October 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Today’s inflation is lower than expected for the month of September, which is good news for the economy. The inflation rate is holding steady at 3%. What does that mean exactly for consumers? Dan broke down the numbers and discussed why the Consumer Price Index Report is good news.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on VS Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Al Griffith, that's for sure. Thanks
very much, jaw. As we work our way through a
Friday night end of the week here, before we get
to our topic this hour, which will be how are
you surviving with one one the shutdown, the government shutdown,
and also what sort of an impact is that having
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on you? But also how are you surviving now that
we've kind of got through most of October. The president
has been in office now for about you know, nine months,
almost exactly, and I'd just like to know what's going on.
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But before we get to that, gonna ask for a
little help. In the last few weeks, several of you
have sent an email to me indicating that they thought
that the quality of my audio was not as good
as the quality of the callers. So we've made some
adjustments on the equipment in consultation with some of our
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good technical people here. And if you don't notice the
difference between the audio that you've been hearing me use
for the last few weeks, it seems as if it
started and there was some eagle eared listeners who suggested
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that we had to tweak a couple of things. So
we tweeked a couple of things. And for those of
you who were bothered by audio, one person said, it
sounded like I was underwater. I have no way of
knowing that. I don't think Rob had a way of
knowing that either. Now, some of it could be your reception.
It wasn't like we were swamped with, you know, ten
thousand emails. But if you do notice in any way, shift, form,
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any way, shape or form the audio, my audio specifically
has gotten better then it was for the last two
or three weeks. If it's the same, if you could
just give Rob a quick call and let him know.
If you feel it's the same, then don't worry about it.
But if you feel that it has either improved somewhat
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or has gotten worse, let us know. You know, Rob
sits in the control room. He has to listen to
a lot of information. He has to listen to people
who are calling the show, he has to listen to
what's going out over the air, and he has to
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he's a pretty busy guy. So you know, the regular
number will get in there. Six month, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty would be great if you would be so kind.
That's number one. Now here's what I want to talk about.
I would love to talk about. Has the shutdown the
government shutdown, which which I guess now is that it's
twenty fourth day. Today's the twenty fourth It started on
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October first. I believe has it impacted you? And if
it has impacted you, what has been the impact. Obviously,
if you are a government employee and you're working without
the benefit of a paycheck, or if you've been furloughed,
tell me your story. I know that there's some concern
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that food stamp problems are going to begin to occur.
I hope that the Republicans and Democrats can come together
on that so people are not sitting around hungry. That
should not happen in America, and it should not be
politicized in America, in my opinion. There was a CPI
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report released today. I was a little late, simply because
I guess the government has been running at a slower pace.
The Consumer Price Index report concluded that in September, the
rate of inflation was running at three percent. That was down,
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or I shouldn't say it was down, it was less
than was expected. Apparently, the consensus of the experts out there.
God only knows who the experts are. You're really one.
You should be one of the experts because you lived
this day to day. They were expecting a three point
one percent inflation rate consumer price index, and it was
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a three. The stock market liked that. The stock market,
and again, many of you are in the stock market.
Many of you don't realize you're in the stock market.
If you're a member of a union, if you're in
the teachers union, you're in the stock market because the
teachers union obviously has invested in the stock market. But
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the Dow was up a full percentage point, the Nasdaq
was up a little more than a percentage one point,
and the S and P five hundred was up eight
tens of a percent. Those are three very healthy numbers,
three healthy numbers that will help everyone's four oh one
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k everyone's who's who's invested in the stock market. So
so the the the decision today of three percent or
the disclosure of three percent was received pretty well. Now
I put that up against do you remember last April
six months ago when Donald Trump announced the tariffs. The
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stock market took a huge hit, And again that was
explained because the one thing the stock market likes is stability.
There was very little stability. We were entering into uncharted
by the end of the month the stock market. By
the end of April, the stock market had recovered. Now
if you were unfortunate enough to sell, after a couple
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of days, the stock market was down. I think it
was down close to twenty percent, which gets you to
very quickly to a beer market, as the economists will
tell you. So what I want to know is, I'd
love to hear from you. I remember people said to me, well,
the price of eggs is through the roof. I think
the price of eggs has settled down. Gasoline is now
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under three dollars or three dollars and or under three dollars,
I believe in thirty six of the fifty states, which
of course means that gas prices are down across the country.
But they're now down substantially from where they were in
thirty six states. And that is good news for all
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of us. Because remember everything that you purchase, whether it's
food in the grocery store, or a new pair of
sneakers at your sporting goods store, or it's a bicycle
or a car, everything that you buy at some point
has to be transported from point A, maybe to point
Z and a few stops in between. But very the
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only thing that you that you buy is when you
go to pick apples in you're two towns over from
you and you're going to drive over to get to
the apple orchard. That's a reality. So the most important,
in my opinion, the most important factoid that we can
look at or in any given day, is the price
of gasoline and also the price of oil. And of
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course when war spikes in the Middle East, price of
oil often goes up because so many of those countries
in the old opiq cartel would say, well, we are
we're raising the price of a barrel of oil because
we can do it to one hundred dollars or to
one hundred and twenty dollars. At one point, I think
the price of oil is one hundred and fifty dollars.
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So look, I'm not interested in talking numbers per se.
I'm interested in talking your experience. And so now I'm
asking you to join the conversation. If you find that
you're going to restaurants less, if you find that you're
eating at home more, if you find your skippy meals
if what are you doing to adjust and what have
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you done to adjust since January twentieth, I think that
if you give Donald Trump a mark ten months into
this presidency, despite the fact that you have people out
in the streets screaming and yelling no kings and all
of that, despite the fact that he has torn off
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the East wing of the White House, ripped the East
wing of the White House down, the fact that there's
been a lot of people who have been arrested and
expelled from the country, despite the fact that you have
democratic governors and democratic mayors virtually threatening to arrest federal authorities.
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It's it's tumultuous, But has that has that tumult impacted
your life in terms of how you're living at day
to day six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one seven, nine three, one, ten thirty Later on
at ten o'clock, I want to talk about is Donald
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Trump a teflong president? And the reason I asked that question,
which I'd like to hold off until ten o'clock, is
all of the issues that have been raised, many of
them very legitimate issues, none of them seem to have
stuck with Donald Trump. He's done some very out of
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the box things for a president, whether you like him
or not. I don't know of any other president who
has wiped out boats that were drug trafficking, and I
believe that those boats were drug trafficking, drug trafficking boat.
If you think that they were, you know, tour guides
out of Caracas, feel free to call and take that point.
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But is he the Teflon precedent. Has he developed a
relationship not with the people who oppose him, because I
don't think he's going to change many minds, but has
he developed a relationship with that critical middle in America
who seemed to be standing by him anyway? I want
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to talk about your experiences in the grocery store. What
have you bought? Where's your stick or shock been in
the last six months? Where have you been pleasantly surprised?
What did you What have you decided not to buy?
I can tell you what I've decided not to buy
to be very honest with you, which has a benefit.
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There's over overpriced high end cookies, chocolate chip beverage from cookies,
which I love, but there are about one thousand calories
of cookie uh and they are way overpriced. In my opinion.
So I have adjusted my grocery store purchases, and I'd
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love to know I haven't seen the increase at supermarket
prices that others seem to have experienced. I don't know
if it's financial or if it's psychological. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three thirty. Let's
get it going right after.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
This night side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Boy So yeah again, today was interesting because obviously I was.
I looked at some of the different reports on the
market today. So here's one, Well, I have two I have, uh,
I'm going to reach the headlines reports. These are both
out of CNN Business, okay, which is a very reliable group.
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There's one by Alicia Wallace. America's inflation is back at
three percent. This is the headline that's higher than normal,
but not out of control. Okay, you know, but again
it's it's back. Okay. Then here's one by John Turfiki
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socked rally and do and Dow closes above forty seven
thousand for the first time after cooler than expected inflation report. Now,
just based upon those two headlines, the headline cooler than
expected inflation report is accurate. Is accurate. The other headline
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is a bit misleading. Again, these are both CNN, both
Business CNN Business America's inflation is back at three percent. Okay,
last month it was two point nine percent. And that's
not a huge difference here. I can remember again when
the Trump tariffs came in, there was a lot of
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hand ringing and a lot of oh my god, get
a car now. If you don't by August, the prices
will be through the roof. I don't think so, at
least not yet. Now, maybe you've gone car shopping and
you can contradict me. I want to know what your
experience is when you go to the grocery store. Do
you feel that, whoa, this is? This is much higher?
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I mean, I think it's always higher year to year.
Bob is in Rhode Island. Bob first, this hour on NIGHTSACER,
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Hello, mister Ray, Hello Bob. Yeah. Well, if they don't
stop this government shutdown, I add that it's going to
be a real problem for health benefits for the poor
starting in November, and we'll see how the economy is
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going to do in November.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, you know, the Republicans have been voting to reopen
the government and reopen they they they don't have any
Democrats joined. Well they have some, John Fetterman jo It's
about time.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I hope the Democrats stand the ground.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh so you you want people to have pain? Is
what I'm hearing you say? Right?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, you know I told you have the plank ready, Bob,
I hope you have your swim front. Look, if you
want to call and have a conversation, that's great. This
guy from Rhode Island, Bob, he calls once a week
and all he wants to do is yell and scream. Bob,
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that doesn't help anyone. Okay, if you want to give
me some specific if you had want wanted to give
me some specifics about how this has impacted you or
someone in your family. Adversely, that's what this show is
all about. Right now, let's go. Let's go to a
different Bob. This is a Bob and Cambridge who I think. Well,
it's a pretty low bar, Bob, but I think you're
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going to be a better caller than Bob from Rhode Island.
Go ahead, Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I wish I was the next one after this, But
that's Okay, My question is this with this shutdown, Dan right, Yeah,
at least politicians that a bit run back and forth.
I don't give a good Democrat Republican. Are they getting paid?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yes, sir well, some are holding off on their paychecks,
but they will get those paychecks back. But they have
a right to get their paycheck Democrats or Republicans, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Well, that's a disgrace. I mean, what are they What
are they doing? They're not doing nothing? Why are they
getting paid?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, they are, they would argue. I don't want to
argue on behalf of the Paul additions because I'm not
a fan. Okay, However, what they're saying is they're going
into work. Now. The Republicans have tried. I think it's
about eight or nine votes. Now they need sixty votes. People,
it's difficult for people to understand this, but the Republicans
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have fifty three senators, so you would think in with
fifty three to forty seven, the Republicans, if they stick together,
they can reopen the government. But in order to break
the filibuster, they need to get sixty votes, so they
need seven Democrats to come over and vote to open
the government. So far, they have not been able to
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get they need seven Democrats. John Fetterman, the Democratic senator
from Pennsylvania, has voted with them, and actually Ryan Paul
has voted. A Republican from Kentucky has voted against them.
I think it's cruel. The Democrats position essentially is we
will vote to open the government and resume negotiations. They
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were talking about what they call a clean resolution, meaning
they would reopen the government and everything would stay the same,
there would be no layoffs, nothing for seven weeks, and
they would hopefully come to a compromise. But unable to
get the sixty votes, the Democrats have voted to keep
the government, in effect, to keep the government closed. They
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have said they would vote to open it if the
Republicans would concede on two or three big ticket items,
which in my opinion, is supposed to be a part
of the negotiations. And if you know, if let's say
I'm holding you hostage at your home and I say, Bob,
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you know, I appreciate the fact that you haven't called
the police. Of course I have a gun on you,
and all you have to do is give me. I
know you got some cash in the house, give me
about you know, one thousand dollars and I'll leave very quietly.
It's like they want they want concessions in order to vote,
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to have conversations.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They should be ashamed of themselves then, you know what
I mean, They really should be. And the thing that
really really hurts these people that need to SNAP benefits program.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah that's yeah, that's going into effect next week. Here's
my solution for that. Okay, we have a rainy day
fund in Massachusetts, which is there, you know, it's I'll
get the amount of money, but it's somewhere around eight
billion dollars. I know, that's the last number I had seen.
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If the government, the federal government is still shut down
by November first and the SNAP funds stop, I don't
see why we can't use some of the rainy day
fund money here in Massachusetts to make sure that no
family is hungry Massachusetts or no mom. A lot of
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the people who are on the SNAP programs are either
single moms, kids, or are older or elderly people. So
my argument would be is we had eight billion dollars
in our rainy day fund in Massachusetts. Now that normally
is for when there's a problem, you know, economically, Well,
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this is going to be a problem economically for these families.
So I think the governor should invade with the legislature
and use that rainy Day fund to provide, you know,
supplemental checks for people in lieu of the snap payments
from the federal government if those snap payments are cut off.
So I know that the Democrats are saying, well, this
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is horrible and blaming the Republicans. I don't think that's
quite fair. But if you're going to blame the Republicans,
let's use some of the money here in Massachusetts to
take care of our own.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I like that, Dan, I hope it would work.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
When your friends talk to you about how cruel it is,
you have a solution for them. Again, it's if you
if you're not going to use rainy day fun money
for something like this, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
In my opinion, they them they get a raise, something
like that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hey, Bob, look at this. You did a great job.
Thank you very very much. You're a great caller. You
call us often. Please continue to do so. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Thank you, Dan, good night, good night, Bob.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, well a little bit, you know, it's funny
that's the case with two Bob's one. Bob and Rhode
Island can't even put a sentence together. I mean, I
feel badly for Bob and Rhode Island because it's like
he's trying to put sentences together, but his mind is
not functioning. Bob and Cambridge we had a great conversation.
That's what Night Side's all about. When we get back,
I got Bernie in New Hampshire, got Christine in Boston.
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Uh and I'd love to hear from you. Whatever your
point of view, just make it a conversation. Six one seven,
two five four six one seven, nine thirty. My name
is Danray. This is Nightside. It's a Friday night. We're
heading into the last weekend of October. This month has
flown by, and November it will be with us a
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little over a week from now, and we're getting close
to the end of the year. Let's let's work together
and solve these problems. That's what we try to do
on Nightside. I'm making a recommendation. I hope some of
you would agree with me. The way the governor heally
is throwing up our hands today, it's like we have
to rely on the federal government.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We have some funds here, and when the federal government
decides to replenish the SNAP money, I suspect they'll give
us back the STAP money to fill our any day fund.
It's as simple as that. It's politics is not tough, folks.
If you're if you're a normal person, and I think
I'm a normal person, and I think you're a normal person.
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And that's why I want to hear from you. Six
seven four ten thirty six point seven nine three thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're talking about the impact of the government shutdown, which
is now and it's twenty fourth day, and I think
that it's it's time for the politicians in Washington to
get together and get back to the bargaining table. Each
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side's going to have to give a little bit. But
as we talk about it, I want to talk about
the impact of the government shutdown on you. Now. By
the way, last hour during the newscaster, you're heard Governor
Heay talking about that we're going to lose our SNAP funding.
I just checked. I've got a pretty good memory. As
of late September twenty twenty five. The Massachusetts ra any
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Day Fund, the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund, has an estimated balance
of eight point eight three one billion with a B dollars.
This figure reflects deposits from interest earned, excess capital gains, taxes,
and other income with no withdrawals in fiscal twenty twenty
four according to the Office of the Controller. So the
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funds balance as of August ninth, two and twenty twenty
four with eight point eight three one billion dollars. Well,
if there's been no funds withdrawn, I can tell you
that that fund now has increased even more. So there's
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a question here as different rainy day funds, that money
can be used. In my opinion, if you are somebody
who relies upon snap payments benefits and you have no
funds for food for yourself or for your children as
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of next Saturday, November first, I think that we can
use some of that fund to help those people. Hopefully
it'll be the government shutdown will be over by then.
But yes, I guess it was yesterday that State Representative
Catherine Clark of Massachusetts made this ridiculous statement which I
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want to play for Rob, which I want to ask
Rob to play Rob please play cut thirteen.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be,
you know, families that are going to suffer. We take
that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the
few leverage times we have.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
One of the few leverage times we have. When you're
in a negotiation with someone, you're looking for leverage. Well,
she's essentially admitting. She's saying that shutdowns are terrible and
some families are going to suffer. But we and we
feel sorry. But that's sorry. That's one of the few
leverage times we have. You know, how can it be
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that stupid and admit to that. That's absurd. Let's go
to Bernie in New Hipshire. Bernie, you were next up
on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Hey, are we doing Dad?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I think we're doing okay. You know, we have had
a couple of conversations, one of which was intelligent, one
of which the guy ended up in the in the
water walk the plank. He's setting a record for the
most consecutive times walking the plank. Bob from Rhode Island
or Delaware or South Carolina or whatever state he claims
to be from.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, Dan, you have amazing patience with whacka doos.
I don't have possess that type of patience.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I just don't well to some extent that to some
extent they're entertaining, but when they get to a point
where they can't put a sentence together, the entertainment factor
diminishes dramatically.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Absolutely, absolutely. And the reason I called uh you know
today is my uh sixty fifth time around the sun.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you, Dan appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know, I grew up. You know what modest means.
I think, just reil the quick story, you know, And
and I didn't. We didn't have a lot of money,
and we learned to do without or to make the
best of what we had. And even now I do well,
My wife does very well. We both work very hard.
I do a lot of hours, and we've sacrificed a
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lot for our children in our lives, and you know,
we we we learned to live within our means, and
especially with grocery shopping, like I'll look for the seals
at shows and we have a freezer in the basement.
We stock up on stuff and sure and and you know,
we get the right prices. And my wife, like she
goes like CVS and Walgreens and gets all like, you know, well,
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we got like, I don't know, fifty packs of toilet
paper on the cellar. But she's just like keeping ahead
of things and so we can spend less money on that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I got to tell you, Bernie, I do the same thing,
same things. I always want to pack up staff. You know,
have extras of the stuff that you know you couldn't
need when they have a sale on them, because they do.
I was at Assurance this afternoon, yeah, yesterday, Yeah, and
I was doing the same thing. And there will be
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some things that I will spend because I like those things.
I will spend whatever I need to spend within reason.
I used to love pepperidge from Chocolate Chip Cookies, but no,
I also knew that they were pretty heavy on calories.
But now they have raised the prices and they've kept
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the prices up, and it's like they're they're they're they're
much more expensive than they were a few years ago.
So I don't buy it's from Chocolate Chip Cookies anymore.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, no, I get it. I get it that I've
given up a lot of stuff and we just live
within our means. And when We do the best we can.
And you know, like the with the the sky hasn't
fallen in you know, like you said, I keep waiting,
it hasn't fallen. You know, my son a couple of
weeks ago, he was coming home and he was talking
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about getting a truck, you know, and he's in the
military and they don't pay him. They pay him nothing.
But you know, he saves every penny. Very fugal. My
son is very frugal. He saved that every penny. He says, Dad,
I got this money. I want to put a down payment.
I want to get a used truck real quick. He
wanted to get like a twenty nineteen Dodge Ram nice
truck forty thousand miles. So me and my wife says,
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let us look. So we looked at a jailer up
here for a brand new one twenty twenty five, and
we went and talked to them. I put a down payment,
I says, it's your choice. I didn't even drive it,
he says. I said, nope. My son's coming home tooesday.
We went down here, him and I and it was
it was like fifty three. They got it down to
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party three with a military discount and all that, and
then me and my wife says, what we're gonna do
is we gave him ten thousand. We said we're going
to put ten thousand more to it to get his
down payment, meant to make his pwice lower on his loan,
and he got the loan down for a really good point.
And then he says, and now we're going to give
you one hundred dollars because this is a nineteen year
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old kid who when he was eighteen decided that he
was going to sacrifice everything for his country. And he
loves his country and I love this country, and I
honor what he's doing. So we wanted to help him
and he and he did did. If you've seen a
look on this nineteen year old boy's faith getting in
that pretty new guard through him was twiceless.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's the best investment you ever made.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
And oh my gosh, now we don't have to worry
about any maintenance. You know, it's new truck.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's a great story. But I will tell you this,
and I and I mean this, there is we have
in Massachusetts. We have a population of seven million people
in Massachusetts. Approximately one million of those people rely on
what used to be called food stamps SNAP, you know,
the staff payments, and those are supposed to stop next Saturday,
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November first. We have in eight point eight billion dollar
rainy day fund in Massachusetts.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Okay, we can contribute to it because I work in match.
When I heard that control of talking about a month
ago on your program, and that money is not supposed
to be held over like that, and I you have
you should just be like governor, just just one for governor.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I just did. I just did the math. Okay. We
could turn around, okay, and we could give to a
million pece people who rely on SNAP funding. We could
give each one of them eight hundred dollars literally literally. Now,
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of course we're not going to because that would exhaust
the fund. However, we could give those one million people
one thousand dollars on November first and say, look, this
is going to have to and by the way, one
thousand to the mom, one thousand to each child, okay,
on the set, So some families would have three or
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four thousand dollars that would probably carry them to the
end of the year if necessary. And if the SNAP
money comes back, you know, and the federal government replenishes
the SNAP money, we put that back in the Rainy
Day Fund. But that would give people a lot of
money in their pocket, not only to eat and to
take care of their kids, but also in anticipation of Christmas.
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But you will not have that happen in Massachusetts because
the Democratic leaders ship is not going to want to
take pressure off the Republicans. That's what's going on. Captain
Clark insteaded exactly yesterday.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
So that's absolutely, absolutely, it's not good political data for
Massachusetts to bail out the federal government.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah. Well, as I say, I I viewed bailing out
people who need the help of poor people. And I'm
a conservative. Okay, I'm a conservative, and and that's the
solution of this problem. We'll see if there's any Democrat
in Massachusetts who will say, hey, you know that crazy
talk show host, he actually came up with it with
a program and an idea that makes makes sense, makes sense, Thank.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You, Dan. But I've taken up too much of your Okay,
spot pizza, Dan, don't forget down spot pizza in your
next that next second.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Okay, you can call it if you want, Okay it
have a great one. Good night, Congratulations son. He's got
a couple of great parents. The did not fall far
from the tree. We're gonna take a quick break. Give
me a call. I'd love to hear what you think
about my idea. It's it's staring me in the face.
We have eight point eight billion dollars, so we're gonna
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let people starve in Massachusetts not feed their kids. That's ridiculous.
It's got nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. It's
got everything to do with humanity. Make money available to
these individuals. Give them each one thousand dollars for every
one in the family. That's gonna feed them for at
least a couple of weeks, maybe an entire month. And
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and let's see where we are then as we approach
Thanksgiving in the holidays, here's the number six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
This subject will be able to pour over into the
next hour, So don't feel you're late and you're not
gonna be able to get on. We will get you
on early next hour. And we're gonna also talk about
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how come nothing sticking to Donald Trump, he is at
this point a teflon president in my opinion. I will
explain that concept and then we'll talk about your favorite pizza.
Coming up right after the eleven the eleven o'clock news.
Coming back on nights Side, join the conversation. What is
the impact of the government shutdown on you? What do
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you think about it? Maybe you're not impacted by it
at all. What is what's your grocery bill looking like?
What's gone up? What hasn't gone up? Might be the
better question? Back on Nightside after this, It's.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Jane and
ever Gane. You were next on Nightside. I appreciate you calling
in your thoughts on this suggestion that I have, or
your thoughts on how you're doing when you go to
the grocery store.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Hi, Jane, So yeah, I find that quality is a problem.
They might have onions, but Pilcy and I don't want
to buy them. I wouldn't use them in my kitchen.
A lot of quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, I don't know what stores you're going to, but
i'd find a different store if well.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
It's my regular store that everybody goes to to be honest,
But stuff like that, you know, the potatoes that just
look horrible. You can brush aside twenty of them and
are still terrible. That kind of thing I'm finding, and
I'm finding that in clothing stores too good clothing stores
but selling junk. So and the other thing is I
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wanted to say, I think that with our elected officials
in Massachusetts from the top down, you know, you get
more with honey than you get with vinegar. So if
they keep slamming Trump, they're not going to get what
they're what they need. Well, we should realize that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I have anyone in our delegation. I think Vice President
Vance mentioned today that of New England votes a Republican,
they'll get forty percent of the votes. But at this
point there's only one one or two members in the
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entire delegation, Susan Collins, and there's a congressman from northern Maine.
We don't have anyone who can walk into the White
House as a Republican and you know, talk with the
President and say, hey, you know, I represent a lot
of people in Massachusetts and you're there president too. You know,
you're not just president of the people who voted for
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you or in the states that you want. I think
that's what someone has to say to him.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Yeah, but I think that I think that our elected
officials in Massachusetts should try to be nicer to the
White House because if they keep slamming him, he's slamming back.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
No. I understand that. No, I do understand that. But the.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Way the world works, his personality, they're doing the wrong thing.
Could be nice.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You've made your point now four times. I'm smart enough
to understand the point you made. Let me repeat it
for you in case you don't think I got it.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
I understand it.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You think, yeah, I'm going to repeat it, so you're
certain I got it. You're saying to me that the
Democrats here in New England and Massachusetts should be nicer
to Donald Trump. Not gonna happen that way. Uh, it
just doesn't work that way. It's like they're they're two teams. Uh,
it's red and blue. It's as simple as that. They
certainly should go in and say, look, you know we're
(37:30):
criticizing you, but we're criticizing you because we disagree with you.
We have people in our state and our region who
voted for you, and and appeal to them to his
better angels. If he's got a better angel, Geene, I
got to run. I understand.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Well, maybe they'll think about it, everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Maybe you've convinced him, and I appreciate you taking the time.
Thanks Gene. Gotta go here, come to ten o'clock news.
Good night. Didn't mean to cut her off there, but
ten o'clock news is here. I can't stop the ten
o'clock news. It's as simple as that. My name's Dan Ray.
This is Nightside. Is Donald Trump a teflon president? No
matter what he does, the Democrats aren't able to stick
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anything on him. I think it's kind of interesting. We'll
be back right after the ten and we will change
the focus just a little
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on VS Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Al Griffith, that's for sure. Thanks
very much, jaw. As we work our way through a
Friday night end of the week here, before we get
to our topic this hour, which will be how are
you surviving with one one the shutdown, the government shutdown,
and also what sort of an impact is that having
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on you? But also how are you surviving now that
we've kind of got through most of October. The president
has been in office now for about you know, nine months,
almost exactly, and I'd just like to know what's going on.
(00:48):
But before we get to that, gonna ask for a
little help. In the last few weeks, several of you
have sent an email to me indicating that they thought
that the quality of my audio was not as good
as the quality of the callers. So we've made some
adjustments on the equipment in consultation with some of our
(01:12):
good technical people here. And if you don't notice the
difference between the audio that you've been hearing me use
for the last few weeks, it seems as if it
started and there was some eagle eared listeners who suggested
(01:35):
that we had to tweak a couple of things. So
we tweeked a couple of things. And for those of
you who were bothered by audio, one person said, it
sounded like I was underwater. I have no way of
knowing that. I don't think Rob had a way of
knowing that either. Now, some of it could be your reception.
It wasn't like we were swamped with, you know, ten
thousand emails. But if you do notice in any way, shift, form,
(01:58):
any way, shape or form the audio, my audio specifically
has gotten better then it was for the last two
or three weeks. If it's the same, if you could
just give Rob a quick call and let him know.
If you feel it's the same, then don't worry about it.
But if you feel that it has either improved somewhat
(02:21):
or has gotten worse, let us know. You know, Rob
sits in the control room. He has to listen to
a lot of information. He has to listen to people
who are calling the show, he has to listen to
what's going out over the air, and he has to
(02:43):
he's a pretty busy guy. So you know, the regular
number will get in there. Six month, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty would be great if you would be so kind.
That's number one. Now here's what I want to talk about.
I would love to talk about. Has the shutdown the
government shutdown, which which I guess now is that it's
twenty fourth day. Today's the twenty fourth It started on
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October first. I believe has it impacted you? And if
it has impacted you, what has been the impact. Obviously,
if you are a government employee and you're working without
the benefit of a paycheck, or if you've been furloughed,
tell me your story. I know that there's some concern
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that food stamp problems are going to begin to occur.
I hope that the Republicans and Democrats can come together
on that so people are not sitting around hungry. That
should not happen in America, and it should not be
politicized in America, in my opinion. There was a CPI
(03:52):
report released today. I was a little late, simply because
I guess the government has been running at a slower pace.
The Consumer Price Index report concluded that in September, the
rate of inflation was running at three percent. That was down,
(04:15):
or I shouldn't say it was down, it was less
than was expected. Apparently, the consensus of the experts out there.
God only knows who the experts are. You're really one.
You should be one of the experts because you lived
this day to day. They were expecting a three point
one percent inflation rate consumer price index, and it was
(04:38):
a three. The stock market liked that. The stock market,
and again, many of you are in the stock market.
Many of you don't realize you're in the stock market.
If you're a member of a union, if you're in
the teachers union, you're in the stock market because the
teachers union obviously has invested in the stock market. But
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the Dow was up a full percentage point, the Nasdaq
was up a little more than a percentage one point,
and the S and P five hundred was up eight
tens of a percent. Those are three very healthy numbers,
three healthy numbers that will help everyone's four oh one
(05:24):
k everyone's who's who's invested in the stock market. So
so the the the decision today of three percent or
the disclosure of three percent was received pretty well. Now
I put that up against do you remember last April
six months ago when Donald Trump announced the tariffs. The
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stock market took a huge hit, And again that was
explained because the one thing the stock market likes is stability.
There was very little stability. We were entering into uncharted
by the end of the month the stock market. By
the end of April, the stock market had recovered. Now
if you were unfortunate enough to sell, after a couple
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of days, the stock market was down. I think it
was down close to twenty percent, which gets you to
very quickly to a beer market, as the economists will
tell you. So what I want to know is, I'd
love to hear from you. I remember people said to me, well,
the price of eggs is through the roof. I think
the price of eggs has settled down. Gasoline is now
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under three dollars or three dollars and or under three dollars,
I believe in thirty six of the fifty states, which
of course means that gas prices are down across the country.
But they're now down substantially from where they were in
thirty six states. And that is good news for all
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of us. Because remember everything that you purchase, whether it's
food in the grocery store, or a new pair of
sneakers at your sporting goods store, or it's a bicycle
or a car, everything that you buy at some point
has to be transported from point A, maybe to point
Z and a few stops in between. But very the
(07:17):
only thing that you that you buy is when you
go to pick apples in you're two towns over from
you and you're going to drive over to get to
the apple orchard. That's a reality. So the most important,
in my opinion, the most important factoid that we can
look at or in any given day, is the price
of gasoline and also the price of oil. And of
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course when war spikes in the Middle East, price of
oil often goes up because so many of those countries
in the old opiq cartel would say, well, we are
we're raising the price of a barrel of oil because
we can do it to one hundred dollars or to
one hundred and twenty dollars. At one point, I think
the price of oil is one hundred and fifty dollars.
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So look, I'm not interested in talking numbers per se.
I'm interested in talking your experience. And so now I'm
asking you to join the conversation. If you find that
you're going to restaurants less, if you find that you're
eating at home more, if you find your skippy meals
if what are you doing to adjust and what have
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you done to adjust since January twentieth, I think that
if you give Donald Trump a mark ten months into
this presidency, despite the fact that you have people out
in the streets screaming and yelling no kings and all
of that, despite the fact that he has torn off
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the East wing of the White House, ripped the East
wing of the White House down, the fact that there's
been a lot of people who have been arrested and
expelled from the country, despite the fact that you have
democratic governors and democratic mayors virtually threatening to arrest federal authorities.
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It's it's tumultuous, But has that has that tumult impacted
your life in terms of how you're living at day
to day six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one seven, nine three, one, ten thirty Later on
at ten o'clock, I want to talk about is Donald
(09:25):
Trump a teflong president? And the reason I asked that question,
which I'd like to hold off until ten o'clock, is
all of the issues that have been raised, many of
them very legitimate issues, none of them seem to have
stuck with Donald Trump. He's done some very out of
(09:46):
the box things for a president, whether you like him
or not. I don't know of any other president who
has wiped out boats that were drug trafficking, and I
believe that those boats were drug trafficking, drug trafficking boat.
If you think that they were, you know, tour guides
out of Caracas, feel free to call and take that point.
(10:06):
But is he the Teflon precedent. Has he developed a
relationship not with the people who oppose him, because I
don't think he's going to change many minds, but has
he developed a relationship with that critical middle in America
who seemed to be standing by him anyway? I want
(10:29):
to talk about your experiences in the grocery store. What
have you bought? Where's your stick or shock been in
the last six months? Where have you been pleasantly surprised?
What did you What have you decided not to buy?
I can tell you what I've decided not to buy
to be very honest with you, which has a benefit.
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There's over overpriced high end cookies, chocolate chip beverage from cookies,
which I love, but there are about one thousand calories
of cookie uh and they are way overpriced. In my opinion.
So I have adjusted my grocery store purchases, and I'd
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love to know I haven't seen the increase at supermarket
prices that others seem to have experienced. I don't know
if it's financial or if it's psychological. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three thirty. Let's
get it going right after.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
This night side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Boy So yeah again, today was interesting because obviously I was.
I looked at some of the different reports on the
market today. So here's one, Well, I have two I have, uh,
I'm going to reach the headlines reports. These are both
out of CNN Business, okay, which is a very reliable group.
(12:07):
There's one by Alicia Wallace. America's inflation is back at
three percent. This is the headline that's higher than normal,
but not out of control. Okay, you know, but again
it's it's back. Okay. Then here's one by John Turfiki
(12:28):
socked rally and do and Dow closes above forty seven
thousand for the first time after cooler than expected inflation report. Now,
just based upon those two headlines, the headline cooler than
expected inflation report is accurate. Is accurate. The other headline
(12:49):
is a bit misleading. Again, these are both CNN, both
Business CNN Business America's inflation is back at three percent. Okay,
last month it was two point nine percent. And that's
not a huge difference here. I can remember again when
the Trump tariffs came in, there was a lot of
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hand ringing and a lot of oh my god, get
a car now. If you don't by August, the prices
will be through the roof. I don't think so, at
least not yet. Now, maybe you've gone car shopping and
you can contradict me. I want to know what your
experience is when you go to the grocery store. Do
you feel that, whoa, this is? This is much higher?
(13:34):
I mean, I think it's always higher year to year.
Bob is in Rhode Island. Bob first, this hour on NIGHTSACER,
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Hello, mister Ray, Hello Bob. Yeah. Well, if they don't
stop this government shutdown, I add that it's going to
be a real problem for health benefits for the poor
starting in November, and we'll see how the economy is
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going to do in November.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, you know, the Republicans have been voting to reopen
the government and reopen they they they don't have any
Democrats joined. Well they have some, John Fetterman jo It's
about time.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I hope the Democrats stand the ground.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh so you you want people to have pain? Is
what I'm hearing you say? Right?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You don't want to.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, you know I told you have the plank ready, Bob,
I hope you have your swim front. Look, if you
want to call and have a conversation, that's great. This
guy from Rhode Island, Bob, he calls once a week
and all he wants to do is yell and scream. Bob,
(14:54):
that doesn't help anyone. Okay, if you want to give
me some specific if you had want wanted to give
me some specifics about how this has impacted you or
someone in your family. Adversely, that's what this show is
all about. Right now, let's go. Let's go to a
different Bob. This is a Bob and Cambridge who I think. Well,
it's a pretty low bar, Bob, but I think you're
(15:15):
going to be a better caller than Bob from Rhode Island.
Go ahead, Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I wish I was the next one after this, But
that's Okay, My question is this with this shutdown, Dan right, Yeah,
at least politicians that a bit run back and forth.
I don't give a good Democrat Republican. Are they getting paid?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yes, sir well, some are holding off on their paychecks,
but they will get those paychecks back. But they have
a right to get their paycheck Democrats or Republicans, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Well, that's a disgrace. I mean, what are they What
are they doing? They're not doing nothing? Why are they
getting paid?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, they are, they would argue. I don't want to
argue on behalf of the Paul additions because I'm not
a fan. Okay, However, what they're saying is they're going
into work. Now. The Republicans have tried. I think it's
about eight or nine votes. Now they need sixty votes. People,
it's difficult for people to understand this, but the Republicans
(16:17):
have fifty three senators, so you would think in with
fifty three to forty seven, the Republicans, if they stick together,
they can reopen the government. But in order to break
the filibuster, they need to get sixty votes, so they
need seven Democrats to come over and vote to open
the government. So far, they have not been able to
(16:38):
get they need seven Democrats. John Fetterman, the Democratic senator
from Pennsylvania, has voted with them, and actually Ryan Paul
has voted. A Republican from Kentucky has voted against them.
I think it's cruel. The Democrats position essentially is we
will vote to open the government and resume negotiations. They
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were talking about what they call a clean resolution, meaning
they would reopen the government and everything would stay the same,
there would be no layoffs, nothing for seven weeks, and
they would hopefully come to a compromise. But unable to
get the sixty votes, the Democrats have voted to keep
the government, in effect, to keep the government closed. They
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have said they would vote to open it if the
Republicans would concede on two or three big ticket items,
which in my opinion, is supposed to be a part
of the negotiations. And if you know, if let's say
I'm holding you hostage at your home and I say, Bob,
(17:43):
you know, I appreciate the fact that you haven't called
the police. Of course I have a gun on you,
and all you have to do is give me. I
know you got some cash in the house, give me
about you know, one thousand dollars and I'll leave very quietly.
It's like they want they want concessions in order to vote,
(18:05):
to have conversations.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They should be ashamed of themselves then, you know what
I mean, They really should be. And the thing that
really really hurts these people that need to SNAP benefits program.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah that's yeah, that's going into effect next week. Here's
my solution for that. Okay, we have a rainy day
fund in Massachusetts, which is there, you know, it's I'll
get the amount of money, but it's somewhere around eight
billion dollars. I know, that's the last number I had seen.
(18:40):
If the government, the federal government is still shut down
by November first and the SNAP funds stop, I don't
see why we can't use some of the rainy day
fund money here in Massachusetts to make sure that no
family is hungry Massachusetts or no mom. A lot of
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the people who are on the SNAP programs are either
single moms, kids, or are older or elderly people. So
my argument would be is we had eight billion dollars
in our rainy day fund in Massachusetts. Now that normally
is for when there's a problem, you know, economically, Well,
(19:25):
this is going to be a problem economically for these families.
So I think the governor should invade with the legislature
and use that rainy Day fund to provide, you know,
supplemental checks for people in lieu of the snap payments
from the federal government if those snap payments are cut off.
So I know that the Democrats are saying, well, this
(19:48):
is horrible and blaming the Republicans. I don't think that's
quite fair. But if you're going to blame the Republicans,
let's use some of the money here in Massachusetts to
take care of our own.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I like that, Dan, I hope it would work.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
When your friends talk to you about how cruel it is,
you have a solution for them. Again, it's if you
if you're not going to use rainy day fun money
for something like this, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
In my opinion, they them they get a raise, something
like that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hey, Bob, look at this. You did a great job.
Thank you very very much. You're a great caller. You
call us often. Please continue to do so. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Thank you, Dan, good night, good night, Bob.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, well a little bit, you know, it's funny
that's the case with two Bob's one. Bob and Rhode
Island can't even put a sentence together. I mean, I
feel badly for Bob and Rhode Island because it's like
he's trying to put sentences together, but his mind is
not functioning. Bob and Cambridge we had a great conversation.
That's what Night Side's all about. When we get back,
I got Bernie in New Hampshire, got Christine in Boston.
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Uh and I'd love to hear from you. Whatever your
point of view, just make it a conversation. Six one seven,
two five four six one seven, nine thirty. My name
is Danray. This is Nightside. It's a Friday night. We're
heading into the last weekend of October. This month has
flown by, and November it will be with us a
(21:18):
little over a week from now, and we're getting close
to the end of the year. Let's let's work together
and solve these problems. That's what we try to do
on Nightside. I'm making a recommendation. I hope some of
you would agree with me. The way the governor heally
is throwing up our hands today, it's like we have
to rely on the federal government.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
We have some funds here, and when the federal government
decides to replenish the SNAP money, I suspect they'll give
us back the STAP money to fill our any day fund.
It's as simple as that. It's politics is not tough, folks.
If you're if you're a normal person, and I think
I'm a normal person, and I think you're a normal person.
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And that's why I want to hear from you. Six
seven four ten thirty six point seven nine three thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're talking about the impact of the government shutdown, which
is now and it's twenty fourth day, and I think
that it's it's time for the politicians in Washington to
get together and get back to the bargaining table. Each
(22:29):
side's going to have to give a little bit. But
as we talk about it, I want to talk about
the impact of the government shutdown on you. Now. By
the way, last hour during the newscaster, you're heard Governor
Heay talking about that we're going to lose our SNAP funding.
I just checked. I've got a pretty good memory. As
of late September twenty twenty five. The Massachusetts ra any
(22:52):
Day Fund, the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund, has an estimated balance
of eight point eight three one billion with a B dollars.
This figure reflects deposits from interest earned, excess capital gains, taxes,
and other income with no withdrawals in fiscal twenty twenty
four according to the Office of the Controller. So the
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funds balance as of August ninth, two and twenty twenty
four with eight point eight three one billion dollars. Well,
if there's been no funds withdrawn, I can tell you
that that fund now has increased even more. So there's
(23:42):
a question here as different rainy day funds, that money
can be used. In my opinion, if you are somebody
who relies upon snap payments benefits and you have no
funds for food for yourself or for your children as
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of next Saturday, November first, I think that we can
use some of that fund to help those people. Hopefully
it'll be the government shutdown will be over by then.
But yes, I guess it was yesterday that State Representative
Catherine Clark of Massachusetts made this ridiculous statement which I
(24:24):
want to play for Rob, which I want to ask
Rob to play Rob please play cut thirteen.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be,
you know, families that are going to suffer. We take
that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the
few leverage times we have.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
One of the few leverage times we have. When you're
in a negotiation with someone, you're looking for leverage. Well,
she's essentially admitting. She's saying that shutdowns are terrible and
some families are going to suffer. But we and we
feel sorry. But that's sorry. That's one of the few
leverage times we have. You know, how can it be
(25:10):
that stupid and admit to that. That's absurd. Let's go
to Bernie in New Hipshire. Bernie, you were next up
on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Hey, are we doing Dad?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I think we're doing okay. You know, we have had
a couple of conversations, one of which was intelligent, one
of which the guy ended up in the in the
water walk the plank. He's setting a record for the
most consecutive times walking the plank. Bob from Rhode Island
or Delaware or South Carolina or whatever state he claims
to be from.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, Dan, you have amazing patience with whacka doos.
I don't have possess that type of patience.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I just don't well to some extent that to some
extent they're entertaining, but when they get to a point
where they can't put a sentence together, the entertainment factor
diminishes dramatically.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Absolutely, absolutely. And the reason I called uh you know
today is my uh sixty fifth time around the sun.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you, Dan appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know, I grew up. You know what modest means.
I think, just reil the quick story, you know, And
and I didn't. We didn't have a lot of money,
and we learned to do without or to make the
best of what we had. And even now I do well,
My wife does very well. We both work very hard.
I do a lot of hours, and we've sacrificed a
(26:37):
lot for our children in our lives, and you know,
we we we learned to live within our means, and
especially with grocery shopping, like I'll look for the seals
at shows and we have a freezer in the basement.
We stock up on stuff and sure and and you know,
we get the right prices. And my wife, like she
goes like CVS and Walgreens and gets all like, you know, well,
(27:00):
we got like, I don't know, fifty packs of toilet
paper on the cellar. But she's just like keeping ahead
of things and so we can spend less money on that.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I got to tell you, Bernie, I do the same thing,
same things. I always want to pack up staff. You know,
have extras of the stuff that you know you couldn't
need when they have a sale on them, because they do.
I was at Assurance this afternoon, yeah, yesterday, Yeah, and
I was doing the same thing. And there will be
(27:31):
some things that I will spend because I like those things.
I will spend whatever I need to spend within reason.
I used to love pepperidge from Chocolate Chip Cookies, but no,
I also knew that they were pretty heavy on calories.
But now they have raised the prices and they've kept
(27:51):
the prices up, and it's like they're they're they're they're
much more expensive than they were a few years ago.
So I don't buy it's from Chocolate Chip Cookies anymore.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, no, I get it. I get it that I've
given up a lot of stuff and we just live
within our means. And when We do the best we can.
And you know, like the with the the sky hasn't
fallen in you know, like you said, I keep waiting,
it hasn't fallen. You know, my son a couple of
weeks ago, he was coming home and he was talking
(28:23):
about getting a truck, you know, and he's in the
military and they don't pay him. They pay him nothing.
But you know, he saves every penny. Very fugal. My
son is very frugal. He saved that every penny. He says, Dad,
I got this money. I want to put a down payment.
I want to get a used truck real quick. He
wanted to get like a twenty nineteen Dodge Ram nice
truck forty thousand miles. So me and my wife says,
(28:45):
let us look. So we looked at a jailer up
here for a brand new one twenty twenty five, and
we went and talked to them. I put a down payment,
I says, it's your choice. I didn't even drive it,
he says. I said, nope. My son's coming home tooesday.
We went down here, him and I and it was
it was like fifty three. They got it down to
(29:05):
party three with a military discount and all that, and
then me and my wife says, what we're gonna do
is we gave him ten thousand. We said we're going
to put ten thousand more to it to get his
down payment, meant to make his pwice lower on his loan,
and he got the loan down for a really good point.
And then he says, and now we're going to give
you one hundred dollars because this is a nineteen year
(29:26):
old kid who when he was eighteen decided that he
was going to sacrifice everything for his country. And he
loves his country and I love this country, and I
honor what he's doing. So we wanted to help him
and he and he did did. If you've seen a
look on this nineteen year old boy's faith getting in
that pretty new guard through him was twiceless.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's the best investment you ever made.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
And oh my gosh, now we don't have to worry
about any maintenance. You know, it's new truck.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's a great story. But I will tell you this,
and I and I mean this, there is we have
in Massachusetts. We have a population of seven million people
in Massachusetts. Approximately one million of those people rely on
what used to be called food stamps SNAP, you know,
the staff payments, and those are supposed to stop next Saturday,
(30:25):
November first. We have in eight point eight billion dollar
rainy day fund in Massachusetts.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Okay, we can contribute to it because I work in match.
When I heard that control of talking about a month
ago on your program, and that money is not supposed
to be held over like that, and I you have
you should just be like governor, just just one for governor.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I just did. I just did the math. Okay. We
could turn around, okay, and we could give to a
million pece people who rely on SNAP funding. We could
give each one of them eight hundred dollars literally literally. Now,
(31:12):
of course we're not going to because that would exhaust
the fund. However, we could give those one million people
one thousand dollars on November first and say, look, this
is going to have to and by the way, one
thousand to the mom, one thousand to each child, okay,
on the set, So some families would have three or
(31:33):
four thousand dollars that would probably carry them to the
end of the year if necessary. And if the SNAP
money comes back, you know, and the federal government replenishes
the SNAP money, we put that back in the Rainy
Day Fund. But that would give people a lot of
money in their pocket, not only to eat and to
take care of their kids, but also in anticipation of Christmas.
(31:55):
But you will not have that happen in Massachusetts because
the Democratic leaders ship is not going to want to
take pressure off the Republicans. That's what's going on. Captain
Clark insteaded exactly yesterday.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
So that's absolutely, absolutely, it's not good political data for
Massachusetts to bail out the federal government.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah. Well, as I say, I I viewed bailing out
people who need the help of poor people. And I'm
a conservative. Okay, I'm a conservative, and and that's the
solution of this problem. We'll see if there's any Democrat
in Massachusetts who will say, hey, you know that crazy
talk show host, he actually came up with it with
a program and an idea that makes makes sense, makes sense, Thank.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
You, Dan. But I've taken up too much of your Okay,
spot pizza, Dan, don't forget down spot pizza in your
next that next second.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Okay, you can call it if you want, Okay it
have a great one. Good night, Congratulations son. He's got
a couple of great parents. The did not fall far
from the tree. We're gonna take a quick break. Give
me a call. I'd love to hear what you think
about my idea. It's it's staring me in the face.
We have eight point eight billion dollars, so we're gonna
(33:10):
let people starve in Massachusetts not feed their kids. That's ridiculous.
It's got nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. It's
got everything to do with humanity. Make money available to
these individuals. Give them each one thousand dollars for every
one in the family. That's gonna feed them for at
least a couple of weeks, maybe an entire month. And
(33:32):
and let's see where we are then as we approach
Thanksgiving in the holidays, here's the number six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
This subject will be able to pour over into the
next hour, So don't feel you're late and you're not
gonna be able to get on. We will get you
on early next hour. And we're gonna also talk about
(33:54):
how come nothing sticking to Donald Trump, he is at
this point a teflon president in my opinion. I will
explain that concept and then we'll talk about your favorite pizza.
Coming up right after the eleven the eleven o'clock news.
Coming back on nights Side, join the conversation. What is
the impact of the government shutdown on you? What do
(34:15):
you think about it? Maybe you're not impacted by it
at all. What is what's your grocery bill looking like?
What's gone up? What hasn't gone up? Might be the
better question? Back on Nightside after this, It's.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Jane and
ever Gane. You were next on Nightside. I appreciate you calling
in your thoughts on this suggestion that I have, or
your thoughts on how you're doing when you go to
the grocery store.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Hi, Jane, So yeah, I find that quality is a problem.
They might have onions, but Pilcy and I don't want
to buy them. I wouldn't use them in my kitchen.
A lot of quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Well, I don't know what stores you're going to, but
i'd find a different store if well.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
It's my regular store that everybody goes to to be honest,
But stuff like that, you know, the potatoes that just
look horrible. You can brush aside twenty of them and
are still terrible. That kind of thing I'm finding, and
I'm finding that in clothing stores too good clothing stores
but selling junk. So and the other thing is I
(35:32):
wanted to say, I think that with our elected officials
in Massachusetts from the top down, you know, you get
more with honey than you get with vinegar. So if
they keep slamming Trump, they're not going to get what
they're what they need. Well, we should realize that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I have anyone in our delegation. I think Vice President
Vance mentioned today that of New England votes a Republican,
they'll get forty percent of the votes. But at this
point there's only one one or two members in the
(36:10):
entire delegation, Susan Collins, and there's a congressman from northern Maine.
We don't have anyone who can walk into the White
House as a Republican and you know, talk with the
President and say, hey, you know, I represent a lot
of people in Massachusetts and you're there president too. You know,
you're not just president of the people who voted for
(36:33):
you or in the states that you want. I think
that's what someone has to say to him.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Yeah, but I think that I think that our elected
officials in Massachusetts should try to be nicer to the
White House because if they keep slamming him, he's slamming back.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
No. I understand that. No, I do understand that. But the.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Way the world works, his personality, they're doing the wrong thing.
Could be nice.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You've made your point now four times. I'm smart enough
to understand the point you made. Let me repeat it
for you in case you don't think I got it.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
I understand it.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You think, yeah, I'm going to repeat it, so you're
certain I got it. You're saying to me that the
Democrats here in New England and Massachusetts should be nicer
to Donald Trump. Not gonna happen that way. Uh, it
just doesn't work that way. It's like they're they're two teams. Uh,
it's red and blue. It's as simple as that. They
certainly should go in and say, look, you know we're
(37:30):
criticizing you, but we're criticizing you because we disagree with you.
We have people in our state and our region who
voted for you, and and appeal to them to his
better angels. If he's got a better angel, Geene, I
got to run. I understand.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Well, maybe they'll think about it, everybody.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Maybe you've convinced him, and I appreciate you taking the time.
Thanks Gene. Gotta go here, come to ten o'clock news.
Good night. Didn't mean to cut her off there, but
ten o'clock news is here. I can't stop the ten
o'clock news. It's as simple as that. My name's Dan Ray.
This is Nightside. Is Donald Trump a teflon president? No
matter what he does, the Democrats aren't able to stick
(38:14):
anything on him. I think it's kind of interesting. We'll
be back right after the ten and we will change
the focus just a little
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