with book learning, and say, you know what, I know it's hard, but maybe you could be a doctor. Maybe one day you could be one of these people who does this great, good work for folks. Anyway, end of my I Love Doctors sermon. Chuck, glad you phoned. Welcome to News Radio Wham 1180. Hey, Bob, thanks for taking my call. Hey, in regards to the burn a handgun, I understand it's legal to have one in New York State, correct? Except in New York City, yes, sir. Right, okay. Now, let me ask you this. If I'm traveling to Florida, can I put it in the suitcase as long as I don't have the CO2 in there? You can, here's, with a handgun, you put it in your suitcase and you declare it. With a burner, you put it in your suitcase, checked luggage, right? You can't take it on the, you know, it can't be in your carry-on. Right. But in your checked luggage, you don't have to declare it. It's absolutely fine. Oh, fantastic. All right. Great. Thank you very much. You bet you. You take care, sir. And again, I do ads for Berna, and I monitor to do so. I met with a guy from the company. It was a week or two ago. We were down at a sportsman's warehouse where you can go in and shoot one right now if you want. And this is a very useful tool for a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons. And that right there is one of them. And further, you can, like, you get in your car and you drive to another state, you can't do that with your handgun. It may be, it used to be if you had a Utah permit, I had one of those. Now, sometimes if you have a Florida permit, maybe. Or you go to Pennsylvania and get a permit for that state, okay. But typically, you can't carry a handgun across state lines. A burn up, not a problem. You're 100% good to go. Take a break back with you in a moment on News Radio Wham 1180. This is Joe Biden's war. I can confirm that. Extremely productive meeting. Come to the end of the conflict in equate. Thank you, Vladimir Putin. The pursuit of peace. Next thing in Moscow happens here. Peace. News Radio, Wham 1180.

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Our thing with the tariffs has at least short term cost us a lot of relationships with a lot of countries. And China has quickly moved to, most notably with India here in recent days, try to take advantage of that and build relationships with them. But in this military parade in China... In some areas, they have better stuff than we have. They have better underwater drones than we have. They have better laser-based anti-dron weapons than we do. And I would say they have a better supersonic or hypersonic missile than we do, but we don't have one. They do. five times of speed of sound, they have, over the last handful of years, made massive, largest in the world investments in dramatically expanding their military. And every new weapon and every war game they go on is all focused on attacking and defeating one enemy, the United States of America. And we're sitting here, the big beautiful bill and Trumps were going to build up the military. After inflation, the Trump budget actually cuts funding to the military. We've been coasting for a long time. We're running out of ammunition, and China and the rest of the world are kind of looking at us the way that kind of like a vulture looks at a sick cow. You know what I mean? It's time for news with Dave Devo back when he's done on news radio Wham 1180. You're out of your mind. Is it just me or am I going crazy? I don't believe it. I'm losing my mind. Go ahead. Lose your mind. They're going off the deep end. We'll give it back. Well, I've officially lost my marble. Use radio. Wham, 1180. If you've been waiting for the best prices on a new hot tub, the weight's over. It's designed. From the Rochester Police Department, Jason Lechinger. Sir, good morning. Welcome to the broadcast. Good morning, Bob. Can you hear us all right? We're on the peak of the mountain now. Oh, is that right? Tell us where you are, who you are, and what you're doing and why, please? Sure. So there's three of us. Current and former R.P.D., Jason Lechinger. I got John Brennan and Mike Coolahan with me. Currently, we're on the peak of Phelps Mountain up in the Adirondock High Peaks, one of the 46 high peaks. And, of course, Darrell wore badge. Darrell Pearson wore badge 46. So a separate co-worker started this effort, peaks for Pearson. And we've hiked on every September 3rd of other dates as well throughout the year. But no matter how many other dates we hike, we're always on a peak on September 3rd. To remember Darrell, yeah, you know, 11 years ago, 11 years ago today. That's standing. What a way to keep faith with this man with whom you served. Why do you do this? What message do you want to communicate? What does it mean to you personally, please, sir? Well, this is John Brennan. When we first started it, it was...

It was just to get together with the guys that actually worked the case that night and kind of decompressed after the trial and everything and a way to honor him. And then as time went on, we just continued hiking and we decided to all become 46ers and we did it together. And as part of the 46er, we made sure we carried the special flag we made for Darrell. Why we do it is because the mountains are here and we want to remember Darrell. remember how beautiful it is up here and decompressing. It's stress-free, you know? Yeah. When we were working, it was a lot of stress. You know, here, there's no stress. You know, aches and pains, but no stress. Yeah, yeah, sure. 46 here is someone who has summoned at all 46 high peaks in the Adirondex. And again, that was Officer Pearson's badge number. As the years pass, and, you know, some folks retire and a whole bunch of new folks come on, how has his legacy been maintained in the department? How do you do that, please? We started. hiking with guys on the job. And as time went on, younger officers and investigators were offered to hike with us. And we started a group of younger officers that are hiking, working on their 46s. And the only thing out of this thing that we actually, there was a tragedy. But in Darrell's tragedy, he brought a lot of people together that never would have met and never would have been close. We just invite a lot of people on the job, and we put it out there, and every once in a while we get a young officer and says, hey, I want to try it. And then we either do it with them or we tell them how to do it. We give them the flag, you know. Outstanding. And that flag has been where? How many times? Oh, it's been on every 26 peak. Sure. And some multiple times. Yeah, I mean, I mentioned we're on the peak of Phelps now. This has got to be the third or fourth time this flag has been on this peak. So it has definitively been on all 46, and now it's traveling around and it's on other peaks multiple times. We've actually... We pass it off. Yeah, we pass it off, right? John one time I met a New York State trooper. Just a stranger on the trail, so they started talking, and John handed off the flag, and that trooper brought that flag to his peak with him and his new bride and took photos and sent that to John. So it's sort of been travel around, not only of our little group here, but branching out as well. Absolutely. Please describe the flag for us. Well, you would note it from the military world as a guide on. Yeah. And there's a logo right in the middle and says Adirondack Peaks for Pearson, and it's got a little, you know, a little graphic of a mountain in some trees and water with a big, you know, number 46 right in the middle. Yeah. But Kirk, I mentioned a guy, he came up with this idea. He has since retired Kirk Piro. He came up with this idea and it was actually...

you know, through him that this flag was manufactured, and we just hand it off. So if one of us isn't going to be the one on the mountain on a particular trip, we hand it off and somebody else carried it for us. That sounds interesting. And this, you know, crosses over into the wishes and the lives of other people that are none of our business. But do you think one day you might ever be able to take his children up there to the mountains? Oh, boy. I don't know. That would be something. Oof. He took his brother. You just gave me some goosebumps for sure. That's a... Yeah, that's a tough one for sure, yeah. And actually, John just mentioned one time Daryl's brother Brett came about us on one of these trips. And as we approached the peak, we all stopped to let Brett be the first one up on that day, and he carried that flag. So he was the first one of the group that day. That's outstanding. What a wonderful and moving thing to do, and what a great way to keep faith with this man's memory. Thank you. What else should we know? Anything else, gentlemen? Man, I mean, we're talking about Daryl. I mean, it's 11 years now. You know, early on, people always say never forget. Of course, we certainly hope that that exactly is what happens that nobody ever forgets. And, of course, we've lost, you know, Mazz since then. And we, you know, hope that he's never forgotten. And, you know, obviously outside of our PD2, there are many that have lost their lives. So we just hope that never forget isn't just some sort of empty words that it's, you know, it's really sort of in practice. Absolutely. Absolutely. Gentlemen, again, who all is up there, please, today? We got a team leader here. John Brennan, we got Mike Ullahan and myself, Jason. That's outstanding. Jason Lechinger. Gentlemen, I appreciate you telling us about this, and I appreciate what you're doing. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. God bless you. You take it here, gentlemen. Be safe. And that's a pretty sweet thing. I remember back when, you know, we, in fact, we talked about it on this show, the correlation, well, hold it. His badge number was 46 and there are 46 high peaks. And over the years that followed, look at what they have done. And that, you know, as a tangent, being a 46er, Whenever I see anybody with that patch on their backpack or maybe they're wearing a hat, I admire that. That's an achievement. If I live into retirement, I think I might like to go try to track that down. It's a real effort. It's a true achievement. And again, if you are a 46er, I tip my hat to you. One thing, if I could, a completely different topic for half a second. I find I'm a little hard-hearted this morning, and I'm not necessarily apologizing for it. I'm just acknowledging it. One, they got this Afghan earthquake, and they're shouting, oh, we need help, we need help. I would just say to Afghanistan and to Taliban, which, by the way, its official name is the... It was it the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan? That's what they call themselves. We gave you guys 20 plus years of all the help anybody could ask for, and you told us to go F ourselves. So I'm sorry about this earthquake. Sorry about the difficulty, no doubt good and decent people are suffering. But I think you guys covered, you can take care of that yourselves, right?

I mean, after all the, your big Emirate, you do fund yourself with heroin sales primarily, don't you? I believe so. So maybe you could take some of your narco money and you could pay to relieve these people. Also, I note that, you know, you were able to fund with the help of your friends from across the Muslim world, a war against the United States for, you know, some 20 years. maybe you could tap into some of that Muslim money to help out your folks. But again, I feel very sorry for those people who are directly affected. But, you know, to the Taliban and to the political structure of Afghanistan, I would say, this is your problem. You should probably try to solve it. Number two, this deal where the man drowned in the canal in the wall of the stolen goods in the U-Haul. I'm sorry for the loss of his life, and I'm sorry to his family, but, you know, play stupid games, win stupid prices. And not trying to be flip or disrespectful, and I recognize there's real pain and real loss. But you bite it off, you've got to chew it. And in this situation... the criminals involved, completely created this situation, and the guy behind the wheel killed his buddy, period, end of story. And I'm not going to shed a lot of tears for people who encounter negative consequences as they commit crimes, right? So, again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Take a break. Back with you a moment. On News Radio, Wham 1180. Today it's definitely... It's a good day. Today is a good day. To be informed. All day long. What's good for our city? A good story to tell. Check in throughout today. On this day. I'm having a good day, too. News Radio, Wham, 1180. The last two weeks we've been talking about Burnah, the non-lethal self-defense projector that they have down at Sportsman's Warehouse and at Burnah.com, B-Y-R-N-A.com. For two weeks, we've been talking about it, and for two weeks, the Henrietta Sportsman's Warehouse has been the leading retail outlet in the entire country for these Burna pistol launcher devices. This is a non-lethal self-defense weapon. You don't need a license. If when you were younger, you ran a file of the law and you can't purchase a firearm to defend your family, you can purchase a burner. It's completely legal. You can take it across state lines. You can check it in your luggage when you fly in a plane. You can buy one today. You don't need a permit. You don't need a license. There's no background check. It's there at the Sportsman's Warehouse right now. Now, I can talk about it, and that can bring it to people's attention. But why are they buying it? Why, for the last two weeks has our store led the nation? It's because good and decent people like you go down there and say, yes, I need this for myself and my family. You go down to Sportsman's Warehouse. You may well feel the same thing about Berna.

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