Thursday, Nov 12: Immigration Policies in the Future

WBSM presents The Barry Richards Show, streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508-996-0500. Text us using App Chat on the WBSM app. Now, The Barry Richards Show. It is 2:07 on a cloudy Thursday afternoon, 508-996-0500, our phone number right here. And so President Trump is... Threatening tariffs against Mexico. If Mexico doesn't stop a migrant caravan from reaching the U.S. southern border. And, you know, as soon as it looked as though the midterms might go bad for the administration, the caravans began marching. Apparently with quite a bit of assistance from Mexico. And huge caravans were forming. In beginning their illegal march through Mexico, Trump wrote. In a Truth Social post this morning, many of the people in these caravans are those that various countries don't want. Send them to America, they say, but they will not be accepted. Mexico must stop them now. And if they do not do so, the tariffs on Mexico will be immediately doubled, he added. Mexico, the governor of Texas, the very liberal new governor of Texas, our great border patrol and ICE have been so informed. There will be no leniency. Trump's post began with the suggestion the midterm election results have emboldened the mass migration efforts that he has had to shut down since his first administration. Here we go again, Trump's post began. With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the midterms, I was not on the ballot. The invasion of our country is taking place again. The group of migrants, an estimated 1,500 people, mostly from Central America, set off on Tuesday from the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border. Democratic state attorneys general gains in the midterms could help to unwind some of Trump's immigration law enforcement that he had admitted might have come off as too tough for voters earlier this month. Democrat Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson could drop the state's defense of SB4. That's a Republican-backed Texas law that allows state authorities to arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in April allowed the law to take effect as a challenge proceeds. So this is going to be, even before I think the ink dries on the impeachment documents, I think you're going to see the Democrats try to weaken as many border laws as possible. Current Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who chose not to seek re-election in a failed Senate bid, remains in office until Johnson is sworn in on January 1. With the loss of Texas, Florida remains the largest reliably red state. On the political map in Florida, A.G. James Uthmeyer spoke out forcefully against Democratic efforts to loosen enforcement on immigration. I don't think we can entertain amnesty in a conversation, he told the Will Cain Show last night. We have to be a country focused on rule of law. In Florida, we've deported a record number of tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens, child predators, murderers, people who have committed violent crimes. And we're at an all-time crime low. We're safer than ever after shutting down the border, he said. In another matter, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to take up Iowa's appeal of a ruling blocking a law that would allow state officials to arrest and prosecute people who are in the U.S. illegally. The state's Democrat Attorney General-elect, Nate Williams, could decide to defend the law if the Supreme Court takes the case. Newsmax had a piece this morning. Democrats preparing to unwind Trump's immigration crackdown when they take control of Congress in January will face formidable obstacles, including his veto power and broad executive authority over immigration enforcement. Despite winning control of both the House and Senate in last week's midterm elections, Democrats have limited ability to force major immigration policy changes without cooperation from Trump and congressional Republicans, according to Reuters. The Democrats are colossally misreading the electorate if they think the American people want an extremist anti-American immigration agenda, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Reuters. Democrats plan to investigate immigration and customs enforcement tactics, detention conditions, deportation, and spending by the Department of Homeland Security where there are new congressional majorities will give them considerable oversight authority. Congressional aides from both parties told Reuters they expect Trump to veto legislation substantially restricting immigration enforcement or expanding pathways to legal residency and citizenship. Further complicating Democrats' efforts is Stephen Miller, Trump's newly appointed White House chief of staff and a principal architect of the strict immigration policies. Lawmakers from both parties expect Miller to remain a driving force behind the administration's enforcement strategy. The White House has made clear it has no intention of abandoning its crackdown despite the election results. This administration will not slow down its effort to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens who terrorize our communities. White House spokesperson Lauren Biss told CBS News there has never been a president stronger on immigration enforcement than President Trump. DHS delivered a similar message on Sunday, saying ICE would not be backing away or slowing down. So the battle lines are being drawn, obviously. What does that mean for Massachusetts? For Massachusetts, I think we can expect to see probably an influx in illegals. Because keep in mind, I mean, you know, the illegal aliens have been pouring into Massachusetts for decades. Of course, the border has never been stronger than it is right now. But there are still getaways. And there are still other ways that people are getting into this country. It's not just crossing the southern border. People still get in. And, you know, we are already in Massachusetts defending and feeding and housing criminal illegal aliens and people who came here after being deported multiple times and so on and so forth. And we're protecting them here. So we have formed a shield to protect them. And my guess is that we're going to continue to do so and maybe to a greater extent. So we're going to have to see what happens there. But the battle lines are being drawn. There's no question about it. And, I mean, daily we read to you stories about criminal illegal aliens that are raping kids, doing all kinds of heinous crimes. We had some rounded up, what, 80, 82, rounded up in the New Bedford area back in September. Chris Morahealy came down to hug the families of these criminal illegal aliens. And Mayor John Mitchell actually left his office and went to the avenue. You know, just kibbutzed with some of the folks down there and said it's a ghost town. People are afraid to come out of their houses, afraid to send their kids to school. Well, if I was a criminal illegal alien, I would be afraid to come out of the house, too, I guess, under current circumstances. So I think the Supreme Court should probably, whatever cases are still pending concerning immigration, I think the Supreme Court should get to them before the end of the term. If for no other reason than just to make clear where we stand and what the nation's laws are as we enter this crazy stage of lame duckism. I'm going to make up a word right there. Lame duckism. The administration is also preparing to go to war with Congress, with White House counsel Will Scharf. Warning yesterday that the Trump administration is prepared to vigorously fight what he called Democrats' threatened return to lawfare following the midterm election victories. Telling Newsmax congressional investigations motivated by political retaliation would violate constitutional limits. Appearing on Rob Schmidt Tonight, Scharf explained why he sent a sharply... Worded letter Monday to Representative Robert Garcia, Democrat of California, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, challenging Democrats' threats to investigate Trump and administration officials. What we've seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress, and they're talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes, Scharf said. And I thought it was very, very important that just as the or just at the outset that we set the tone, if there's going to be an investigation process here, it should be dignified, lawful investigative process. Scharf singled out Garcia's recent remarks, suggesting that anger and pettiness were motivating his approach to congressional oversight. Congressman Garcia saying that he was motivated by his own pettiness to bring subpoenas and investigate this administration is just so wildly inappropriate that I felt like it called for a vigorous response, Scharf said. In his three-page letter, Scharf cited the Supreme Court's 1957 ruling. In Watkins v. United States, which established limits on congressional investigations, including those intended to punish individuals or advance investigators' personal interests. By the way, I don't know if you've heard, but Jump has pulled J.D. Vance off of the Iran war negotiations and put him in charge of investigating corruption in blue states. Scharf said Congress needs a legitimate legislative purpose just to get off the starting blocks. And then even after that, Their requests are combined by executive privilege, by the presidential communications privilege, by attorney-client privilege, by any number of other privileges. The letter also cited statements from other Democrats threatening extensive subpoenas and investigations, including lawmakers who compared issuing subpoenas to distributing candy or Mardi Gras beads. Scharf warned that threats intended to discourage executive branch officials from public service could potentially cross into criminal conduct. The administration will not be extorted and will not be cowed by unlawful process motivated by animus, pettiness, hatred, or any other unlawful motive, he read. Asked about Democrats' previous investigations and prosecutions involving Trump, Scharf argued that those efforts ultimately backfired politically. Look, we fought the lawfare and we beat the lawfare in 2022, 2023, and in 2024. I would have hoped that the Democrats would have learned a lesson from that, he said. The only thing they've achieved was putting Donald Trump in the White House, where he belongs, back where he is today. Scharf also criticized Senator Elisa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, for comments suggesting young people. Should consider the potential consequences before accepting positions in the Trump administration. What we're asking for here is nothing more than that. Everybody plays by the rules and that everybody follows the law, he said. We're ready to fight. We're going to fight vigorously and we're going to defend the president. We're going to defend this administration. And we believe that in this case, the constitution and the law are absolutely on our side. This is part of the stuff I think that people have. lost the stomach for. I don't think people, and I may be wrong, but I don't think people are really all that anxious about two years of hearings and investigations and all that kind of stuff. I think people just want stuff to get done. I mean, people want stuff to get done. They can't afford their heating. What did we say yesterday? $34,000, the average for many Massachusetts families for health insurance, $34,000 a year. Look at the heating oil. Prices here in Massachusetts, food prices, housing, immigration, all of these issues that are so important to people. And I don't think that high on the list of, you know, the Republicans suffered as badly as they did because people were sick of a Congress that did nothing. They trusted the Republicans to get stuff done. And they said, OK, fine, we'll vote for you. And nothing got done. Just more of the pettiness that feeds that endless news cycle I was talking about earlier that people have burned out on. People just get sick and tired of it. Get tired of the sound bites. Get tired of the information overload. They want action. They don't want 24-7 CNN quotes or Fox News quotes or whatever. They want action. They want their kids to be able to afford to buy a house. They want to make sure their elections are protected and legal and safe and secure. With the game playing in Washington, the sound bites, the constant... Just, you know, it's like a professional wrestling match, tag team, or steel cage match. That's the mentality that politics has taken on in this country, in government. People are sick of it. It was entertaining for a while, now it's boring, and people are suffering as a result of it. People will die if this continues, right? People are dying. I mentioned a poll earlier, I think it was a CNN poll. 27% of Americans say they absolutely dread the upcoming presidential election. 30% say they could care less either way. 40% said they're looking forward to it. 508-996-0500 is our phone number. And let me grab one just coming in, and then I'm going to hit the break. You're next on WBSN. Good afternoon. Hi, good afternoon, Barry. Hi. You know, if it's action people are looking for, they're going to see plenty of action when these crazy Democrats take over, you know, because there's going to be a lot of real insanity taking place. But I know what you mean. You know, I think when it comes to news, either you love news or you don't, because there are a lot of people who really don't pay attention. They pay more attention to football games and basketball and baseball than they do to politics. And in my opinion, that's what's wrong with this country. Well, but you know what? You know what it is, Kathy? I love news. I love to watch news. I love to watch documentaries. I like to learn things about what's going on. But what we're being fed today is not news. No, it's misinformation and propaganda. Well, it's manufactured. It's manufactured stuff. And I know how to do it because I did it. I was paid to do it, you know, to go out and make a story. I know. But, Barry, it's propaganda. You know, it's not created. It's just what they use in the Soviet Union. It's propaganda. And anybody from, you know, the... Like the Soviet Union or Poland when it was a communist country, they know propaganda when they see it. But sadly, in this country, people are so ignorant and they think they're in la-la land that they don't even know what propaganda is. So they believe it and they buy it. And that's what, you know, a lot of people bought the Democrats' BS. I know supposedly there was a faction of people who were angry with Trump, but I'm sorry. I don't think that anybody who was MAGA who liked Trump, yeah, maybe he's not doing exactly what we voted him to do. But you're going to vote for Democrats? I don't think so. But like Steve said, it's the unenrolled that sway both ways. And if the unenrolled were stupid enough to think that the Democrats were going to bring a better country, you know, fix the problems in this country, they've got a they've got a real. All right. So those people that you're talking about, the unenrolled, right? The unenrolled were not properly educated on the issues. Well, they bought the BS that was fed to them. They bought the pablum that was fed to them by the mainstream media, by CNN, MS Now, that Trump was bad, that they were going to do a better job. So you're conflicting here because on one hand, you know, you said we need as much news as we have. You love it. And yet, on the other hand, you're saying the news is not good for us because it is causing people to. No, we need truthful news. At one time, and you know this... We had the Smith-Mundt Act where you had to report accurate news. Today, you can pull anything out of your butthole and put it on the Internet and say, oh, this is news. And nobody's there are no consequences for reporting inaccurate information. And, you know, we had an industry that had integrity. That was the big thing. Exactly. Because, you know, that type of reporting that you're talking about goes all the way back to the founding of this country. I mean, Ben Franklin and all the other early newspaper people, I mean, they would put the most outrageous stuff in their newspapers to try to tilt public opinion. And, I mean, that was just the way it went. I mean, that's the free press. You can do that kind of stuff. But we had integrity. When we were growing up, we had integrity in the news media. You could put on Walter Cronkite and believe everything he said. You can put on Peter Jennings and know that he was doing his best to get you the truth. Today, it's a different story. I mean, today it's all about show business and it's money. I mean, you've got the entertainment department of these networks that are running the news shows. And, yeah, I mean, they're trying to pass The View off as a legitimate ABC News program. You know, speaking of which, I don't know if I brought this up in another call, but did you see Whoopi Goldberg? I saw a clip on Newsmax when Al-Sayed was on her show and she was smiling from ear to ear. She just thought he was wonderful. You know, we're going to have Muslims in Congress. We're going to have Muslims in high positions of power. Did you hear about the woman who was walking her dog? Her and a friend were walking her dog at 3 a.m. in New York City. And she got stopped by two Muslim police officers and they wanted to arrest her because she was walking a dog. Because dogs in the Muslim community in Islam, I think it's Haram or something, they're outlawed. You can't have, they don't want dogs. So that's just a tiny little sampling of what's going to start to happen. Then they were telling people that they don't want people to eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan because they're fasting and they're hungry. I mean, that is just the beginning of Sharia law. So if any of these people, they don't pay attention to the news, if you don't know what Sharia law is, you better start paying attention because you are going to see things that you never thought you would see in the United States of America. And we have got to all learn our Constitution, learn what our rights are, and start fighting back because these people, I mean, they're serious, Barry. They're not playing around. They're, they're, they're. They're out for blood. And they're going to be getting plenty of blood. So, I don't know. I don't know what people were thinking when they went to vote this time. I really don't know. But it's not going to be, I mean, the whole country is screwed. So, this, I mean, to go all the way back to my original point, this assault of information on people is not helpful. Because keep in mind that the information, the flow of information in this country is regulated by nobody. And you can put anything you want on social media. We have Chinese influencers. We have Russian influencers. We have North Korean, Iranian influencers. We have Democrats. We have socialists. And they're all pouring garbage out into. So you don't know what you are reading is right, is wrong, who said it, who didn't say it, who's paying for it. So how is that helpful to our society? Well, I mean, in my opinion, what I do when I see information, I go to various sources. So I probably go to four or five sources. If I hear something and I want to check it, I go to another source and look it up and see what they're saying. Then I go to another source and look it up and see what they're saying. And if all those, if three or four or five sources all are collaborating, then I say, well, it must be true. But if I read something and I really have curiosity about it and I go to another source and it's totally BS and I go, uh-oh. And I'll go to another source, and it's BS again. I said, well, that's a bunch of crap. I mean, I'm not on social media either. And I think the problem with really happening to our society is this social media has really become a huge problem because people really believe the misinformation that they see on social media. And they think that it's... The truth. That is the intent of it. First they get you addicted to social media and then they start pumping you the propaganda messages. And this is my point with the propaganda. I mean, with the burnout with people. I think people are just so burned out with the constant pounding of information at them. A lot of it is not true. They can't verify it. They don't know where it's coming from. It's contradictory. But you know, to your point about checking multiple sources. So for example, you could go, you can hear a story about I don't know, Governor Healy, right? And you say, gee, I got to check into that to make sure it's true. So you go on the Channel 4 website. Well, the Channel 4 website's got it. And then you go over to the Channel 5 website. They've got the same exact story verbatim, word for word. And you say, hmm, that's curious. So then you go over to the NBC10 website and you check it out. And they've got the same story. Maybe a few words changed here and there. Then you say, wow, I got to check that even further. I'm going to go to Channel 12 and check that out. Or I'm going to go to, you know, the Boston Globe or whatever. And it's all the same story. Sorry, coming from the same source, but all of the media is covering it in a way that they don't. They don't question it. They just regurgitate it. So it's very difficult to do that when you say, well, I've just checked four or five sources and they're all putting the same information out there. But lesson number one is never to trust mainstream media. So I would never in a million years go to Channel 4 or Channel 5. I would never go to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the Boston Globe, New York Times, the Washington Post. I would never go to them because they're lib lunatics. I would go to conservative media resources and look things up. That's what I would do. I mean, I would not, you know, I just don't believe because sadly, um, mainstream media, all the major networks, and you know when they're really lying about something, which is hilarious, and I'm sure you've seen it. They'll be spewing misinformation, and they're like little parrots. You listen to one news reporter on ABC, and they spew out a line. Then you go to, you look at another one, they spew out the same line, and it's the same line over and over and over and over and over. So they're basically like little puppets. Well, they're all reading the AP account. They're all reading it off the AP wire. What did Goebbels say, Barry? Tell me what Goebbels said during World War II in Germany. What did he say? If you don't lie enough times, people will believe you. I'm sorry, I thought you said Goldberg. I thought you were still talking about Goldberg. I didn't know Whoopi Goldberg was alive anymore, weren't you? Oh, my gosh. I've got to hold you, Kathy. I've got to get a break in. 508-996-0500. If you're on the line, stay there. Your calls are important in the next straight hour on WBSN. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM. Call 508-996-0500. All righty, welcome back into the program. It is at 2:36. So when I talk about the information overload in the 24-7 cycle and the availability of news today, I'm not talking about reliable news. I'm not talking about things that people can count on or whatever. I'm talking about this information overload. Now, the information overload can include news, obviously, but the information that is constantly coming at you all the time and you don't know the reliability of it. It's about stuff you really don't care about or know about, or it's stuff that the people who sponsor it want you to know about, whether it be influencers or foreign agents or whatever. They're just constantly pumping information at you. And, you know, the whole idea is to get you addicted to social media to begin with. And once you are, and you know the people who are, you know the people who cannot put their phone down for less than three minutes, right? They got to keep picking it up and looking at it. And they are just, once they're addicted, then it's easy to pump information into them. And a lot of it is self-serving. You get the Fox and the CNN and the One America News and all of them, they're constantly providing you with information to try to get you to open this link and that link and so on and so forth. But the information that comes out, you find yourself caring about things that 20 years ago you would have never cared about. Or you would have never have imagined yourself caring about, you know, some of these sexy trials and, you know, other celebrity news that, frankly, nobody really cares about. But you become conditioned to care about it because it is constantly fed to you. You're being told that you're, you know, you're supposed to care about this particular case or that particular case. And it's because you're being conditioned to do it. And that's what it's all about. It's all about conditioning. And once they get you hooked, I mean, you are hooked. They see what your trends are, what your habits are in terms of, I think the term is called, what, algorithm? They see what you look at and what you don't look at. You ever notice that if you say something, you're in a conversation, you say something, gee, I think I need a new Christmas tree topper. Okay, we're looking for a new Christmas tree topper for our tree. And then, boom, everything on your phone all of a sudden is about Christmas tree toppers. Um, or you go to a place, you go to, uh, um, I don't know, a certain store or whatever. And then boom, everything around you turns up, especially if you search for something online. So, I mean, they're, they're, they are in a sense of spying on you and, um, in feeding you information related to what they think you're interested in. But the deluge, it begins in the morning from the time you get up. Information, information. And it's stuff you sometimes care about, sometimes you don't, but you get trapped into reading it or following it, or they just keep hitting you with it. That, to me, is different from a legitimate news. A desire to get news. You know, Steve had mentioned a couple of hours ago, Steve had mentioned, well, gee, I care about what goes on in Washington state. And this is the first time we've been able, because of the, you know, our ability through social media, we've been able to begin to learn about different things that are going on in different states. And I share that. I'm glad that we're able to expand our knowledge with social media. Yeah. But the negativity of it, We'll get the... The way that social media can provoke arguments between people, particularly the political parties, particularly between, you know, trans groups versus folks who don't support the trans movement or whatever, they can gin up these arguments and they can get, they feed them. And social, not only does social media do this, but the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week cable networks do this. You know, things that you didn't, stories that you don't care about, but you find yourself getting hooked up in because this is what they're feeding you. They're telling you, Fox News is telling you, this is what we think are the most important stories of the day. Well, so-and-so, and again, I can't remember her name, but the actress or the singer that came out this week and announced that she was pansexual. This became big news. This was pumped into everybody's cell phones. It was on TV. It was being reported as though it was legitimate news. Who cares? First of all, whose business is it? Why would this person come out and issue a press release and say, hey, I'm pansexual? I'll bet you if I was to do a poll, the overwhelming majority of you don't know what pansexual is. And I include myself in that I have no idea what pansexual is all about. And I don't really care. It doesn't affect me. So I don't really care about it. But yet it was important to us to find out that this celebrity was pansexual. It was important for her to tell us. And then the news cycle picked it up and just repeated it and regurgitated it. You got a ding, ding, ding on your phone and it popped up on your phone. There it was. Then you watch, beep, like mine just did again. And, you know, you were informed of this. But it's information. I just, it's funny, as I was saying that, my phone did beep. And it was from an eye care place that I used to go to telling me that I'm due for an eye appointment. That's information. That's also information. So when I talk about information, I don't just talk about legit news. I'm talking about information that pours into you all day long to the point where you get no rest from it. It's information that you want, information you don't want. It's news, it's gossip, it's downright lies. It's celebrity stuff that you don't care about. I don't care about. I mentioned Bruce Springsteen. That was the only one I can think of off the top of my head. But every time Bruce Springsteen says something about Trump, they got to, you know, all of the news, all of the news pages will post it as though it's important and it's not. And, you know, so that's where the overload comes. You know, people say, well, we need this information and because socialism is creeping in and communism is creeping in. But, well, OK, so with all of that information about socialism and communism creeping in, what happened? The country voted for socialists. So did the information overload save us, save the day? This all started, I was talking about back in the day, you'd get up in the morning before the internet, before 24-7 cable network news. You'd get up in the morning and maybe put on Captain Jack Peterson and you'd hear, you know, what the cancellations were that day because it snowed. You get to hear what the mayor and the city council did last night and maybe some news about the state and then the national news would come in. And, you know, you might get the latest update on the Iraq war or, you know, Afghanistan or whatever was going on in the national news at that point. And and that was it. The news was over five, six minutes. Poof, it was over. And then, you know, you shut the radio off and you went to work or you went about your day and you weren't hit with information again until probably six o'clock at night. You were home having dinner with the family and maybe the TV was on in the kitchen or living room and Peter Jennings came on or maybe it was Chet Hunt or maybe it was Patrice Wood, you know, whatever. Karen Adams giving you the news of the day. And then maybe watch a little bit into the world of national news. And that was it. Again, your information cycle stopped there unless somebody called you to tell you something. But in today's world, it's constant. Your mind is constantly processing new information all the time between television, radio, your cell phone, your computer, your watch, anywhere you're getting information from. Maybe you got a Fitbit, right? Fitbit tells you your blood pressure and all that kind of stuff when you're out walking. That's information. It's information that your mind has to process. So you add that stuff all together during the course of the day. You probably receive more information during the course of the day for your brain to process in one day than you did an entire year before. I don't know, maybe not a year, but in a good long time anyway. And, you know, today, a lot of the news, a lot of the information, it's negative. It's designed to pit one against the other. Thank Families don't talk to each other. Friends of many years don't speak to each other. We hate somebody who likes Donald Trump or we, you know, we hate somebody who's anti-abortion or whatever. We no longer just disagree. We hate and that's all driven by this information overload. you. And so I think people are burned out on the information. I really do. I think people are, I think most people my age would probably in a poll say, boy, I wish I could go back to a day before the internet, before cell phones, before cable news and relax and enjoy life. Without the information overload. I may be wrong. That's the way I see it. When I see that poll from, what did I say, Reuters? I think it was a Reuters-Ipsos poll. They said 27% of Americans are absolutely dreading the upcoming presidential election. And 40%, only 40% are looking forward to it. 30%, no opinion either way. That's where that comes from. 508-996-0500. Got to do a break. We'll come right back. This portion of programming on WBSM brought to you by South Coast Health. Advanced medicine. More care. 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Um, for example, if you are you on Facebook, so every day you get up on Facebook, right? And you find out that somebody that you went to sixth grade with. Who you probably haven't seen in 40 years. Yes, of course. You're friends with them on Facebook because they sent you a friend request. And, you know, how could you, you know, the girl that sat in front of you. You pulled her pigtails. How could you say, no, I'm not going to be your friend. And you don't really communicate with them every now and then. She'll like a post that you posted or whatever. Thank you very much. But then you notice in your information drop down box there that it's her birthday. So you got to say, well, happy birthday, right? But first of all, you're finding out that information, that it's her birthday in the first place. So there's information. Now you've got to respond to that information. If I don't respond, I'm going to look like a schmuck. If I do respond, well, whatever. Whatever. But then you've got all the other information that you see just on social media from people that you know. Uh, you know, uh, well, we bought a new dog last night or, or this is happening in my family or, um, you know, uh, gee, I hate to tell you, but, uh, you know, uncle Charlie died and you don't even know uncle Charlie, but this is your friend. But it's just constant information through a source, a window of information. It was never opened before because it never existed. Right. So, you know, once you back in the old days, once you left sixth grade, you probably never saw the kid with the pigtails again. Maybe you run into her at Mammoth Mart or maybe you ran into her at, you know, at Zayre's or something every now and then. But that was about it. You didn't keep in touch. You certainly didn't know how many grandkids she had or, you know, whatever, that it was her birthday. You know, and the same thing with a lot of different things that you people that you have now. Kind of reintroduced back into your life because you knew them at one point or another, but at an arm's length. But yet you know all the information about them and it's constantly being fed to you all day. That's information that you're processing. It's all information that we never had available to us before because, well, again, quite frankly, that window was never open. It just never existed. We didn't have social media. So once you said goodbye to your classmates at grade school and you moved on or junior high school and you moved on and probably never saw those people again. But now they're in your life and all of their stuff is in your life, too. And it's information, just constant flow of information. So that's what I'm talking about with information overload. There's just so much information coming at us at breakneck speed, lightning speed, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because you know what? If you're not on social media at the time somebody posts something tonight, maybe you're in bed, it'll be there tomorrow when you get up. And you're going to sit there on the couch and you're going to scroll through your thing and you're going to see all the information that came in. While you were sleeping information and it's all stuff that your brain has to process and you know after a while with all of it including the legitimate news I'm not not knocking news we need news absolutely we need news but all of the information that pours into your mind today that didn't pour into your mind 30 years ago can stress you out kind of make you wish. That you didn't have all that information. Too much information, they say, right? It's interesting to think about. So I've tried and I continue to try to reduce the amount of information that pours into my head every day. I've become much happier, I think, by doing so. I'm really trying, making an effort to try to reduce. That's not saying I'm not paying attention to the news or what's happening out in Seattle or whatever. Paying attention to all of that. But I'm picking and choosing what I want and when I want it. As opposed to just having it pour into my brain all day long at their will. It's got to be at my will now. 508-996-0500 is our phone number. Last break. We'll come right back after this. All right. Welcome back at 258. And just a little bit of a programming note and some information to flood your brain with. Tim Dunn. The lead political reporter for the Boston Herald is sitting down to do an interview with former Vice President Mike Pence at 4 o'clock. And he will share the interview with us tomorrow. Let us know how it went and what they had to talk about. Should be an interesting interview. Thank you. There's some thought that Pence could be a candidate for president again in 2028. And certainly he did try to run for president after serving as Trump's vice president in the first term. So a lot of interesting stuff, I'm sure, will come from that interview. And Tim will have it for us tomorrow. He joins us tomorrow in the one o'clock hour, tomorrow being Friday. So we look forward to hearing about. His interview with Mike Pence. So stick around for that or tune in for that at 1 o'clock tomorrow. We are going to get out of here. The news is coming up next. ABC News, followed by WBSM News and Mike Roberts. And then the WPRI-TV 12 forecast. Some stormy weather on the way. And it's going to be mighty cold, too, with a high of 45 tomorrow. Can you believe it? Yikes. And then how we...