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over the last four years with everything that's been going on. It's important for us to share who we are and what we stand for. Real quick, before we get some of that, the festival, tell us where and when so folks can know to go. So festivals at St. Joseph's Church. It's on the corner of Carter and Easteridge Road, right behind the church. Thursday and Friday, it starts at 6th. Thursday, we end at 11. Friday, we end at midnight. Sunday and Saturday we both start at 1 o'clock. It's free parking, free admission, free entertainment all weekend. It's just a big, big party for us and a big showcase for us. There's a strong and vital Ukrainian heritage in Rochester. Oh, we've got quite a large footprint as far as Ukrainians here. And a real effort, at least in years past, I think, to maintain... traditional ties to Ukrainian culture and heritage. When you're a kid, did Jeff take language and dance lessons up there at the church? I went to Saturday school every Saturday. I had to miss Saturday morning cartoons. Monday nights was Ukrainian dance class. Saturdays after Ukrainian school was Ukrainian scouts. So there was a lot to do, and I was always busy. Yeah, well, here's the deal. There's maybe a lesson to learn there. culture and heritage and tied to one's people, that doesn't happen accidentally, right? No. You've got to choose to do that, and your family and hundreds of other families have chosen to do that. Yeah, no, it's been, I'll tell you, it's a great thing. It's nice to be bilingual. It's also nice with, especially when we were doing scouting, I drove with my best friend of California. And just through the scouting organization, we met people from all over the country, all over the world. We didn't pay for a place to stay from here to California. We'd stay with friends that we've met throughout the years. It was wonderful. We get crowds all the way from Ohio, Toronto. Connecticut, New Jersey that come up for the festival. Our vendors are across the country as well that come specifically for our festival to showcase and share and sell their things that come from Ukraine. That's outstanding. You mentioned the last four years. Ukraine sadly at war, Russia attempts an invasion. Are their families in Rochester? who still have ties, maintain connection to relatives in Ukraine, sir? Oh, there's a lot, myself included. I talk to family members over there all the time, and I'll tell you, they're one of the most resilient people I've ever met. I talk to them, and it's, you know, we're going to win, it's going to take time. They blow a power station up. We rebuild it by candlelight in the next two days. We'll do everything we can, and they're positive, and just they want to persevere. Are there Rochester people who have lost loved ones in this war? I'm sure they have. There almost have to be, right? Yeah. We have a huge organization. One of them is at the festival. It's Rock Maidan. They come in, and they're constantly sending out containers to Ukraine, doing donations, and they do a lot for the Ukrainian community as well.

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Speaking to Annie Hanashvsky from the Ukrainian Festival at St. Josephats, which runs Thursday through Sunday. Are there a website or something? People can get the details? There's a website. Just Google St. Joseph's Ukrainian Festival. It'll pop up. It'll pop up. But like I said, if you come down, we've got traditional food, traditional dancing, all sorts of... Things you can purchase. We even have Ukrainian beer that comes in from overseas that we spotlight during the festival as well. One of the most stirring memories of my life was, you know, of course, Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Empire. You know, it was held by the Russians. And I can't remember when it was late 80s, early 90s, when the Soviet Union began to fall apart and Ukraine had its independence. as I remember that day, and I can't remember if it was your church, if there's another one a little bit south of there, but I went over as a newspaper reporter, and there are all these, you know, grandmothers with the scars on their heads, and the word came that Ukraine was free, and these women burst into tears, and they stood there hugging each other at the notion of freedom. for their homeland and deeply stirring and representative of what freedom independence means to the Ukrainian people. Oh, yeah. I, myself, not myself, but my family, my grandparents immigrated here after the Second World War. My dad was born in a displaced person camp in Germany as my parents were trying to flee just for that freedom and to give their kids and, you know, their grandkids a better life. So, and they made it here. My grandfather went back. 30 years ago. He was actually two days away from being executed by the KGB when he was there. So he went back and they brought back a crystal vase that he brought my grandmother as a wedding gift and buried it before he fled. Tell us that story in more detail. So your grandfather, your dad was born in a displaced person's camp. In Germany. In what year, ballpark? Do you remember? He's 77 right now, so 77 years ago, 50s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the deal was people got out because oppression, I mean, living in the Soviet Union was horrible. And, you know, you hear about the gulags, these, you know, labor and extermination camps, which was what they truly were. Many Ukrainians were sent there by Russians. Oh, yeah. The biggest story I love to watch is... I believe it was on Adriano Espaillat on 3430 a couple years ago, but especially with the World Cup, you have the Cave Dynamo team that refused to lose on purpose to the Russians or the Soviet Union, and they were all placed in concentration camps and labor camps and then later executed. Yeah. There's a very long book, the Gulagra Archipelago, that everybody should read. And so as your grandparents, are leaving ukraine tell us about the vase so my my grandfather had bought a wedding gift it was a wedding gift for my grandmother and it was a crystal crystal vase for his sweetheart on their wedding yeah when he started to leave he went in the backyard and buried it the family that stayed uh dug it up saved it for him when he went back to ukraine about 30 years ago

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Before the fall of the Soviet Union or after? After the fall. After the fall. He went back. The family had saved him and he brought it back from... from Ukraine back to Rochester. Was your grandmother still alive? Yes. What must have been like for her to have that again? Oh, she was ecstatic. Yeah. It's one of those, you know, one of those family heirlooms now that'll get passed down. Yeah. And for four years, Ukrainian people there and here had faced a resurgence of the same evil. Yes. It's a terrible thing. And it started in... 94, I believe it was, or not 94, 2004, 2014, when they went after Crimea, when they went after they tried to invade the capital. That didn't work, and then unfortunately, four years, four years ago, they went on a full-scale invasion. Yeah. Andy Hanashevsky, he's here talking about St. Joseph's Ukrainian Festival. Google St. Joseph's Ukrainian Festival, get all the detail. We'll be back with him in just a moment on News Radio Wham 1180. Documents we will release revealing shocking, vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure. Covered up hidden from you. Elections will not be written. Fully confirmed. What does that mean? It means keep it here. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Have you heard the news? The search for survivors in Colombia. Primaries for Socialists. Talk to Andy Hanofshevsky. Andy Hanofshevsky, forgive me. He leads the St. Joseph at's Ukrainian festival, which kicks off tomorrow and runs through Sunday. Hours and days again, or what, please, sir? Thursday and Friday started six. Saturday and Sunday, we start at one. I hear Ukrainian people eat food. Yes. Too much sometimes. Amen to that. I'm all on board. That's a great idea. Yeah, one thing I want to touch on, the festival is run 100% by volunteers from the church. Everybody that's there, volunteers, we start planning back in October. We start making Vedaniki, which everybody knows is pierogies. Why did the polls steal all your food, giving their names? I don't get that, man. I don't either. They seem like such nice people, but this is clear theft.

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But we make about 40,000, Veronica. Uh-huh. And that's a lot of men and ladies standing there doing hand labor. It's like a little Ukrainian sweatshop. Uh-huh. Don't give Vladimir Putin any ideas, all right? Well, let me ask you this. Um. How do you keep your church strong and vital? Because you go other places and churches are empty. And it used to be church festivals, but they're mostly all gone because they don't have volunteers. Why do you still have volunteers, sir? I think it's just the people want to share. They want to be a part. They want the community to know. We're a very proud culture. We're very proud of who and what we are, where we came from what we do, past and future and present, what we're doing. This is a time of war for Ukrainians, and so the festival includes determination, but it retains joy. This is still a fun time. It's a celebration. It's a showcase. That's the easiest way can the costumes, the time that goes into making the costumes for the dancers, the time that goes into making food, we're making food for two, three months. All that stuff takes time. It takes manpower. And people are happy to do it. They're willing to do it. They want to do it. We have a dance group homegrown here. We have a dance group that's coming this year from Connecticut. We've got entertainment coming from all over the area and a couple states out because they want to come here. They want to showcase it. If people want to be folks who might attend. If they want to be supportive of the Ukrainian war effort, is there some means here to do that? There is. Like I said earlier, we have an organization at the festival. It's called Rock Maidan. They will be there all four days. They'll be under our vendor tent. We have over 30 vendors coming, but they are under our vendor tent. And they are there strictly for aid to Ukraine. They'll have information packets. They'll take donations. They have a lot of different stuff. If you're interested, you can talk to people that have family over there to see what it's truly like. And they're always more than willing to share a story with you, let you know what's going on and what's really happening. Do you know if any folks from here gone over there to fight? I do not. That I don't know. Yeah, and you wouldn't want to identify them if they did. But like, you know, there have been some folks of Ukrainian heritage and some American military veterans who've who looked at it and said, yeah, no, I want a piece of that. Yeah, that's, well, it's like a David and Goliath story almost. For 100%, and hoping it ends the same way. We were talking off the air. President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian war effort have gone from defense to, I think, strategic offense, right? You're turning off the lights in Russia. You are disrupting their retail. the system, right? You're kind of blowing up their Amazon. You're inflicting damage on their infrastructure deep inside their country. That's tremendous. I think the biggest difference there is they're going after infrastructure, not people. Right. That video, and for their playing of music, we have to leave, but that video last week where there's some Russian bastard chasing the Ukrainian man with a drone.

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He's a vegetable vendor, right? He's an old man. He's a grandpa. He's selling vegetables. And they chase him around his car with that bomb just to kill him. That's sadism, right? Google St. Joseph at Ukrainian Festival. Go have a wonderful time. If you've never been, you need to go. Andy, thanks for keeping us alive. Thanks for all the work you do. Thanks for talking to us today. Yeah, no, thank you. And I look forward to seeing everybody there. 100%. Andy Anashefsky, St. Joseph at Ukrainian Festival, Thursday through Sunday. Time for news on News Radio, Wham, 1180. The defense of the day. What you're all here to hear about. Are heard. Did you hear those dumb people? Every day. Let's talk about the war. Been knocking the hell out of them. Blocked. The defense spending bill. Permanent daylight saving time. Vehicle stops for immigration enforcement. We're doing so many things. Use radio. Wham. 1180. You know, you are born without teeth. And that's okay when, you know, your little child, after that you need them. Sometime in the course of life, you can lose teeth. That's where the wonderful people at Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group come in. I talk about them every day. You may not need them today. You may not need them this year. And you hopefully will never need them. But if you ever do lose your teeth, thank goodness that their technology, their proprietary technology is available right here. 4602767. If you've lost teeth, if you need dental implants, this is where you go. Absolutely. Rochesterhybridge.com. The website, Rochester Highbridge at the Elmwood Dental Group. As families get ready for another school year, we're reminded that the best routines aren't built overnight. They're built by focusing on what matters most. There has been, you know, in the primaries that have gone across our state and then the rest of the country, the big story has been, you know, these socialist Democrats and supposedly this fight between the socialists and the moderate Democrats. Here's the deal. Socialists want to stab you in the back with a 10-inch knife. Moderates want to stab you in a back with an 8-inch knife. I guess one is better than the other, but I prefer neither if that's okay. But in each of the progressive wins where the socialist candidate has won, it has been by less of a margin than polling predicted. And last night in Wisconsin, where the state legislator... Ms. Wong, I think her name is Hong, rather, forgive me. She was projected to win almost comfortably. Instead, she lost by about four-tenths of a percentage point. In each of these cases, the socialist candidate has underperformed markedly what the polling said. This is not a whack on the socialists, okay? I think their ridiculous policies are enough of a whack on them.

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I think that what is going on here is a phenomenon of polling, which is particularly true for Democrats. When Democrats are polled, there is sometimes a tendency to give the pollster the answer that the individual believes the pollster wants. And so the answer given sometimes by Democrats who are polled will kind of tow the progressive line a little bit more. Democrats tend to, when they answer a poll, give a more favorable rating, for example, to a female or non-white candidate than they will ultimately vote, right? You'll get X amount of support expressed by Democrats in polls. But when it comes to actual election day, the support will be weaker, meaning that a certain percentage of those Democrats were saying that they supported the issue. But in reality, when it came time to vote, they didn't. And the explanation for that that some people offer is that there is a bit of a... You know, you want to live up to, okay, here's the woke standard or whatever. Here's, you know, the politically expected response. And I want to give that. So at any rate, that may be the issue there. The big news in terms of polling today is that Bruce Blakeman in the Siena poll has closed the gap by which he trails Governor Kathy Hochul from 20 points in the last poll to 10 points in this hole. That is... That's a lot. And folks explain it away, say, oh, no, no. What they've done is they've just changed. In the previous poll, it was all voters. Now they're just polling likely voters. Yeah, no. The deal is that Bruce Blakeman is closing the gap. And the story is that Kathy Hochul is unpopular. And here's the deal. It's not a matter of just, you know, Democrats going this way and Republicans going that way because there are other statewide candidates. Kathy Hochul is the least popular statewide Democrat candidate. For example, Letitia James. In the contest for Attorney General, she leads her Republican candidate by 18 points. Tom DiNapoli leads his Republican opponent by 23 points. But Kathy Hochul leads her Republican opponent by just 10 points. And, you know, what that says is that...

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you know, Tom DeNapley and Letitia James are more popular among, you know, voters in New York State than is Kathy Hochul. And Kathy Hochul seems to have topped out at right around 49%. And that's not a majority. And that means that, again, the likelihood of a Republican winning of Bruce Blakeman winning is not very great. But he's, for example... Lee Zeldin, you'll remember, he came within six points of defeating Kathy Hochul, which is a very close race, you know, in New York, if you think about it. At this stage of the 2022 campaign, Kathy Hochul led Lee Zeldin by 14 points. And again, at this point, she leads Bruce Blakeman by 10. So the margin is smaller. We'll see where that goes. You know, there's a lot of talk yesterday on the news, I think some kind of public information thing out of strong hospital or something like that, about these school bus tickets, you know, where you have the stop-arm cameras on the school bus. And when people pass top school buses, a photograph is taken and a picture is sent out. I'm very grateful for those cameras. I can't believe people pass stop school buses. I hope they find the living hell out of these people, right? But yesterday when, you know, you had the people from the hospital looking at, what, 6,000 tickets for passing a stop school bus over the course the last year, and they hop up and down about how dangerous this is, some average of 29 tickets a day are issued. And I know what I'm about to say is going to sound like stupid or counterintuitive. But the irony is that the numbers indicate that passing a stopped school bus while absolutely reckless, absolutely against the law, incredibly selfish, 100% stupid, right, and completely enraging, it seems to indicate that from a statistical standpoint, it's not very dangerous. because you had 6,000 instances of a car passing a stopped school bus in Monroe County last year. And remember that school buses aren't used by all students. They're not used by all districts. I mean, there's, like somebody did a story say, oh, well, Greece had a lot of people. You know where this is happening? It's happening in Greece. Well, because Greece has a large, first of all, Greece is large. Also, Greece has a, it transports all its own students in all its own buses. You have far more chances to pass a stopped Greece school bus. I don't buy into the argument that Greece drivers are less prudent or lawful or caring or anything else like that, just that Greece is bigger. So, of course, it would happen more up there. But.

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6,000 times last year that we have a record of a car passed a stop school bus and not once was a child hit when they first put these cameras on I looked up some numbers and and and here's the deal the the again I am not saying you can pass stop school buses just the opposite I hate your guts if you pass a stop school bus but The numbers tell us that the greatest danger a child faces getting on or off a school bus is not a passing automobile. It is the school bus itself. Go ask your AI to find you instances where youngsters have been hit by a car passing a stop school bus. There are very few such recorded incidents. And then ask your AI to find you instances where people... youngsters have been struck by the school bus as they got on it or off it and you have substantially more right so as the strong hospital person is saying oh this is very dangerous it's very dangerous uh... thankfully it's not right because if it was statistically dangerous we'd have dead kids in this county because friggin morons pass stop school buses on a regular basis on average twenty nine times a day and every one of those bastards ought to be fined like crazy Right? And we ought to take it. So, you know what? You pass a stop school bus. Maybe we should take away your license or your registration. Now, many of the people who pass stop school buses probably don't have licenses or registrations to begin with. But, again, it is a stupid, evil thing to do. But thankfully... It is not dangerous from a statistical standpoint. And also as moms and dads, of course, we're vigilant. We teach our kids to watch out. We're out there with our kids. But if you want to follow the statistics, right, be aware that the most dangerous thing as your child gets on or off the bus is the bus. Have your child be very clear. Stand back. When the bus stops and the door opens, very quickly move on to the bus. No dawdling. When your bus, your child dismounts the vehicle, step out of the bus, immediately move away from the bus. Not forward, not back, but perpendicular, away from the door, away from the bus. And that statistically will give you some protection. Take a break back in a moment. This is News Radio Wham 1180. AI. The controller. of humankind. Abrupt discrimination. The AI we provide is audio intelligence. It makes you smart. And it's guaranteed human. A basic human need. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Z-BART, Z-I-E-B-A-R-T. Now listen, this is a nice summer's day, and you know that Z-BART means undercoding. A lot of other services for your automobile as well. Learn about those at Z-Bart.com, Z-I-E-B-A-R-T. But undercoding, I tell you what,

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my call. How are you today? Good, sir. I hope you're the same. I'm doing great. Hey, so just real quick, I appreciate you bringing up the subject, and you are 100% correct on your statistics that you're bringing up. The most dangerous time for a student loading on loading is directly in front of the, by their own bus driver, in front of the bus, is the most dangerous. However, A significant growing trend over the last several years has been the passing motorists. And so I would caution only to say that locally here that statistic 6,000 and no kids hit or injured, that statistic doesn't show the close calls or all the training of the drivers that stop. what could have been a tragedy. It is very difficult as a school bus driver to manage all of this going on outside of the school bus. And I would encourage you to look at, there's a document. It's from the Kansas State Education Department, and every year they do a national loading survey, which will give you a lot of great... statistics. It will bear out the point I made, though, sir, which is that, and again, do a national search. Again, I'm not diminishing in any way the danger or the stupidity of cars passing. But it's, yeah, the gentleman is correct. The danger that we do not want to ignore is from the bus itself. Bus driving reminds me. Years ago, I had a, and this was like, this could have been 30 years. It's a funny thing. In church Sunday, a lady came up and asked me, you know, we got talking. We took a picture together. She pointed out that I had spoken at her high school graduation 30 years ago. So one of us is getting old here, kids, okay? And it ain't me. It's got to be you. But, so anyway, the point years can pass. And years ago, it could have been 20 or more years ago. I, for a couple years, had a privilege of speaking or emceeing at the annual Christmas party of the Greece transportation, you know, for the Greece Central School District. They used to have a big Christmas party for all the drivers, and they'd bring their spouses or significant others in, and there'd be food and fun. And here's the, in all honesty, I remember it because of the fun. I don't know if I ever come across a more jovial, you know, a group of people. And they would laugh. Anyway, it was a lot of fun.

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an awful lot of fun. On President Clinton coming Friday, I know that if you're a certain age, you're going to make a Harmonica Lewinsky joke and all that stuff. And Bill Clinton, he had some bumps in the road. There's no doubt about it. And I don't diminish them in the least, the first president impeached since Andrew Johnson. But, you know, time moves on, and President Clinton had his difficulty some 30 years ago now. And, you know, he's grown, we've grown. And regardless of politics or who you did or didn't vote for a million years ago, it's an honor to have him here in town. And I wish I could, there's a long list of things I'd like to say thank you to Tom Galesano for. And this would be one of them. He started this little school, Galasano, on his own dime, and he wants to teach people to go out. and be successful in business, understanding that prosperity in the private sector is what made America financially strong, and that the only way America has a bright future is not through an embrace of this pagan socialism, but through a noble, principled reinfiguration of capitalism, of the marketplace. when good people prosper in business, as Tom Galesano demonstrates, everybody is better for it. And I know that Galasano, you know, obviously gets credit for his, you know, billions of dollars of philanthropy done. And he should. But I think that the greatest benefit that Tom Galasano has done anybody is in the creation of tens of thousands of family supporting jobs and in the services which have helped even more customer businesses prosper because of what he offered them in the marketplace. And I, you know, we tend to, oh, here's a certificate for so-and-so who is from this nonprofit and, oh, let's name this building after that politician. You know, God bless those people. They play their role. But the true folks who build society are the folks who build businesses, who create jobs for you and me and our children, who create the prosperity. And I'm not putting down our area. I love our area with all my heart. But, you know, just, you know, I went on my run yesterday, and I went past, you know, various businesses, many of which were closed and empty.

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When Rochester had thriving, free, you know, market capitalist businesses, there was prosperity aplenty. As those businesses have been by government taxes and regulations, Kathy Hochul, driven out, we have a shell of what we used to have. And, you know, we, in our region, we are blessed. Suburban Monroe County. And the other counties of our region are wonderful places. You couldn't find a better place on earth to live. But it's increasingly difficult, obviously, to make a living. And anyway, I'll shut my mouth. But businesses, they are, it's like a garden in the desert. A business comes in, it's like watering that garden, and everything blooms and blossoms. So I'm grateful to Galasano for this and for this group of graduates to have a former President of United States come in and speak to them. That's a pretty big deal. And here's a deal. The opening act, if I recall correctly, is Terry Pagula. So you're going to have a couple of billionaires and a former President of United States speak. That first class of students who said, yes, Mr. Galesano, I'd like to come to your school. I think those people were pretty smart. I think they're going to be pretty blessed. Listen, Mr. Dave Debo is in. He's got a newscast for us. We'll be back when he's done on News Radio Wham 1180. W. H.A.M. Rochester. W. A.I.O. H.D.2. Honeyoy Falls. W. 241. D.G. Rochester. No required subscriptions. No trial periods. No surprise charges. No monthly fees. IHart Radio is different. It's 100% free. Download the IHart Radio app now. First, fast, accurate. Rochester's News, Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio. What's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and we're driving through the States in the BluffMobile, and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino-style games on SpinQuest. They have over a thousand games, including Live Dealer, Blackjack, and Crops, with tons of slots and unlimited. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. Ready to put a little spin on your day? Then check out Chumba Casino's new online social casino game, Ryan Seacrest 10K Ways. It's free and packed with 10,000 ways to play. Only at ChambaCasino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, void where prohibited by law, CTs and C21st, sponsored by Chumpa Casino. Dad, Disney activities are on Lingo Kids. What? Moana and Elsa and Marvel Spider-Man, all of them. On Lingo Kids? Yes, Dad, on Lingo Kids. That's pretty cool. I know. You just lost them for the rest of the afternoon. Worth it. Full of fun activities inspired by Disney's Moana, Frozen, Zootopia, Marvel Spider-Man, and more. Lingo Kids is where little ones discover more about favorite characters. Lingo Kids! Everything Kids love. Download it for free.

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