July 28, 2025 • 40 mins
Every now and then, a rare opportunity arrives when listeners can call in about any subject. Callers chimed in on many topics, including cases in the news, crazy motorists, the trade situation, bike lanes, and the Market Basket feud.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, Welcome back everyone, Thanks very much, Dan Walking.
Sad news about Ryan Sandberg. Obviously, he should have been
at the Cooperstown ceremony yesterday. Hall of Fame ceremony is
a Hall of Famer and he was not able to
be there, obviously because of the medical condition that has
taken his life. Again, I'd like to remind you too,
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feel free. Okay, here's we're gonna do tonight in the
eleven o'clock hour. I'm gonna go open lines. Very rarely
do we go open lines here on Nightside. And I
would love to hear from you as to whatever topic
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is of interest to you. If there's accept you know,
we try to hit as many different topics as we can.
That's what we do on Nightside. It has been a
successful formula now for nearly eighteen years. We talked in
the first hour the first talk show hour Tonight with
Dan Shaughnessy and the Boston Red Sox about on the
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Boston Globe about the Boston Red Sox situation and as
we approach the annual trade deadline, which sometimes some of
the biggest named players in baseball trade uniforms, will the
Red Sox be buyers or sellers? Well, I think they
will probably be buyers because there are no great teams
in the American League this year, there's probably no great
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teams in IY League, and it's going to be some
sort of a well, just you know, people whoever gets
lucky at the right time pretty much will be anyway.
In the second hour, we talked with attorney Matt Fogelman,
the attorney for Lenz Joseph. If you listen last hour,
that's the five year old boy who was run over
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by his own school bus in Boston on April twenty eight,
three months ago today. And we don't know much about
that situation either from the DA's office, the Mayor's office,
the police department. And it's frustrating because if this had
happened in another community where maybe maybe people would have
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been up in arms, they would have been being in contact.
Uh and and basically saying to the authorities, we need answers,
We need answers, all right, so what we're going to
do tonight? And very rarely do we do this, but
tonight was a little slow night. To be really honest
with you. Always, whenever it's slow on the phone lines,
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I get disappointed because I don't know that you're out there.
The only way I can tell if you're out there
listening is when I hear from you. So we have
very quickly filled the six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty line. The only line that is open is six months, seven, nine,
ten thirty. This is sort of like your own talk
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back line. But you can talk back live to me
if you want to give us a compliment, if you
want to make a criticism, if you want to make
a suggestion, if you want to make a recommendation, if
you want to suggest the topic that you feel people
would respond to. We're always open for business here on Nightside.
It is as simple as that. We need to follow
your guidance and your advice, because this show is not
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a show for me to use as a platform for
my own personal beliefs. I might be talking about other issues.
I want to talk about issues that are of interest
to you. So if you want to make a suggestion,
this is a great opportunity. If you want to offer
a criticism, that's fine, too simple as that, because we
can only learn with criticism as well, and I have
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never been hesitant to accept criticism. Let's go to Bill
in Natick. Bill is I think looking to talk about
the bus story?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Bill, how are you actually? Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I can hear you just perfectly, Go right ahead. You
can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah. No, I just following up on a similar kind
of subject that you were talking about. And I know
you've had a couple of couple of shows in the
past week or so about the subject about the horrible
situation of the young child. Yes, have you recent only
done a story of the state police trainee.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Who was killed the death of that No, we did
it at the time, which is now what's coming up
on a year.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Exactly. And I think I just think some of the
same frustration that you're you're feeling and other callers are
feeling that what's going on? Why is it taking so long? Uh,
there's been no information. I know the family just came
out recently saying they were not being kept informed. And
you know the for for for good or bad reasons,
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the Massachusetts State Police has had had some difficult situations
come up recently with the recent court case.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I know they they've had a spade of problems. They had,
you know, some troopers who have been indicted federally. There
was there was Yeah that they have always had the
reputation of a great police force, but they have they
well they are, but they they certainly have hurt that
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reputation and I don't know if they're not screening the uh,
the the people who are applying adequately, I don't know.
But but but the the recruit who lost his life supposedly,
you know, we were told in a boxing ring. If
there's anyone who has information on that story and wants
to contact me, I'm all ears. I'm all ears. And
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if there's anyone who represents the family who wants to
get some information, I'll tell you what. I'm also interested
in terms of the state police. The state police who
lost their jobs because they refuse to take COVID shots.
I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I know that I know that story, But I'm talking
about the story that we just finished in the past hour.
Yes that I think there's there's a year has gone by,
and I know there was a special investigator appointed by
Governor Heely. I know there's a new commandant I believe
for the state Police.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yes there is, and you know, but I think a year.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Has gone by. I think, you know, three months is
too long without knowing anything about the case you discussed.
But I feel so badly for the family of that
State Police trainee who's waiting for a year with no answer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, First of all, Bill, I'm glad you brought it up.
I'm glad you're reminded me on it. The one thing
that would be helpful, and I don't know if you're
connected to the family at all or whatever, but if
you would be kind enough to, if you are, reach
out to them and have them get back in touch
with us. And well, I'm we fill forty hours a
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week and we are more than excuse me, twenty hours
a week.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And I'll interrupt you first. Second, I don't have any
contact with them, but WBZ News has recently done a
story with the family of the of that training.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, well we'll chase it down. Well, well, we will
chase that down because sometimes you got to rattle people's
cages to get answered, simple as that.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I just feel so badly as we all feel badly
for that little boy too.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sounds great, That sounds great. Agreed totally with you. Thank you, Bill,
appreciate your call. That's a great suggestion. I like that.
Let's keep rolling here six one seven, two, four ten thirty.
One line there and one line at six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray one Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Back we go looking for your thoughts. This is open lines.
Very rarely do we do this, but let's keep rolling here.
Hey Phil, how are you Phil in Boston? Next on nightside?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Me's so consumed, That's what I'm calling about it. But no,
you know, I that that bust thing is crazy, But
I was. I believe I drove by that general location
at that time when I saw the bus. I believe
it the bus being told there's some kind of garage
on the street. The point is what the book did
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the when the bus pulls over. Let me tell you
it's not easy driving a bus, Okay, even if you're
the point is either fifty foot forty foot where the
heck is going down the street. When you pull over
the buses and you get having a doorsment for these things,
you pull what you pull over. If one I've observed
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is the school bus has an arm that automatically for
understand falls down, so the answers don't cross the street.
Now why the Maybe it's the wrong spot. Maybe the
I think the eleven year old kers had taken a lead.
The point is the seat of one example that he
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might have fire for the street one thing.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
And.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I think Phil, I think you're asking a lot
of obvious questions which I think anyone who was who
was intelligent and you were that would would ask. I
certainly have that question. How many times have you you
you come up behind a school bus the lights are
flashing and you see the stop sign and you better
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not pass that bus. And if you ever passed that
bus with the stop sign there's a police car nearby,
You're in big trouble. That is not one you can
talk your way out. And where have you going? Well,
now there's cameras, right, But even when there wasn't camp,
when there weren't cameras, if you got nailed going thirty
seven in the thirty five, a lot of times the
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police office will give you break. But when you when
you go blow blow past the stop sign and a
school bus, there's no break to be had. So I'm
with you.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Are there are any subjects.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You would like to see us talk about that we
haven't talked about lately?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Good, good, good questions. I'm glad that I felt embarrassed
by calling up on the subject. It's because very controversial.
But the subject that I'm thinking about, there's these are
these individuals who ride in the bike lane with their
motor scooters, homemade motors. They ride down this they're not bicycles,
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they're motorized. They're going down. And then I was on
the street having twice. I was walking up the street
in some gay because bind me, you're a schooner. And
if he does, excuse me for of course not they
playing the game. He played right by me. And it's
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just like I have that lane the big shot in
city hall years ago. Uh, the one in the person
television that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
By the way, tonight is really a bad line. Are
you are you? Do you have like the microphone inside
your mouth? It sounds really muffled. Where's the where's the microphone?
I'm talking about the quality of the call. It sounds
like when you talk huffled. What what are you doing
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with it the microphone? Okay? Well yeah, well thank you
very much for doing that. Okay, I got to keep
rolling field because the audio on the phone. I don't
know if your phone is dying or whatever, but it's
not great. So I talk, so thank you, Phil, appreciate
your call. All right, Yeah, I don't know, but it
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sounded to me like the microphone was halfway down his throat. Rob,
What did that sound like to you? Yeah? Okay, but
it sounded great when it was off air. Okay, I
don't know. Let's go to Bill and Danvers. Bill, you're
next on Nightsiger, right ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Bill, Yes, Stan, you know, I know, you know, the.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Stir reliance change real quick and stuff. And I remember
maybe a butter what a few months back. I think
I called you had been talking about, uh, you know,
the trade situation and the economy and and you know
I called up an expressed that at the time I
was an overly concerned and so on. But I got
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to tell you, I'm more pleasantly surprised than I think
I thought i'd be.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I'm sure the major news stations they did. I don't
think they particularly covered the this weekend. They're all about
Epstein because they think they can finally get Trump, but
they ain't gonna work out for him. But uh uh,
you know, we got that deal in Europe which isn't bad,
which I didn't think he'd actually get.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I thought he'd just do a teriff on him.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And that's that. We're going to be more from our
tariff expert, Professor A. Staller, Greg Staller from the Question
School of Business at Boston University. But you're absolutely right.
When President Trump announced Liberation Day and the stock market
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tanked about twenty percent, if you remember it was in
Baar Territory, it lost twenty percent. There are a lot
of people concerned. But within about a month and it
come back. And it still has Hell's Hell pretty strong.
The price of oil remains down. The price of eggs,
I believe, are much more reasonable now. I keep watching
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MSNBC and CNN who are telling us, oh, don't worry,
the tariffs are gonna hurt and all of this, and
the tariffs seem to be working out. They're talking to China,
they did the European Union, they did a deal with Britain,
they did a deal with.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam. Yes, the Philippines, now the one with Japan.
I'm very because now you're older than I am. Okay,
so we can remember. Estate from post war on hand
was rebuilt, and as they progressed and took off as
an economic power, especially in the seventies, eighties and the
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early nineties, they ran in a little bit of trouble.
But they've never taken our cars. Then you never see
a Chevy in Tokyo. They're gonna take cans. Yeah, they're
roping up and they're gonna take our car. Now, I
don't know what models would sell and stuff, but you know,
prominent Japanese they probably loved the Mustang, you know, soup
up an American icon car to be able.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
To buy it, I would think that just the novelty
of American cars. If that if you're no again, if
you're a Japanese person who has some wealth, you could
buy whatever you want. I mean theoretically you could buy
Teslas if you if you were that wealthy, or you
could buy some of the different models that are that
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are sold in this country. Maybe Japan, I don't know,
you have to do some market research. Maybe their cars
are small or more fuel efficient, whatever, So maybe you
don't go over than sell Lincoln Lincoln's and Caddies and
all of that. But you we've a variety of cars
that the Japanese would be interested in, absolutely, and more
cars than are manufactured here, and to go overseas that
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means more jobs here. I think that the economic stuff
that President Trump has talked about have worked out better
than I expected, and even better than you expected.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Yeah, and you know, I mean with six months. In
seven months, but by the end of the year, he
could have possibly re engineered the whole trading system of
the world almost. I mean, if you think about it,
as crazy as that sounds, I mean, historical wise, that's
almost like stuff that happened at the end of World
War Two when they set the world order after the war.
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What was going to happen with the reserve current? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The historically same thing too is that if you look
at any other president would at this point have been
nominated uh and been in serious consideration for the Nobel
Peace Prize because he has made efforts. Again, he was
talking yesterday about this dust up between Laos and Thailand
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and how that he spoke to the prime ministers of
both countries and all of that. Obviously a putin I
think was playing him. But maybe he's now going to
impose some sanctions on Russia which will bring which will
bring Russia into line. I mean, I you know, he's
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he certainly has helped the Middle East. Now, I don't
know if anyone's going to give him a peace price
for having taken out the nuclear capabilities of Iran. But
apparently now Iran is admitting to that. You don't see
that on the nightly news. You know, you see all
the weather's bad in the Midwest and it's hot in July.
(17:53):
Oh wow, tell me something I would I didn't expect,
you know. So the and someone said, and if he
found the cure for cancer, Uh, there would be some
people would say, well, he's putting hospitals and doctors out
of business, and that's not fair.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But the war thing he had, like you said, Vietnam
and Cambodia this weekend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think Island I think it's Laos.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I think, okay, and then I'm losing tractors, but so many.
Then he had Indian Pakistan that could have been really that's.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Another one that hurently intervened on. And he has relationships
with the heads of that of both of those nations. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I mean, and you had coast of Owen, Seraby, which
I didn't realize they were they were going to dust
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And over there, and and that would.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Have been I didn't even see that on the radar screen.
So yeah again, but but he doesn't get credit. Uh,
certainly from I watched the newscasts on ABC NBC. I
tend not to watch NBC for some reason. I get
I have four and five are together, so I can
go from CBS on four to channel to ABC and
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five just with one click back and forth. That's more
difficult to get to NBC. So yeah, we should talk
more about We will talk about the economy later this week,
and we'll talk about tariffs. And I hope you call
in and and and make make your points. I think
that I will bet when I talk with Professor Staller,
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hopefully later this week or next week, that he will
also acknowledge that maybe these things have gone a little
bit better than any of us, me included expected.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
No, it's in the treasury had a plus in June.
You don't see that on ABC or anything. It was
a slight that they actually were in the black.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You can believe you're talking.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
About Okay, yeah, I did not. I did not realize that. Also,
you have the FED meeting on the thirtieth Wednesday. Let's
see what happens there.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
This is I don't think he's gonna do anything. He
can't because you know, Trump is you know, to make
it look like he buckled. I think he'll wait till
the next meeting.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, you're probably right, that would be the conventional wisdom.
The other way that you could look at it is
that Powell might say, look, even though I'm being pressured,
I'm doing this not because of the pressure. I'm doing
it because it's the right thing to do. I didn't
lower it previously, and I I'm lowering it. So we'll see.
We'll see. I don't no one can predict what Paul
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will do here, but we'll see. Bill. I appreciate you, Carl,
thank you much, thank you, thumbs. I got to get
to the news. Thanks buddy, talk to you soon. We
are doing open lines. Very rarely do we do open
lines here at Nightside, but this is this is open lines.
I got a couple of lines if that are open
as a matter of fact, six one, seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty and one at six one seven, nine,
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three one ten thirty. Jump on board. What would you
like to see. We'll take copp elements, will take criticisms,
will take any suggestions you make, and we'll consider them seriously.
Coming back on Nightside, It's night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
All right, we are doing open lines. Okay. It is
a Monday night in late July, and I am I
very rarely do open lines because I consider that open
lines is when the audience has has not risen to
the occasion. We did two topics earlier tonight, which I
thought were pretty good topics, but that's okay. One of
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them was whether or not the Red Sox would be
buyers or sellers at the trade deadline this Thursday at
six o'clock. We'll have to see what happens there. We
talked with attorney Matt Fogelman last hour. He's the attorney
for the five year old boy who was run over
by his own school bus, allegedly last April twenty eight,
three months ago to the day. But we're open lines,
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and what we're looking for is your comments, your constructive criticisms,
or your destructive criticisms, or your compliments, It doesn't matter what.
What topics would you like to see on night Side
that you haven't heard? Bill from Natick talked about the
death of that's State police training the State Police cadet.
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About it now almost a year ago, horrific story. Phil
from Boston was talking about scooters in bike lanes, motorized
scooters in bike lanes, and Bill from Danvers was talking
about the economy doing better in the first six months.
I think then many people might have anticipated with President
Trump and also him turning out to be a president
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that seems seems to be interested in waging peace, which
is consistent with I think what he said. I think
he has been very consistent with what he said. So
let's keep going here six one seven, two, four ten, thirty.
Couple there one at six one seven n whatever you
want to talk about, join us. Let's go to Charlie
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and hang them. Hey, Charlie, appreciate you calling in. You're
next on night Side.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I'm going there. I've got some of you. You kind
of gets you upset. I guess you talked quite a
few times about the two guys to get run over
on the bicycles.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The two guys that got run over on the bicycle.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Sht run over and killed with the bicycle on the
bicycle back oh, probably three months ago, maybe, Well, there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Was the incident up in Vermont where not bicyclists, but
motorcyclists were killed.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
No, this is bicyclists.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Well, there there have.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Been occasional bicyclists in the Greater Boston area, but I
can't recall. I mean, there was one that was killed.
I believe it was on Memorial Drive over in Cambridge
that I think outside swiped by a car. And then
But so, what is the point that you're making them
all ears go right ahead?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
The point I'm trying to make is we have these
bike lanes and all that. That path doesn't bother me.
But what bothers me is people walk in the same
direction as the traffic on the side of the road.
To me, don't stand in a chest. They don't see
what's coming behind them. Same thing with bicycles. Your bicycles
are going against the traffic and somebody who's coming towards
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me have a chance to jump off. We're getting the way.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well, I got to be honest with you when I
many years ago, not many years ago, but several years ago,
used to run regularly. I now spend most of my
time in the gym because you can work on some
of the machines and you get rid of the impact
of running. But I used to always run against the traffic,
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and I know that, Yeah, but there are studies I
think that that people have read which says that you're
supposed to I don't agree with these, but I think
that yeah, which I which doesn't make sense to me,
doesn't make Yeah, that's a that's a good topic. We
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could open that up some night run run or whatever,
or bike with with I don't.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Care what you're doing. If you're going against the traffic,
you stand a chance if they're coming at you.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Absolutely. And I remember being on it. There was a
road that I used to run on in the suburbs,
and I gotta tell you there were times when I'm
running and he could just see this car and you're
able to get out of the way because it was
a road that was a cut through road, and there
were a lot of traveling salesmen who you would see
these guys were just bombing down the road. They were
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late for the next appointment too, And and it's it's look,
it's it's serious, particularly when when someone's out, you know,
pushing a kid in a baby carriage or something like that. Yeah,
I'm with.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You, Dan, That's what I wanted to buy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
All right, Thanks, Charlie. Maybe well we'll come up with
a topic on that. I'm going to talk to my
producers and see we've got a couple of good suggestions here,
and that's helpful on open lines as well. Charlie, I
appreciate you taking the time call more often. Okay, thank you. Okay, yeah,
I talk to you later. Okay. Now we have wide
open lines at six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
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If you want to get through, dial in right now.
We'll get you on. Let me go to Alex in
Millis Alex next on Nightside. We're the ladies. We're doing
open lines. Ladies, jump on board, go ahead, Alex.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Hey Dan, how are you a couple of things? I thought,
I don't know you could? You could I devote like
one one night a week to open mic night have
sort of like everybody call in with one night one
liners or jokes. It would uh you know, I guess
bring levity to uh you know, this crazy world.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, I'll tell you this. The problem with that, Alex,
and I'm going to always be honest with my call
is is a lot of people think they're comedians. They're
really not. I think you got to leave it to
the to the Lenny Clarks uh and the and the
c Sweenings of the world. Uh, and the Bill burds
the professionals. But you know, that's I'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
What was the other suggestion, Uh, I was going to
talk about, Oh, two things we've got going back to
the Karen Reid trial.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
She's trying to get her SUV and phone back and
do you think, uh, you know, at this time they're not,
they're not making any comments why she's not getting them back.
And also all the other cases that Proctor you know,
set in on. Uh that is she, I guess is
the culpable uh you know for further uh you know,
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indictment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, I don't know. He certainly disgraced himself and disgraced
the State Police by the texts that he sent to
his friends and the comments that he made about Karen Reid,
and he obviously hurt the prosecution of the case. So
on a number of different levels, he failed to do
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his job properly. He was unprofessional, and he also, in
being unprofessional, hurt his side of the case, the prosecution.
He's lost his job. He's never going to work, I
think for a police agency. Again, I think it's very
difficult to think that he would end up at another
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police agency. But the State Police, as we had mentioned earlier,
have had some issues, arguably even more serious. I mean
the death of that State police recruit a year ago.
I mean that young man wanted to become a state
police officer and somehow, some way got into a situation
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that cost him his life. We still don't know the
answer to that. So the State Police needs some transparency, absolutely,
no question about that. But in terms of the other
cases that Proctor might have investigated and been a witness
potential witness in, I don't honestly have my capacity. If
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I had like a staff of ten people, I could
take a couple of them and say, look, let's go
find the cases that Proctor has been the lead investigator
on and let's but I would be I would be
misleading you if I said to you I can do that.
I have enough trouble putting together a show for day
(29:50):
Monday through Friday for four hours. People. Do you know
how big my staff is?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Alex more than two people.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No. No, Rob is Rob is the producer at night
who takes your phone calls. And Rob also posts which
is a very important job post night side on demand,
which you can go all the different podcast hours. And
we have Marita, who is the one full time producer,
(30:24):
and Marina's on vacation this week, so we're fortunate enough
to to have also Karen Bussemi. But yeah, I mean
to pour through the cases that Proctor and to investigate
fairly the cases that Proctor has been involved in during
his career and find out if Karen Reid was one off,
or if or if Proctor had a pattern of handling
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cases improperly.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
That takes a lot of work, my friend, I was
just curious to and I know you're you're you know,
broadcasting remotely, but the other guest hosts when they do,
like if it's uh, uh, you know, whoever shows in
for you, they.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Broadcast remotely as well.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
Minders standing Yeah, nobody goes to the studio anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, well it's not inconceivable, and I stand to be corrected,
but I believe that at least, well I know, Morgan
White does his show remotely, uh and I and I
believe that the other at least one of the other
guest hosts does it remotely. So these comrades a.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Great commute.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It's a pretty easy commute, There's no doubt about that.
Thanks Alex, appreciate you call a good suggestions. Nonetheless, all right,
we got a couple of lines at six one seven
two four ten thirty and the one that Alex was
on six one seven nine thirty. We're the ladies tonight.
This is this is a rare open line opportunity for
you to make suggestions or to make comments, either critical
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or otherwise about Nightside. This is an opportunity where you
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Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
All I'm gonna get everybody and let me go to
Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve next on Nightside, Growing Ahead.
Hey Dan, good sir, what's your take on tonight's open lines.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Hey, you deserve a live recognition on the market basket
case for bringing both parties together for mediation on September third.
I believe that had you not discussed it on your
shirt on a couple of occasions in the last couple
of weeks, I think that this thing was edited for
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a much different outcome, And I believe that they will
resolve things if both parties are willing to, you know,
on the goociate.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Well, let me just tell you. First of all, that's
news to me. You're you're breaking news on my on
my broadcast. When was that announced to Steve?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
It was last week they had it. I think it
was like Thursday, a Friday. They said deference to. They
started off from the family. They said, deference to mister
mister Dems. We're going to have you know, a mediation
session on September third, okay, to discuss the future. Yes,
that was on there, it was. It was on the news.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, I'll tell you this. I'm going to double check that.
I believe you don't get me wrong, But somehow, some
way I missed it. September third is a Wednesday. I
know that because Labor Day is the first. I hope
that is good news. I mean, I don't want to
see market Basket change its philosophy whatsoever. So that's great news. Steven. Again,
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you I like to think I stay ahead of the curve.
But yeah, we were, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And if they do resolve it, they should send a
check to the charity of your choice for doing because
you did what nobody else could do, and I think
you deserve a lot of recognition for it, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And Steve, you you are very very kind and you're
my best caller of the night. Thanks buddy.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And then one other thing that this is on the
side issue. You know that Casey Anthony moved here to
New Hampshire. Did you hear about that one?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No? No, the woman from Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
She's living in Derry, New Hampshire. That's what I heard.
Everybody's most hated mom.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, yeah, she but she got acquitted, right, she was acquitted.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Her all right?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, but you know I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
No, I hear you, I hear Oh. J gotta quit
it too, right, okay, Steve, I'm not sure if you
ever bump into it. She must to go on the
radio and tell tell the real story. We're all here, okay,
thanks man.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I think it would be very pretty not to many
people like her.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No, I hear you. I hear you, Steve, you you
you and now I knew Hampshire car respond that. I'm
telling you right now, man, that was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
You know, I'm gonna you know you show you're a
news drinkie.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm with you, man, Hey, Steve, Thank you so much.
I appreciate it. Thank you. Let me get one and
fall river in here. One I got to get you
and two more and go ahead, Warren.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I just wanted to, you.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Know, bring up the topic of crazy drivers. What's the
craziest thing that you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
I mean I've seen some very very crazy things. I've
seen people go down the wrong way on a one way.
I've seen people back up, you know and cut people off.
You know, you know bicycles that you know, the bikes
that cut you off and all stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I am totally with war I am so with this
story idea. Well, we will do that, and you know
we're going to do that on a Friday night, and
we won't do it at at eleven. We won't do
it as a as a twentieth alve. We'll do it
at ten o'clock maybe on a Friday night, maybe this
Friday night. I like that idea a lot.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
And on the other and another topic which I have
is with all the deaths of like Ozzy Osbourne and
Hulk Cogan and what celebrities do you fear passing?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, we could do that. We might do that. I
I hate to even jinx that. And you mentioned that
they happen to die. That would be that would be
a little creepy if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
You know it is, but you know it's just you know,
like we had like five go and like a in
like a week time.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, no, that that's true. That is true. There was
there was a spade of then, that's for sure. Hey one,
I love you calls, Thank you so much, calls a
great call. Thank Warree, appreciate it. Okay, I'm gonna get
two in here. You're gonna go to Paul in Bedford, Massachusetts,
and then we'll get to Bob and Lee and go ahead.
Speaker 11 (37:08):
Paul, all right, I hope the lady's listening. What I
want to know is Tropicana my favorite range juice and
I've been drinking it for decades. Yeah, okay. Now they've
produced the bottle, the plastic forty eight ounces, and the
most difficult thing I find, and I've called the company,
(37:28):
is getting that cap off that.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh, I agree with you. There's a lot of those.
There's there's a lot of those.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
I want to know who's calling to straighten out this message.
You know what my solution is for for anything? The
salsa caps too. My wife can't get the salsa caps
off of the salsa bots.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Oh yeah, many of those like yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah,
And I often think about I'm fairly strong. I mean,
to be honest with you, I.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
Have appreciated hands.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I'm sometimes in those situations like a jar of pickles,
particular the ones that have the plastic round it. That's
a great that's a great topic too.
Speaker 11 (38:04):
Yeah, you know what the solution is, don't you that?
I have a piece of a two bite four on it.
Every time I see somebody trying to bandon on the
kinsling counter or a granite counter, I said, what are
you doing? You have a pine two bites for a round?
I learned that one a little boy from my father.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah, but that's not and the grandfather.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Was a compenter.
Speaker 11 (38:28):
But here's my question with the With that, my ultimate
solution is you can you know, you can some of
the plyers. You don't have flyers big enough. You can
get some big long flyers. But the other solution is
a pipe runch. So I have a good old pipe runch.
I got some you know, monkey brunches. Too.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
But the other thing too is you get sometimes you
can run hot water and break the seal on something if.
Speaker 11 (38:53):
It's just, but it's not worth the hot water, wasting
water and eat well dependent dependent.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I got to get one more in.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
But that topic you, Dan, I used to call your
well painting the lines that the except to handsome feel
and that all resolved.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
More often. Okay, thanks, thanks much, all right, thank those
are good. We've got some good suggestions and open lines,
Bob and Len. Bob, you gotta wrap it. You gotta
be tied on time, Bob.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
Go ahead, Dan, real quick.
Speaker 12 (39:25):
I have nothing to do with market Basket other than
like yourself, I'm a customer, yep. And I hope, I
hope that you will speak more about the subject the
previous caller who has a hope that they're going to
resolve the issue. I think if the egotistical maniacs over it,
the board get in the way, it's not going to
(39:46):
get resolved. And I'd hate to see Market Basket fall
from what it is now.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
It's we will, Bob, I give you my word. We
will stay on that story, I promise you.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Okay, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You bet you. Thanks Bob, appreciate it all A right everybody.
We are come to the end of the line. Tonight
had two topics which I liked but didn't get the
response I wanted. And I will do a postgame tonight.
I was thinking of not doing one, but I will.
I want to thank Rob Brooks, who worked pretty hard,
(40:18):
pretty hard tonight. I want to thank Karen Bussemi who
set up the eight o'clock hour tonight and worked on
some other stories. And I want to thank all of
you who called and all of you who listened. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pell
Charlie ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you when you love them. I do believe you'll
(40:38):
see them again. Hope to see again tomorrow night on
Night Side. I will be on night Side with Dan
Ray on Facebook in just a couple of moments. Have
a great Tuesday, everyone, stay cool,
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, Welcome back everyone, Thanks very much, Dan Walking.
Sad news about Ryan Sandberg. Obviously, he should have been
at the Cooperstown ceremony yesterday. Hall of Fame ceremony is
a Hall of Famer and he was not able to
be there, obviously because of the medical condition that has
taken his life. Again, I'd like to remind you too,
(00:29):
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(01:11):
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feel free. Okay, here's we're gonna do tonight in the
eleven o'clock hour. I'm gonna go open lines. Very rarely
do we go open lines here on Nightside. And I
would love to hear from you as to whatever topic
(01:33):
is of interest to you. If there's accept you know,
we try to hit as many different topics as we can.
That's what we do on Nightside. It has been a
successful formula now for nearly eighteen years. We talked in
the first hour the first talk show hour Tonight with
Dan Shaughnessy and the Boston Red Sox about on the
(01:54):
Boston Globe about the Boston Red Sox situation and as
we approach the annual trade deadline, which sometimes some of
the biggest named players in baseball trade uniforms, will the
Red Sox be buyers or sellers? Well, I think they
will probably be buyers because there are no great teams
in the American League this year, there's probably no great
(02:15):
teams in IY League, and it's going to be some
sort of a well, just you know, people whoever gets
lucky at the right time pretty much will be anyway.
In the second hour, we talked with attorney Matt Fogelman,
the attorney for Lenz Joseph. If you listen last hour,
that's the five year old boy who was run over
(02:36):
by his own school bus in Boston on April twenty eight,
three months ago today. And we don't know much about
that situation either from the DA's office, the Mayor's office,
the police department. And it's frustrating because if this had
happened in another community where maybe maybe people would have
(02:58):
been up in arms, they would have been being in contact.
Uh and and basically saying to the authorities, we need answers,
We need answers, all right, so what we're going to
do tonight? And very rarely do we do this, but
tonight was a little slow night. To be really honest
with you. Always, whenever it's slow on the phone lines,
(03:21):
I get disappointed because I don't know that you're out there.
The only way I can tell if you're out there
listening is when I hear from you. So we have
very quickly filled the six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty line. The only line that is open is six months, seven, nine,
ten thirty. This is sort of like your own talk
(03:41):
back line. But you can talk back live to me
if you want to give us a compliment, if you
want to make a criticism, if you want to make
a suggestion, if you want to make a recommendation, if
you want to suggest the topic that you feel people
would respond to. We're always open for business here on Nightside.
It is as simple as that. We need to follow
your guidance and your advice, because this show is not
(04:06):
a show for me to use as a platform for
my own personal beliefs. I might be talking about other issues.
I want to talk about issues that are of interest
to you. So if you want to make a suggestion,
this is a great opportunity. If you want to offer
a criticism, that's fine, too simple as that, because we
can only learn with criticism as well, and I have
(04:27):
never been hesitant to accept criticism. Let's go to Bill
in Natick. Bill is I think looking to talk about
the bus story?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Bill, how are you actually? Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I can hear you just perfectly, Go right ahead. You
can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah. No, I just following up on a similar kind
of subject that you were talking about. And I know
you've had a couple of couple of shows in the
past week or so about the subject about the horrible
situation of the young child. Yes, have you recent only
done a story of the state police trainee.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Who was killed the death of that No, we did
it at the time, which is now what's coming up
on a year.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Exactly. And I think I just think some of the
same frustration that you're you're feeling and other callers are
feeling that what's going on? Why is it taking so long? Uh,
there's been no information. I know the family just came
out recently saying they were not being kept informed. And
you know the for for for good or bad reasons,
(05:36):
the Massachusetts State Police has had had some difficult situations
come up recently with the recent court case.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I know they they've had a spade of problems. They had,
you know, some troopers who have been indicted federally. There
was there was Yeah that they have always had the
reputation of a great police force, but they have they
well they are, but they they certainly have hurt that
(06:04):
reputation and I don't know if they're not screening the uh,
the the people who are applying adequately, I don't know.
But but but the the recruit who lost his life supposedly,
you know, we were told in a boxing ring. If
there's anyone who has information on that story and wants
to contact me, I'm all ears. I'm all ears. And
(06:29):
if there's anyone who represents the family who wants to
get some information, I'll tell you what. I'm also interested
in terms of the state police. The state police who
lost their jobs because they refuse to take COVID shots.
I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I know that I know that story, But I'm talking
about the story that we just finished in the past hour.
Yes that I think there's there's a year has gone by,
and I know there was a special investigator appointed by
Governor Heely. I know there's a new commandant I believe
for the state Police.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yes there is, and you know, but I think a year.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Has gone by. I think, you know, three months is
too long without knowing anything about the case you discussed.
But I feel so badly for the family of that
State Police trainee who's waiting for a year with no answer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, First of all, Bill, I'm glad you brought it up.
I'm glad you're reminded me on it. The one thing
that would be helpful, and I don't know if you're
connected to the family at all or whatever, but if
you would be kind enough to, if you are, reach
out to them and have them get back in touch
with us. And well, I'm we fill forty hours a
(07:46):
week and we are more than excuse me, twenty hours
a week.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And I'll interrupt you first. Second, I don't have any
contact with them, but WBZ News has recently done a
story with the family of the of that training.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, well we'll chase it down. Well, well, we will
chase that down because sometimes you got to rattle people's
cages to get answered, simple as that.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I just feel so badly as we all feel badly
for that little boy too.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sounds great, That sounds great. Agreed totally with you. Thank you, Bill,
appreciate your call. That's a great suggestion. I like that.
Let's keep rolling here six one seven, two, four ten thirty.
One line there and one line at six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray one Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Back we go looking for your thoughts. This is open lines.
Very rarely do we do this, but let's keep rolling here.
Hey Phil, how are you Phil in Boston? Next on nightside?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Me's so consumed, That's what I'm calling about it. But no,
you know, I that that bust thing is crazy, But
I was. I believe I drove by that general location
at that time when I saw the bus. I believe
it the bus being told there's some kind of garage
on the street. The point is what the book did
(09:14):
the when the bus pulls over. Let me tell you
it's not easy driving a bus, Okay, even if you're
the point is either fifty foot forty foot where the
heck is going down the street. When you pull over
the buses and you get having a doorsment for these things,
you pull what you pull over. If one I've observed
(09:36):
is the school bus has an arm that automatically for
understand falls down, so the answers don't cross the street.
Now why the Maybe it's the wrong spot. Maybe the
I think the eleven year old kers had taken a lead.
The point is the seat of one example that he
(09:58):
might have fire for the street one thing.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
And.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I think Phil, I think you're asking a lot
of obvious questions which I think anyone who was who
was intelligent and you were that would would ask. I
certainly have that question. How many times have you you
you come up behind a school bus the lights are
flashing and you see the stop sign and you better
(10:27):
not pass that bus. And if you ever passed that
bus with the stop sign there's a police car nearby,
You're in big trouble. That is not one you can
talk your way out. And where have you going? Well,
now there's cameras, right, But even when there wasn't camp,
when there weren't cameras, if you got nailed going thirty
seven in the thirty five, a lot of times the
(10:47):
police office will give you break. But when you when
you go blow blow past the stop sign and a
school bus, there's no break to be had. So I'm
with you.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Are there are any subjects.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You would like to see us talk about that we
haven't talked about lately?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Good, good, good questions. I'm glad that I felt embarrassed
by calling up on the subject. It's because very controversial.
But the subject that I'm thinking about, there's these are
these individuals who ride in the bike lane with their
motor scooters, homemade motors. They ride down this they're not bicycles,
(11:27):
they're motorized. They're going down. And then I was on
the street having twice. I was walking up the street
in some gay because bind me, you're a schooner. And
if he does, excuse me for of course not they
playing the game. He played right by me. And it's
(11:50):
just like I have that lane the big shot in
city hall years ago. Uh, the one in the person
television that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
By the way, tonight is really a bad line. Are
you are you? Do you have like the microphone inside
your mouth? It sounds really muffled. Where's the where's the microphone?
I'm talking about the quality of the call. It sounds
like when you talk huffled. What what are you doing
(12:18):
with it the microphone? Okay? Well yeah, well thank you
very much for doing that. Okay, I got to keep
rolling field because the audio on the phone. I don't
know if your phone is dying or whatever, but it's
not great. So I talk, so thank you, Phil, appreciate
your call. All right, Yeah, I don't know, but it
(12:40):
sounded to me like the microphone was halfway down his throat. Rob,
What did that sound like to you? Yeah? Okay, but
it sounded great when it was off air. Okay, I
don't know. Let's go to Bill and Danvers. Bill, you're
next on Nightsiger, right ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Bill, Yes, Stan, you know, I know, you know, the.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Stir reliance change real quick and stuff. And I remember
maybe a butter what a few months back. I think
I called you had been talking about, uh, you know,
the trade situation and the economy and and you know
I called up an expressed that at the time I
was an overly concerned and so on. But I got
(13:20):
to tell you, I'm more pleasantly surprised than I think
I thought i'd be.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
I'm sure the major news stations they did. I don't
think they particularly covered the this weekend. They're all about
Epstein because they think they can finally get Trump, but
they ain't gonna work out for him. But uh uh,
you know, we got that deal in Europe which isn't bad,
which I didn't think he'd actually get.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I thought he'd just do a teriff on him.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And that's that. We're going to be more from our
tariff expert, Professor A. Staller, Greg Staller from the Question
School of Business at Boston University. But you're absolutely right.
When President Trump announced Liberation Day and the stock market
(14:08):
tanked about twenty percent, if you remember it was in
Baar Territory, it lost twenty percent. There are a lot
of people concerned. But within about a month and it
come back. And it still has Hell's Hell pretty strong.
The price of oil remains down. The price of eggs,
I believe, are much more reasonable now. I keep watching
(14:30):
MSNBC and CNN who are telling us, oh, don't worry,
the tariffs are gonna hurt and all of this, and
the tariffs seem to be working out. They're talking to China,
they did the European Union, they did a deal with Britain,
they did a deal with.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam. Yes, the Philippines, now the one with Japan.
I'm very because now you're older than I am. Okay,
so we can remember. Estate from post war on hand
was rebuilt, and as they progressed and took off as
an economic power, especially in the seventies, eighties and the
(15:06):
early nineties, they ran in a little bit of trouble.
But they've never taken our cars. Then you never see
a Chevy in Tokyo. They're gonna take cans. Yeah, they're
roping up and they're gonna take our car. Now, I
don't know what models would sell and stuff, but you know,
prominent Japanese they probably loved the Mustang, you know, soup
up an American icon car to be able.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
To buy it, I would think that just the novelty
of American cars. If that if you're no again, if
you're a Japanese person who has some wealth, you could
buy whatever you want. I mean theoretically you could buy
Teslas if you if you were that wealthy, or you
could buy some of the different models that are that
(15:49):
are sold in this country. Maybe Japan, I don't know,
you have to do some market research. Maybe their cars
are small or more fuel efficient, whatever, So maybe you
don't go over than sell Lincoln Lincoln's and Caddies and
all of that. But you we've a variety of cars
that the Japanese would be interested in, absolutely, and more
cars than are manufactured here, and to go overseas that
(16:13):
means more jobs here. I think that the economic stuff
that President Trump has talked about have worked out better
than I expected, and even better than you expected.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Yeah, and you know, I mean with six months. In
seven months, but by the end of the year, he
could have possibly re engineered the whole trading system of
the world almost. I mean, if you think about it,
as crazy as that sounds, I mean, historical wise, that's
almost like stuff that happened at the end of World
War Two when they set the world order after the war.
(16:46):
What was going to happen with the reserve current? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The historically same thing too is that if you look
at any other president would at this point have been
nominated uh and been in serious consideration for the Nobel
Peace Prize because he has made efforts. Again, he was
talking yesterday about this dust up between Laos and Thailand
(17:11):
and how that he spoke to the prime ministers of
both countries and all of that. Obviously a putin I
think was playing him. But maybe he's now going to
impose some sanctions on Russia which will bring which will
bring Russia into line. I mean, I you know, he's
(17:33):
he certainly has helped the Middle East. Now, I don't
know if anyone's going to give him a peace price
for having taken out the nuclear capabilities of Iran. But
apparently now Iran is admitting to that. You don't see
that on the nightly news. You know, you see all
the weather's bad in the Midwest and it's hot in July.
(17:53):
Oh wow, tell me something I would I didn't expect,
you know. So the and someone said, and if he
found the cure for cancer, Uh, there would be some
people would say, well, he's putting hospitals and doctors out
of business, and that's not fair.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But the war thing he had, like you said, Vietnam
and Cambodia this weekend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think Island I think it's Laos.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I think, okay, and then I'm losing tractors, but so many.
Then he had Indian Pakistan that could have been really that's.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Another one that hurently intervened on. And he has relationships
with the heads of that of both of those nations. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I mean, and you had coast of Owen, Seraby, which
I didn't realize they were they were going to dust
it up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And over there, and and that would.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Have been I didn't even see that on the radar screen.
So yeah again, but but he doesn't get credit. Uh,
certainly from I watched the newscasts on ABC NBC. I
tend not to watch NBC for some reason. I get
I have four and five are together, so I can
go from CBS on four to channel to ABC and
(19:07):
five just with one click back and forth. That's more
difficult to get to NBC. So yeah, we should talk
more about We will talk about the economy later this week,
and we'll talk about tariffs. And I hope you call
in and and and make make your points. I think
that I will bet when I talk with Professor Staller,
(19:29):
hopefully later this week or next week, that he will
also acknowledge that maybe these things have gone a little
bit better than any of us, me included expected.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
No, it's in the treasury had a plus in June.
You don't see that on ABC or anything. It was
a slight that they actually were in the black.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You can believe you're talking.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
About Okay, yeah, I did not. I did not realize that. Also,
you have the FED meeting on the thirtieth Wednesday. Let's
see what happens there.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
This is I don't think he's gonna do anything. He
can't because you know, Trump is you know, to make
it look like he buckled. I think he'll wait till
the next meeting.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, you're probably right, that would be the conventional wisdom.
The other way that you could look at it is
that Powell might say, look, even though I'm being pressured,
I'm doing this not because of the pressure. I'm doing
it because it's the right thing to do. I didn't
lower it previously, and I I'm lowering it. So we'll see.
We'll see. I don't no one can predict what Paul
(20:34):
will do here, but we'll see. Bill. I appreciate you, Carl,
thank you much, thank you, thumbs. I got to get
to the news. Thanks buddy, talk to you soon. We
are doing open lines. Very rarely do we do open
lines here at Nightside, but this is this is open lines.
I got a couple of lines if that are open
as a matter of fact, six one, seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty and one at six one seven, nine,
(20:55):
three one ten thirty. Jump on board. What would you
like to see. We'll take copp elements, will take criticisms,
will take any suggestions you make, and we'll consider them seriously.
Coming back on Nightside, It's night Side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
All right, we are doing open lines. Okay. It is
a Monday night in late July, and I am I
very rarely do open lines because I consider that open
lines is when the audience has has not risen to
the occasion. We did two topics earlier tonight, which I
thought were pretty good topics, but that's okay. One of
(21:38):
them was whether or not the Red Sox would be
buyers or sellers at the trade deadline this Thursday at
six o'clock. We'll have to see what happens there. We
talked with attorney Matt Fogelman last hour. He's the attorney
for the five year old boy who was run over
by his own school bus, allegedly last April twenty eight,
three months ago to the day. But we're open lines,
(22:01):
and what we're looking for is your comments, your constructive criticisms,
or your destructive criticisms, or your compliments, It doesn't matter what.
What topics would you like to see on night Side
that you haven't heard? Bill from Natick talked about the
death of that's State police training the State Police cadet.
(22:22):
About it now almost a year ago, horrific story. Phil
from Boston was talking about scooters in bike lanes, motorized
scooters in bike lanes, and Bill from Danvers was talking
about the economy doing better in the first six months.
I think then many people might have anticipated with President
Trump and also him turning out to be a president
(22:45):
that seems seems to be interested in waging peace, which
is consistent with I think what he said. I think
he has been very consistent with what he said. So
let's keep going here six one seven, two, four ten, thirty.
Couple there one at six one seven n whatever you
want to talk about, join us. Let's go to Charlie
(23:05):
and hang them. Hey, Charlie, appreciate you calling in. You're
next on night Side.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I'm going there. I've got some of you. You kind
of gets you upset. I guess you talked quite a
few times about the two guys to get run over
on the bicycles.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
The two guys that got run over on the bicycle.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Sht run over and killed with the bicycle on the
bicycle back oh, probably three months ago, maybe, Well, there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Was the incident up in Vermont where not bicyclists, but
motorcyclists were killed.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
No, this is bicyclists.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Well, there there have.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Been occasional bicyclists in the Greater Boston area, but I
can't recall. I mean, there was one that was killed.
I believe it was on Memorial Drive over in Cambridge
that I think outside swiped by a car. And then
But so, what is the point that you're making them
all ears go right ahead?
Speaker 7 (24:04):
The point I'm trying to make is we have these
bike lanes and all that. That path doesn't bother me.
But what bothers me is people walk in the same
direction as the traffic on the side of the road.
To me, don't stand in a chest. They don't see
what's coming behind them. Same thing with bicycles. Your bicycles
are going against the traffic and somebody who's coming towards
(24:26):
me have a chance to jump off. We're getting the way.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well, I got to be honest with you when I
many years ago, not many years ago, but several years ago,
used to run regularly. I now spend most of my
time in the gym because you can work on some
of the machines and you get rid of the impact
of running. But I used to always run against the traffic,
(24:52):
and I know that, Yeah, but there are studies I
think that that people have read which says that you're
supposed to I don't agree with these, but I think
that yeah, which I which doesn't make sense to me,
doesn't make Yeah, that's a that's a good topic. We
(25:16):
could open that up some night run run or whatever,
or bike with with I don't.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Care what you're doing. If you're going against the traffic,
you stand a chance if they're coming at you.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Absolutely. And I remember being on it. There was a
road that I used to run on in the suburbs,
and I gotta tell you there were times when I'm
running and he could just see this car and you're
able to get out of the way because it was
a road that was a cut through road, and there
were a lot of traveling salesmen who you would see
these guys were just bombing down the road. They were
(25:50):
late for the next appointment too, And and it's it's look,
it's it's serious, particularly when when someone's out, you know,
pushing a kid in a baby carriage or something like that. Yeah,
I'm with.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You, Dan, That's what I wanted to buy.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
All right, Thanks, Charlie. Maybe well we'll come up with
a topic on that. I'm going to talk to my
producers and see we've got a couple of good suggestions here,
and that's helpful on open lines as well. Charlie, I
appreciate you taking the time call more often. Okay, thank you. Okay, yeah,
I talk to you later. Okay. Now we have wide
open lines at six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
(26:27):
If you want to get through, dial in right now.
We'll get you on. Let me go to Alex in
Millis Alex next on Nightside. We're the ladies. We're doing
open lines. Ladies, jump on board, go ahead, Alex.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Hey Dan, how are you a couple of things? I thought,
I don't know you could? You could I devote like
one one night a week to open mic night have
sort of like everybody call in with one night one
liners or jokes. It would uh you know, I guess
bring levity to uh you know, this crazy world.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, I'll tell you this. The problem with that, Alex,
and I'm going to always be honest with my call
is is a lot of people think they're comedians. They're
really not. I think you got to leave it to
the to the Lenny Clarks uh and the and the
c Sweenings of the world. Uh, and the Bill burds
the professionals. But you know, that's I'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
What was the other suggestion, Uh, I was going to
talk about, Oh, two things we've got going back to
the Karen Reid trial.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
She's trying to get her SUV and phone back and
do you think, uh, you know, at this time they're not,
they're not making any comments why she's not getting them back.
And also all the other cases that Proctor you know,
set in on. Uh that is she, I guess is
the culpable uh you know for further uh you know,
(27:58):
indictment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, I don't know. He certainly disgraced himself and disgraced
the State Police by the texts that he sent to
his friends and the comments that he made about Karen Reid,
and he obviously hurt the prosecution of the case. So
on a number of different levels, he failed to do
(28:22):
his job properly. He was unprofessional, and he also, in
being unprofessional, hurt his side of the case, the prosecution.
He's lost his job. He's never going to work, I
think for a police agency. Again, I think it's very
difficult to think that he would end up at another
(28:43):
police agency. But the State Police, as we had mentioned earlier,
have had some issues, arguably even more serious. I mean
the death of that State police recruit a year ago.
I mean that young man wanted to become a state
police officer and somehow, some way got into a situation
(29:05):
that cost him his life. We still don't know the
answer to that. So the State Police needs some transparency, absolutely,
no question about that. But in terms of the other
cases that Proctor might have investigated and been a witness
potential witness in, I don't honestly have my capacity. If
(29:29):
I had like a staff of ten people, I could
take a couple of them and say, look, let's go
find the cases that Proctor has been the lead investigator
on and let's but I would be I would be
misleading you if I said to you I can do that.
I have enough trouble putting together a show for day
(29:50):
Monday through Friday for four hours. People. Do you know
how big my staff is?
Speaker 10 (29:56):
Alex more than two people.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No. No, Rob is Rob is the producer at night
who takes your phone calls. And Rob also posts which
is a very important job post night side on demand,
which you can go all the different podcast hours. And
we have Marita, who is the one full time producer,
(30:24):
and Marina's on vacation this week, so we're fortunate enough
to to have also Karen Bussemi. But yeah, I mean
to pour through the cases that Proctor and to investigate
fairly the cases that Proctor has been involved in during
his career and find out if Karen Reid was one off,
or if or if Proctor had a pattern of handling
(30:48):
cases improperly.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
That takes a lot of work, my friend, I was
just curious to and I know you're you're you know,
broadcasting remotely, but the other guest hosts when they do,
like if it's uh, uh, you know, whoever shows in
for you, they.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Broadcast remotely as well.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
Minders standing Yeah, nobody goes to the studio anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, well it's not inconceivable, and I stand to be corrected,
but I believe that at least, well I know, Morgan
White does his show remotely, uh and I and I
believe that the other at least one of the other
guest hosts does it remotely. So these comrades a.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Great commute.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It's a pretty easy commute, There's no doubt about that.
Thanks Alex, appreciate you call a good suggestions. Nonetheless, all right,
we got a couple of lines at six one seven
two four ten thirty and the one that Alex was
on six one seven nine thirty. We're the ladies tonight.
This is this is a rare open line opportunity for
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(32:01):
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Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
All I'm gonna get everybody and let me go to
Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve next on Nightside, Growing Ahead.
Hey Dan, good sir, what's your take on tonight's open lines.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Hey, you deserve a live recognition on the market basket
case for bringing both parties together for mediation on September third.
I believe that had you not discussed it on your
shirt on a couple of occasions in the last couple
of weeks, I think that this thing was edited for
(32:53):
a much different outcome, And I believe that they will
resolve things if both parties are willing to, you know,
on the goociate.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Well, let me just tell you. First of all, that's
news to me. You're you're breaking news on my on
my broadcast. When was that announced to Steve?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
It was last week they had it. I think it
was like Thursday, a Friday. They said deference to. They
started off from the family. They said, deference to mister
mister Dems. We're going to have you know, a mediation
session on September third, okay, to discuss the future. Yes,
that was on there, it was. It was on the news.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, I'll tell you this. I'm going to double check that.
I believe you don't get me wrong, But somehow, some
way I missed it. September third is a Wednesday. I
know that because Labor Day is the first. I hope
that is good news. I mean, I don't want to
see market Basket change its philosophy whatsoever. So that's great news. Steven. Again,
(33:55):
you I like to think I stay ahead of the curve.
But yeah, we were, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And if they do resolve it, they should send a
check to the charity of your choice for doing because
you did what nobody else could do, and I think
you deserve a lot of recognition for it, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
And Steve, you you are very very kind and you're
my best caller of the night. Thanks buddy.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And then one other thing that this is on the
side issue. You know that Casey Anthony moved here to
New Hampshire. Did you hear about that one?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No? No, the woman from Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
She's living in Derry, New Hampshire. That's what I heard.
Everybody's most hated mom.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, yeah, she but she got acquitted, right, she was acquitted.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Her all right?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, but you know I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
No, I hear you, I hear Oh. J gotta quit
it too, right, okay, Steve, I'm not sure if you
ever bump into it. She must to go on the
radio and tell tell the real story. We're all here, okay,
thanks man.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I think it would be very pretty not to many
people like her.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No, I hear you. I hear you, Steve, you you
you and now I knew Hampshire car respond that. I'm
telling you right now, man, that was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
You know, I'm gonna you know you show you're a
news drinkie.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm with you, man, Hey, Steve, Thank you so much.
I appreciate it. Thank you. Let me get one and
fall river in here. One I got to get you
and two more and go ahead, Warren.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I just wanted to, you.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Know, bring up the topic of crazy drivers. What's the
craziest thing that you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
I mean I've seen some very very crazy things. I've
seen people go down the wrong way on a one way.
I've seen people back up, you know and cut people off.
You know, you know bicycles that you know, the bikes
that cut you off and all stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I am totally with war I am so with this
story idea. Well, we will do that, and you know
we're going to do that on a Friday night, and
we won't do it at at eleven. We won't do
it as a as a twentieth alve. We'll do it
at ten o'clock maybe on a Friday night, maybe this
Friday night. I like that idea a lot.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
And on the other and another topic which I have
is with all the deaths of like Ozzy Osbourne and
Hulk Cogan and what celebrities do you fear passing?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Well, we could do that. We might do that. I
I hate to even jinx that. And you mentioned that
they happen to die. That would be that would be
a little creepy if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
You know it is, but you know it's just you know,
like we had like five go and like a in
like a week time.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, no, that that's true. That is true. There was
there was a spade of then, that's for sure. Hey one,
I love you calls, Thank you so much, calls a
great call. Thank Warree, appreciate it. Okay, I'm gonna get
two in here. You're gonna go to Paul in Bedford, Massachusetts,
and then we'll get to Bob and Lee and go ahead.
Speaker 11 (37:08):
Paul, all right, I hope the lady's listening. What I
want to know is Tropicana my favorite range juice and
I've been drinking it for decades. Yeah, okay. Now they've
produced the bottle, the plastic forty eight ounces, and the
most difficult thing I find, and I've called the company,
(37:28):
is getting that cap off that.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh, I agree with you. There's a lot of those.
There's there's a lot of those.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
I want to know who's calling to straighten out this message.
You know what my solution is for for anything? The
salsa caps too. My wife can't get the salsa caps
off of the salsa bots.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Oh yeah, many of those like yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah,
And I often think about I'm fairly strong. I mean,
to be honest with you, I.
Speaker 11 (37:54):
Have appreciated hands.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I'm sometimes in those situations like a jar of pickles,
particular the ones that have the plastic round it. That's
a great that's a great topic too.
Speaker 11 (38:04):
Yeah, you know what the solution is, don't you that?
I have a piece of a two bite four on it.
Every time I see somebody trying to bandon on the
kinsling counter or a granite counter, I said, what are
you doing? You have a pine two bites for a round?
I learned that one a little boy from my father.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah, but that's not and the grandfather.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Was a compenter.
Speaker 11 (38:28):
But here's my question with the With that, my ultimate
solution is you can you know, you can some of
the plyers. You don't have flyers big enough. You can
get some big long flyers. But the other solution is
a pipe runch. So I have a good old pipe runch.
I got some you know, monkey brunches. Too.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
But the other thing too is you get sometimes you
can run hot water and break the seal on something if.
Speaker 11 (38:53):
It's just, but it's not worth the hot water, wasting
water and eat well dependent dependent.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I got to get one more in.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
But that topic you, Dan, I used to call your
well painting the lines that the except to handsome feel
and that all resolved.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
More often. Okay, thanks, thanks much, all right, thank those
are good. We've got some good suggestions and open lines,
Bob and Len. Bob, you gotta wrap it. You gotta
be tied on time, Bob.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
Go ahead, Dan, real quick.
Speaker 12 (39:25):
I have nothing to do with market Basket other than
like yourself, I'm a customer, yep. And I hope, I
hope that you will speak more about the subject the
previous caller who has a hope that they're going to
resolve the issue. I think if the egotistical maniacs over it,
the board get in the way, it's not going to
(39:46):
get resolved. And I'd hate to see Market Basket fall
from what it is now.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
It's we will, Bob, I give you my word. We
will stay on that story, I promise you.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Okay, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You bet you. Thanks Bob, appreciate it all A right everybody.
We are come to the end of the line. Tonight
had two topics which I liked but didn't get the
response I wanted. And I will do a postgame tonight.
I was thinking of not doing one, but I will.
I want to thank Rob Brooks, who worked pretty hard,
(40:18):
pretty hard tonight. I want to thank Karen Bussemi who
set up the eight o'clock hour tonight and worked on
some other stories. And I want to thank all of
you who called and all of you who listened. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pell
Charlie ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you when you love them. I do believe you'll
(40:38):
see them again. Hope to see again tomorrow night on
Night Side. I will be on night Side with Dan
Ray on Facebook in just a couple of moments. Have
a great Tuesday, everyone, stay cool,
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