Tuesday, Sep 1: Primary Day Drama

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. Tim Weisberg Show. And welcome back in our number two of the program here on Tuesday morning, primary election day. Polls are open now. If you need to get out and vote, 508-996-0500 is our phone number. If you want to call in, let us know where you voted, how many people were there, what number voter you were, and maybe even if you want to tell us who you voted for, you can do that too. But let's take a phone call here. Good morning. You're on WBSM. Hello, Timothy. How are you? Good. How you doing? Good. I was just reading the morning's paper, The Standard Times. They got that smash burger. They're going to open a new store, restaurant. Well, I've always complained because they got good, the food is good, got it, high price. But now they're going to open another one on Rockdale Avenue. So my whole thing with them, are they going to have a restroom for paying customers or do I still got to use a water bottle on the sidewalk? I don't know if that, I don't know if that new location has a restroom. I would assume so, but I don't know that for sure. Because if you go to the one downtown, hey, downtown, you know it's chaos down there. Like they slammed the downtown area in the article, which understandable. I wouldn't want my father to go down there or my girlfriend because it's pretty, I don't even want to go there, it's dangerous. But if they're smashing the downtown area, why don't they just move their store from there? Because the prices are exorbitant, but I'm just wondering, are they going to have a restroom prepared? Say I'm working all day, man, I want to go in there, my hands are dirt, I'd like to go to the bathroom, whatever, take a pee, but I want to wash my hands. I just don't, see, I'm just complaining, I've been sick, that's why you haven't heard from me lately. Well, I hope you're feeling better. Oh, I am, I'm back. My mouth never stopped. They couldn't wait to get me out of the hospital, the poor nurses. Well, I'll say this, I mean, I find the prices at Smash to actually be pretty low compared to what you're paying for burgers and fries at other places. They're pretty cheap, pretty affordable. Yeah, I would say for the quality of the food, yes, absolutely, because you're getting a real good, it's a good burger. And I like the fact that they're open late. So I left the vault Saturday night, probably a little bit after 11 o'clock, and I was hungry because I hadn't eaten dinner. You know, where are you going to go? So I was able to get some Smash, got a nice burrito from Smash. Yeah, and they're going to stay open until three in the morning. You can eat a burrito at three in the morning and then go to work. Well, not me, I was going to bed afterwards, but I had a, and I also had quite a few drinks at the vault too. So that makes you want to eat a little something different than you might normally eat. So I had a burrito with mac and cheese and barbecue chicken in it. Ooh, that sounds pretty good. Yeah, it was really good. I'm a mac and cheese type of guy. They have great mac and cheese here. I just wanted to just, I'm wondering, because they got good food and, but it's just, you know, I've called before on this. It's the restroom. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't know why the board of health doesn't require them to have an open restroom. I thought that that was a rule, but I guess not. Yeah, right. It's not like the board of health would have to go far to go check them out. I mean, it's right across the street from city hall. So I'm sure, I'm sure the folks from the board of health go over there to get lunch. They probably do. They probably, yeah. And then I got one other issue. I know somebody that just got out of the Dartmouth house of correction and nobody can find her property. The police don't have it, Ash street don't have it. Dartmouth house says they don't have it. So where'd all their property go? I would know. And when you call, when you call the Dartmouth house, you're going to leave a message. They don't get back to you. It's like you've got to jump through hoops just, uh, well, I'm sure, I'm sure sheriff Haro will be on with Chris, uh, at some point soon because he usually has him on about once a month. Oh, good. Good. The sheriff always gives out his phone number. So I don't know. I don't know either. Else. I tell you, I got the head of administration's number, Jody, but she don't, she calls back when she, you know what I mean? It's like, even if you're there, you're guilty as child, you're innocent waiting to be presumed guilty. It's just horrible. The girl that was in there, they didn't, she didn't have no socks for over, over 20 days. No socks. They didn't have no socks. So she was getting all blisters on her feet. So I kind of find that that's in human, like not in your, in your main book, the quality of care is just, you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I don't know, but I'm sure when the sheriff's on, he'd, he'd love to hear your concerns. Okay. Yeah. Hey, when's he coming up? You don't know why? I don't know. No schedule. If Chris is listening and he knows, he can let me know, but it might, might not be something they have on the, on the calendar just yet. Right. It's just coming, coming as well. It's okay. Don't make me stop talking to you. I gotta go and lay down for a little while. All right. You take care. Yeah. Doctor's orders, you know? All right. Take it easy. Good to hear from you. Yeah. Good to hear from you. All right. You can call in 508-996-0500 app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. Yeah. I don't know. I thought, well, I know we had talked about this before, but I thought, you know, if you served food, you had to have a bathroom available for people to, to wash their hands. I thought that that was part of the deal. I mean, believe me, I've been in some places where you got to jump through hoops to use their restroom. No, not, not that they wouldn't let you, but just, you know, you've got to walk through the kitchen or walk or like, uh, I'll always remember Frank's in, in, is it Stoughton Brockton Brockton? Yeah. It's Brockton. Uh, but yeah, it's kind of right there on the line. Uh, Frank's was, uh, like a takeout and dine in place where they did, you know, fried foods, hot dogs, hamburgers, seafood, um, great, great food, great seafood. Everybody would go there for the clams. I know you wouldn't think going to Brockton for clams, but everybody would go there for the clams. Uh, the hot dogs were literally footlong hot dogs and just so good. We'd stop there all the time when I was a kid and even as an adult, I would, if I was ever in that area, I'd be like, Oh, let's stop at Frank's, grab a hot dog. But when you had to use the bathroom, you had to walk through their kitchen and go to the back and they share that bathroom, I guess, with the foxy lady that was behind it. So that was always fun. You know, you might be, you might be using the bathroom from Frank's and didn't come somebody from, from the strip club. Someone told me that they once had to wait in line to use the ladies room because all the, the, the, the dancers from next door were using it one right after the other. But I don't, I think they had their own bathroom. I don't think they sent them out into Frank's to use the restroom. I think they had their own bathroom. I don't know if I believe that, but yeah, some places you've had to go through like, uh, you know, down a hallway or around a corner or through the kitchen or whatever, but they've always had it if you need it. So I don't know. I don't know how that all works out, but I know this, they've only been open a few years. So they went through all the approvals and permissions and everything needed from the board of health for that. As I said, the city halls right across the street. So I'm sure the health inspectors go over there to eat, but smash has really built themselves up a reputation for kind of out of the box thinking when it comes to their food. Like I said, you know, a burrito with Mac and cheese and barbecue chicken, um, but also with their food challenges. I think the last I saw it was up to a $5,000 reward, $5,000. If you can finish their six chicken tenders that are so spicy, people can't even get through one. And these are not, you know, regular size chicken tenders either. These are, these are big dogs. These are very big chicken tenders and you got to eat six of them with no water. And if you do it, you get $5,000 and they're always posting videos of people doing it. They'll go live. Someone will be trying to do it and they'll, they'll have the live camera watching them and they don't make it very far. But for $5,000, if my stomach could handle that anymore, I don't have a gallbladder anymore. So, but if my stomach could handle that, I would, I would try it, but I just, I can't do the spicy anymore. Not to that level. And really, I don't even know that I could do that level to begin with. My son is really good at handling spice, but even he doesn't like to do it anymore. But I was telling him, I was like, $5,000, man, put that to good use. But anyway, 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. We were mentioning earlier, there's an article on our website, on our app, the, I guess fallout of, of yesterday's discussion with council president Pereira, in which he accused mayor Mitchell of breaking state law. That when he made the emergency appointment to the election commission, which the person Reverend Sousa was confirmed yesterday, he was sworn in yesterday, rather I should say sworn in, so that the city does have a complete election board, a balanced election board heading into, board of election commissioners rather, heading into today's primary. But council president Pereira maintains from the legal opinion that they got, that the council got, that he did not have the authority to make an emergency appointment to that board, that it had to be somebody who got confirmed by the council. The city's position, the administration's position is, nope, that's not the case. And on top of that, the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, they lean toward mayor Mitchell being correct. They say in their assessment, because council president Pereira's argument is that the emergency appointment is something that exists for a board of registrars, not for a board of election commissioners. But the state law that he's citing for that does say that they are considered to be equal things. But apparently some of the duties involved are slightly different. And so that might create a difference. And it's really, as what's happened before with the administration and the city council, it's your lawyer says this, our lawyer says this. And that seems to be the impasse that they're at with this. In this particular case, just as with the swearing in of Chief Thode, the mayor went around the council. He felt he didn't need the council in this particular case, in this particular situation, so he went around them. And last time this happened with the police chief, legal action was taken. A lawsuit was filed. I don't know if the council is prepared to go that far this time because this is an emergency appointment. And according to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Secretary of State's office, they said to me that it is their understanding that this is an emergency appointment and that they would follow this up by going through the proper procedure. Because that is a term that's being filled, a vacancy is being filled that goes until 2029. So there will be a hearing and appointments and briefings. I don't know if they have to rush it now because Reverend Sousa is sitting there as an emergency appointment, but probably not the headline you want on WBSM.com on the day that federal election monitors are here from the Department of Justice to oversee New Bedford elections. I mean, I guess you could say, well, they'd be happy that you got it taken care of. Because imagine if you had gone in today without a full election board ready to certify the election. That would have been chaos. So I think you dodged a bullet in that regard, but it probably is not a good look that you've got this going on. And I just hope, I hope that we get through today's election without any issues, without any machine shutting down, without anybody having to leave ballots on a chair, without the incorrect signage being outside, without hopefully all the ballots have been delivered. All problems that we have had in New Bedford in recent years, but all problems that were hopefully addressed with the steps that were taken following the assistant city solicitor's report during the presidential primary, well, after the presidential primary. So hopefully all of those things have been cleaned up and people have been trained in all the proper procedures and that we don't have any of those issues today. But I'm keeping an eye on the phone because the polls are open now and I'd like to hear about what you're experiencing out there, 508-996-0500. I've got to take a break here though. When we come back, we can talk with you. We'll also have the Gen X files coming up for you in a little bit as well. And of course, we'll take your calls, your app chat messages, your open line voicemails. Shop the Sherwin-Williams Labor Day sale and get 35% off paints and stains August 28th through September 9th. Whether you're refreshing your interior or exterior, we've got the colors to bring your vision to life. And with delivery, getting everything to your door is easier than ever. Shop online to have it delivered or visit your neighborhood Sherwin-Williams store. Click the banner to learn more. Retail sales only. Some exclusions apply. See store for details. Delivery available on qualifying orders. I'm a dear hero. Whoever you are, you save lives. 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He's going to be on with Chris tomorrow at 10 a.m. So you're going to get a chance to call in and ask the sheriff directly your question tomorrow at 10 a.m. And of course, he'll have Mayor Mitchell at 11. They'll have a lot to discuss with what the city council president had to say yesterday on this program, saying it's bananas, I believe was the term that he used, and accused the mayor of breaking the law, whether intentionally or not. Let me get you the exact quote. I don't want to misquote him. He said, the fact that a former prosecutor blatantly is okay with violating mass general law to me is bananas, and I just don't know why is he doing it or why he continues to flaunt openly breaking it. And he referred to it as, hold on here, he said it's either gross incompetence or malicious intent, and the public needs to decide which one it is. And city spokesperson Jonathan Darling replied, the council president's characterization of Mayor Mitchell's lawful appointment as either gross incompetence or malicious intent is unfortunate and raises questions about the council's willingness to work collaboratively with the administration. So the mayor's office is saying, well, I guess we have to question whether or not the council wants to work with us. And the council has been saying repeatedly, the mayor doesn't want to work with us. The mayor circumvents us and circumvents our authority. So it'll be interesting to see where this goes. Certainly we can get your take on it, but you can read more about it and all of those quotes and more. And hear the interview at WBSM.com and on the WBSM app. I got to go into the news here. When we come back, we'll have today's edition of the Gen X Files, and then we can take more of your calls, 508-996-0500. But let's turn things over to Mike Roberts. A California cop indicted in a deadly shooting. President Trump announcing new drug prices and a flag dispute for Dolly Parton. From the Cottage Street Motors WBSM Newsroom, this is WBSM News. Prosecutors indicting a former Los Angeles police officer for the killing of a homeless man. Clifford Proctor was previously charged with murder for the on-duty shooting of Brendan Glenn outside of a bar in Venice, California in 2015. The indictment says Proctor personally used a gun to kill Glenn following a dispute on the Venice Beach boardwalk. Proctor posted bail and was ordered to return to court next month for a pretrial hearing. He was investigated by the L.A. County District Attorney's Office in 2018. The office declined to pursue charges at the time, citing insufficient evidence. That's despite then-LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's recommendation of criminal charges following the department investigation. The death toll in the Nepal-Tibet border region after destructive floods is now close to 1,000. Officials say more than 4,400 people are missing. At least 85 Americans were still among the missing. Nine Americans have been evacuated. New Jersey and 21 other states teamed up with the Federal Trade Commission to sue Amazon over claims the online retailer has been overcharging its advertisers. State Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and her office's Consumer Affairs Division joined the bipartisan coalition arguing Amazon hid surcharges on over a half million small and medium-sized businesses to rake in tens of billions of dollars. The states and the feds also claim the e-commerce site rigged the auctions it uses to set advertisement prices, replaced pricing results set at the auctions with inflated prices to pad profits, and then they accused Amazon of changing the auction rules in 2019 to hide surcharges and gave false and misleading answers when asked if the format changed. No comment from Amazon. I'm Levon Putney. President Trump announcing new drug pricing deals with nearly a dozen drug makers. While joined by some of the pharmaceutical CEOs of the White House, Trump said this is a continuation of his favored nation policy for drug prices. Trump said people in the U.S. now pay some of the lowest prices in the world. The president first unveiled the administration's framework for lowering drug prices and insurance premiums back in January. Former New York Congressman George Santos now banned from Kelshi for betting on himself. Santos was fined more than $70,000 by the prediction market for wagering he would not attend President Trump's State of the Union address after he announced he would be there. Kelshi said it handed Santos its first-ever lifetime ban due to his lack of cooperation in its probe. Santos responded to the ban in a post on X saying, thanks for the lifetime ban from your gambling platform, let's see how much longer you guys are around for. Santos was expelled from Congress in 2023 while under federal investigation for fraud. I'm Wendy Swanson. The national move to commemorate Dolly Parton is seeing disagreement in Mississippi. Olive Branch Mayor Ken Adams took to social media to challenge the half-staff tributes which remain in effect through today. Adams argues the honor should be reserved strictly for military heroes, fallen first responders and major statesmen. President Trump ordered the flags lowered for a week following Parton's death. With Governor Reeves directing Mississippi agencies to follow suit, Adams maintains municipal leaders should have the ability to make a decision for his or her city. Truckloads of beer in Southern California are missing. Police now say the 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is worth $70,000. The beer was stolen from an Anheuser-Busch distribution center in two separate incidents. In the first one, a shipment that was worth about $45,000 was picked up for delivery to Arizona but never arrived. In the second, about $25,000 worth of beer was taken after a supposed subcontracting company submitted fake documents to arrange the pickup. Both thefts happened within an hour of the other on August 17th. I'm Daniel Martindale. Labor Day weekend is almost here and it'll see millions take to the roads and skies. AAA looked at booking data and found this year's top domestic destinations are Seattle, Orlando, Boston, Denver and New York. For people leaving the country, top destinations include Rome, Vancouver, London, Dublin and Paris. Trips to Las Vegas and Alaskan cruise ship tours also popular. Some quick exercise or catching up on sleep may help after a sleepless night. There's a new study out of Canada. New research from McGill University found that healthy young adults who exercised or napped after 30 hours without sleep performed better on memory tests. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study's co-authors said they found that 20 minutes of exercising and a 90-minute nap protected the brain's ability to create new memories after 30 hours without sleep. Experts stress that neither is a replacement for good quality sleep. I'm Tammy Trujillo. WBSM Sports. Red Sox 9, Mariners 8 in 10 innings yesterday at Fenway Park. Both teams back at it today at 645. And now your WPRI 12 forecast brought to you by Family Heating and Cooling in Westport. Cloudy and rain today. Highs only around 67. Low 60 tonight, remaining cloudy tomorrow, mid-70s. Thunderstorms possible on Thursday, 78, warming up to 82 on Friday with partial sun. 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. Notebook paper. If you're the kind of shopper who goes to Zara with only one thing in mind... Notebook paper. This one's pretty, honey. I want that one, Mommy. You could be missing out on some great back-to-school looks. Notebook paper. These prices are great, Alice. Dad, I've got to have these high tops. What's wrong with high tops? They're like yours, Dad. Sooner or later... Notebook paper. It'll hit you. So, why wait? The Gen X Files. I remember when they wanted to make Zara my store. We'd like to make Zara your store, sir. 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 Rewind Restaurant and Arcade on Main Street in Wareham. We'll start with celebrity birthdays. Not too many of them today. Actress and comedian Lily Tomlin celebrates her 87th birthday today. Bee Gees singer-songwriter Barry Gibb is 80. Dr. Phil McGraw turns 76. Miami sound machine frontwoman Gloria Estefan, 69. Basketball Hall of Famer Tim Hardaway is 60. Felicity star Scott Speedman turns 51. And actress Zendaya celebrates her 30th birthday today. In 1977, the first TRS-80 Model 1 computer was sold at Radio Shack. In 1980, Fleetwood Mac finished a tour with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl, after which they announced an unexpected hiatus. From the stage, lead singer Lindsey Buckingham told the shock crowd, this is our last show for a long time. And it was true, they didn't play again for another two years. In 1980, Canadian one-legged distance runner Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ended in Thunder Bay, Ontario, with Fox unable to continue because of illness. Also in 1980, the Apple III was released. You don't see too many of those around anymore. In 1981, Hall & Oath released their Privatize album, which contained two number one hits, but title track and I Can't Go For That, No Can Do. In 1983, Mick Jones, lead guitarist with The Clash, was fired by the other three members of the band, who claimed he'd drifted apart from the original idea of the group. In 1984, after 25 years in the industry, Tina Turner scored her first US number one as a solo artist with What's Love Got To Do With It and became the oldest female at age 44 to top the chart. The song would become one of her signature hits and later inspired the title of a 1993 biopic about the singer. In addition to being named the second biggest single of the year, What's Love Got To Do With It earned Turner multiple Grammys, including Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Performance. It has since been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1982, The Remains of the Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912, were discovered in the North Atlantic. In 1989, newly sober Motley Crue released their fifth album, Dr. Feelgood, which went to number one and became their best-selling album. The debaucherous bunch draw on their exploits for subject matter. The title track is about their drug dealers, and Kickstart My Heart tells the story of bass player Nikki Sixx's near-fatal overdose. In 1990, Sweet Sensation hit number one on the charts with If Wishes Came True. It's funny because I listened to the weekly countdown on the 90s on 9 on XM, and that was the number one song, and I was like, I've never heard this song. What is this? I don't even know what this is. In 1991, E! News had its first live broadcast. In 1994, the independent film channel, IFC, made its debut. And in 1997, the Disney Channel ended a 14-year run of being a subscription TV channel and became a basic cable-free channel instead. You know what that meant? Commercials. In 2004, the sexual assault charge against L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant was dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney's offices in Colorado after the victim decided not to participate. Hold on, I gotta turn off Sweet Sensation here and go over to this one. Here we go. In 2005, Newport, Rhode Island native Barry Cowsill, bass guitarist for the Cowsills, died from injuries caused by Hurricane Katrina. His body was not recovered until December 28, 2005, from the Chartres Street Wharf in New Orleans. He was 51 years old. In 2006, Roger Goodell began his tenure as NFL commissioner. In 2007, Clay Buchholz became the first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter in just his second MLB appearance. They beat the Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park. In 2010, Apple launched a social media network called Ping, which was integrated into its iTunes software. It was a rare flop for the company as it closed down two years later. In 2011, while boarding a Southwest flight from Oakland to Burbank, Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong was forced off the flight after giving some lip to a flight attendant who asked him to pull up his sagging pants. Armstrong didn't take kindly to the request, and eventually he and his traveling companion were booted from the flight. Armstrong took to Twitter writing, quote, just got kicked off a Southwest flight because my pants sag too low. The tweet was quickly retweeted by his followers, forcing Southwest to release a statement apologizing for the incident. And in 2023, Jimmy Buffett passed away at the age of 76 from a rare form of skin cancer that was detected four years earlier, but which he did not disclose to the public. That's the Gen X Files for September 1st, 2026, brought to you by Rewind Restaurant and Arcade in Wareham. Retro fun, great food, and games galore. And remember, be kind, please rewind. All right, I'm going to take a break here. I've got to get over to Zare and purchase some new dungarees for school. So you stick around here and I'll be back in a few minutes. Hey, you can give me a call, 508-996-0500, app chat or open line voicemails on the WBSN app. This portion of programming on WBSN, brought to you by South Coast Health, Advanced Medicine, Moore County. Hi, it's Sherry from LifeSource Water. Are you sick of the constant upkeep of your old-fashioned water softener? A LifeSource whole home water filtration system solves your water softener woes. And now LifeSource is offering new customers a double dip in savings. You get free basic installation, plus an extra $250 off. That's up to $1,250 in savings. Call 1-800-WATER-99 to claim your double deal or visit LifeSourceWater.com. Offer ends September 30. Warranty limitations apply. Latrell spent more than 8 years in foster care. His world changed when he was adopted at 15 with help from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. I think about how much we love him and I wish we could have had him for his entire childhood. The foundation is changing the lives of thousands of teens waiting in foster care. You can help. Learn more at DaveThomasFoundation.org. Wake up weekday mornings with the Tim Weisberg Show. 1420 AM and 99.5 FM. WBSN. All right, so during the break, I like to play those little retro commercials and retro PSAs and things like that before the Gen X files because it's a little throwback, a little reminder. And I think that it's fun to remember the good old days, right? The good old days weren't always good. Tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems, but nostalgia is fun. And in running that Zare commercial, something caught my eye. And I said, I'm going to make a note to go back to that. And I'm going to check that out during the break. So I did. And I went back and I looked. And during that commercial, the man is looking at Lee jeans that are, and keep in mind, this is a 1988 Zare commercial. Remember Zare? This is a Zare commercial from 1988 for Back to School. And the man is looking at Lee jeans hanging up on the rack. And the sign says, Lee jeans, $24.99. And I just want to point out, here we are, 38 years later, Zare is no longer around, but we still have stores like Walmart, Target. And if you go to Walmart today and want to get yourself a pair of Lee jeans, they're probably $24.99 or less. So for everybody that says, oh, things were so much cheaper back in the day, we're actually paying less for Lee jeans now than we were then. Now, there's a lot of factors that go into that. Of course, Walmart is a much bigger corporation than Zare. So they can sell things at a cheaper price. Also, they probably have changed where and how they make Lee jeans and cut costs down. And that would allow the price to go down too. There's a lot of factors that play into it. But just on the surface, for everybody that always says, I remember when things were so much cheaper. I used to be able to send my kids back to school and spend $100 for all five of my kids, and that's all that it cost. And they had clothes for all year. No, no, that never happened. That never happened. We did it. We got new clothes at the beginning of the school year. And then we would get some new clothes for Christmas. And then we would get some new clothes at the beginning of the summer. Like shorts and t-shirts and stuff that we needed. And that's how we got clothes. We didn't go out shopping every week and be like, I'm going to buy you this shirt. Like very rarely did that happen. And I'm sure it cost my mom more than $100 to clothe all of us to go back to school. She was the one that bought it all. I mean, my dad made the money too, but she was the one that did all the shopping. So I think that we tend to remember that things were a lot cheaper then, but they, at least in terms of these Lee jeans, and these are stonewashed too, by the way. Alright, 508-996-0500. Good morning, you're on WBSN. Good morning, how are you? Good, how are you doing? Good, I heard you say you voted early, so it was before 7. They're open where you go? No, no, I voted last week. Oh. I just came back from my voting station, the old New Besset Hotel downtown. And it wouldn't accept the ballot. So I kept trying. And the guy standing there saw me, and he came over. He said, let me try. I'm not supposed to touch it, he said, but he had no other way. He had to touch it, and then he tried to get it in a couple of times himself, and I said, well, now what? He said, well, let's just try a few more times, and then it sucked it into the machine. So, something's wrong over there. Hate to be the one to come out and say it, but- Well, now you had him touch your ballot illegally, and now the election monitors are going to put out a report. So you were out voting. You might have missed the story that we had during the news then. Well, that depends. My radio was on. I was out of the car, and then when I came back in, the radio was always on. So what was it? The Mississippi mayor who took issue with Donald Trump's decision to order the flags lowered for Dolly Parton. Oh, yes, I heard that, but how did that turn out? What's going to go on now? Nothing, he just posted on Facebook about it. I don't think anything's going to happen from it. I don't have anything at all. I love Dolly Parton. I love her movies, I love her music, and her and Kenny Rogers and all that's good stuff. But come on, we're losing our values now. The flag really was not meant for that, and I think you know it, too. This mayor agreed with you. He said, I believe lowering the American flag to half-staff should mean something very significant. In my opinion, it should be reserved for our military heroes, fallen first responders, presidents, and other major national leaders or events that had a tremendous impact on our country. That's what I feel, too, because now it's just like, if we're going to do that for her, to be fair, we're going to have to do it for all country singers now. It wouldn't be right if we don't. So they need to stop it now, and maybe it's okay if they stop it now. Otherwise, there's going to be a big fight back on this. Everybody's going to want the half-flag now, everybody. So this mayor is saying, his name is Ken Adams, he thinks that it should be up to individual leaders of communities as to whether or not they're actually going to lower the flags. No, I don't think it should be that way either. Do you? I mean, I think it works on the inverse. I think that if the president issues an order, everybody should follow it, but that a mayor does have the authority to decide he's going to do it for locally significant things. So obviously, if a selectman dies, they're going to lower their flags, but that wouldn't be something that would happen nationally. Well, it's still only one flag. It's the American flag, and it's what it stands for. So to have individual people from different states, the people that are running those states, no, I'm sorry, it's still the American flag. We already have values attached to it whenever- No, no, but I think the point is to lower that for people that might not be on the national radar. So if a former governor passes away, the state would lower the flags. The governor would order those flags lowered, you know what I mean? I don't have anything to say about that. That's fine, because it's not a country singer, don't you see? Yes. It's not a country singer, and it's not a rock and roller singer or anything like that. I mean, it's hard to say, let's do it for every soldier, because then there's too many. The flag will stay at half-mast indefinitely, so that wouldn't work. But we honor them in other ways, too. At cemeteries, we put flags. I go with my sister, and we go to the Bourne Cemetery, and every year we do that. We walk the whole place. They have a little celebration before you start doing the flag business. They sing, and they talk, and certain family members get up to speak about their family member that either died in the service, something like that. I had to bring my list with me, because they've got spots where there's no names. It says, just write one. So if I had forgotten my list, I wouldn't have remembered what to write. You know what I mean? Wasn't your ballot like that? No. Well, I mean, it had John D., and it had some names on it. But going towards the last five or six, there were no names. That's because there was no Republican running in that race. Yeah, there was nobody. But I did have a list with me that I had studied up on a little bit, so when I see their names, those are the ones I'll choose, because those are the ones I chose when I was looking about their references and all that kind of thing. I'm going to hold you there, just because I want to squeeze in another call. You have a good day. You too. Bye-bye. And let me take this one here. Good morning. You're next on WBSN. Hi, good morning. I've got a question for you. I just went to vote. Christian Fellowship on the North End. There's a woman in the parking lot. What do you know about a voter protection organization? I don't. I haven't heard anything about it. She's in the parking lot asking, what are you doing here? She's probably 20 feet away from the doors or whatever, not impeding anybody from going in or anything. We're just here monitoring, making sure that everyone has a good voter a good day to vote and see if they have a good reputation, see what's going on. I'm like, who are you with? She's like, voter protection. I'm like, where can I find your information? She's like, 866ourvote.org. Have you ever heard of this organization? No, but maybe they're there because the federal monitors are there and they're monitoring the monitors kind of thing. Okay. That's the only thing I can think of. She couldn't give me a direct answer. It was so weird. If that was the case, then why did she say that? Then what are you doing? I asked her, why are you here? She's like, just watching, making sure everybody has a good experience voting. I'm like, okay. Are you watching because feds are in the area or something? She's like, oh no, no, no. She says it like that. I'm like, well, that seems like some sort of biased response as far as I'm concerned. I've never heard of this organization. There's groups that observe every election. That could just be what these people do. Yeah, but she's in the parking lot as soon as we get out of the car. She's like, good morning. I hope you have a good experience voting today, blah, blah, blah. I've never had that done to me, ever. I've been voting there for years. Maybe she's just afraid it's going to rain. She's like, I'm just going to stay in the car. I'm not going to get wet. I care about your vote, but not enough to get soaked. It's so weird, right? I don't know. Maybe somebody who's listening that knows more about that organization can call in. Cool. I'll keep listening. Maybe somebody does. All right. Thank you so much. Have a good day. All right. We'll be back. I've got to get a break in here. We'll be right back. Oh, uh, hold on. Go ahead. Oh, you mean my Discover cash back. I told you there'd be payback. You know, you have a weird way of delivering good news. I'm working on that. 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