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WRHU's Own Ryan Pagano Calls in To the Alex Garrett Podcast Network (Sponsored By Survey Junkie) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett, and welcome inside to the Alex Garrett Podcast
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  Network. Boy, it's been a busy week and you know, I want
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  to start a new feature every Wednesday called what Are They Saying Wednesday? And
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  They'll actually give you opportunities to get free products for product testing and whatnot.
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  Survey Junkie I just started yesterday, joined the journey. Join me if you
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  join my affiliate link on that. It's Survey Thursday out of what do They
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  Saying Wednesday? Survey Thursday today. And one survey that still continues to go
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  on is What's gonna Happen with the gil Go Beach murder murder suspect Rex Herman.
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  And you know, I think I got a caller on my line from
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  Massapequa. Is this Ryan from Massapequa? Yeah, so Ryan, thanks for
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  calling. I barely have a caller to this podcast, so it's great to
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  open up the phone line. I'm just mentioning about the gil Go Beach killer
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  and what's going to happen with him. But being in Massapequa, you have
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  some firsthand accounts of sort of what people are saying out there. Yeah,
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  And I mean, first off, Alex, you know, I really appreciate
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  you having me on your show, so thank you very much for the opportunity.
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  But it's just been a crazy two months since all this stuff went down,
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  with Herman being arrested and just the fact that it came so suddenly.
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  Nobody really expected this to happen. I mean everybody, a massive people.
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  I really thought that, you know, this case was going to be unsolved.
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  I mean it had been over twelve years since these initial murders took place,
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  so you know what was going to change to cause this case to be
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  solved. And ultimately it came down to some new evidence that got uncovered,
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  a pizza across of all things, linking Rex Human to those suspects tragically murdered
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  at Gilgo Beach back in twenty ten. It's really crazy too, because of
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  his because of his life as well, being a white collar worker. Nobody
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  would have ever expected somebody like that to have done all these bad things,
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  to strike a community familion with's here, and yet Rex has done just that.
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  Well, Ryan, I know that you're out there. What are people
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  telling you? What are you what are they saying to you? I mean,
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  is the community rocked? Thousand percent? They are? And at least
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  from those that I've talked to within the community, those that have interacted with
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  Rex in the past, it just seems like a normal guy for the most
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  part, no reason to suspect he'd be a murderer or anything like that.
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  And you know, I knew. I have a couple of friends that actually
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  work at the Starbucks in Massapequa where Rex that actually frequently won't know, he
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  was a pretty customer there, and you know, hearing my friends stories about
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  that, you know, most of the time, the workers at Starbucks,
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  they would get people nicknames depending on their normal orders at all, and Rex
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  happened to get one of those nicknames, obviously not to his face. But
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  I'm trying, I'm trying to recall what drinking was I can't name me it
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  off the top my head, but it was a book of average I believe
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  that was his normal order that he would get usually. But what's interesting about
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  that as well is that Rex would sometimes be winking at some of the baristas,
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  at least courting to those that I've spoken to about it. So there
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  was a little reason to be suspicious there. But to think that he would
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  have, you know, killed a handful of people, Nobody would have ever
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  expected that, especially with the tiny home that he had, had a massive
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  people parked and now everybody's treating like the Amyville horror House. Well, I
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  know there was a huge, huge crowd the day he got arrested. And
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  then you had some colleagues at w RHU. Ryan, by the way it
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  works, is a college student at HASHA and is a w RHU. And
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  I know that's a big deal for you. Ryan. Uh, was there
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  any were you able to get on the scene over there and see what that
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  was like in front of his house. Yeah, so that day I was
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  and able to you know, fun fact that funny enough. Actually I was
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  at nineteen seventy The Answer helping you out with Tommy Sender's show when all this
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  news broken. We had a chief engineer, Andy Glidding, out there to
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  report on the news. Now that was a heck of a report that he
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  gave, but it was just a surreal day the day that Since that day,
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  I would have been able to now because I feel like that's now a
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  tourist the attraction. I hate to say that, but it feels like it
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  is. No, I pretty much is at this point. I mean,
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  everybody's been treating it like the Amityville horror house of sorts, everybody stopping by
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  taking pictures with it and being like, oh, I got a picture right
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  in front of the Gilgo guy's house. You know that's I don't know,
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  there's not plenty you really got to be proud of for the most part post
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  the residential neighborhood as well, the people surrounding living around Human's home. They
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  don't need the attention. I mean, they're just trying to live their lives
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  like anybody else. And I'll be dragged in with and I'll give props to
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  Assol County and the town maass people Park for taking action about that installed.
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  And I don't know if these are still around Huerman's house. I'm willing to
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  bet that they still are, but they had in stole street sign saying no
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  parking anytime in the area in front end, I believe, across from Hurman's
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  home, to try to curb those efforts that many other people are taking to
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  get a picture in front of this guy's house. I mean, his ex
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  wife I believe was still living there at the time, and I mean,
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  it's just devastation the line. But Ryan, you mentioned a lot of these
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  Starbucks. Didn't they give him a nickname as well? You mentioned to me
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  off there, Yeah, they did give him a nickname. Off the top
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  of my head, I could not recall what what specifically the nickname was,
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  but from people that I've talked to that I've worked at that Starbucks, they
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  definitely did get nickname. But you know, I really wish I had the
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  exact one for you here, Ryan, let me ask you real quickly,
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  can with this trow coming up, I'm sure he's gonna probably or the defense
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  will indict others as well or implicate others. Can the town a mass big
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  we handle that if they implicate others that you wouldn't suspect. Oh worry,
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  that's a very good question, Alex. I mean, this community has already
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  been rock I Hureman being exposed for who he truly is, and to be
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  quite frank, it was just a lot of gustation in the community when one
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  guy was arrested two months ago for these murders. I don't really know if
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  they'd be able to handle another arrest if they there was something else that was
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  connected to these verders to some extent. I'm not here to speculate by any
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  means that there were other people involved with these killings, but you know what
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  I'm saying is if you were, there's going to be the type of person
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  and throwing out of people under the bus still people that he was involved within
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  the past, who you know, had knowledge about these killings in the first
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  place, even though allegedly Erects really tack it quiet and somewhat did a good
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  job at it for over a decade, which is crazy for me to be
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  saying, but it wouldn't have really surprise me, but it's yeah, I
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  wouldn't they lead to more devastation for a community that has really dealt with a
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  ton of it, especially this past year. It's been crazy. Are you
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  a lifelong mess people regiments? A lifelong you know. I wish I could
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  say that, but I haven't lived in massive PEAKLA for over twenty years now,
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  so I was a lot of town boy and myself my first year living
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  on this earth, but I was blessed with a year in that there are
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  you know three I believe my family didn't move to Massa peakle and that's pretty
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  much where I've stayed ever since. So a lot of town pride in me.
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  What's going on in your life? Because I hear that you're about to
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  be honored? Is that right? I mean, we we worked together,
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  but what are you being honored for? This week? Yeah? So September
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  twenty ninth, New York State. The Broadcasters Association, it's having a luncheon
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  in Manhattan Excellence of Broadcasting Awards, I believe, and it's at Chelsea Piers,
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  I believe, the Curth restaurant, so really good views overlooking the Hudson
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  River. And as far as what I'm getting honored for, so it's actually
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  an act for w r K. But I did a piece last year during
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  the twenty twenty two so after you've tried to devolved the shooting took place March
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  for our Lives, you know that hold a. They held a big rally
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  in Washington, DC, but they also had smaller rallies going on all throughout
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  the country, and there were a couple on Long Island, Minneola was actually
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  the one that I had a candid forgetting right chieve and that was actually an
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  event that I covered. I got to talk to a couple of the speakers
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  actually about you know, what needs to change to prevent shootings like evolving from
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  happening again, got to talk to a couple of people who participated in the
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  march, but to be able to talking with the march and see how passionate
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  these people were about putting an end to gun violence. I will say it
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  was great to be a part of produced about a three minute news piece actually
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  for w rg's news programming. And yeah, now New York State Broadcasters Association
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  is giving me an award. I actually got one from the Press Club a
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  couple of months ago for the same piece. So now a couple months later
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  with the New York State Broadcasters Association being able to be part of that is
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  I'm humbled and honored. But it's really shows that how much a pleasure it
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  is to be able to be a community journalist of sorts and to be able
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  to cover these stories happening in our backyards and to be able to talk about
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  it getting on a platform. Well, congratulations, Ryan Pagano. And one
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  last thing Islander fans, will they hear you on the broadcast this year?
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  Well, as far as played by play color commentary goes wow, that is
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  well not really Michael mean, but yes, as far as hearing my voice
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  on their airways, I definitely can't expect to hear it, probably not this
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  month but November December room because they usually shuffle the truss they're on for that
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  they usually have a bunch of different people going on air. But yes,
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  you can't expect to hear my voice on the air again, whether it's for
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  a future evening game, sports updates which I have which I could do a
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  little bit of last season, So yeah, this won't be the last time
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  hearing me. Let's just say I love that, all right, Ryan,
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  Well, good luck on everything, and I can't wait to hear about the
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  awards ceremony and whatnot. Maybe I have you back on next week. But
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  thanks for calling into the show today. I appreciate it. As always,
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  Alex, thank you. I'm Alex Garrett. That has been one leg up
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  with Alex S Garrett a surprise calling from Ryan Pagano. Thanks again, Ryan,
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  and we'll talk to you soon on the Alex S Garrett Podcast Network