Monday, Jun 30 – Hour 2

[Music] WBSM presents the Tim Weisberg Show streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508996500. Send us app chat messages and openline voicemails using the WBSM app. Now, the Tim Weisberg Show [Applause] [Music] [Music] and welcome back in hour number two here on Monday morning and you know uh a bunch of my friends were talking over the weekend about how they want to get tickets to the Adam Sandler comedy tour and um I don't know I don't know that I'd want to go see Adam Sandler and Stan I mean I suppose I would like if the tickets were free or something like if somebody gave me tickets or if I won them off the radio or something but um I don't think that I would want to go to that necessarily. I don't know that a nearly 60-year-old Adam Sandler is u I don't even know how old he is, but I don't know if that's the standup that I want to see. I mean, I kind of he's 58. He'll be 59 when he's on this tour, so I don't know if that's what I would want to see. You know, I used to love his comedy albums when I was, you know, 15, 16 years old. And some of those bits still are in my head every single day. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't quote the goat. And I don't mean the greatest of all time. I mean literally the goat that lives in the back of the pickup truck. There's at least two or three lines out of that every day that I'll say out loud, including one that I can't say on the air. But basically anytime I stub my toe or bang my elbow or even when I lay down in bed at night and you know like just kind of stretch out and pop a few things. I I will uh I will quote the goat. Again, I can't say it here on the air, but those who know those who know the goat know what I'm talking about, but I still don't think I'd necessarily want to go to that. or at least not pay what I'm sure the astronomical ticket prices will be. But what a resurgent time it'll be for Adam Sandler this summer and fall because he's going to have this tour going on. He's got Happy Gilmore 2 coming out next month. The continuing Netflix trend of bringing us some of our favorite intellectual properties in a new version. Last summer it was the new Beverly Hills Cop movie which was very good. And this year we get Happy Gilmore, too, which looks like it's going to be decent. So, we talked before the break about Mass Dot and the detour that's going to happen in Plymouth for the next couple of hours starting at 7:30. Uh, but an interesting story from Mass and this this comes from Grace Ferguson at newbedfordlite.org. Now, if you remember last week when we had this this heat wave going on for two straight days, the New Bedford Fair Haven Bridge had to be shut down for a number of hours. The first day, there was no heads up about it. The second day, they at least gave us advanced warning that it was going to be shutting down for about 5 hours. And I think they actually got it open a little bit sooner, but Grace has the report today that Masdot plans to keep the bridge open during heat waves. So that if we have another one of these heat waves, like obviously today it's going to be warm. It's going to be close to 90, but this probably won't be a day where it affects the bridge necessarily. You know, there's a difference when you're dealing with 100 plus year old metal. There's a difference between 80° and 90° and 100°. Especially where I think the bigger problem on Wednesday was that the the metal hadn't really cooled from Tuesday. And that's the problem is the metal expands and it makes it hard to get the bridge to close. So they just leave it open for marine traffic. And a lot of people are complaining, well why is it that the marine traffic gets gets to go and and and we don't? Why not leave it closed so that we can use the road and then the marine traffic can find a different way? Well, because the marine traffic actually has the right away. And so now Massard apparently has a plan in place or they're they're going to have a plan in place. They're making a plan, but they don't have it as of yet. Now, that plan could be as simple as a high pressure hose that keeps spraying water on the components of the bridge to keep it cool. You do that, sure, it'll keep it closed, keep it cool, but what happens to the metal then? Now you've just got wet metal. So, according to this report, the mass dot person declined to share any details on the plan because, quote, it's being developed. Okay, but here is my question. Why is it being developed now? Why isn't there a plan already in place? This is not the first heatwave we've had in the century plus existence of that bridge. Why hasn't there been a plan in place already? And why? I mean, I I get it. We are dealing with more significant heat than we have in the past. That's scientifically true whether or not you believe in global warming or not. But if that is the case, why didn't a plan get developed sooner? Why did it become reactionary? So if you are going to utilize that bridge on a hot day you you have to just kind of guess or or keep an eye on the mass Twitter or whatever to know if you can use that bridge. And Barry had the story last week about the impending work that's going to be done on 195 at the Route 18 interchange, which is going to cause significant problems over there and significant delays and detours and all that. And what happens if you don't have that bridge while that's going on? That Cogsaw Bridge is not going to that whole strip is not going to be able to handle a huge amount of traffic flow. Too many intersections, too many side streets. It'll just be backed up. It'll be backed up all the way to Main Street and Fair Haven and beyond. And there is going to be a bridge replacement, but that's not even going to start until 2028. Supposedly, it'll be a vertical lift bridge, but they're still working on the design, but a vertical lift bridge that will be able to withstand the elements. And even if it gets stuck, you know, if they they have a a situation where a component fails or something goes wrong, they'll be able to get those parts to replace it. and have it fixed relatively soon. The problem with the swing bridge is you can't get the parts for it anymore. They have to be manufactured. So, I think there should have been a plan in place already for hot weather and hopefully this will hopefully it won't be a problem. Hopefully, we won't have another heat wave like that. But, you know, we will. 5089960500. Let's go to the phones. Good morning. You're on WBSM. You're absolutely right, my friend. All these years I've been around this waterfront since lucky the day I was born in that bridge. Um, so get some generators on both sides, multiple pumps. The water is right underneath. The water is definitely cooler than the surface and keep that going. As far as uh traffic roots and all that, if you know this area and you ever been around here more than a year, so people always focus on cogs and going all No, no, no, no. There are other alternatives. Yes, you're going to go miles out of your way. You have Wood Street Bridge and if you want to go even farther, you plan it and you go all the way up to Tacin Hills and come around. So, there are other options. And when I hear people who live in this area say that's all I got, I walk away from I don't even get into the conversation. But to the people that but but the people that aren't from the area that are you know just coming down that that's they're still going to go and they're going to clog cogs. So so so common sense again with mass do put continual signage along the most common sense route and I think it out there. I think the other part is if you start going down to Tarkley Hill Road you're you're going to run into even more traffic because now you're going through residential areas. Now it's it's going to be an even harder way to get people through just you know besides the timing. Last night I was on um down avenue went up a right went up until Kushnet went for ice cream came back but so altering that you go up to where town hall is you take that right lane come back through all the way into North Haven. Yes it's a pain in the butt. You're adding about two and a half miles, but there are alternatives. There's layers of it, and you just got to be patient and leave and give yourself plenty of time. Yes, it's going to be a pain in the butt, but there are alternatives. Well, and then if we close closed-minded people, it's like a they they shut me down. We're going to have that going on hopefully not the same time as the uh the Route 18 interchange work, too. Oh, no. I think I think Mark Meni already addressed that like last year because it's one of one of two is going to either start before before the other one. Well, but the uh the problem is is everything work on the timing that they want it to work on, you know, because as we know things get delayed and so I I don't know. Do we delay one because the other one's running behind? It sounds like it could be a mess. Yeah. And look at that whole thing up there on um Net and Hway Road. where the tank is. And look at that project that we were told wink wink four to six months. So that took like what two years and three months and then they had to change a design and change the asphalt a couple times. Uh so consistency and screwing up. That's a that's something that DOT and the engineers have. Yeah. That's why they're engineers and we're not. But beside all that, I'm glad I'm glad you sound like you had a pretty good low-key weekend. Yeah. I wasn't feeling too well, so I just stayed in all weekend. Okay. So, you did some self-care. That's good. I got out yesterday for the first time in like 18 days. I've been home since last Tuesday. And I went, that's how I'm talking. I went out last night with a friend. Went for ice cream and came back. Still felt pretty good. Spent a little time with my other friends and came home with a reasonable time. Took my time. It took me almost twice the time to get up the stairs. But I just got to do what I got to do. But I got out of myself and did some selfcare myself. Yeah. Just take it slow. That's all you can do. Always a pleasure. my face. Take care. And 5089960500. Yeah, I was uh I wasn't feeling too well. So, I think I don't know if it was, you know, just being tired because I worked a lot all last week. I was here late pretty much every night and I think I just didn't get enough sleep. So, I was going to go to the Cisco Slam yesterday, but I just I was like, I can't go stand out in the in the sun all day. I had already felt kind of run down and I didn't know if I was getting sick and I didn't want to go and make people sick. But then I just took a nice nap, drank a lot of water. I did have to go out and run out to the store. But then when I came home, I was like, "Okay, I feel a lot better." But, you know, it's it's true. You you can run yourself down without even realizing it. 5089960500 app chat open line voicemails both available on the WBSM app. But we also have our new contest for this week available on the website and on the app. We are giving away tickets to see cold play at Gillette Stadium. One of the biggest shows of the summer July 15th and you could be there. The show is sold out so you can't get tickets anywhere well without paying an arm and a leg for them. But we've got your chance to win tickets right now at wbsm.com and on the WBSM map. Brought to you by Stevie's Wine and Spirits in Fair Haven. And I got to tell you, this is going to be a show to remember. As I said earlier, you know, I know people who didn't like Cold Play went to go see Coldplay because their significant other wanted to go and then they ended up becoming big fans. So, I like a lot of their songs. I've never seen them in concert, but I'm already going to a concert that week. So, I was like, I'm good. Can't can't do too many weekn night concerts anymore. Not not with a 4 a.m. wakeup call and not trying to get out of Gillette Stadium. But don't let that stop you. You can take the day off of work the next day. You don't have to be up at 6 a.m. and on the radio. So, you can enter to win at wbsm.com and on the WBSM app. We'll be back in a few moments. Stay tuned. [Music] Welcome back in 5089960500. Every time I hear that song, I think about there was a guy that came when I was at, you know, in high. I think it was was my junior year maybe, maybe my sophomore year, but anyway, so we're talking like 93, 94, 95, somewhere around there. and whenever that song came out and a guy came and did some presentation. I don't even remember what he was talking about. But it was like just you know how you had those assemblies in school. Maybe maybe not kids today because they don't have nearly as many assemblies anymore because of the the MCAST. Maybe now that they're getting rid of the MCAST, maybe there can be more of these assemblies again. But you would like learn things. They'd be like, "Today we're gonna talk about, you know, eating healthy." I'll never forget Food Play with Toby and Johnny. They would they would come out and teach you about healthy eating and juggle stuff and do all that kind of stuff. And they had the giant tooth that they put in the vat of soda. And one day I thought to myself, they must waste a lot of soda doing that show because every time they do that performance, do they just carry the same soda? It would eventually go flat. But anyway, this guy came and I don't even know what the topic of the presentation was, but the uh the thing that he did at the end was he had a keyboard and he had like all the different parts of that song, Stereo MC's Connected, and he started putting all the pieces together and like just played it. And I was like, what what is this? What is this all about? And I've like tried looking it up online to see if anybody else remembered it and what it might have been about. I should just start like a Reddit thread on it, but I have no idea. No idea at all. So, I guess it didn't really uh stick with me, whatever whatever we were talking about in that assembly. But I can remember a lot of other ones nowadays, you know. I I I don't know. I don't know if you could do that same kind of thing. I I've offered to do my paranormal lectures in schools before. A few have had me do them uh usually after school though, not during school hours. A few have had me do it during school hours though because, you know, I can talk about that in a way that it is educational as well as entertaining, but schools just don't have the time for it anymore. So maybe with the change with the MCAST, maybe we can start getting some more of that because I felt like that gave you a more well-rounded educational experience. Not just me going there and talking to people, but anybody going there and, you know, bringing an outside voice to teach you something mattered. You know, a teacher tried to teach us about staying off of drugs. But you know what made the difference? Seeing the cops come in with the the big thing about here's what all these drugs look like. Oh, okay. That that works a lot better than a textbook. Anyway, 5089960500. Coming up, we're going to have the news right now. On the other side of that, we'll have the Gen X files and then at 8 o'clock, New Bedford City Council President Shane Burger will be with us for the hour. Right now, let's turn things over to Mike Roberts in the newsroom. [Music] A big week for holiday travel. Trade talks stalled with the US and Canada. And will it be Vance in 2028? From the Cottage Street Motors WBSM newsroom, this is WBSM News. More than 72 million Americans are expected to travel for the Fourth of July holiday. AAA says most will travel by car with the busiest travel days on Wednesday the 2nd and Sunday, July 6th. TSA expects to screen more than 18 million air travelers between Tuesday and the following Monday. Since Independence Day falls on a Friday, many people will be getting a jump on travel for the weekend. All trade talks with Canada are being halted by President Trump in a post on Truth Social. Trump said it's due to Canada putting a digital services tax on American technology companies, which he called a direct and blatant attack on the US. Trump called Canada a very difficult country to trade with and said US farmers have faced a tariff from the country of up to 400% on dairy products for years. Defense Secretary Pete Hexath is renaming a Navy ship that was originally named after a gay rights icon. USNS Harvey Mil is being renamed to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. Hegsathth said, quote, "We are taking the politics out of ship naming and renaming the ship after United States Navy Congressional Medal of Honor recipient." Mil was forced out of the Navy for being gay and later assassinated in San Francisco in 1978 while serving as the first openly gay elected official in American history. Kilmar Abbrego Garcia wants to remain in jail in Tennessee to avoid being deported by the Trump administration once he's released. In a filing from his lawyers, Abrego Garcia's team said they can't put any faith in any representation made on the issue by the Justice Department. He currently faces human smuggling charges and was previously deported to El Salvador before returning to the US in what has turned out to be a flashoint for President Trump's illegal immigration policies. Vice President J. D. Vance is the clear leader among a list of possible GOP candidates for the White House in 2028. A new Emerson College poll out Friday morning shows Vance with 46% support of Republican voters, followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio with 12% and Florida Governor Ronda Santis with 9%. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley were also on the list. Vance has grown his support since the November election when exit polling showed him at 30%. I'm Michael Castner. US higher education institutions are ranking high among global universities. New rankings from the US News and World Report include over 2,000 top global universities and 13 US institutions landing in the top 20. Those universities include Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Colombia, and Princeton. Universities from more than 100 countries were reviewed and factors like the school's international opportunities, student makeup, and research opportunities were considered. A small plane safely made an emergency landing on I80 near Grantsville, Utah yesterday morning. Two people were reportedly on board when the incident occurred. The landing was prompted after the pilot reportedly lost control of the aircraft's air speed and altitude. No injuries were reported. A study of gators in Georgia and South Carolina found high levels of mercury in the reptiles and the waterways they live in. Researchers at the University of Georgia studied alligators from the Okafinoi Swamp and Jackal Island. Researchers say the high amounts found in the alligators is evidence that the toxin can easily move up the food chain from fish to alligator and then people who rely on the waterways for food. [Music] WBSM Sports. The Red Sox lost to the Blue Jays yesterday afternoon 53. Cincinnati Reds come to Fenway tonight at 710. Now, your ABC 6 South Coast forecast brought to you by Sea Street. Look for mostly sunny skies going through the day today. It's going to be warm, a little on the muggy side, too. Your high temperature should top out near 87. As we go to tonight, we'll see an increase in clouds. Lows are going to be dropping to about 70. And for Tuesday, mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning and again in the afternoon. It's going to be very muggy with a high of 87. From the ABC 6 weather center, I'm meteorologist Kelly Bates on New Bedford's News Talk Station 1420 WBSM. I'm Mike Roberts, WBSM News. Stay up tod date with New Bedford's news talk station WBSM and get breaking news alerts and all of our content on the WBSM app. This WBSM news update is brought to you by Steviey's Wine and Spirits. Look for the purple dot to try before you buy. Only at Steviey's Wine and Spirits in Fair Haven. And Steviey's Wine and Spirits, they do have a very special event coming up and uh you're going to want to take part in this. So, as you know, they not only have the purple dot where you can always try before you buy, but they also have great tasting events. And coming up on Saturday, July 19th, they're going to have their summer 2025 tasting with over 10 vendors sampling a variety of wines and spirits, 10% off specials, and more. So, just make sure you follow them on Instagram so that you can find out more about that. And of course, visit stevswinespirit.com to get more information. So, it's going to be a lot of fun. Saturday, July 19th, 1 to 4:00 p.m. sampling a whole bunch of different stuff for their summer 2025 tasting. All right, it is time now to take our daily look at what went on in pop culture on this day, the Gen X Finals. [Music] All right, let's take a look at some of the events that mattered most to 80s and 90s kids on this date. The Gen X Files are brought to you by McGra's Back Porch Ice Cream in Fair Haven. We'll start off with our celebrity birthdays. David Allen Greer, who rose to fame on in Living Color in the early 1990s, is 69 today. Boxing heavyweight champion and the baddest man on the planet, Iron Mike Tyson, turns 59. Actor Vincent Denafhrio was 66. Pantara lead singer Phil Anelmo turns 57 today. Actress Lizzie Kaplan is 43. And country singer Cole Swendell turns 42. It's the big 40 for WWE superstar Cody Rhodess, recently King of the Ring, as well as for Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps. On June 30th, 1977, Marvel Comics launched a comic book based on the rock group Kiss. Blood from each band member was drawn by a registered nurse, witnessed by a notary public, and poured into the vats of red ink used for printing the comic at Marvel's Bordon ink plant in Dupw, New York. [Music] Ringell. On the 30th of June 1979, one hit wonder Anita Ward started a two-e run at number one on the US singles chart with Ring My Bell, which was also a UK number one as well. In 1987, the Iran Contra hearings aired during daytime television, preempting most programming. In fact, my mom is still mad that she missed Days of Our Lives for the Iran Contra hearings. In 1989, Do the Right Thing was released in movie theaters. [Music] In 1990, New Kids on the Block hit number one with Stepbyep. Stayed at the top of the charts for about a month. I still remember hearing it on the school bus. June 30th, 1992, the soundtrack for Cameron Crow single singles was released. Even more than the movie itself, it helped bring the Seattle music scene across the entire US. Featuring songs from Allison Chains, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, and many others. The soundtrack was instrumental in launching the '9s grunge revolution. On this date in 2000, eight men were trampled to death during Pearl Jam's performance at the Rock Slide Festival near Copenhagen. Police said the victims had all slipped or fallen in the mud in the front of the stage. Investigations concluded that the events were an accident and many European venues then banned crowd surfing. The Pearl Jam song Love Boat Captain refers to the events with the line, "Lost nine friends will never know." 2 years ago today. [Applause] [Music] in 2001. Lady Marmalade, performed by Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Maya, and Pink topped the UK pop chart. The record-breaking song, originally made famous in 1974 by Label, also appeared at number one three years earlier when All Saints released their rendition. This all-star collaboration recorded for the film Mulan Rouge was the most successful. However, in the US, it remained at top the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks and later earned a Grammy award for best pop collaboration with vocals. And June 30th, 2009, YouTube kicked off their 360 tour with a show in Barcelona, Spain. 109 shows later, the tour finished with three $735 million in earnings, blowing away the $558 million record set by the Rolling Stones on their 20 2005 to 2007 A Bigger Bang tour. Ed Sheeran then broke U2's record in 2019 when his Divide tour brought in 775 million. But that didn't last too long because the current record is head held by Taylor Swift for her errors tour which brought in $2 billion worldwide. That's the Gen X files for June 30th, 2025, brought to you by McGra's Back Porch Ice Cream in Fair Haven, home of the porch sampler. [Music] All right. 5089960500. That is our number if you want to call in and chime in. And uh love love bringing you all that pop culture history every day. Uh some days there's just a lot of stuff that went on. Other days it's like well we can count this. But today was definitely a packed day with a lot of great incidents, a lot of great birthdays. As I mentioned, Cody Rhodess won King of the Ring at uh Night of Champions in Riyad, Saudi Arabia. But the important part is uh they really there was no issues at all for the WWE traveling to Saudi Arabia and taking part in that event. there was some concern that maybe, you know, and while there wasn't the chance of a government attack, especially now with the the ceasefire, but there was worry that there might have been, you know, an individual or or a radical group that might try to cause some problems. But uh according to Adam Pierce, who portrays raw GM Adam Pierce on the programming, he will be the first person to tell you he just plays a character on TV. But uh he said everything was nice and smooth. There was no heightened anxiety. I was watching um one of his face I was actually reading some of his Q&A on Facebook and he said that uh everybody felt totally safe. They it was business as usual just like all their other trips to Saudi Arabia. So, everything went totally smooth. And uh just a reminder, if you are a wrestling fan, tonight's edition of Monday Night Raw starts early, 6:00 p.m. instead of 8:00 p.m. I don't know why, but I guess that's the great thing about being on Netflix is they can start whenever they want. They can end whenever they want, and they can move things around however they feel like because I guess because it's Netflix, people don't care. I mean, I I don't watch it live live necessarily. I usually start at a little bit late, but then you miss some segments in between because I have the the premium Netflix, so I don't get commercials, so I can see what goes on during the commercial break. So, I always mean to start at 8:00, but I'm just usually doing something else, but I'll I don't know if I'll be home by six o'clock. Anyway, 5089960500. I'm going to take a break here. We'll be back in a few moments. [Music] And of course that is the cure just like Kevin. But um I got to give some credit here and and a shout out to Olivia Rodrigo. So first of all I like her music. I'm not a fan of a lot of you know the the more popular music of today. Uh but I'm a big fan of hers. I think she has a great voice and she has a great love of music. And so, you probably remember last month they had the Governor's Ball in New York and she came out with David Burn and they performed Burning Down the House together. Now, I'm sure a lot of the younger kids in the audience who are fans of hers, they might recognize the song, but they don't they have no idea who David Burn is. So, this is a chance to have her, you know, shine that spotlight on one of the artists that inspire her and hopefully get the kids to be fans as well. And then this past weekend, she was performing at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK and she brought out Robert Smith of the Cure and they did Friday I'm in Love and Just Like Heaven, the two of them together. And so again, another act that I'm sure inspired her that the audience might not know. They might be familiar with the songs, but they might not know that much about him. And now that's going to cause a deeper dive. It's very similar, and Olivia Rodrigo is a a big Taylor Swift acolyte. Uh but it's very similar to how Taylor Swift will shine a spotlight on some of the artists that inspired her and then turn on the younger audiences to to that artist as well. So, I see all of these, you know, negative comments about people saying, "Oh, why is she bringing out people that the kids have no idea who they are?" That's the point. The point is to bring out these artists that inspired her and get her audience to to pay attention to their music. You know, it's it's the opposite of paying it forward. It's paying it backward. It's it's bringing new ears to the music that inspired her. And then I also see people who say, "Oh, well, look at, you know, here's a younger artist trying to leech off the the legendary status of these other performers to try to get her older fans." I don't think that's the case at all. I think what you're seeing is, you know, an honest amount of respect for those who made her the artist that she is today. And I like I'm not listen, I'm not somebody that likes collabs. Like when people like, "Oh, the new collab drop between this person and this person." I'm like, "Just make your own song." Like there are artists out there that that can't make a song without having other artists on it. And that kind of drives me nuts, you know? Do your own thing. Not everything has to be bringing somebody else in to kind of leech off their audience. But I like it when they do one and it works. And I like it when they do it and they take a song they already had and it and it adds new life to it. And certainly the cure certainly talking heads are music that you would like to see younger people get turned on to. And if this is the way that it happens, I think it happened a little bit too with Talking Heads a few years ago because they put out that that tribute album and they had like Miley Cyrus performing a song, Paramore performing a song. And so that might have turned some of those audiences on. But then again, you know, are those artists that are already a generation above or even beyond, you know, the Olivia Rodrigo audience? I don't know. But I don't know. I I think it's somebody that's doing it right and honoring those that came before her and saying this is the whole reason I'm up here is because of artists like David Burn and and Robert Smith and others. So I see nothing wrong with it. And also they were pretty darn good performances, too. So if you get a chance to check them out online, you can see them. I'd play them here, but they're, you know, they're they're live from the crowd, so it doesn't really sound great over the radio, but certainly well worth a listen. Uh, and if you can see the videos online, you know, you can see some of the different angles they had of the performances. Speaking of, uh, coming out and performing, they had the Greece sing along at the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend, too, and John Travolta surprised the audience and and the cast by coming out dressed as Danny Zuko, although he has this weird blonde hair, but he came out and just kind of said hello to everybody and, you know, surprised them in character and then left the stage. didn't stick around for the singalong part, but still pretty cool if you were there in attendance to get to see John Travolta there. And I'm, you know, I'm not a big musical fan, but I do like Greece. I watched it way too much as a kid because I had sisters, but I always thought it was well done, well made. I'm not going to go to a sing along for it, though. I am going to go into a break, though. Before I do that, I'm going to remind you that uh this is probably the time of year when you're thinking about with all the sunshine that we're going to have, especially today, you're thinking to yourself, well, maybe I will go solar. Especially when you're opening up that electric bill and seeing how much the air conditioning is costing you. If you're thinking about going solar, Isaac Solar are the people to reach out to because they are here on the South Coast. They are permanently here. They are not coming into town selling a bunch of solar systems and then moving on. They are here. They're going to be your partner in going solar and they're going to answer all your questions simply, honestly, and directly. No sales pitch, no push to get you to buy the the solar panels. If you don't want to do it, that's fine with them. They'll feel better that they at least gave you the honest truth about it. All you have to do to set it up is reach out to them at isacsonsolar.com. Is a ken. Isixsonsolar.com. They'll come out to your home. They'll take a look. They'll tell you if you're a good fit for solar. And if you are, they'll give you a free no obligation quote. It could be on your roof. It could be in your yard. It could be building you a solar pavilion or carport. There's a lot of different ways they can help you go solar and they can tell you all about it when they come out to meet with you. Isaacsonsolar.com is a ken. Isacsonsolar.com. Let me get this last break in. We will be right back. [Music] Little blue Monday for you there. Although it's not blue at all, right? Well, blue skies maybe. Uh we're going to be taking a break for the news. On the other side of that, we will be joined by New Bedford City Council President Shane Berggo. We will talk with him about cut night last Monday and the cuts that were made. We'll talk to him about the new