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Starting now on News Radio Wham 1180. Thanks, Dad. I appreciate that. And troops, listen, like always, I appreciate you showing up for muster and also, like always, I hope that all is cool and copacetic on your end. My daughter, Blue Hidelli, is coming home from Africa this week. She has spent the summer thus far out there on an archaeological dig. And today, she is at that stage of her journey where she is coming in from the countryside. on a bus headed towards the nation's capital, Osaka, the city towards which she is headed. It's a big bus. It says God's bus on the back. And the way things operate over there is it goes down the road and you stand on the side of the road and wave and they stop and pick you up. And it gets pretty crowded. It is currently at the standing room only stage inside. And there are people who are riding. on top of the bus outside. And I think she's got about a day or a day and a half on this bus, where, how, and when they go to the bathroom. I've not asked, though I am intensely curious. We're excited to get her home. She sent us a picture the other day over the weekend of hyenas were eating a hippopotamus carcass. How the hippo came to die? I don't know, but the hyenas seemed to be making the most of the event. Yesterday... You know, I started receiving texts in the afternoon about the shooting at the Super 8 by Wyndham there on Lehigh Station Road in Henrietta. And very quickly, you know, the picture kind of was put together that had been a call for a man who was suicidal. He had a box cutter. And deputies responded, and we've not been given a run-through of what transpired. I think yesterday, Chief Deputy Mike Fowler, said that it would be most of today that they'd be reviewing body-worn camera footage and possible surveillance footage from the hotel proper to put back together exactly what had happened. And, of course, there's a debriefing and questioning of individuals who are involved there. So what exactly transpired? We haven't yet been told. But it seems that the man with a box cutter became a fiscal threat to one or more of the deputies. There were two there. And, you know, I think, you know, almost from the time it happened, many people in the local law enforcement community saw this as a suicide by cop. And, you know, God bless this man and his family.

God bless us well, the deputies, who we read earlier a post online from former police chief Dan Verrenti, who used to be president of the Monroe County Police Chiefs Association. And he just reminded us all that those deputies got up yesterday morning and they went to work to further their career dedicated completely to protect and serve, right? These are folks who like to help. you know, being compelled to take action of this nature, it will affect different people differently, but it certainly is something one will never forget and which could be a burden upon them. Here's an aspect of this I'd like to bring up. You'll recall back in the era of let's hate the cops out loud, Democrats have learned not to do that. You know, they had in 2020 the defund the police, and we couldn't watch Paw Patrol anymore. We couldn't watch that TV show Friday and Saturday night where they filed the cops around. They called for a boycott of Ford Motor Company because Ford has a... police interceptor, they will make certain vehicles specifically for law enforcement contracts. We were hating the cops out loud back then, but by we, I mean the progressive filth amongst us. But yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she's on one of these weekend talk shows. And they're telling her how great she is. And it asked about the defund, the police stuff. And she said that that was, quote, not rhetoric that we would use today, close quote, which means we wouldn't use those words. right? Do we still hate the cops? You bet your ass. Do we still want them gone? You double bet your ass. Are we going to do everything we can in power to impede law enforcement and punishment of criminals? You absolutely bet your ass. But that's not rhetoric we would use today. The Democrats have wisely learned most of them, maybe not Rachel Barnhart, that they need to dial down their hatred for police and the enforcement of law. At any rate, In that era, When hating cops was out loud and proud the number one Democrat agenda item, you may recall your former special boyfriend there, Andrew Cuomo. He did this thing where any time there's an officer involved where a person dies in contact with police, under the laws of the state of New York, traditionally, like any other homicide justified or not, there would be...

an investigation by the local district attorney. But the deal is that they simply stated that, you know, we can't trust the district attorneys to be objective. They work with these police officers, and so they're in the bag with them. What they meant to say is that there are a fair number of counties in New York where there are Republican district attorneys who tend to go straight down the line and not play some of this dumb assery that... Democrat district attorneys do. A couple of exceptions, obviously. I think that, you know, this gentleman, Mr. Green, who we have now in Monroe County, Democrat, he plays it right down the line. Livingston County used to have a Democrat district attorney who likewise played it right down the line. But by and large, the Democrats in Albany would not like Republicans out in the state. investigating police shootings. Anyway, all of this is a tangent. I've presented this information very poorly. Here's the issue. As a result of the policy currently the state of New York, this sad death of this man yesterday will be investigated by the state attorney general, which would be okay. There are no doubt in the local office wonderful people. But this will take six months. if we're lucky for that investigation by the state attorney general to be complete And until those six months are up, there is a cloud hanging over these officers. And even when, you know, it's six, seven, eight months, however long it takes, some of these investigations have gone on a year or more. And not because they're complex. And we've talked about this in the past. There are incident after incident after incident. where there's direct body camera and surveillance video of the whole thing. You can watch and listen to the whole thing right there on this screen, okay? And they'll still take six months or a year to investigate it. What the hell is there to investigate that takes that long? Anyway, one of the challenges...

From a procedural standpoint that these deputies will face is that this six to 12 month long attorney general investigation will leave a cloud of uncertainty hanging over them, creating anxiety unnecessarily. So, you know, I'm not saying I'm against the attorney general investigating things. If that's what the people want, if that's what the higher ups have decreed, okay, let's do it. But why drag it out? Right? An investigation of this nature could be done quickly. Right? There's no reason why it should take more than a month, really no reason why it should take more than a week or so. But I just want to point out that one of the challenges these deputies will face is that for most of the next year, they are going to be in a situation of professional and legal uncertainty because of the slow, drawn out. process that the state attorney general uses. Take a break. Back with you in a moment on news radio, Wham 1180. Mother! Mom used to say, don't you talk back to me. Now with the iHeart Radio app. Talk back to me. Use the talk back feature. Talk back to me. Tap that red microphone and talk back to me. News radio, Wham, 1180. Hey, business folks, when you sign an insurance policy for your company, for some brokers, that's it. Handshake, commission, And bye-bye. You don't hear from again until it's renewal time. The problem is that your business operates all day, every day, year-round, and you similarly, year-round, face gaps in coverage, potential risks that arise as a result of those gaps. That's why you ought to look into super sure. If your company has more than 25 employees, whether you're the owner, CFO, or HR manager, it can be too complex to just buy some policy online and forget about it. SuperShore is the super agency built for you, licensed in every state for your business and employee benefits, all with year-round support for you and your team. At supershure.com, you can access tools like fine print facts, which translates your... your current policy into plain English so you see what's covered and what's not. Plus a business value calculator so you can estimate what your business is worth so you know what actually needs protecting. Go to supershore.com, one super agency, one powerful platform. All your policies in one place. Go to supershore.com. That's supershore.com paid for by the Supershore Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency LLC, a licensed insurance agency. Tired of Dead Ash! A great weekend. My daughter and her family went yesterday to the air show. Love that like crazy. Looked to all the displays, saw the planes overhead. There was a Chinook helicopter on display, and it was interesting because Dad...

could tell the four kids about back when he was in the army parachuting out of Chinook, a feat also accomplished by, in addition to their father, an aunt and two uncles. That ain't so bad. My thought is you should not jump out of airplanes. You should stay in them until they land. I'm trying to convince people of the wisdom of my perspective. I had a granddaughter on Saturday, turned four, down in Westchester County, beautiful Camilla. A lot of friends, big party, good time was had by all. The end of last week, here's the deal. My son, Lee, who lives down in Washington, D.C. area, he, for a time, hosted a radio talk show out in Salt Lake City, Utah. And, you know, it went very well for him and such. But one of his producers over the time is a lady who went on and is having a pretty good career in Washington with National Public Radio. At any rate, one of her responsibilities is to help produce... a concert series called Tiny Desk or something like that. So Mark Carney B. who's having a pretty good career. Mark Carney B. was recording one of these tiny desk concerts. I can't remember if it was Thursday or Friday. Anyway, this producer friend of my son calls up and says, why don't you come watch? And so he went and watched, and he had a lot of fun and was the envy of a lot of the young people in the family. I put some, I tended the bees over the weekend. We've got three hives. And, you know, they, there are these boxes that you see stacked up. And those boxes, some of them, will be full of honey. And as it's, you know, the flowers blooming and such like that, that's when the honey gets made. And the golden rod in some places out in the country just starting to come on. And our family kind of particularly liking golden rod, honey, I put some more supers, they're called, these boxes on the beehives. And it's interesting to peer in there and see what they're doing. and the honey they've got in thus far. When bees first make wax, it's white, a little yellowish, but it's white and beautiful. And when you see all those new, that honeycomb freshly drawn, that's what the verb for making honeycomb is. And it's all full of honey and capped over with those white things. You look at that and it's awful pretty. So it looks like,

We're going to get some honey this year, and that has made my wife and the kids pretty happy in anticipation. Let me tell you very quickly. A story happened the end of last week in a suburb of Syracuse, where they have the same state government we do. You probably heard. But it was Thursday morning in a town called DeWitt. And some folks getting up to start their day, notice that there was a man walking through the neighborhood, and he was trying all the doors on the cars. He was stealing things out of cars. So called 911. Very quickly, the DeWitt Police Department came. Very quickly, they located the man, apprehended him in possession of a whole lot of things stolen from a whole lot of people's cars. This is New York, like I said, and it's catch and release date, and all that the DeWitt police could do was there on the spot, issue him an appearance ticket, right? Please stop doing this. Here's a piece of paper. And the law said, you got to let him go. So they let him go. An hour later, right? An hour later, they arrested him again. He was walking down the street. He had a $3,500 bag of golf clubs on his shoulder. Now, listen, maybe homeless drug fiends do play golf. I don't know. But he had this pricey bag of clubs on his shoulder, which he had, after being given the appearance ticket and released, he had simply continued on his way ripping off people's cars out of their driveways. And it stole, among other things, allegedly, this set of golf clubs. And here's the deal. He was because the golf clubs are valued at, you know, whatever the threshold is, and he was above that threshold. He did not get an appearance ticket. He was held until he could be arraigned. But at arraignment, he was released without bail because of these same laws that New York State has put upon us. And, you know, whatever you think about the system or whatever, whoever you vote for come election day, you've got to think that that's stupid. It shouldn't have happened that way, right? That an individual is caught and released and caught and released with no deterrence to criminal conduct, no protection for the citizens and their property, and no encouragement for this person to get help or to repent or whatever else needed to go on there. So, at any rate, that was last Thursday down the road in suburban Syracuse. It's time for news. Joe Lasky will give that to us. We'll be back when he's done on News Radio Wham 1180. In the summertime. Wherever you're going. Going to the beach for the family. Whatever you're doing. Drinking, barbecue. Get your local accurate forecast. Camping as much as possible. Here. Enjoying a nice weather. News Radio. Wham 1180.

Van Bordle Ford is proud to be certified by J.D. Power as a 2026 dealer of excellence for providing an outstanding sales experience. It's certain. And seeming disappearance of newspapers. And probably that's nowhere, in historical sense, more true than in Rochester, New York. Rochester, New York, for really almost 200 years, was... was a newspaper town. There used to be five newspapers that published in Rochester from the Main Street Bridge alone. They used to, the Main Street Bridge used to have, instead of being able to look out on the water, The bridge had buildings up on it, so that when you walked across the Main Street bridge, it's like you were walking between, you know, two rows of buildings. And in those buildings, there were five separate newspapers that published for a while. One of them was published by Frederick Douglass back in the day. Rochester became the headquarters of the Gannett newspaper chain. And, you know, in this generation, Gannett is something of a cuss word. But in an earlier day, Gannett was, well, a man, Frank Gannett. He started with a paper in Elmira, knew that Rochester was a far more significant place. And so he, across from where the War Memorial is now, he built his... company's headquarters. And, you know, Rochester was the headquarters of the largest newspaper chain in America. Gannett built, and he bought scores and scores and newspapers, and they were powerful dynamic voices in their community. And in Rochester, you know, newspapering was huge. It was an educated populace. It was people who like to stay informed. And, you know, it was the best way to get information. It is amazing to see how newspapering has collapsed into irrelevance in such a short, short amount of time. And that's nowhere truer than in Rochester. Again, the Gannett Corporation used to be headquartered here. Mr. Gannett had this philosophy that he set aside money that he created a foundation, the Gannett Foundation. which gave money to, you know, worthwhile, you know, causes in the communities where Gannett newspapers were published. The Gannett Foundation was headquartered here in that building across the War Memorial. The Gannett newspaper chain was headquartered here. And, you know, they had these massive presses there.

making uh... you know really couple hundred thousand copies uh... a day sometimes four or five hundred thousand separate copies of the day's newspapers, all printed there in that building. The paper came in on railroad cars underground. They had massive tankers that were also brought in by the railroad underground, full of ink. It was, newspapering was huge in Rochester. And this isn't like some... distant past. It was, you know, 30 years ago in the 90s, where it peaked and began to decline. But I mention all this because the Gannett building now is supposedly going to be upscale condos. They've put some new name on it. Largely, I think, that they use it for storage space, and it sits there empty. by and large the newspaper company sold the building you know as its financial situation reversed itself and the newspaper moved into leased space downtown at main and clinton And it's interesting, the sign that they put up on the front of that building creates the impression that the building is all Democrat and Chronicle. It never was. Democrat and Chronicle was a guy at a security desk and then one floor. And even that didn't last long. I also like to point out, that the sign they put up is plastic and temporary, and it has been all the time it's been there. The Democrat and Chronicle ended up, unfortunately, with that lease there, and it was very bad for it financially, but the city of Rochester came to its rescue. The city had the police accountability board. rent office space, kind of sublet it from the Democrat and Chronicle, which was interesting because the reporters didn't come to work and the police accountability board didn't come to work. But at any rate, The city of Rochester artificially subsidized the Democrat and Chronicle for at least a couple of years. The square foot rate paid for the police accountability office space was among the highest in the city of Rochester. It was a horrible deal. It was, in all honesty, I thought right from the start, it was just the city using taxpayer dollars to try to prop up this newspaper that had always been so supportive of Democrat politics.

And by always, I mean, over the last 20 years, 20, 30 years. At any rate, when the police accountability board moved out, it's now in what years ago was the old Chamber of Commerce building to the west of where the transit center is now. When the Democrat Chronicle lost the city money for the offices coming from the Police Accountability Board. You knew that they were in trouble. And, you know, I go running by there and you peer in the windows. There's not been activity in forever. And it is clear to see that, you know, the Democrat and Chronicle is not a thing anymore. In any rate, here's the point. All of that was context and background for a Facebook post. It's the only place I found reference to it. But the Democrat and Chronicle staff. has moved apparently into a place called Spot Co-working in Henrietta. The Democrat and Chronicle has moved out of downtown Rochester. and at least in part, and is using, you know, this spot co-working. It's one of those places where you don't like have an office, but you want to have a place where you can go work or something or, you know, give your clients an address that's not a P.O. box so that it looks like you have a real office. It's where you kind of rent a desk. And, you know, it's a fine service, and I can see how that would be useful for a lot of people in a lot of situations. when you contrast, you know, what newspapering has been in Rochester with what it is now. And, you know, it's a sad deal. The business killed itself on several fronts, took an editorial policy antagonistic to the people and values of the region. Also, along online came free classified ads. Craigslist killed newspapers by and large. It was the classified ads back in the day that made them a ton of money. Further, you know, Facebook has eaten them like crazy. Nobody's buying newspaper ads anymore. And, you know, at any rate, it is progress, I guess, means as one new thing arises, that an old thing has to fall. And the loss of newspapering is major for our country. And again, I used to work at the Democrat and Chronicle before that at the Times Union. I used to be the Daily Metro columnist. Not that anyone knows what that is anymore. But at any rate, the best I can tell, the Democrat and Chronicle now operates out of, you know, rent-a-desk place in Henrietta. This is News Radio Wham 1180.

The Democrat Party is not socialism, communism, not just scrolling through the events of the day. Vouchy, contempt Islamic Republic of Iran. Check in. We need to know for the information and conversation. Are you kidding me? Use radio. Wham, 1180. Electric car corner is an outstanding place where they sell used electric cars and hybrid cars. And you're saying, why would I want to go there? Two reasons. One, they have extraordinary value for your transportation dollar. And two, because they have electric and hybrid vehicles from all the different manufacturers, large and small, up and down the price line, you can go there and get a tutorial on electric cars. Are they a bunch of crap? Are they worthwhile for you? Is it something that might work? And here's the deal. The folks out there, I asked them. Can people just come in here and say, I don't know about electric cars, show them to me. And absolutely, they'd love to have you. And if you try this one, go drive this one, go drive this one over here. And one interesting fact is that in used electric vehicles, you can get extraordinary value. Right? You get all the Chotchkes, all the high tech at a very, very good price. Will it work for your commute? Is this right for your family? Go to them, ask your questions. They'll answer you. They are on Route 96 just west of 332. Their website is electriccar corner.com. Babel proudly presents the sheep cheese fiasco. Cute markets. Oh, geez. Let's get cheese. That the WNBA is going to hold... get some of its leaders together. WNBA, in the news, a fair amount, not for anything good. It's almost like become the Anti-America League, and some of America's pettiest and ugliest fights tend to play themselves out in the WNBA. But you had at the end of last week two gentlemen who had previously played in the NBA, Ennis Cantor Freedom, and Royce White. Again, two retired male basketball players who each declared for the 2027 WNBA draft. There had been a discussion of late in the WNBA about how they were open to transgender. And if you said you were a woman, you could play. And it was up to you and not them. And, you know, and you had a deal where you get kind of a piss and match between there's this one lady, Sophie Cunningham, who's a player.

And she was in an interview in February that somebody dug up where she said she didn't believe that, you know, biological men should be playing against biological women because it was none for advantage. That's, of course, true, but not politically correct. And so some coach wore a shirt that said, you know, respect trans kids or something like that. I don't know. But all of a sudden the transgender thing is like the topic of the day at the WNBA. So Ennis Cantor Freedom and Mr. Royce White, they each made little videos and they said, well, okay, if I get to decide what I am, then I'd like to announce for the WNBA draft. And, of course, these gentlemen, though, you know, both retired, you know, would, of course, I think on day one, be the best players the WNBA ever had, right? So the WNBA... responded at the end of the week, Friday or Saturday, by saying we will have our leadership get together and we will declare what a woman is for the purposes of the women's WNBA. So, again, I was not aware there was confusion on this issue, and it is an embarrassment of the modern mind that we somehow become so sophisticated, have our heads so far up our hind ends, that we play games where we don't know what a man and a woman are. You know, we don't know there's between male and female. We pretend that there are other things other than male and female. it's preposterous. Sometimes we in the modern world, we look down our nose at people we consider ancient or simple or whatever like that. You live out in the hut in the jungle someplace or you lived a long time ago and maybe you believe that there are guys living up on Mount Olympus or maybe you believe you carve a mask out of a tree and have a spirit. And we looked down our nose and say, oh, those people were so foolish and superstitious. Well, you'd have to go a long way to find a people any place, any time, quite as stupid as some of us are today. I mean, if you're just being honest, if we think that superstition or ignorance are relics of the distant past or some far distant place, you need to look no further than... Right here, right now. Anyway, I suspect that the WNBA will define women in such a way as to keep Royce White and Ennis-Catter freedom out of their league. And that's probably a good thing. Here's a little trivia note about New York State.

There are only two states in our country in which most of the state's residents live on an island. Hawaii is the easy one, right? Everybody in Hawaii lives on an island. The other state, though, is New York State. Just under 51% of all the people in New York State live on an island. And you go, what? How's that? Well, here's what it is. Manhattan Island, Long Island, or Staten Island. You add those three areas up, and again, it's almost 51% of the population. So one more note of distinction for the Empire State. Dave Debo's got the newscast. We'll be back when he's done on News Radio Wham 1180. Some cities watch history unfold. But here in Rochester, we've always been a big part of the story. All the local races and the decisions that shape the nation. We're covering every turn of election 2026. News Radio, Wham 1180. Some apps say they're free, then come the fees. Not the iHeart app. It's 100% free. No required subscriptions to...