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Well, hello and welcome, Thanks for getting 38 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:36,360 your pot on, Thanks for telling a friend so excited. The guy I've 39 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,039 been a big fan of for a long time. You see him on ten 40 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:45,800 NBC Berkeley Breen, who many years ago we call balls Breen because he had 41 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:51,599 the balls to go up and knock on people's doors that were probably doing something 42 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,759 they shouldn't be doing right more or less, but really looking for I think 43 00:02:54,759 --> 00:03:02,840 back then I think ten NBC's Moniker was digging for answers, reporting them first 44 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:06,759 right, yes, yes, and it was a situation out by the way. 45 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,960 Good to see a bill, nice to dis here, Yeah, holy 46 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:15,400 cow, that's nice to hear. It was a case out in Wayne County 47 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:23,159 and the police had removed or the state had removed children from this house, 48 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:28,280 which was in Squalor. And I went up and knocked on the door, 49 00:03:28,479 --> 00:03:31,199 and secretly I was hoping that no one would answer the door. I was 50 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,439 doing it sort of a for effect. And I knocked, didn't hear anything, 51 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:38,840 knocked again, and all of a sudden I heard footsteps, and I 52 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:43,840 thought, oh, oh no, what I'm getting myself into. And the 53 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:47,479 guy opened the door, saw me sort of instinctively was about to close it, 54 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,639 and then he opened it up again, and I introduced myself and I 55 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:53,680 said, can we talk about this? And he said, yeah, sure, 56 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:59,280 come on inside. And I thought that this was not the game plan 57 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,199 here. I all I wanted to do was knock on your door and brought 58 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:09,960 me in. And it was lovely. Among the most uncomfortable situations I've been 59 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:12,919 in, I talked about, you know, I've been in situations where you're 60 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,959 you're sort of have to be alert and you're constantly scanning your surroundings. I 61 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,040 think police officers do this all the time, whether they're working or they're out 62 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:26,639 at a restaurant with their family. They're constantly scanning the circumstances in the situation. 63 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:30,680 And I've had to do that occasionally with work, and I remember doing 64 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,240 it there. I was looking at everything, the knives on the countertop, 65 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,879 I was looking for guns in the house, and I was looking for the 66 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,360 squalor and I saw it. It was all around me. Yeah, And 67 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:42,480 I think it was after that that well, it was because I remember that 68 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,959 story and the guy opened in the door, and I think we had talked 69 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:48,040 to you, and at the time I was on CMFT with Tommy, and 70 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,600 I remember you saying, like, how uncomfortable. But I thought, God 71 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:57,000 that that that's a really ballsy thing, because somebody is at their lowest point 72 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,480 and you don't know what they're gonna do, like to your where saying scan 73 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,800 around you don't know. I mean, they could flip out at any moment, 74 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:08,439 just flip out. And because their whole world is caming in on them. 75 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:11,199 Who doesn't love their children, even if you live in Squalor. You 76 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:15,839 just something's going on there. It shouldn't be allowed. It's not healthy. 77 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,120 But it doesn't mean you don't love your kids, or at least in your 78 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,399 own mind, I know, but I don't. Honestly, I'm not sure 79 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:25,720 I considered that back then. At least I didn't consider the threat to me 80 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,639 back then. Right now, and I don't knock. I really don't knock 81 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,079 on doors, and we'll see, well, I think the world has even 82 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,680 changed even more now, right a little bit. But I don't think you 83 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:39,839 can. I think sometimes I'm a big believer, like, if you go 84 00:05:39,879 --> 00:05:43,319 in with pure intentions, if the intention is to tell the story, right, 85 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:46,839 hear their side of it, which all we're getting is kids were taken 86 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,160 away and blah blah blah. All right, well, how does this person 87 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,319 feel and what is their story? And maybe there's some empathy we can show 88 00:05:51,519 --> 00:05:55,680 maybe, right. I think if you go with that and you don't even 89 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,199 think of the other, that's all you're gonna get. You're gonna get the 90 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,079 story and not the violence. But people are unpredicted. I just think I 91 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,759 just think it's not the safest thing to do to knock on random doors anymore, 92 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:10,120 and so I generally don't. I try to make contact other ways. 93 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,079 And then if I've been that was my favorite thing. I know. It 94 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:19,399 was Ball's Breen Man, Ball's Breen. You came in here this morning and 95 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:24,519 we're gonna, I know, we'll have this up a couple days later. 96 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:27,920 I have a family issue I have to deal with. My mom has surgery. 97 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:30,800 Next week's on. We're prerecording some stuff. But when you came in 98 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:34,959 here, you said that this is one of the times where you can really 99 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,879 relate to the story you're reporting on or have been reporting on a lot lately. 100 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:42,720 Well, last night when we were on the air, someone tried to 101 00:06:42,759 --> 00:06:46,000 steal my car in a lot that has yeah, that's secured and has cameras 102 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,839 from the secured parking lot at Channel ten. It's fenced, it's monitored by 103 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:54,720 cameras. There's a gate to get in and a gate to get out. 104 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:59,600 Yeah, And they tried to steal my Kia okay, and they couldn't do 105 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:01,920 it because it's a push start. So they broke into the keya next to 106 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:04,759 me and stole that And it was the car of a young, young, 107 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:11,800 young reporter just starting and had a traumatic impact on her. I was surprisingly, 108 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,319 there's a couple of twelve year olds. They didn't even realize what lab 109 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,160 they were in. No, I don't know, I honestly, truly, 110 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:23,920 truly thought truly because I've seen video of people doing stealing keyas and hun days, 111 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,800 I thought, and I've seen them look into the look into the car 112 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:30,759 through the window and look for either a key ignition or a push start. 113 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,079 Mine's a push start, And I thought, that's my defense. Yeah it 114 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,519 is, that's it. Yeah, they're going to see that and they're gonna 115 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,759 realize, let's move on to the next one. They didn't. They broke 116 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,439 in through the back window, climbed over into the front seat, ripped the 117 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:53,480 plastic covering around the steering column, and probably tried to start it. There's 118 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,759 glass everywhere. Um, oh my gosh. Yeah, unbelievable. And so 119 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,240 that happened that I was alerted to it at five forty five and I was 120 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:03,639 live on the air at six, and so I had to kind of wait, 121 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,560 this is daylight. They did this, and they did too. Thought 122 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,600 this was like eleven, two o'clock in the afternoon. Two o'clock in the 123 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,920 afternoon, parking lot was full, cameras were on, people were But you're 124 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:16,600 not thinking that way, you know what I mean? Is there somebody that 125 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:18,759 sits and monitors the parking lot, not at that hour at that but there's 126 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,160 people constantly moving in part of the parking lot, especially at that time of 127 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,160 day. But think about this, when you were walking from your building to 128 00:08:26,199 --> 00:08:30,279 your parking lot, what are you thinking about? Going home? Yeah? 129 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,440 And your kids hockey? Yea, all that stuff for dinner. What's next? 130 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,000 Where am I going? Nobody? It's just human nature. We are 131 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,399 where. It's almost like you could say we're self absorbed, but we're you 132 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,799 know, we're not. We're just in our thing. You're not thinking of, 133 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,639 Hey, what's this guy doing in the parking lot? You people might 134 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,879 have walked past these people, I guess. And the reason why I wanted 135 00:08:50,879 --> 00:08:52,720 to bring it up yea, why it's thinking I think it's important to talk 136 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:58,200 about is like you said, I I don't. I haven't personally gone through 137 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,919 the problems that the people LIKE talk to are going through. Right. Occasionally 138 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:11,639 it's happened, and I can sympathize even more I can, I can have 139 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:18,200 firsthand experience of the problem they're going through. But generally speaking, I don't, 140 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:24,120 right, but now I do. And for the how many there's been 141 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,240 more than a thousand, I guarantee. Probably we're getting close to fifteen hundred. 142 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,399 It's ball that's the ballpark. And even though they didn't actually steal my 143 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:39,759 car, Yeah, it is like slamming on the brakes on your life. 144 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,759 Yeah, because of all the other stuff that you need to take care of 145 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:48,039 in addition to the stuff you to do on a normal day, it's a 146 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,480 pain in the ass. Yeah, you gotta go get the window fixed. 147 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:52,919 Yep, you have to get the steering column fixed. That could take who 148 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,759 knows what. They probably have to order. The glass to get it out 149 00:09:56,799 --> 00:09:58,320 of the door has to be taken apart. You're not it's not an easy 150 00:09:58,519 --> 00:10:01,919 It's not one of these things where you're going in for an oil change. 151 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:03,840 This is not people have told me when it's happened to them, they don't 152 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:09,679 have the parts to fix this. Okay, well that's another terrible So the 153 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:15,000 irony or the coincidence, I guess I'm not sure how to describe it is. 154 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,960 Last night our stories were on young people committing crimes in the community and 155 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 how they're getting arrested. They're getting ticketed because of their age and because of 156 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,360 what they're getting charged with, and then they're just the system the juvenile justice 157 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,559 system just kind of leaves this giant gap between the time when they're arrested and 158 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:41,360 ticketed and the time they've got to show up in court and there's just nothing 159 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:48,360 there and they may or may not reoffend, and they're just there's a kind 160 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:52,080 of steel people's cars. And even if your car isn't stolen, yea. 161 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,759 And I can say this by firsthand experience, it is a massive, massive 162 00:10:58,159 --> 00:11:01,240 burden on your life. It's a pain in the ass and you feel very 163 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,759 violated. Yep. I've had like a radio stolen from my car and you 164 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,039 just feel unsafe. Somebody else was in your space, right, that's your 165 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:13,080 space. And then in addition for you all the repairs that have to happen, 166 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,600 when can that happen? And when can that happen? In your life? 167 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,639 As you said, you got a kid, you got baseball, you 168 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,759 got hockey, You've got all these different things going on. Plans with your 169 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:24,080 wife, your wife may have plans, you need to stay home with a 170 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:26,320 kid. You were going to golf with your buddies. So you know, 171 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,960 I mean, I'm just saying, like on live TV in ten minutes after 172 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,279 I found out about Yeah, yeah, I mean, so all these things, 173 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,879 and that's the crazy parton As I said to you, when your car 174 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,960 is actually stolen, it's almost that it's only a pain in the ass for 175 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,200 you. Everybody can say I'm so sorry to hear that, but nobody really 176 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,120 gets the impact of where you had to be. What bills aren't going to 177 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,480 get paid because you can't. Maybe you're working a job that pays you outurly, 178 00:11:48,639 --> 00:11:52,759 so you're not getting there, appointments that you can't get to, where 179 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:56,600 your kid can't get to, just the inconvenience, and then you know, 180 00:11:56,879 --> 00:11:58,559 you start to become a burden to other people because you got to call in 181 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:03,639 favor and you know family. First, let me just say that Channel ten 182 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:11,879 has been fantastic, totally supportive and helpful, particularly to me and the other 183 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,960 our other staff member who actually had that's great. But the other thing is 184 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,399 it's a secured parking lot. Yeah, I mean security measures are there, 185 00:12:18,919 --> 00:12:24,919 and so I think the vulnerability is everywhere. And that's not hyperbole. Well, 186 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:30,559 I remember talking to Sheriff Baxter very recently and he told me, and 187 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:35,759 I'm gonna i'll say paraphrasing, but I'm gonna think I'm missing the exact numbers, 188 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:39,559 but I thought he said there was one somebody about fifteen years old who 189 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,720 had committed six of these types of crimes and had been released on all of 190 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:48,320 them, and that they weren't detaining them. And my only reason for bringing 191 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,440 that up is, as you're saying this, right, that long lag time 192 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:56,039 in between ticket and appearance and being released back into the wild, so to 193 00:12:56,039 --> 00:13:01,279 speak, it's frustrating for law enforcement. They're frustrated as well because they don't 194 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:05,240 know what to do. And now I thought at some point somebody had a 195 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,639 good proposal, because of course the number one an outcry, and mostly from 196 00:13:09,639 --> 00:13:15,159 the suburbs, would be where are the parents? Okay, hey, man, 197 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:18,559 I I can't answer that, and nobody can. Doesn't solve the problem. 198 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,720 Clearly, there's no authority figure in these kids' lives. That's that are 199 00:13:22,759 --> 00:13:28,720 dropping the hammer. But somebody said, what if we started to have the 200 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,399 parents' insurance pay for this stuff? And I don't know how you do that 201 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,759 legally, but damn I kind of like it. So that that's Jose Peyo 202 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:41,240 who says, yeah, that's who it was. He sat here. Yeah, 203 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:48,320 So there's probably some there's probably some like legal they'd have to figure it 204 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,919 out. But but don't you know, my dad used to tell his uh 205 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:56,919 what was the expression? He would say, don't He would tell his students, 206 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,360 don't, don't cancel the prom because you can't find a dress or a 207 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,600 tuxedo. I mean, figure those problems out and then still do the good 208 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:11,519 work. So let's not just dismiss ideas because wow, they might you might 209 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,919 have fitfall. So I think it's probably worth looking into here. Here's what 210 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:24,559 I would say. I bet most parents, I know, most parents are 211 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:30,919 doing the best they can. Ye, whether they're in here in Fairport or 212 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:37,720 on Frost Avenue, Ye, they're doing the best they can. And sometimes 213 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:41,639 the problems are more severe in one house versus another house. One of the 214 00:14:41,679 --> 00:14:50,039 things we learned yesterday through the County Executive's office was that parents are reaching out 215 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:58,080 to Monroe Rochester Monroe Youth Services saying I need help. I cannot do this 216 00:14:58,159 --> 00:15:01,519 by myself. They're not listening to me anymore. And I think there's lots 217 00:15:01,519 --> 00:15:03,879 of parents who somebody who's raised a teenager could tell you the same thing, 218 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,240 But now you're in a different environment where this is what my buddies are doing. 219 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,159 The buddies in Fairport aren't doing that, you know, and I and 220 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,159 kids are smart and they gravitate. I had some kids walking here from Fairport. 221 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,720 All these kids, some of them were from other countries. One was 222 00:15:20,799 --> 00:15:28,200 Somalian, one was from Israel or I'm forgetting. And one kid had bounced 223 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,960 around a lot and had been in the city school district. And these kids 224 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,759 all lived in the pines of Parrenton. Okay, Now, the pines of 225 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,399 Parrenton would not be the nicest place to live, I think overall, right, 226 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:45,120 especially compared to some of the other kids that they're walking or sharing lockers 227 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,960 next to and all that, right, you can, it's almost like the 228 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:50,799 haves and have nots. This one young man stood here and he said, 229 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:54,879 I hear kids at Fairport who have been there, and we were talking more 230 00:15:54,879 --> 00:16:00,399 about bullying most of their lives. And said, got it. This school 231 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,120 sucks. I hate it. And I said to them, you don't know 232 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:07,039 how good you got it. And so when you think of just that environment, 233 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:11,879 so it becomes like almost a mob mentality, you know. I've always 234 00:16:11,879 --> 00:16:15,720 been fascinated by the fact that, like the Menendez brothers, for example, 235 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,080 I always like, how do you get somebody to go along with you to 236 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:26,360 do something heinous, right, Like I had two boys that were sixteen months 237 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,200 apart. I'm hoping that if my oldest son, Jackson, went to his 238 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,759 younger brother, Jordan goes, what are you doing Friday night? He goes, 239 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:33,879 No, I don't know. I was thinking maybe going to the movies 240 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:37,360 or something. I want to kill mom and dad. Jordan would go, 241 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,879 what the fuck is wrong with you? No? But how would you get 242 00:16:40,919 --> 00:16:44,080 to But when you've got a group of kids and this is a cool thing 243 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,440 and you want to fit in, shit changes, you know what I mean? 244 00:16:47,519 --> 00:16:51,480 And I just think, like, there you have to you have to 245 00:16:51,519 --> 00:16:52,919 think of those things. It doesn't make it right. Please don't think I'm 246 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,879 trying to excuse this. That's not it. I'm trying to say. I 247 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,039 do think when it comes to the parenting thing, it's hard, and there's 248 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:06,319 a lot of single parent homes everywhere. But and you're also talking people who 249 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:11,440 don't have the means to be able to get you into a psychologist. So 250 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,200 there's lots of like go arrest the parents, go to the parents. Yeah, 251 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,680 that kind of thing. Parental supervision is key. It's probably the number 252 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:26,240 one thing in raising any child. But I do think that parents are probably 253 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:30,440 trying. They're very hardest. Here's an example of something that's happened. It's 254 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:34,480 gone on for about a month. Again, I don't want to get too 255 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,000 far into the weeds on this, but typically the way it works is if 256 00:17:38,039 --> 00:17:44,720 a teenager or a mine or any kid, say under eighteen, gets arrested 257 00:17:44,799 --> 00:17:48,960 for you know, possession of stolen property, which is what they would get 258 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,200 if they were caught in a stolen car, the police would arrest them and 259 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:57,559 give them an appearance ticket. But the time between that appearance ticket till they 260 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:02,640 have to show up in Core probably family court, is anywhere from fourteen to 261 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,440 twenty days. So there's two to two and a half weeks where there's nothing, 262 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,200 yeah, where they're back home, where they're doing what they would ordinarily 263 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,519 do. To two weeks not that minimum. So what they're trying to do 264 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:22,960 now is as soon as that ticket is issued, county probation is notified, 265 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,759 okay, within hours, so the probation officer has to probation officer then within 266 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:34,640 twenty four hours makes contact with that teenager and tries to get them into services. 267 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,839 They can't compel them to do anything, right, but they try to 268 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,359 do it. And one of the things they said, the head of probation 269 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:47,400 or public safety in the county is they're actually they're actually open to it. 270 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,440 They're the kid's receptive to it. And here's so, here's the data they've 271 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,480 got for thirty days, okay, thirty four kids they've had contact with. 272 00:18:53,519 --> 00:19:00,079 Thirty four kids okay, get arrested, ticketed, contacted by probation. And 273 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,960 of those thirty four, they only have evidence that one of them has been 274 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:07,480 arrested again okay, okay before they get into the court system. Right, 275 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,400 And if you heard the mayor talk, I don't know when this is going 276 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:17,359 to be aired, but talk on Thursday of this week. He's frustrated that 277 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,640 the system just doesn't do anything for these kids. The system catches them, 278 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,960 tickets them, and now it's everybody else's problem. So right, So I 279 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:30,920 kind of like this, and I think I bet you as you're saying you 280 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,000 can't. I think you can't force them to go to anything, but you 281 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,880 can try to persuade them to do it. But one of the things, 282 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,400 by the way, is enroll them in school. Yeah, enroll them in 283 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,000 school. That's one of the things that they've tried to do. Ye think 284 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,559 about that. Enrolling in school, so the teenager. But um, but 285 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:52,960 there's other things like get them or something. Yeah, that's right, get 286 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,519 them hooked up with a job. As a matter of fact, the I 287 00:19:55,559 --> 00:19:59,200 think it was either the county executive or it was the head of youth services 288 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,839 said they met with a couple of teams and both of them had jobs within 289 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,680 two hours of connecting with them. See, and a lot of these kids, 290 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,759 you go, if you could use those powers for good, they they're 291 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:15,759 they're motivated, they got some smarts, they can figure stuff out. I 292 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:17,960 don't know kind of they'm trying to bring into my car, and they should 293 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,559 have known they couldn't have. I'll give you that. But I think that 294 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:26,119 also these kids are scared. I think they're scared at some point. And 295 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:30,519 I do wonder if you sometimes pushed through because you're with your peers and they're 296 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,839 doing it or whatever. You usually don't think they're individual, but I probably 297 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,599 pure. Yeah. And so complex problem, right, complex problem, And 298 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,839 the toughest thing with complex problems is trying to just come up with a simple 299 00:20:42,839 --> 00:20:48,000 solution. So you got to you got to come up with multiple multiple things 300 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,839 or doing well, here's the thing that and somebody I haven't seen, or 301 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,960 somebody should go talk to. Roland Williams has that leadership academy. According to 302 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,839 law enforcement that I talked to, they've never had contact with someone who was 303 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,960 enrolled in that. And I have thought, even with my kids all the 304 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,039 way through, I would call it, if you can get them to get 305 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:15,599 a win, get one win whatever that is, one hundred on a test, 306 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:19,920 scoring a goal, assisting whatever. It is something that's gonna make you 307 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,680 feel good and keep chasing that feeling, because when you win, I mean, 308 00:21:25,759 --> 00:21:27,640 you played sports. When you win. I had a coach when we 309 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,440 won, Oh my god, he'd be screaming us, you guy, god 310 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,480 damn blah blah. You were enough coming off the line, too quick, 311 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,799 you snap? Did you see that? We lost five yards in that, 312 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,920 But we won, so it was easier to take when we lost and we 313 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,559 made mistakes. He's like, hey, guys, look everything. You know. 314 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:48,759 I was like an old boxing coach. It's one step, one punch, 315 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,400 one round, right, you know, it's one down, one play, 316 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,759 that's all. Let's go. We can get back to this. And 317 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,400 it's a very different thing. But I think if you find these kids and 318 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,119 they start to feel like they're winning in a positive way and it's reinforced. 319 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,880 Not gold stars and bullshit like that, but maybe in the form of a 320 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:11,039 paycheck or in the form of something, I think you could you could fix 321 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:14,480 it. I mean, look, I sit here and you can say all 322 00:22:14,519 --> 00:22:17,559 the words you want. I'm not doing anything about it. But I was 323 00:22:17,599 --> 00:22:19,720 always impressed with the Leadership Academy, and I know it seemed to rub some 324 00:22:19,799 --> 00:22:23,160 people the wrong way, but boy, the results speak for themselves. And 325 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:27,920 I'm just surprised someone hasn't talked to him. Well, we did just years 326 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:34,160 ago, we did lots of stories on education. Yeah, every week we 327 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:38,640 did it was called New York State Exposed Education, and every Thursday we had 328 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:44,039 an investigative style story just on education. And some of it had to do 329 00:22:44,079 --> 00:22:48,039 with common core and curriculum stuff. A lot of it had to do with 330 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:52,400 achievement problems in the city school district, achievement and attendance problems. And what 331 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,640 we did is we sort of looked at what other cities were doing, Boston, 332 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:59,319 d c, Cleveland, Hartford, you name it, and we came 333 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,480 up with a list of ten things. Ten here's ten different things that other 334 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:06,119 cities are doing that you could do, And one of them was a military 335 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:12,880 academy, which they had in Buffalo, And it was the most popular idea 336 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:18,480 that we proposed. And it's so popular in fact, that suburban families were 337 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:22,519 contacting us to say, how do we get signed up for that? And 338 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:25,559 U and Van White, who was the president of the school board at the 339 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:30,359 time, liked it and he was looking into it seriously. So just you 340 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,920 know, I just it's usually options. I'm not gonna say, maybe this 341 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,039 is painting with a broad brush, but I think most of the people committing 342 00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:45,240 these crimes are young men. It's not saying that maybe there isn't a girl, 343 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,279 but it's usually young men, right, And they're the ones that you 344 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:52,880 want to try to grab in and go. And young guys, I mean, 345 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,759 they're always looking for some they're looking for a leader. They I just 346 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,240 feel like young guys are looking for a leader. And I think if we 347 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:03,559 look back through the history of the world, if you had the wrong leader, 348 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,160 bad things could happen, you know what I'm saying, Like certain countries 349 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,759 were trying to rise up and take over and they and it wasn't good, 350 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:12,480 but it was young people who were lost. It was after, you know, 351 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:18,000 great trauma of a war. And then we're looking and you know, 352 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:21,279 you look in the city and it's almost like, if you could just get 353 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:26,319 young people to buy into something better than this. And from what I've been 354 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:27,920 told, and I don't know if this is two or not that are there 355 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,559 adults behind this in the Hey, you're not going to get in trouble, 356 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:34,960 but you go steal that car. Not all of them are being used in 357 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,079 smashing grabs. So I don't I don't know how much truth there is in 358 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,640 that. You know what I'm saying that was what was proposed or I had 359 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,880 heard banning about by police. Yeah, I've heard that. Two. Yeah, 360 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,559 I haven't. Honestly, I can't recall ever covering an adult right who 361 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:02,519 was arrested for conspiracy. Yeah, to at teenagers to go commit crimes. 362 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,279 Yeah, I mean, when that happens, we'll definitely cover it and it 363 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:08,359 will be proof that there are twenty five year olds or thirty year olds that 364 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:14,480 are enticing teenagers or miners to commit crimes. So, yeah, I've heard 365 00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:19,119 that conversation, but I can't recall an arrest of an adult and charged with 366 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,960 some level of conspiracy because it's sort of what it would be. I mean, 367 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,559 I'm not a lawyer or law enforcement, but it seemed to be well, 368 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:32,440 yeah, all right, well look at that conversation just because but he 369 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,279 wanted to get my car. Yeah, but but a great conversation and one 370 00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:38,200 that I think is insightful for people to know. And again, unless it 371 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,680 really happens to you, you can't you can't really know, right unless you 372 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,440 Yeah, that's the thing. I know you have a hard out. So 373 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:49,640 let's take a pause here. 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As I mean, you know, we saw the air. 428 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:45,119 It's wild, right. I hadn't really seen anything like that, And even 429 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,960 when I was out west, you know, I lived in Park City for 430 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,519 a while. You would look up at the mountains from Salt Lake Pristine. 431 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,519 You go to Colorado, you look at from Denver to Boulder, and there 432 00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:59,160 was always this heavy smog and it wasn't from forest fires but just pollution, 433 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,400 and it was all called elect right, the mountains would trap it, and 434 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,480 it's a it's an amazing thing air quality. You walk out the other day, 435 00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:08,720 like I always had a just a rough day one day last week and 436 00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:14,119 I decided to go for a run, not paying attention to anybody, and 437 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,200 all of a sudden, like it smells like fire out here, and I'm 438 00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:21,920 breathing like I ended up just walking and somebody called me while I'm on the 439 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,160 run, They go, you probably shouldn't be doing that. I remember Monday 440 00:31:25,279 --> 00:31:29,759 night, I was coaching Little league, and I guess I wasn't aware of 441 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:33,599 the fires that were going on in Canada. And I remember looking up and 442 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:36,480 I'm like, look at that sun. Yeah, that's just like, that's 443 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,319 unbelievable. What is going on there? And then it was slowly I think 444 00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:44,160 the wind started blowing. Our way has everything to do with the wind. 445 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,839 If the wind starts blowing the other way, we got I was in northern 446 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:51,920 California, I think last year, and there were terrible fires out there, 447 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:59,319 and I mean, you want to talk about fire destructions. You the land 448 00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:04,480 I was looking at in northern California, you could take pictures of France in 449 00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:07,640 World War One and they were identical. It looked like a war zone. 450 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:12,640 It's very scary. I mean, it's unbelievable. But but all of a 451 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,240 sudden, if the wind were blowing one way, we didn't see it or 452 00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:21,319 think about it at all. The skies were blue, the air was crisp. 453 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,119 It was incredible, and all of a sudden the wind shifted. It 454 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,799 was cloudy. And you could taste it. It's amazing. As soon as 455 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,960 this wind changes, it starts blowing north, then we get some warmer weather, 456 00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:37,000 it'll just blow the smoke somewhere else. Yeah, but it's it's crazy. 457 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,400 I mean it's all up in Quebec and Ontario near Ottawa and then that 458 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:44,240 west. Yeah, and I am seeing that even up along the Saint Lawrence. 459 00:32:44,359 --> 00:32:49,720 I had heard reports in the Thousand Islands of ash Yeah, falling people 460 00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:52,000 being told to keep the windows closed. You know, people wondered if that 461 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,799 was happening here. I think it's more pollen on our cars here because we 462 00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:58,799 haven't any Oh yeah, it's someone out. It would be a long waiting 463 00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:00,279 for that. Asp. I haven't seen that here, yeah, um, 464 00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:02,759 but I did. It's funny. I did, Like I saw something on 465 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:07,519 my car before they tried to take it, and uh, you know what, 466 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,640 just put my fingers like on the hood and I looked at it and 467 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,880 it looked yellow. I'm like, I don't think that's that's no, but 468 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,599 I hope not. We were breathing something in, Yes, we were breathing 469 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:22,400 something in and it is uh a wild, a wild thing. I don't 470 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,200 I think it's moving down to downstate at the at the time and we'll see 471 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,559 good more complaints of that. Um, talk to me about growing up in 472 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,039 Canada. What did your parents do? Where? Where were you did? 473 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:38,119 You grew up in Hamilton, Kingston and Kingston? Excusing me with Dave Andreotta 474 00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:42,920 and other down here, but he was Hamilton, I was Kingston, which 475 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,519 is where the Saint Lawrence River meets Lake Ontario or vice versa. Yeah. 476 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,440 New people used to take their boat up to Kingston. Loved it. Oh 477 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,759 it's great, great town now for me, Kingston growing up was my neighborhood, 478 00:33:54,240 --> 00:34:00,799 Strathcona Park, our schools, church, the hockey rinks, baseball fields, 479 00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:02,960 and that was my grandparents and that was about it. Really. That 480 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:07,480 was Kingston to me. That's nice and it sounds very quaint. Yeah, 481 00:34:07,839 --> 00:34:14,679 um this yeah, it was a great great It was kind of like Maybury 482 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,079 a little bit. Yeah, when I go back, I see all the 483 00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:23,400 other stuff now, the unbelievable downtown. They influenced the university and the college 484 00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:30,480 in the Royal Military College and um, so it's become much more of a 485 00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:36,360 fascinating kind of little city. Yeah. Um, it's everybody asked me, 486 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,440 we're sure you go in Canada and you know the obvious ones of Toronto and 487 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,079 Montreal. I'd say out it was amazing as long as I get those fires 488 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,719 under control. But Kingston is incredible apart for two dollars and you can walk 489 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:51,320 walk anywhere. So but growing up, it was just my neighborhood, all 490 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:57,119 my friends and hockey, baseball, church Wolf. What did your parents do 491 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,400 your My dad was a teacher. He was an art teacher, but he 492 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,320 was kind of a restauance man, so he taught visual art. Uh and 493 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,400 then when class was done, he coached football and rugby okay and uh in 494 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,480 high school, and then he coached me in baseball and hockey outside school. 495 00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:15,639 You didn't play rugby or I did play football in high school and I played 496 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,679 rugby for one year and got injured. Um it was that was a tough 497 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,079 sport. It's a tough one. Football. I liked playing. I did 498 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:25,719 not like practice football practice, but I liked football games. It was weird. 499 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:31,480 I was practice, Oh, practice was awful, awful hate. And 500 00:35:31,599 --> 00:35:36,199 I didn't mind hockey practice. I hockey practice fine. Baseball practice was fine. 501 00:35:36,199 --> 00:35:38,039 Football practice. I don't know if I was practicing the game as much 502 00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:44,920 it's all these stupid drillings over and over, and I wasn't that big, 503 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,639 and they had no sense of like, well, let's line these guys up 504 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,800 right. I mean, these guys were older than me. I had one 505 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,199 of those fun I didn't listen once, and I was supposed to go with 506 00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:59,559 the backs, and I was paying attention. I wound up with the lineman 507 00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:01,639 and we were the Oklahoma drill where you go back to back, they blow 508 00:36:01,639 --> 00:36:04,719 it, they blow again, and then you turn around and run at each 509 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,960 other. I think I got I got my bell rung after the third time 510 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:12,480 agains it's this one kid, big kid. He the kid looks at the 511 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,000 coach and goes, coach, come on, and he goes, no, 512 00:36:14,119 --> 00:36:16,559 it's gotta learn, gotta learn to listen. By that point, you couldn't 513 00:36:16,599 --> 00:36:20,599 even hear. I'd be curious if they do that drill anymore. I don't 514 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:23,039 I don't know. I don't know. My son, my youngest son, 515 00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:28,800 played uh, and I will tell you that it was the I liked football 516 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,119 for the discipline and that no matter what your job is, you gotta do 517 00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:37,239 it well for everybody else to do. This may not be the sexiest, 518 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,760 the sexy one is the guy who's got the ball, quarterback, running back, 519 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,480 somebody like that, or the linebacker who's coming in. But other everybody's 520 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:49,360 got to do their job. And I don't remember Oklahoma drills when when I 521 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,119 went to watch Breakfast, I think, I'm sure that it the coaching clinics 522 00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:54,880 that a lot of the high school coaches go to. And even Pop Warner, 523 00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:00,440 I my guess is and I'm I don't Burk's not in football, but 524 00:37:00,639 --> 00:37:06,320 my guesses they don't do that drill anymore because that I mean that that those 525 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,760 were those were head on us. But my dad was at a different high 526 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:15,840 school than me. He was at LaSalle, named after the French explorer who 527 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,280 came through Kingston probably in the sixteen hundreds. And I went to Rejopless, 528 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,039 notre name, and I played against my dad three times, beat him every 529 00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:25,559 time. Wow, three interceptions against him. How is dinner after that? 530 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,519 You know? Dinner was okay? Breakfast that morning was the day of the 531 00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:34,639 game. Not for me so much, but for my dad, you know. 532 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:39,400 And my mom would tell me that he was very uncomfortable coaching against when 533 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,280 he when he had to play against me. Yeah, Um, I don't 534 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,320 think he liked it. When he played against played against my brother, he 535 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,599 beat him all the time, and I think that even upset him more because 536 00:37:50,639 --> 00:37:53,360 his team, his teams were so good and they my brother was a quarterback, 537 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,760 and they just hammered him so many times. I think my dad felt 538 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,400 bad about it. Did your brother go to the same high school? He 539 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,599 went to same high school as me. It was a little younger than me, 540 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,880 so not on the team at the same time. No, he was 541 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,159 younger. Yeah, so by the time he got there, just my dad's 542 00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:13,039 team. I don't think they lost it. Dad out the screaming SA no. 543 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,199 But when in the first time I played against him and I got into 544 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:21,000 interception right in front of him, like not quite from you to me, 545 00:38:21,159 --> 00:38:27,639 yeah, but pretty darn close. His players were yelling at him to ground 546 00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:30,960 me. That's funny. Yeah, that's very funny. So you grew up 547 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,480 there, and then what what's the next You have a knack for news, 548 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,719 you have a storytelling? Is that a little bit, quick little thing about 549 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:44,440 my mom? My mom's nurse, greatest greatest nurse in the world, to 550 00:38:44,599 --> 00:38:46,000 greatest mom in the world. So she listens to this. I want to 551 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 make sure that my mom so I'm okay. Her name is Mary Breen. 552 00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:55,679 Um, so where does it begin. So we would play road hockey. 553 00:38:55,679 --> 00:39:00,039 We called it road hockey in our driveways sometimes on the road, and I 554 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:05,679 would just do the play by play as i'm as I'm playing okay, And 555 00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,960 so it started there my grandfather, who was the first Berkeley Breen. He 556 00:39:09,559 --> 00:39:15,039 was a radio sportscaster in the Canadian Maritimes. It did hockey play by play 557 00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:17,480 for the Monkedin Hawks. My bio, which I need to change, says 558 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,440 it was in the American Hockey League, but back then it was in the 559 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,079 Atlantic Hockey League, so it wasn't quite against the Rochester Americans. But eventually 560 00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:29,000 the Monketin Hawks would play the AMers. And so that's what he did. 561 00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:30,800 And he died very young, so I never met him, but I was 562 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,760 always sort of inspired by him. As a matter of fact, he won 563 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,400 the sportscaster or radio announcer of the Year for the Maritimes in nineteen eighty seven, 564 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:45,039 and it's like it's up on our wall in our house, the trophies 565 00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:49,039 there. So he's always been an inspiration. And then when I went off 566 00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:54,519 to university in Canada, I walked into the newspaper and said I wanted to 567 00:39:54,519 --> 00:39:58,400 be a sports reporter, and they sent me over to the sports desk, 568 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,920 and I think either that night or the next day, they had me off 569 00:40:01,159 --> 00:40:05,079 Governor story. So I did that for a couple of years. What university 570 00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:07,400 is this. It's now called Western University in London, which is right in 571 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,840 between Toronto and Detroit. At the time it was called the University of Western 572 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,239 Ontario, which was always a misnomer because it's in south central Ontario. So 573 00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:20,880 but it was one of a big big school, had a journalism school. 574 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,639 It's probably why I went there. Not a lot of kids from Kingston went, 575 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:27,679 so I didn't know anybody going there Kingston. People in Kings usually go 576 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,000 to State in Kingston, or they go out to the Maritimes, Um Saint 577 00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:36,280 Francis, Xavier, Saint Mary's, that kind of thing. So I was 578 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,679 it. I didn't I nobody else in my school was at Western except me, 579 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:46,719 But you know, makes you sat Fisher. So then I graduated with 580 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,800 a degree in English and political science. And I was qualified to do everything 581 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:52,920 and trained to do nothing, so I didn't know what I was going to 582 00:40:53,039 --> 00:40:58,639 do. Came back home, worked at Canadian entire, Canadian entire entire. 583 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,239 I worked at the worked in hardware and sports, and then eventually this information 584 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,440 desk and people would come up and they'd be like, where's this and and 585 00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,760 I got to the point where I could tell them what aisle it Wasian Tire, 586 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,000 Canadian Tire is. I thought it was just a tire store. Also, 587 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:15,880 it's everything. It's it's the greatest store in the world. It's it's 588 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,239 it's misleading name. Well, Jim Gaffigan actually has a bit about Canadian I'm 589 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,480 sure he does. You know what, Let's lure them in with tires, 590 00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:29,119 Yeah, and then we'll sell them a toaster. So it's kind of like 591 00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:36,599 if you imagine Dix and Walmart and Home Depot combined to do a store Canadian 592 00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:40,480 Tire. All right. So so I worked there and then I I did 593 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,920 cable Access. I hosted a show on cable Access once a week called Kingston 594 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,199 Today. And then um, so I'm trying to do all these different things 595 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,840 and the one that you're doing a cable access just when you produce, you 596 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,320 make it up. Yeah, somebody else booked the guest. I showed up 597 00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,880 and just okay, let the moneymaker right, you know, bring people in. 598 00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:06,079 And then got accepted, applied to schools all in the United States and 599 00:42:06,199 --> 00:42:12,119 got accepted to Syracuse, went to SU for the graduate school in journalism and 600 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:17,239 did that, and in the Christmas break went back to Kingston, had a 601 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,599 meeting with the news director of the general manager of the TV station at Kingston. 602 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:22,360 I said, here's what I am, this is what I've done, 603 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,079 here's a couple of things that I've done. And it was he was nice, 604 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,480 but he said, we don't hire kids out of college. I mean, 605 00:42:30,519 --> 00:42:32,440 he told me I'd have to go up to Sudbury or North Bay or 606 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,480 Timmins like I mean, way way, way up north And I wasn't interested 607 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,880 in doing that. And then a couple of months later I got a job 608 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:46,119 offer in Watertown, New York, so and I took it. It's been 609 00:42:46,119 --> 00:42:50,440 in the United States ever since. And so I always remember, I always 610 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:55,719 remember, despite some of the some of the issues and problems that the country 611 00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:01,360 goes through that are uncomfortable, I always remember the United States game. You 612 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:07,559 shot Yeah, oh that that's an interesting take on that. Because my hometown 613 00:43:07,639 --> 00:43:10,079 did own country turned its back on town, did not give me a shot. 614 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,679 Watertown game. You a shot, and I'm grateful for that. And 615 00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,000 I think that that you know, that may be a little sappy, but 616 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:21,079 that's sort of um. At least when I was growing up, that was 617 00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:24,119 the brand of the United States, that anybody you could get a shot if 618 00:43:24,119 --> 00:43:28,239 you worked hard enough. And I and I tried, worked hard and I 619 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,159 got a shot. Yeah, that's interesting, that's an interesting thing. Yeah. 620 00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:35,000 I am a big believer, and I know this country has its problems, 621 00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:39,679 and they're certainly more apparent today than before, right, but it's still 622 00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:44,559 the land opportunity. And you see, you know, if we talk about 623 00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:49,039 the migrants and the immigration and stuff, we need to fix our immigration overall 624 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,599 on a federal level. But people are literally dying to get into this country 625 00:43:53,639 --> 00:43:57,400 because it's better. I will tell so I'm an immigrant. Yeah, I 626 00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,760 will tell you. It is not easy. It is not. It's not 627 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,519 easy to do it the legal No, it's not. And I have run 628 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,119 huge deterrence, right, so I have my you know, when I was 629 00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:13,239 married, my sister in law's from the Philippines, getting her here and my 630 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,559 brother in law was a captain in the army, a West Point graduate. 631 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:21,320 There was nothing. It was years and I have friends from Ireland and stuff 632 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,480 who extended some visas and things where it, but it was never easy. 633 00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:27,079 So and I'm not saying it should be. I don't know if it should 634 00:44:27,119 --> 00:44:30,440 be easy, but I don't know if it should be as hard as it 635 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:36,960 is for people who really want to come and either go to school or or 636 00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:42,000 work. And you know, I listen, I'm no expert on it. 637 00:44:42,519 --> 00:44:45,400 I gonna the only thing I can tell you is that it is not easy. 638 00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:49,760 Yeah, So how do you get to ten NBC from Watertown? From 639 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,480 Watertown? So I was in Watertown and I and I was on a work 640 00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:55,679 visa, so I was there a little longer than most people would be there. 641 00:44:55,679 --> 00:44:59,280 I was there for a little over two years, was a little longer 642 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,199 than a most people would spend in an entry level market. But I was 643 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,719 close to Kingston, so I was close to home, and I wanted to 644 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,679 get as much out of as complicated expensive visa as I could. And then 645 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:14,039 one day I eventually just said I need, I need something else, and 646 00:45:14,639 --> 00:45:17,199 I knew there was a job opening at Channel ten, and as I recall, 647 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,559 the news director at the time lived up on the Lake Shore and Webster 648 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,679 and he got my station in Watertown over the air really okay. He had 649 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,639 been watching me, Yeah, unbeknownst to me. So when I got to 650 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:37,639 the station and I came in for an interview, he knew I wasn't offered 651 00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:40,320 me the job, and I said I would. I'd said, wow, 652 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,239 yeah, I think I'm gonna take it. I just got to talk to 653 00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:46,519 I got to talk to my folks a little bit. And that was on 654 00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:55,119 Friday, September. Let me think about this seventh, okay, two thousand 655 00:45:55,119 --> 00:46:00,320 and one, okay, oh my gosh, following Tuesday eleven. Yeah, 656 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:05,559 so it took a little while for us to hook up again. He was 657 00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:08,440 busy here, I was busy up there. Yeah. But then eventually, 658 00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:13,880 I think two weeks later we talked again. I said, yeah, I'll 659 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,440 do it. And I came here on October seventh. October seventh, and 660 00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:21,719 you've been here ever since. There were no aspirations to go to bigger markets, 661 00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,159 and you've really entrenched yourself here. Yeah. I think it's nice. 662 00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:30,440 There were definitely opportunities for Chicago, in Pittsburgh, in Kansas City, Charlotte, 663 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:35,039 and Dcan that Chicago people would jump at that. I think so, 664 00:46:35,079 --> 00:46:39,480 although you know, I've made quality of life decisions. Yes, that's it's 665 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:44,000 one of these jobs that could be very transient, or you can entrench yourself 666 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,679 and stay somewhere for thirty years of you. So, I so where I 667 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,519 live reminds me in the neighborhood I grew up in, and I think everybody's 668 00:46:49,559 --> 00:46:53,039 sort of attracted to everybody's sort of drawn back to, Yeah, their their 669 00:46:53,119 --> 00:46:58,480 roots, you know, or something that's familiar to them. So my neighborhood 670 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:05,920 looks exactly like the neighborhood of it. But I just I had done some 671 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:12,159 assignments in big cities Toronto, d C, New York, and that adds 672 00:47:12,199 --> 00:47:15,639 a whole level of difficulty that I just I wasn't sure I wanted to live 673 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,440 in those places, live in a big city. So there are some I 674 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:25,199 wonder sometimes what I could be doing, where I could be, and then 675 00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:30,760 that, and then about sixty seconds later, I look at where I am 676 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:38,159 and it's just the most livable community. It's one of the most livable communities, 677 00:47:38,199 --> 00:47:42,239 I think in the United States. And we get some tough winters sometimes 678 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,679 and there's some other tough things, but for the most part, it's a 679 00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:52,280 great liberable community and things were generally affordable, and I love it, and 680 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:59,159 I if I had a wish, it would be that people who are native 681 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:06,320 to the Greater Rochester area would see their hometown like I see my hometown. 682 00:48:06,639 --> 00:48:09,400 Okay, so I go back and like I said at the beginning, to 683 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:15,320 me, it was my school, my neighborhood, hockey rink, and church, 684 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,960 right. But now I go back and I see something much more complex 685 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,719 and beautiful and engaging and exciting. And I think that if people could just 686 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,920 sort of step back a little bit and look at their community in the Greater 687 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:34,800 Rochester area, and despite the problems and the serious problems that we've got to 688 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:42,719 deal with seriously, it's an incredible community with incredible diversity, incredible opportunities and 689 00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:47,360 your home in and the longest commute you'll have is probably thirty minutes. Yeah, 690 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,599 I was even thinking maybe shorter. But you're right that that is absolutely 691 00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,800 all true. And I always think this place as though it's not what it 692 00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:01,239 is, it's not today what it was Kodak. I really feel like it 693 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:07,679 brought some of the most brilliant minds in the world here. They did they 694 00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,840 invent a lot of things and not take advantage from the VCR to the digital 695 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:15,239 camera to all that stuff. The answers, Yes, they built them, 696 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:19,679 but it was people who wanted to have a lifestyle. These were brilliant minds 697 00:49:19,679 --> 00:49:22,559 that could have gone out and patented themselves, but they gave that up to 698 00:49:22,679 --> 00:49:27,119 let Kodak do it and having life one of paycheck, you know, something 699 00:49:27,159 --> 00:49:30,400 that was steady, this other. You know what I'm doing. It's a 700 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,719 little bit of a risk here, and a lot of people want to do 701 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:37,719 that, and I understand. But all those brilliant minds then had children and 702 00:49:37,199 --> 00:49:40,800 that and a lot of these people stayed here. It's a very family oriented 703 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,800 area. And I can't remember the story if it was Bob Duffy or if 704 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:52,760 it was somebody else. But they talked about Kodak in the seventies, eighties, 705 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:58,800 nineties when it was still a huge machine and they had difficulty getting their 706 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,599 executives to move here wherever else they were in the world, and then it 707 00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:07,000 was nearly impossible to get them to leave. Yeah, right, so they 708 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,599 got here. Now that you know, that's could be a sales pitch that 709 00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:15,039 somebody was given to me to, uh, well, thank you know, 710 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:20,760 visit Ron Jeffreys over this way. But but I believe it, well sure, 711 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:27,559 because there's a lot of there's great art and culture and restaurants and lifestyle, 712 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,159 and people are friendly, and there's activities and even in the winter if 713 00:50:31,199 --> 00:50:35,199 you if you're a winter sports person, there's a ton to do. They 714 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,480 groom trails in our parks if you want to go skiing. I mean, 715 00:50:37,679 --> 00:50:42,320 right, and it's amazing and all that is free, right, it's or 716 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,880 your taxes, but you're paying your tax I always always love the argument my 717 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,280 taxes paid for it. I don't know what my pack taxes paid for it. 718 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,000 I just assume it's gonna be there. I know the taxes are going. 719 00:50:51,039 --> 00:50:52,000 I go, what am I gonna do? But that's the way it 720 00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:54,400 is. I know you have a hard out and uh, you got to 721 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:59,400 get down to the mayor's office. But this has been a pleasure. I 722 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,440 would love to even talks some time again and just find out, you know, 723 00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:07,000 best stories you ever recovered, your favorite things, things you learned along 724 00:51:07,039 --> 00:51:10,199 the way. That was it. I mean, you know, I think 725 00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:15,079 now as you're talking about not getting an opportunity. People hate when I say 726 00:51:15,079 --> 00:51:19,239 this, but the barrier to entry to these sorts of things is gone. 727 00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,960 Right, you buy the equipment, you could have your own YouTube show, 728 00:51:22,159 --> 00:51:28,159 or you can maybe even get Roku to give you a little space on their 729 00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,320 platform and be able to do your own thing. And I do wonder if 730 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:37,119 at some point, well Berkeley Breen become an investigative reporter for Rochester with the 731 00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:44,320 Investigative Pod or something to those along those abilified investigative reporter. Yeah, well, 732 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,320 I mean, but for your own, like even your own podcast of 733 00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:51,679 things and ideas, because you're a smart guy and you've got a lot of 734 00:51:51,679 --> 00:51:54,920 connections and know how to dig in for answers. Right, what was the 735 00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,280 thing again, digging for answers for reporting the first Yeah, that's been gone 736 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,639 for a number of yearbody like that. I actually didn't hate it. I 737 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,599 didn't hate it because it gave me a tenacity, like a tenacity with the 738 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:12,000 news. I know, like we all poked fun at everything that everybody was 739 00:52:12,039 --> 00:52:15,599 doing, so it didn't matter. But it has been a pleasure. And 740 00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,320 I hope things that the Mayor's officer all set up. I'm ready to go 741 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,760 when you get there. I think we're Yeah, I think they'll be ready 742 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,079 and we'll be ready, and I think it'll be some by the time people 743 00:52:25,119 --> 00:52:30,559 watch this. We've already talked about it about guns and a report on guns, 744 00:52:30,559 --> 00:52:32,639 and I think I think the information will be helpful to people. Okay, 745 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,000 very good. I don't know if you know this song John Hyatt, 746 00:52:37,039 --> 00:52:40,920 Tennessee plates. It's kind a little tribute to Elvis about a guy who meets 747 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:45,320 a girl and they drive out to Memphis and they steal some of his Cadillacs 748 00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:47,800 because they he gives them to their friends. And he's writing this song, 749 00:52:49,039 --> 00:52:52,159 this letter from a prisoner Tennessee. When I come back, we'll talk about 750 00:52:52,639 --> 00:52:55,440 Hank Snow. Let's listen to this, Okay, tell you my Hank Snow. 751 00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:01,559 All right, I can't wait. Land a Legends Raceway in contadegu has 752 00:53:01,559 --> 00:53:05,800 got some good family fund for you, and you might get a little dirty. 753 00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,880 It's where you feel the power and the excitement of local heroes taking on 754 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,760 the legendary dirt track. Drivers are pushing their limits with every turn and you 755 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,719 are soaking it all in. 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