Friday, Jan 9 – Hour 3

WBSM presents the Tim Weisberg [music] Show streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508996500. Send us app chat messages and open line voicemails using the WBSM [music] app. Now, the Tim Weisberg Show >> [music] >> And [music] welcome back in hour number three of the program here on Fun Friday brought to you by these hot dogs in New Bedford, where you can get two hot dogs, chips, and a drink for six bucks and where you can get all kinds of delicious toppings on your on your hot dog, including De's amazing homemade coney sauce. But stop by De's and check it out. They're open year round, so stop by and see for yourself. Uh today's fun Friday question, and we can talk about some other things. We can certainly talk about, you know, what went on in Minneapolis. Now, another shooting with alleged gang members in Oregon. We can talk about the convention of the city council and the school committee coming down to Marcus Coward and Henry Busqueet for the vacant school committee seat and what each candidacy means and the way that people are looking at those and you know those are the serious topics of the day but we can also have some fun as well. And one of the things that we discussed in the last hour with some callers was, you know, the generational gap of how, you know, when we grew up in the 80s and 90s, those of us who are Gen X, you know, we uh we had more of an awareness of some of the older stuff that maybe the kids today growing up don't have of 20, 30, 40 years before their time. And as I was saying before, I think it's because we didn't have options. we didn't have so much at our fingertips. Uh I'm reading a book right now. It was on the suggestion of a coworker and it took me a while to to get to it, but Chuck Clausterman's book on the '9s and he makes a very valid point about the '9s being the last decade and the last generation of people that didn't have ready access to information all the time. And that we we also were in that weird nexus point of where we had more uh things available to us than at any given time, more information available to us at any given time than anybody had ever had before to that point. But we didn't have a way to access it again after the fact. So it's that weird thing. Now you've probably got more information than anybody's ever had available at your fingertips and you can get it anytime you want it. So if you miss something, you can immediately get it again through the internet. But in the '9s, all this stuff that was going on, if you missed it, unless somebody brought it back before you, it was hard to find again. So, we're at that kind of weird nexus point, those of us who grew up, where we had, you know, we started off having the least amount of media, or I shouldn't say the least, but, you know, a very small amount of media to where we got media overload. And now these kids live in media overload where they can access so many different things. And because they can get so many things that they like, they don't need to go back and find things that are older to see if they like those. You know, you grew up watching the Brady Bunch because The Brady Bunch was on TV and you just turned on the TV and watched what came on. And then maybe you like the Brady Bunch and then you sought it out, but that's how you discovered it. Or maybe your parents showed it to you because that's what they grew up watching. A lot of the stuff that we grew up watching, the Gen X kids, we might not be able to readily access to show these kids until they started appearing on on streaming apps or they're on some obscure channel because of the diversity of media. So, you know, unless you have Mi TV or the DVDs of it, are you going to be able to show your kid ALF? I mean, I don't know if it's on one of the streaming networks. I'm just using that as an example, you know, like my son, the only way he knew about Married with Children was because I watched it on Hulu. So, I think, you know, there's not only is that that as the the last caller mentioned, there's that natural generation gap of you're not going to go that far back. You know, today's kids wouldn't know about John Wayne, but they would know about Arnold Schwarzenegger because he's still in the zeitgeist a little bit of their time. You know, kids growing up in the 80s, they might not have known, they might not have watched a John Wayne movie, but they knew what you were talking about if you talked in the John Wayne voice, Pilgrim. They knew that when they watched Big Trouble and Little China, or maybe they didn't know, but you know, kids like me, we knew when we watched Big Trouble in Little China that Kurt Russell was trying to play a John Wayne character in that movie at your old pal Jack Burton on the Pork Chop Express. So, we we got some of those references even if we didn't necessarily know exactly what it was all about. A kid today isn't going to get a John Wayne reference because they've never been exposed to John Wayne. It's too far out of their time period. But they know when you say get to the chopper, they know what you're talking about. When you say, "I'll be back." They know what you're talking about. They they get that reference even if they've never seen that film because again, it's close enough. If it comes from the generation before, it's close enough. And it's why you get these nostalgia trips that go back a couple of decades and that's that's it. You know, every once in a while you get the outliers. Every once in a while you get the swing craze popping up in the '9s. And that was due to a movie. A movie that focused on that very small subculture of '9s culture got enough more people interested in it that it became a thing. But generally, you know, look at in in the 70s after people went through the the tumultuous 60s, people wanted some a little bit of an innocent time period. They had this this romanticized version of the 50s that they went back to through things like American Graffiti, Happy Days, Greece, Shaana. You had this nostalgia for the 50s, oldies channels popping up on the radio or at least oldie shows popping up on the radio playing songs from the 50s again. Like you had this because people wanted to go back to that nostalgia is a powerful drug and they wanted to go back to that because they have this now ideal idealized and romanticized version of what the 50s was like. Even though for everybody in the 50s it wasn't like that. For them that's what they're trying to capture. And then that happened. And then in the 80s, you know, you didn't really have uh a desire to go back to it, but you had a resurgence of interest in things from the '60s. The music of the 60s became popular again. You know, the Monkeys came back. Crosby, Stills, and Nash are out there. Like all these bands were out there again. Starship became uh Jefferson Airplane became Starship. You know, those acts were still on the charts. the movie stars of the 60s were still making movies in the 80s and then you had, you know, the the the Vietnam movies that started coming out. Platoon and Full Metal Jacket and things like that. So, you started to get some of that brought in. And then in the '9s, they went back to the 70s. Disco music made a comeback. People started wearing bell bottoms again. You know, like it's just what happens. 5089960500. Good morning. You're on WBSM. >> Good morning, Tim. >> How you doing? >> Not bad. I want to talk about Trump for a little bit if I may. >> Sure. >> Um I don't think Trump he's he wants to take over Greenland. Uh it's a strategic thing. Um um I think it would be good for America if we could uh maybe have a joint partnership, which we do already, but I mean we need to have more leverage up in that in that area. So if they sell it to the US, I mean we bought Alaska off the Russians, right? Um Louisiana purchase. Um, you know, I think it would be good for America, don't you think? >> Sure. If Denmark [snorts] was willing to give it up. >> Yeah. >> But that's that's that's the key here. They're not looking to give it up. >> Right. Yeah. Um, Venezuela, the other thing I if I was a reporter and I was sitting there and I had Trump's ear, you know what I would ask him? >> What's that? Are are are you going to take that oil money that's seized and give it to the American people who were victimized by the gang members? Their families were slaughtered, raped. Um, and I think it's a good question to pose. you know, >> it it's a good question to pose, but in in terms of actually trying to to make that happen, it's kind of a it's um it's a con it's a very convoluted uh lineage to try to to try to figure out who was affected by by that. You know what I mean? >> Well, I mean, if you I don't think it's convoluted at all. I think if you can file an action in federal court and then get your tentacles on that federal money that's seized in the pot uh and and uh to give uh what do they call victim restitution for people who were victimized by these brutal illegal immigrant criminals. Um, you know, I I think that's a that's a very good argument. I think would stand up in court, >> but um >> then that means you're only doing it for people who are brutalized by folks who came here illegally from Venezuela. >> Does Well, does that make sense? Well, does it make sense to to take money from Venezuela and give it to people who were victimized by somebody from Mexico or somebody who was from somebody from Colombia or Guatemala? >> Right. Also, yeah, that's a good that's a good question. You have illegals coming in from Mexico. I would seize anything from Mexico, their oil. Hit I I'm I'm for an allout strike on Mexico. hit those drug labs and I would any type of trade with Mexico, any of those South American countries that Biden allowed those illegals to come in here, victimize, kill, rape, maim people, there should be a pot of gold for those people who are victimized. Do you agree? >> No. Because then what you're doing is you're cutting off what benefit the, you know, millions of good people who aren't involved in any of that receive from that trade with the US, uh, and punishing them based on this outlaw part of of their own country and their own government? >> Well, would you agree on this argument? Uh, if we take an American citizen and put him in jail for murder, rape, or something, do you feel that we're punishing the family because of what the guy did? >> You follow my analogy? >> No. But we also wouldn't say to those people, we're now going to take away your ability to to earn a living. We're going to take away whatever um, you know, whatever benefit you get from existing in a free society based on the fact that somebody else in your family did something wrong. Yeah, you know that >> I mean look at it like this. If if if a European government didn't like Donald Trump and thought that he was a criminal and didn't want to trade with the US anymore over it, wouldn't that be punishing the rest of the United States just based on one person? >> Right. Yeah. Here's another analogy, a quick one. Um you know how I'm going to I'm going to jump into the liberal frame of mind here. Uh US corporations, I know you liberals, you don't like them. Um uh well say you have a big corporation say uh uh ripping off people whether it be their product they charge too much over the years or credit card companies over billing or whatever. um say their fraud is in the estimated not fraud overbilling which is um they did something illegal corporation they overbuild American citizenry across the United States into the tune of say let's just throw a figure out there um $60 billion right so they took that money they invested it they made made interest on the money now the government catches up with them and They say you defrauded uh you're going to have to pay a penalty. Well, when they end up paying a penalty, it's usually say four or five billion. They set up a trust and then they have to distribute that to the people who are affected. Now, the people that are affected, they're only going to get pennies on the dollar. So, who actually wins at the end? The corporation. Well, I mean, >> but not necessarily because they can they can go after those illotten gains. Uh it happened right here with a local case. There was the uh the former police chief who was involved in the insider trading. And so, not only, you know, were they able to to to take, you know, whatever that initial money is that they put in, they took all the ill gotten gains from them as well. So, they can they can take that money, they can take take all of it if they want to. Well, what I'm trying to say is I think there I mean you have um you have some states where they have victim restitution fund um and it's paid to victims of homicide or rape or something. Um on the same aspect, I think Venezuela uh the oil money it um I think okay divide it in half. Half of that oil money when they sell it at market it goes back to the people of Venezuela. And I also think that the money should be um set up in an American restitution fund for people who are victimized by what the Maduro regime unleashed on America. And you know, Joe Biden, that guy, he wasn't running the government. He was asleep at the switch. You had a shadow government running everything in denial. Camala Harris, I mean, she's a giggling joke. Tim Waltz, he's a laughing stock of the world. And you saw the the signs all over New Deder. They want to vote for these idiots. Boy, that doesn't really, you know, unbelievable. >> Well, hey, listen. And I could say the same thing about the people that voted for the idiot that's there now. So >> he's my king. He's my king, brother. >> I I know that he is. I'm going to hold you there, though, because I got another call to take. Thank you. You have a good weekend. >> Byebye. >> And let me get this call in here. Good morning. You're next on WBSM. >> I love callers like that, Jim. You know, uh, what she should have asked him, Tim, was all about the people in Mexico that gets victimized by all the guns that are made in United States that are in Mexico killing everybody. >> That's fair. I guess they should get some kind of conf compensation, right? >> Yeah, that's a fair point. And also, you know, keep in mind the people that are the everyday citizens of those countries are also victimized by the cartels and the people who are involved in them. They also want to see them gone. >> Exactly. I mean, people like that, I mean, they got their mind made up. you know, the Democrat, the Democrat, the Democrat. You know, uh I guess we're supposed to live in a everybody's supposed to be conservative and nobody has their thoughts and their points except for the way he thinks. >> Well, what bothers me is the fact that, and you know, maybe people on the left are guilty of it, too, but the fact that anybody that disagrees with you is an idiot. anybody that disagrees with you is stupid or or malicious in some way or or has some sort of hidden agenda as if people just can't have, you know, the same kind of core values but just look at it from a different perspective. >> Absolutely, Jim. Very well said. Very well said. I hope a lot of people's listening to what you just said. >> Uh I mean, they might hear it, but it probably won't make a difference. >> Okay. Have a good day. >> You as well. 5089960500. I've got to take a break here. Before I do though, one thing we can all agree on is that the kitchen is one of the most important parts of our home, right? It's kind of the heartbeat of the house. 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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 [music] 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 [music] Fair Haven. And when I touch you, I feel happy inside. [music] It's such a feeling that [music] my love I [music] Yeah, you got that something. [music] All right, welcome back in. 5089960500. Our fun Friday question brought to you by De's Hot Dogs in New Bedford is about misheard song lyrics. What are some of the misheard song lyrics out there? And that's a big one right there because I thought the same thing myself for a long time. So the lyrics there, you know, it's such a feeling that my love I can't hide. I can't hide. I can't hide. But people insist that the lyric is I get high. I get high. I get high. And what's interesting about it though is that the Beatles hid drug references in a lot of their songs. So it's not out of the realm of possibility that that would be the lyrics. That when people heard that they're like, "Oh, they're saying they get they get a high from the love, but they're able to say, "Oh, I get high." It's like a way to sneak it in. But nope, it's I get it's I can't hide. But that doesn't stop people from singing it incorrectly. And that's the that's what the questions about. Missurd song lyrics 5089960500. You can post them on our Facebook page. You can send in a Snapchat message or an openline voicemail of you singing them or you can call in and sing them 5089960500. But we got some that came in via app chat. Bob in New Bedford says, "Good morning, Tim. The one that always got me was Blue by Eiffel 65. I always thought it had to be If I Was Green I would die, but it ends up with bada bad. Yeah, I mean that's a song that I think a lot of people hear that like what is going on in that song? I don't know what they're saying. Uh Dennis says, "For years I thought in the Jimmy Buffett song Margaravville he slept on a pop-tart, then found out he slept on a pop top." you know, and people today don't know what a pop top is, right? We don't use that terminology. So then, uh, Billy says, um, oh, I'm sorry. Billy asked me if I knew what was going on with the Fair Haven New Bedford Bridge. I do not. And then Dave says, I a lyric I got wrong all the time for was from Rocket Man. Rocket Man burning out his fuse up here alone. And is is that what you thought was the wrong one, Dave? Because you're only off by one word. It's Rocket Man burning up his fuse up here alone. Out here alone. So maybe no. Burning up his fuse up here alone. So maybe you were just off by one word. Unless you're saying that that lyric was the one that you misheard a different way and you you didn't want to tell us what you thought it said. 5089960500. Good morning. You're next on WBSM. >> Morning, Tim. >> How you doing? Listen, I know this I'm just going to say it, but you know, you got to use your imagination. For the longest time, I can't believe it. I'm so dumb sometime for for ye for over a year. Year couple few years at least that song. You're making it hard for me. >> It's like a soul song. Do you know which one I mean? >> Too close by next. >> Maybe you can play it a little bit of it. Well, anyway, all that time because I'm very, you know, I'm all about love and I think that um I I think that they're saying, you know, in a love manner, you're making it hard for me. You know what I mean? >> That's exactly what they're saying. >> No, they're not. >> Yeah. Isn't it? >> No. I Well, we're just doing a wink wink right now, right? >> Yeah. But that's what I mean. Like that's that's what they were inferring. >> No, no, that's why I'm calling in. Well, I mean, so let me let me let me rephrase that. That's what they're trying to get to with the double entandro. >> No, you're I'm just going to leave it this way. You're a man and I >> You're talking You're Hold on. Hold on. Give me a second here. Give me one second. You're talking about this song. Hold on. >> Let's see. >> I'm holding on. >> Yep. I'm pulling it up here. I got I got all day. >> You're talking about next. [music] >> Yeah. >> This one here. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> So, the whole song is about what happens when they're too close. >> But you know what I'm saying? >> Yeah. Well, listen. The lyrics are step back. You're dancing kind of close. I feel a little poke coming through on you. It's literally about what you think it's about. >> Well, they told me it's the other thing. [laughter] Wait, >> they to the other thing like making it hard like, "Oh, it's difficult." >> No, that's what I thought. >> Oh, I see. Okay. I was confused. I I have it backwards. Okay. I thought you thought that it was about the physical part and that they said, "No, it's not about the physical part." Okay, I see. I I had it backward. >> So, anyway, what's the name? Who's the name of that group that does that? >> Next. NEXT. >> Oh, all right. Did they do any other hit songs? >> I can't remember anything else that they might have had. Um, they had a bunch of other songs, but I see them here listed, but they're not songs that I can I can re I recognize. I just remember >> I was thinking emotional wise, you know what I'm saying? >> I I get what you're saying now. Yeah. No, no. I >> Okay, Tim. >> Okay. Well, I mean, I it's it's funnier, I think, the way that the way that it's actually about cuz we cuz here we are at an eighth grade school dance playing that song and we're like, the teachers don't even know what this is about and we're getting away with it. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Have a good day. >> Bye. Bye. >> All right. 5089960500. Yeah, I had that backwards. I thought she thought it was the the dirty thing was what she thought it was about, and it turns out it wasn't, but no, it's it's definitely dirty. Absolutely dirty. All right. 5089960500. What are some of these other misheard song lyrics? Well, uh, and some of them you laugh at and you say, "How could people ever think that?" Like, that wouldn't make sense. But it doesn't stop people from singing it that way. For example, Our Lips Are Sealed by the Go-Os. The misheard lyric from at least the book uh excuse me while I kiss this guy. The lyric from that book that people misheard it as. They thought our lips are sealed was Arless the Seal. Like how does that make sense? Arless the seal. But now go listen to the song with that in mind and you'll hear it. Just like this one here. They think that More Than a Woman, which is a song we're all quite familiar with in New Bedford, right? More than a woman. There's people who actually think that the lyric is bald-headed woman. How does that make sense? You're singing a song to a bald-headed woman. And another one that actually, you know, caused some controversy and we played it the other day here on the show during the Gen X Files. paranoid by Black Sabbath. The lyric is I tell you to enjoy life and people hear I tell you to end your life. And you know what? I was guilty of that. I thought that was the lyric, too. Now, as I said, some of them are silly. The next one on this list I'm looking at from our friends over at Ultimate Classic Rock, another great Towns Square Media site. They say that people mishar blowing in the wind, the Bob Dylan song as instead of the ants are my friend is blowing in the wind. It's the ants are my friend blowing in the wind. So yeah, I mean nobody's really friends with ants unless you have an ant farm, but if you have an ant farm, they wouldn't be blowing in the wind because they're enclosed in glass. And and again, a lot of these must come from that book because I recognize some of these misread lyrics. But how about Stir It Up, Little Darling, Stir It Up from the Bob Marley song, Stir It Up being heard as serial, Little Darling, Serial. Here's one that I'm sure we could get Ken Pitman to sing next time you go to a Living on a Bad Name show. See if instead of singing when they do living on a prayer, if instead of singing it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not, if instead he'll sing the line, it doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not. And then they can just go into too close by next right after that because it just be a natural evolution. And listen, I'm sorry, but some of these are just going to be dirty. Brian Adams summer of 69 instead of getting his first real six string. He got his first real sex dream. Now it doesn't make sense when you hear it that way though because he bought it at the five and dime. I mean I don't know. Depends on what he bought, I guess. But still. And of course I've mentioned before bad moon rising. You know there's a bad moon on the rise. people here. There's a bathroom on the right which actually comes from a Wayne's World bit. They did they once did a bit on misheard lyrics and that was that was one of the ones I had. Uh people in that hear the clashes rock the casba they think they're saying rock the cash bar. I might have sung it that way and you know as a joke. Let's see. Uh, try to go for some of the more Oh, and money for nothing and the chicks for free. People think it's money for nothing and your chips for free. [laughter] This one just made me laugh. Uh, another snack related misunderstanding. When people hear hotel California on a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair, people mishar that as cool whip in my hair. I mean, I do love I do love Cool Whip, but not enough to put in my hair. And yet, most people don't even know what kittas are. So, anyway, uh, electric light orchestras don't bring me down. And this is this is actually a fun one because people hear that song and they think of who is Bruce and I always thought it was Bruce, too. So, like in my head, again, this is pre- internet, so you're just kind of making up the mythology in your brain. I met I misunderstood it to think that they were, you know, because it came out in 1979. Maybe they're like, you know what, this Bruce Springsteen guy that's all over the radio, he's bringing me down. I'm depressed. Don't bring me down, Bruce. Don't bring me down, Bruce. But Jeff Lynn says he's actually saying he shouted out the word Bruce. He just shouted that out while he was singing the song because he felt like there needed to be something in that space. He said, "Don't bring me down." So, all right. Uh, hold on. I got a call on hold here. Let me just take a really quick break and we'll go right to your call as soon as we come back. Before I go to that break, I just want to tell you really, really quickly about our friends over at C2S Energy because upgrading your home's energy efficiency can feel overwhelming. But with C2S Energy, you don't have to go it alone. Their certified experts handle everything from assessing your home to recommending the right solutions, whether it's insulation, windows, roofing, or high efficiency heat pumps. They even navigate the rebate process for you, making it simple to qualify for savings up to $16,000. Trust the team that knows the programs, the products, and how to maximize your comfort and savings. 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Don't wait for someone else to bring change. Today start your fundraiser in just minutes at gofundme.com. That's gfofundme.com to start your fundraiser. gofundme.com. This is a commercial message brought to you by GoFundMe. >> Broadcasting live from the Carefree Home studios. [music] This is WBSM, Carefree Homes, your home improvement experts. Roofing, siding, windows, and more. Get a free [music] quote at carefreehomes company.com. Carefree Homes, trusted, local, family. >> [music] >> You need cooling, baby. I'm not fooling. [music] I'm going to sit. Yeah. Back to school. [music] Way down inside. Honey, you need it. I'm going to give you my [music] love. I'm going to give you my love. A whole lot of love. [music] >> Now, people hear that song and they think that he's saying, "Baby, you need coolant." Like, as in, "Hey, you know, your check engine light came on because your radiator's low on on fluid." No, no, it's not coolant. It's cooling. And it it it kind of goes into the next line. Baby, I'm not fooling. So, you know, you think that people would make that rational connection, but not always. All right. 5089960500. Good morning. You're on WBSM. >> Good morning. It's uh one of my pastimes is to drive my girlfriend insane and make up lyrics for every song that comes on the radio that she likes and I don't >> love it. I love it. >> And she's like, "Can you hear anything without you know?" And it drives her nuts and I love it. But yeah, I I love that stuff. I love making up lyrics, you know, like Weird Alic. I've always been such a huge fan. >> Me, too. >> Uh yeah, you know, I've always loved his stuff, you know, from uh uh uh Eat It uh uh to to what was the other one when he's fat. I'm fat. >> I loved it. >> And and and really he comes up with such like and they're silly songs about things like food and TV, but the way he twists those lyrics around and makes them like similar to the real lyrics, it's it's actually quite genius. >> Amazing. Oh, amazing. Amazing. He's a genius. The guy's a genius >> and his band is incredible. They can play any style of music and he's had the same band this whole time. They can play anything. >> No, he's really talented. He's not just a jokester. So, he's actually a really talented guy and I think he's highly intelligent. Uh, you know, when I see his interviews and stuff. >> Yeah, definitely. So, I'll tell you a quick story. Uh, years ago, his drummer, Bermuda Schwarz, had put out a book because he takes photography of all their shows and so he'd put out a book about it and I booked him to be on my my internet show that I used to do at night. And so he said, "Okay, well, can I invite the whole band on?" So I had Weird Al's whole band on my show for like two or three hours. And then at one point, Bermuda sent me a text and he goes, "Hey, just so you know, Al's listening right now." >> Holy cow. >> And I was like, "Oh my god, tell him to call in." But he he didn't want to call in. He didn't want to take the spotlight, too. [laughter] >> Um, uh, can I speak on anything or are we >> Yes. >> You just want to stick to the good the feelood stuff. >> No, you can you can bring up what you need to. I do have to take a break, though, in a couple minutes, just so you know. >> Yeah. No, this would be quick. Uh, I don't know if you watched the meeting last night, um, the city council meeting, uh, they brought up some, uh, you know, some proposed changes to the ordinance when it comes to, uh, zoning and everything. >> And, um, you know, it was nice to see, uh, Brian Gomes, uh, you know, it reminded me of, you know, the old school Brian, the guy that I fell in love with back in the day. The one of the reasons why I got into politics was Brian Gomes, cuz he's an approachable guy. uh and he stands up for things uh that a lot of people wouldn't, you know, they would just keep their mouths quiet and uh you know, it was refreshing to see Brian stand up for for Ward One and for his constituents. Um and the other thing I noticed uh was, you know, Ryan's leadership style. Um I mean, I don't know if you watched it or not, bowling. >> Yeah, he's gonna polish up his skills a little bit. the people in the crowd and I understand you know you got to keep the quorum and all that but people were just they were just laughing anytime he spoke anytime he tried to keep control and you could just tell he had no control of the room uh nobody respected him in the room and why that is I don't know I don't know if it's because of the subject at hand a lot of the people thought it was a coup uh they were trying to >> when you say nobody do you mean the the people in the audience or do you mean the other counselors >> uh the people in the audience and some of the counselors. >> Uh um uh you know Ryan was trying to you know put three of the items together and and just put it through and you could tell when when Leo stood up and was like no no no we're going to sever number seven or number I forget the number but we're going to sever this cuz it's important you know we're going to discuss this cuz people want to speak on it. Uh you could tell in Ryan's face that, you know, there was a big disappointment. Uh and they were just trying to get it through for whatever reason. I mean, they're really trying to uh push this thing through. Uh some people in the crowd are saying that there's a gentleman that's related to Ryan Pereira. Uh that's up in the air. Uh uh I've always thought the gentleman was related to him. Some people are saying no. So I don't know what's going on. Uh but they were trying to ram this thing through and the neighborhood's not happy. And I just wanted I just wanted to say good for for Brian Gomes for standing up for those people uh over in Ward One. You know what I mean? Because they they felt as though they didn't have a voice and Brian Gomes made sure their voice were heard. And and that's the Brian Gomes that I love. You know what I mean? And I and I hope I hope he's back. I hope whatever was holding him back, whatever kept him quiet for these years, uh, you know, whatever it is, I hope Brian Gomes is back. That's all I got to say. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Have a good weekend. And, uh, we got to take a final break here. Let's come back and wrap things up in just a couple of moments. >> [music] [music] >> Sorry, I just had to get to the time change part myself. But, uh, you know, the lyrics on that song are often misheard as well because, uh, people think it's Monday warrior, but it's actually modernday warrior. So anyway, speaking of warriors, if you are toughening it out with dry January, well, Stevie's Wine and Spirits has your chance to get a little bit of flavor into your dry January because today from 4:00 to 6:00, they're going to be doing a tasting of some non-alcoholic beverages that you can try out and see how much you like them. And they can help you get through dry January. That's happening today from 4 to 6:00 at Stevie's Wine and Spirits, 115 Hudson Avenue in Fair Haven. And don't forget anything with a purple dot you can try before you buy. So if you're not having a dry January and you want to try some good things, you can. I would also say, you know, everything in moderation, but I won't count it against you if it's dry January. If you're just sampling a little something, if you're taking advantage of that purple dot, but go on by and try some of the non-alcoholic options today from 4 to 6 at Stevie's Wine and Spirits, 115 Hudson Avenue in Fair Haven. Maybe I'll see you over there. And that's going to do it for me for this week. I'm going to be turning things over to Chris McCarthy in South Coast now. And I'll be back on Monday. We'll have I don't know if we're going to have new city council president Ryan Pereira this Monday. I'm going to check in with him over the weekend to see if he's ready to go with it. Uh if he needs a week to, you know, get all the ducks in a row because he's got things he's got to get all lined up. Reggie, I just sold my car online. Let's go, Grandpa. Wait, you did? Yep. On Carvana. Just put in the license plate, answered a few questions, got an offer in minutes. Easier than setting up that new digital picture frame. >> You don't say. >> Yeah, they're even picking it up tomorrow. Talk about fast. >> Wow. Way to go. So, about that picture frame. >> Ah, forget about it. Until Carvana makes one, I'm not interested. >> Car selling made easy on >> Carvana. Pickup fees may apply.