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Ram 1180. Next news at 1130. Breaking news when it happens any time. But first, another hour with Bob Lonsbury. Starts now on News Radio, Wham, 1180. Thanks, sir. I appreciate that. Good morning, my friend. Thank you so much for tuning in. Appearing out the window here, it is a flat out, beautiful day for a radio program. A lot of folks got into the High Mark Stadium over the weekend. And... Some photos have been posted, which seem to indicate that they're at the upper deck, that there are an awful lot of obstructed view seats. And from a design standpoint, it's kind of a head scratcher. All the money that went into this and all the money that people are going to be charged to get into this to have... possibly in excess of a thousand seats with obstructed views is, again, not what you would necessarily expect. And I think I saw Thad Brown post a photograph of the Buffalo Nickel uniform. And, yeah, it looks worse than we thought. But other than that, other than that, I'm sure everything is just fine. There is another aspect of the WNBA controversy going on right now that I mentioned briefly. I suspect that shortly the next show will take it up pretty seriously. But Sophie Cunningham is a player who has emerged in prominence here in recent weeks for those of us who don't follow the WNBA. There was kind of a classic photographer video of her pointing her finger at another player, and it just was kind of a cool look, and it took off as a meme or whatever. At any rate, Sophie Cunningham had been in the news the last week or so. because, you know, she had in February given some interview wherein she said that, you know, biological males shouldn't compete against biological females in sports. She didn't have any hard feelings towards anybody. She loved everybody, but just in the interest of fairness, that stuff shouldn't happen. Well, so that has raised her prominence even more. Over the weekend, a game, her Indiana fever against Chicago Sky. And there was a flagrant foul committed against Sophie Cunningham by a player from the sky called DiJane Carrington. And, you know, she whacked her in the face pretty good, left Sophie Cunningham with blood in her mouth. And, you know, D. John A. Carrington was... given a flagrant foul level two, whatever that means. But she had to go to the shower. She was out of the game, kind of like a red card, I guess. But at any rate, so from the locker room, while the game is going on, Dijunet Carrington.

just typed in the words in capital letters, white privilege, and then did the hashtag of the Indiana fever. Ms. Carrington is African-American, Ms. Cunningham is Caucasian. So that, you know, kind of immediately blew into something of a controversy. And at any rate, I think that, you know, Clay and Buck will discuss this at length. Clay Travis. has been on the WNBA the last week or so. And he doesn't like its politics, and I can't blame him. I feel exactly the same way. I'm not exactly sure why an athletic league needs to have politics, but there seems to be a significant overlay having to do with issues of race and issues of sexual orientation. But anyway, he put out this challenge, and he's probably talked about on his show, where he said, I'll put up a whole bunch of money. you give me the team that wins, you know, you give me the best team you have in the WNBA, and then you let me take a state championship boys high school basketball team, and I'll bet you some large amount of money or stake some large amount of money that the high school boys win over the professional female athletes. And, you know, that's gone back and forth. But that's the status of the WNBA today. And it's interesting because I think that probably the WNBA has a far larger following on social media as a topic because of politics than it has actual people who watch games. Because after most of a generation of the WNBA playing, I don't think until politics came into it that it kind of emerged into the public's mind. Um, it's, there's more trouble with, uh, I don't want to say, with tainted food. Started out, you recall that there was something called cyclospora, um, which created, uh, what, explosive diarrhea? And that was traced at least partially to, uh, cabbage. Now there's an issue with, with salmonella and salmonella, uh, salmonella, uh, traced to, uh, jalapenos. And these jalapenos can end up in, you know, dips, salsas, guacamole, any number of prepared foods.

Both of these problems seem to involve, it turns out coincidentally, a company called Taylor Farms. Taylor Farms procured the lettuce itself. It has lettuce growing operations and contracts. The jalapinos, it bought from another company. But here's the deal. Both the lettuce in question. which was tainted with feces and the salmonella, which is the only way you can spread cyclospora, right? It comes out of one person's butt and goes in another person's mouth. That's how you have cyclosporra, blah, blah, blah, whatever it's called. Relative to the jalapinos and the salmonella, it likewise is, you know, that salmonella came out of somebody's butt at one point, and then it goes back in another person and gets them sick. Just the... Salmonell alone is sick in 300 people in 27 states. The cyclospora on the lettuce has sicken people in 15 states. There doesn't seem to be with either one of these much of presence in New York State. And the only presence I could find was down towards New York City for a little bit of the lettuce. So we in our region seem thus far to be fine on this. But the common thread is that, excuse me, both the lettuce and the jalapenos both came out of Mexico, right? And again, in different countries, people live different ways. And that includes where and how people go to the bathroom. And, you know, it's... And both of these are, you know, fecal-related contaminants, which, you know, doesn't build much confidence. Is this just a coincidence? Is it, you know, some kind of protest against our country, our tariffs, our immigration policy, who knows what? Or, again, just maybe a fluky coincidence. But I think a point I made last week is simply this. You can avoid any of this mystery and uncertainty by buying locally grown produce whenever and wherever you can. Right? I know Wegmans tries this source locally, though sometimes they have little posters up about where these peaches or where this or that came from. You go to the Amish people in their markets. You're going to be getting locally grown stuff. If you go to the roadside stands, you're getting locally grown stuff. If you go to farmers markets, you're getting locally grown stuff. If you go to the public market, it's largely or significantly locally grown stuff. You still wash your vegetables and your fruit, you know, at best you can. But...

If the problem is arising out of Mexico and it's arising out of human feces somehow getting, and there's a worker out there and he takes the crap in the field or who knows what the deal is. But in our area, we don't have that challenge. And so, again, we get a lot of wonderful, wholesome food from Mexico, and I'm not trying to talk them down. But this is one more good reason to buy local produce whenever and wherever you can. Take a break. Back with you in a moment on news radio, Wham, 1180. Gasoline prices, everything that we can to bring it back down. Too high. Short-term pain. Keep up with what's going down. Use radio. Wham 1180. Rochester High Bridge at the Elmwood Dental Group. Elwood Dental Group, first time anybody from our family went there, it was a call in the middle of the night. Blue-eyed Ellie had taken a golf club to the mouth, some kind of church activity, somebody wasn't looking. And at any rate, knocked off a tooth. That's not good. A young girl, teenager, about to get out of high school. So, to be honest with you, I had heard ads for Elmwood Dental Group. And so I reached out. I knew they had the Smile Center there. I knew they were the best. I said, what do we do? Can you help? And they took right care of her like that. That's the underlying nature and commitment of the Elmwood Dental Group. They look after people. And the Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group, that's their dental implant practice, where that same culture is absolutely extant. They take care of people. They look after you. They always have your best interest and your comfort at heart. If you've lost teeth, this is where you go for dental implants. And they have a technology. They develop themselves, which allow you can do all your tops, all your Scott Bottoms. You can do all your teeth implants. 460-2767, Rochesterhybridge.com for Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group. Here are three questions most people can't answer. Who controls your... Fairly minor press release. from the Rochester Police Department or a response to a reporter's question, which was sent back by an RPD lieutenant. It said, and they wrote this in the middle of the night last night, good morning, the Rochester Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred in the area of the 100 block of Depew Street and Grover Street. On August 10th, 2026, that's the day at approximately 205 a.m.

Rochester police officers responded to the area following a single shot spotter activation and a report of a male shot. Upon arrival, officers located a 23-year-old Rochester resident. It continues on and non-life-threatening. But, you know, pretty big deal. He's at the hospital. The reason I bring this up is because this whole thing arises out of a shot spotter activation. It's a technology. It hears when a gun is discharged in the city of Rochester. It's able to, I don't know if triangulation is exactly the technology that they use, but it's able to locate where a sound originates from. They can pinpoint it, and then they will dispatch officers out to where that shot was taken, and they will do it like immediately, right? Go here. There's gunfire. And in this situation, and in countless other situations, that allows first responders to get to a place right after someone is shot. I mean, when you get shot, of course, one, you're in a bad situation, but two, your situation is getting worse by the moment. Okay? You are bleeding out. You're going into shock. Who knows what, right? But it's, yeah, the passing of time. it works against you. And ShotSpotter lets bang people get there, like this morning early. This young man is at the hospital getting treatment, was able to very quickly get the assistance of, you know, the police are there, and then the fire and ambulance, and off to the hospital. This young man was able to get that assistance because of this technology. I only mention it because, you know, we have a lot of folks who don't like the police, and we have, unfortunately, some politicians, and that's kind of their stock and trade aiding on the police. Well, In some other cities, to include in upstate New York, the activists are against shot spotter. They say that it over-polices minority neighborhoods, that it criminalizes non-criminal conduct, that it's too much of Big Brother listening in. And, you know, I would just politely say, this is bunk. It lets you know if a gun has gone off. That's it. Right? It's not peering down your ear. It's not stealing your DNA. It's not violating your privacy. But it is time and time and time again letting police know where violence is happening right now. And it also allows people who got shot. This young man, 23 years of age, he was conscious when they got there. And that's positive. But how many times are people shot? They're not conscious. They have no way to summon help. Nobody knows about them except for that shot spotter. And there's also right now a lot of pushback in other places against license plate readers. There's a one company, one brand of license plate reader is flock cameras.

And, you know, kind of the national we hate cop people are pushing back hard against these flock cameras. And I would just politely say. that we've had on here last week, the Greece police chief, acting chief, talking about what those license plate readers have done for his department. They're a useful thing. Defund the police is not a phrase that a lot of, you know, the progressive activists are using right now. However, you know, they will achieve their end by other means. And if you can limit and restrict police technologies, if you can hamstring officers and departments, then you will have achieved your goal of pushing back against the police. And, you know, here it's, well, we're not asking you to hate the cops right now. We did that before and we'll do that again later. We're asking you to hate the technology that the cops use, technology that protects people and saves lives. I say that they're not asking you to hate the police right now. I misspeak because of course they are asking you to hate the federal police engaged in immigration. These, you know, anyway, we'll shut up. We talked about that a lot. President Trump is sending his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his friend, Mr. Wyckoff, now to Russia to, you know, negotiate or see if there's not some possibility of peace there with Ukraine. And, you know, I know that President Trump has confidence. in Mr. Wyckoff and Mr. Jared Kushner. But in addition to confidence, it's also good if you could have results. And, you know, in the State Department, we, you know, the traditional negotiators or whatever, most of those lost their job under Doge. And so the emissary of the president has become his son-in-law and this man, Wyckoff. And, you know, that's a president's prerogative. That's fine. It's his business, right? Not ours. to decide who represents him. But we've had a year and a half, and all this peacemaking we're going to do just hasn't taken place yet. And, you know, if you're playing sports and you have a, you know, like a certain number of hockey players out there, and you're not quite getting done, you'll mix that up. Same with any other sport. And you just wonder,

people in positions for a year and a half without really being successful, is it not maybe time to think of, you move the pieces around a little bit, send somebody else over there? I don't know. We'll take a break because it's time for news with Dave Debo on News Radio Wham 1180. There was a chain of events that occurred. In any event. The Fifth Amendment, there will be repercussions. Check in. The federal funds rate. Unchanged. The events of the day. Republicans effort passed to say that. In Iran, we're going to smack him a little bit. Use radio. Wham 1180. I tell you what, you have, what is today's date, the 10th? This big tool day's massive tool sale at HEPSales and North Main Lumber goes until the 16th, okay? Which I think would probably be Sunday. Please stop out. Go to the website, HEPSales.com, click on that big yellow price tag, and they will have their extraordinary details about the deals that are available. on Milwaukee and DeWalt Power Tools. These are both wonderful, wonderful systems, as well as Stanley, Irwin, Lennox, and, again, the battery systems of DeWalt and Milwaukee. You can get the bare tools. You get the tools with the batteries. You have all sorts of combinations. Now is the time to buy. This tool sale, though. only runs until sunday this is the best time all year the best prices you're going to get all year and this is the best time to i always think are there any christmas gifts i want to give this year are their birthday presents are they things i need to round out my supply and assortment of tools HEP sales and North Main Lumber are your hardware store. All the addresses of their locations and the details on this sale are at HEPSales.com. It's HEPSales and North Main Lumber. This is it. What you've been waiting for. HEPSales and North Main Lumber's annual tool sale happening now. Score the best deals of the year on Milwaukee and DeWalt Power Tools, accessories, and hand tools. Don't wait. When this sale ends, so do the savings. Check out all the deals at HEPSales.com. Do you know that talcum powder causes mesothelioma? Telcom powder is commonly used in baby potter and adult... Welcome back. Radio Mike Oden. Do you pay much attention at all to the WMBA? A little bit, yes. Okay. Do you like watching games or no? That's all right. Okay. Do you watch much basketball? Not really. Yeah, me neither. If I were to watch a game, it wouldn't matter to me if it was NBA or WNBA. I don't care. It's just basketball, right? I guess, yeah. No, for me, I wouldn't care. Check up on your weekend. Work went well yesterday.

Yeah, for the most part. Okay, very good. You have any thought on, there's a lot of attention focused of late to some of these new candidates, the gentleman out of Michigan in the Democratic Party. What phenomenon is going on here do you think? People are second tired of politics as usual and are voting for something different. That's what's going on here in both those races. It's decidedly different. It's not a random difference, though. I mean, is there a rising new direction of the Democratic Party? There's really three different versions of the Democratic Party. There's the Blue Dog kind of super moderate Democrat. There's the left-up center progressives, and then there's the socialist wing. There's like three sectors and they're kind of all at war with each other. Are there very many blue dogs anymore? There's a few still around. I can't really think of any off the top of my head. There's a few down in Florida. John Fetterman's kind of becoming that in Pennsylvania. John Fetterman's a good point. Where's Governor Kathy Hochul in this, do you think, on that spectrum, sir? She would be one of those left-of-center progressives. Yeah. Is the fight then, are the blue dogs... They're not consequential, are they? Not really, no. Is the fight between the... They weigh in and say things, but outside of that, not really. Yeah. And they can be blue dogs or they are blue dogs because of the politics of their region or state. Yes, more or less. Yeah. In the move between the very progressives and the left of centers... Is it just a coincidence that the real progressives have had a good run, or is there some larger theme there, you think? I think people want to move away from what they see as establishment politics. Basically, basically what the primary voters see is we gave these establishment people the reins during the Biden years, and Trump came back. It didn't work. So now let's do it our way. That's kind of the calculation, I think. The New York has been, you would expect, New York would have been benefited, and it may have been benefited as a question. We've had the top Democrat in the Senate and the top Democrat in the House, New York State has. Have those two things been consequential or beneficial to the state, do you think? To an extent, yes, Chuck Schumer is very good to bringing home the bacon, so to speak. I'm not exactly sure what impact Hakeem Jeffries has really had. I wonder if he's ever actually been in charge. I know he's the boss, but that Speaker Emerita thing, I think that's a, she has a great deal of influence. She does, but in any event, she's retiring at the end of this year. So we'll get to see, especially since he's extremely likely to be Speaker of House, what kind of power he's actually able to wield.

candidate quality on the part of the republicans right because you're who's your who's your who's your democrat guy down there the minister whatever yes james trico yeah in in an in a different universe or a different day i don't think he would stand much of a chance if it was corin he wouldn't stand much of a chance yeah but because it's Ken Paxton Ken Paxton, who is deeply flawed. Deeply flawed. He almost got impeached from his job, his attorney general, by his own party. That's how flawed he is. Yeah. But that's a situation where, you know, not to throw stones at him, but Trump insisted on getting revenge, and that may well cost that seat. Yes. Not about that. And here's the thing, you know, we all have their views. I thought John Cornyn was a rational person. Yeah, he was, yeah. He's a fine senator. Does a good job. The Michigan guy. That's going to be interesting race. I think L.C. It's going to win that. If he does, that'll be a thunder clap, I think. It'll be off the strength for the gubernatorial ticket, and because it's going to be such a dumb leading environment, and because the up street. straight ticket voting up there yeah yeah but i i i i think he'll he'll beat rogers yeah which of the uh new york gubernatorial polls do you believe not by name but by rough percentage uh the sienna poll is more i think more realistic it's it's added about 20 points i think she'll win by about 10 yeah Um, and was it six or, what was it, six or seven against Lee Zeldin? I don't recall, do you? It was, it was, yeah, some words around there. Yeah. Well, there you go. Um, any chance Republicans hold the line. Uh, it's not very good right now unless this war comes to an enroll real quickly in our favor. I, I will give you this. I will give you this. There is one bit of good news for Republicans in Wisconsin. If Hong wins the primary, for governor, the Republicans will win that seat. Hong is, you know, doesn't like Thanksgiving, doesn't like white people. She, you know, she's quite a, you know, very distinctive, very, very strong flavor. Yes, she is, she is so far up the reservation that even Bernie Sanders said he's not going to endorse her. Yeah. So if, so if she wins that primary for. Governor, I think the Republicans are probably going to win that one. So there you go. Let me throw this to you. And I, history and everything, you know, midterm election, extremely unpopular president underwater two to one, you'd say, oh yeah, the opposing party wins big. But what about this? Every place by both parties has been so gerrymandered that it really doesn't matter. I'm Republican, I'm voting for a Republican, or I'm a Democrat, I'm voting for a Democrat, and there may not be much movement, particularly in the House. What do you think about that? In most states, there won't be a lot of movement, but because Republicans have such a slim majority in the House of Representatives, there are still enough toss-up seats.

to flip that. Yeah. No one in our region, no one before the Hudson River, with any chance of changing parties, this House election? No, probably not. Real quick, I know we're late and people don't care. New York is it 21 replacing Elise Stefanik, Constantino versus the dairy farmer, Constino a little goofy. Your thoughts there? Well, the Democrats seem to think that there's a chance because they're starting to put Put in money up there. Yeah. I don't necessarily think there's a chance, but they seem to think there's a chance, which is interesting. Yeah. So they must have some polling that shows that race being closer than I think it might be. Yeah. It's an interesting kind of deal. And how's Trump doing? Terrible. Yeah. It is. Yeah, it's the bright rays of sunshine, the last few weeks and kind of few and far away time. He barely got as Attorney General nominee for him. Yeah, God bless him. That's Radio Mike Oden. We'll be back with you in a moment on News Radio Wham 1180. Iran. Something happened. They were good. They were well-behaved for about a week. Trying to murder. But then they start shooting ships. The president of the United States. What happens next? The cuckoo. Happens here. There's something wrong with these people. Use radio. Wham. 1180. Estate planning, yes, is for when you die. It also includes some legal preparations for should you become incapacitated. Should you not be able to make your own medical decisions or something like that? Who takes care of what? With appropriate estate planning at Clark Peschkin, all of those questions get answered, and that burden is off your back. It's off the backs of your loved ones. I love Clark Peschkin. This is a wonderful law firm. One of the areas of specialty is estate planning. Now, here's the thing. They're nice people, but your what counts, your loved ones are who are significant. And appropriate estate planning protects them. Okay? This is about me. And this is not just for rich people, whatever else like that. If you've ever paid on a mortgage, if you've got a 401k, if you've got a stamp collection, I don't care. If you got your guns in the safe that you want to be squared away when you pass on, call Clark Pesson at 546 1734. This is not some download will crap like that. Let's do it appropriately legally. Let's look at a trust and let's make sure that your family is taken care of. This is very affordable. 546-1734-34-Clark-Peshkin.com. Then buy the financial guys on news radio. Wham, 1180. We're at 2-2-1180, 1-800-2-99-1-19-5-11-80. It'd be good to get you on. Real quick first, though, if I could.

I'd like to say we had that situation yesterday where at the motel down in Henrietta. God bless the man and his family and his memory and his friends, but it looks like it may have been a cop assisted suicide or suicide by cop, whatever they call it. And a heartbreaking situation. The phone call comes in. There's a suicidal man here. He's got a box cutter. He's threatened to hurt himself. So the deputies go. And the gentleman, you know, who knows what he's going through, who knows what his difficulty is, but the paradigm changes. And now he's trying to hurt the deputies. And we haven't received all the details yet. We don't know the information, but a situation developed where, of course, a box cutter can kill you, right? A box cutter across the throat has probably killed more people than anything other than firearms in this country, period, right? And there is this dangerous situation created and the officers were compelled to use their firearms. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. And again, his family and friends and obviously recognize that sad loss of life. But this situation created by the gentleman who has passed on. And it is a situation which has the potential to be, you know, a professional and emotional and spiritual burden for those officers, those two deputies who woke up yesterday morning and went to work, leaving their families behind with no other thought or wish than to serve and protect. And sometimes the price of their service is very high, emotionally, physically, spiritually, other ways. And again, I'm sorry for the loss of this man's life. I hope that you'll remember the deputies in your prayers. There'll be investigations, and the Attorney General's investigation, which could go six months or a year, will hang over their head until it is resolved. Hello, you're on News Radio Wham 1180. All the news that's fit to print for as long as the news is woke. That's the way. Newspapers kind of cut their own throat by abandoning the values of most of their readers. But the real thing that killed newspapers was, because newspapers have been liberal for a long, long time and been making money hand over fist. It was online advertising. It wasn't the transmission of news. It was the advertising. Online ads, Craigslist, maybe most particularly. took revenue out of newspapers, and any business that doesn't have money coming in the door is not going to have those doors open very long. I need to run. God bless you. Keep your chin up, and God bless the United States of America. News is next. Then you know, I'll be back here tomorrow morning, 8 till noon, on News Radio Wham 1180. Iran is trying to push button seeing up. Anthony Fauci needs to be helped. Every American needs to stand up. Hear about it.

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