October 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Monday President Trump visited the Middle East to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. All 20 of the remaining living Israeli hostages were released Monday and reunited with their families. Nearly 2K Palestinian prisoners were also released as part of the ceasefire agreement. At a peace summit with world leaders in Egypt, Trump signed the Gaza peace deal and is pushing to advance continued peace in the Middle East, saying, “We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us, and to declare that our future will not be ruled by the fights of generations past." We discussed all that unfolded Monday during what has become a momentous day in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Boston's Knew video.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
For those of you who might have missed that, there
was a huge story in the Middle East today, trust
me on that. Okay, everything went perfectly. The twenty hostages
that Hamas had promised to release were released, some really
emotional homecomings. These are people who thought they would never
see their sons, or their daughters, or their moms, or
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their dads or their spouses ever. Again, It's just amazing
to me what Israel has put up with for seventy
seven years, of this harassment and attack by its Arab neighbors.
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And now those Arab neighbors, many of them, have lined
up behind Donald Trump. And Donald Trump deserves credit for this,
even got credit from Hillary Clinton. I want to play
and I want to give her credit for being supportive
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and acknowledging the obvious. It's as simple as that President
Obama wasn't able to pull himself to to say that
for some reason, he had to write a statement and
with no reference to Donald Trump. And I remember and well,
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this is Abby Phillips from CNN making that very point,
and she's a supporter of President Obama. Cut number eight, Please.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Rob, President Obama put out this post talking about the
peace deal and the prospects of it, and Don Junior
responded to it, I'll finish it for you. Thank you,
Donald Trump. Honestly, it's it's not unfair to say if
President Obama's going to write a whole post about a
peace deal, maybe you should acknowledge the president that broke her.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
To and Hillary collected to her credit, No phantom, Donald
Trump was gracious enough, and she and her husband worked
on this peace deal for many years and Trump, President
Trump was able to accomplish with no other president has
accomplished Republican Democrat before him. Cut eight a please, Rob.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's a really significant first step, and I really commend
President Trump and his administration as well as Arab leaders
in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
point Plan and seeing a path forward for what's often
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called the day After.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, so, anyway, we'll continue to talk about this. I
truly believe, and I don't I'm not someone who thinks
of myself as a futurist, but clearly what Donald Trump
the businessman has done. This is the first time we've
elected a pure businessman as president of the United States
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in my lifetime. And when I say we elected, I
voted voting for him neither in twenty sixteen, twenty twenty,
or twenty twenty four. I basically I'd find that the
Democrats have put up candidates who I couldn't vote for,
and the Republicans have simply put up Donald Trump. And
I was not happy with his demeanor in twenty sixteen,
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was not happy with how he conducted himself following the
election of twenty twenty, was not happy with January sixth.
I make no mistake about it. I'm not going to
tell you that I've been a Donald Trump guy. I
have not. I've commanded him on things that he's done
a right, which is closing the border after it was
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a basically all the Ali entry, come one, come all
from the Biden administration, and what he's done in Israel
and in the Middle East, he's appealed to their economic interests. Uh.
And no other politician again, every political leader you know,
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I guess the only one that was that was not
a political leader was Dwight Eisenhower. Harry Truman was a
vice president of Senator Eisenhower was a general, never elected
to any other office other than the presidency of the
United States, John Kennedy, a Senator Linda Johnson, and Senator
Richard Nixon. A former senator. Former Vice president Gerald Ford
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was a he never elected, by the way, but he
was a longtime congressman from from Michigan. Jimmy Carter, governor
from Georgia. Ronald Reagan, governor from California. He ran for
governor as a non politician too, by the way, so
even though Reagan was a governor prior to that, he
had never served in public office, been the head of
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a union, head of SAG after no doubt. George Bush,
longtime politician, career politician, member of Congress. I'm CIA director,
Vice President Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas. George Bush forty
three governor of Texas, President Obama, senator from Illinois, Donald Trump,
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non politician. We swum back to the politician of them all,
Joe Biden. How did that work out? And I'm given
a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a former senator,
former vice president. It's interesting. I think it's interesting something
to think about. Love you to get love you to
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comment on it. Let me go next to Ron in Newton. Ron,
thanks for calling in you next.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
On Nike tag right ahead, all Dan, I thank you
so much. I'm comfortably sitting in the Native arrest area.
I couldn't help but pull over from ninety to to
speak with you on this. I am so grateful and
happy that we've made it this far. You know, and
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as I thought about it, but when you think about
the comments that have been made about President Trump being
the bully, well, you know, when you walk into a
neighborhood that is filled with bullies, I'll tell you you've got
to change the games, that the rules of the game.
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When I went to and I have firsthand experience, as
you know, in the Middle East and going to Iran,
being surrounded by AK forty seventeen guns even when you're
trying to go to the bathroom. It's a different world.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
It's not like walking into a.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Town meeting anywhere in the United States, and and and
so there's a different set of lenses in your glasses
that you have to look for.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, what of our great presidents Teddy Teddy Roosevelt. He
was famous for saying, walk softly, but carry a big stick.
I think that's what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
And I also from from all the documentaries that I've
seen about the Nuremberg Trials, and I remember specifically city
seeing Harry Truman wins to Churchill in Mussolini city side
by side.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Uh are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And they they no, Well, I say, Mussolini would not
have been in a picture with Harry Truman. You meant
Joe Stallin? Yeah, Well, and that would have been Roosevelt.
That would have That was Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin had Yalla,
is I think what you're referring to? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, but after that, after that, there was a photo
with Harry Trump after President Roosevelt had died.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, And so I don't recall seeing that, but but
I take your word for it, right ahead, Okay. Mussolini,
as you know, was hung, was hung before the war ended. Yeah,
he got what he deserved. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Ron, That's okay. So, So my point is is what
I've said, and that is it. It's a whole different
world to be in, you know. The it just so,
I think I think we can't criticize Donald Trump for
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his manner in this particular moment. I think I'm very
I'm very impressed that he was able to, uh, you know,
the tenacity to under all the criticism to go forward.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, no, no one. And to the best of my knowledge,
I'm hearing very few people who are going to change
their mind on Donald Trump. Okay, it's uh yeah. He
did the right thing by taking out the Iranian nuclear system.
They had under construction deep underground, an area where they
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were trying to create all that they needed for nuclear
bomb bombs. If they had a nuclear bomb, they would
have thrown it in, thrown it in on Tel Aviv
the next day. Simple as that. He took them off
the stage as a off the nuclear stage, and that
as a secondary benefit, I think sent the message to Hamas,
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you know, your bank your banker is out of business,
because that's what Iran is. It was it was Hamas's banker, yep,
and it took it. There's a tough decision. Those planes
might not have been successful. God knows if one of
them got shot down. Remember the helicopters with Jimmy car
Hard in the in the desert when he was trying
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to do uh you know, really you know, rescue American hostages.
I don't know that that would have worked even if
the helicopters hadn't gone down. But you know, look, I
I'm waiting for any of my listeners who are Democrats,
and I can name them by name, but I won't
challenge them to call and uh and say, look, uh,
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you got to give this guy credit on this. It's
as simple as that. I if I can give Barack
Obama credit for his decision, courageous decision to go and
take out Osama bin Laden, why can't people who don't
like Donald Trump recognize that his decision, a series of
decisions have led to this tonight and hopefully it's gonna
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it's going to set the stage for a peace in
the Middle East. How about that as a concept? Huh?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah? And maybe I'm just I'm just hoping maybe this
might be a little bit of a step toward the Ukraine.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, I it may send a message to Putin. Maybe
maybe maybe Putin will have to take him most seriously,
I don't know. Obviously, Uh, let's celebrate at least one
one victory. I've had a bunch of people who have
sent me emails, you know about how that Hamas is
still is killing innocent Palestinians. Uh, folks, if you're listening
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and you're sending me emails, it's six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
It's a talk show. If you think I'm going to
read your email and say, oh I got an email
here from someone who sent me an email, not letna
do it. Not gonna do it, Eggs Rod, thank you
for called appreciated.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
This was great, Thank you, thanks much.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Talk to you Edy. We'll take a quick break. This
is a quick break. Got one line at six one, seven, two,
five thirty and one and six at six one, seven,
nine three, one ten thirty. It's it's amazing. I'm doing
a talk show and you're gonna send me an email.
I mean, please, that's doesn't make sense. Okay, why do
you want to tell me something? And you could tell
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people in thirty eight states and around the world who
listen to Nightside Back on Nightside. The only lines open
now are six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
Back on night Side. After this, gonna go to Laurie
and I don't Laurie. I know you spent a lot
of time probably watching the news overnight. How are you tonight?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I did I, well, I could have kind of started
to roll at midnight here, and so I for a
little bit, hurt little and with like I started following it,
and I just I couldn't turn off. It was emotional,
it was amazing. I'm still pinching myself to be perfectly
honest that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, that time, that time gets difference gets us every
you know, gets us at seven hours. So I guess
it was. It was really kicked in the gear about
two am our time in the east, and in your
your time in Idaho, you're in what Pacific type?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
So yeah, so fair.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
So I was kicking in about midnight. I was, you know,
winding up, and I usually you know, I checked like
the headlinean or something, and then so Trump is, you know,
headed there about Oh okay. The next thing I know,
he's there, he's landing in Israel and he started transferring
the first I mean, I couldn't. I couldn't. It was
hugely emotional. I couldn't. I couldn't turn off. So I
was one of those that did follow it all night.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, well that's good for you. And you even called
the show, which is great, which I had someone too
earlier tonight was said send me pictures of the hostages,
and I said, give it the show. I'm exhausted. I
was watching it on TV last night. Well okay, thank you, Laurie,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Well I'm a little bit of a news junkie, but
but it's still it just just I mean, I haven't
seen anything like this in my lifetime. Technically maybe the
Berlin Wall or something like that, but it's just it's amazing.
I can't believe it's worked this far. I give Trump
and Yaho, and it means the leaders that are trying
to like scoot into the photos for.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, someone wrote earlier that someone wrote earlier that Trump
has his own United Nations now behind him. That yeah, yeah, yeah,
I am very smart, smart person who who had that
that observation. I had not thought of it that way,
but that was pretty cool. No, you're right, And I
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mean he's got Bertigan there, he's got LCC from Egypt.
Uh yeah. And again, what my democratic callers? They're all quiet?
Where are the protesters. Where are the people who were
who were concerned about, you know, the the slaughter in
uh in Gaza. Now, Israel's not killing anybody, it's hamas Is.
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If we're particularly but killing Pattestinians. The Hamas had kept
Palestinians kidnapped for years. They used them as human shields.
They built their tunnels under their schools, they built tunnels
under their hospitals. But the people who were out here
in the streets, they weren't pro Hamas. They were pro
Hamas and they were anti Israel.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah, protest, but yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, But they had they weren't concerned about the Palestinian people.
They were concerned about is They hated Israel. It's that's
what's going on. Yeah, they were consumed by the hatred
of Israel. They've been consumed anti Semitism in this country.
Thank God that this administration has spoken up against anti
Semitism at universities and schools. There many kids have gone
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to college and in recent years who kept their mouths
shut for four years because they were Jewish and they
were afraid that if they opened their mouth that'd say something.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
You know, Yell the hopeful day, it really is.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It is an incredibly hopeful day. And I've felt better.
I haven't all better about the country in a long time.
I do remember when the Berlin Wall fell, and I
remember when the American hostages came home with the USS
Pueblo in nineteen sixty eight and just before Christmas, and
I can understand what the Israeli people felt.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah, exactly, and just I mean and the Donald you know.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, this this non politician we had Joe Biden, who
spent his entire life in Washington, knew more about foreign
policy and everybody. And Donald Trump comes in, he knows
about real estate and New York and and he's able.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
To making a deal.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Maybe we should elect more non.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Have you ever heard that Biden? Someone at some point
in time said Biden and foreign policy always always made
the wrong decision. Vot was he was always on the
wrong side of the right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, one of that was said by That was said
by Bob Gates, who was he was a Secretary of
Defense for a while under the under President Obama. And
apparently Uh Biden did not want to send the Navy
seals in to get Obama. Oh yeah, oh yeah, wow
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to Ghet Osama. Excuse me, right, under President Obama who
had the guts to send the navy seals in to
take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. They knew where
he was dangerous mission. Apparently Joe Biden was was was saying, no,
this is not a good idea. So that's what what
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caused Gates to say that on every major foreign policy.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Decision, Joel Daisy and help everything.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, probably probably didn't seem much of a benefit to
his family financially. I'm just thinking. I'm just saying, you know,
you never know. Llory, thank you so much. Great to
hear your voice. You sound great after BEV been up
all night. All right, let's keep going here. Who do
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we have next? I got Bill and Danvers. Bill, we're
gonna get you in before the break. Here, go right
at Bill.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, no, Uh. It was unbelievable, and I'm actually shocked
at they got him out. I mean, to be honest
with you, I thought Hermas was gonna just say that said,
and you know they'd have to go in there full board,
and it would have been a disaster. I mean, but uh,
but that press car later on when they all got together,
CEC was there and all the world lead and everybody
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flew in. He had Maloney came in from Italy.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yep, he had uh Starmer from England. The Crone was there.
He was able to avoid the traffic jam, and he
got out of New York and get there.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, and uh. And but that guy from Pakistan, I
thought was when he come out and say, you know,
of course he said he you know, President Trump should
get the nobelt b. But when he explained his situation
with his country with India, and he goes, you know,
things were heating up, but we shot each other's planes,
you know, the next step we weren't too far away,
and maybe none of us were going to be around
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to tell the story about it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I mean that was real shocking.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I think both of those nations are nuclear powers
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, and they were, you know, I think
they the way he made it so, I mean, you know,
I mean we were talking about they were going to
let some stuff fly because things were really heating up,
and and you know the way he put it, you know,
and he goes, thank god, you know, and he said,
this guy hit the beaned and he wouldn't believe it,
and blah blah blah. And and I think by having
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everyone on board like that, hopefully, because I mean, you know,
nobody wants upset the apple cart. Now they're all in
you know what I mean, they all get a stake
in the game kind of you know, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here's the thing that'll be interesting. Let's see what the
approving approval polls show in the next two or three weeks.
I'm not sure that he should get a real bump
here because of what has been accomplished in Israel. But
I don't think I think that they're that they're the
people who are the anti Trump people will never come
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over no matter what he does. He could end the
war in Ukraine. Uh, he could. He could do all
of these things, or bring peace to the Middle East.
And that's just not fair, Okay. I mean, is he
a great human being? I don't necessarily think so. Okay,
But but like everybody else, you know, there's I don't
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think a lot of these people are great human beings there.
They all have egos, whether they and I'm talking about senators.
In order to be a US senator, you got to
have a pretty strong ego. Okay. There are no wilthy,
no wilting flowers in the in the in the US Senate.
Uh And and you know, look, do I like Trump style?
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Do I like him going on and and patting himself
in the back. He doesn't have to anymore if he's smart.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I know, I mean, but you know Trump danem
syndrome is it's a real thing. Dan. I'd say he
gets a little bump, but I don't think he breaks
sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh he'll get no way, No, well, he won't get
close to it. Won't get close to sixty percent. You'd
have to you'd have to change twenty percent of h
of the anti trumpers to get him with sixty percent.
Right now, the country's can you know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You know, like yourself. When Osama bin Laden was taken out,
now you obviously, I mean I was never ever a
fan of anything Obama had, but I gave the guy credit.
I said, hey, he got the job done, and to
him and uh, you know, I was happy walking around
and say, hey, you know we we got rid of
the guy and you know, and.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Made it made the world a little safe. It made
the world a little safer. And that's still a big
call for president. If that Navy team Navy sealed Team
six had gone in and been blown out of the sky. Uh,
everybody second guesses. But but you know, sometimes you got
to make the big decision. And President Obama made the
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big decision. He made the right decision. And I was
as proud of him as my president because he was
my president as I could as I was of Ronald
Reagan when the Berlin Wall fell, even though it fell
while George Bush was president. People forget that.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You know, Reagan told, you know, issues over the years
that are festered in the Middle East. So how was
the affected at hair with terrorism and Americans have been
killed over the years?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh absolutely, opeck o peck gas prices if you want
to talk about that, ten years, twenty years, twenty years
in Iraq and Afghanistan for what you know, the disaster withdrawal,
when thirteen Americans die. They had the they had the
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bomber and the sniper had him in his sights, but
he couldn't get an okay to kill him. So thirteen
American kids had to die. Yeah, Cabul, you know, Abbigate.
Yeah good.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know, we could calm a lot of the stuff
down and then focus on you know, economic stuff and
the South. Now, hopefully with these wins overseas, you know,
that spills over into the European situation a little bit,
you know, but I think economics are going to play
into that damn because oil was down the by I
think it's fifty eight dollars a barrel today. But again,
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if he can get it down the fifty two, you know,
putin and touch, put the squeeze on him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He's got absolutely And by the way, it won't it
won't hurt us with our with our prices at the
pump either. That would help Donald Trump more than bringing
peace in the Middle East. There's a lot of Americans
who are so myopic. They don't understand what happens halfway
around the world is going to affect us, our kids
and our grandkids. Anyway, Thank you very much, Bill has
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always I appreciate your loyalty. Tonight's side, thank you, have
a great one.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Good yeah, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Six thirty. That's the only line open. We got the
news at the bottom of the hour. A couple of minutes.
Life be right back on night side.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
It's night Side with Ray Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right, let us get right back to the phone
calls here on night side. Let me get everything underway
here before I just get out of this here real quickly,
doing too many things here simultaneously. So let me let
me get roll with here. Everything okay, who's next? Let
me see, Okay, gonna go to Michael and Attleborough. Michael
next on Nightside? Go right ahead? Hey, yeah, good Michael.
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What's on your mind tonight?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
I just turned on now Colbert.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
I can't listen to him.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I just why would you ever? Why would you have
a turn on anything while Nightside is on the air?
Are you too smart to do anything other than that?
Speaker 11 (24:52):
No, it just happened to come on now. I forgured
i'd be done with my phone call. But he's not.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
It doesn't seem he's here for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Let's of course, he's the man is. He's in trouple.
He's a lot of trouble. Let's talk about something positive.
What's on your mind? Michael?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
What do you think of Hillary running for president with
Trump was a vice president?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't, right, I guess I'm not even sure of that.
I'd have to read the constitutional little bit more closely.
I don't think that. First of all, she's never going
to do that number one. Uh, you're in dream street
on that one. But I mean, if he was, if
he was going to do that, which I don't think
he's going to do, I think it's I think it's
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would be crazy. Vance could run for president, he then
could run for vice president. But I don't think so,
because obviously then it might be even if even if
they did that. And I'm looking at the amendment.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Now, I think of an ego, who who?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Who are you talking about? Trump?
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Up? Trump?
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Trump's got too much to an ego.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Probably, Well, you know, he's going to be eighty two
years old. He's he's going to have completed two terms
as president. That's it. Don't buy into the propaganda that
the left wants to wants people to get concerned. They're
just trying to They're just they're just trying to upset
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people with this. That's all I mean, right right, it's
it's these people. They I don't know, they must go
to bed concerned about this. I guess I don't know,
but go ahead anyway.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
I'm glad. I'm glad this went through today.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
I'm glad that all this weekend. Have a great night.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I'm with you on that one. Uh, stay with us,
Thanks Michael, appreciate the call. Let me come next to
CG in Cambridge. CG you were next time ie you
go high CG. Hello, se Gee, welcome, How are you tonight?
Speaker 10 (27:02):
Very good, very good. I uh heard you say speak
softly and carry a big stick.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That was a big stick, Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, the big stick was dropping the bombs on that
nuclear plant. And I think you're going to see a
lot of the people around Israeli, but commercial and economic
will stand with them finally, and we'll even have guitar
will be protecting Israeli soon.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah. I don't disagree with that, to be honest with you,
I mean I I think that that that a lot
of these countries in the Middle East probably look at
look at Abu Abu Dhabi and these these these beautiful
cities that have that have developed. You know, why should
they not benefit economically? Do you know what I'm saying.
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I mean, it's like the world is is a very
big play and they will turn Gazer into a resort
in the Mediterranean. What's wrong with that? It's going to
help the guys and people, it will help the economy.
I just think this, You know, why would we not
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why would we not want to export capitalism to countries
around the world that have just lived in poverty forever?
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 10 (28:30):
There's nothing wrong with that? And I believe this is
his big eighth in the hole for Trump is the
economic advantage of having peace there obviously.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I mean when people were saying, remember there was
a point of time, if we're ever Electron president, if
we ever re elect Trump president, the world will end.
Because he's a madman. This guy owns hotels and golf
courses around the world. He lives a pretty nice life.
I think he's the last guy in the world that
wants to push a nuclear the clear war.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
It doesn't make sense, not at all, not at all
does it make it least bit of sense. And it's
the economics of the whole Being peaceful is going to
work wonders for the rest of all area in and
around Israeli.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
When do you think when you think even if you
let's say take this to Northern Ireland, to Ireland and
you have the Catholics and the Protestants killing each other.
I covered Northern Ireland and I was always amazed to
talk to like some of the parents of the IRA killers,
and they were so proud of their sons, you know,
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many of whom were going to spend the rest of
their life in jail or some of their sons who killed,
you know, a a Protestant and they they themselves got killed.
It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense.
And the people have hated Jews for eternity fraternity. It's
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now time to look and see what Israel did in
seventy seven years, well quicker than that, in twenty years.
They built a thriving economy in their country, the envy
of the world and the envy of the Middle East.
And for a long time, their own companies countries hated him.
That's why they invaded him in forty eight, they invaded
them in sixty seven, they invaded Israel in seventy three. Uh,
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and Israel one every time.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
And it's all up to the economy turning around for
all those countries around Israel, and they'll see the benefits
of the peace.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Then.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh, let us your your your lips to God's ears.
Thanks CJ. As always, I appreciate you call my friend
talks soon. Have a great one.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Good night, very good, thank you, good night.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Good night. All right, let me do this. I'm gonna
take a quick break. I got John, Phil, Terry and
John stay there. We're getting everybody in only one line
open six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty coming
back on night Side.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
It's night Side with.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
News Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, we're gonna work to get everybody, and I got four.
Everybody's gonna get a couple of minutes or so. Let
me go to phill in Boston. Phil next on Nightsiger
right ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Uh, the bottom line is there. This is unbelievable? Is
it my imagination? Maybe when he lost the re election,
maybe somebody up top down the sky came down and
just gave this guy the opportunity. After all he went
through to get re elected just to fit in because
(31:35):
he was the elected. This probably wouldn't have been done
just by luck. It's like a rocky movie, man, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, well there is there. There's that aspect of it.
I mean I think that that Trump was was impacted
by the assassination attempt. I'm not sure he's the most
religious guy in the world, but I think that he
has realized that maybe maybe there was some he and
that protected hit him that day. I mean, if that
bullet was two inches the other way.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Well I forgot about that. I was. I mean that
was my word, not his words. But I mean just
by luck, I mean he pulled Sudio was he's flying
from Egypt to them. Eight years old, a teenager probably
couldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Well, I'll tell you it's not only that, but he's
he's been he's kept the pace during the campaign and
he hit the ground running. And you can disagree, you
can agree with him. But the problem is that there
are people in this country who hate him so much
and they just whatever he did. Uh. And I think,
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you know, I think that's sad, I really do. I mean,
we live in a country where where this is a democracy, right,
and we have an electoral system where you have to
win the electoral college. That's that's that's how we've elected
presidents good ones, bad ones, Democrats, Republicans for for for
two and a half cent well for two centuries, at
more than two centuries, uh too, you know, and two
(33:03):
and a half centuries when you think about it, well,
not really because it took a while to win you either, Yeah,
but two hundred and thirty years bottom line, and it's worked.
But there are people out there because they don't get
their way. Well that the situation was fixed. It was
like those people who when he was elected the first
time were howling at the moon. They haven't stopped howling
since Phil right, and then I got to stop now
(33:25):
either no, no, and and most of them. I think
you should go out and howl at the moon tonight
because we have I think a good situation in the
Middle East. Let's hope it stays that way, and let's
hope it gets even better. Knock on, appreciate it. Thank
you right back at So we go to John in
New York. John next on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Hi, Dan, good evening. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
You're welcome, Jo.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah, I just want to say quickly, I'm not going
to take up much time because I know you have
other people. I think that your program should be carried
on the iHeartRadio station w g WYANT, Schenectady, New York.
It's eight hundred and ten killer Hurtz.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well. I don't make those decisions, John, okay.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
And I wish that I wish that General Electrics still
own the station. I worked for them, all right, but
they told it years ago. Yeah, built that station. And
there's a big history of radio stations they had during
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
In all but John, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
Here's what I'm gonna do. John. I'm gonna have Rob
give you my direct number during the day. You leave
me a phone number, okay, you call, leave me a
phone number on my private line, which he'll give you.
I will call you back, and if you want to
make that recommendation, I'll give you a couple of emails.
You can make that recommendation too.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Okay, okay, good.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
And this way, you were talking about a litle early
about some you want some Democrats to call. Well, you
know New York has a lot of them, so I'm
sure you'd get a lot of phone calls.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Well that's fine, No, no, no, I think I'm hoping that.
You know, just as I applauded President Obama when he
uh exercised the decision to get Osama bin Laden and
I was thrilled when he came out and he mentioned
he walked up that Carridor at the White House and said,
(35:22):
you know, we got it, we got him.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I was thrilled, And I'm thrilled today watching these Israelis
come home because of the diplomacy of Donald Trump. What's
what's there not to celebrate?
Speaker 9 (35:37):
You know, it's a good thing. I'm glad to I'm
glad that it happened. You know, he did a good
job with that.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
You have to give him credit.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Absolutely, do me a favorite, John, Stay right there. Rob
will give you my direct line, call my line tomorrow.
Give me your phone number, uh privately, and I'll call
you back.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
I'm in the car. I'm in the car. I don't
have a pen, but I'll give him my phone number.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And yeah, you give Rob, you give I'll call you tomorrow. Okay,
you give Rob the phone, he'll send it to me.
I'll call you tomorrow. Okay, thank you much. Don't hang up.
I'm gonna go to John and Boston. John, you called
late with tit on time. I have won behind you.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
Go ahead, John, Yeah, no no problem. Uh yeah, uh.
Just a shame on on Obama like you, Dan, uh, well,
unlike you. Maybe that I wasn't a supporter of his,
but I gave him a great credit for taking that
risk and sending them in yep.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
And they often referred to the Iran biasco, Uh that
put him at risk for maybe re election. And and
to that point, I was in the Marines, in that
squadron where all those guys and pilots came from that
did that mission. I joined it a little almost three
years later. But the ones that didn't come back I
(36:50):
didn't know. But the ones that did we have reunions,
and just last year we had one, and uh, that's
primarily why I wanted to call him.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
So that was that. That was you talk about the
Jimmy Carter Raide in April of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Yeah, they were all the pilots and crew members for mine,
and so we have reunions and last year we had one.
And they just declassified it in twenty nineteen where they
could talk about it, and they did a documentary on Amazon.
But anyway, to your earlier point, you weren't sure if
they would have succeeded. And one of the guys who
was in that that I asked about it, he said
(37:26):
they thought about fifty to fifty chances, So they didn't
they when they went to train in the desert long
before they did the mission, they all thought it was
a suicide mission. But anyway, that's just kind of oh,
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, it probably was, and maybe that was probably the
hostages the the Iranian hostages were released. Anyway, it took
a little a little longer, about about nine months, seven
or eight months. So thank God that we didn't lose
lives in that process as well. Hey, John, I appreciate
(37:59):
you very much. I got to get one more in
here if I can. Okay, thanks, thanks friend, call earlier.
I'd love to talk to you about that some night,
because I had friends of mine who were in the
USS Pueblo crew who were held hostage in Korea for
eleven months.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
Okay, thank you, John, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Okay, gonna rap it with Terry down of the Cape. Terry,
You've called late, but I got about a minute and
a halfway go ahead, Terry.
Speaker 12 (38:23):
Hi, Dan, your voice sounds better and I'm glad to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Well. Thank you, Bet.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
I want to.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
Thank President Trump, his administration and all of the world
leaders that work together in a good way that today happened.
I couldn't be more delighted that the guns and bombs
are silent, and all of those wonderful people got out
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of the horrible conditions that they were in and got
reunited with their families. And I rejoice for every single
one of them, and I hope and pray it's the
beginning of a lasting piece for all of us, and
I want the same thing for Ukraine.
Speaker 11 (39:13):
Make no mistake, Yeah I do as well.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I join you in that thought. That was an eloquent comment.
I couldn't have said it better myself, Terry. So thank you.
You ended on a very very positive note tonight. And
I know that Don Deep you're not a huge Donald
Trump supporter, which is fine, but let's give them credit
(39:37):
where credit is due, and let's hope that this train
stays on the track and gets us to where we
want to be in the Middle East changes for the
better as well.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
Simple as that exactly.
Speaker 12 (39:50):
That's why you call me judge, Terry. Right.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You would be a good judge if I became if
I became governor, you're going to be nominated as a
judge because you're fear minded. Thanks Terry, I gotta go,
Thank you, night bade, good night.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
To the callers who are still calling in right now,
the show ends at eleven fifty eight, so I'm gonna
wrap it up. I wish you called earlier. Thank you anyway,
All talks, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
why Peal Charlie Rays who passed fifteen years going February
that's where all your pets are passed. They loved you
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
(40:29):
Hope to see gain tomorrow night on Night Side. We'll
be back at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Thank you to
the callers, thank you to the listeners, thank you to Rob,
and thank you to Marita, and thank all of you.
We'll see you tomorrow night and have a great Tuesday.
Everybody den ray for Nightside.
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Boston's Knew video.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
For those of you who might have missed that, there
was a huge story in the Middle East today, trust
me on that. Okay, everything went perfectly. The twenty hostages
that Hamas had promised to release were released, some really
emotional homecomings. These are people who thought they would never
see their sons, or their daughters, or their moms, or
(00:28):
their dads or their spouses ever. Again, It's just amazing
to me what Israel has put up with for seventy
seven years, of this harassment and attack by its Arab neighbors.
(00:49):
And now those Arab neighbors, many of them, have lined
up behind Donald Trump. And Donald Trump deserves credit for this,
even got credit from Hillary Clinton. I want to play
and I want to give her credit for being supportive
(01:11):
and acknowledging the obvious. It's as simple as that President
Obama wasn't able to pull himself to to say that
for some reason, he had to write a statement and
with no reference to Donald Trump. And I remember and well,
(01:32):
this is Abby Phillips from CNN making that very point,
and she's a supporter of President Obama. Cut number eight, Please.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Rob, President Obama put out this post talking about the
peace deal and the prospects of it, and Don Junior
responded to it, I'll finish it for you. Thank you,
Donald Trump. Honestly, it's it's not unfair to say if
President Obama's going to write a whole post about a
peace deal, maybe you should acknowledge the president that broke her.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
To and Hillary collected to her credit, No phantom, Donald
Trump was gracious enough, and she and her husband worked
on this peace deal for many years and Trump, President
Trump was able to accomplish with no other president has
accomplished Republican Democrat before him. Cut eight a please, Rob.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's a really significant first step, and I really commend
President Trump and his administration as well as Arab leaders
in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
point Plan and seeing a path forward for what's often
(02:49):
called the day After.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, so, anyway, we'll continue to talk about this. I
truly believe, and I don't I'm not someone who thinks
of myself as a futurist, but clearly what Donald Trump
the businessman has done. This is the first time we've
elected a pure businessman as president of the United States
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in my lifetime. And when I say we elected, I
voted voting for him neither in twenty sixteen, twenty twenty,
or twenty twenty four. I basically I'd find that the
Democrats have put up candidates who I couldn't vote for,
and the Republicans have simply put up Donald Trump. And
I was not happy with his demeanor in twenty sixteen,
(03:40):
was not happy with how he conducted himself following the
election of twenty twenty, was not happy with January sixth.
I make no mistake about it. I'm not going to
tell you that I've been a Donald Trump guy. I
have not. I've commanded him on things that he's done
a right, which is closing the border after it was
(04:03):
a basically all the Ali entry, come one, come all
from the Biden administration, and what he's done in Israel
and in the Middle East, he's appealed to their economic interests. Uh.
And no other politician again, every political leader you know,
(04:24):
I guess the only one that was that was not
a political leader was Dwight Eisenhower. Harry Truman was a
vice president of Senator Eisenhower was a general, never elected
to any other office other than the presidency of the
United States, John Kennedy, a Senator Linda Johnson, and Senator
Richard Nixon. A former senator. Former Vice president Gerald Ford
(04:46):
was a he never elected, by the way, but he
was a longtime congressman from from Michigan. Jimmy Carter, governor
from Georgia. Ronald Reagan, governor from California. He ran for
governor as a non politician too, by the way, so
even though Reagan was a governor prior to that, he
had never served in public office, been the head of
(05:08):
a union, head of SAG after no doubt. George Bush,
longtime politician, career politician, member of Congress. I'm CIA director,
Vice President Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas. George Bush forty
three governor of Texas, President Obama, senator from Illinois, Donald Trump,
(05:34):
non politician. We swum back to the politician of them all,
Joe Biden. How did that work out? And I'm given
a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a former senator,
former vice president. It's interesting. I think it's interesting something
to think about. Love you to get love you to
(05:55):
comment on it. Let me go next to Ron in Newton. Ron,
thanks for calling in you next.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
On Nike tag right ahead, all Dan, I thank you
so much. I'm comfortably sitting in the Native arrest area.
I couldn't help but pull over from ninety to to
speak with you on this. I am so grateful and
happy that we've made it this far. You know, and
(06:20):
as I thought about it, but when you think about
the comments that have been made about President Trump being
the bully, well, you know, when you walk into a
neighborhood that is filled with bullies, I'll tell you you've got
to change the games, that the rules of the game.
(06:41):
When I went to and I have firsthand experience, as
you know, in the Middle East and going to Iran,
being surrounded by AK forty seventeen guns even when you're
trying to go to the bathroom. It's a different world.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
It's not like walking into a.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Town meeting anywhere in the United States, and and and
so there's a different set of lenses in your glasses
that you have to look for.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Well, what of our great presidents Teddy Teddy Roosevelt. He
was famous for saying, walk softly, but carry a big stick.
I think that's what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
And I also from from all the documentaries that I've
seen about the Nuremberg Trials, and I remember specifically city
seeing Harry Truman wins to Churchill in Mussolini city side
by side.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Uh are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
And they they no, Well, I say, Mussolini would not
have been in a picture with Harry Truman. You meant
Joe Stallin? Yeah, Well, and that would have been Roosevelt.
That would have That was Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin had Yalla,
is I think what you're referring to? Well?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, but after that, after that, there was a photo
with Harry Trump after President Roosevelt had died.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay, And so I don't recall seeing that, but but
I take your word for it, right ahead, Okay. Mussolini,
as you know, was hung, was hung before the war ended. Yeah,
he got what he deserved. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Ron, That's okay. So, So my point is is what
I've said, and that is it. It's a whole different
world to be in, you know. The it just so,
I think I think we can't criticize Donald Trump for
(08:43):
his manner in this particular moment. I think I'm very
I'm very impressed that he was able to, uh, you know,
the tenacity to under all the criticism to go forward.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, no, no one. And to the best of my knowledge,
I'm hearing very few people who are going to change
their mind on Donald Trump. Okay, it's uh yeah. He
did the right thing by taking out the Iranian nuclear system.
They had under construction deep underground, an area where they
(09:20):
were trying to create all that they needed for nuclear
bomb bombs. If they had a nuclear bomb, they would
have thrown it in, thrown it in on Tel Aviv
the next day. Simple as that. He took them off
the stage as a off the nuclear stage, and that
as a secondary benefit, I think sent the message to Hamas,
(09:41):
you know, your bank your banker is out of business,
because that's what Iran is. It was it was Hamas's banker, yep,
and it took it. There's a tough decision. Those planes
might not have been successful. God knows if one of
them got shot down. Remember the helicopters with Jimmy car
Hard in the in the desert when he was trying
(10:03):
to do uh you know, really you know, rescue American hostages.
I don't know that that would have worked even if
the helicopters hadn't gone down. But you know, look, I
I'm waiting for any of my listeners who are Democrats,
and I can name them by name, but I won't
challenge them to call and uh and say, look, uh,
(10:27):
you got to give this guy credit on this. It's
as simple as that. I if I can give Barack
Obama credit for his decision, courageous decision to go and
take out Osama bin Laden, why can't people who don't
like Donald Trump recognize that his decision, a series of
decisions have led to this tonight and hopefully it's gonna
(10:50):
it's going to set the stage for a peace in
the Middle East. How about that as a concept? Huh?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah? And maybe I'm just I'm just hoping maybe this
might be a little bit of a step toward the Ukraine.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, I it may send a message to Putin. Maybe
maybe maybe Putin will have to take him most seriously,
I don't know. Obviously, Uh, let's celebrate at least one
one victory. I've had a bunch of people who have
sent me emails, you know about how that Hamas is
still is killing innocent Palestinians. Uh, folks, if you're listening
(11:34):
and you're sending me emails, it's six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
It's a talk show. If you think I'm going to
read your email and say, oh I got an email
here from someone who sent me an email, not letna
do it. Not gonna do it, Eggs Rod, thank you
for called appreciated.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
This was great, Thank you, thanks much.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Talk to you Edy. We'll take a quick break. This
is a quick break. Got one line at six one, seven, two,
five thirty and one and six at six one, seven,
nine three, one ten thirty. It's it's amazing. I'm doing
a talk show and you're gonna send me an email.
I mean, please, that's doesn't make sense. Okay, why do
you want to tell me something? And you could tell
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people in thirty eight states and around the world who
listen to Nightside Back on Nightside. The only lines open
now are six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
Back on night Side. After this, gonna go to Laurie
and I don't Laurie. I know you spent a lot
of time probably watching the news overnight. How are you tonight?
Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I did I, well, I could have kind of started
to roll at midnight here, and so I for a
little bit, hurt little and with like I started following it,
and I just I couldn't turn off. It was emotional,
it was amazing. I'm still pinching myself to be perfectly
honest that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, that time, that time gets difference gets us every
you know, gets us at seven hours. So I guess
it was. It was really kicked in the gear about
two am our time in the east, and in your
your time in Idaho, you're in what Pacific type?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
So yeah, so fair.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
So I was kicking in about midnight. I was, you know,
winding up, and I usually you know, I checked like
the headlinean or something, and then so Trump is, you know,
headed there about Oh okay. The next thing I know,
he's there, he's landing in Israel and he started transferring
the first I mean, I couldn't. I couldn't. It was
hugely emotional. I couldn't. I couldn't turn off. So I
was one of those that did follow it all night.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, well that's good for you. And you even called
the show, which is great, which I had someone too
earlier tonight was said send me pictures of the hostages,
and I said, give it the show. I'm exhausted. I
was watching it on TV last night. Well okay, thank you, Laurie,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Well I'm a little bit of a news junkie, but
but it's still it just just I mean, I haven't
seen anything like this in my lifetime. Technically maybe the
Berlin Wall or something like that, but it's just it's amazing.
I can't believe it's worked this far. I give Trump
and Yaho, and it means the leaders that are trying
to like scoot into the photos for.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, someone wrote earlier that someone wrote earlier that Trump
has his own United Nations now behind him. That yeah, yeah, yeah,
I am very smart, smart person who who had that
that observation. I had not thought of it that way,
but that was pretty cool. No, you're right, And I
(14:35):
mean he's got Bertigan there, he's got LCC from Egypt.
Uh yeah. And again, what my democratic callers? They're all quiet?
Where are the protesters. Where are the people who were
who were concerned about, you know, the the slaughter in
uh in Gaza. Now, Israel's not killing anybody, it's hamas Is.
(14:56):
If we're particularly but killing Pattestinians. The Hamas had kept
Palestinians kidnapped for years. They used them as human shields.
They built their tunnels under their schools, they built tunnels
under their hospitals. But the people who were out here
in the streets, they weren't pro Hamas. They were pro
Hamas and they were anti Israel.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah, protest, but yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
No, But they had they weren't concerned about the Palestinian people.
They were concerned about is They hated Israel. It's that's
what's going on. Yeah, they were consumed by the hatred
of Israel. They've been consumed anti Semitism in this country.
Thank God that this administration has spoken up against anti
Semitism at universities and schools. There many kids have gone
(15:43):
to college and in recent years who kept their mouths
shut for four years because they were Jewish and they
were afraid that if they opened their mouth that'd say something.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
You know, Yell the hopeful day, it really is.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It is an incredibly hopeful day. And I've felt better.
I haven't all better about the country in a long time.
I do remember when the Berlin Wall fell, and I
remember when the American hostages came home with the USS
Pueblo in nineteen sixty eight and just before Christmas, and
I can understand what the Israeli people felt.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah, exactly, and just I mean and the Donald you know.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, this this non politician we had Joe Biden, who
spent his entire life in Washington, knew more about foreign
policy and everybody. And Donald Trump comes in, he knows
about real estate and New York and and he's able.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
To making a deal.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Maybe we should elect more non.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Have you ever heard that Biden? Someone at some point
in time said Biden and foreign policy always always made
the wrong decision. Vot was he was always on the
wrong side of the right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, one of that was said by That was said
by Bob Gates, who was he was a Secretary of
Defense for a while under the under President Obama. And
apparently Uh Biden did not want to send the Navy
seals in to get Obama. Oh yeah, oh yeah, wow
(17:15):
to Ghet Osama. Excuse me, right, under President Obama who
had the guts to send the navy seals in to
take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. They knew where
he was dangerous mission. Apparently Joe Biden was was was saying, no,
this is not a good idea. So that's what what
(17:35):
caused Gates to say that on every major foreign policy.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Decision, Joel Daisy and help everything.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, probably probably didn't seem much of a benefit to
his family financially. I'm just thinking. I'm just saying, you know,
you never know. Llory, thank you so much. Great to
hear your voice. You sound great after BEV been up
all night. All right, let's keep going here. Who do
(18:03):
we have next? I got Bill and Danvers. Bill, we're
gonna get you in before the break. Here, go right
at Bill.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, no, Uh. It was unbelievable, and I'm actually shocked
at they got him out. I mean, to be honest
with you, I thought Hermas was gonna just say that said,
and you know they'd have to go in there full board,
and it would have been a disaster. I mean, but uh,
but that press car later on when they all got together,
CEC was there and all the world lead and everybody
(18:30):
flew in. He had Maloney came in from Italy.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yep, he had uh Starmer from England. The Crone was there.
He was able to avoid the traffic jam, and he
got out of New York and get there.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, and uh. And but that guy from Pakistan, I
thought was when he come out and say, you know,
of course he said he you know, President Trump should
get the nobelt b. But when he explained his situation
with his country with India, and he goes, you know,
things were heating up, but we shot each other's planes,
you know, the next step we weren't too far away,
and maybe none of us were going to be around
(19:04):
to tell the story about it.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I mean that was real shocking.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And I think both of those nations are nuclear powers
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, and they were, you know, I think
they the way he made it so, I mean, you know,
I mean we were talking about they were going to
let some stuff fly because things were really heating up,
and and you know the way he put it, you know,
and he goes, thank god, you know, and he said,
this guy hit the beaned and he wouldn't believe it,
and blah blah blah. And and I think by having
(19:35):
everyone on board like that, hopefully, because I mean, you know,
nobody wants upset the apple cart. Now they're all in
you know what I mean, they all get a stake
in the game kind of you know, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Here's the thing that'll be interesting. Let's see what the
approving approval polls show in the next two or three weeks.
I'm not sure that he should get a real bump
here because of what has been accomplished in Israel. But
I don't think I think that they're that they're the
people who are the anti Trump people will never come
(20:06):
over no matter what he does. He could end the
war in Ukraine. Uh, he could. He could do all
of these things, or bring peace to the Middle East.
And that's just not fair, Okay. I mean, is he
a great human being? I don't necessarily think so. Okay,
But but like everybody else, you know, there's I don't
(20:26):
think a lot of these people are great human beings there.
They all have egos, whether they and I'm talking about senators.
In order to be a US senator, you got to
have a pretty strong ego. Okay. There are no wilthy,
no wilting flowers in the in the in the US Senate.
Uh And and you know, look, do I like Trump style?
(20:49):
Do I like him going on and and patting himself
in the back. He doesn't have to anymore if he's smart.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I know, I mean, but you know Trump danem
syndrome is it's a real thing. Dan. I'd say he
gets a little bump, but I don't think he breaks
sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh he'll get no way, No, well, he won't get
close to it. Won't get close to sixty percent. You'd
have to you'd have to change twenty percent of h
of the anti trumpers to get him with sixty percent.
Right now, the country's can you know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You know, like yourself. When Osama bin Laden was taken out,
now you obviously, I mean I was never ever a
fan of anything Obama had, but I gave the guy credit.
I said, hey, he got the job done, and to
him and uh, you know, I was happy walking around
and say, hey, you know we we got rid of
the guy and you know, and.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Made it made the world a little safe. It made
the world a little safer. And that's still a big
call for president. If that Navy team Navy sealed Team
six had gone in and been blown out of the sky. Uh,
everybody second guesses. But but you know, sometimes you got
to make the big decision. And President Obama made the
(22:05):
big decision. He made the right decision. And I was
as proud of him as my president because he was
my president as I could as I was of Ronald
Reagan when the Berlin Wall fell, even though it fell
while George Bush was president. People forget that.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You know, Reagan told, you know, issues over the years
that are festered in the Middle East. So how was
the affected at hair with terrorism and Americans have been
killed over the years?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh absolutely, opeck o peck gas prices if you want
to talk about that, ten years, twenty years, twenty years
in Iraq and Afghanistan for what you know, the disaster withdrawal,
when thirteen Americans die. They had the they had the
(22:52):
bomber and the sniper had him in his sights, but
he couldn't get an okay to kill him. So thirteen
American kids had to die. Yeah, Cabul, you know, Abbigate.
Yeah good.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know, we could calm a lot of the stuff
down and then focus on you know, economic stuff and
the South. Now, hopefully with these wins overseas, you know,
that spills over into the European situation a little bit,
you know, but I think economics are going to play
into that damn because oil was down the by I
think it's fifty eight dollars a barrel today. But again,
(23:29):
if he can get it down the fifty two, you know,
putin and touch, put the squeeze on him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He's got absolutely And by the way, it won't it
won't hurt us with our with our prices at the
pump either. That would help Donald Trump more than bringing
peace in the Middle East. There's a lot of Americans
who are so myopic. They don't understand what happens halfway
around the world is going to affect us, our kids
and our grandkids. Anyway, Thank you very much, Bill has
(23:55):
always I appreciate your loyalty. Tonight's side, thank you, have
a great one.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Good yeah, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Six thirty. That's the only line open. We got the
news at the bottom of the hour. A couple of minutes.
Life be right back on night side.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
It's night Side with Ray Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
All right, let us get right back to the phone
calls here on night side. Let me get everything underway
here before I just get out of this here real quickly,
doing too many things here simultaneously. So let me let
me get roll with here. Everything okay, who's next? Let
me see, Okay, gonna go to Michael and Attleborough. Michael
next on Nightside? Go right ahead? Hey, yeah, good Michael.
(24:39):
What's on your mind tonight?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
I just turned on now Colbert.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
I can't listen to him.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I just why would you ever? Why would you have
a turn on anything while Nightside is on the air?
Are you too smart to do anything other than that?
Speaker 11 (24:52):
No, it just happened to come on now. I forgured
i'd be done with my phone call. But he's not.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
It doesn't seem he's here for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Let's of course, he's the man is. He's in trouple.
He's a lot of trouble. Let's talk about something positive.
What's on your mind? Michael?
Speaker 10 (25:08):
What do you think of Hillary running for president with
Trump was a vice president?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't, right, I guess I'm not even sure of that.
I'd have to read the constitutional little bit more closely.
I don't think that. First of all, she's never going
to do that number one. Uh, you're in dream street
on that one. But I mean, if he was, if
he was going to do that, which I don't think
he's going to do, I think it's I think it's
(25:38):
would be crazy. Vance could run for president, he then
could run for vice president. But I don't think so,
because obviously then it might be even if even if
they did that. And I'm looking at the amendment.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Now, I think of an ego, who who?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Who are you talking about? Trump?
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Up? Trump?
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Trump's got too much to an ego.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Probably, Well, you know, he's going to be eighty two
years old. He's he's going to have completed two terms
as president. That's it. Don't buy into the propaganda that
the left wants to wants people to get concerned. They're
just trying to They're just they're just trying to upset
(26:25):
people with this. That's all I mean, right right, it's
it's these people. They I don't know, they must go
to bed concerned about this. I guess I don't know,
but go ahead anyway.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
I'm glad. I'm glad this went through today.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
I'm glad that all this weekend. Have a great night.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I'm with you on that one. Uh, stay with us,
Thanks Michael, appreciate the call. Let me come next to
CG in Cambridge. CG you were next time ie you
go high CG. Hello, se Gee, welcome, How are you tonight?
Speaker 10 (27:02):
Very good, very good. I uh heard you say speak
softly and carry a big stick.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That was a big stick, Teddy Roosevelt.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, the big stick was dropping the bombs on that
nuclear plant. And I think you're going to see a
lot of the people around Israeli, but commercial and economic
will stand with them finally, and we'll even have guitar
will be protecting Israeli soon.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah. I don't disagree with that, to be honest with you,
I mean I I think that that that a lot
of these countries in the Middle East probably look at
look at Abu Abu Dhabi and these these these beautiful
cities that have that have developed. You know, why should
they not benefit economically? Do you know what I'm saying.
(27:55):
I mean, it's like the world is is a very
big play and they will turn Gazer into a resort
in the Mediterranean. What's wrong with that? It's going to
help the guys and people, it will help the economy.
I just think this, You know, why would we not
(28:20):
why would we not want to export capitalism to countries
around the world that have just lived in poverty forever?
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 10 (28:30):
There's nothing wrong with that? And I believe this is
his big eighth in the hole for Trump is the
economic advantage of having peace there obviously.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I mean when people were saying, remember there was
a point of time, if we're ever Electron president, if
we ever re elect Trump president, the world will end.
Because he's a madman. This guy owns hotels and golf
courses around the world. He lives a pretty nice life.
I think he's the last guy in the world that
wants to push a nuclear the clear war.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
It doesn't make sense, not at all, not at all
does it make it least bit of sense. And it's
the economics of the whole Being peaceful is going to
work wonders for the rest of all area in and
around Israeli.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
When do you think when you think even if you
let's say take this to Northern Ireland, to Ireland and
you have the Catholics and the Protestants killing each other.
I covered Northern Ireland and I was always amazed to
talk to like some of the parents of the IRA killers,
and they were so proud of their sons, you know,
(29:39):
many of whom were going to spend the rest of
their life in jail or some of their sons who killed,
you know, a a Protestant and they they themselves got killed.
It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense.
And the people have hated Jews for eternity fraternity. It's
(30:00):
now time to look and see what Israel did in
seventy seven years, well quicker than that, in twenty years.
They built a thriving economy in their country, the envy
of the world and the envy of the Middle East.
And for a long time, their own companies countries hated him.
That's why they invaded him in forty eight, they invaded
them in sixty seven, they invaded Israel in seventy three. Uh,
(30:23):
and Israel one every time.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
And it's all up to the economy turning around for
all those countries around Israel, and they'll see the benefits
of the peace.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Then.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh, let us your your your lips to God's ears.
Thanks CJ. As always, I appreciate you call my friend
talks soon. Have a great one.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Good night, very good, thank you, good night.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Good night. All right, let me do this. I'm gonna
take a quick break. I got John, Phil, Terry and
John stay there. We're getting everybody in only one line
open six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty coming
back on night Side.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
It's night Side with.
Speaker 10 (31:05):
News Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, we're gonna work to get everybody, and I got four.
Everybody's gonna get a couple of minutes or so. Let
me go to phill in Boston. Phil next on Nightsiger
right ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Uh, the bottom line is there. This is unbelievable? Is
it my imagination? Maybe when he lost the re election,
maybe somebody up top down the sky came down and
just gave this guy the opportunity. After all he went
through to get re elected just to fit in because
(31:35):
he was the elected. This probably wouldn't have been done
just by luck. It's like a rocky movie, man, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, well there is there. There's that aspect of it.
I mean I think that that Trump was was impacted
by the assassination attempt. I'm not sure he's the most
religious guy in the world, but I think that he
has realized that maybe maybe there was some he and
that protected hit him that day. I mean, if that
bullet was two inches the other way.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Well I forgot about that. I was. I mean that
was my word, not his words. But I mean just
by luck, I mean he pulled Sudio was he's flying
from Egypt to them. Eight years old, a teenager probably
couldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Well, I'll tell you it's not only that, but he's
he's been he's kept the pace during the campaign and
he hit the ground running. And you can disagree, you
can agree with him. But the problem is that there
are people in this country who hate him so much
and they just whatever he did. Uh. And I think,
(32:40):
you know, I think that's sad, I really do. I mean,
we live in a country where where this is a democracy, right,
and we have an electoral system where you have to
win the electoral college. That's that's that's how we've elected
presidents good ones, bad ones, Democrats, Republicans for for for
two and a half cent well for two centuries, at
more than two centuries, uh too, you know, and two
(33:03):
and a half centuries when you think about it, well,
not really because it took a while to win you either, Yeah,
but two hundred and thirty years bottom line, and it's worked.
But there are people out there because they don't get
their way. Well that the situation was fixed. It was
like those people who when he was elected the first
time were howling at the moon. They haven't stopped howling
since Phil right, and then I got to stop now
(33:25):
either no, no, and and most of them. I think
you should go out and howl at the moon tonight
because we have I think a good situation in the
Middle East. Let's hope it stays that way, and let's
hope it gets even better. Knock on, appreciate it. Thank
you right back at So we go to John in
New York. John next on Nightside, Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Hi, Dan, good evening. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
You're welcome, Jo.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah, I just want to say quickly, I'm not going
to take up much time because I know you have
other people. I think that your program should be carried
on the iHeartRadio station w g WYANT, Schenectady, New York.
It's eight hundred and ten killer Hurtz.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well. I don't make those decisions, John, okay.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
And I wish that I wish that General Electrics still
own the station. I worked for them, all right, but
they told it years ago. Yeah, built that station. And
there's a big history of radio stations they had during
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
In all but John, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
Here's what I'm gonna do. John. I'm gonna have Rob
give you my direct number during the day. You leave
me a phone number, okay, you call, leave me a
phone number on my private line, which he'll give you.
I will call you back, and if you want to
make that recommendation, I'll give you a couple of emails.
You can make that recommendation too.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Okay, okay, good.
Speaker 9 (34:52):
And this way, you were talking about a litle early
about some you want some Democrats to call. Well, you
know New York has a lot of them, so I'm
sure you'd get a lot of phone calls.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Well that's fine, No, no, no, I think I'm hoping that.
You know, just as I applauded President Obama when he
uh exercised the decision to get Osama bin Laden and
I was thrilled when he came out and he mentioned
he walked up that Carridor at the White House and said,
(35:22):
you know, we got it, we got him.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I was thrilled, And I'm thrilled today watching these Israelis
come home because of the diplomacy of Donald Trump. What's
what's there not to celebrate?
Speaker 9 (35:37):
You know, it's a good thing. I'm glad to I'm
glad that it happened. You know, he did a good
job with that.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
You have to give him credit.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Absolutely, do me a favorite, John, Stay right there. Rob
will give you my direct line, call my line tomorrow.
Give me your phone number, uh privately, and I'll call
you back.
Speaker 11 (35:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
I'm in the car. I'm in the car. I don't
have a pen, but I'll give him my phone number.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And yeah, you give Rob, you give I'll call you tomorrow. Okay,
you give Rob the phone, he'll send it to me.
I'll call you tomorrow. Okay, thank you much. Don't hang up.
I'm gonna go to John and Boston. John, you called
late with tit on time. I have won behind you.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
Go ahead, John, Yeah, no no problem. Uh yeah, uh.
Just a shame on on Obama like you, Dan, uh, well,
unlike you. Maybe that I wasn't a supporter of his,
but I gave him a great credit for taking that
risk and sending them in yep.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
And they often referred to the Iran biasco, Uh that
put him at risk for maybe re election. And and
to that point, I was in the Marines, in that
squadron where all those guys and pilots came from that
did that mission. I joined it a little almost three
years later. But the ones that didn't come back I
(36:50):
didn't know. But the ones that did we have reunions,
and just last year we had one, and uh, that's
primarily why I wanted to call him.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
So that was that. That was you talk about the
Jimmy Carter Raide in April of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Yeah, they were all the pilots and crew members for mine,
and so we have reunions and last year we had one.
And they just declassified it in twenty nineteen where they
could talk about it, and they did a documentary on Amazon.
But anyway, to your earlier point, you weren't sure if
they would have succeeded. And one of the guys who
was in that that I asked about it, he said
(37:26):
they thought about fifty to fifty chances, So they didn't
they when they went to train in the desert long
before they did the mission, they all thought it was
a suicide mission. But anyway, that's just kind of oh,
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, it probably was, and maybe that was probably the
hostages the the Iranian hostages were released. Anyway, it took
a little a little longer, about about nine months, seven
or eight months. So thank God that we didn't lose
lives in that process as well. Hey, John, I appreciate
(37:59):
you very much. I got to get one more in
here if I can. Okay, thanks, thanks friend, call earlier.
I'd love to talk to you about that some night,
because I had friends of mine who were in the
USS Pueblo crew who were held hostage in Korea for
eleven months.
Speaker 11 (38:13):
Okay, thank you, John, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Okay, gonna rap it with Terry down of the Cape. Terry,
You've called late, but I got about a minute and
a halfway go ahead, Terry.
Speaker 12 (38:23):
Hi, Dan, your voice sounds better and I'm glad to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Well. Thank you, Bet.
Speaker 11 (38:29):
I want to.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
Thank President Trump, his administration and all of the world
leaders that work together in a good way that today happened.
I couldn't be more delighted that the guns and bombs
are silent, and all of those wonderful people got out
(38:51):
of the horrible conditions that they were in and got
reunited with their families. And I rejoice for every single
one of them, and I hope and pray it's the
beginning of a lasting piece for all of us, and
I want the same thing for Ukraine.
Speaker 11 (39:13):
Make no mistake, Yeah I do as well.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I join you in that thought. That was an eloquent comment.
I couldn't have said it better myself, Terry. So thank you.
You ended on a very very positive note tonight. And
I know that Don Deep you're not a huge Donald
Trump supporter, which is fine, but let's give them credit
(39:37):
where credit is due, and let's hope that this train
stays on the track and gets us to where we
want to be in the Middle East changes for the
better as well.
Speaker 11 (39:48):
Simple as that exactly.
Speaker 12 (39:50):
That's why you call me judge, Terry. Right.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You would be a good judge if I became if
I became governor, you're going to be nominated as a
judge because you're fear minded. Thanks Terry, I gotta go,
Thank you, night bade, good night.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
To the callers who are still calling in right now,
the show ends at eleven fifty eight, so I'm gonna
wrap it up. I wish you called earlier. Thank you anyway,
All talks, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
why Peal Charlie Rays who passed fifteen years going February
that's where all your pets are passed. They loved you
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
(40:29):
Hope to see gain tomorrow night on Night Side. We'll
be back at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Thank you to
the callers, thank you to the listeners, thank you to Rob,
and thank you to Marita, and thank all of you.
We'll see you tomorrow night and have a great Tuesday.
Everybody den ray for Nightside.
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