September 2, 2025 • 41 mins
We started with Caller's Choice, but the dominate topic became crime in U.S. cities, and the President's use of troops to assist law enforcement. Do you feel your area is safe? Would you like the National Gaurd to patrol your streets?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's nice with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Boston's news.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Radio, Dan Walkins, thank you very much. Okay, it doesn't
seem to be much interest in market Basket, so I'm
going to move on to a different topic. It sounds
to me as if maybe the angst over market Basket
has run its course. I don't know what to say
other than that, And again, just remind all of you
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that I have been off for a couple of weeks,
so I'm coming back and tonight again. I do want
to thank Morgan White and Bradley j for having sat
in for me during the last two weeks of August.
It was the longest time off that I've taken in
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my memory. I may have taken more off in other times,
but I don't recall it. And to be honest with you,
it was It was really a fun couple of weeks.
I missed all of you. I missed the topics. I
missed doing the show. I like doing the show, and
I particularly like it when all of you want to
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interact with the show. What's John's topic here market Basket? Okay, Well,
we'll give John an opportunity to keep it going again.
I just want to emphasize that I think that I
need to promote this a little bit more. Tell you
we have Josh Kraft with us on Thursday night at
nine o'clock. He's running from Aaron Boston, as you know.
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And then on Wednesday night and Friday night, we will
have different points of view about this Massachusetts Turnpike issue.
Who is going to revitalize the plazas, who's going to
sell food, Who's going to control all of these plausas
on both sides of the turnpike. We'll talk with Eric Slifkup.
(01:54):
He's the president's of EO of Global Partners. They lost
out on the bid to a company from Ireland which
has some connections here in Massachusetts called Apple Green. We'll
talk to them and tomorrow, and I also will talk
to a former Supreme Court justice out of the state
of New Hampshire who's going to talk about mental illness
within families and how it's not often recognized. Okay, so
(02:17):
I'm going to give market Basket a little bit of
an opportunity if you want to talk and tell me
what your thought is. They are going to mediation tomorrow.
I think it's going to be an effort in futility frankly,
because I think both sides are so dug in. I
don't see that there's any way that they are going
to resolve this one way or the other. But maybe
John and Maine does. If you want to let me
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know that your relationship with market Basket has stayed the
same or it's changed. That's really the input that I
would like to have from any of you. And let's
go to John and Maine. John, I know that market
Basket has is it two or three stores up in Maine.
Where's my friendship, Dan? John welcome? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And this is John Famine, you old buddy, Timmy. I
had to call and say something else, but I'm in
Maine right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, all right, go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What you went to a play on your vacation.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it was a play about the It was it
was called Come from Away and was about the planes
that on nine to eleven were ordered to land. They
they did not want any planes up in the air.
If you, I'm sure you remember that day very well
like all of us, and it basically celebrated. It was
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a really interesting play. Was at the Dennis Playhouse. I
enjoyed it very much. It celebrated how we how welcoming
people in Newfoundland were. In this town called Ganda, which
was near an international airport, they had I think seven
thousand passengers arrive literally within a period of a few hours,
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and they took care of them. They fed them, they
housed them, and they spent some uh some some reunions
at ten years and all of that. It just was
a it was a really positive play about humans, human beings,
the good side of human beings.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
An you know Gokwood Man's ank Wood Playhouse. Oh yeah, absolutely,
really known. I've been there.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, it's good to remind people John of that, that
is for sure. It's a it's a great facility up there.
Never been myself, but I hope you've had a good
vacation your time off a main as well.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It was great. But any I really enjoy the playhouse
and a lot of the French Canadians up there.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yep, that's true, there's no no doubt about that. John.
I gotta let you run.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Manast for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, I yeah, But I'm back John, and we'll look
forward to talking to you sometime soon. Well that's okay.
I missed all of you as well, thanks John, appreciate
you call very much. Talk to you soon. Good night.
All right, what I want to do is, I think
market basket is done, so I am going to just
for the fun of it here had not planned to
do it this way, but I'm going to go open lines.
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Anything you want to talk about. There has certainly been
a lot that has occurred in the last few weeks
that I was dying to comment on. I don't know
if any of Bradley or Morgan talked about the the
change the cracker barrel controversy. I do know that President
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Trump has signed an executive order today on voter ID
and I'm not sure if that's going to basically be observed.
As you know, states have the opportunity to run their
own elections. Also, I know everyone has been celebrating in
Alston Christmas. If you're in Alston. I read one notice
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in which some people some person was upset over the
weekend that they weren't sure about the BC football game
and uh it was they There was some interesting responses
to it. It's some they were They were complaining that
that BC hadn't let people know that there was going
to be BC football games this this fall. Of course
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it doesn't quite fall yet. But uh, some of the
folks responded, had you ever when you moved into the
Austin neighborhood, did you not know that there was Boston
College near you? They were a Boston College football team,
So there was that. When I left two weeks ago, Uh,
it was very I thought hopeful, uh that the meeting
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between President Trump and Prime Minister President Putin of Russia
had just concluded, and at the time I expressed some skepticism.
I said, let us watch to see what Russia does.
Very quickly, after Putin had left US airspace and returned
home to Mother Russia, they renewed the bombing of Ukraine,
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which I didn't think was a good sign, and I
don't think it's been a good sign. I think that
Putin has been playing Trump on that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then the other item that I saw was that
President Trump removed the Secret Service protection of Kamala Harris,
who form a vice president who I think was guaranteed
statutorily secret Service protection until for six months after she
left office, which which would have been from not mistaken.
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July twentieth, there was an extension given by Joe Biden.
These were just some of the stories I saw, So
if you want to comment on those, we can go
open lines six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I'm back. I hope you are as well.
You got the phone numbers, Light them up back right
after this, whatever you want to talk about in the
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final hour tonight on Nightside.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The other big story that I kind of missed, and
I'm interested in your reaction to it, what's been going
on in Washington with the introduction of the National Guard
troops down there. Depending upon who you listen to, someone
will say it's they're necessary, someone will say it's not.
It's been a long time since I've been in Washington.
I read today that the President said they're going to
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go into Chicago. This is interesting to me, and we'll
do much more on this maybe later on during the week.
But seems to me that my recollection is that there
have been presidents who have invoked federal troops before, primarily
in the nineteen fifties and sixties and when southern governors
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were not permitting black students to attend integrated schools, high schools,
and colleges. And I think that if I lived in Chicago,
or if I lived in Washington, d C. Or if
I lived in any of these cities where it's frankly
dangerous to live. After all of these years, what was it,
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fifty six shootings, eight dead in Chicago this weekend, you
would think that there would be enough people out there
who would say, hey, we can use the help. Simple
as that. Let me go to Tim and Winthrop. Tim,
welcome back, How are you, sir? Welcome?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I gotta pick your brain a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The slim pickens tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Tim garrettaheads, I'm not conservative, but I'm not liberal, not
Democrat and rettered as on enrolled yep, okay, and I
vote for Trump. But I'm confused in the big beautiful bill.
All the seniors around I talked to about the he
keeps on saying no taxes for Social Security and H
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and I block and the other place is saying, while
there's some taxes, reduced taxes, and that's not no taxes, Dan,
I mean no taxes.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, I'll give you an answer if you want. Yeah,
the answer is And I looked into this a little
bit that there will be a cap SO. In other words,
if if you were making again I don't have the
number off the top of my head, but I think
it was something around twenty three or twenty four thousand dollars,
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those taxes, those SO security earnings will not be taxed.
But if you are somebody who is getting SO security,
and in addition to that, let us say you have
you know, pension, Let's say you have a private pension.
In addition to that, let's assume that you have accumulated
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been successful and accumulated wealth and have bank accounts which
you're generating income, if you have stocks that you're selling
and you generate in capital gains. Uh. That It doesn't
mean that if you're a millionaire and you get SO
security that you don't have to pay taxes on your
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Social security. Does I think there's a there's a there's
a cap so, and it was if you make more
than a certain amount of money, you've got to pay
taxes on SO security. But for most I think it
was some figure of Again I don't want to misquote
a figure here, but like ninety percent of the people
who are who are who are depending upon Social security, Uh,
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they will be they will not have to pay taxes
on social Security.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay. Now, some people when Trump was talking, he sometimes,
you know, even though I voted for him, I can't
vote for the left. But he seems like he's he
starts to ramble on and making stuff up the way
you know how he gets sometimes.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh yeah, he rambles on quite a bit. There's no
no doubt about that. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But he said in a couple for his speeches, no
tax whatsoever for everybody. He said that, and then there
was a gentleman behind him. I can mention his name,
Stephen Miller. He's a very smart guy. He puts as
soon as he says that, he's right in the front row.
And I see Steven Miller got his right hand and
put it right to his forehead. Sometimes he goes off
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and starts saying stuff out of school, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, I'm not sure that he's somebody who's really good
on social security issues or uncomplicated issues. He believes in
trying to simplify things. Okay, let me read something.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
To you, okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The new Senior Deduction allows eligible seniors and their spouses
who were sixty five and older to deduct up to
six thousand dollars each from their taxical income. For tax
years twenty five through twenty eight, there are adjusted gross
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limits to this deduction. To this deduction, it is only available. Well, yeah,
it is complicated, but if you listen, I think you'll
understand it. It is only available to single filers making
less than seventy five thousand dollars or couples making less
than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So let me
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ask you this. Okay, are you a single.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Filer or a couple a single file?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay? Do you make in total less than seventy five
thousand dollars? Yes? Is part of that? Social Security is
part of that seventy five thousand dollars your social Security income?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, you're going to be able to duck to deduct
up to six thousand dollars from your taxable income.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay. Next year, well, this year, my social Security check
every month gets bigger. How does that work?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You're not listening to me. You're not listening to me.
Why do you call me if you don't want to
listen to me?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm sorry, Just just pay attention.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This new deduction will allow you. Are you sixty five
or older.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yes, I am, Yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay. Do you make is your gross income less than
seventy five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes it is?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay. Is a part of that gross income your social
Security payments? How much do you make in Social Security payments? Roughly? Well,
do you have any idea? Tim? And don't you If
you don't have an idea, tell me you have no clue.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I have a clue. I make a month, I make
three thousand on my from my retirement and I get
nine fifty. I work for the state before.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And don't complicate things on me. For you to Tim, Tim,
do me a favor. Okay. You will be able to
benefit from this, and you will be able to duct
up to six thousand dollars from your taxable income for
the years. This is only good for four years twenty
twenty five, this year, twenty twenty six, next year twenty
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twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. So you're fine. Now, if
you were a millionaire, okay, Well, let's say that you
were making two hundred thousand dollars, you got some social
Security and in addition to that, Tim, you've got stocks
and bonds. You're making money you're doing great. You got
a couple hundred thousand because you're making because you're a
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single filer and you make over seventy five thousand dollars.
It doesn't help you, but you're okay. Does that make
you feel better?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Perfect?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
All right, it's a happy phone call. Thanks Tim, appreciate
the call. Anytime I can provide you with that service
you let me at the first person to give you,
I'll always give you straight answer, and when I don't
know the answer, I'll even tell you that. Thanks Tim, Peter,
You're welcome. Okay, sixs Now that we're straightened, Tim out,
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go and open lines. Folks, anything you want to talk about,
anything that that has happened in the last two weeks.
Feel free. Uh yeah. There will be so security taxes
on people for whom SO security is UH is A
is a benefit above and beyond seventy five thousand dollars
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as a as a single taxpayer one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. So if the vast majority of people who
are single taxpayers and who are who are older, there
aren't too many senior couples who are are making more
than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. There
may be some, but they're not going to get the break.
This is intended to help people who need so security
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to really live on. And it's a good thing that
Social Security taxes have been removed. In my opinion, it's
a good thing that taxes on tips have been removed, okay,
because there were a lot of people who weren't paying
any taxes anyway, or tips with There are a lot
of people who were being taxed on their tips. And look,
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if you're working and you're relying on making tips, whether
you're a waiter or waitress or a driver of I'm
sure that there's limitations on that as well. Look, here's
my frustration. I listen to stuff during the day which
is broadcast on network television that I know is misleading, okay,
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and that scares the heck out of people. And I
know that there are people out there trying to say, oh,
the sky is falling, and look, Donald Trump engages in hyperbole,
There's no question about that. But if I live in
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a crime ridden neighborhood, whether it's in Chicago, Saint Louis,
or Memphis, Detroit, any major city, Boston, do I want
my community to be safer. Yes, if I live in Chicago.
And by the way, there's not much shooting going on
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in certain sections of Chicago, just like Boston. If you
look at the murders murders in Boston, they're pretty much
confined to a few neighborhoods. That's sad, it's unfortunate, but
it's true. So in Chicago last weekend there were fifty
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six people shot in Chicago, eight of whom were killed
last weekend. Look, if I don't live in one of
those neighborhoods, I'm lucky. I'm really lucky. I don't live
in one of those neighborhoods. But if I lived in
one of those neighborhoods, do I want whatever? Do I
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want an influx of FBI? Yeah, if they can come
in and make my neighborhood safer than the Chicago PD. Absolutely,
Why wouldn't I and the politicians who were embarrassed that
they have done such a horrible job. The mayor of Washington,
d C. Muriel Bowser, I've seen some comments that she's
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made which has been pretty complimentary towards what the White
House has done with Now again, the White House has
more flexibility because Washington, d C. Is not a state,
it's not run by a governor, It's run by the
federal government. So the president is able to do that.
He sent National Guard troops into Los Angeles during the
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immigration cracked down by ICE. The ICE officers were being
assaulted and attacked by demonstrators. You saw some of that,
You saw the brick throwing. What are you going to do?
Say to those people, Hey, you go in there and
you got to clean up this. You got to find
people who need to be deported. You got to find criminals.
This is an amazing debate that I see every day.
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I'll watch CNN, I'll watch Fox, I'll watch MSNBC, and
now I'm watching Bloomberg. You think they're covering four different stories.
If you live in a crime written neighborhood and you
do not want crime to be reduced in your neighborhood,
tell me why. If you live in a crime written
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neighborhood and you don't want more protection, whether it's police,
an infusion of state police, an infusion of FBI agents,
and infusion of DEA agents up to an including the
National Guard, tell me why I want to be convinced
that I'm wrong on that. I think most people in
America of what whatever background, whatever color, whatever racial identity,
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whatever gender, want to be safe. Am I wrong on that?
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty. Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Let me break this social curity down one more time
and I will we have full lines now, thank you
very much. We'll get to everybody, I promise. So, if
you're a single senior, I means drove a sixty five
uh right now, your standard deduction is fifteen thousand and
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seven hundred and fifty dollars. So if you're making let
us say two thousand a month, okay, uh, you end
up with about let's say twenty four thousand in so
scurty income, you will have a new deduction of six
thousand dollars for single person, twelve thousand for a couple.
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And essentially what it means is that if you are
making as a single person in SO security twenty four
thousand dollars, there'll be no tax on your SOB security.
If you're a married couple and you're making about forty
eight thousand dollars, there'll be no tax on your SO Security.
If you're making more than that, if you have other
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deductions or other income, there'll be taxes on that. But basically,
as a four you'll you'll get a you'll get a break,
according to the White House, and you can take it
with a grain of salt if you want. Eighty eight
percent of all seniors who receive Social Security will pay
no tax on their Social Security benefits, according to a
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brand new analysis from the Council of Economic Advisors. So
just trying to give you the truth. If you're making
more than those amounts of money, either as a single
filer or as a couple filing as a couple, you'll
make more, and if you have other income, you're going
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to be paying taxes on those. But eighty eight percent
of all seniors who receive SO Security will pay no
tax on their Still Security benefits. I can't make it
any clearer than that. Let me go to Laurie in Ohio.
Excuse me, Laurie and Idaho. I keep saying, Ohio, I
know you're in Idaho. How are you, Laurie.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Welcome, welcome back, Thank god.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I am very happy to be back, and it's nice
to hear some familiar voices. It's you know, sometimes I
wonder rid of my audience.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Go go ahead, Well, who knows, maybe they're still on vacation.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Maybe labor days. It's yesterday, was vacations over? People, come
on back. What's on your amount tonight?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Really it's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I actually was.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
He was thinking about the dmolest thing, and I don't
I don't know how you get around sixty percent ownership
unless they really can prove that. There's like you gotta
love Harvey. He brings it every time he does it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And he reminded us that he's a criminal defense attorney.
Very very subtle.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Well, wasn't that subtle, but it was. It was very clever. Yeah, anyway,
So I don't know your your range of topics. I
just did one thing that has bugged me ever since
you know Putin and well I well after I think
Trump talked with Zelenski too, is how he's just going
in and pummeling Ukraine. I don't understand this. I don't
understand why somebody can't stop it. I mean, I do understand,
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but it's just disgusting to me. He's trying to ruin
this country. If he can't get his way, he's just
gonna wreck it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah. Well, I don't know if you saw the meeting
in China today with the head of China and the
Prime Minister of India Modi, who recently was at the
White House, was there hanging out with Putin and g
h And that's not a good problem. I mean, he's
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he's closing up to China. And it wasn't too long
ago that China and India were bitter enemies. So Trump
wants to put some some additional tariffs on India because
India's is buying Russian oil, which is funding the Russian
war machine.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
I exactly after.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
President Trump bombed the Iranian nuclear side, I said to people,
let's see what Let's see what Iran does in the
next couple of days, and they shut down all of
the offensive military activity, which said to me, they got hurt.
They got hit, and they got hurt hard. After Alaska,
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I said, let's see what Putin does. And the fact
that Putin has come back stronger than ever, I would
I would hit Trump. I would hit if I were
President Trump, I would hit Putin with sanctions that would
make his head spin. We haven't really have no choice
at this point because our word is out there. And
I think that I think Putin has played Trump simple
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as that played them, played them like a violin.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Yeah, I guess. I mean, I think Trump likes to
hope the best.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But I mean, well, at some point, I mean, I mean,
you know, you can, you can keep asking, you know,
Miss America for a date. But if Miss America is
not returning to new phone calls, you know, eventually most
guys are small enough to figure it out. And if
if Putin has gone off now for three weeks, then
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he's hanging out in Beijing, Uh and uh and he
he's got the three shot of the giant China Chinese.
He's you know, uh and Modi from India and Putin
looking like best buds. And then they walked in, Uh.
Kim Jong Moon from North Korea. He brought he he got,
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he arrived at this bulletproof train. The gang's all here.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
I know, he said, Does Trump really not care about Ukraine?
Or is like you said, is he just being out
played or is he figure opinion?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
In my opinion, probably it's not at the top of
his dance card. But now that Putin is embarrassing him.
I think he's he's got a man up, in.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
My opinion, and a lot of red herrings out and
then something really really bad will happen to Russia.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We'll see, We'll say, we'll see. Laurie from Idaho is
always thank you so much for bailing me out here.
Thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All right, good Now let me go to Frank in Boston.
Wants to talk about troops in the cities. Hey, frank,
welcome next to night Side. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Thank you for degree of good?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
You know, I would agree with I would agree with
what Trump's doing if there was one problem, and that
is he's sending them to the wrong place. I mean,
you got all these red states who these cities and
these red states and their their crime rate is higher,
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and these states and the city that he's sending them
to the crime rates lower and not giving them any credit.
But yet the ones who really needed he's not sending
them there, and and and I'm not I don't understand. Okay,
So let me ask you, Frankston, those particular states.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you, Frank, so I hope
you're sitting down. I'm gonna agree with you. If if
I were President Trump and I'm not, I would look
at the stats and I would say, I don't care
if they're in a red state or a blue state.
I'm sending I'm going to ask the governor if he
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would like some help, if he or she would like
some help. Now, my question to you is you live
in Boston. Are you do you feel comfortable in your
community in terms of crime or just describe to me
how you would describe crime in your in your community?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Safe?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You feel safe?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I probly I parked my car two blocks from my house,
and I don't mind doing that because I know nobody
ain't gonna touch it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Good for you?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well, I come home at twelve o'clock at night and
nobody is even outside, So it's like, who am I
going to be afraid of? I mean, you're trying to
say that these cities don't deserve credit for what they've done.
That's the only way.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, let's let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk Trump briefly.
Let's talk briefly about Chicago. Okay, are you you have
a in Chicago?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Okay? Well, there's a lot of shooting in Chicago. They
were fifty six.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
The last time you, well, the last time you was
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
A few years ago, a few years ago, few years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Because that's not what's happening right now.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, I can tell you is there were fifty six
people shot and eight people killed in Chicago this weekend.
So those those eight people I care about. I hope
you care about them as well, Yes, sir, Yeah, yeah,
you do, right, yeah, okay, So so when.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I also care about the fact that the city has
been doing everything it can to reduce crime and it's
been successful, and we're not giving them credit for that.
We're saying, oh, oh, Trump is going to come in there,
save the day, save the day. The day has already
been saved.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
They So why why has the mayor of Washington. Have
you seen the comments that the mayor of Washington has
made recently.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yes, she's saying she appreciates the help, but they were
in a position where they were calling for help because
they were doing everything.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
So here's the deal, Frank, Okay, you guys are.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Not giving these people credit what credit is due. You're
given the wrong person credits and he's not doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You know what, Frank, I wish you safety in your community.
And if you're happy with the protection that you have
in your community, and you could and you could sleep well.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
At night your community, what's happened in your community? How
many wife beaters are in your community?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't I don't know, to be honest with you,
I don't know how many wife beaters are in your community. Frank,
you're talking rag time, Frank. Okay, Frank, you're absolutely talking
rag time. You're talking about violence, which is a problem
across the board. Okay. There's domestic violence in every community
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in Massachusetts, every community in this country, and anybody who
downplays domestic violence is either stupid or engaging in domestic
violence because it's something that we have to be concerned about.
I'm also concerned about murders and when eight people die
in Chicago. There were no people shot and killed in
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my community last weekend. But I care about the people
in Chicago, and I think I care about him more
than you do. Appreciate you call, Frank, I got a run,
I'm up on my break. We'll keep going here, coming
right back on nightside. If you feel if you agree
with Frank, give me call If you disagree, that's fine too.
You can give me a call either way. All the
lines are full. Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So I do care about the eight people who were
killed in Chicago, and I also care about the sixteen
to seventeen murders in Boston this year, most of them
in poor communities, because that is where the murders are occurring.
Can they be a murderer and be get Hillary in
the back bay? Absolutely less likely. Okay, we're gonna try
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to get everybody in. Let me see here what we
can do real quickly. Lewis in New Jersey. Lewis, you
are next on Night Side. Welcome, sir, Welcome. Bring up
Lewis for me, will you? For some reason, I can't
bring up Lewis here? Rob, Rob, Please thank you. Lewis. Welcome, Yes, sir,
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Hi Lewis, You're on the year, go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Sorry, thank you. Dan. You definitely have got the finger
on the pulse of America. But you know what, the
general public today just doesn't get a grip and they
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don't have the where it's all to find out or
figure out how life is so precious Louis, Where.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Where in New Jersey do you live? If I could ask.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Atlantic City, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
How's crime in Atlantic City? Under control? Out of control?
How would you describe it?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
You know what? I would say, It's like everywhere else
and it's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And would you be would would you like to see
your police department get more help either from the state
or from the federal government or no.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
I think that the police department in a lank city
has got a control on it.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Good, Okay, Lewis to me a favorite call a little
earlier and I give you more time. I got full
lines behind you.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
All right, Dan, listen, you know what you're doing, great
service for this country and I love listening to you
and WBG Well.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Lewis, thank you very much. I hope you call again.
Call more off. Appreciate your call, very rightful. Thank you.
Going to go to kenon wal Dam Ken next on
Nisag go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
I was going to talk about Ukraine, but I think
I'm going to try to I think it was Frank
two calls ago, and maybe try to interpret what he's feeling,
because what my the problem I'm having with Trump you know,
if he said, yes, you know, crime is pretty low
in comparison right now. But I'm going to go into
these cities and We're going to try to make it
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even lower, because there's still some terrible areas right where
there's all this crime and murder. But Trump, but Trump
says is he says, you know, Washington is like a
cesspool of crime. Nobody goes out to eat anymore. Everybody's
afraid as if there are like all restaurants have closed
in Washington, and it's simply not true.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, let me ask you something again. You called late
and which which you often do. So I'm just gonna
probably rush you a little bit and we'll take Ukraine
another night. You live in Waltham, which is a pretty
safe city to the best of my knowledge. But there
are parts of urban America which are not safe. And
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the fact that I don't live in uh I don't
live in an urban community. I live in a nice community,
pretty safe community. Could I be a victim of crime? Absolutely?
Do I want more police in my community? Absolutely? I
assume that most people in urban areas where there's a
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higher incidents of crime also want more police.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I agree, you know, I want my failing.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I don't want people breaking into my house. I don't
want my carbying hijacked. I don't want my carby and soul.
And it's as simple as that. I don't even understand
why there's a controversy, to be honest with you again.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Because well, what if what if?
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Okay, what if Donald Trump came into your community and said,
Dan Ray's causing all this trouble, He's the reason why
we have all this crime in Boston. So I'm going
to go in and fix it, and he brings all this,
all these police in and all this stuff. I mean,
I think you'd be irritated to some degree.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, I don't think he's accusing anyone of crime. He's
saying that crime in this community is out of control,
and I'm going to try to fix it. We'll talk again.
Please call earlier because we need a longer conversation on this. Okay, Thanks, Thanks, Ken.
Let me go to Eileen and Cambridge. Aleen are going
to get you in here quickly again. You've called late
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as well. What's your thought on on crime in cities?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Well, I think that we have a lot of crime
in particular areas of Boston and most people who live
around here know.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Where those areas are.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
If you rock Ferry, for instance. And I'm living in
Cambridge now, and I was having to visit somebody at
Good Samaritan Hospital, which is in.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
South of Boston, Broughton, I think if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Yeah, yeah, yes, And I am was scared driving through Boston,
so I went all the way around Route one twenty
eight and uh in Milton. It's in Milton, all the
way around Route one twenty eight rather than taking a
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short route because I was absolutely frightened.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah. Well, I can tell you that most of the
murders in the greater Boston area I've been in Mission Hill, Roxbury,
Mattape and Dorchester. There have been a couple in Charlestown,
one in JP, one in hy Park, and one in
Michigan and two in Alston. But again, if I lived
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in those communities, I would want more protection, Eileen, I
got to get one more in here real quickly. You've
got to call early. We'll give you much more time.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
Okay, thank you so much, Thanks, thank much.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Appreciate it. Jay and Nane. Jay, you got about a minute.
What can you do with it? Hey?
Speaker 9 (39:53):
Good evening, Dan so you lived in the sixties, you survived,
and the Beatles had the answer.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
All you need is love.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
And everybody that doesn't have that selfishness.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
My car, my house, my job, my You know.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
We're worried about ourselves. Nobody's thinking about the next person.
Speaker 7 (40:11):
Me. I see that.
Speaker 9 (40:14):
Force is the last resort of every society that is
absent of love. So I'm going to beat a voice
of common impassioned reason, like I've always considered here to
be coming out from the wilderness in Maine, saying people
had love going on and they were less considerate of
themselves and more considerate of other people.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know, Jay, in all honesty, I think you're an
idealist and I respect that and actually I admire that.
At the same time, when they're you know, dozens of
people being shot every weekend in Chicago, we got to
do something about it, in my opinion, and unfortunately peace
and love. You and I can go much and be
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yelling peace and love and singing Beatles songs. We might
be in trouble in Chicago this weekend. A call early,
I'll give you much more time. Done for the night,
Rob Brooks, thank you, Marita, thank you to all the callers.
I will do a postgame right after the show. I
want who end as always, all dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rayes, who
passed fifteen years ago in February, That's why your pets
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are who were passed. They loved you and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. See again tomorrow
night on nights Side. Everyone, please join us, tell you
friends about my show. We'll be back tomorrow night
It's nice with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Boston's news.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Radio, Dan Walkins, thank you very much. Okay, it doesn't
seem to be much interest in market Basket, so I'm
going to move on to a different topic. It sounds
to me as if maybe the angst over market Basket
has run its course. I don't know what to say
other than that, And again, just remind all of you
(00:29):
that I have been off for a couple of weeks,
so I'm coming back and tonight again. I do want
to thank Morgan White and Bradley j for having sat
in for me during the last two weeks of August.
It was the longest time off that I've taken in
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my memory. I may have taken more off in other times,
but I don't recall it. And to be honest with you,
it was It was really a fun couple of weeks.
I missed all of you. I missed the topics. I
missed doing the show. I like doing the show, and
I particularly like it when all of you want to
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interact with the show. What's John's topic here market Basket? Okay, Well,
we'll give John an opportunity to keep it going again.
I just want to emphasize that I think that I
need to promote this a little bit more. Tell you
we have Josh Kraft with us on Thursday night at
nine o'clock. He's running from Aaron Boston, as you know.
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And then on Wednesday night and Friday night, we will
have different points of view about this Massachusetts Turnpike issue.
Who is going to revitalize the plazas, who's going to
sell food, Who's going to control all of these plausas
on both sides of the turnpike. We'll talk with Eric Slifkup.
(01:54):
He's the president's of EO of Global Partners. They lost
out on the bid to a company from Ireland which
has some connections here in Massachusetts called Apple Green. We'll
talk to them and tomorrow, and I also will talk
to a former Supreme Court justice out of the state
of New Hampshire who's going to talk about mental illness
within families and how it's not often recognized. Okay, so
(02:17):
I'm going to give market Basket a little bit of
an opportunity if you want to talk and tell me
what your thought is. They are going to mediation tomorrow.
I think it's going to be an effort in futility frankly,
because I think both sides are so dug in. I
don't see that there's any way that they are going
to resolve this one way or the other. But maybe
John and Maine does. If you want to let me
(02:38):
know that your relationship with market Basket has stayed the
same or it's changed. That's really the input that I
would like to have from any of you. And let's
go to John and Maine. John, I know that market
Basket has is it two or three stores up in Maine.
Where's my friendship, Dan? John welcome? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And this is John Famine, you old buddy, Timmy. I
had to call and say something else, but I'm in
Maine right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, all right, go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What you went to a play on your vacation.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, it was a play about the It was it
was called Come from Away and was about the planes
that on nine to eleven were ordered to land. They
they did not want any planes up in the air.
If you, I'm sure you remember that day very well
like all of us, and it basically celebrated. It was
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a really interesting play. Was at the Dennis Playhouse. I
enjoyed it very much. It celebrated how we how welcoming
people in Newfoundland were. In this town called Ganda, which
was near an international airport, they had I think seven
thousand passengers arrive literally within a period of a few hours,
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and they took care of them. They fed them, they
housed them, and they spent some uh some some reunions
at ten years and all of that. It just was
a it was a really positive play about humans, human beings,
the good side of human beings.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
An you know Gokwood Man's ank Wood Playhouse. Oh yeah, absolutely,
really known. I've been there.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, it's good to remind people John of that, that
is for sure. It's a it's a great facility up there.
Never been myself, but I hope you've had a good
vacation your time off a main as well.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It was great. But any I really enjoy the playhouse
and a lot of the French Canadians up there.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yep, that's true, there's no no doubt about that. John.
I gotta let you run.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Manast for two weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, I yeah, But I'm back John, and we'll look
forward to talking to you sometime soon. Well that's okay.
I missed all of you as well, thanks John, appreciate
you call very much. Talk to you soon. Good night.
All right, what I want to do is, I think
market basket is done, so I am going to just
for the fun of it here had not planned to
do it this way, but I'm going to go open lines.
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Anything you want to talk about. There has certainly been
a lot that has occurred in the last few weeks
that I was dying to comment on. I don't know
if any of Bradley or Morgan talked about the the
change the cracker barrel controversy. I do know that President
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Trump has signed an executive order today on voter ID
and I'm not sure if that's going to basically be observed.
As you know, states have the opportunity to run their
own elections. Also, I know everyone has been celebrating in
Alston Christmas. If you're in Alston. I read one notice
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in which some people some person was upset over the
weekend that they weren't sure about the BC football game
and uh it was they There was some interesting responses
to it. It's some they were They were complaining that
that BC hadn't let people know that there was going
to be BC football games this this fall. Of course
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it doesn't quite fall yet. But uh, some of the
folks responded, had you ever when you moved into the
Austin neighborhood, did you not know that there was Boston
College near you? They were a Boston College football team,
So there was that. When I left two weeks ago, Uh,
it was very I thought hopeful, uh that the meeting
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between President Trump and Prime Minister President Putin of Russia
had just concluded, and at the time I expressed some skepticism.
I said, let us watch to see what Russia does.
Very quickly, after Putin had left US airspace and returned
home to Mother Russia, they renewed the bombing of Ukraine,
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which I didn't think was a good sign, and I
don't think it's been a good sign. I think that
Putin has been playing Trump on that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And then the other item that I saw was that
President Trump removed the Secret Service protection of Kamala Harris,
who form a vice president who I think was guaranteed
statutorily secret Service protection until for six months after she
left office, which which would have been from not mistaken.
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July twentieth, there was an extension given by Joe Biden.
These were just some of the stories I saw, So
if you want to comment on those, we can go
open lines six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I'm back. I hope you are as well.
You got the phone numbers, Light them up back right
after this, whatever you want to talk about in the
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final hour tonight on Nightside.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The other big story that I kind of missed, and
I'm interested in your reaction to it, what's been going
on in Washington with the introduction of the National Guard
troops down there. Depending upon who you listen to, someone
will say it's they're necessary, someone will say it's not.
It's been a long time since I've been in Washington.
I read today that the President said they're going to
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go into Chicago. This is interesting to me, and we'll
do much more on this maybe later on during the week.
But seems to me that my recollection is that there
have been presidents who have invoked federal troops before, primarily
in the nineteen fifties and sixties and when southern governors
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were not permitting black students to attend integrated schools, high schools,
and colleges. And I think that if I lived in Chicago,
or if I lived in Washington, d C. Or if
I lived in any of these cities where it's frankly
dangerous to live. After all of these years, what was it,
(09:13):
fifty six shootings, eight dead in Chicago this weekend, you
would think that there would be enough people out there
who would say, hey, we can use the help. Simple
as that. Let me go to Tim and Winthrop. Tim,
welcome back, How are you, sir? Welcome?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I gotta pick your brain a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The slim pickens tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Tim garrettaheads, I'm not conservative, but I'm not liberal, not
Democrat and rettered as on enrolled yep, okay, and I
vote for Trump. But I'm confused in the big beautiful bill.
All the seniors around I talked to about the he
keeps on saying no taxes for Social Security and H
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and I block and the other place is saying, while
there's some taxes, reduced taxes, and that's not no taxes, Dan,
I mean no taxes.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, I'll give you an answer if you want. Yeah,
the answer is And I looked into this a little
bit that there will be a cap SO. In other words,
if if you were making again I don't have the
number off the top of my head, but I think
it was something around twenty three or twenty four thousand dollars,
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those taxes, those SO security earnings will not be taxed.
But if you are somebody who is getting SO security,
and in addition to that, let us say you have
you know, pension, Let's say you have a private pension.
In addition to that, let's assume that you have accumulated
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been successful and accumulated wealth and have bank accounts which
you're generating income, if you have stocks that you're selling
and you generate in capital gains. Uh. That It doesn't
mean that if you're a millionaire and you get SO
security that you don't have to pay taxes on your
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Social security. Does I think there's a there's a there's
a cap so, and it was if you make more
than a certain amount of money, you've got to pay
taxes on SO security. But for most I think it
was some figure of Again I don't want to misquote
a figure here, but like ninety percent of the people
who are who are who are depending upon Social security, Uh,
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they will be they will not have to pay taxes
on social Security.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay. Now, some people when Trump was talking, he sometimes,
you know, even though I voted for him, I can't
vote for the left. But he seems like he's he
starts to ramble on and making stuff up the way
you know how he gets sometimes.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Oh yeah, he rambles on quite a bit. There's no
no doubt about that. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But he said in a couple for his speeches, no
tax whatsoever for everybody. He said that, and then there
was a gentleman behind him. I can mention his name,
Stephen Miller. He's a very smart guy. He puts as
soon as he says that, he's right in the front row.
And I see Steven Miller got his right hand and
put it right to his forehead. Sometimes he goes off
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and starts saying stuff out of school, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, I'm not sure that he's somebody who's really good
on social security issues or uncomplicated issues. He believes in
trying to simplify things. Okay, let me read something.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
To you, okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The new Senior Deduction allows eligible seniors and their spouses
who were sixty five and older to deduct up to
six thousand dollars each from their taxical income. For tax
years twenty five through twenty eight, there are adjusted gross
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limits to this deduction. To this deduction, it is only available. Well, yeah,
it is complicated, but if you listen, I think you'll
understand it. It is only available to single filers making
less than seventy five thousand dollars or couples making less
than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So let me
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ask you this. Okay, are you a single.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Filer or a couple a single file?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay? Do you make in total less than seventy five
thousand dollars? Yes? Is part of that? Social Security is
part of that seventy five thousand dollars your social Security income?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Okay, you're going to be able to duck to deduct
up to six thousand dollars from your taxable income.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay. Next year, well, this year, my social Security check
every month gets bigger. How does that work?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You're not listening to me. You're not listening to me.
Why do you call me if you don't want to
listen to me?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm sorry, Just just pay attention.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
This new deduction will allow you. Are you sixty five
or older.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yes, I am, Yes, you are.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay. Do you make is your gross income less than
seventy five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes it is?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Okay. Is a part of that gross income your social
Security payments? How much do you make in Social Security payments? Roughly? Well,
do you have any idea? Tim? And don't you If
you don't have an idea, tell me you have no clue.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I have a clue. I make a month, I make
three thousand on my from my retirement and I get
nine fifty. I work for the state before.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And don't complicate things on me. For you to Tim, Tim,
do me a favor. Okay. You will be able to
benefit from this, and you will be able to duct
up to six thousand dollars from your taxable income for
the years. This is only good for four years twenty
twenty five, this year, twenty twenty six, next year twenty
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twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. So you're fine. Now, if
you were a millionaire, okay, Well, let's say that you
were making two hundred thousand dollars, you got some social
Security and in addition to that, Tim, you've got stocks
and bonds. You're making money you're doing great. You got
a couple hundred thousand because you're making because you're a
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single filer and you make over seventy five thousand dollars.
It doesn't help you, but you're okay. Does that make
you feel better?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Perfect?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
All right, it's a happy phone call. Thanks Tim, appreciate
the call. Anytime I can provide you with that service
you let me at the first person to give you,
I'll always give you straight answer, and when I don't
know the answer, I'll even tell you that. Thanks Tim, Peter,
You're welcome. Okay, sixs Now that we're straightened, Tim out,
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go and open lines. Folks, anything you want to talk about,
anything that that has happened in the last two weeks.
Feel free. Uh yeah. There will be so security taxes
on people for whom SO security is UH is A
is a benefit above and beyond seventy five thousand dollars
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as a as a single taxpayer one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. So if the vast majority of people who
are single taxpayers and who are who are older, there
aren't too many senior couples who are are making more
than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. There
may be some, but they're not going to get the break.
This is intended to help people who need so security
(16:58):
to really live on. And it's a good thing that
Social Security taxes have been removed. In my opinion, it's
a good thing that taxes on tips have been removed, okay,
because there were a lot of people who weren't paying
any taxes anyway, or tips with There are a lot
of people who were being taxed on their tips. And look,
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if you're working and you're relying on making tips, whether
you're a waiter or waitress or a driver of I'm
sure that there's limitations on that as well. Look, here's
my frustration. I listen to stuff during the day which
is broadcast on network television that I know is misleading, okay,
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and that scares the heck out of people. And I
know that there are people out there trying to say, oh,
the sky is falling, and look, Donald Trump engages in hyperbole,
There's no question about that. But if I live in
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a crime ridden neighborhood, whether it's in Chicago, Saint Louis,
or Memphis, Detroit, any major city, Boston, do I want
my community to be safer. Yes, if I live in Chicago.
And by the way, there's not much shooting going on
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in certain sections of Chicago, just like Boston. If you
look at the murders murders in Boston, they're pretty much
confined to a few neighborhoods. That's sad, it's unfortunate, but
it's true. So in Chicago last weekend there were fifty
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six people shot in Chicago, eight of whom were killed
last weekend. Look, if I don't live in one of
those neighborhoods, I'm lucky. I'm really lucky. I don't live
in one of those neighborhoods. But if I lived in
one of those neighborhoods, do I want whatever? Do I
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want an influx of FBI? Yeah, if they can come
in and make my neighborhood safer than the Chicago PD. Absolutely,
Why wouldn't I and the politicians who were embarrassed that
they have done such a horrible job. The mayor of Washington,
d C. Muriel Bowser, I've seen some comments that she's
(19:29):
made which has been pretty complimentary towards what the White
House has done with Now again, the White House has
more flexibility because Washington, d C. Is not a state,
it's not run by a governor, It's run by the
federal government. So the president is able to do that.
He sent National Guard troops into Los Angeles during the
(19:54):
immigration cracked down by ICE. The ICE officers were being
assaulted and attacked by demonstrators. You saw some of that,
You saw the brick throwing. What are you going to do?
Say to those people, Hey, you go in there and
you got to clean up this. You got to find
people who need to be deported. You got to find criminals.
This is an amazing debate that I see every day.
(20:17):
I'll watch CNN, I'll watch Fox, I'll watch MSNBC, and
now I'm watching Bloomberg. You think they're covering four different stories.
If you live in a crime written neighborhood and you
do not want crime to be reduced in your neighborhood,
tell me why. If you live in a crime written
(20:38):
neighborhood and you don't want more protection, whether it's police,
an infusion of state police, an infusion of FBI agents,
and infusion of DEA agents up to an including the
National Guard, tell me why I want to be convinced
that I'm wrong on that. I think most people in
America of what whatever background, whatever color, whatever racial identity,
(21:03):
whatever gender, want to be safe. Am I wrong on that?
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty. Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Let me break this social curity down one more time
and I will we have full lines now, thank you
very much. We'll get to everybody, I promise. So, if
you're a single senior, I means drove a sixty five
uh right now, your standard deduction is fifteen thousand and
(21:46):
seven hundred and fifty dollars. So if you're making let
us say two thousand a month, okay, uh, you end
up with about let's say twenty four thousand in so
scurty income, you will have a new deduction of six
thousand dollars for single person, twelve thousand for a couple.
(22:11):
And essentially what it means is that if you are
making as a single person in SO security twenty four
thousand dollars, there'll be no tax on your SOB security.
If you're a married couple and you're making about forty
eight thousand dollars, there'll be no tax on your SO Security.
If you're making more than that, if you have other
(22:34):
deductions or other income, there'll be taxes on that. But basically,
as a four you'll you'll get a you'll get a break,
according to the White House, and you can take it
with a grain of salt if you want. Eighty eight
percent of all seniors who receive Social Security will pay
no tax on their Social Security benefits, according to a
(22:57):
brand new analysis from the Council of Economic Advisors. So
just trying to give you the truth. If you're making
more than those amounts of money, either as a single
filer or as a couple filing as a couple, you'll
make more, and if you have other income, you're going
(23:21):
to be paying taxes on those. But eighty eight percent
of all seniors who receive SO Security will pay no
tax on their Still Security benefits. I can't make it
any clearer than that. Let me go to Laurie in Ohio.
Excuse me, Laurie and Idaho. I keep saying, Ohio, I
know you're in Idaho. How are you, Laurie.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Welcome, welcome back, Thank god.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I am very happy to be back, and it's nice
to hear some familiar voices. It's you know, sometimes I
wonder rid of my audience.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Go go ahead, Well, who knows, maybe they're still on vacation.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Maybe labor days. It's yesterday, was vacations over? People, come
on back. What's on your amount tonight?
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Really it's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I actually was.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
He was thinking about the dmolest thing, and I don't
I don't know how you get around sixty percent ownership
unless they really can prove that. There's like you gotta
love Harvey. He brings it every time he does it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And he reminded us that he's a criminal defense attorney.
Very very subtle.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Well, wasn't that subtle, but it was. It was very clever. Yeah, anyway,
So I don't know your your range of topics. I
just did one thing that has bugged me ever since
you know Putin and well I well after I think
Trump talked with Zelenski too, is how he's just going
in and pummeling Ukraine. I don't understand this. I don't
understand why somebody can't stop it. I mean, I do understand,
(24:50):
but it's just disgusting to me. He's trying to ruin
this country. If he can't get his way, he's just
gonna wreck it.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah. Well, I don't know if you saw the meeting
in China today with the head of China and the
Prime Minister of India Modi, who recently was at the
White House, was there hanging out with Putin and g
h And that's not a good problem. I mean, he's
(25:16):
he's closing up to China. And it wasn't too long
ago that China and India were bitter enemies. So Trump
wants to put some some additional tariffs on India because
India's is buying Russian oil, which is funding the Russian
war machine.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
I exactly after.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
President Trump bombed the Iranian nuclear side, I said to people,
let's see what Let's see what Iran does in the
next couple of days, and they shut down all of
the offensive military activity, which said to me, they got hurt.
They got hit, and they got hurt hard. After Alaska,
(25:59):
I said, let's see what Putin does. And the fact
that Putin has come back stronger than ever, I would
I would hit Trump. I would hit if I were
President Trump, I would hit Putin with sanctions that would
make his head spin. We haven't really have no choice
at this point because our word is out there. And
I think that I think Putin has played Trump simple
(26:22):
as that played them, played them like a violin.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Yeah, I guess. I mean, I think Trump likes to
hope the best.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But I mean, well, at some point, I mean, I mean,
you know, you can, you can keep asking, you know,
Miss America for a date. But if Miss America is
not returning to new phone calls, you know, eventually most
guys are small enough to figure it out. And if
if Putin has gone off now for three weeks, then
(26:51):
he's hanging out in Beijing, Uh and uh and he
he's got the three shot of the giant China Chinese.
He's you know, uh and Modi from India and Putin
looking like best buds. And then they walked in, Uh.
Kim Jong Moon from North Korea. He brought he he got,
(27:11):
he arrived at this bulletproof train. The gang's all here.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
I know, he said, Does Trump really not care about Ukraine?
Or is like you said, is he just being out
played or is he figure opinion?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
In my opinion, probably it's not at the top of
his dance card. But now that Putin is embarrassing him.
I think he's he's got a man up, in.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
My opinion, and a lot of red herrings out and
then something really really bad will happen to Russia.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We'll see, We'll say, we'll see. Laurie from Idaho is
always thank you so much for bailing me out here.
Thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All right, good Now let me go to Frank in Boston.
Wants to talk about troops in the cities. Hey, frank,
welcome next to night Side. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Thank you for degree of good?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
You know, I would agree with I would agree with
what Trump's doing if there was one problem, and that
is he's sending them to the wrong place. I mean,
you got all these red states who these cities and
these red states and their their crime rate is higher,
(28:24):
and these states and the city that he's sending them
to the crime rates lower and not giving them any credit.
But yet the ones who really needed he's not sending
them there, and and and I'm not I don't understand. Okay,
So let me ask you, Frankston, those particular states.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you, Frank, so I hope
you're sitting down. I'm gonna agree with you. If if
I were President Trump and I'm not, I would look
at the stats and I would say, I don't care
if they're in a red state or a blue state.
I'm sending I'm going to ask the governor if he
(29:03):
would like some help, if he or she would like
some help. Now, my question to you is you live
in Boston. Are you do you feel comfortable in your
community in terms of crime or just describe to me
how you would describe crime in your in your community?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Safe?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You feel safe?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I probly I parked my car two blocks from my house,
and I don't mind doing that because I know nobody
ain't gonna touch it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Good for you?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well, I come home at twelve o'clock at night and
nobody is even outside, So it's like, who am I
going to be afraid of? I mean, you're trying to
say that these cities don't deserve credit for what they've done.
That's the only way.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, let's let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk Trump briefly.
Let's talk briefly about Chicago. Okay, are you you have
a in Chicago?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
No, sir?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Okay? Well, there's a lot of shooting in Chicago. They
were fifty six.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
The last time you, well, the last time you was
in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
A few years ago, a few years ago, few years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Because that's not what's happening right now.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, I can tell you is there were fifty six
people shot and eight people killed in Chicago this weekend.
So those those eight people I care about. I hope
you care about them as well, Yes, sir, Yeah, yeah,
you do, right, yeah, okay, So so when.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I also care about the fact that the city has
been doing everything it can to reduce crime and it's
been successful, and we're not giving them credit for that.
We're saying, oh, oh, Trump is going to come in there,
save the day, save the day. The day has already
been saved.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
They So why why has the mayor of Washington. Have
you seen the comments that the mayor of Washington has
made recently.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yes, she's saying she appreciates the help, but they were
in a position where they were calling for help because
they were doing everything.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
So here's the deal, Frank, Okay, you guys are.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Not giving these people credit what credit is due. You're
given the wrong person credits and he's not doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You know what, Frank, I wish you safety in your community.
And if you're happy with the protection that you have
in your community, and you could and you could sleep well.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
At night your community, what's happened in your community? How
many wife beaters are in your community?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't I don't know, to be honest with you,
I don't know how many wife beaters are in your community. Frank,
you're talking rag time, Frank. Okay, Frank, you're absolutely talking
rag time. You're talking about violence, which is a problem
across the board. Okay. There's domestic violence in every community
(32:06):
in Massachusetts, every community in this country, and anybody who
downplays domestic violence is either stupid or engaging in domestic
violence because it's something that we have to be concerned about.
I'm also concerned about murders and when eight people die
in Chicago. There were no people shot and killed in
(32:26):
my community last weekend. But I care about the people
in Chicago, and I think I care about him more
than you do. Appreciate you call, Frank, I got a run,
I'm up on my break. We'll keep going here, coming
right back on nightside. If you feel if you agree
with Frank, give me call If you disagree, that's fine too.
You can give me a call either way. All the
lines are full. Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
So I do care about the eight people who were
killed in Chicago, and I also care about the sixteen
to seventeen murders in Boston this year, most of them
in poor communities, because that is where the murders are occurring.
Can they be a murderer and be get Hillary in
the back bay? Absolutely less likely. Okay, we're gonna try
(33:14):
to get everybody in. Let me see here what we
can do real quickly. Lewis in New Jersey. Lewis, you
are next on Night Side. Welcome, sir, Welcome. Bring up
Lewis for me, will you? For some reason, I can't
bring up Lewis here? Rob, Rob, Please thank you. Lewis. Welcome, Yes, sir,
(33:36):
Hi Lewis, You're on the year, go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Sorry, thank you. Dan. You definitely have got the finger
on the pulse of America. But you know what, the
general public today just doesn't get a grip and they
(34:03):
don't have the where it's all to find out or
figure out how life is so precious Louis, Where.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Where in New Jersey do you live? If I could ask.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Atlantic City, okay.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
How's crime in Atlantic City? Under control? Out of control?
How would you describe it?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
You know what? I would say, It's like everywhere else
and it's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And would you be would would you like to see
your police department get more help either from the state
or from the federal government or no.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
I think that the police department in a lank city
has got a control on it.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Good, Okay, Lewis to me a favorite call a little
earlier and I give you more time. I got full
lines behind you.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
All right, Dan, listen, you know what you're doing, great
service for this country and I love listening to you
and WBG Well.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Lewis, thank you very much. I hope you call again.
Call more off. Appreciate your call, very rightful. Thank you.
Going to go to kenon wal Dam Ken next on
Nisag go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
I was going to talk about Ukraine, but I think
I'm going to try to I think it was Frank
two calls ago, and maybe try to interpret what he's feeling,
because what my the problem I'm having with Trump you know,
if he said, yes, you know, crime is pretty low
in comparison right now. But I'm going to go into
these cities and We're going to try to make it
(35:57):
even lower, because there's still some terrible areas right where
there's all this crime and murder. But Trump, but Trump
says is he says, you know, Washington is like a
cesspool of crime. Nobody goes out to eat anymore. Everybody's
afraid as if there are like all restaurants have closed
in Washington, and it's simply not true.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, let me ask you something again. You called late
and which which you often do. So I'm just gonna
probably rush you a little bit and we'll take Ukraine
another night. You live in Waltham, which is a pretty
safe city to the best of my knowledge. But there
are parts of urban America which are not safe. And
(36:42):
the fact that I don't live in uh I don't
live in an urban community. I live in a nice community,
pretty safe community. Could I be a victim of crime? Absolutely?
Do I want more police in my community? Absolutely? I
assume that most people in urban areas where there's a
(37:04):
higher incidents of crime also want more police.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
I agree, you know, I want my failing.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I don't want people breaking into my house. I don't
want my carbying hijacked. I don't want my carby and soul.
And it's as simple as that. I don't even understand
why there's a controversy, to be honest with you again.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Because well, what if what if?
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Okay, what if Donald Trump came into your community and said,
Dan Ray's causing all this trouble, He's the reason why
we have all this crime in Boston. So I'm going
to go in and fix it, and he brings all this,
all these police in and all this stuff. I mean,
I think you'd be irritated to some degree.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Well, I don't think he's accusing anyone of crime. He's
saying that crime in this community is out of control,
and I'm going to try to fix it. We'll talk again.
Please call earlier because we need a longer conversation on this. Okay, Thanks, Thanks, Ken.
Let me go to Eileen and Cambridge. Aleen are going
to get you in here quickly again. You've called late
(38:10):
as well. What's your thought on on crime in cities?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Well, I think that we have a lot of crime
in particular areas of Boston and most people who live
around here know.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Where those areas are.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
If you rock Ferry, for instance. And I'm living in
Cambridge now, and I was having to visit somebody at
Good Samaritan Hospital, which is in.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
South of Boston, Broughton, I think if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
Yeah, yeah, yes, And I am was scared driving through Boston,
so I went all the way around Route one twenty
eight and uh in Milton. It's in Milton, all the
way around Route one twenty eight rather than taking a
(39:12):
short route because I was absolutely frightened.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah. Well, I can tell you that most of the
murders in the greater Boston area I've been in Mission Hill, Roxbury,
Mattape and Dorchester. There have been a couple in Charlestown,
one in JP, one in hy Park, and one in
Michigan and two in Alston. But again, if I lived
(39:37):
in those communities, I would want more protection, Eileen, I
got to get one more in here real quickly. You've
got to call early. We'll give you much more time.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
Okay, thank you so much, Thanks, thank much.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Appreciate it. Jay and Nane. Jay, you got about a minute.
What can you do with it? Hey?
Speaker 9 (39:53):
Good evening, Dan so you lived in the sixties, you survived,
and the Beatles had the answer.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
All you need is love.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
And everybody that doesn't have that selfishness.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
My car, my house, my job, my You know.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
We're worried about ourselves. Nobody's thinking about the next person.
Speaker 7 (40:11):
Me. I see that.
Speaker 9 (40:14):
Force is the last resort of every society that is
absent of love. So I'm going to beat a voice
of common impassioned reason, like I've always considered here to
be coming out from the wilderness in Maine, saying people
had love going on and they were less considerate of
themselves and more considerate of other people.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know, Jay, in all honesty, I think you're an
idealist and I respect that and actually I admire that.
At the same time, when they're you know, dozens of
people being shot every weekend in Chicago, we got to
do something about it, in my opinion, and unfortunately peace
and love. You and I can go much and be
(40:55):
yelling peace and love and singing Beatles songs. We might
be in trouble in Chicago this weekend. A call early,
I'll give you much more time. Done for the night,
Rob Brooks, thank you, Marita, thank you to all the callers.
I will do a postgame right after the show. I
want who end as always, all dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rayes, who
passed fifteen years ago in February, That's why your pets
(41:18):
are who were passed. They loved you and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. See again tomorrow
night on nights Side. Everyone, please join us, tell you
friends about my show. We'll be back tomorrow night
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