Everybody knows WBSM is our hometown radio station. My broadcast roots here date back to 2009. My familial seeds were planted at the tail end of the last century. Yet, I cast myself as the proverbial outsider. Most listeners get flustered and frustrated over my freedom-oriented, constitutional, often contrarian rants, but I’m OK when their freedom or livelihood is at risk. Call me a passionate Libertarian, always advocating for the taxpayer and individualism. My bitcoin-business updates alert listeners on how to earn crypto and use it as a savings and payment tool. After retiring from full-time hosting, I still practice my preach. You'll find me operating two home businesses, actively promoting freedom and bitcoin, plus serving as a locally elected Dartmouth Town Meeting member. I’m most proud watching my two adult sons pursue their American dream. Mine consists of traveling, and learning more about places, people and the business side of bitcoin. My 40-foot shuttle bus is being converted into a motorhome-office studio, so I can travel, expand operations and host audio and video shows from wherever home is at that moment. I call it living my “Plan B” lifestyle!
Brian Thomas
[THOMAS] Mayor Mitchell Needs To Stop The Blame Game 6-22-17 [Video]
So, the Mayah wants to go after absentee landlords, claiming they are responsible for harboring hoodlum tenants, you know, the type that's dealing in illegal drugs and recklessly spraying gunshots throughout New Bedford. "People move into town with criminal records and there are landlords that are willing to tolerate all kinds of bad behavior," so says Mayor Jon Mitchell...
[THOMAS] Legalize Drugs for 365 Days
The rat-tat-tat of gunfire rings again in New Bedford. A brazen broad daylight barrage of bullets as children are walking home from school. Police won't say if they know who the gunslingers are, but there is one, unintended victim. A 60 year old man, sitting in his home, catches a stray bullet in the neck...
[THOMAS] Listeners Remember Eddie Johnson
Highly active and controversial. That's what many are saying after learning that Eddie Johnson passed away early Father's day morning, after a brief illness.
A few listeners pay tribute to Eddie Johnson.
Eddie founded the Citizens Leading Environmental Action Network and the Parting Ways Museum of African American and Cape Verdean American Ethnohistory. He bragged ab...
[THOMAS] Judge Moniz is Guilty of a Terrible Verdict
Massachusetts law is today muddier than the Charles River. Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz has ruled that Michelle Carter is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III. Roy smoked himself in a cloudy pool of carbon monoxide on the evening of July 13, 2014
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[THOMAS] 4 Ways Parents Can Get Teens Ready For School [Poll]
There's a group, they call themselves a grassroots organization, that explains that science reveals that it is better for middle and high school students to begin school later. How much later? At the earliest, 8:30 in the morning. Apparently, kids biological clock runs later as they age...
[THOMAS] Misleading Email About Sex Education from Ford Middle School [Poll]
My colleague, Phil Paleologos, received a call this morning,Thursday, from an irate parent. It seems Acushnet's Ford Middle School was teaching oral sex to middle school students. I followed up with a call to one of the Selectmen...
[THOMAS] Coehlo Wants Action on State Education Mandates
The New Bedford City Council listened to Schools Superintendent Dr. Pia Durkin deliver her annual presentation and proposed budget for the system. The $130 M budget is 3.5% higher than last year, and the state has also warned municipalities to expect less state funding for schools...
[THOMAS] Make New Bedford High School More Appealing
Hannah Jope graduates next week from New Bedford's premiere high school. Jope was home schooled by her mother when she decided change was paramount. Stating her folks did an excellent job at educating and rearing, Hannah knew she wanted more...
[THOMAS] Let More Retailers Sell Booze [Poll]
Imagine doing your food shopping and being able to go down an aisle filled with name brand beers and wines. The Shaw's supermarket in Dartmouth has been granted permission by that town to sell beer and wine at it's route 6 store. This is definitely the exception and not the baystate rule...
[THOMAS] No to the Millionaire Tax
Imagine working your butt off and earning $1,100,000. If some social justice wing nuts and Beacon Hill lawmakers get their way, millionaires will have to pay an additional 4% tax. Yes, an additional 4% on any amount over $1 M. That means the regular state income tax, plus a 4% surcharge on top of the regular income tax rate on the $100,000...