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Um, in order to find snow, you got to go like Worcester, Westwood, and Northwood. My son lives in London, New Hampshire and they are under a snow uh warning for 6 to9 in and um out to the Birkshars and that way, excuse [clears throat] me, Springfield [snorts] and out to it that way. But anything along the coast uh all of Rhode Island, it's it's all rain and is expected to remain all rain. And I'm hearing maybe some snow next week, but that's way out there yet. So, we'll uh we'll hold on to that one. Um for a couple of days anyway. Um full moon coming up on Thursday, the final full moon of the uh the final full moon of the year, but of the final >> [snorts] >> um what do they call them? Super moons, right? You know, I had to be 60 something before I'd ever heard of a super moon before. Never heard of a super moon. That was something that, [snorts] you know, I had never uh never heard of. Go out and see the full moon and it was a big bright full moon. You say, "Wow, that's a big moon." But the the term super moon I had never heard of anyway. But so we have a super moon coming up this month, the last one of the year. [snorts] And so that's coming up on Thursday night. Hopefully the skies will be nice and clear for that. All right. Um, let's see. Ah, you asked for it and you got it. My son Steven is going to be in studio with me at 1:00 today. I'm going to chat with Steve. Many of you uh know Steve as um, [clears throat] excuse me. He is a podcaster locally. Does the New Bedford podcast also does some work with New Bedford Guide and various other uh, projects that he's involved in throughout the area. We're going to chat with him about what's happening in New Bedford in Massachusetts and and so on and so forth. So, I look forward to that. It's kind of weird having your son as your guest. Um, but he's a pretty sharp guy, so I look forward to having him in studio and chatting him up. You know, some of you guys have texted me and emailed me for quite some time now, when are you going to have Steve back on? When are you going to have Steve back on? And um, you know, trying to fit it into his schedule has been the problem. But we finally got it worked out over Thanksgiving. So, um, um, we are the the Stephen Pete Ducy of the media, I guess. I don't know. Um, all right. So, that's coming up. We're going to have um some other things going on throughout the program and of course during the week I'll I'll get into some of the other stuff a little bit later on. But some interesting information. If you travel and you have not yet obtained your real ID to travel to fly, you are going to be in trouble. It's going to cost you some money. Um, word this morning that the Transportation Security Administration, I thought it was Transportation Safety Administration, TSA, did they change the name to Transportation Security Administration? I thought it was Transportation Safety Administration. Could be. I may be wrong. I don't know. But anyway, the TSA will begin charging passengers 45 bucks if they show up to the airport without an acceptable form of identification, meaning the real ID, a pass or a passport. The policy will be implemented starting February 1 of 2026. That's uh just under two months from now, following a proposed rule published in the Federal Register that noted the previous amount of $18. So they're going to kick it up to 45 bucks. Here's how it's going to work. After careful review, it was determined that the expenses for the new technology and operational costs were higher than originally projected, leading to an increase in the final fee, according to a senior TSA official. travelers who do not have an acceptable form of identification and want to fly again a passport or a um a valid uh real ID will be able to go online to the TSA website to complete identification steps and pay the $45 fee. You do this right at the airport. The passenger then receives an email confirmation to present to the TSA officer prior to the checkpoint. The process is predicted to take between 10 to 15 minutes but could take 30 minutes or longer. The confirmation will be valid for 10 days from the day of travel. The TSA said senior TSA officials told Fox News Digital the fee is non-refundable and is not guaranteed. Identity verification is essential to traveler safety because it keeps terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens out of the skies and other domestic transportation systems such as rail, said Adam Stall of the TSA. If the TSA is unable to identify a passenger, that individual will not be able to fly in order to keep the system safe. If a passenger is in the checkpoint line without an ID, that person will be removed from the queue to fill out the online verification process. 94% of travelers show up to the airport with an acceptable form of ID. 94%. So that means 6% do not. For those of you who grew up on the east side of New Bedford, right? Senior officials say they are working with airlines to help promote the effort in the booking process. The enforcement comes as um Apple Wallet now stores digital passports for screening at 250 plus US airports during domestic travel. We warned you and they delayed it and delayed it and delayed it and delayed it and then there was the pandemic and then they delayed some more and um finally it is a requirement. You've got to have a real ID or you got to have a passport in order to fly. So, if you are planning to fly in the springtime, maybe you're going to Walt Disney World or maybe you're going out to Vegas or maybe you're going to um I don't know, visit Pepe out in California, you got you still got time. Apply for your Real ID so you don't get caught and yanked out of line and have to pay 45 bucks. National Shooting Sports Foundation reported there were precisely 165,183 NICS checks conducted on Black Friday and a total of 530,156 conducted during the week leading up and including Black Friday. NICS checks are those conducted at retail for the sale of a firearm. The checks began in 1993 and are conducted by the FBI, which uses the information a wouldbe gun buyer provides on gun transfer form 4473 or 4473. Once a wouldbe gun buyer passes the NICS check, he is able to buy a firearm. It is important to remember that more than one gun can be transferred after a successful check is conducted on an individual. As the check is done on the person, not the firearm. This means 165,183 checks could actually translate into 200,000 plus or 300,000 plus guns sold or even more than that. Gun sales have been skyrocketing in this country. Lot of women buying guns. Um, every time I speak to uh my buddy Bill Bashant at the Bashant Armament and uh other gun shop folks, they tell me women number one number one source women buying guns, taking training classes too. They want to learn how to defend themselves and defend their families because we live in a rather cruel and violent world. Look at this shooting that took place out in um California over the weekend with a kid birthday party. Is it in Stockton? Got a friend in Stockton. He does morning drive radio out there at KWIN. Um, lot of unanswered questions about that. I was going to print something out on that. I forgot to do it and forgot to bring it in. But you've probably heard about it. The birthday party shooting. I guess four kids were killed. I mean, we're talking kids. We're talking juveniles, small kids. And one I think one of the the four was 21. The other three were young. And um police are saying there may have been multiple shooters. They believe there may have been multiple shooters. We know, you know, I have not heard this is the most bizarre thing. I haven't heard any explanation about what happened. Now, we don't know who did it, but I mean there's a nationwide manhunt underway for the shooters, but you think you'd hear something. over they think it was gang related or a revenge attack. I haven't read anything like that. I don't know. I have no idea, not even a theory as to why this happened. I maybe I'm just reading the wrong publications on it, but need to do a little bit more research on it, I guess. That shooting in California over the weekend was the 17th mass killing this year. That's the lowest number recorded since 2006 according to a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. The 17th mass killing this year, the lowest number recorded since 2006. Experts warn though that the drop does not necessarily mean safer days are here to stay and that it could simply represent a return to average levels. Rebecca Boone writes for the Associated Press that mass killings defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer, and again are tracked in the um in a database maintained by the Associated Press USA Today in partnership with North Eastern University. Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says what goes up must come down, said James Allen Fox, a criminologist at North Eastern University. The current drop in numbers is more likely what statisticians call a regression to the mean, he said, representing a return to more average crime levels after an unusual spike in mass killings in 2018 and 19. Will 2026 see a decline? Fox said, I wouldn't bet on it. What goes down must also go back up. Fox, who manages the database, says mass killings were down about 24% this year compared to uh 2024, which was also about a 20% drop compared to 2023. I've got some other stuff you got to get a break in. Let me do the break. We're going to come right back. Uh 5089960500 is the phone number. And I got some other stuff to talk to you about, too. So stay with us. This portion of programming [music] on WBSM is brought to you by De's Hot Dogs in New Bedford, where you can get two [music] hot dogs, soda, and a bag of chips for only $5. >> Back to Barry [music] Richard on WBSM. Call 508996500. It's the most wonderful time [music] of the year with [music] the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you be of good cheer. [singing] [music] It's the most wonderful time of the year. >> And welcome back to the program. It is 12:34 raining to beat the band out there. And um yeah, it's you know, part of me would love to see some snow coming down. So, it's Christmas season and it would be really pretty, right? You know, wouldn't it be nice? But I mean, a lot of folks that are out traveling right now. Um, you know, going uh around Christmas shopping or uh you know, going to work and we've got school buses out there and all kinds of stuff. So, I don't know. I like the snow when it happens overnight and then you wake up and say, "Oo, isn't that neat?" And the plows did a great job overnight. But we'll get plenty of that anyway coming along. 5089960500 is our phone number. And we got a lot of stuff going on today. My son Steven is going to be in at one o'clock. We're going to gab with him about some of the local and state things that are going on that you may be interested in. And we've got a new um um proposal for a replacement for MCCAST and it's a test that doesn't count for anything. You guys voted to remove MCCAST as a graduation requirement. I didn't vote for that. Uh but you guys did. And um so the kids are still going to be tested, but the it's going to be a waste of everybody's time because well, it's not going to matter and um but all this has a long way to go. It's got to be approved by the um the education department and it's got to be uh approved by the legislature and everything else. So, we'll fill you in a little bit later on as to what it's all about. 5089960500, thanks for hanging on. You're next on WBSM. >> Oh, how you doing, Barry? >> Good. How are you? >> Uh I got a question for you. Um, I want to know if you heard anything, speaking of not hearing news, and the standard times in mid November about a guy on a house 291 of Dartmouth Street was found dead after being there five years. Did it cross show airwaves or anything? >> What was I'm sorry you you lost me. A guy was found >> dead. >> Dead in his house. >> Okay. >> 291 Dman Street. He was he was there for five years dead and involved Joe Pereira and his son is Ryan council member for W six. I spoke to both of them. Of course the detectives tell me that the body is being autopsy because it's barely decomposed. I guess I'm in Boston and I was wondering why that never made big news in Nebrask. >> What was he like on the floor? No, they said I don't know. They said they might he might have been in his bed with his cat on top of him. >> Oh, wow. Okay. >> Yeah. And I was wondering how come that never made top news? Because I know the guy's name was Christopher Wilbur. >> He was a loner kind of guy >> and and this was a story that was in the Standard Times. >> It wasn't I don't believe >> it wasn't in the standard times. >> No, I don't know. But it I don't get the feeling it was because that would have made news. >> Well, you know, here's here's the thing and I you know, and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I' I've said this before. Um the media obviously the local news media is not what it used to be and that's not just here. It's it's everywhere. Uh the news media um has changed a lot since social media um and so on and so forth. So um things like, you know, there just aren't news staffs like there used to be. We don't have a news staff here. the Standard Times doesn't um you know New Bedford Light only writes about illegal immigrants and and that's about it. So there's nobody out there that's pressing um you know authorities for information. Now back in the day when I worked in this market when I first started out as a news guy in this market um every morning we would stop at the um at the police station uh you know and we go talk to the desk officer get the records from overnight and so on and so forth. Um and and we would put pressure on the authorities to release information or tell usyncs and um but there's nobody doing that anymore, >> right? The detective told me from the be it took him a couple of days to get back to because of the holidays and they said they're waiting for the u autopsy to come back and if that does take a while and the body was probably well decomposed, you know what I mean? Probably takes a while. So I'll call them back but it won't be like tomorrow. I'll give him a couple of weeks. >> You know, you know what I think the saddest part of this whole story is? Is that nobody cared enough about this dude after five years? >> Five years, my friend. And you know, I feel bad because I always wanted to go over there and prop his window open, but people told me, "Thank God you didn't do that because maybe if a cop would have saw you coming out of there, you would have been in some kind of legal trouble." But I felt bad as >> How old was this guy? Did you you said 50some? Did Did I Or or am I just imagining that? You don't know how old he was? >> He was in his 60s. I believe in his 60s. Yeah. >> Yeah. He's on the website, but they have his they have his death at no uh November 25th, 2025, but obviously it wasn't. His body was there for five years. >> Yeah. >> And it was a sad situation cuz he was a he was like nobody cared about him. He was estranged from his family. But um and I got to kind of I did talk to Joe Pier and we had a conversation and he said he knew nothing about it. >> Yeah. No, I mean it's it's been a wellkept secret. Now that's something that the police department should have put out a press release, >> right, >> to the press to let the to alert the press know about. The district attorney >> should have put a Yeah. In death like that, the district attorney should have put a press release out and notified the press of it. Now, why that didn't happen, I don't know. No. >> And again, you know, I I I can't bang the Standard Times in and New Bedford Light and all these other guys without including us in there. We just don't have a new staff anymore. That's just not how it's done anymore. >> I know. There's no Jimmy Olsson around anymore. >> Yeah. And it's unfortunate, but you know, back in the old days, Jim Phillips would have been all over that. And uh Russ Baldwin and you know, all of the great reporters that we had in this in this city back in the day and even over at the Sander Times, they had a full uh staff of reporters. Right. >> And if anybody out everyone calling if anybody out there knows anything or you know just give the police detectives a phone call. >> Yeah. I just you know I mean it really breaks my heart. You know Neil Diamond had a song. I don't know if you're a Neil Diamond fan or not but it was a great song and it's I can't even remember the name of the album it was on but it was it was called Morningside and the lyrics say Morningside an old man died and no one cried. He simply died alone. And that that came right to mind. What happened to him? >> Yeah. Um, >> sad. Very sad. >> Can you imagine that? Nobody >> I always walk by that house. Every year the curtains were closed. No AC was ever put in the windows. I kind of felt bad. >> You know, I when I moved to Pucket, Rhode Island, um I was moving in from Burlington, Vermont. Um, and I moved into Pucket and there was an old man that lived on the first floor uh in my place and I'd see him every now and then. he'd come in, he'd come out and uh you know, all of a sudden the newspaper started piling up in front of his door, >> right? >> And I'm thinking, well, the dude's old and you know, he's probably in the hospital or maybe he's uh, you know, on vacation or something like that. I don't know. And one day we found out that the guy was dead and they found him dead in the apartment and you know >> Yeah. And it was a wellness check, but I think that was done over five years ago. >> Yeah. >> And [clears throat] it just It's a sad situation. >> It is a sad I'm glad you told us about it. I hadn't heard about it, but certainly my thoughts and prayers are with that gentleman today. >> Yeah, it certainly is. My friend, have a great day and enjoy your holiday. >> Thank you. You as well. 5089960500. Now, I don't know anything about the story except what the gentleman just told me there. And I'm sure uh that the news media is going to be digging digging around on it at this point, but I mean, how do you let a family member be dead in his apartment for 5 years? I mean, or his house. I guess it was a house, right? And um and nobody noticed. Nobody thought to go in. Nobody um gee, where's a where's a crazy uncle Joe having, you know, maybe we ought to check on him. Maybe we haven't seen him. We haven't heard anything from him. Um no city officials. I mean, this guy obviously didn't pay. Now, again, I'm just hearing I can't verify anything that the gentleman just said. Not that I I I believe that he's lying to me, but you know, my my brain's working a mile a minute here. What about utilities? If you don't pay your gas and electric bill for 5 years, don't they shut it off? Didn't anybody notice that? Wow. Strange story. Meanwhile, back at MCCAST, so um what is being proposed right now is an end of course test for high school students designed, administered, and scored by the state under new graduation requirements. ments recommended by a state council and um backed by Governor Mora Healey as consistent with the state's high expectations for all students. Passing the test would not be a condition of receiving a diploma as it was under the former high stakes MCCAST exam. But a major teachers union said the proposal still quote defies the will of the voters in 2024. See this is all about the and you know I know teachers get mad when I talk about these things but um this is all about holding teachers accountable. Teachers don't want to be held accountable. teachers don't want to be held accountable. I mean, there there are many of us who believe the teachers ought to have competency tests every so many years. Um, the reason the unions didn't like the MCCAST, they gave you this crap. Oh, we got to teach to the test. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. If these are the things that the state requires your child to learn, then certainly you've got to teach to the test. You know what? There's no questions on MCCAST about putting a condom on a banana. And there's no questions on MCCAST about how to cut your wiener off to change your gender. The teachers unions don't like to be told what they got to do. It's no Trump bashing on MCCAST. Teachers unions didn't like it very much. It's too much state control, too much control over what they did. So that's why even this new proposal or an end of course test on certain subjects, the teachers union are against it. They don't want to be held accountable because if a percentage of their students fail the damn test, then it's a reflection on them. And you can't say it's, well, it's not my fault. Well, whose fault is it then? voters in 2024, that would be a year ago, approved a ballot law to eliminate the MCCAST graduation requirement. We're talking, we're reading here, by the way, from the state house news service uh accounts of all of this. um the K through2 state guide statewide graduation council that Governor Mora Healey formed through an executive order in January was charged with advising the governor and the legislature on the development of a statewide graduation requirement. Well, this isn't a graduation requirement if you don't have to pass it. How is this a graduation requirement just by taking it? So, you take it and you get a zero on it, but you took it so you can graduate because they're not going to hold the results against you. Okay, here's your test paper. Everybody put your head down and go to sleep. And you're all going to graduate because the test results don't matter. Why take it? Why would I take it? I'm not going to take it. I'm not going to take a test if it's not going to count. What's the point? Initial recommendations or um initial recommendation documents released by the council yesterday include a quote demonstration of mastery that has two components exams administered by the state taken at the end of courses and capstones or portfolios that are designed, administered and scored locally. In addition to proving mastery, other recommendations include requiring that students complete a rigorous program of study that aligns with the admissions requirement for higher education. Developing and maintaining an individual career and academic plan. completing federal or state financial aid forms, developing financial literacy skills, and having the option to earn stateed seals of distinction. Is that like the seal of approval? Or maybe it's more like an Easter seal or a Christmas seal. I don't know. But none of this is required for graduation. I like the idea of teaching to college admissions because right now we have a bunch of kids that are going to college that need remedial assistance in just about everything. Just about everything. Whether it be math, whether it be reading, the colleges have to spend time and money on remedial education. All of this gobblelygook means nothing anyway because it's got to be approved by the education board and the uh Pedro Martinez, who's our new uh uh education commissioner. It's got to go to the legislature, be approved, and then signed by the governor. So, we'll see where, if anywhere, this all gets us. 5089960500, you're up next on WBSM. Good afternoon. >> Hey, Barry. You know, um I was not a fan of the MCAST because I I basically I I don't think it was a true test of how smart the kids are in this state and they're not very smart because if you look at some of these areas of Massachusetts, like the South Coast, other areas, you can see the lack of proficiency in English and math and reading. All this test is the fact that you it doesn't it's not a requirement to graduate. It just to me it's a fake test. It's just a fraud to just throw out there and say, "Hey, look, some of these kids are smart and some of these kids aren't." It's not going to prove anything. And it's not going to hold teachers accountable either. So, what's the point of doing this? >> It's all for show. It's like everything that the Healey administration does. It's all for show. Window dressing. >> It is. It's also It's also It's also a way to hire more hacks to work in put we're going to we're going to we're going to have to hire more people to distribute these tests and manage these tests. It it just it's a scam. And I I wish you know and and and I hope and not one parent in this state buys into this. Okay? Because that's the truth. If you look at half the state, I'm not talking about Boston. I'm talking about the New Bedford and Fall River and Brockton. Go look at the reading and proficiency rates and and and then look at the graduation rate and you know something's wrong. You know something's not being done right. And instead of actually fixing that, >> look at the test results. We look at the test results that continue to go down particularly since the pandemic. Look, I wrote a piece this week or last week on WBSM.com about the absentee rate. Uh the absentee rate of teachers and students continues to plummet. The average teacher in Massachusetts has 12 days a year off uh due to sickness in addition to everything else going on. And the average student has 12 days off. Now, how are you learning under those circumstances? Right? You know, parents have been sold a bill of goods on this. And parents in this state, I'm sorry people. I love you all, but you're all stupid as dirt because you know, you're paying taxes to fund an education for your children who get one shot at it, right? You want your kids to do well. You want them to be able to afford to buy a house and a nice car and have a family. Well, and they need some sort of education, whether it be a vocational education or some kind of technical training or college education. And they need TO PASS OUT OF high school in order to do this. So, you want to say, well, I don't want my kid to have to take MCCAST because it's too tough. You know, I would I was demanding as a parent, I want MCCAST because I want to make sure my kid is learning and I want to know what they are learning and they need something before they get out into the real world where life gets real tough. They need to understand that, you know, the things have consequences like studying. You got to study in order to do well. >> Yeah. I what I actually want is I want a test where if if the if the scores if the if the test matches what the scores are in each district then if they're bad then those teachers are fired. I don't want no protection from the unions. I'm done with this because the unions are protecting these bad teachers. And it's not just the bad teachers. It's the curriculum itself. When did we ever put a pro student curriculum in this state? And I mean real curriculum. You just talked about it. You know rainbows and unicorns and how to put a condom on a banana. That's got nothing to do with math, English or science. And it seems to me that's where the teachers unions are pushing these pushing the education system these days and less on emphasis of learning and graduating with actually graduating with being somewhat smart and able to be able to handle an entry- level job or whatever. None of that. You just mentioned it earlier. That's what's going on in the public education system in the state and nothing's being done because Mory Haley, like I said, she's one of them. >> Absolutely. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it. 5089960500. parents, you should be demanding that we have tough standards in this state so that we make sure our kids are learning, that they are getting the education that we pay for and we expect, you know, I'm saying t MCCAST IS TOUGH. MY KIDS got to study for a test. NO, IT'S NOT FAIR THAT their diploma depends on passing a test. Why not? HOW IS THAT UNFAIR? Don't you want them to learn? Well, my kid has a tough time taking tests. Well, you know, help them study. If they study, the material becomes, you know, we we were looking at a 3% rate of failure. 3% in Massachusetts with MCCAST at one point. And um you know, that means 97% success rate. And you know, if you've got a 3% failure rate, that doesn't mean that they don't graduate. That just simply means that they get to take the test again. They get to try again. We we don't want our kids to have to learn and study and and hold the teachers accountable. You know, the last caller, if you flunk the test, right? If if if a certain percentage of kids in a district flunk the test, there should be mandatory teacher competency and fire those who are not doing a good job. and hire teachers that are going to make your kids competitive with the kids in China, in Japan, and everywhere else in the world. That that's doing a much better job in educating their kids than we are. We are the wealthiest nation on the planet. We spend more per pupil than any other country. And yet, we have the lowest test scores of the industrialized nations. Figure that one out. Quick break. We're coming right back. Stay with us. Dashing [music] through the store, Dave's [singing] looking for a gift. One you can't ignore, but not the socks he picked. >> I know. I'm putting them back. >> Hey Dave, [music] here's a tip. Put scratchers on your list. >> Oh, scratchers. Good idea. >> It's an easy shopping trip. We're glad we could. >> Thanks, random singing people. >> Dave and Scratch. [music] A little >> Please play responsibly. must be 18 years or older to purchase play or claim. Broadcasting live from the Carefree [music] Home studios. This is WBSM Carefree Homes, your home improvement experts. Roofing, siding, windows, and more. Get a [music] free quote at carefreehomes company.com. Carefree homes. Trusted local [music] family. [music] Have a jolly Christmas. It's the best time [music and singing] of the year. >> All right, welcome back. It is 12:58 right now on a rainy, rainy, rainy Tuesday afternoon. Could be snow. Some people are getting snow. We're not getting snow. That's good. I like that. Um, in any event, we will have that forecast for you coming out from the WPRI TV weather center in just a couple of moments. Part of the news, so stay right there. Talking about the the replacement that's being proposed for MCCAST and um the um end of course assessments that would replace MCCAST would be administered at the end of specific high school courses like algebra 1, English, language arts, science, and social studies. the recommendation for end of course assessments functions alongside the uh the recommended program of study. The recommendation document said now um again it doesn't count doesn't mean anything and um it just seems to be a tremendous amount of money and time being spent for nothing. I you know I I I just don't understand why you parents uh so many of you voted to eliminate MCCAST. It just doesn't make sense to me. You know, MCCAST is uh the one check really that you had that your tax dollars that are paying for your kids' education were being put to good use. In other words, you were able to gauge um what the school system was doing with your child and your tax dollars. Your kid has one shot at it going through the school system, right? And um they don't get another shot once you go through. So MCCAST was at least the gauge. I think we could have been a lot tougher. And um again, teacher assessments, teacher competency, I was all for that. Uh but without MCAP, >> what does VA mean to me? >> A place for my daughter to call home thanks to the VA home loan. >> A new lease on life, the best healthcare team I've ever had is here at VA. and education and the opportunity to open doors I never thought possible with my GI Bill. >> The financial support I need to manage the disabilities I develop because of my service. >> Get what you earn. 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