Thursday, Sep 10: $5K Trump Checks?

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Hey, do you, I was listening to Trump saying he's going to give each American $5,000. Now that would only bring the debt up. Right. It would add about, I think I saw the number was something like $1.72 trillion. Right. We don't need that, right? Um, no, but I also don't think he could actually do it. Um, I don't think, I think it wouldn't, first of all, it would need congressional approval. And secondly, I don't think that legally they could do it because it sounds to me like you're basically trying to buy people's votes. Really? And not only that, why is he trying to name everything after himself and switch all these names up again? I don't know. Uh, I mean, I mean, he's, he's named things after himself his entire life. So I think that that's, you know, part of his, his personality, but I don't, I don't get what all this renaming is about. Some of it is, some of it is like a dumb stunt. Like, so obviously renaming Lake Ontario was because he was mad at Canada. Yeah, but what about New Mexico? I heard something about New Mexico. That could never happen. New Mexico is a sovereign state that runs itself. You can't change the name of a sovereign state. Only the state can change his name. I don't even know why he's trying to do all that stuff. I don't even know that he really is. I think he just says it for a couple of reasons. One, I think that he's a blithering idiot that just has verbal diarrhea all the time, but then also because people get so riled up about it and then everybody gets a point and laugh and say, haha, you actually believed him. Oh my God. New Bedford's got a lot of bad news on it. Uh, it's no longer called New Bedford. What's it called? New America. But here, here's the thing is anybody that believes that they're going to get a $5,000 check, uh, after the election, I, I would ask you, what did you do with your check from Doge and your check from the tariffs? Because, uh, I didn't get those either. Really? Hey, I was going to call you Trump. Oh my God. Oh, thank God you didn't. You know, I wouldn't want to have to hang up on you. You know, listen, another thing I heard on the GLP one that it makes, it's making men's hair fall out. You can't go by that by you. I actually have to get a haircut more than I've ever had to get. I get one every two weeks now. I know. So I don't even know if I can believe that stuff. I mean, I mean, I could see that happening with some people. I mean, any medication has the possibility of having side effects with people, but, um, I know a lot of men that are on it and I don't know any men that have had an issue with hair loss because of it. Yeah. Anyways, I heard that. Um, I'm a little concerned about the best fit, excuse me, would be, um, we need, we need something. We need the shot spotter. What's on right now. Nothing. Um, I don't know if they have reentered the contract with shots with shot spotter. Um, actually no wait, hold on. I think shots spotter is still working even though the contract ended. I believe that's the, what I think new Bedford light had reported that, that it's still, it's still sending out, um, alerts even though the contract has ended. We, we can't go without anything in the city. It's there's too much going on. You know what I mean? It's crazy. This girl was from New Bedford that went up there and cause trouble up there. And there's every day. I just saw one near me. I called up the police station yesterday. It's under investigation. We can't give out much information, but I'm afraid to go around the corner because there's the people left the scene and they're still out out there. Well, I know when it comes to shot spotter, I know counselor has a motion, uh, in process to, to try to get the city to get back into that contract. So I know that it's something that is in discussions, whether or not they decide that they need it because now if they, part of the reason that they felt that they didn't need to renew the contract was because they had these cameras that have the capability of doing this now without the cameras turned on, you know, does that mean that they at least need to get into a Yeah, we need something. We can't go without anything here. I do see the chief's point in, in the accuracy of shot spotter can be a problem because if it's, if it's calling the police and alerting the police to gunshots that turn out to be fireworks or a car backfiring or something that the, they don't have enough officers to go send on a wild goose chase, it turns out to be nothing. So I see where the, where the problem is. So that, that does come down to the question of, you know, you could have shot spotter, but then do you need other verification first before you send officers out? And if you're going to go through that trouble, is it worth having the shot spotter in the first place? So there's, there's a lot that could be said for the accuracy of that. What I don't understand is why with all the artificial intelligence technology that's out there, why shot spotter hasn't gotten more accurate. Yeah. But why do we have to rely on the citizens like you and I to call up the police when I don't agree with that? Well, I mean, that was, that was something that council Gomes brought up in the meeting the other night where he said, you know, there was a shooting that happened at two o'clock in the morning. And in that there was nobody that was awake, he was referring to another case that happened, but he's like, nobody was awake to be able to call. So you need shot spotter to, to activate the police, to alert the police to that because otherwise nobody heard it. That's right. And that's not really our job, but you know, I mean, that's a plus if they do call and most people do call if they hear gunshots, but I mean, we can't rely on that. Yeah, because I would say the humans are just as, or maybe even more inaccurate than the shot spotter when it comes to being able to tell the difference between gunshots or fireworks or, or a car backfiring, because how many times do people hear something like that and they call the police and that's what it turns out to be. So, you know, humans are less reliable. I don't know why, where the, why people can't be good people anymore. I think there's always been bad people. I think we just have, you know, when, when you have tough times, you have a lot of people that turn to crime more and then you get more people that are criminals. Yeah. All right, Tim, I'll let you go. Have a great day. You as well. Take care. All right, let's take another call here. 508-996-0500. Good morning. You're on WBSM. Good morning. How are you doing? Well, I'm laughing. You make me laughing. I heard you say, Oh, I don't think Donald Trump can really give everybody the $5,000. Well, if he can't do that, it's because, and only because he's not a Democrat because the Democrats have given all illegal aliens from foreign countries, even the murderers and the rapists and everything else, millions of dollars she gave away. Now, how is it that he can't? Because that was done through legislation that approved that and they would need the same thing for Donald Trump to be able to do that. Nah, I'm not going to accept that. And another thing. Well, you don't have to accept it, but that's the truth. Basically, what you're saying is you don't want to believe what the actual facts are because you'd rather believe what Donald Trump tells you. So you just, you just admitted you'd rather just believe what Donald Trump says than the actual truth. No, I didn't say that. I never said that. That's what you just said. It's literally what you just said. And by the way, don't make the mistake. You always believe that. I listened to everything he says and that I agree with everything he does. No, I don't agree with everything that he does. I think that Lake Ontario business was kind of stupid. He didn't have to do that. But listen now, the data centers, with my computer, I am able to study up on anything I want. I have reached a point, and it's taken years, but I've reached a point now that I can pretty much do whatever I want on my computer. I've learned so many things. But now it's going faster and faster that signs pop up. It used to be once a year or so. Now notifications are starting to pop up and they say update here for the latest blah, blah, blah. And I was doing that. And then little by little, the applications that I use to do things I want to do are no longer working because they're changing it to something I haven't learned yet, but I have to go and learn. And I am not going to accept those updates anymore. I'm comfortable where I am, and I already know what's going to happen. When I do not update, it doesn't take long that the sites that I use, the applications that I use do not work any longer. So they are pushing me out, and I don't think it's fair. And the data centers that I have learned about so far, just a medium-sized one, will use like 5,000 gallons of water a day, not to mention the amount of the electric. And then I hear you coming on and saying, yeah, we're all going to be wiped out and gone in how many years, did you say? That wasn't me saying that. That was ABC News saying that. Are you believing that, what you read? Are you believing all this that they're getting you nerved up? Well, they said a 10% chance, and I think there's a 10% chance we all die anyway. There could be a 10% chance that the sun blows up. Well, they say without the bees, if we keep killing bees, in six years, humans will die just like the bees. And now, I know you don't want to believe or hear or agree with me on anything medical that I talked to you about, but I'm getting my stuff from doctors, real doctors. Do you know that in Boston alone this past year, eight more primary doctors have left Boston Medical Centers, Boston General Hospital, Beth Israel. And some of them are not just leaving, but they're going to other places where the patients they already have here can no longer access them without having to travel a long way. This is ruining it and making it even worse for patients. So yeah, sooner or later, we're all going to be gone because everything is changing. AI's changing. Well, I mean, people leave jobs all the time. They transfer from one company to another. I understand that, but we're talking about doctors. The same doctors that I told you about now, they're not learning about anything about nutrition to try to help yourself. They only learn about medications and how to dispense it. So I don't want to blame them too much. But now, now what bothers me is- Maybe you should talk to a nutritionist then instead of a general practitioner. Well, the holistic doctors are disappearing. And a lot of them, we can't even find out what happened to them. That's telling me that the evil Democrats have been on the move everywhere. Every single thing we want to do when we try to get better, they're trying to destroy. How come the guy is still there? Once you put somebody in as a mayor, you can't get rid of them at all. You can't do anything about it. Where, and I hate to say this because I could go to jail, but where were the assassins for him? They want to kill somebody. Yeah, no, we're not even going to address that. We're not even going to address that. The problem is there's been an election at first every two years, and now every four years for the mayor. And he just hasn't had anybody that's been a strong enough opponent that could possibly defeat him. That's been the problem. Nobody is saying, everyone's saying we can't even trust the elections anymore. Not everyone is saying that, just a bunch of people that don't know what they're talking about. Well, a lot of people, but how do you know they don't know what they're talking about? Because they're just believing a bunch of bogus lies that they've read on the internet. But they do already have a lot of proof on this. No, they don't. There's been a few outlier examples, which there's always been. But people have ginned this up to be some grand conspiracy that the elections aren't safe because the idiot at the top told them that. The idiot at the top? Yeah, are you talking about the same idiot that wants to give us $5,000, the same idiot that- The same idiot that will never give you $5,000, no matter how much he says it. But I told you why, if he couldn't give it. It's because he's not Democrat. The Democrats are giving away everything we have. You don't agree to that either. You don't see that, right? That's really not true. And also, that has all been done through acts of legislation, not by somebody just saying, I'm just going to give you all the $5,000 check if you vote the way I want you to vote. I'll tell you what, though. If we do get that money, I'll bet you the Democrats will run fast to the bank too, the ones that are parading in the streets, all those mental loons. They'll be running to the bank for that $5,000. They won't thank them for it. You don't see Maury Healy giving you $5,000. Will you ever see that? Why would you thank him for giving you money that was yours? For what? Because we're getting it. At least we're getting it. Boy, accept it. Why don't you? I know you're going to be running around with that money. I'm going to use it to buy you a Volkswagen bus. It may not be enough. That's not enough. Well, I'm hoping all the Donald Trump checks come at once. I'm hoping we get our $5,000 voting check and our $2,000 Doge check and our $2,000 tariff check all at once. Okay, I will have to accept that we're not getting it. Because when he did say that in the video, it said, as I saw it, he said, that's after if we win the House and the Senate. And if we don't. And well, I mean, that's also like me saying, I'll give you $5,000 if I get elected president in 2028. Yeah, but he's saying- It's not going to happen, so of course I can make the promise. And so it's not going to happen for him either, so of course he can make the promise. Or you think this won't happen? No, they're going to get destroyed in the midterms. What is that? They're going to get destroyed in the midterms. That's a shame, really. That's because you believe in it so much and you're praying for that. You like the idea that all the doctors are leaving and patients are struggling to try to- I don't like that doctors are leaving. Doctors are going to take another job. That's just how life works. I don't understand too. I know it took a lot of time, but how come a lot of restaurants and businesses have to close down because they're not making it? And a couple of weeks later, new restaurants are popping up, new businesses are popping up. How can they make it and the others have to close? I don't get that. How is it? Well, how long do they make it after they move in? So there it is. It's a losing battle. Why would they try? I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you one thing that's a little bit of some inside baseball in the restaurant business as to why. People always wonder, why do restaurants open and close and open and close? Why do they start? Why do they fail? The biggest reason is because everybody that works in a restaurant thinks that they can run their own restaurant, but not everybody that works in a restaurant can run a business. That's what ends up happening. Everybody thinks that they can run a restaurant, and you probably could. You can come up with a great menu. You can come up with a great experience and all that, but there's a lot more to it behind the scenes that they don't realize, and that's where they fail. So they might have the best food in the world, but they don't know how to handle the business end of it because they've never worked on that side of it. That's partly true, I'd say, but there's also businesses that people are so used to the good ones that are still open. That's all they go to. Put Mr. Pemberton with his hot dog place, gone, because we have so many hot dog places, and people are used to going to those places. I mean, there was nothing wrong with his place. I went there a few times. Like I said, I know his family, so yeah, maybe I'm a little bit more on their side because I know them, but he didn't deserve his place to go down like that. He really didn't. Well, I mean, there's a lot of different factors that go into it. I think in his particular case, he had a great product. He had a fantastic menu. He had an innovative and different approach, and there were a lot of other factors. Maybe people didn't want to go there because it was so hard to park there. Maybe people didn't want to go there because they didn't want to go to that end of New Bedford at lunchtime because there'd be a lot of traffic. There's a lot different factors that play into it. Well, maybe the parking is a problem, but a lot of people, wouldn't you walk to your favorite restaurant? I'm just using that as an example of things that might have been the issue. I don't know that it was. Because you could take it so many different ways all the time. So thank you for the time. I better go now because I need to get to the point you're going to be booting me up because I'm going to start swearing. Well, yeah, then I would definitely boot you, yes. All right, have a good day. You as well, because you know better than that. You know not to. All right, 508-996-0500. 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All right, let's take a look at some of the events that mattered most to 80s and 90s kids on this date. The Gen X Files are brought to you by Rewind Restaurant and Arcade on Main Street in Wareham. We'll start with celebrity birthdays. Feliz Navidad singer Jose Feliciano celebrates his 81st birthday today. WBSM's own Bill O'Reilly is 77. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry turned 76. Actress Amy Irving, the former Mrs. Steven Spielberg, is 73. Clark Johnson from Homicide, Life on the Street and The Wire turned 72. Actress Kate Burton is 69. Chris Columbus, who directed the Home Alone and Harry Potter films, turned 68, as does Bananarama and Shakespeare sister singer Siobhan Fahey. Actor Colin Firth is 66. The big unit Randy Johnson is 63. Watch out, geese. Filmmaker Guy Ritchie and rapper Big Daddy Kane both turned 58. Jonathan Check, who starred in That Thing You Do, is 57. Actor Ryan Phillippe turns 52. And My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey celebrates his 46th birthday today. In 1978, at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York, Jimmy Connors beat Beyond New York 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to become the first player to win the U.S. Open on three different surfaces. In 1981, after their show in Copenhagen, Iron Maiden announced that lead singer Paul D'Anno would be leaving the band. He's replaced by Bruce Dickinson, who leads the band to new heights, starting with their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. In 1983, former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sambello started a two-week run at number one on the U.S. singles chart with Maniac. The track was featured in the film Flashdance. It was originally not about a small-town girl on a Saturday night. It was originally about a serial killer. That's why it was called Maniac. In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 512K was released. It was the first update to the original Macintosh 128K. It was virtually identical to the previous Mac, differing primarily in the amount of built-in random access memory. The increased memory turned the Macintosh into a more business-capable computer and gained the ability to run more software. It was the earliest Macintosh model that could be used as an Apple Share server and, with a bridge Mac, communicate with modern devices. In 1988, Guns N' Roses scored their first number one hit with Sweet Child o' Mine. The song came together in a surprising way, according to a 2005 article in Q Magazine. During a jam session, drummer Steven Adler and Slash were noodling around when the guitarist began to play a circus-style melody, trying to get Adler to crack a smile. Rhythm guitarist Dizzy Stradlin, however, saw the potential in the guitar line. Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan added a bass line, and Adler began playing a beat, and the rest is history. On this date in 1990, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on NBC, also in 1990. For the And one more from 1990, New York's Ellis Island reopened as a museum on this date. In 1991, Nirvana's breakthrough single, Smells Like Teen Spirit, was released in the U.S., but the song, which appeared on their sophomore album Nevermind, was not an immediate hit. It wasn't until its accompanying music video, in which a high school pep rally breaks out into a riot, began to pick up traction on MTV that the song rose up the charts, giving birth to the grunge movement. On this date in 1993, pour one out for the X-Files theme that we used to be able to play here, because on this date in 93, the X-Files premiered on Fox. And in 1999, Standing on the Corner Park opened in Winslow, Arizona. Inspired by the city's famous mention in the Eagles song, Take It Easy, the park featured a statue of a man with a guitar standing on the corner. The park quickly became a popular photo op for folks passing through Winslow. I don't know how many girls in flatbed Fords have gone to see that statue, though. That's the Gen X-Files for September 10th, 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, 508-996-0500. App chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. A reminder, a programming reminder for this evening, for tonight, gonna be a very special broadcast happening here tonight. WBSM and Salem Radio Network present a special one-hour documentary, Faith Over Fear, The Charlie Kirk Story. One year after his passing, you can hear Charlie Kirk in his own words, and remember the remarkable journey that took him from a young conservative activist to the founder of one of America's largest youth organizations. Featuring rare audio from Charlie's first interview with Dennis Prager at just 22 years old, plus the story of how Turning Point began in his parents' garage. The special broadcast is narrated by Mike Gallagher, Larry O'Connor, and Alex Marlowe, with a special appearance by Larry Elder. Faith Over Fear, The Charlie Kirk Story, will air tonight at 6 p.m. right here on 1420 AM, 99.5 FM, WBSM.com, and on the WBSM app. So again, that'll be happening at 6 p.m. It will not be podcast. So this is coming from the network, so we don't have the ability to do that. But you can tune in at 6 and hear it, whether it's live on the radio or on the app, but it just, it will not be recorded for podcasting later. 508-996-0500, app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app. We've been telling you all week two about our great contest that we're doing for teachers. We're calling it Wish Upon a Classroom, because so many teachers want to be able to provide more things for their students, but they don't have the funds. I mean, we're at the point where teachers have to go out and buy Kleenex. You know, you never would have thought back in the day that teachers would be responsible for things like that, but we're seeing it more and more, that the teachers have to buy the things that the schools can't necessarily afford to get them. So they're spending their money on those necessities, and they're not able to get the things that they think would be kind of important for their kids to have, but not necessarily necessities. That's why they create these wish lists. I wish that we could have these in our classroom, and hopefully parents see these wish lists and they decide to buy a thing or two off of them, but they can get kind of expensive. So what we decided to do is we decided we're going to pick six teachers across the South Coast and give each one of them a $250 gift card that they can then use to buy some of the items on their wish list. So rather than us buying the items for them, we're just going to give them the gift card and they can decide what it is that they think would be the best. We want to congratulate this week's Wish Upon a Classroom winners, Alyssa Abreu of the Hayden McFadden Elementary School here in New Bedford. She teaches grades two and three. We also want to congratulate Rachel Lee of James Tansey Elementary School in Fall River, third grade teacher over there. And just to give you an idea of the kind of items that they're looking for, Alyssa Abreu was looking for her Hayden McFadden classroom, books for the classroom, library, learning manipulatives, organization tools, classroom games, sensory tools. And Rachel Lee was looking for her Fall River classroom, an electric pencil sharpener, colored pencils, pencils, regular pencils, clay, magnetic base 10 blocks. 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And what's great about all Security Co. is it's integrated security solutions. So it's not just, you know, we're going to sell you the access control panel and then you can call this company for the doors and here's the people we work with for the cameras. And here's the people we work with for the data retention and business. They do everything. That's why it's all Security Co. One call does it all. And you can give them that call at 508-993-4272, 508-993-4272, or visit them online at allsecurityusa.com. All Security Co. protecting what matters most. And make sure you tell them you heard about it on WBSM. All right, we'll be back after a quick break. This portion of programming on WBSM brought to you by South Coast Health, advanced medicine, more care. Save on summer favorites at Rayleigh's Bel Air and Knob Hill. Enjoy weekly sales on fresh peak season produce and exceptional meats and seafood. And discover a wide variety of fantastic flavors to go from our deli and bakery. Savings made simple, only at Rayleigh's Bel Air and Knob Hill. Starting your day the right way with the Mornings on WBSM. And welcome back in 508-996-0500. We also have app chat and open line voicemails available on the WBSM app. And we got an app chat message when we were talking about the data centers. And I had mentioned that there was that news report from ABC News about a whistle blower who said that there's a 10% chance that AI could kill us by the end of this decade. And Becky sent in an app chat message saying, I also heard it said AI could potentially kill humans, but how? I'm trying to figure out or imagine how it could be possible. And she says, PS, I'm not a fan of AI, especially when it comes to things seen on the internet or TV. I don't know what's real and what's not. AI for the Wendy's drive-through, good. AI to replace actors, actresses and musicians are posting 100% fake pics online, not good. Plus, I don't like the idea of replacing workers in some jobs. So there's a lot to unpack there. But in terms of how it could kill people, I'm not exactly sure because I didn't listen to it. I heard the ABC News report, but I didn't look into it more from there. I don't know if that means literally judgment day like in Terminator 2, where the computers decide that's enough of the humans already. We're taking this place over now. Or if it's the fact that the lack of resources from the exponential growth of them could kill humans. I don't know exactly how it'll happen. But I do know that I will continue to appease our robot overlords, so that at least I'm one of the last to go. Actually, if something like that was happening, wouldn't you just want to go first? If you were fighting a losing battle, I mean, sure, we'd all like to be John Connor, right? We'd all like to be the hero leading the charge, leading the resistance against humans. But also, look at how many years and movies and attempts to thwart that he spent. Wouldn't it just be easier to let the robots take over? Obviously, I'm being facetious. Either that or I've already been assimilated into the board collective. And this is the propaganda that they programmed me to tell you. All right, I do have to get one more break in here before the end of the hour. Before I do, though, I want to tell you about what's going on over at Stevie's Wine and Spirits in Fairhaven. Of course, they always have great tastings going on over there. But their big fall tasting is happening on Friday, September 5th from 4 to 6 p.m. You're going to have the chance to try a variety of wines, spirits, and beers that'll all be perfect for the fall season. So mark that on your calendar, Friday, September 25th, 4 to 6 p.m. at Stevie's Wine and Spirits for their big fall tasting. And of course, we'll have Kelly join us to talk more about that as we get closer to it. But they've got all kinds of great things going on for the fall over there, all kinds of great tastes. If you haven't been to Stevie's yet, what are you waiting for? It's the biggest little liquor store around. It looks small from the outside. You don't realize how big it is until you get inside and you realize, wow, this place has everything. And they even have things you've never heard of or seen before, and that's why they have a purple dot. Anything that has a purple dot, you can ask for a sample so you can try before you buy. So stop into Stevie's Wine and Spirits, 115 Huddleston Avenue in Fairhaven, and make sure you tell them you heard about it on WBSN. All right, we will be back after a quick break. All right, we are going to be taking a break here for the news coming up. When we come back on the other side of that, we're going to be talking with Diana Griffin of the Walk to End Alzheimer's. We're going to find out about how you can take part in that. It's coming up next month in Fall River, and it's something that I think has touched everybody in some way. You know, I think everybody knows someone who has been afflicted by Alzheimer's, and unfortunately, you know, it's an uphill battle to try to find a cure. But this walk every year helps with some of that. So we're going to be learning more about that, how you can help, how you can walk, and about how many people this really does affect. So all that and more coming your way, plus your phone calls, 508-996-0500, AppChat and OpenLine. Rubric is the security and AI operations company built for what happens after an attack hits, not just the moments before. AI has turned the threat landscape into quicksand, moving too fast for any human to fully predict. That's why an agentic cyber resilience platform matters. Automated recovery, clean data, a business that keeps moving no matter what hits. One platform, not a patchwork of stitched together tools and gaps. Don't wait for the next attack. Secure and accelerate your business at Rubric.com. Again, Rubric.com.