Tips for Keeping Dogs Calm During Fireworks and More Local News

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WBSM presents the Tim Weisberg Show streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app. Call 508996500. Send us app chat messages and openline voicemails using the WBSM app. Now, the Tim Weisberg Show And welcome back in hour number two of the program here on Wednesday morning. In the next hour, it'll be Wet Nose Wednesday. Melissa Vieira is going to join us to talk about tips for helping your dog deal with the fireworks. Wet Nose Wednesday brought to you by First Citizens Federal Credit Union. We also have the interview coming up in the 8:00 hour. right after the 8:00 news with TJ Miller. You know him as he was the the the bartender friend in Deadpool. He was on Silicon Valley. He was Eric Bachman, the guy that owned the house that became the incubator for the businesses and uh he's been in all kinds of stuff and he's coming to Nantucket on Friday for a performance at Dreamland which was a great great venue out there. Uh, I was looking at it and I said, "Well, I've always said, what reasons do I have to go out to Nantucket?" But I think going to see a show at Dreamland would be one of them. So, he's going to be there. And so, he's going to join us to talk about that. And I'll I'll set set this up in the next hour before we play the interview. But, uh, we were we recorded this yesterday because he's, you know, out on tour. So, I have to get him when I can get him. And early in the morning was a little too much for him. So, we recorded this yesterday and uh I said something to him before we started actually recording the interview and he worked that into something uh right off the top that had me laughing right from the beginning. So, I'll set I'll set that up a little bit more in the next hour. We'll tease that. So, uh it should be really fun. Also, uh I got got a couple messages about the podcast option disappearing from the app. Uh, I just added it back in. So, thanks to the folks that let me know about that. I just added that back in. I think what happened is the the national contesting team, which runs contests like the Hall C Hall pass cash that we just announced, they're the ones that put all that stuff in. And I think when they put in the app button option for that, it just kind of knocked out the podcast app, the podcast option. I don't know why it did that. It shouldn't have. We should be able to put as many buttons in there as we want. But just in case, just to make sure, I took out the old Christmas player button. We don't we're not running Christmas music in in July. So, you know, we had that button back there, but it was turned off. So, I just removed it. So, now hopefully the podcast button will stay in, but I'll put in a ticket to let them know that happened. Uh, but thank you to everybody that let me know. And, and that was a, you know, pretty easy fix. I was able to get to that during the news. So now you if that's where you get your podcast from, you should have no problem finding it. If you ever can't find one of those buttons in the middle and you want to use one of them, whether it's app chat, maybe you want to record an openline voicemail, maybe you want to send us some video from something that's happening out in the out in the community or any of the other buttons that are there. If you can't find them in the middle, if you hit the what do they call it? The the cheeseburger, the three lines. Is that what they call it? cheeseburger, hamburger, something like that. If you hit that, the three lines in the upper left corner of your app, that opens up the main menu. And you can find all that stuff in the main menu, too. Those buttons in the middle are just to make it easier to find it. Now, some of the stuff like the contests, you might have to go to the contest page and then go and find it. But, you know, this way here, at least it's there if you need to find it and you can't find it on those middle buttons. Those middle buttons are kind of just made that's to make it easier when you first open it to do exactly what it is you're looking to do. But we do have a new contest there for you to enter. We also have some ongoing contests. All this week, we are still going to be giving away tickets to see the Rocket Mafia. Ricky Rocket of Poison is coming to the Vault Performing Arts Center and Pub in New Bedford. That's right. a drummer and co-founder of Poison is going to be here in New Bedford with his all-star band Rocket Mafia on September 11th. They're going to be performing Poison's debut album, Look What the Cat Dragged In, in its entirety, plus other Poison favorites. It's their way of celebrating Poison's 40th anniversary. Uh, I just got a new Poison t-shirt to wear to the show, so pretty excited. Yeah, I'm going to be that guy wearing the the shirt of the band that I'm going to see. But it'll be a it'll be a fantastic show and that's happening September 11th. You can get tickets now at vaultnb.com. And I would just I would expect that this show is going to sell out well before we get to September 11th. So you want to make sure you jump on that now and get your tickets. vaultnb.com. Come and hang out with Ricky Rocket and the Rocket Mafia. We're going to get Ricky on the show, too, to talk more about what we can expect. Uh, but the tickets will go fast. So, vaultNB.com or you can enter at wbsm.com on the WBSM app to try to win a free pair of tickets. We'll give away our final pair this week. Uh, tomorrow actually, because we are only here through tomorrow. So, you've got until then to get your name entered if you want to win. But the the tickets aren't that expensive. if you want to just buy some to make sure that you get into the show, that would be my suggestion. And then, of course, red, white, and you voting is ongoing. Our patriotic photo contest, we're getting a lot of votes on on this contest. Uh, and I was s I shouldn't say surprised, but I was uh I was pleased that we got a variety of different types of photos for people to vote. So, it's not just all photos of, say, kids. It's not just all photos of pets or all photos of someone's decorated home. It's a mixture of all of it. And you can see them all for yourself on the website, on the app, and you can vote for the winner. And the winner will be announced on Saturday, 4th of July. We will announce it on our social media and on our website. And then to the person that wins, just be aware it's probably going to be a couple of days into next week before someone gets a hold of you to let you know that you won and uh you know to to set up everything to get you your prize, your $250 Amazon gift card. Uh only because those folks that handle all that, they're off. So uh once they all start coming back to work next week, then we can we can have somebody reach out to you. and also mentioning the app chat messages. This message came in from Sunny. It looks like it came in during the mayor's appearance yesterday, but she says, "Bring Paul Rivere back." I think she was looking to get the Paul Rivere sign returned. Um, I can tell you that last I heard that was in the hands now of a private collector. So, there's a private collector who collects the neon signs of of Massachusetts and of New England. And last I heard, he was the one in possession of the Paul Rivere sign. He also has the Fontaine's chicken sign. Remember Toppsy's chicken? Fontaine's chicken out there in Denim with the chicken with the neon sign where the chicken was basically like waving you into the restaurant. Uh he has that one. He has some other ones too. and uh they did an installation in Boston where they put some of them on display uh a couple of years ago. So maybe he'd be willing to to to put the Paul River sign on display, but I don't know that he wants to part with it from his personal collection. I I don't know him. I just remember writing him stories about it and and noting that this was now in his collection. So I mean obviously the city is in financial straits. It's not something that they'd be looking to take back and and have to run. But if he wanted to bring it down here and and set it up, I'm sure they could work something out. Although the city council cut the uh cut the funding for the electric bill by $500,000. So maybe they're not looking to add anything else they have to plug in. Although as as the council president told us yesterday, the the administration can always go back for the supplemental money if more is needed. They just chose to cut that based on the fact that they're hoping these prices are trending downward. So, what did you think about the city council president's appearance yesterday and and his explanation? Then the mayor right after taking exception with some of the things the council president said. So, so basically from I only heard a little bit of the mayor cuz then I had to go into a into a meeting into an appointment, but basically the council president Pereira was saying that the mayor keeps going to the council asking for them to adopt those sections that allow them to negotiate the health insurance premiums for the union members to to basically what this means is we can go to arbitration and have this percentage that we have to pay whittleled down. So instead of paying 75% I think it is they'll pay 70%. But that savings across the board could mean a lot of money for taxpayers to not have to pay. And yeah, it's a little bit more money that the that the union members will have to pay, but it's not that much. And it's still a much better deal than they would get if they were, you know, privately insured or worked in the private sector and were insured to their employer is is, you know, that's the mayor's argument. And the council president said that the problem here is that the mayor has never gone to these unions directly and said, "Hey, can we negotiate this down or he's gone to the group that's, you know, represents that and speaks for that." And the mayor took exception to that and said he doesn't know. He's he's working off thirdhand knowledge, secondhand third-hand knowledge. He doesn't know. And so he's speaking about things he doesn't know about. And I thought that that was interesting because you haven't really heard I I haven't I can't recall, but I haven't heard anything critical of the council president from the mayor since since Ryan Pereira became the council president in January. We've heard the the council president be a little critical of the mayor, but he's always said, you know, I like the mayor. I think I work well with the mayor, but he's been critical of some of the steps, which is fair, which is what you would expect in government, especially where these two sides, you know, are are checks and balances for each other. So, you would expect that there would be, you know, some disagreement, but civility and not that this was univil, but it was just kind of the first time that I was like, huh, interesting. This could this could escalate because that's that's basically saying you don't know what you're talking about. You're talking out of your rear end. You don't know what you're talking about. And I don't know if if Council Pereira knows what he's talking about or not. I I I don't I don't know where he gathered that information from. What I will say is he's not he doesn't strike me as somebody who just says things to say things in in in my conversations with him. He strikes me as somebody who will say if he doesn't know about something, I will find out about that. I don't know. So, he must have confidence in the information he was given. If that's the case, if it wasn't firsthand information, he must have confidence in the information he was given. Um, and the other side of it is I don't think he's somebody and again, you know, what are my interactions with him? They're here on the radio, uh, a couple of times running into him at at different things out in public. Uh, you know, having him on to promote the the the Halloween event in the South End, those kind of things. Um, so I don't really know him very well, but at least in my dealings with him, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that's going to get worked up about the mayor criticizing him and and turn this into a back and forth. The previous council president, Shane Berggo, I think, would would take it personally and I think that would turn into something. I think he would have a response for that. But in just my interactions with with Council President Pereira, I think he'll just kind of laugh about that and be like, "All right, okay. That's what he wants to think." But we'll find out on Monday when he comes back with us. The bottom line is that is going to continue to be a point of contention between this administration and the council is the idea of adopting those sections and having that and and and there's no guarantee that going to arbitration would mean that the there would be a reduction in how much the city has to pay, but that generally tends to be the case when they when they do have these arbiters get involved. And I've I've kind of always been of the perspective of 70% is still good. And I'm just throwing that number out, but 70% is still good. Still better than most other people are are getting covered. You should be able to take that hit. And you should be able to take that hit to keep a fire station open. You should be able to take that hit to to keep your colleagues employed. Would you rather pay 5% more on your on your health insurance premium or would you rather do 25% more work because somebody who did that job is no longer there anymore and now you've got to do it. You know, that's kind of the way that I've always looked at it. But then the other side of that is, hey, listen, when they signed on for the job, this is what they were told. this is the benefit that they were given and and probably one of the reasons they took the job and why they took a job that they would make less at than if they worked somewhere else. So again, it'll be interesting to see if this does escalate. I don't think that it will, but certainly this the the the topic is not going away. The idea of the mayor is pushing for this to happen. 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And just a little bit of a note, we want to let everybody know that our friends over at Just Another Phoenix, they're going to be closed from July 4th through July 11th. So, they're taking a week off to to give their staff some time off for the holiday. They're taking a short break to give their amazing staff a well-deserved vacation and use the time to make some improvements to the restaurant. So, they're going to be closed from July 4th through July 11th, and they'll be back open again on Sunday, July 12th. So, just wanted to let everybody know about that in case you were planning on making a trip over there. Uh, let's see. I'm supposed to go to the news here, but I'll take this call really quick. We only got a couple moments here. Good morning. You're on WBSM. Hi, Tim. Hello. Hi. Yeah. I just got uh just a little bit of information for you. I haven't heard on your radio station at all, but the Darpath Mall starting on July 3rd, anybody under the age of 18 will not be allowed into the mall after 5:00 uh without a parent or guardian. Interesting. I hadn't heard about that. Yeah. So, yeah. I didn't know if you know about it. I'm going to play at the mall, but they're allowed, of course, they can go to the movie theater, but at the mall period, they're not allowed in there. So, so after 5:00, this is where this is starting on the 3rd, which is a and every Friday and Saturday night. That's just on Fridays and Saturdays. So, the week nights they'd still be allowed in. Right. Right. Friday and Saturdays. every starting every Friday and Sunday night there is going to be a police pre pres presence over there and security is allowed to ask for an ID if you're not with a parent or guardian you're under 18 you're going to be asked to leave so wow but you said they can go to the movie theater that because that's a separate there's a separate there's there's something that separates you yeah it's a it's a separate area when they go into you go to the movies all the time yeah so that separate area over there yeah they're allowed to go to movie theaters, they cannot enter to the mall. So, they'll be there'll be somebody stationed at that entrance to to check between the movie theater and the mall. Correct. Correct. And every entrance, too. They're allowed to go into like uh Burlington. They stay open late uh whatever. J Penney, too. They're open a little late, right? Yeah. Right. But they're not allowed to go into the mall after 5 5:00 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night. So, have there been have there been incidents? Is that why they made this decision? Yeah, I'd see uh the the uh the owners of the the new owners of the mall have decided this is what they want because there's been too many incidents over there with uh juveniles to be honest with you. And how long have the the new owners been there? It's it's been a little while, hasn't it? They took over about the new owners took over a couple of years ago. Yeah. And it's still run by the same company, but the new owners took over and they've decided this is this is what they want. Wow. So, they will there will be a police presence there for a month to enforce this. And uh security is allowed to ask for ID. It's like if you go into a bar, let me see your ID, please. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, it's Yeah. Do you have any Do you have any idea how the store owners feel about this? the the store management, have they said anything about this? Are they in favor? From what I from what I understand, they're very pleased with it. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. If if you've got problems, you don't want to have to be dealing with problems while you're also, you know, trying to run a business. Exactly. And I think they're very pleased with it. Very interesting from what I understand. No, just so you and your listeners know about this. I appreciate I haven't heard on the radio at all. No, I hadn't heard anything about it. So, uh, starting July 3rd, uh, this Friday it starts. All right. Well, thank you so much. All right. Thank you, Tim. All right. Have a good day. That that is certainly something that'll get some folks talking and we can get your reaction at 508996500. But I've got to get a break. I'm sorry. No, I got to get the news in here and then when we come back on the other side of the break, we the other side of the news, we'll have today's Gen X files and then we can talk more about that if you'd like to. 5089960500. But right now, let's turn it over to Mike Roberts in the WBSM newsroom. The Supreme Court to rule on AR-15 bans still looking through the rubble in Venezuela and the cost of dementia. From the Cottage Street Motors WBSM newsroom, this is WBSM News. The Supreme Court will decide whether AR-15 and similar rifles are protected by the Second Amendment. The justices will hear arguments during their next term on challenges to ban the weapons in Connecticut and Chicago. But their decision will also impact laws in roughly 10 states. At issue is whether AR-15s qualify as arms that Americans have a constitutional right to own. The National Shooting Sports Foundation says 32 million modern sporting rifles are in circulation nationwide. The Supreme Court striking down President Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship. They have rejected his challenge to the right to immediate uh citizenship to babies born here on American soil by six justices to three. Kate Fischer reports. The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in New Hampshire last year. The court ruled that an executive order signed by Trump, which would have limited birthright citizenship to those who have a parent who is a citizen or legal resident, was unlawful. The executive order was never in effect after courts across the country blocked it from being implemented. Shipping traffic beginning to rebound through the straight of Hormuz after an exchange of strikes between the US and Iran. According to a maritime tracking firm, 40 vessels transited the straight Monday in addition to 24 ships on Sunday, 39 on Saturday. Both countries have agreed to stand down for the time being and allow safe passage through the critical waterway. It comes as Vice President Vance, Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are leading negotiations with counterparts in the Middle East. A new study links PTSD among ground zero first responders with faster aging. Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York found molecular changes associated with accelerated aging. Scientists testing blood samples from nearly 400 ground zero first responders nearly two decades after the September 11th terror attacks. More than 230 who worked at ground zero were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The study showed that many of their proteins and metabolites were significantly different, especially when it came to immunity, brain function, and protection against cell damage. Researchers found accelerated biological aging in the kidneys, heart, liver, and lungs among 911 first responders with a PTSD diagnosis. The death toll in Venezuela has climbed to over 1,700 following last week's powerful earthquakes. The effort to find survivors is ongoing, but rescuers say they're pulling out more bodies, saying this is slowly turning into a recovery operation. The number of missing stands in the tens of thousands. The backto-back quakes had magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5. An assessment from NASA found nearly 60,000 buildings could have been damaged or destroyed. Dementia costs in the US are expected to surpass $800 billion dollar this year. The Alzheimer's Association in a new study found that skyrocketing costs are falling mostly on unpaid caregivers. Family members bear three times the expense, not the government. Over 5 million Americans are living with dementia, and another five are caring for them without pay. The study also showed quality of life losses are the biggest driver of dementia's total burden. I'm Sarah Lee Kesler. Today is July 1st and dozens of new state laws go into effect across the US. In Indiana, new laws restrict illegal immigrants from receiving state benefits and require the government to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. California will now require standardized food labeling. For peak freshness, products will need to use the best if used by label. And for product safety, the used by label. A new law in Florida expands the definition of a dangerous crime by adding violations of computer pornography and child exploitation to the state's statutory definition. And in Georgia, now a crime for possessing, making, selling, or using cellular signal jammers. The latest social trend in New York City is meeting up with people to lie down and do nothing with. The New York Post reports 500 people have signed up for Club Rest Stop, a new event series made for people feeling tired and burnt out. Brooklyn's Malia Simone created the event and hosted its latest edition this past Sunday in Central Park. Simone hopes to highlight different methods of rest and relaxation in the city that never sleeps. She also added with the growth of artificial intelligence, rest is the way to quote remain human in an automated world. in New York. I'm Lizzie Radabali, WBSM Sports. Socks couldn't make it six in a row. They lost to the Washington Nationals at Fenway last night, 8 to1. Both teams back at Fenway today at 135. And now, your WPRI2 forecast brought to you by Family Heating and Cooling in Westport. Extreme heat warning remains in effect from Wednesday through 4th of July Saturday. For today, an early morning shower or thunderstorm. Otherwise, skies becoming partly sunny. Very warm and humid. Breezy high temperatures this afternoon, upper 80s to near 90. Partly cloudy, warm, muggy tonight. Late night temperatures in the 70s. Sunshine on Thursday with excessive heat and humidity. High temperature around 95. More of the same for Friday, sunshine, very hot and humid with highs in the upper 90s. For WBSM, I'm 12 News chief meteorologist Tony Petroa. I'm Mike Roberts, WBSM News. Stay up to date with New Bedford's news talk station, WBSM, and get breaking news alerts and all of our content on the WBSM app. This WBSM news update is brought to you by Steviey's Wine and Spirits. Look for the purple dot to try before you buy. Only at Steviey's Wine and Spirits in Fair Haven. Power is pumping and arrows in your hand. Now your heart is up and fire as quick as you can. The enemy's coming now. They're in your sights. It's nerf or nothing. The Gen X Files. And props to my buddy Steve for figuring out that if you take the Nerf bow and arrow foam arrows, dip them in water, and freeze them, they become significantly more dangerous. Let's take a look at some of the events that matter most to 80s. Kids, don't try that at home. Let's take a look at some of the events that mattered most to 80s and 90s kids on this date. The Gen X files are brought to you by Rewind Restaurant and Arcade on Main Street in Wham. We'll start with celebrity birthdays. MASH star Jamie Farre celebrates his 92nd birthday today. Choreographer Twilight Tharp is 85. Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry is 81. The B-52's Fred Schneider turns 75. Dan Akroyd is 74. Alan Ruck, best known as Cameron in Ferris Buer's Day Off and later as Connor Roy on Succession, he's 70. Singer Evelyn Champagne King is 66. Olympic track and field champion Carl Lewis turns 65, as does country singer Michelle Wright. '90s meast star Pamela Anderson turns 59 today. and rapper Missy Elliot is 55 and actress Liv Tyler is 49. In 1979, Sony changed the musical landscape with the introduction of the Walkman in Japan. The first portable audio cassette player was revolutionary, allowing music fans to listen to entire albums anywhere. The batterypowered device was marketed under a variety of names around the world, including the Soundabout in the US, the Stowaway in the UK, and the Freestyle in Australia. But within a few years, Walkman had become the deacto name for the technology. By the end of the decade, more than 100 million Walkman's had been sold worldwide, and I probably bought half of those myself because I kept breaking them or losing them. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 released the early rap classic, The Message. It's the first hip-hop hiphop hit with lyrics about the struggle in the inner city. Also in 1982, Cal Ripken Jr. made the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at Shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. Kyle Ripken Jr. is also my elevator buddy. Myself and John Comey. That's a that's a whole thing. In 1983, Bon Joby signed with Mercury Records. The New Jersey Quintet had been performing under the name Johnny Electric, but an example of their manager, I'm sorry, an employee of their manager suggested that they follow the example of bands like Van Halen and name themselves after frontman John Bon Joy. Less than a year later, they would score their first of many hits with that one there, Runaway. In 1984, the PG-13 rating was introduced by the Motion Picture Association of America in response to the violence and gore in PG-rated films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins. The first PG-13 film was released on August 8th, 1984, the fantasy war film Red Dawn. In 1985, A&E separated from sister channel Nickelodeon to become its own channel. Previously, it ran five hours of programming for adults on the kids network once A&E was no longer a part of Nickelodeon's schedule. The nighttime block was filled with retro television programs from the 50s and 60s known as Nick at Night. Hard to believe that, you know, I remember those days when after like 7:00 or 8:00 A&E, it was 8:00 A&E took over Nickelodeon and A&E was much different then, much more artsy than it is now. In 1987, New York City radio station WFAM commenced the first 24-hour all sports radio format. In 1989, Millie Vanilli topped the charts with Baby Don't Forget My Number, the first of three number one hits for the group, followed by Blame It on the Rain and Girl, You know, Girl, I'm going to miss you. The group then went to through a lip-sync scandal in 1989 and their reputation never recovered, eventually forcing them to give back their best new artist Grammy. And actually, right now, I'm lip-syncing along to this, so I'm I'm wrapped up in that controversy. In 1991, Court TV launched on cable systems across America. It became part of pop culture in 1993 with the Menendez brothers trial and the OJ Simpson trial in 1994. The network later became True TV in 2008 before relaunching as a digital platform in 2018. In 1995, legendary Wolf man, legendary DJ Wolfman Jack, who famously spun rock and roll records from a border blaster station in Mexico throughout the 60s, died of a heart attack at the age of 57. arrested. In 1997, Radio Head released Okay Computer with a highly emotive songs and beguiling music videos for tracks like Karma Police and Paranoid Android that landed on many lists of the year's top albums. In 1997, also Nevada Athletic Commission suspended Mike Tyson indefinitely and withheld a $20 million purse for biting a Vander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight a few days earlier on June 28th. In 1998, the NBA commenced a player lockout after no agreement with players was reached about salary issues. It lasted 204 days with a season shortened by 50 games. Come on, JLo, we're waiting on you. There we go. In 1999, Jennifer Lopez released her debut album on the six with the hit single If You Had My Love. In 2005, Luther Van Draw died at the age of 54 after suffering a stroke two years earlier that had left him in a wheelchair. In 2009, following Michael Jackson's death the previous week, he became the first act to sell more than a million song downloads in a week. In 2011, another NBA lockout, the second in 12 years, shorting the season by 16 games before a salary agreement was reached. And in 2013, Boston guitarist Tom Schultz was ordered to pay $132,000 in court fees to the Boston Herald after he unsuccessfully sued the newspaper. The Herald had suggested that Schultz was responsible for the 2007 suicide of Boston lead singer Brad Delp, but a superior court judge ruled that the paper could not be held liable for defaming Schultz because it's impossible to know what caused Delp to kill himself. That's the Gen X Files for July 1st, 2026, brought to you by Rewind Restaurant and Arcade and Wham. retro fun, great food and games galore. And remember, be kind. Please rewind. All right, I got to go to a break. 5089960500. Back in a few moments. Remember to turn the music off this time. This portion of programming on WBSM brought to you by South Coast Health, Advanced Medicine. More statistics show roughly 20 veterans die by suicide every single day. And every day more than 1,000 dogs are euthanized. After the Navy, I became a recluse. I felt like I was still in combat mode. I felt lost and confused. For 15 years, Kines's for Warriors has been the nation's leading nonprofit organization, providing service dogs for veterans battling PTSD and other invisible wounds of war. Thanks to my service dog, Lady Cameo, I got my life back. I'm able to get out of bed in the morning, be excited, happy about today. 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And if you are someone who is, you know, I I think many of the people that are out there listening are patriotically inclined, right? Many of you are excited to celebrate America. You probably might not have gotten your photo in in time for our Red, White, and You photo contest, but you still have the opportunity to vote for the winner. If you go right now to wbsm.com or the WBSM app, you're going to see all of the entries that we received and you can vote on which one you think is the most patriotic. Some are dogs dressed up for the 4th of July, some are kids, some are some of them are adults dressed up for the 4th of July, and then there's a decorated house. There's some fireworks photos, flag photos. So, you can see it all at wbsm.com and on the WBSM app. Vote for the winner. And then the winner is going to be announced on July 4th. They're going to get a $250 Amazon gift card. So, because it's America's 250th, we're going to do a $250 Amazon gift card. So, and nothing says America like being able to buy whatever you want on Amazon. That's the most American thing there can be, I guess. So, you can vote now at wbsm.com and on the WBSM app. Voting only goes through Friday. And of course on Friday, uh, we're not going to be here, but at nine o'clock, we're going to have our star spangled soundtrack as New Bedford gathers for the fireworks downtown on the waterfront. They're going to be playing a playlist over the speakers that the fireworks will be synchronized to the music. And they've given us that playlist so that we can also run it on WBSM at the same time. And then no matter where you are on the South Coast looking at those New Bedford fireworks, you can still have them synchronized to the music. you'll be able to hear the music on 995 FM 1420 a.m. I probably wouldn't listen on the app because the app is going to be delayed uh because it all depends on your carrier, your Wi-Fi, all of that. So, that won't exactly sync up, but you can still tune in on the app if you'd like to. Just don't expect the same synchronization experience. But that'll be happening Friday at 9:00 p.m. And uh we'll also be broadcasting on Saturday at noon a reading of the Declaration of Independence. So, all brought to you by our friends Rahoba Selectman, Lenny Mills Jr., American Forms, Trembley Bus, and Mean Tohjo Mexican Restaurant. All right, let me get my final break in for this hour and then we will be back in a few moments. work.