Capitol Hill's secret meeting sheds light on drug cartel strikes

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WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, >> WBSM [music] presents the Vary Richard Show streaming live on WBSM.com and the [music] WBSM app. Call 508996500. Text us using App [music] Chat on the WBSM app. Now, the Barry Richard Show. [music] >> And welcome back to the program on a Thursday afternoon. I keep going to say it's like Tuesday or Wednesday. It's a remarkable how quick these weeks are flying by and how quickly this year has flown by. We're already uh we're closing in on the end of the year, right? 2025. Wow. It it seems like just yesterday we were talking about the the bicesentennial year. Not the bicesentennial, but what was it? The millennial year. Remember where it's going to strike midnight and all the computers are going to stop and you're not going to be able to get your money out of the bank and all that kind of stuff. And that's been 25 years already. Holy cow. Wow. Remember the frenzy people were worked up in over that. Sheesh. Anyway, um so there was a closed door meeting today. I'm not sure if it's still going on hearing up on the cap Capitol Hill. Damn it. Trying to open my uh hold on trying to open up my uh computer here. And there we go. It's not recognizing my password. Now it does. Um up on Capitol Hill. And this was a closed door session. Um, Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, the guy who gave the order for the second strike on September 2nd on that um on the uh the drug boat in the Caribbean. Of course, the Democrats and the media trying to make it uh oh that was a war crime. You can't do that. You can't do that. My god, these people, poor people. They were just they were just swimming and you dropped bombs on them. You killed him again and again and again, over and over. Martha Radits. Viewers of WCBBTV channel 5 years ago will remember Martha Radits as Martha Bradley. Remember Martha Bradley was on channel 5 forever. Then she switched over to ABC and it became Martha Radits. And um she's ABC News chief global affairs correspondent. Sometimes, you know, I look at Martha Bradletson Ritson. She's a um she's pretty sharp lady, but other times you listen to her and she's just, you know, she's couple of French fries short of a Happy Meal. And you know, there was a um a point during the presidential campaign last year when she was interviewing JD Vance, more affectionately known as 48. Um, and he was talking about the drug gangs, you know, the ones that run Minnesota, those drug gangs. You know, Tim Walsh's pals. He's got the Somali gangs there, too. He's got a lot of characters in Minnesota. But anyway, um, let me not to get too far from the subject here. Um, so Martha Res was talking to JD Vance about the the Trendy Aaru gang actually that was in Colorado and Aurora, Colorado. They taken over um apartment buildings and um terrorizing the people who live there and see videos of them running through the halls with guns and everything. I mean, it's horrible. And JD Vance was, "Well, we've got to close the border. we can't we got to round up criminal illegal aliens to get these people out of here. You know, they're taking over apartment buildings. And she said, "It's only a handful." [snorts] And he's like, "Listen to yourself. Do you hear you? It's only a handful." So that was one example of when Marthur ratts um appeared to be out to lunch, but she she can be she she's got some good sources at the Pentagon anyway. And one of those Pentagon sources told her last night she reported on World News Tonight with David Muer, another Channel 5 alumni, by the way. David Muer used to be on Channel 5. Um, and she said, and I saw the video of her saying this, right? According to um, a source, the two survivors of that controversial drug boat strike were believed to have been salvaging the drugs and were in communication with the supplier. Thus, the second strike Radits. This is an exact quote from Radits. So, we've seen the video of the first strike, but that second strike video that the president said would be released will be key. And tonight, new information. According to a source familiar with the incident, the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication with others and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it was determined that they were still in the fight and valid targets. A JAG officer was also giving legal advice. So again, David, that video will be key. And Admiral Bradley will be on the hill tomorrow behind closed doors. Well, he's been there. And I don't think he's done yet. I think he's still going. Um, so that makes all the difference in the world, right? So the bomb hits the boat, boat breaks up, most of it goes down, part of it stays up, and the drugs, if you've noticed on some of these videos, the drugs are in blue drums, plastic drums, they can float, potentially float if they're not hit by a bomb and exploded. And um so I guess uh you know Pablo and uh and uh I don't know, Juan were um tossed into the water, but they were still living and they saw some blue um some of the blue uh barrels floating around and they're like, "Hey, we got to get these barrels. we got to we just try to salvage this thing. So, apparently, according to Martha Ratit's sources, and believe me, she's no Trump administration supporter, um they're loading the barrels back in what was left of the boat trying to save the day because I suppose they didn't get paid unless they delivered, right? And the admiral who reportedly gave the go-ahad to strike the vessel a second time was receiving advice from a lawyer, from a military lawyer who said, "Yes, this is this is okay to do this." in order to strike. Makes a lot of difference, doesn't it, from what the the media was trying to pedal us. But we've come to be accustomed to what the media does. And the media tries to pedal you all kinds of stuff. Most of it is not true most of the time, right? It just ain't true. Russia, Russia, Russia. Laptop, laptop, laptop, disinformation. Yeah, I've been rolling around some of these things in my head, too. You know, remember um we were told that Jared Kushner was going to be taken out of the White House in handcuffs. Remember Donald Trump Jr. was going to be taken out of the White House in handcuffs? Put in jail. Trump was going to be put in jail. My favorite of all time though is the 83y old woman that said that Trump grabbed her by the breasts on a commercial airline flight. I mean the the fake news just goes on and on and on. The dossier, all of that kind of stuff. So the media wanted you to believe as the public mouthpiece for the Democrat party that the Trump administration was just dropping bombs, killing people in the water. Just kill just guys just floating around there. Kill them. Drop a bomb on them. We We have all kinds of bombs to to spare. Just drop another bomb on these guys. Take them out. Yeah, I said it yesterday or the day before. I don't know. Days go by so quickly. You know, anybody who wants to try to make a case to me that it's not common sense to attract this drug problem at the source. I I I'll happily debate it with you because we see what we have before us right now, right? We have gangs operating within this country, cartels operating within this country. Over 100,000 of our citizens die each year because of these drugs that are being imported into this country. And for decades and decades, we have talked about ending the ending the drug problem, right? Scourge of drugs. Just say no. And what have we done instead? Instead of beating back the drug cartels and destroying their labs and destroying their operations, we hand out free needles to people. Oh, that ought to do it. Let them bring the poison here. Let them poison our people. We won't do anything about it, but we'll give our people free needles and we'll give them safe injection sites and we'll give them housing and we'll give them all kind. We'll let them stand on Massachusetts Avenue in front of the hospital. Who in the hell ever thought any of that stuff made sense? I mean, if you have a country that is firing cannonballs into the United States and they're killing citizens, what are you going to do? You going to you're going to dispatch crews with nets to catch the cannonball so they can't hit anybody or are you going to go and blow up the cannon? I mean, hello. Any third grader would tell you, go and take the cannon out. Well, that's what this does. When you're blowing up boots and you're sending a strong message that you got a big military, a big stick, and you're not afraid to use it, and you're going to take these cartels out where they live, rather than have them come to our country and kill our people, we're going to go to their country and kill them. How does that not make sense to anybody? Of course, the Trump administration is Yeah, the President Trump is a genius. And I know all you Democrats listening, Trump is a genius. Trump is a PR genius. There's no question about it. That's how uh he's made a lot of money. Made a lot of money in the media. He's made a lot of money promoting himself, but now he's promoting the country and he's promoting his ideas. So, what does Trump do the other day, right? He's out there calling him, you know, oh, we got to get all these Somali out of here. Kick them the hell out of here. They're no good. They're rotten people. You Omar, got to get rid of her. She's, you know, married her brother. All of these Somali and let them go home and fix their own country. So now you force the Democrats to defend Somali gangs that have allegedly embezzled and stolen and and ripped off billions of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota under Tim Walls. Now the de now the Democrats have to defend those criminals just like they are continuing to defend criminal illegal aliens. I was just watching a video, I'm not sure where it happened, on TV just a short time ago about um I think it was in New Orleans, um anti-ICE protesters being physically carried out of a city council meeting. So Trump says a few words and has the Democrats and the media defending criminal illegal aliens, defending drug cartel members, defending Remember the Maryland man? And they defended the Maryland man, the guy that beat his wife up with with his shoe and it was smuggling and then and selling kids. Remember, remember they even went to was God, I don't even remember where now. Was it was it Nicaragua? Wherever they went anyway, the senators, Democrat senators went and had drinks with them. [laughter] These people are mental. I'd say the other word, the R word, but some of you would get mad. Anyway, 5089960500 is the number. Thanks for hanging on your next WBSM. >> Hey Barry, there's there's a story that's not getting much coverage. Uh but there was a Pakistani immigrant that was arrested, right? and he he wanted to become a a model and uh just by luck by luck uh he had parked his car uh in a park area which was closed and by chance by luck the police officers uh went in there and then instead of saying chew out of here. No, he he looks suspicious. And when they looked into uh his uh truck, the guy had weapons uh types [clears throat] of uh ammunition like A15 and all that. He he was planning to attack the police station and kill as many police officers as he could. And he even mentions one in particular. He has a map to the police station and this guy uh could have killed 10 15 police officers and that would have been a national news. >> Yeah. >> But unfortunately he's not getting no coverage at all. >> Where did this go down? Where did this happen? >> I believe it was a Delaware He was a Delaware student according to my readings. Uh he was a Delaware student and that's Maryland, right? >> Yeah. >> The University of Delaware. If my memory says me, I believe that's Maryland. Uh and uh even he's 25 years old. It doesn't say he's illegal. I suspect he is. Uh but this was uh a a blessing that uh today we're not crying over 25 police officers killed. >> Wow. Yeah. Absolutely. And you know sometimes it's it's just a case just like that. Somebody stumbles onto something or or see something's not quite right and uh you know it saves the day. And that that is so amazing when that happens because they're alert. They're paying attention. And those police officers should be given an award because they could have just said, you know, move it and and never uh have captured this guy. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. >> Uh and he was within days of carrying this uh assault and massacre. Uh but I guess in order for it to get national news, he has to commit the crime. >> It's sad. You know what I mean? >> Well, there's there's so much of that. The news media is very selective in what they cover. And for some reason that might not have looked good um on the Democrats. I mean, how did this Pakistani get here? Was he one of the uh folks who was allowed to relocate here under the Biden administration's uh uh was it welcome wagon program or whatever the heck they called it. Um >> Well, I don't know. You know, the story doesn't say. >> Yeah. Uh but but I would think that this is something that's going to hit national news pretty soon once the Trump administration gets a hold of this because this was a disaster that was avoided. Uh you know and if this guy came in here >> see that would mean that would mean having to give credit to the Trump department Trump's uh administration's justice department and the media is not going to do that >> right? the media is not going to say, "Hey, you know, the the Justice Department is good. They're doing their job. They're doing so so much great stuff." >> Yeah. They they wouldn't do that. Nah, unfortunately. >> Yeah. It's it's amazing the the list that this guy had of of the ammunitions, how to get into the police department and things like that. I mean, he was ready to rock and roll. >> Yeah. I hadn't heard this and and I I go through a lot of media every day getting preparation for the show. So, I'm going to have to look that one up after I get off the air and and read more Barb. >> Yeah. No, it's not being reported. It's sad, you know. >> Yeah. >> Because like I said that, this he he was going to shoot up the police department. Uh he was waiting for the appropriate time for one particular officer to be there and it was going to be a massacre >> and this was prevented, you know what I mean, by oldfashioned police work. >> Yeah. >> And uh these people should be getting a medal, these police officers. >> Good stuff. Appreciate it, my friend. Thank you for telling us about it cuz again I hadn't heard about it. Thank you. 5089960500 is the number and you are next in WBSM. Good afternoon. >> Hi Barry, how are you? >> Good. How you doing? >> Good Barry. I actually I actually didn't hear that story either. So I'm going to have to check on that. But a couple of things that you brought upon about the whole closed door hearing now with the general >> the boat thing that's going. Okay. >> I want you to get a pen and pad and I'm going to do this too. Okay. First thing was the Epstein. That didn't work because when the Epstein things come out, there's more dirty laundry on on the Democrat side than the Republican side. I guarantee you within 30 days when the DOJ looks at it, it's all going to be a white wash and you're really not going to know anything. Okay, that didn't work. Now it's this. This ain't going to probably work. Let's write down everything because if there's going to be a barrage I I am predicting a barrage of stories with the media who works the Democratic party one after another to weigh you down on this administration. This >> Well, they're going after Heg Seth left and right with with different things. What about the MRI just uh last week when they tried to you know >> that's what I mean Barry. Yes. So, let's let's document all of this and revisit this a year later because this is what's going to this is proof of how fake the media is and they're not doing true reporting. But that's not really why the reason I called. I heard your son speaking in and out and I caught the pot about the housing situation and the crisis and all this and your son brought up some excellent points and he talked about Black Rockck. Let's talk about Black Rockck. This is very and it's not just Black Rockck, but they they're one of the biggest proponents of doing this of buying private properties. Now, your son and you had a back and forth. This is capitalism. You can't really do that. No, no, no, no. There's capitalism and there's also unfair capitalism. And I'll tell you why. Teddy Roosevelt in the 20s broke up the railroads. You had JB Morgan, you had Carnegie, and you got the Vanderbilts. Basically controlling this country. JB Morgan had so much money, Barry, that one time he lend the federal government money. That's how much money JP Morgan had. Okay. And Teddy Roosevelt knew this is not a good idea. You cannot spread capitalism if only a few control it. Now, Black Rockck, I am I have nothing against them actually physically bu building buildings with apartments and renting it. I got nothing against that. But when it comes to private home home ownership and private homes, there should be laws on the books that no corporations are allowed to do that. Because what that does, what's happening now, and I know people that's happened to them personally. They put a bid on a home and these people like Black Rockck come in, give a cash offer, almost double the price. Of course, the person going to take that offer. So people like your son and everyone else is frozen out of the market. And the only way you're going to have a a middle class is with ownership of a home. That's a fast way to get equity, Barry. As you well know, you wouldn't be as comfortable as you are right now without the equity of your home that you sold. No matter how much you work, no matter how much you saved, you'll never save make as much equity on a home for your personal wealth. So that's the best way to get middle class to to become the middle class. Now, how do you fix the problem, Barry? I don't know, but I could tell you what is what you could do. something so something that your son should think about and what past generations did. Maybe talk to his brother, maybe get a double family, a two family somewhere, live together in separate apartments, share the mortgage when you get enough equity, sell that home and maybe both of them because people going to have to team up. Families are going to have to team up if they want any kind of future for themselves because I know what you say about renership and it has it great privileges. Barry, you you talk about you don't have to worry about and and you're absolutely right. You have wor about the roof, this and that. But also, Barry, it's kind of scary when you're 57 years old or 60 years old and landlord says, "You know something? It's going to be $1,000 more and you got no place to go. You got no place to put your head under. That scares the living crap out of me, Barry. I I know property tax goes up, Barry, but it never goes up the way that a renter could go up on the rent." and and and it's still there. >> Yeah, but you got to take you got to take all of the costs associated with home ownership and you got to you got to lump them all together because it's not just the property tax. It's the cost of the utilities. It's the cost of homeowners insurance. It's the cost of, you know, speaking about homeowners and you call your insurance agent, you say, "Hey, my fence blew down." And they say, "Well, you don't want to put in a claim for that cuz you'll get cancelled." Um, you know, it's all that kind of stuff >> with you. No, I agree. And then as you wake up in the morning and the home in the in the the hot water heater on the floor in the basement, you know, it broke. So >> I I I agree with you, but you but you have this Barry on on a renters. You know what every month is that that flushing sound? It's the money you're flushing down the toilet because you have no equity. At least, God forbid if the crap hits the fan, you could probably sell your home and get something for it. some kind of even even if you have a mortgage, you might get the way these houses are, you'll get some kind of money profit out of that decide. >> That's what I did. I put the money I put the money in investments and it's working for me that way. >> Exactly. See, Barry, that was the key. That was the That's I mean, every young person, and I'm I'm a strong proponent of this, every young person, do whatever you can. Even if it's a little 1,200 foot home, buy property. Buy property. That's the only way to live the American dream. Because as you get older, you have options. As a renter, you have no options when you're older. That's what scares me back. And and I've seen it through my family. I I I guess it's an immigrant thing. Immigrants know what I'm talking about. First generation kids who've seen their parents and and they talk to their parents constantly. They they talk to their kids constantly about this. You do not want to be under no one's roof except your role. Tell that to to the people that that bought houses that moved to Massachusetts, bought houses uh down around where they're putting up the new Sagamore and then uh what's the other bridge there bridge? >> That's horrible. >> Yeah. And the government and the government can walk in and say we're going to take your house from you. >> Yeah, that's that's horrible. But it goes it goes to do like research. You have to look at where you're going to live just like everything else. And it might happen. But you know very well living next to a bridge and them always talking about them doing things. You know something like I personally would to buy a property closer to Fer Haven High School because that bridge area who knows what they're going to do with the bridge. Who knows if they're going to want some more streets? You don't know. So you have this is all things you think about when you sit down and look at the pros and cons. But this is my opinion, Barry, and people have different opinions. I totally like respect it. But when you have property, you have equity. When you have equity, you have you have some kind of chip. And if you don't have a chip, especially nowadays, you're screwed. You really are. Thanks, Paul. Appreciate it. I got a hold of you that got to get the first break in. 5089960500 is the number and we're coming back after this. Stay tuned. >> Safeway has served [music] Northern California since 1926 and now Oakley. 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Bob Seager and little drummer boy as we approach Christmas, right? Today is the 4th of December, actually. We've got what, 21 more days? Three weeks from today is Christmas. And um, have you got your shopping done yet? I think I'm pretty pretty much done. I think so. I say that with some degree of confidence. And um I always like being done because then you can enjoy the rest of the way. Today is also the full moon. Did anybody see the moon come up yesterday? It was incredible. And I'm hoping it's going to be a nice clear sky tonight so we can see the actual full full moon. It is the cold moon, the final full moon of uh 2025. It is also a super moon and it should rise rather large because it is a super moon. It was um it was incredible to see it last night. I totally forgotten um about it and uh and I looked up and it was like, "Oh, wow. There's the moon." And there it was. Actually, I think I noticed it yesterday during the show as well, but to be honest with you. So yeah, tonight cold moon see um healing energy tools says the cold moon, the final full moon of 2025 rises in Gemini, bringing a burst of clarity, curiosity, and honest communication as the year comes to a close. This eerie energy, eerie spelled a i r y, not the other type of eerie, but uh airy more airy energy helps you um release old mental patterns, speak your truth, reconnect with others, and open your mind to new ideas for the year ahead. And it's also pretty cool to look at, right? sit inside and watch it though. It's going to be cold outside tonight. Um, so we've got the discussion going on and and you know, um, Paul was right. I mean, a lot of what we're seeing right now are efforts to divert attention away from what's really happening in the country and what really needs to be discussed. You know, Trump's MRI. Well, okay, here's the MRI. Now what? um you know the uh sinking of drug boats and various things that the uh the Democrats and the media having um hissy fits over. It's all diversionary tactics. We know that. We've been going through this for 10 years, right? 10 years. We know what's going on here. They don't want you to know about successes. They don't want to know you to know that they have nothing. But something else they're doing, too. And again, Trump is so smart. He's he's such a public relations genius that he's getting these people to step in traps all over the place. And just recently, we had six members of Congress. Uh they're all now under investigation. Uh who put together a video, did you see the video? Telling um uh telling members of the military to ignore [clears throat] illegal orders. Now, there's a um a little bit of a hidden message there, right? It's a wink wink nod nod. Yeah. If if you believe, as I do, they were simply trying to encourage the military to stage a coup. I believe that they've tried everything from um indicting to impeaching to shooting President Trump. Nothing can stop this guy. They've lied about him. They've cheated on him. They've done everything you can think of. So, what is next? I mean, they literally tried a coup on him. So now this is as um overt as you can get. Send messages to the military. Well, don't follow any illegal orders. No, you follow the commander-in-chief. Period. You follow the commander-in-chief. And when you start telling members of the military, well, you don't have to follow this order. Well, who decides what's an what's a you're going to leave that up to Private Gomer Pile to decide what is a legal order and what's not a legal order? So now you've got all kinds of rogue military guys and gals running around there saying, "Well, I don't like this order, so I'm going to let's, you know, take the president out. This is what they're trying to do. This exactly what they're trying to do." And now you've got Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia. appearing on um I don't know some nitwit program. I had it here. I probably got it here. I know I got it here where he was. I always like to give uh [sighs and gasps] might have been a CNN, I don't know, MS now or whatever it was, but he was he was anyway he was he was doing media and um Warner said the um military might quote help save us end quote from President Trump. That was MS Now. Okay. Uh, Warner previewed questions um that he planned to ask US Navy Admiral Frank Bradley when Bradley testified today before the Senate's Senate Intelligence Committee of which Warner uh is the vice chair and he focused on concerns about Secretary VO Pete Hegath's controversial strikes in the Caribbean and added that while he trusts Bradley, he doesn't believe that Hegathth has been truthful. And by the way, the strikes are controversial if you are in the media or Democrat, but I think most common sense people support the strikes in the in the Caribbean. Anyway, um Senator Warner said this. Remember, this is an administration that has treated the unformed military with unprecedented disrespect when they were all brought to get a pep rally in front of Hakes and Trump. Warner said, "This is an administration that is that's fired uniformed generals from the head of the NSA, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and I think in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hexath because I think their commitment is to the Constitution and obviously not to Trump." And I expect Bradley to adhere to that. You know, I've said this before in Banana Republics and elsewhere. When there is a coup, it is generally led by the military, right? So, Senator Mark Warner and these other six members of Congress are stoking the military to take Trump out in a coup. Can you even believe this is happening? and it's getting very little media coverage. For some of you, the first that you've heard of this is probably right now. Can you imagine if a Republican senator when Joe Biden was president went on national television and said, "Well, maybe the military can save us from Biden." Can you imagine the hell that would have erupted? This get no coverage, very little. 5089960500. Thanks for hanging on. You're up next in WBS. >> Hey Barry, how you doing? >> Good. How are you? >> Uh not bad. I'd like to talk about uh Snap. I know you were talking with uh Holly Robashad, but very quickly on on Senator Mark Warner. He's really bad. He was a bad governor of Virginia, too. So, he was bad then and he's worse now. Uh, as far as let's look at the Democrats. When we had the uh government shutdown, this went on for six weeks because the Democrats, they voted 15 times not to open the [clears throat] government because they wanted to spend $1.5 trillion to extend Obamacare, Medicaid to illegal aliens. [clears throat] And now we got this bogus lawsuit that these 21 governors of uh these 20 21 governors civil rights lawsuit which is a bunch of croc and I don't know how this didn't get thrown out of court because because we're going to ask for because the USDA under Brooke Rollins wants to ask for uh addresses social security numbers and immigration status. This is quote unquote a civil rights lawsuit that that that these governors including I heard uh of the soundbite too of Governor McGee Rhode Island. He was on with Tom Quinnland. He asked him about uh if he's on if he's on board to reduce fraud and abuse and waste. Does he agree with the USDA and uh Donald Trump? He says, "Well, I can't answer that because it's in the courts and uh we don't know what the outcome is." What a bunch of malaki. You know what I'm saying, Ben? You can be a citizen and if you want SNAP, they ask you, you want, they give you a name, your address, you have to put in your social security number, you have have to multiple proofs of uh of residency to see who you are. But the Democrats are saying, well, you know what? If you're an illegal alien, this this is uh uh very uh personal sensitive information. This is uh detailed data that the government, the federal government has no business in getting. Your address, your name, social security number, immigration stat. This is a joke. Well, the federal taxpayers are paying for it. So, we have every uh right to see that information. And if they are holding information back, particularly here in Massachusetts, it is because, as Holly pointed out, the sharp increase in benefits both in Medicaid and um um is it Medicaid or Medicare that goes for it's medicaid I think that goes for the for the uh for people and Medicare goes for the older whatever. But the reason that there's mass health, we'll say mass health. The reason there's been an increase in mass health, big jump in mass health and SNAP payment is because of the illegal immigrants. And more Healey, welcome to Massachusetts. And that's why she doesn't want to share the information because she doesn't want that known. Thank you, my friend. I got to hold you. I got to get the break in. We're coming right back. >> Hey, this is Sarah. Look, I'm standing out front of right now. And well, you're sweet and all, but I found something more fulfilling. Even kind of cheesy, but I like it. Sure, you met some of my dietary needs, but they've just got it all. So, farewell oatmeal. So long, you strange, soggy. >> Break up [music] with bland breakfast and tastem bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. Made with kry, egg, smoked bacon, and melty cheese on a [music] buttery biscuit. AM. Too much good stuff. Back to [music] Barry Richard on WBSM. Call 508996500. >> [music] >> We watch the children playing beside the Christmas tree. [music] >> All right, welcome back. It is 151 and that is the smashing pumpkins with Christmas time as we uh inch ever so slowly, maybe quickly toward Christmas. I don't know. Christmas is in full swing. Everything I've read so far indicates that shopping is through the roof. People are spending money and all the way up to um Thanksgiving um all of the uh the media and everybody were talking about what a horrible Christmas shopping season it was going to be. the tariffs are going to discourage people and prices were going to be so high and everything was going to be miserable. It appears as though we may be on track to um have a record Christmas shopping season this year. South uh there's that you just throw the media in the garbage, right? Throw them away. Get rid of them. Don't pay attention to them. Listen to us instead. We'll have some fun here on WBSM. I've got to get the last break for the hour and we're going to come back. We've got Shauna Okonnell going to join us for a few minutes after the 2:00 news. So, uh, stick around for that. Shauna Okonnell is the mayor of Taton. Just recently won re-election and I haven't had a chance to speak to her since then. So, we're going to touch base with Shauna Okonnell coming up. Stay tuned. You're listening to WBSM right here on WBSM. Right. You're listening to WBSM right here on WBSM. Yeah, I need a break. We're coming right now. We're going to head into the newsroom in just a couple of seconds here. And you know, I looking up at the TV screen here and I'm seeing Pam Bondi and I'm seeing Judge Janine Piro and uh you know, thinking of Christine Gnome and all the different women in the Trump administration and you know, another big uh non-truth in the media and with the Democrats about the Trump administration is that Trump can't be surrounded by strong powerful women. Remember that? Um, yeah, he's got some of the most powerful women, probably more women in his administration in power than anybody that I can ever think of. And I mean, these are all kick-ass women, too. Um, wow. So, um, yeah, just another myth. We have the news and it's coming right up. ABC News followed by WBSM News. >> What do you think makes the perfect snack? Hm. It's got to be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient. >> Could you be more specific? >> When it's craven. >> Okay. >> Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter. Available right down the street at AM. Or a savory breakfast sandwich I can grab in just a second at AM. >> I'm seeing a pattern here. >> Well, yeah. We're talking about what I crave, >> which is anything from AM. >> What more could you want? Stop by AM, where the snacks and drinks are perfectly cravable and convenient. That's cravenience. AM. Too much good stuff.