September 8, 2025 • 41 mins
The Trump administration announced it has sunk a Venezuelan "Drug boat" in open seas. Was this a good idea? Was the action legal? Dan asked listeners what they thought of this move in the war on drugs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, as we resume our fourth hour, we're going
to talk this hour about a military action that the
Trump administration took last week on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And the President spoke about this last week, and I
want you to hear from him, and I must tell
you I can be critical of Donald Trump, but I
think that this action is very consistent with what we
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have always said about the Monroe document, about our place
in this hemisphere. And you go back to the Cuban
missile crisis with President Kennedy, we did not want Russian
missiles ninety miles from our border. We actually risked World
War three with Russia over that, Remember the blockade of Cuba.
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I don't think we're going to have World War three
with Venezuela. But I think that a message has been
sent and this is the message. Cut number five the
President last week.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Ye old decisive offensive action to protect American values, strikes
and ron the strikes this past Tuesday and the positively
id trend to Iragua narco terrorists. Is that going to
be a critical function of Department war?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It depends on the individual instance.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela
or anybody else or anyplace.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Else, so we'll be tough on that.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
And we don't want human trafficking. We don't want to
see people coming in where they open their prisons from
all over the world and they dumped their prisoners into
our country, which is what they did in the Biden administration,
where they.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Took insane asylums and places that help people that were
seriously mentally ill, mentally incompetent, mentally dangerous, and they dumped
those people into our country, and we're trying to get.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Them out now. Well, the so called alleged Narco terrorists
never made it in to the US. They were killed
in that strike. Again, the Times was reporting it was
either some form of a drone or a helicopter or
a let's say they called it a Reaper drone MQ
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nine Reaper drone or some sort of an attack helicopter.
If we had actionable intelligence that these guys were bringing
whatever they were bringing into the country, why not act
That's my thought, that's my idea. Love to hear what
you have to say. Again, it's we're supposed to give
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due process to these guys and basically, if we catch
them and we interdict them, we arrest them and then
we'll put them in the criminal justice system. No, they're
they're out in international waters and we are protecting our country.
I look at it very simply. If you agree, great,
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If you disagree, that's fine too. And in San Antonio,
Texas and welcome. How are you tonight.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I'm very well, Thank you, Dan, I absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Will I agree you do?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Okay, go ahead, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I think it's a great thing that he did for
uh to send the message to I mean, to have
that come at you in the middle of the ocean. Uh,
it's not gonna have it's going to shut it. He's
going to shut it down.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There. There will be an impact here and hopefully we'll
get the message that this is that's this is a
much more dangerous occupant now being a drug trafficker out
of Venezuela or a drug trafficker anywhere than they were
before last Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
We did it in Colombia, not the same kind of strike,
but we eradicated quite a bit of drug I think
it was during the Reagan administration with interjection.
Speaker 9 (04:26):
Well, remember there was this this Muslim cleric who the
Obama administration authorized a strike on his automobile, and I
think he had like a ten year old son in
the car with him at the time.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You know again, I would be much more concerned about
something like that than I would assume that the only
people who are on this boat are people who know
why they're on that boat. It's not a lux reliner
that they see the bails.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
You could see the bails from that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's what I saw. Now, unless they were bailing other
people's laundry and they were taking them from Venezuela to
somewhere else. Uh, yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
And as it's such an imminent dangerous threat to our citizenry, in.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
All the arguments that I've heard that have been made,
which has some credibility, that there would not be a
supply of drugs coming into this country if Americans did
not have such an appetite for drugs. But look, we
might have an appetite for for many things which are illegal.
But if if our government can can stop this stuff,
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as it did last week, take the boat and its
passengers and its product to the floor of whatever body
of water they were trans transgressing, or you know, passing through.
I will support any president, Democrat or Republican who does that,
and particularly that ye.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
That arguments falls short because there's love, there's innocent victims
that are killed by just sniffing or handling sentinel our
police on traffic stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yep, yep, on and on. Hi. I couldn't agree with
you more. And thank you so much for your call.
Is always great to hear from the great state of Texas.
We've heard from Texas and Tennessee tonight. Thank you, Thanks Ann,
thank you, good night, keep listening, keep calling, good night.
Six one thirty six one seven nine. I think with
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Donald Trump the position there were, there are those who
will back him on everything that he does. I'm not
one of those, and there are those who will criticize
him for anything that he does. I'm not one of those.
But I will look at this and I will say
it makes sense to do it. And the world is
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rid of these folks. Now Again, you can argue, well,
they come from a poor country. The only way they
can make money is by selling narcotics to America. I
you know, look, I'm sorry, but you you engage in
high risk activity. Sometimes high risk activity find you six,
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one seven, four ten, thirty six one seven ninety. Let's
keep it rolling here on Night Side. I've got Frank
in Boston coming up. Patrick is there as well, and
who else we got here, Eric and Marshfield. We're the
ladies on this one. I would like to hear from
women callers on this as well as the men. We'll
be back on night Side. I'm glad that Ian called
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she broke the ice. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You're on Night Side with Dan Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Next up, Frank is in Boston. Frank, welcome back. How
are you sir? Hey?
Speaker 12 (08:20):
S I have to say, mister Trump, there is nothing
but show and tell. I mean, if how come he
is that we need to go into Mexico and started
taking out some of those drug dealers in Mexico. I
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mean they're they're they're they're buying all kinds of guns
from from us that they're they're the turning that that
so powerful guns that are turning them into.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
A h An army that they're gonna end up using
against that they're using it as.
Speaker 13 (09:00):
The Mexican government.
Speaker 12 (09:02):
And I'm why is it taking us so long to
go into there or why is it taking us so
long to go after the fentanyl factories that that that
sending all that fentanyl over here.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Let me let me ask you this, how much show
and tell to show and tell?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, I don't know what you mean by showing. I
know what show and tell means. My question to you is,
would you support if if Trump decided that he was
going to send special forces in and wipe out let
us say, uh, the manufacturing facilities uh in Mexico?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Yeah, you would.
Speaker 12 (09:44):
He's supposed to be doing He's supposed to have been
doing that months ago, but he's been negotiating with the
Mexicans because they're saying that that would infringe on their sovereignty.
Was what's taking so long?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, I don't know. I would not mind if he
decided to, you know, take out some of these cartel
laboratories where minderstanding. And I'm not an expert in a frank,
but my understanding is that the uh, the products that
make these drugs are sent here from China to Mexico,
and there are drug presses in Mexico that basically compound
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this stuff into pill form, and so that when people
take these pills, they think they're getting high and sometimes
they're swallowing a death capsule. What did you think about
him taking out this boat from Venezuela. It didn't bother me.
Did it bother you?
Speaker 12 (10:40):
It didn't bother me. But I'm saying it's a lot
of show. I mean, there's other he ain't doing, other
things that are that are being more, that are actually
bringing drugs into this country. I mean from that from Mantel.
That boat was way far from mar shore. But here
you got all these gangs in me.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well at a little bit of the frank, let me
play Devil's advocate with you for a second. A little
bit of the problem was the boat, I assume was
over international waters, So no one's going to be able
to say that's an attack upon a nation state. But
if we do go into Mexico, either special forces or whatever,
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you know, does that put us in a war footing
with Mexico since we're attacking properties and buildings that are
on Mexico soil.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
Well I'm not sure that, but I know one thing,
it just seems like he's just not He's doing too
little when he when he has the capability to do
a lot more.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I mean, okay, well, look, look rather Frank, Frank, I
know from our previous conversations that you're not a big
fan of Donald Trump, and so that makes your comments.
But Frank, I'm trying to give you a compliment here.
Hold on for a second. Let me compliment you. That
makes your comments here even more critical. If somebody who
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was a you know, a Trump supporter said that, it
wouldn't surprise me. But I'm delighted that that, at least
on this issue, you see that there might be some
good and maybe he should do more. I have to
agree with you.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
But that's your said he's not doing nothing. That's one
littletails on the border Prus.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I mean, I got you, Frank, I got you right, Frank.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
I'm just going after China.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Right, He's been going after China just.
Speaker 12 (12:39):
The other day. Right, Well, why don't we stop Manu
companies from buying into China until so until he stopped
sending us sentinel let's go, let's go all the way
we're going. We're not going enough, he said, he's supposed
to be Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Fair enough, fair enough. I got you down, Frank, Frank,
he isn't. Well. I don't think you can say he's
doing nothing. He has closed effectively closed the border. Uh.
And and I suspect that limits the amount of drug
that come, drugs that come across the border, It limits
the amount of human trafficking that comes across the border.
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So he's doing something. And he did take out this
venzuela vote, assuming that it's that it wasn't a bunch
of guys out, you know, fishing for tuna. And if
they really were drug you know, drug traffickers, I'm I'm
with him a thousand percent. And and I join you
in that sense.
Speaker 12 (13:38):
Okay, you're giving him too much credit for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Okay, fair enough, Frank, Okay, I I I'm a little confused.
I think he's done something. Could he do more? I'm
with you on that, Frank. I don't know what else
you want me to say he has, did Frank? Did
he close the Frank? Let me ask you. Let's let's
go directly emanation here. Frank, I'm gonna ask you a
couple of questions, because you're good at this. Did he
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close the border effectively close the border?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Really know that he's reduced the people coming over the border,
but that's because of the.
Speaker 11 (14:22):
Fact that he won't let nobody in.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, he's not gonna let any, correct, Frank, very good observation.
He doesn't let any he doesn't let Oh. No, if
you come, Frank, you're wrong on that, Frank. He has
stopped illegal immigration. By all accounts, I have not seen
one story by any of the media that doesn't like
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Donald Trump. Who is going to put up video tonight
or tomorrow or next week and saying, well, look at
this area where they're streaming across the border. I the
have points of entry that people could present themselves and
request the asylum legally. Yes, had those points of asylum
been closed, No.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You doubt it, Okay, Frank, Okay, thanks very much for
the call. You got me. You got me wound up, Frank,
and that's good. I needed. I needed your call tonight
to get us going. Thanks, Frank, appreciate it. Let's go
next to Patrick and Charlestown. Patrick welcome.
Speaker 13 (15:21):
Oh yeah, I gotta see.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
That was a good phone call.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Man.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
That was good. And I like you, Frank.
Speaker 14 (15:25):
I like your ideas, Frank, and that's great. You have
an opponent of Trump. This shows you the example of Washington,
d C's community. And I'm not I don't know where
he's from.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's from Boston, Frank. Frank is from Boston, and he's
not a Trump guy. He wants Trump to do more. Okay,
so it.
Speaker 14 (15:42):
Just the Washington d C. Community. You saw MARYO Bowser
come out and she sniffed around and said, I better
get on board with this right away because people in
tough communities want crime to go down. And and they
you saw maryel Bowser do a both face and support Trump,
and you seeing why because people are sick of this garbage.
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Even Democrats are sick of it. There's there's second time
to the to the back teeth about this thing, and
they wanted to end. And I love it. I love
it because it's showing even people who opposed Trump they
want him not to do less. Like the media is saying, oh,
the civil rights of these poor people are the boat
going out to fishing. No, no, no, they want us
to do even more. I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Thank you Patrick for picking up on my sarcasm that
they wrote out tu fishing.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Oh the best. There was Johs too, there was jows too.
They needed a bigger boat.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, they didn't need They didn't need a bigger boat. Yeah,
no doubt about that. Look, I think it's interesting that
that Frank would say that. I think he was being
honest with me. Uh And in the past he's always
been honest with me. Uh. I'm here, I'm waiting to
hear from someone who's gonna tell me we didn't give
due process rights to the VENs, to the crew of
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the ves zeal And drug drug traffic traffic they got.
Speaker 14 (17:04):
Due process the moment they stepped on that boat knowing
it was gonna come here and kill Americans. They got
all the due process they deserve. And you know something,
it's it's time. Frank is absolutely right. We need we
need to We need to hit the Mexican cartels dead,
not not due process. Their due process came a long
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time ago. With hundreds of thousands each year dead from
fentonel in this country. Their chance at due process expired
a long time ago. As long as we can show
with data and evidence that these people we are declared
them terrorists for a reason that means they are opponents
in a war. They are not entitled to due process
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when you're fighting a war. That was the important the
legal importance of declaring a war against these terrorists, narco
terrorists is they're not entitled to do process.
Speaker 15 (17:56):
And as an enemy combatant.
Speaker 14 (17:59):
And you know, it just makes me think when we
think about like the long arm of the law, I
think if anything that touches American shelves, like we just
saw the shellfish, radioactive shellfish, I mean, we have a business.
We have business and knowing how food gets in out
of supply chain, if you're if you're if you're bringing
drugs into the United States, anything in that supply chain
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is subject to US targeting and rectifying. And you know,
I'm not sure we need special forces. Well I don't
want to see us lose any more guys. But what
you do is plausibly deniable attacks. So what you do
is you have drones and you blow.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm not saying Patrick, I'm not saying to send the
eighty second Airborne Division in. I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just saying that if you know that the drugs
that are being manufactured in that laboratory are somehow finding
their way into the US, have at it. Have at it.
It's about Tiger.
Speaker 14 (18:58):
And honestly, if the government doesn't do it. We American
citizens ought to do it, and that's all.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't know we had the I don't know we
as American citizens, Patrick had the capacity to do it.
But I think it's an interesting proposition, and you know,
I'll let it go with that.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
Okay, it's time for that entire supply chain to be
absolutely destroyed. If we have the will, we can do it.
And which is one thing I love. You know what
guest I would love to have on your show I
would love to hear is Jeanine Piro. You know, did
you see her last week in front of those tubs
of the precursor to fentanyl. They hit a ship. They
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hit a ship in the ocean and they commenteered it
and they took I can't remember how many eighteen wheels
I think she said, eighteen wheel eighteen or fifteen eighteen
wheelers filled with the precursors to fentanyl. They hit a
ship on the high seas and took their cargo. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Again, anything that we can do. We're able now with
satellite technology to read license plate numbers. We supposedly can
hear conversations. Let's let's turn the technology that we have
to our advantage. So that these uh, these guys from
wherever are not going to be able to get into
a boat slide offshore from our company from our country. Look,
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they they offloaded marijuana up in Maine in the seventies
and eighties. Big ships came in, small boats went out
brought the stuff. For shure, that's marijuana, Okay, that compared
to what they're bringing into this country today. Marijuana was like,
I don't know em and m's I mean, these these
guys are bringing in death pills.
Speaker 14 (20:39):
Where's our American manhood? Where is it now? You know
they're killing they're killing out people, or in our American
womanhood they're killing out people.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We have to kill them, all right, Patrick, I think
I think that that accentuates your point. I don't think
that anyone is confused about how you feel about this,
and I appreciate your candor and straightforward.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
One last thing, anybody who's anybody of any of us
who have lost a family member to this feel that way, okay.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I totally am understand. Thanks Patrick, Talk to you soon,
good night. Coming back on Night's side. Right after the news,
at the bottom of the hour, I got one line open.
All of a sudden, the lines have been busy for
this hour. You like this topic. I love this topic.
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty. I know there were people
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out there who will say to me, well, we can't
do this, it's it's illegal or whatever. I think, what
we do, what we need to do to defend the country. Now,
there's nothing about this that bothers me. You know, they
have malign intent. They're trying to bring fentanyl into the
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country on a boat, on a boat. As long as
you have some form of evidence, uh, and you can
justify it, do it, do it, and we will support you.
Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
After this, It's night Side News Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Okay, back to the phone as we go. We're talking
about the Trump administration's decision last week to obliterate a
Venezuelan vote that allegedly was carrying uh some form of drugs.
I believe it was fentanyel uh somehow to get it
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into the United States. Why not just take them out?
It seems to me, if you have actionable intelligence that
tells you what it is, just you know, get rid
of it. We don't want them here. Too many Americans
have died Eric and Marshfield. Eric, you're next on Nightside. Welcome,
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Hi Dan, did you say first on cala? All right,
Thank you very much, Eric appreciated.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Yeah, No, I'm behind Trump one under aercent be end
you what to saying tonight? One of a recent I
don't want to repeat what Patrick had said earlier. I
couldn't couldn't have said it better than he did, but
I had to call say I'm behind Trump. I love him.
I think he's doing a great job. And I think
what he's attacking these ships in the stem all that's
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coming into the country, I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, I agree with you. And by the way, just
so you know where I'm coming from, I hope you.
I hope you're a regular listener and first time caller
and now call more and more often. I'm willing to
call balls and strikes with Trump. I I if when
he does something good, I want to give him credit
for it. When he does something that is questionable, I'll
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call it into question. It's as simple as that. There
are a lot of people out there who agree with
him totally. Their their point of view is well respected.
There are a lot of people out there who disagree
with everything that he does. They're welcome and call this
program as well. I just think we deal with the
facts that are in front of us and we have
a conversation. We call the show North America's back Porch,
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and the idea is that it's you know, Eric from
Marshfield stops by and tells us what's on his mind
and reacts to what Patrick from Charlestown has to say.
And that's what the show is all about. It's an opportunity.
There are too many people, Eric, who sit in their
home and listen to the program at night and they
they you know, they don't know that there is a
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lot of people out there, even in Massachusetts who agree
with them on certain things that Trump that President Trump does,
and I think that this is important. We got to
defend our country or we'll lose it.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Exactly, that's why I called Knight Exactly. He couldn't have said, well.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Eric, I appreciate you taking the time. This is your
first call. I will look forward to you to your
second time call on nightside. I I just want to
expand the audience. I want to keep more. I want
people to feel comfortable calling this program. It's it's not,
as I know. You get a little nervous. Everybody gets
a little nervous there first time, but that just means
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it's going to be easier the second time. You call
my friend, thank you so much for joining us. All right, thanks, Eric, appreciated.
All right, good night, All right, Now, I got a
couple of lines. Let's go. Don't let this topic die.
If you agree with President Trump on him taking out
this boat spectacular fashion. We spend all this money for
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the Defense Department or for the War Department of War.
If we're going to spend the money, why not use
the weapons when they're justified. I think in this case
they're clearly justified. One line at six one seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty and a couple at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Going to go next to Jay
up in the state of Maine. Hey, Jay, welcome back.
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How are you?
Speaker 16 (25:57):
Oh?
Speaker 17 (25:57):
Good to hear you there, Dan. I wanted to apologize.
I'm in early to bed, early to rise kind of guy.
But I've been having some long days recently and getting
into the night. And I called the other night and
I was doing that idealist concept that I knowed that
was hard Bill and the show it. But I'm so
glad you're so balanced, and you come back with you
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know you're well, you're well balanced, and you modulate back
and forth with folks. I know, I remember hearing over
the years. You know you have this tone for morality
and all cats, all dogs go to heaven. And I
could see the handwriting on the wall, Dan is what
I'm looking at. Judgment is coming, and I'm not going
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to have the answer for what the governor does, or
the teacher does, or the president does. I got an
answer for what I do. And we're calling on the carpet.
No man, how's it say? Noll shout not murder? So
there's no The law is not different for somebody because
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they wear a bigger hat than you and I wear. Hey,
And I just wanted to thanks for letting me ramble.
Over the years, I thought about the greatness of looking
at the law, Neil Chet, and then you work with
that stuff. And the law of God is supreme above
any law that any man or any nation or anybody
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can come up with conjure up. But you know, now,
shalt not murder, commit adultree. All those things are not
one wrong deed or one wrong word could be made right.
Otherwise Christ wouldn't have had to die on the cross.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But here's the thing, Jang, Okay, just you know, first
of first of all, I happen to believe as you do.
I'm Catholic, Christian, whatever you want to call it. But
there are people who listen to the show from different
religious points. You and some people who are either atheist
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or agnostic, and I tend to to kind of stay
away from, uh, you know, religious issues. Again, the definition
of murder. Does someone who kills someone else in self defense? Does?
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Does God look at that in your mind as as
a justifiable defense, as a justifiable homicide. I don't know
how God looks at that. I don't know that you
know how God looks at that. You may believe that
God would say, oh no, you have to submit to
your to your murder, to the murder by someone else.
I don't believe that, you know, I mean, do I
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think that that that, somehow, some way, what the implication
of your remarks are that that God is going to
disapprove of what Donald Trump oughtthorized and what maybe I'm
defending or what I'm defending. I don't think God is
going to look at you know, the Narco terrorists. Again,
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assuming that they are what they've represented to be. If
we find out that this was you know, eleven social
workers who were bringing food supplies, well there was a
horrible mistake, But I don't think so. I think that
he killed these people because they were bringing death to
Americans in the form of illicit drugs. And I would
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think that a merciful God would look at that and say, hey, look,
he was trying to save the lives of innocent children
and innocent parents who might have imbibed in this activity
and cost themselves their lives. It's a theological argument that
I really don't want to go into, but I wanted
to explain to you why I see it a little differently.
Speaker 17 (29:55):
Than you, so rather than have you just conclude for
me how I think that. I think a certain way
constitution is ordained by you know, heaving spirit, that you
have the right to defend yourself so we don't just
lay down and get killed. I agree with that in
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your perspective, we have the right to defend ourselves, and
so when we're under attack, someone's attacking you, your wife,
your children, me, my wife, the children have a right
to defend ourselves. That's in the Constitution, and it's you know,
God is not asking us to be a doormat and
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get stomped out.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, someone can quote the Bible and help me turn
the other cheek. And that's why we don't do that.
That that type of conversation here on night side.
Speaker 17 (30:48):
Okay, So I'm sorry if I violated anybody's face. I'm
just trying to It's a tough thing, and as individuals,
it seems like the handwright. So once upon a time
a miracle was the best of freedom and speech, and
then any kind of religious intolerance and none of all
of the last days we're living in the dragon is
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raw and you say something we don't like it, or
you act a certain way, we don't like it. We're
gonna send the powers that be down to crush your movement.
So I'm saying, get ready, judgment is coming.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, I understand the point you're making. I'm just saying
I think that this is eminently justifiable from a religious
point of view, from a moral point of view, or
from a constitutional point of view.
Speaker 17 (31:34):
Very interesting times we're living, and get ready, I think
judgment is coming, and I just want to be found
in peace.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, good, I'm glad you had the opportunity to express yourself.
We had six minutes. Thank you very much for your call,
and thank.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
You very much for good week.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
You too, have a great one. We'll take a quick break.
Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
One of my better informed listeners.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
The MQ nine Reaper is a hunter killer drone used
by the US Air Force. Very effective. Apparently it's quite
a machine. Grim Reaper comes to mind. Yeah, the Grim
Reaper came for those guys in the boat. Okay, I
got full lines, so let's get everybody in quick. Okay,
(32:22):
I'm gonna ask you to be as quick and direct
as you can. Phil in Boston. Phil, next on Nightside.
Your thoughts on the Venezuelan boat being taken out.
Speaker 16 (32:30):
Well, I saw the video and obviously it's the prettiest
thing in the world. But we we gotta send people
a message. Just send the people over here, the center,
everything over here. The bottom line is quick, is that
when President Biden said serves the border, sres the border,
do you realize what that was? In fighting the whole rule,
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We've got nowhere else to goal at least they have
a place to go. But whoa we're gonna go? Should?
I mean think good? This was a Trump's doing some
sort of always money, we spending the weapons and all
these fancy things. At least for you, I'm want encouraging
to die of it. But the just sending this poison
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into the streets, just like it's been world for years.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I'm agreeing with you. I'm agreeing with you, Eric, Phil,
I agree with you totally tonight. We generally tend to agree.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
But I hope so, I hope so you keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Man, Hey, I'll give you much more time till the
next time you call. I'm trying to get four others in.
Speaker 16 (33:30):
Okay, thank you for you, Phil.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
All right, Linda, can you be quick for me? Linda
and Weymouth go ahead, Linda, I can be very quick.
Speaker 18 (33:37):
Thank you for the way you handled the call before
our last call on a faith basis. The second thing is.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
I'm back.
Speaker 18 (33:49):
I have I'm back on back and forth on some
of the Trump's policies. Yes, sometimes no, sometimes. Also I
think the Department of Defense should stay that way, not
called the Department of War. That's a little bit like intaggant.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Okay, fair enough the three quick points. Nice job, Thank you, Linda.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Have a great night. All right, everybody called a little late.
But let me go to Dallas and Ohio. Dallas. Always
great to hear your voice. Welcome back. How are you, Dallas?
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Yeah, pretty good. Dan and yourself hanging in there.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
What's your thoughts on this? I'll be interested what you
have to say.
Speaker 19 (34:30):
AE hundred percent in agreement. What happened should have happened
to that boat. And as long as there's one hundred
assured intelligence sure that you know that boat did have
the drugs on it, take them out.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah. I mean, look, you can't be blowing boats out
of the water unless you're sure. But I think based
upon the characteristic of the boat, the type of boat,
I'm sure there are people who know a heck of
a lot more about it, as well as as you
know sources, actual sources that are on the ground. We
got to defend ourselves. I mean, there's too much of
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this junk that has come into this country to kill
young Americans. I mean, you and I I don't think
if if if you and I were out somewhere at
night and someone came up to us and said, hey, guys,
would you like to try these pills. I don't think
you and I are going to say, yeah, that's a
great idea, but there's a lot of kids who will
try it, and they try it and they're dead.
Speaker 19 (35:36):
That's exactly right, you know, exactly right.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I'm with you totally, Dallas as always. Hey, h thank
you for listening, Thank you for calling. Call more often. Okay,
thanks buddy, Dallas, talk talk soon, Okay, good night.
Speaker 19 (35:54):
Okay, all right, let me get.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Two more in here at least Daniel and Worcester. Daniel,
you were next on nights.
Speaker 13 (36:00):
I'd welcome and mister Danry, welcome back from your vacation.
I'm sorry, I'm I'm I'm welcome you back a little late,
that's okay.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'll give you a couple of minutes. Go ahead, Daniel.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Now, if I may with what I'm hearing is you know,
I hope I hope American banns the lesson that my
mother taught me, which is that you do not as
you grow up, you do not not accept to eat
any poison. Okay, and because you know, if somebody you
don't know give your food, you know, don't eat it
so now.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
But if, but if you're if you're a young American
out of the club these days, and uh, someone says,
oh here take this, this is this will give you
quite a thrill. There are a lot of people who
were dumb enough.
Speaker 19 (36:41):
To do that.
Speaker 13 (36:43):
Then you should you should work on Actually it's teaching
people to be done. But more important, very quickly, I
told my friends, and I've been appointed to be a
counselor to to substance abuse people young people is to
tell them, listen, you know, I do not think you.
You look by into the American you're thinking that you're
better than you're You're better than any human being. Some
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poison cannot kill you. You are a human being. Poison
can kill you.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Absolutely absolutely, well spoken, well said. And again, next time
you call, you're gonna get much more time. But I
got two more. I'm gonna try to sneak in here
on you. Okay, have a good day. Welcome back, Thanks Daniel,
I've been back for a week. Right, thanks my man.
All right, let me go to Bernie up in New Hampshire.
Bernie gonna get you and one more and go ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 15 (37:30):
Hey darn nice saying hey, your voice I've been listening
in the past couple of weeks. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Right back at you. Thanks man, what's your take on this?
I think I know where you're gonna be coming from.
Speaker 15 (37:40):
Yeah, you know, I'm with you, you know, staying with
him when he's right and pot with him when he's wrong.
But you know what, this is a problem that has
played this country for a long time, and just say
no doesn't work. So what Trump's saying from a position
of strength is no more.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
Yeah, no more.
Speaker 15 (37:59):
And that's and you know what, if people can't accept that,
then this has touched everybody's life, just type. This epidemic
has touched everybody, and it's about time somebody dealt with
a position of strength.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
Dan.
Speaker 15 (38:14):
I love listening to you. I'm a loyal listener and
it's great to hear you.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Have a good night well, Bernie, thank you very much
as always, and I'd love to hear you as well.
And I'm so gratified that the last hour has been
as busy as it's been. It's been a great last
hour and we're going to wrap it up with Ron
from Newton, and I have a text here from Ron.
You go right ahead, you've got some interesting information.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
Yeah, Dan, I'm happy I can add to it. Just
a quick source from New England Journal of Medicine, March
of twenty twenty four. The US, the fatal overdose in
the US has increased by a factor of twelve in
the past eight years to seventy eight thousand, two hundred
and seven per year. But as important, or if not
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more important, the case is of children under six accidentally
exposed has risen over the past eleven years, from five
documented two thirteen to one thousand and four sixty six cases.
That's every reason to take some sort of action.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, let me just hit those numbers again. So opioids
overdose have increased by twelvefold and.
Speaker 8 (39:24):
This is twelve yeah, twelvefold in the past eight years
to nationwide. That's nationwide, yeah, nationwide.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Okay, and more importantly for children under six in the
I just want to emphasize your numbers here. Children under six,
you right, have increased from five in twenty thirteen to
one thousand, four hundred and sixty six cases in twenty
twenty four. That's astonishing.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
That's the new journals notice, and that's where I go
to A is a incredible source.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Absolutely, I owe you a phone call. I'll check in
with you the next day or two. I got an
idea about on something on nine to eleven that I'd
like to maybe have you on the show tonight. Ron
went down to nine to eleven in the wake of
that disaster, and we're going to talk about nine to
eleven later this week. So keep your keep your schedule
open Thursday night. I'm going to talk with you tomorrow. Okay,
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thanks ronp Sid all right, man, talk to you soon.
All right. We had a spectacular last hour, Okay. I
just want to thank everyone in the last hour who called.
Everyone who called earlier tonight, Mike in Tennessee, Warren and
fall River, everyone, everyone, but particularly this last hour was
a great last hour. Restored my faith in my audience.
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Sometimes when the phones aren't busy, I get worried. Folks.
Don't let me get worried. We'll take a break here
and remind you. I want to thank Rob. Great job,
Rob Brooks as always, busy night, busy last hour, All dogs,
all cats, all pets, go to heaven. My pale Charlie Rayes,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
your pets are who passed. They loved you and you
love them. I do believe you'll see them again. We'll
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see again tomorrow night, Tuesday night, or nights. I will
be on Facebook Night Side with Dan Ray in about
two minutes. Join me there. We'll see tomorrow night. Have
a great Tuesday, everyone,
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, as we resume our fourth hour, we're going
to talk this hour about a military action that the
Trump administration took last week on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
And the President spoke about this last week, and I
want you to hear from him, and I must tell
you I can be critical of Donald Trump, but I
think that this action is very consistent with what we
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have always said about the Monroe document, about our place
in this hemisphere. And you go back to the Cuban
missile crisis with President Kennedy, we did not want Russian
missiles ninety miles from our border. We actually risked World
War three with Russia over that, Remember the blockade of Cuba.
(01:04):
I don't think we're going to have World War three
with Venezuela. But I think that a message has been
sent and this is the message. Cut number five the
President last week.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Ye old decisive offensive action to protect American values, strikes
and ron the strikes this past Tuesday and the positively
id trend to Iragua narco terrorists. Is that going to
be a critical function of Department war?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It depends on the individual instance.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
You know, we don't want drugs coming in from Venezuela
or anybody else or anyplace.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Else, so we'll be tough on that.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
And we don't want human trafficking. We don't want to
see people coming in where they open their prisons from
all over the world and they dumped their prisoners into
our country, which is what they did in the Biden administration,
where they.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Took insane asylums and places that help people that were
seriously mentally ill, mentally incompetent, mentally dangerous, and they dumped
those people into our country, and we're trying to get.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Them out now. Well, the so called alleged Narco terrorists
never made it in to the US. They were killed
in that strike. Again, the Times was reporting it was
either some form of a drone or a helicopter or
a let's say they called it a Reaper drone MQ
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nine Reaper drone or some sort of an attack helicopter.
If we had actionable intelligence that these guys were bringing
whatever they were bringing into the country, why not act
That's my thought, that's my idea. Love to hear what
you have to say. Again, it's we're supposed to give
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due process to these guys and basically, if we catch
them and we interdict them, we arrest them and then
we'll put them in the criminal justice system. No, they're
they're out in international waters and we are protecting our country.
I look at it very simply. If you agree, great,
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If you disagree, that's fine too. And in San Antonio,
Texas and welcome. How are you tonight.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I'm very well, Thank you, Dan, I absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Will I agree you do?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Okay, go ahead, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I think it's a great thing that he did for
uh to send the message to I mean, to have
that come at you in the middle of the ocean. Uh,
it's not gonna have it's going to shut it. He's
going to shut it down.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There. There will be an impact here and hopefully we'll
get the message that this is that's this is a
much more dangerous occupant now being a drug trafficker out
of Venezuela or a drug trafficker anywhere than they were
before last Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
We did it in Colombia, not the same kind of strike,
but we eradicated quite a bit of drug I think
it was during the Reagan administration with interjection.
Speaker 9 (04:26):
Well, remember there was this this Muslim cleric who the
Obama administration authorized a strike on his automobile, and I
think he had like a ten year old son in
the car with him at the time.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You know again, I would be much more concerned about
something like that than I would assume that the only
people who are on this boat are people who know
why they're on that boat. It's not a lux reliner
that they see the bails.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
You could see the bails from that.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's what I saw. Now, unless they were bailing other
people's laundry and they were taking them from Venezuela to
somewhere else. Uh, yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
And as it's such an imminent dangerous threat to our citizenry, in.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
All the arguments that I've heard that have been made,
which has some credibility, that there would not be a
supply of drugs coming into this country if Americans did
not have such an appetite for drugs. But look, we
might have an appetite for for many things which are illegal.
But if if our government can can stop this stuff,
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as it did last week, take the boat and its
passengers and its product to the floor of whatever body
of water they were trans transgressing, or you know, passing through.
I will support any president, Democrat or Republican who does that,
and particularly that ye.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
That arguments falls short because there's love, there's innocent victims
that are killed by just sniffing or handling sentinel our
police on traffic stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yep, yep, on and on. Hi. I couldn't agree with
you more. And thank you so much for your call.
Is always great to hear from the great state of Texas.
We've heard from Texas and Tennessee tonight. Thank you, Thanks Ann,
thank you, good night, keep listening, keep calling, good night.
Six one thirty six one seven nine. I think with
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Donald Trump the position there were, there are those who
will back him on everything that he does. I'm not
one of those, and there are those who will criticize
him for anything that he does. I'm not one of those.
But I will look at this and I will say
it makes sense to do it. And the world is
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rid of these folks. Now Again, you can argue, well,
they come from a poor country. The only way they
can make money is by selling narcotics to America. I
you know, look, I'm sorry, but you you engage in
high risk activity. Sometimes high risk activity find you six,
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one seven, four ten, thirty six one seven ninety. Let's
keep it rolling here on Night Side. I've got Frank
in Boston coming up. Patrick is there as well, and
who else we got here, Eric and Marshfield. We're the
ladies on this one. I would like to hear from
women callers on this as well as the men. We'll
be back on night Side. I'm glad that Ian called
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she broke the ice. Let's keep it going.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You're on Night Side with Dan Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Next up, Frank is in Boston. Frank, welcome back. How
are you sir? Hey?
Speaker 12 (08:20):
S I have to say, mister Trump, there is nothing
but show and tell. I mean, if how come he
is that we need to go into Mexico and started
taking out some of those drug dealers in Mexico. I
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mean they're they're they're they're buying all kinds of guns
from from us that they're they're the turning that that
so powerful guns that are turning them into.
Speaker 11 (08:53):
A h An army that they're gonna end up using
against that they're using it as.
Speaker 13 (09:00):
The Mexican government.
Speaker 12 (09:02):
And I'm why is it taking us so long to
go into there or why is it taking us so
long to go after the fentanyl factories that that that
sending all that fentanyl over here.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Let me let me ask you this, how much show
and tell to show and tell?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, I don't know what you mean by showing. I
know what show and tell means. My question to you is,
would you support if if Trump decided that he was
going to send special forces in and wipe out let
us say, uh, the manufacturing facilities uh in Mexico?
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Yeah, you would.
Speaker 12 (09:44):
He's supposed to be doing He's supposed to have been
doing that months ago, but he's been negotiating with the
Mexicans because they're saying that that would infringe on their sovereignty.
Was what's taking so long?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, I don't know. I would not mind if he
decided to, you know, take out some of these cartel
laboratories where minderstanding. And I'm not an expert in a frank,
but my understanding is that the uh, the products that
make these drugs are sent here from China to Mexico,
and there are drug presses in Mexico that basically compound
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this stuff into pill form, and so that when people
take these pills, they think they're getting high and sometimes
they're swallowing a death capsule. What did you think about
him taking out this boat from Venezuela. It didn't bother me.
Did it bother you?
Speaker 12 (10:40):
It didn't bother me. But I'm saying it's a lot
of show. I mean, there's other he ain't doing, other
things that are that are being more, that are actually
bringing drugs into this country. I mean from that from Mantel.
That boat was way far from mar shore. But here
you got all these gangs in me.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well at a little bit of the frank, let me
play Devil's advocate with you for a second. A little
bit of the problem was the boat, I assume was
over international waters, So no one's going to be able
to say that's an attack upon a nation state. But
if we do go into Mexico, either special forces or whatever,
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you know, does that put us in a war footing
with Mexico since we're attacking properties and buildings that are
on Mexico soil.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
Well I'm not sure that, but I know one thing,
it just seems like he's just not He's doing too
little when he when he has the capability to do
a lot more.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I mean, okay, well, look, look rather Frank, Frank, I
know from our previous conversations that you're not a big
fan of Donald Trump, and so that makes your comments.
But Frank, I'm trying to give you a compliment here.
Hold on for a second. Let me compliment you. That
makes your comments here even more critical. If somebody who
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was a you know, a Trump supporter said that, it
wouldn't surprise me. But I'm delighted that that, at least
on this issue, you see that there might be some
good and maybe he should do more. I have to
agree with you.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
But that's your said he's not doing nothing. That's one
littletails on the border Prus.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I mean, I got you, Frank, I got you right, Frank.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
I'm just going after China.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Right, He's been going after China just.
Speaker 12 (12:39):
The other day. Right, Well, why don't we stop Manu
companies from buying into China until so until he stopped
sending us sentinel let's go, let's go all the way
we're going. We're not going enough, he said, he's supposed
to be Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Fair enough, fair enough. I got you down, Frank, Frank,
he isn't. Well. I don't think you can say he's
doing nothing. He has closed effectively closed the border. Uh.
And and I suspect that limits the amount of drug
that come, drugs that come across the border, It limits
the amount of human trafficking that comes across the border.
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So he's doing something. And he did take out this
venzuela vote, assuming that it's that it wasn't a bunch
of guys out, you know, fishing for tuna. And if
they really were drug you know, drug traffickers, I'm I'm
with him a thousand percent. And and I join you
in that sense.
Speaker 12 (13:38):
Okay, you're giving him too much credit for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Okay, fair enough, Frank, Okay, I I I'm a little confused.
I think he's done something. Could he do more? I'm
with you on that, Frank. I don't know what else
you want me to say he has, did Frank? Did
he close the Frank? Let me ask you. Let's let's
go directly emanation here. Frank, I'm gonna ask you a
couple of questions, because you're good at this. Did he
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close the border effectively close the border?
Speaker 12 (14:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Really know that he's reduced the people coming over the border,
but that's because of the.
Speaker 11 (14:22):
Fact that he won't let nobody in.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, he's not gonna let any, correct, Frank, very good observation.
He doesn't let any he doesn't let Oh. No, if
you come, Frank, you're wrong on that, Frank. He has
stopped illegal immigration. By all accounts, I have not seen
one story by any of the media that doesn't like
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Donald Trump. Who is going to put up video tonight
or tomorrow or next week and saying, well, look at
this area where they're streaming across the border. I the
have points of entry that people could present themselves and
request the asylum legally. Yes, had those points of asylum
been closed, No.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
I doubt it.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You doubt it, Okay, Frank, Okay, thanks very much for
the call. You got me. You got me wound up, Frank,
and that's good. I needed. I needed your call tonight
to get us going. Thanks, Frank, appreciate it. Let's go
next to Patrick and Charlestown. Patrick welcome.
Speaker 13 (15:21):
Oh yeah, I gotta see.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
That was a good phone call.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Man.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
That was good. And I like you, Frank.
Speaker 14 (15:25):
I like your ideas, Frank, and that's great. You have
an opponent of Trump. This shows you the example of Washington,
d C's community. And I'm not I don't know where
he's from.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's from Boston, Frank. Frank is from Boston, and he's
not a Trump guy. He wants Trump to do more. Okay,
so it.
Speaker 14 (15:42):
Just the Washington d C. Community. You saw MARYO Bowser
come out and she sniffed around and said, I better
get on board with this right away because people in
tough communities want crime to go down. And and they
you saw maryel Bowser do a both face and support Trump,
and you seeing why because people are sick of this garbage.
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Even Democrats are sick of it. There's there's second time
to the to the back teeth about this thing, and
they wanted to end. And I love it. I love
it because it's showing even people who opposed Trump they
want him not to do less. Like the media is saying, oh,
the civil rights of these poor people are the boat
going out to fishing. No, no, no, they want us
to do even more. I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Thank you Patrick for picking up on my sarcasm that
they wrote out tu fishing.
Speaker 14 (16:32):
Oh the best. There was Johs too, there was jows too.
They needed a bigger boat.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, they didn't need They didn't need a bigger boat. Yeah,
no doubt about that. Look, I think it's interesting that
that Frank would say that. I think he was being
honest with me. Uh And in the past he's always
been honest with me. Uh. I'm here, I'm waiting to
hear from someone who's gonna tell me we didn't give
due process rights to the VENs, to the crew of
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the ves zeal And drug drug traffic traffic they got.
Speaker 14 (17:04):
Due process the moment they stepped on that boat knowing
it was gonna come here and kill Americans. They got
all the due process they deserve. And you know something,
it's it's time. Frank is absolutely right. We need we
need to We need to hit the Mexican cartels dead,
not not due process. Their due process came a long
(17:26):
time ago. With hundreds of thousands each year dead from
fentonel in this country. Their chance at due process expired
a long time ago. As long as we can show
with data and evidence that these people we are declared
them terrorists for a reason that means they are opponents
in a war. They are not entitled to due process
(17:46):
when you're fighting a war. That was the important the
legal importance of declaring a war against these terrorists, narco
terrorists is they're not entitled to do process.
Speaker 15 (17:56):
And as an enemy combatant.
Speaker 14 (17:59):
And you know, it just makes me think when we
think about like the long arm of the law, I
think if anything that touches American shelves, like we just
saw the shellfish, radioactive shellfish, I mean, we have a business.
We have business and knowing how food gets in out
of supply chain, if you're if you're if you're bringing
drugs into the United States, anything in that supply chain
(18:21):
is subject to US targeting and rectifying. And you know,
I'm not sure we need special forces. Well I don't
want to see us lose any more guys. But what
you do is plausibly deniable attacks. So what you do
is you have drones and you blow.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm not saying Patrick, I'm not saying to send the
eighty second Airborne Division in. I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just saying that if you know that the drugs
that are being manufactured in that laboratory are somehow finding
their way into the US, have at it. Have at it.
It's about Tiger.
Speaker 14 (18:58):
And honestly, if the government doesn't do it. We American
citizens ought to do it, and that's all.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't know we had the I don't know we
as American citizens, Patrick had the capacity to do it.
But I think it's an interesting proposition, and you know,
I'll let it go with that.
Speaker 14 (19:16):
Okay, it's time for that entire supply chain to be
absolutely destroyed. If we have the will, we can do it.
And which is one thing I love. You know what
guest I would love to have on your show I
would love to hear is Jeanine Piro. You know, did
you see her last week in front of those tubs
of the precursor to fentanyl. They hit a ship. They
(19:37):
hit a ship in the ocean and they commenteered it
and they took I can't remember how many eighteen wheels
I think she said, eighteen wheel eighteen or fifteen eighteen
wheelers filled with the precursors to fentanyl. They hit a
ship on the high seas and took their cargo. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Again, anything that we can do. We're able now with
satellite technology to read license plate numbers. We supposedly can
hear conversations. Let's let's turn the technology that we have
to our advantage. So that these uh, these guys from
wherever are not going to be able to get into
a boat slide offshore from our company from our country. Look,
(20:19):
they they offloaded marijuana up in Maine in the seventies
and eighties. Big ships came in, small boats went out
brought the stuff. For shure, that's marijuana, Okay, that compared
to what they're bringing into this country today. Marijuana was like,
I don't know em and m's I mean, these these
guys are bringing in death pills.
Speaker 14 (20:39):
Where's our American manhood? Where is it now? You know
they're killing they're killing out people, or in our American
womanhood they're killing out people.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We have to kill them, all right, Patrick, I think
I think that that accentuates your point. I don't think
that anyone is confused about how you feel about this,
and I appreciate your candor and straightforward.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
One last thing, anybody who's anybody of any of us
who have lost a family member to this feel that way, okay.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I totally am understand. Thanks Patrick, Talk to you soon,
good night. Coming back on Night's side. Right after the news,
at the bottom of the hour, I got one line open.
All of a sudden, the lines have been busy for
this hour. You like this topic. I love this topic.
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty. I know there were people
(21:27):
out there who will say to me, well, we can't
do this, it's it's illegal or whatever. I think, what
we do, what we need to do to defend the country. Now,
there's nothing about this that bothers me. You know, they
have malign intent. They're trying to bring fentanyl into the
(21:48):
country on a boat, on a boat. As long as
you have some form of evidence, uh, and you can
justify it, do it, do it, and we will support you.
Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
After this, It's night Side News Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Okay, back to the phone as we go. We're talking
about the Trump administration's decision last week to obliterate a
Venezuelan vote that allegedly was carrying uh some form of drugs.
I believe it was fentanyel uh somehow to get it
(22:30):
into the United States. Why not just take them out?
It seems to me, if you have actionable intelligence that
tells you what it is, just you know, get rid
of it. We don't want them here. Too many Americans
have died Eric and Marshfield. Eric, you're next on Nightside. Welcome,
(22:50):
Hi Dan, did you say first on cala? All right,
Thank you very much, Eric appreciated.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Yeah, No, I'm behind Trump one under aercent be end
you what to saying tonight? One of a recent I
don't want to repeat what Patrick had said earlier. I
couldn't couldn't have said it better than he did, but
I had to call say I'm behind Trump. I love him.
I think he's doing a great job. And I think
what he's attacking these ships in the stem all that's
(23:22):
coming into the country, I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Well, I agree with you. And by the way, just
so you know where I'm coming from, I hope you.
I hope you're a regular listener and first time caller
and now call more and more often. I'm willing to
call balls and strikes with Trump. I I if when
he does something good, I want to give him credit
for it. When he does something that is questionable, I'll
(23:46):
call it into question. It's as simple as that. There
are a lot of people out there who agree with
him totally. Their their point of view is well respected.
There are a lot of people out there who disagree
with everything that he does. They're welcome and call this
program as well. I just think we deal with the
facts that are in front of us and we have
a conversation. We call the show North America's back Porch,
(24:10):
and the idea is that it's you know, Eric from
Marshfield stops by and tells us what's on his mind
and reacts to what Patrick from Charlestown has to say.
And that's what the show is all about. It's an opportunity.
There are too many people, Eric, who sit in their
home and listen to the program at night and they
they you know, they don't know that there is a
(24:32):
lot of people out there, even in Massachusetts who agree
with them on certain things that Trump that President Trump does,
and I think that this is important. We got to
defend our country or we'll lose it.
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Exactly, that's why I called Knight Exactly. He couldn't have said, well.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Eric, I appreciate you taking the time. This is your
first call. I will look forward to you to your
second time call on nightside. I I just want to
expand the audience. I want to keep more. I want
people to feel comfortable calling this program. It's it's not,
as I know. You get a little nervous. Everybody gets
a little nervous there first time, but that just means
(25:12):
it's going to be easier the second time. You call
my friend, thank you so much for joining us. All right, thanks, Eric, appreciated.
All right, good night, All right, Now, I got a
couple of lines. Let's go. Don't let this topic die.
If you agree with President Trump on him taking out
this boat spectacular fashion. We spend all this money for
(25:33):
the Defense Department or for the War Department of War.
If we're going to spend the money, why not use
the weapons when they're justified. I think in this case
they're clearly justified. One line at six one seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty and a couple at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Going to go next to Jay
up in the state of Maine. Hey, Jay, welcome back.
(25:56):
How are you?
Speaker 16 (25:57):
Oh?
Speaker 17 (25:57):
Good to hear you there, Dan. I wanted to apologize.
I'm in early to bed, early to rise kind of guy.
But I've been having some long days recently and getting
into the night. And I called the other night and
I was doing that idealist concept that I knowed that
was hard Bill and the show it. But I'm so
glad you're so balanced, and you come back with you
(26:20):
know you're well, you're well balanced, and you modulate back
and forth with folks. I know, I remember hearing over
the years. You know you have this tone for morality
and all cats, all dogs go to heaven. And I
could see the handwriting on the wall, Dan is what
I'm looking at. Judgment is coming, and I'm not going
(26:41):
to have the answer for what the governor does, or
the teacher does, or the president does. I got an
answer for what I do. And we're calling on the carpet.
No man, how's it say? Noll shout not murder? So
there's no The law is not different for somebody because
(27:02):
they wear a bigger hat than you and I wear. Hey,
And I just wanted to thanks for letting me ramble.
Over the years, I thought about the greatness of looking
at the law, Neil Chet, and then you work with
that stuff. And the law of God is supreme above
any law that any man or any nation or anybody
(27:23):
can come up with conjure up. But you know, now,
shalt not murder, commit adultree. All those things are not
one wrong deed or one wrong word could be made right.
Otherwise Christ wouldn't have had to die on the cross.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But here's the thing, Jang, Okay, just you know, first
of first of all, I happen to believe as you do.
I'm Catholic, Christian, whatever you want to call it. But
there are people who listen to the show from different
religious points. You and some people who are either atheist
(28:02):
or agnostic, and I tend to to kind of stay
away from, uh, you know, religious issues. Again, the definition
of murder. Does someone who kills someone else in self defense? Does?
(28:24):
Does God look at that in your mind as as
a justifiable defense, as a justifiable homicide. I don't know
how God looks at that. I don't know that you
know how God looks at that. You may believe that
God would say, oh no, you have to submit to
your to your murder, to the murder by someone else.
I don't believe that, you know, I mean, do I
(28:48):
think that that that, somehow, some way, what the implication
of your remarks are that that God is going to
disapprove of what Donald Trump oughtthorized and what maybe I'm
defending or what I'm defending. I don't think God is
going to look at you know, the Narco terrorists. Again,
(29:10):
assuming that they are what they've represented to be. If
we find out that this was you know, eleven social
workers who were bringing food supplies, well there was a
horrible mistake, But I don't think so. I think that
he killed these people because they were bringing death to
Americans in the form of illicit drugs. And I would
(29:33):
think that a merciful God would look at that and say, hey, look,
he was trying to save the lives of innocent children
and innocent parents who might have imbibed in this activity
and cost themselves their lives. It's a theological argument that
I really don't want to go into, but I wanted
to explain to you why I see it a little differently.
Speaker 17 (29:55):
Than you, so rather than have you just conclude for
me how I think that. I think a certain way
constitution is ordained by you know, heaving spirit, that you
have the right to defend yourself so we don't just
lay down and get killed. I agree with that in
(30:17):
your perspective, we have the right to defend ourselves, and
so when we're under attack, someone's attacking you, your wife,
your children, me, my wife, the children have a right
to defend ourselves. That's in the Constitution, and it's you know,
God is not asking us to be a doormat and
(30:38):
get stomped out.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, someone can quote the Bible and help me turn
the other cheek. And that's why we don't do that.
That that type of conversation here on night side.
Speaker 17 (30:48):
Okay, So I'm sorry if I violated anybody's face. I'm
just trying to It's a tough thing, and as individuals,
it seems like the handwright. So once upon a time
a miracle was the best of freedom and speech, and
then any kind of religious intolerance and none of all
of the last days we're living in the dragon is
(31:10):
raw and you say something we don't like it, or
you act a certain way, we don't like it. We're
gonna send the powers that be down to crush your movement.
So I'm saying, get ready, judgment is coming.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, I understand the point you're making. I'm just saying
I think that this is eminently justifiable from a religious
point of view, from a moral point of view, or
from a constitutional point of view.
Speaker 17 (31:34):
Very interesting times we're living, and get ready, I think
judgment is coming, and I just want to be found
in peace.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, good, I'm glad you had the opportunity to express yourself.
We had six minutes. Thank you very much for your call,
and thank.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
You very much for good week.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
You too, have a great one. We'll take a quick break.
Coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
One of my better informed listeners.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
The MQ nine Reaper is a hunter killer drone used
by the US Air Force. Very effective. Apparently it's quite
a machine. Grim Reaper comes to mind. Yeah, the Grim
Reaper came for those guys in the boat. Okay, I
got full lines, so let's get everybody in quick. Okay,
(32:22):
I'm gonna ask you to be as quick and direct
as you can. Phil in Boston. Phil, next on Nightside.
Your thoughts on the Venezuelan boat being taken out.
Speaker 16 (32:30):
Well, I saw the video and obviously it's the prettiest
thing in the world. But we we gotta send people
a message. Just send the people over here, the center,
everything over here. The bottom line is quick, is that
when President Biden said serves the border, sres the border,
do you realize what that was? In fighting the whole rule,
(32:52):
We've got nowhere else to goal at least they have
a place to go. But whoa we're gonna go? Should?
I mean think good? This was a Trump's doing some
sort of always money, we spending the weapons and all
these fancy things. At least for you, I'm want encouraging
to die of it. But the just sending this poison
(33:12):
into the streets, just like it's been world for years.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I'm agreeing with you. I'm agreeing with you, Eric, Phil,
I agree with you totally tonight. We generally tend to agree.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
But I hope so, I hope so you keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Man, Hey, I'll give you much more time till the
next time you call. I'm trying to get four others in.
Speaker 16 (33:30):
Okay, thank you for you, Phil.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
All right, Linda, can you be quick for me? Linda
and Weymouth go ahead, Linda, I can be very quick.
Speaker 18 (33:37):
Thank you for the way you handled the call before
our last call on a faith basis. The second thing is.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
I'm back.
Speaker 18 (33:49):
I have I'm back on back and forth on some
of the Trump's policies. Yes, sometimes no, sometimes. Also I
think the Department of Defense should stay that way, not
called the Department of War. That's a little bit like intaggant.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Okay, fair enough the three quick points. Nice job, Thank you, Linda.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Have a great night. All right, everybody called a little late.
But let me go to Dallas and Ohio. Dallas. Always
great to hear your voice. Welcome back. How are you, Dallas?
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Yeah, pretty good. Dan and yourself hanging in there.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
What's your thoughts on this? I'll be interested what you
have to say.
Speaker 19 (34:30):
AE hundred percent in agreement. What happened should have happened
to that boat. And as long as there's one hundred
assured intelligence sure that you know that boat did have
the drugs on it, take them out.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah. I mean, look, you can't be blowing boats out
of the water unless you're sure. But I think based
upon the characteristic of the boat, the type of boat,
I'm sure there are people who know a heck of
a lot more about it, as well as as you
know sources, actual sources that are on the ground. We
got to defend ourselves. I mean, there's too much of
(35:12):
this junk that has come into this country to kill
young Americans. I mean, you and I I don't think
if if if you and I were out somewhere at
night and someone came up to us and said, hey, guys,
would you like to try these pills. I don't think
you and I are going to say, yeah, that's a
great idea, but there's a lot of kids who will
try it, and they try it and they're dead.
Speaker 19 (35:36):
That's exactly right, you know, exactly right.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I'm with you totally, Dallas as always. Hey, h thank
you for listening, Thank you for calling. Call more often. Okay,
thanks buddy, Dallas, talk talk soon, Okay, good night.
Speaker 19 (35:54):
Okay, all right, let me get.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Two more in here at least Daniel and Worcester. Daniel,
you were next on nights.
Speaker 13 (36:00):
I'd welcome and mister Danry, welcome back from your vacation.
I'm sorry, I'm I'm I'm welcome you back a little late,
that's okay.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'll give you a couple of minutes. Go ahead, Daniel.
Speaker 13 (36:11):
Now, if I may with what I'm hearing is you know,
I hope I hope American banns the lesson that my
mother taught me, which is that you do not as
you grow up, you do not not accept to eat
any poison. Okay, and because you know, if somebody you
don't know give your food, you know, don't eat it
so now.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
But if, but if you're if you're a young American
out of the club these days, and uh, someone says,
oh here take this, this is this will give you
quite a thrill. There are a lot of people who
were dumb enough.
Speaker 19 (36:41):
To do that.
Speaker 13 (36:43):
Then you should you should work on Actually it's teaching
people to be done. But more important, very quickly, I
told my friends, and I've been appointed to be a
counselor to to substance abuse people young people is to
tell them, listen, you know, I do not think you.
You look by into the American you're thinking that you're
better than you're You're better than any human being. Some
(37:05):
poison cannot kill you. You are a human being. Poison
can kill you.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Absolutely absolutely, well spoken, well said. And again, next time
you call, you're gonna get much more time. But I
got two more. I'm gonna try to sneak in here
on you. Okay, have a good day. Welcome back, Thanks Daniel,
I've been back for a week. Right, thanks my man.
All right, let me go to Bernie up in New Hampshire.
Bernie gonna get you and one more and go ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 15 (37:30):
Hey darn nice saying hey, your voice I've been listening
in the past couple of weeks. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Right back at you. Thanks man, what's your take on this?
I think I know where you're gonna be coming from.
Speaker 15 (37:40):
Yeah, you know, I'm with you, you know, staying with
him when he's right and pot with him when he's wrong.
But you know what, this is a problem that has
played this country for a long time, and just say
no doesn't work. So what Trump's saying from a position
of strength is no more.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
Yeah, no more.
Speaker 15 (37:59):
And that's and you know what, if people can't accept that,
then this has touched everybody's life, just type. This epidemic
has touched everybody, and it's about time somebody dealt with
a position of strength.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
Dan.
Speaker 15 (38:14):
I love listening to you. I'm a loyal listener and
it's great to hear you.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Have a good night well, Bernie, thank you very much
as always, and I'd love to hear you as well.
And I'm so gratified that the last hour has been
as busy as it's been. It's been a great last
hour and we're going to wrap it up with Ron
from Newton, and I have a text here from Ron.
You go right ahead, you've got some interesting information.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
Yeah, Dan, I'm happy I can add to it. Just
a quick source from New England Journal of Medicine, March
of twenty twenty four. The US, the fatal overdose in
the US has increased by a factor of twelve in
the past eight years to seventy eight thousand, two hundred
and seven per year. But as important, or if not
(38:59):
more important, the case is of children under six accidentally
exposed has risen over the past eleven years, from five
documented two thirteen to one thousand and four sixty six cases.
That's every reason to take some sort of action.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah, let me just hit those numbers again. So opioids
overdose have increased by twelvefold and.
Speaker 8 (39:24):
This is twelve yeah, twelvefold in the past eight years
to nationwide. That's nationwide, yeah, nationwide.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Okay, and more importantly for children under six in the
I just want to emphasize your numbers here. Children under six,
you right, have increased from five in twenty thirteen to
one thousand, four hundred and sixty six cases in twenty
twenty four. That's astonishing.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
That's the new journals notice, and that's where I go
to A is a incredible source.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Absolutely, I owe you a phone call. I'll check in
with you the next day or two. I got an
idea about on something on nine to eleven that I'd
like to maybe have you on the show tonight. Ron
went down to nine to eleven in the wake of
that disaster, and we're going to talk about nine to
eleven later this week. So keep your keep your schedule
open Thursday night. I'm going to talk with you tomorrow. Okay,
(40:23):
thanks ronp Sid all right, man, talk to you soon.
All right. We had a spectacular last hour, Okay. I
just want to thank everyone in the last hour who called.
Everyone who called earlier tonight, Mike in Tennessee, Warren and
fall River, everyone, everyone, but particularly this last hour was
a great last hour. Restored my faith in my audience.
(40:46):
Sometimes when the phones aren't busy, I get worried. Folks.
Don't let me get worried. We'll take a break here
and remind you. I want to thank Rob. Great job,
Rob Brooks as always, busy night, busy last hour, All dogs,
all cats, all pets, go to heaven. My pale Charlie Rayes,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
your pets are who passed. They loved you and you
love them. I do believe you'll see them again. We'll
(41:08):
see again tomorrow night, Tuesday night, or nights. I will
be on Facebook Night Side with Dan Ray in about
two minutes. Join me there. We'll see tomorrow night. Have
a great Tuesday, everyone,
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