Thursday, May 28 – Hour 2

WBSM presents The Tim Weisberg Show. Streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508-996-0500. Send us app chat messages and open line voicemails. Using the WBSM app. The Tim Weisberg Show. And welcome back in our number two of the program here on Thursday morning. And as you know, as I've talked about before, mentioned many times that I am not a big proponent of this, the national day calendar, where every day is some sort of national something or other day. I, yeah, a lot of it is, you know, paid for people from a group or an organization paid to get this on the national day calendar. And then it becomes national whatever day because someone bought it. So a lot of it, I'm just like, but every time I bring one up, I feel like I'm undercutting my own stance on this. And I say I'm against the national day calendar, but let's talk about today's national day. But today is a pretty big day. If you are a fan of meat, if you like good old fashioned red meat, you're going to love today. But this is also why the national day calendar is a flawed system. Okay. So let's just start off with the fact that it is national brisket day, which is awesome. Love brisket. So that's fine. We can live with the idea that's national brisket day. That's okay. But today is also national hamburger day and national beef burger day. Now, why, why, why do you need to have two different titles for it? They're the same thing. How is a hamburger and a beef burger any different? I think most people out there know by now there isn't ham and a hamburger, but it's listed on the national day calendar is both national hamburger day and national beef burger day. But as such, a lot of area restaurants are offering burger specials today. So maybe you want to head out for lunch and take advantage of that. Maybe you want to cook up some delicious burgers at home tonight or some brisket, but you know, you can get both of those at the butcher shop. 123 Darwin street in new Bedford, where it's always national meat day over there at the butcher shop because they've got the best around. But when you go today, you could specifically get brisket or burgers. If you choose to celebrate, if you'd rather have some other kind of meat, they've got that too. And plus they make up all kinds of great food every day that you can just stop in and get something to eat. Today would be a great day. If we might get a little bit of rain in the afternoon, but today it looks like it'd be a great day to go pick up a nice lunch at the butcher shop and go park at the beach and eat it in peace. Plus they have beer and wine, cheeses from around the world and all kinds of other great homemade things like Maria's famous rice pudding. So check out the butcher shop, 123 Darwin street in new Bedford. And if you are going to celebrate national burger day or hamburger day or beef burger day or brisket, send us some photos on the WBSM app. Love to see what your burger looks like. I was watching a video last week, I think it was, of somebody who said, I have a brand new technique of how to cook the juiciest burger you've ever had. And like, that's what it's promoting. That's the caption on the video and everything. So I was like, well, all right, let's see. I've seen every way, let's see. And this person literally thought they had invented steamed cheeseburgers. He's like, what I do is I take this metal mixing bowl and I put it over the burger so that the steam just naturally cooks the, yeah, that's called the steamed cheeseburger, man. Those have actually been around longer than grilled burgers. That's how when they invented the burger, which I guess came from smashing a meatball on the grill, that's how they originally heated it up. So it's not really groundbreaking there, buddy. But not everybody enjoys a steamed cheeseburger. It's not for everybody. The juicy loosies that they referred to them in some places. For me, I like a burger pretty much anyway. Although I realized as I've gotten older and as I've gotten, I don't know, maybe, I don't know, maybe it's the weight loss medication, whatever it is, but I can't finish those big burgers like I used to be able to. Cut it in half. I was never a cut it in half kind of person. I would mock people that cut a burger in half. What do we cut it in half for? You can eat the whole thing. It's just a burger. No, gotta do it. Gotta cut it in half now. 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. I did not get a chance to hear Mayor Mitchell with Chris yesterday. I'm gonna go back and listen to it, but I did not get to hear it because I was recording with a client. So I was in the back studio during the whole segment, but I do plan on going back and listening to it. This budget conversation is, not only is it not going away because we are in budget season, but even when everything, when the whole process is over and the council has this cut night and all of that, there's gonna be fallout from this. So what you're getting now is the advanced warning. What you're getting now is the, here's how we're tightening things up in this planned budget. Then when it's enacted and it goes into effect and it's in practice, that becomes a different story. And so I think this budget crisis is not going to be something that is easily solved. But I'm also hearing that since the original kind of, well, the original rhetoric after the mayor's budget proposal presentation to the city council, that counselors, department heads, everybody involved in this process are just accepting of the fact that this is where we're at. That pointing fingers and playing the blame game doesn't matter anymore at this point, cuz what are you gonna do about it? Save that for election time if you wanna run against the mayor, that kind of thing. Right now it's about rolling up the sleeves and getting the job done. So that will be, I hope the tone and tenor of the next couple of months is the idea of we've got work to do and we're gonna have to work together. Now I'm sure it'll get very contentious. I'm sure there will be many more days of outrage as we go forward. But if everybody's just gonna roll up their sleeves and accept that this is the lot we have, and we need to deal with that before we can then start pointing fingers and saying, how do we avoid being in this situation for a prolonged period of time? Fine, but at first, this has to get done. And I think you're hearing about things now that upset you that might not be continued services or what have you. And then the reality is gonna be even worse when it goes into effect. So we'll, of course, keep discussing it. 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We do our best to make it so that you can have all of the different digital tools available that we can possibly offer. 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. I was just looking over at Channel 12 here and they're doing a feature on Night Owl Video, which is a video rental store that exists in New York where they rent DVDs and VHS tapes. And honestly, I've been waiting for this. I've been waiting for this to happen around here. So here's what's gonna happen. This is what's gonna happen, okay? I'm gonna call it now. Somebody out there, some enterprising person is probably collecting DVDs and VHS tapes right now. They're going to savers, finding all the VHS players they can find, the VCRs that are hit or miss when you buy them if they're salvageable. You gotta get the head cleaner. If you're gonna buy it, you can order it from Amazon, you can get them at Best Buy. You've gotta get a head cleaner. That's step one. That'll usually solve most of the problems. But somebody's collecting all of that equipment and they're gonna open up a shop. I could see it happening like in Kilburn Mill. I could see it happening maybe in downtown New Bedford, maybe in Providence. I could see somebody opening up a shop where they've got DVDs and VHS tapes for rental, not just for sale, but for rental and bringing back that model. Because even though whatever movie you're gonna put on the shelf, somebody can most likely just order up at home and watch on a streaming app that they're already paying for. There's a whole generation of adults, adults, not kids, adults out there who never went to a video store, who never experienced what it was like to go to a blockbuster, go to a Hollywood video, or even better, go to one of those independent video stores before those big chains kind of push them all out. And they are gonna love that experience. And I do think that this is a, you're not gonna have one in every town like we had back in the day. We're not gonna have, what was over, it was Blockbuster that was over here in Fairhaven. The building is still there, somebody wants to open a Blockbuster. But we're not gonna have the proliferation of them like we did back then. But if you have one or two pop up in an area, same way record stores are showing up. I don't know, I think it's a viable thing. The problem is the players. So you've gotta be the one to be able to provide that as well. And the ones that you can go and buy at Best Buy, I mean at Savers, are not the ones that you would wanna be renting out to people. For lack of a better term, the rental ones were more industrial strength. I'll never forget the ones, cuz we didn't have a VCR for a long time. We would rent the VCR and the movies. If we were good all week, we would go to, I think it was the Shaw's in Brockton, and then later the Stop and Shop in Plymouth. We would go to the supermarket, and we would rent the VCR and a couple of movies. And it would come, you press the button on it to load the tape in, and the tape holder part of it was on the top, and it would pop up on two arms. You'd slide the tape in, push it down, and it had this vinyl covering around the VCR, like a dust cover but stayed on it. And I don't know how much it cost to rent. I know that eventually VHS tapes were 99 cents at the supermarket to rent. But those are the machines that you need if you wanna rent out the machines. Otherwise, just let people find their own VCRs. I'm just saying, don't invest a lot of money in the ones that are in the secondhand stores and then try to rent those out because they're just gonna break on you. But I do think it's gonna be a niche thing. You're not gonna become the next CEO of a media empire. But I think there's a market there for it. Would you go to a video store if they came back? 508-996-0500. Gonna get a break in here, let me do that. Let's see, it'll be a quick one. We'll be back in a few moments. 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A message from the American Psychiatric Association Foundation. You're listening to the Tim Weisberg Show. Call 508-996-0500. And welcome back. That is young emcee who will not be busting a move to the Great American State Fair. He says he is not performing as part of that despite being announced. He's pulled out of that. Let me take a quick call here before we got to go to the news. Good morning. You're on WBSN. Good morning, Tim. You're talking about the movies. I got over 200 of them. We used to go to Hollywood. It was right next to across the street from where it is now on Route 6. And my husband loved movies. And we got all the new ones. And another one we used to look for was women in BJ's. They had a lot of old movies. Do you remember the Charmed ones? The series that came on TV one time? Oh, yeah. The one about the witches. Oh, I got the whole thing. I loved them. I loved them. And I remember going with my husband all the time. Every weekend, we'd go see movies so he could buy them. And, you know, my son just packed away. We had over 200 of them. All kind of movies. I got all Clint Eastwood's. I got all John Wayne's. We just loved movies. So I remember what it is. I'm in my 90s now. So I know what it is to go buy and buy the movies. I loved them. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you. So I have a story about those type of movies, the Clint Eastwood, the John Wayne. I'll tell it coming up a little bit later on. OK, thank you. All right. Thank you. Yeah, it's just it's a little bit of a lengthy story. And, you know, so there's your warning. I want to tell a personal story. So if you don't want to hear it, you can change the channel. People always talk about yourself because it's called The Tim Weisberg Show. That's what the show is about. It's about me. All right. We got to go to the news. We will get that in the Gen X files before I go to the news, though. 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You can also stop by their showroom at 1111 Cushion Avenue and see some of these products for yourself. But again, everything's right there for you at Precision Window and Kitchen dot com. All right, let's get the news from Mike Roberts. We'll get the Gen X files on the other side of that. Five oh eight nine nine six zero five hundred. If you want to chime in on any of the things we've been talking about right now, let's get the news. An officer involved shooting in New York, U.S. airports with advanced Ebola screening and a massive hazard drill in Florida. From the Cottage Street Motors WBSN Newsroom, this is WBSN News. An off duty NYPD chief is at the center of an investigation after he was involved in a shooting incident in Rockland County. Reports indicate NYPD Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley got into a fight with someone who was harassing his daughter in a ShopRite parking lot in Garnerville Sunday evening. The police report indicates Gurley's gun was removed from his waistband and a shot was fired. But it's not clear who had possession of the gun at the time. No one was injured. But Gurley, who is the commanding officer of the newly created Patrol Borough North Bronx, has been stripped of his gun and shield. In New York, I'm Natalie Migliore. JFK International, one of four airports named yesterday as a designated entry point for passengers arriving from African countries impacted by Ebola. The CDC is still allowing some people from the Congo, South Sudan and Uganda, where Ebola is spreading, unchecked to enter the USA, but only at four designated sites. We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the designated airports are JFK International in New York, Dulles in Virginia, Hartsfield Jacks in Atlanta and George Bush Intercontinental in Houston. He says there will be enhanced Ebola screenings at those airports that will include a questionnaire about travel history and any symptoms. A temperature check and an observation for signs of illness will also take place. Travelers flying through JFK had mixed reactions, some saying the issue should have been taken care of before leaving the countries. A woman now facing a murder charge after police say they found her driving around with a dead man in Los Angeles. The woman flanked down police officers on Monday telling them her date needed medical attention. Police quickly determined the man was dead. The woman told officers that the pair had gotten into a fight inside the car. She then drove around with the body in the vehicle, the suspect now behind bars. The state of California is suing a landlord in Inglewood for allegedly discriminating against veterans. The California Civil Rights Department announced the lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of Patrick Page, a disabled veteran. The landlord Myrtle Properties is accused of screening out Page based on his use of housing assistance through a veterans affairs program. That's illegal in California. Denied for housing, Page ended up living in hotels and out of his truck depending on what he could afford. The lawsuit is demanding monetary damages and changes to Myrtle Properties rental policies. I'm Daniel Martindale. A father in Wichita pleading guilty in connection with the shooting death of his one-year-old daughter in 2025. 26-year-old Michael Tejeda accepted a plea deal for second degree murder and the two counts of aggravated endangerment. Police say they received a phone call about a three-year-old child shooting their sister. Tejeda was arrested and originally charged with first degree murder, two counts of aggravated child endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon. He's set to be sentenced on July 9th. Multiple South Florida agencies are participating in a mass casualty hazardous materials training exercise today in Broward. The large-scale exercise at IMCF Stadium helps train local rescue and law enforcement agencies by simulating a drone attack involving a dangerous chemical substance. The exercise entails a sporting event, think FIFA, think Super Bowl, think large gathering where a bad actor has released a nerve agent into the crowd. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman says that dozens of volunteer patients exposed to fertilizer, the simulated nerve agent, will be removed from the stadium and undergo decontamination in the parking lot. He adds this is just an exercise with no threat to the public. Karen Curtis, Miami. Millions of Americans get food poisoning each year and the Cleveland Clinic is giving tips to try to avoid that now that grilling season and summer is almost here. The Cleveland Clinic's Beth Zurowski says marinate food ahead of time in the refrigerator. Don't leave your food out sitting at room temperature while you're marinating it, if that means marinating it the night before or the day of, but just making sure that if you are marinating anything you're going to make sure that you keep it in the refrigerator. She adds don't use the same cutting board or knives for raw meat and vegetables. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says beef, steaks, chops and roasts should be heated to 145 degrees inside while ground meats should be cooked to 160 and ground poultry to 165. New Jersey pet owners may get a tax break. There is a proposed legislation that would give up to $900 in tax credits to help dog and cat owners with vet bills and everyday animal related expenses. Dogs and cats are the only two animals that would qualify under this bill introduced in the assembly. WPSM Sports. Red Sox 8, Atlanta 0. Those two teams back at it again this afternoon at 4 10. And now your WPRI 12 forecast brought to you by Family Heating and Cooling in Westport. Morning, sun, afternoon clouds roll in, even a brief passing shower this afternoon up to 68 low to mid 50s. Tonight mostly cloudy but some sun tomorrow 65 to 70 turning much cooler on Saturday, only up in the lower 50s with rain showers and clouds and Sunday stays cloudy 65. I'm Mike Roberts, WBSM News. Stay up to 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 Stevie's Wine and Spirits. Look for the purple dot to try before you buy only at Stevie's Wine and Spirits in Fairhaven. I've never seen 10,000 tapes in one store. There's so much kids stuff and I can keep them for three evenings. Now this is a video store. Ordinary video stores don't even come close to Blockbuster Video. You've just got to see it to know what we mean. Wow, wow, wow. Come discover the Blockbuster Difference. All right, let's take a look at some of the events that mattered most to 80s and 90s kids on this date. We'll start with Celebrity Birthdays. Erwin Winkler, the Academy Award-winning producer and director of Rocky and Goodfellas, celebrates his 96th birthday today. Singer Gladys Knight and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani are both 82. Rocker John Fogerty is 81. Fine Young Cannibals lead singer Roland Gift turns 65. Krista Miller of The Drew Carey Show is 62, as is country singer Phil Basser. Pop icon Kylie Minogue turns 58. Great docuseries right now about her on Netflix. Former Survivor contestant and co-host of The View Elizabeth Hasselbeck is 49. Jake Johnson of New Girl is 48. Singer Colby Calais turns 41. And WWE superstar Seth freaking Rollins celebrates his 40th freaking birthday today. In 1981, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the opening act for The Clash, who were playing the first of eight shows at Bonds in Times Square, New York, which was the future home of Tower Records. The rappers were booed and assaulted with various projectiles as the crowd did not appreciate their act. In 1982, Rocky III hit theaters. It featured a new theme song written around a key line of dialogue in the film, Eye of the Tiger. Sylvester Stallone asked the upstart Chicago band Survivor to write and record the song. When he couldn't get permission to use the Queen's song, another one bites the dust. I think Eye of the Tiger was a better fit in that film anyway. On this date in 1983, singer, songwriter and actress Irene Cara scored Sword to the Top of the Billboard Hot 100 with Flashdance. What a feeling. The theme song to the film. In 1983, Apple's Steve Wozniak hosted the second Us Festival, intending to be the Super Bowl of Rock. The lineup is even more impressive than that of its 1982 predecessor, and the attendance was substantially larger. Wozniak splurged on David Bowie with $2 million of his own money simply because he quoted, he quote, really loves him. In 1987, Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, took off from Helsinki, Finland in his Cessna and landed in Red Square, the heart of the Soviet Union. On this date in 1988, George Michael hit number one on the In 1993, the action comedy Super Mario Brothers, a live adaptation of the popular Nintendo game starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi, debuted in theaters. The movie flopped, but has since become a cult classic. In 1986, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode took a nasty speedball of cocaine and heroin and went into cardiac arrest. Medics managed to kickstart his heart, saving his life. In 1988, former Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife Brynn in a murder-suicide. In 1999, in Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display. It was bigger than most people think. It's actually bigger than most people think. It's life-size. It's almost 29 feet wide. In 2000, Britney Spears proved her star power when her sophomore album Oops! I Did It Again debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 and quickly became the fastest-selling LP by a the original World Trade Center site, officially ending the cleanup with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan and New York City. In 2003, Patrick Waugh officially announced his retirement from the NHL. In 2006, Barry Bonds hit his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the MLB all-time list. In 2007, the police set aside their differences and launched their first tour since 1986 in Vancouver. Despite some band member clashes along the way, the tour lasted over a year, selling over 3 million tickets and 151 shows. And in 2015, Michael Jackson's former home, the Neverland Ranch, was listed for sale for $100 million. The 2,700-acre ranch in Santa Ynez Valley, California included a train station, a six-bedroom house, a 50-seat movie theater, and two lakes. That's the Gen X Files for May 28, 2026. Maybe, and I've had some pretty strange things happen, but maybe it just, maybe the emotional connection is what makes it resonate with me. But anyway, my whole life, I've loved movies. I grew up watching them my whole life. And it was a very special thing that I shared with my grandfather, my mother's father. So he was, you know, he worked hard his whole life. Even when I knew him, he was already in his 70s when I was born, late 60s, early 70s when I was born. And I knew him to always get up at, you know, four o'clock in the morning, have breakfast, and then he would just be in his workshop or he would be doing, at this stage in his life, he was a junk man. He would go around and he would collect things that could be resold or fixed up or things like that, very much like a Fred Sanford type. And he would get up and work hard every day. And then at night, he would sit in his chair, smoke cigarettes, pipe cigars, all of it, and watch movies. And so a lot of the movies that I watched, you know, that I love, I first watched with him. And he didn't have cable television. So it was, you know, the TV versions of a lot of these movies. But what he would do is he would tape movies off the Movie Loft. The Movie Loft was a big one, but, you know, also like Channel 56, Sunday afternoon movies, things like that. Movies, back then they had movies on at night too, a couple nights a week. So he would record these all and he would sit there, he'd pause the commercials out, he'd do all that stuff. And then he would write on each tape what the name of the movie was. And then he'd put a criticism or a commentary about it. Usually he would write something like damn good. And so he collected all these tapes. They had to keep, so every year for Christmas, people would give him blank videotapes and they would get them. Remember those wood grain holders that would hold the cassette tapes? The draw would slide out and it could hold like 20 tapes in each draw. He had, I think, four of those stacked up in the living room. So he had hundreds of tapes, just like the caller. He had hundreds of movies. But unlike other people who go and buy them in the store, these were all recorded off the television. He had a few that were bought in the store. Either he would buy them or somebody would give them to him. But hundreds and hundreds of them. And when he passed away, my grandmother brought them all to, back then there was a store called Cash Converters. And it was in Brockton, they lived in Randolph. It was in Brockton and it was a place that, it was like a pawn shop basically, but like a chain kind of. And so she brought them down there and I don't even know if they even gave her any money for them, but she just, that's where they ended up. And I was upset. This is like, oh, I would have taken those. And she's like, yeah, we were just getting rid of a bunch of stuff and we got rid of those. Like they sat there for a year, nobody wanted them, we just got rid of them. So I was always kind of upset about that. That was 1996 that he passed away, so maybe this was like 1997 that this happened. Fast forward probably about 10 years later, because my son was little, maybe even 12 years later. I'm driving from somewhere with my then wife and son and we are, I'm obsessed with yard sales. If I see a yard sale sign and I'm driving, I'm going to go follow it. It used to drive her crazy. But I see this yard sale sign as we're driving through Randolph. And I was like, I'm going to stop. And it was funny because I'd gone down the street to show her a house that I used to live in when I was a kid. And as we drove by that, like the next turn, there was a sign for the yard sale. So I said, I'm going to go down to that yard sale. She's like, oh, we don't really have time. We were heading to Linwood, we were going to get Linwood pizza, I remember that. So I pull into the yard sale, she doesn't want to get out. She's like, I'll stay in the car, you can go look. If you see anything that you think I might want, let me know. Okay. So I get out and I'm walking around, I'm not really seeing anything. And then all of a sudden I look and I see Woodgrain VHS cassette holder. It's like, oh, well, they got a couple of them. I was like, I wonder what's in there. Like maybe some good movies. Like at this point, nobody cared about VHS. I still had a VCR, but nobody cared about VHS. I opened up the drawer and I see they're all my grandfather's tapes. All with his handwriting on them and his commentary written on the tapes, damn good. And you knew it was him because he spelled damn D-A-M. So I was just completely gut punched by this. And I just turned to the people, and at this point, I'm crying. And I turned to the people, I'm like, how much are these? And they're like, you are, right? I was like, these are my grandfather's tapes. And they're like, you can just, you can take them. And I was like, oh, thank you. I think I might've given them like $5 or something for it or 20 bucks or something, but I wanted to give them something. But I was just like so emotional in the moment. And I just come running back to the car carrying these big cassette holders. And my wife's just looking at me like, what did you buy? And why are you crying? And I'm like, just open the trunk. And so I took those down into my basement and just held on to them. And I think they're in storage now. But it was just, it was amazing that I was so upset that I never got to keep my grandfather's movies. And then they were brought to a pawn shop and these people ended up having them out at their yard sale. So they went from Randolph to Brock and back to Randolph, I guess. I didn't question it, but it was, to me, that was magic. Anyway, I gotta get a break in here. 508-996-0500. Back in a few. This portion of programming on WBSN brought to you by South Coast Health, Advanced Medicine, Moore County. When you fly with Hawaiian Airlines, it's hard to tell where your flight ends and family vacation begins. From the moment you board, feel the aloha spirit, hear the sounds of Hawaii, and relax with local entertainment at your seat. Let us welcome your family to our island home. Hawaii starts here. Starting your day the right way with the Tim Weisberg Show. Mornings on WBSN. Of course, Stevie Wynwood, well, Steve Wynwood by that point, but he became a solo star in his own right in the 80s with that song, Us, and what was the other one, Roll With It. Especially after making his name with Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic, he finally got a chance to stand out and on his own and had some great songs. There was another one too. Well, that'll pop into my head. Anyway, 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSN app. We were talking about that case in Boston of the couple who had been arrested and charged after they were upset at this family that was making noise at a restaurant that was right next door to their house. And they went over there and called them racial slurs and threw a piece of a fence at a kid. Well, threw a piece of a fence at them and hit a kid and then sprayed them with a hose. You can read about it. WCBB has a story that also has some of the video of them spraying the people with a hose, but just absolutely insane. As we were talking about this morning, why are people so unhinged these days? What is it that there's no impulse control anymore? I don't understand it. I don't understand the fact that there's more ways to hold you accountable than ever before, I guess I should put it as. You're not gonna get away with doing that and not have it be caught on camera. And it's gonna be very hard to defend yourself in court and say, well, they're lying, that's not what happened. I was watering the plants and I accidentally sprayed it over the fence. You can't even try that because they have video footage of you doing it. And also the woman in the couple, she actually kept yelling these things at these people and using these slurs in front of the police. I don't get it. Let me take a quick call here and then I do have one more break I get to get in. Good morning, you're next on WBSN. You hit it right on the nose, the camera. They want the views. They have other people there at these crimes that Barry was wondering about the other day. I didn't have a chance to call in, but there's others there taking the views with their cameras and they sell it on YouTube. Oh, I don't think these people wanted it to be out there. I'm not saying those in particular, but what's wrong with the kids out there today? They're getting views for all of these crimes they're committing, not all of them, but I'm saying a lot of them. And Barry was wondering that the other day too. Like I said, I'd never call them up, but that's what it's all about. They're making money on YouTube. They can edit the shooting cutout. The other day there was a gun involved with it, but you take the guns out, you would never know the crime, but you're just, it's someone there taking the view. I'm telling you in many of those- Yeah, I mean, when somebody is posting something about a gun, usually that stuff happens on Snapchat. They're not doing that for money. They're doing that as a threat. Whatever, whatever, but they're getting paid for this, but they could edit the guns out if they needed to. Yeah, and people make money off their Facebook posts now. So when they put up something that enrages people to get them to comment, they're usually doing that because it's going to generate more revenue for them. You got it, and that's what it's all about. These kids don't care. They'll beat somebody up almost to death and sell that on YouTube or whatever. I don't know if it's at that level. I'm telling you, they do. I watch that stuff. Well, you're the problem. You're the problem. You're the one they're making it for. Stop watching it. They won't make it. Did Mary call in today? Not yet, not yet. Okay, because if Mary is listening, she was talking yesterday about potholes. The worst potholes in the city were right next to where she lived. If you're listening to Mary, go to the bottom of Sycamore Street. You're not going to believe what you're going to find. Anyway, have a good day, Tim. You as well. Take care. 508-996-0500. Let me get that final break in. We'll be back in a few moments. Here on WBSN. All right, we're going to go into the news. We're going to get the ABC news, then we're going to get the-