November 6, 2025 • 40 mins
With the government shutdown, impacts to the American public include airline travelers as cutbacks at airports increase. Are you planning on traveling in the near future? Dan wants to know.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, thank you very much, Al Griffin. As we head
into our fourth and final hour. Interesting, I thought that
there would have been more people interested in talking to
my guest last hour. He handled himself quite well, and
my suspicion is that that might not be as controversial
a move as originally it appeared to be. We'll have
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to see how that we will follow along that. Now,
I want to talk about something that not all of
us are going to face, but many of us might
face in the days and weeks ahead. So I think
all of you know. The government shutdown is now, I
guess in its thirty seventh day, longer shutdown in the
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history of government shutdowns. We've had several in recent years.
And I'm not so much interested in the power politics
of it, because frankly, I don't think my audience is
interested in the politics of it. It obviously is impacting
a lot of people in a lot of ways, people
who are in need of snap funds. It appears that
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it's now, if I'm not mistaken, it is November the sixth,
So we're now six months into November, and there are
probably many people now who have no money on their
SNAP card, which means they, in theory, unless they have
saved some money somewhere or earned some money somewhere, that
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they do not have money to get out and purchase
the necessities of life. And in this case, we're talking
about food, and we have talked about that, but now
there's an entire another group of people who are going
to be affected. Not only is it SNAP recipients, not
only is it federal employees who members of the military
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who may not be receiving their paychecks, but now the
traveling public, people who rely on getting from point A
to point B and use airlines. As of today, there
have been cutbacks at airports around the country and every
day apparently those cutbacks will increase by about one percent
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four percent today, one percent tomorrow, another one percent on Friday,
another one percent Saturday Sunday. Until next week, ten percent
of the regularly scheduled airline flights will be off the board.
They each of the major airlines and the minor airlines
are going to have to cancel air travel. So that
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presents a dilemma, a big dilemma if you are someone
who is planning to go somewhere in the next I
don't know, you know, the next month or so. I
don't know how long the shutdown is going to continue.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm wondering if
already people are changing plans. I watched a couple of
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the newscasts tonight, as they do every night, and there
was a fellow who was heading to the football game
this weekend. The Patriots are playing in Florida, and he
purchased tickets. He's going to go down and watch the
Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have added on Sunday.
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He's concerned about how does he get back here. Well,
I guess you can always rent a car and drive
from Florida. But that's pretty inconvenient, would you say, because
not only are you going to roll up the expenses
of ready the car, but I don't think anyone's going
to drive all the way from Florida to Boston or
New England without spending a night or two at hotels
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along the way, which will increase. Then you got to
call in sick out of work. I mean, most employers
should underst I'd love to know from you if you
are are thinking about this or are you just saying yourself,
guess what, It's not going to affect me because at Thanksgiving,
I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about you. Because
at Thanksgiving you're going to go to your family's gathering spot,
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which is twenty miles from your house, of thirty miles
from your house to getting your cry on your drive
in the morning. But what if you had planned to
fly halfway across the country to Minneapolis, or to Texas,
or to any other point in between and spent Thanksgiving. Now,
this indecision and this crisis, which has maybe not affected
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you in any way, shape or form, now has the
potential to impact you. So I want to open up
lines and give people an opportunity and if you want
to weigh in as to how this should be resolved.
You have politicians who most of them are still getting paid,
so they're not feeling the crunch, and that has been
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mentioned by several callers to me and also by several emailers.
They are not impacted adversely by this. Now I assume
that yeah, they fly back and forth to their home districts,
but many of them may live within an automobile rides
distance of Washington, not all of them. Obviously, many of
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them might say, look, we're going to stay here in
Washington and wait it out. There are some political leaders
elected officials who have said they're not accepting their paychecks
most What that means is they're putting them in a
trust account so that when the matter gets resolved, they
then will get their money. I don't think anyone is
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losing paychecks or losing funds who are elected officials. So
whole bunch of issues here, and I would love to
talk to people who now find themselves saying, Okay, it
is November. We're about one hour away for less than
an hour away from November seventh. Thanksgiving is late this month,
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which is I guess a good thing at this point
because Thanksgiving is three weeks from today. And if you're
going to travel home for Thanksgiving, well you don't travel
primarily on Thanksgiving. So you have twenty one days to
twenty one days from right now twenty beginning tomorrow, the
family gather, your family gathers for Thanksgiving. Oh, you go
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back and you meet your college friends or whatever you do.
You don't have you have about eighteen days here. When
you think about it, If you've made reservations and you
have airfare already, airline tickets. Will the plane that you
have booked will that fly or not? Ten percent of
the planes apparently until the government maybe more if the
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government shut down continues longer, Might it be more. I
don't know. I think it's going to be very interesting
when this, assuming that the shutdown doesn't happen quickly, and
I don't think there's any indication that it is that
it's imminent. I'd love to know what you think and
what your plans are. Do you have contingency plans or
do you say to yourself, you know what, I don't
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get home. I don't get home. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Those lines are full. The only line I
have open right now is six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. Jump on board. Let's have a conversation
and and not everyone's going to be affected by this,
but a lot more people are going to feel the
brunt of the problem in the next few days, assuming
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this continues. Back on nights, side phone calls coming up next,
and let's fill the lines and let's have a let's
have a good conversation on this, because if the politicians
can't figure it out. Maybe we can figure it out.
Probably not, but let's give it a try back on
Nightside after.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This, It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, the only lines open are six one, seven, nine thirty,
so don't bruise your knuckles or your fingers by trying
to dial six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
Those are full. Let me start it off with my
friend David from San Francisco. David, welcome back to Nightside.
How are you well?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Don't you that bad?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't particularly fly, but I noticed that San Francisco's
on the list, but Silicon Valley is not. And since
Trump is really invested in crypto, so let's bet that
Peter Thiel and Project twenty twenty five are going to.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Be Before you go off here, let me just let me,
let me try to I want to have a conversation
with you, David. Okay, San Francisco is listed because of
the airport SFO right, that's yeah, that's San Francisco. So
people who work in Silicon Valley, what airports did they
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fly out of? I assume it's San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Santa Clara, Santa Clara how many?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How many? And again, I've flown in and out of
San Francisco many times. I'm familiar with San Francisco. How
many flights do you get from, say Santa Clara directed
to New York or Boston.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Probably not many, is the point. So what I'm saying
is if I don't think, I know, you're trying to
make a reach here and you're somehow trying to figure out.
But look, your Boston is on the list. Every major
airport in the country's on the list. Reagan National is
on the list, b b W I, Baltimore, Philadelphia, all
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the New York airports, Houston, Miami, Dallas. I mean, if
you're gonna cut back flights, you don't go to John
Wayne International Airport in Ontario, California, Dario, California and say, well,
you have to cut back five percent of your flights
because they probably don't have that many flights.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But it's pretty clear that you know, since the government
it's shutdown is based upon the Epstein files, Donald Trump is.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The government shutdown is not based upon the Epstein files.
I mean, let's be realistic, David, which group of senators
are voting to open the government, and which group of
senators generally have been voting to keep the government closed?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, which congresswoman is not being sworn in?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's my question for us that I'll answer yours.
Which group of US senators, the Republicans or Democrats, have
voted fourteen times to open the government and which group
have voted fourteen times to keep the government closed? Because
I would think, well, I think you Democrats, you're spinning it.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Dan.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Isn't this about the DOGE cuts? And that if they
agree to open the government, it's just has to do with.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
David. I'm not going to let you hijack the show. Okay.
This is when David calls, and I always go out
of my way to try to allow him to say
whatever he wants to say. He's going to somehow related
to the Epstein files. If it was related to the
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Epstein files, David, you moron, The Democrats would be voting
to open the government yesterday, last week, a month ago.
It's the Republicans who are voting to open the government.
It's the Democrats who are voting to close the government.
It's the Democrats who are not willing to sit down
and have this conversation. They want the Republicans to agree
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that they will concede on all the points that the
Democrats want in order just to have the negotiation. David,
you know, this was probably one of you worst phone calls.
I mean, you've never been a good caller to this show.
I always try to treat you with respect and give
you an opportunity. But your act is wearing thin. It's
as simple as that, let me go next to that
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line has now been filled, David. I got a better
caller who's stepping in for you. But that's okay. We're
gonna go to gonna go to Will on Long Island. Will.
I'm a patient person. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Listen, Dan, you start you're starting to sound like me
a little bit there. But I can understand you losing
your temper with someone like that. I mean, listen, what
I'm losing my temper with.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, what I'm losing my temper with is that
Rob doesn't have his finger on the plank as soon
as this guy is on.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You know, I got We've heard him, Paul. I've heard
him call many times over the years, and he really
has not just a biased opinion, just a superficial idiotic
opinion like people. You know, when you say all opinions
are equals, they're not all equals.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No, I don't say that. All I say I try
to respect as best, all welcome you're all opinions because
because that's the way I try to run this show,
will uh. And there are sometimes when you and I disagree,
but you always stay within, you stay on within the
rails of the road, you know.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Dan, I can be.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I am.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I am obviously a little bit more you know, extreme
than you, It's obvious. And you are much nicer and kinder.
And like I said, you like Charlie kirk socratic method.
I listen to guys like that, and I'm like your
own narrative here that nobody's talking about. Nobody, not even
their side, is saying that this chuckdown is related to
the steam files. They're saying that they want to fund healthcare,
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and the Republicans are saying, we don't want to give
you money to pay for legal immigrants, and we know
what goes.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There and what and what the Democrats are saying essentially,
and the Republicans have not gotten this message out. What
the Democrats are saying is we will vote to open
the government and we will negotiate with you. But before
we vote to open the government, there's three or four
things here that you have to commit to, right, which.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Is basically you're holding us hostage.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
We understand what a shutdown is.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's amazing how many times when the Republicans did it,
you know, they always but it's the Republican just opened
the governments and this and that, and now that they're
doing it, it's somehow still they would blame the Republicans
even though you had a clean appropriations. But he could
have voted on and you guys could have been arguing
this until the twenty second and you could have had
all your debates in front of the whole country to watch,
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and you could have said how important healthcare is, and
you could have and you could have fought it out
and possibly had another extension to find a way to
fund the government and keep fighting about it. But no,
you didn't, and it would have been funded.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I'd love to get you a take on this,
because I think what the president.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yes, I'm being.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Very affective, I'm being very effective.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, hold on for a second. I want to get that,
but I want to ask you one question. I think
President Trump is wrong when he's telling these senators to
blow up the filibuster. I think that the filibuster rule
UH should remain. It was Harry Reid that blew it
up dealing with federal judges a long time ago. That
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was a yeah, we have this in order to have
some balance. If the Republicans can't get sixty senators, I
guess they have Fetterman. I don't know if I think
I've heard that Durbin was thinking about going over and
Schumer summoned him to his office. And you know, there
should be some Democrats who would be reasonable and say, look,
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let's let's let's get this. What do you want. I
want to see the people who are are are on
the Snap benefits program. I want to see them get
the money. I don't want fraud, but I want people
who are in need to get their money because that's
part my part of my taxes go for that. And
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I don't want a bunch of Democrats. I don't want
Warren and Marky basically preventing my money going to help
people who need help.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, listen, let's face it, a lot of the people
that are on Snap Benefits of voting Democrat and they're
literally hurting their own constituents by trying to make a
political stance.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So it was also Catharine Clark up here was a congresswoman.
She's number three. She said, well, a lot of people
have are feeling pain, but that's the only leverage we have.
That's what Clark, a congress woman from Massachusetts, number three
in the leadership change, said, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Will right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Imagine a Republican said that what they'd be saying. And
not only that, A lot of federal employees of which
my wife is one, and she's furloughed and has a
very nice government job, okay, a very important government job, okay,
and it's furloughed. So our family is hurt in that area.
And on top of that, I'm leaving for Columbia Sunday morning. Okay,
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I'm leaving at a JFK airport Sunday morning. Now, I'm
not as worried about getting there. If you don't get
me there, fine, I'm more worried about being stuck.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
There, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I'm more worried about being stuck in South America with
a president that is fighting with our president. Our president
wants to bomb this guy, and I'm going to be stuck.
And and Columbia, South America.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Hold on, I thought he wants to bomb Venezuela. Does
he want to bomb Colombia too?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
No, But but Venezuela and in Colombia, which were always
at odds with each other, now they're falling in the
same camp and supporting the same people. And the president
Gustavo Patro has been coming out saying some horrible things
about Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And you know how Donald Trump is.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
He doesn't let little third world dictators say horrible things
about him.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He made this I literally send his plane, Remember when
he made him send He made this guy, Gustavo Patro,
send his plane, his own plane to come pick up
the illegal Colombians that he had here to send them home.
The guy literally sent his presidential plane to get them.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, And I think the president of Globby was trying
to make a statement there. That was my interpretation of it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
But maybe and listen, if you know anything about the politics,
you know it's not a very safe place for me
to be in. It's certainly not a safe place for
me to be stuck down there and not knowing if
I'm being able to get home because the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
To ask you a question. And again, if I'm asking
a question that you can't answer, fine, are you going
down there for pleasure of business? I assume business.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I always go and have you know, I do visit
a lot of things and see things. I speak Spanish fluently.
I do a lot of things when I'm there. I
own property there. I'm going mostly for business, but I
am going with my family. I'm going with my children.
I'm visiting family. I'm going to be in a scary,
possible place. And you know, this place was a safe place.
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It's less safe with him as president, and with all
of this going on. And then when you're doing business there,
there's a reason why I have to get there and
get it done because a lot of people like me,
Americans that have money in this country, Europetans that have
money in this country. We're looking to lee because if
he gets elected again, we won't believe the integrity of
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their elections. With how poorly he's doing, we're not going
to believe it, especially if he gets the Maduro style election.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, well, I wish you. I wish you was safe trip.
I certainly would think about maybe delaying the trip. I
don't think this. I've been wrong before. I think this
government shutdown has gone on way too long, and I
would hope that some Democratic senators would come to their senses.
I wish Joe Manchin was still in the Senate. I
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think he would be back to back.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
With I wish Joe Manchin was the president. To tell
you the truth, if I was going to vote for
a Democrat, it would have been a Joe Mansion style Democrat.
I wish that some of them would come back to
the party, which is why I hate the fact that
they leave. Somebody needs to fix this party. We can't
have med Manny's running around leading the Democrat Party because
then we'll just wind up with just a crazy party
and just one other party. We can't have that anymore.
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We need two solid parties. I need to be able
vote Democrat again. I feel like I'm forced into a camp.
I don't belonging, Like I'm gonna tribe. I do not
belong in all right, Dan, take any man. Thank you
call you when I get back, hopefully up safe.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, do me a favor. Please do call me when
you get back, and if if you're able to call
ill you're able to call it from there. If you
run into problems, you know, give me a call and
I can always try to reach out.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I'll get you on the phone. Is they call Trump
and tell him that I love him and I voted
for him, Maybe he'll come save me if he knows
that I like him, if I have a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Because that would be the way I would go to
get you out of here. If that's okay? Will all right?
Take anyway? I have people. I have people six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
There'll always be people who would be willing to go
down and pull you out. Uh. I want to know,
is this disrupting your plans? I kind imagine anyone who's
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facing a decision as difficult as will and Long Island.
But maybe you are six one seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty
if you have travel plans, What are you doing? What
adjustments are you making? I guess some of the airlines
are telling people get backup tickets on another flight. That's insane.
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That's absolutely insane. This is not the way this country
should be functioning. Who do you blame. Feel free to
bring it on coming back on nightside. I'm more interested
in your stories those of you who have plans. I
mean this. You know, you make plans and you're gonna
meet with family, and now you don't know if you
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can get back home. Join the conversation back after this.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
With Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Just a couple of programming notes real quickly here. Tomorrow
night at nine o'clock, we're going to take on the
issue of what President Trump is doing with the Venezuelan
drug boats. We have a college professor who's coming in
who is studying that, and we will talk him at
nine o'clock. And then tomorrow night we will talk with
a woman who we had earlier this week. Her name
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is doctor Chloe Carmichael, and she has written a book
that we talked about earlier this week, Why Free Speech Matters.
And of course we'll have our twentieth hour tomorrow night.
Not exactly sure what we'll talk about, we'll try to
do something interesting and fun. And in addition, I will
remind you that on Monday night at eight o'clock, we
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will have two incredible admissions deans. The Dean at Harvard
with us for the nineteenth year we've done this college
admissions panel show. If you have anyone in your family
on the cusp of applying to colleges, whether you're a
grandparent or a parent, it's a son or a daughter,
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or a gr grandson, granddaughter, niece, nephew, they should be listening.
You should be to Bill Fitzsimmons, the longtime dean of
admissions at Harvard, and Grant Goslin, the dean of Admissions.
And again the titles are a little bit different. I'll
have the titles for you at Boston College. Again, such
important information and they they do it at the busiest
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time of the year. It's a real honor to have
the two of them on the air with me on
Monday ninety eight o'clock. So that is uh, that is
appointment Radio. It's as simple as that. Let's get back
to the calls. Let me go to Bill and Danvers.
Bill you are next one night, said welcome.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Yes, Dan, I think, uh, you know, I know they
have these these call outs, you know, and Duffy's managing
and I think the best they can by, you know,
doing this thing with the airspace to try to be proactive,
you know, safety wise, you know, of course, I think
that's the point. But uh, and I think.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Overall the trends, I think you're doing a very.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Good job compared to the guy that was there before.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
But if they just did I don't know if you
called the blue flu or whatever, but if they did
the airports around Washington, d C. And that would really
affect the politicians in the staffs too, So that would
really maybe this thing would end a lot quicker, you know,
and they'll let them start feeling it, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, No, I understand that. And I'm sure that the
average person those airports are going to be impacted BWY
in Baltimore, Washington, Baltimore Washington International, as well as Reagan Airport.
I'm sure Dallas at the same time, it could. There's
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no reason this should be going on, in my opinion now,
I think the Democrats have messaged this better than the Republicans,
and I think a lot of people assume it's the Republicans.
It's not. And I also think it has to do
with a lot of people just don't understand what the
filibuster and cloture mean and why the Republicans who have
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fifty three Senators. In order to force the issue to
a vote on the floor, they have to get seven Democrats,
and they're not even close at this point. The Democrats
are voting to keep the government closed. The Republicans are
voting uniformly.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
They yeah, Angus, King and Maine, and they had some
other one too, I don't know, maybe the one from Nevada,
I think of them.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think Senator Rosen maybe was mentioned. Well, what happens.
It's almost like a little bit of a shell game.
Fetterman clearly wants to open the government, and I say,
hats off to John Fetterman. Rand Paul apparently is the
one Republican who's off the Republicans reservation. So you don't
have fifty three, you only have fifty two. But yeah,
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I mean, I don't understand it. It seems to me
that we are such a bitterly divided nation. Hey, bottom
line is Trump was elected president, and whether you like
him or not, he is your president. I didn't particularly
like Joe Biden, but Joe Biden was my president for
four long years, simple as that. But there are people
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on the other side at this point deny in their
mind that they're in a fantasy land. Okay, if you
live in New York, I don't care who you are.
Mamdani is the mayor elect of New York. Deal with it.
Deal with it, okay, same way. I just think that
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I just think we as a country don't realize how
lucky we are that we have elections. There are people
around the world where people are being slaughtered because of
their religion, and we see what goes on in the
Middle East. There there's a lot of real greedy people
in this country. And I'm not talking about greedy money wise. Necessarily,
there are successful people, and some of those successful people
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are greedy, and they probably want more money than anyone
has a right to. Witness what's going on with Elon.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Musk and I do fly like probably three maybe some
years for a time. In fact, I'm going to go
to Columbia the end of January twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I'll believing, well, you can, you can get up with
Will from Long Island. If Will doesn't get out of there,
you can you can bring down some.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well you know, buddies of mine, and said, he sure
you want to go. And I've been sort of playing
for a year. Usually I usually end of January I mean,
I've been in panama A Costa Rica before, I've been
the Dominican several times. I've even gone out to Hawaii.
But you know, Columbia has been on the list, you know,
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and I wanted to go now because you know, like
he said that president, he could get elected, and who
knows after that what happens could turn into Venezuela. It'd
be terrible because it's it's made such a comeback from
the nineties. Dan, you know what I mean, And uh,
it'd be terrible to go backwards. But look at New York.
They're going to stay.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
They're going safe. That's all I hear. Don't want to
lose you as a listener.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Okay, Yeah, So well if I get stuck down there,
if I could listen on the because I get it
through the internet, they get down there, give.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Me a call again if you if you need, if
you need to get out like I got people.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay, all right, sounds good Dan, All right, thanks Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Ha great. Now, I'm only joking when I say that,
so please don't take me at my word here. But uh,
there were ways to get people out. Believe that they were. Look,
they got people out of Afghanistan. I mean, under even
worse circumstances, you might have to pay for though, realize
that it might might be a puppy run.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Hey, yeah, that's the way it is down there. Anytime
I travel to carry a certain I carry a backup wall,
and then I carry a thing of fire, and I
wish talk to everybody. I first went down one time.
I'm not gonna name the country, but the guys were
all there, the police or the military. Guys. My Spanish
isn't bad. I talked to him. I gave him twenty
bucks a piece and bottom lunch, and they escorted.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Me, how about that?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now you're talking. Now you're talking. You're making friends from
making friends? Simple? Is that? I gotta run. I gotta run,
Thanks Bill, Thank you soon. Where are we gonna go
next year? Let me get John in Boston in here, John,
want to get you in here before the break? Right ahead?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thanks Dan. First of all, they guy David said that
you were spinning the question. He told you asked some
simple question here. It was the Democrats, the Republicans, they
will hold this up, very simple, Dan, Like you said,
fourteen times Republicans were voted to open up the government
and the Democrats voted against it, and before under Biden
they voted thirteen times to vote to keep it open.
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So Chuck Schumer, the Senator who threatened Kavanaugh, which going
to reach the whirlwind well right now, parts and pots
boiling something.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Schumer. Schumer is looking older and more haggard, and with
Nancy Pelosi now exiting stage left, I think Schumer should
be thinking about following because AOC is definitely going to
take him out next July. Next June when they have
the Senate primary in New York, put your money on
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AOC as well.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And again Schumer has no respect in Jeffrey Sue for
the citizens of this country. This twenty until Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
we get to what that means. Basically, people they're preparing
for Thanksgiving now, the restaurants, hotels, and he's gonna hold
the country hostage. It's costing billions of dollars. I just
keep him logan the airport and I'm picking up someone Dan,
a friend, and it's the delays we're Unbelieva was costing
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billions of dollars for him to hold hostes for one
point five trillion dollars for a health care for illegals.
Schuman's gonna hold the country hostage. The pot's boiling. Chuck,
we get two weeks, and you know what, there's forty
two million people right now that are on there wait
for that snap assistance. So when they don't get it,
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there's gonna be forty two million people two weeks for now.
Dan really upset at Chuck Schumer and Jeffries. People need
to know it's the Democrats, Chuck Schumer the leader, and
Jeffries that's holding this up from you getting your assistance
because President Trump and the Republicans voted for you to
get it, and they keep voting it down. Be very
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clear about that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And and well, you know, technically, let's let's be accurate.
Let's President Trump has advocated, he hasn't, he doesn't have
a vote in this. He certainly would be willing to
sign what would have been willing to sign the continuing Resolution,
the clean continuing Resolution. But what the Democrats are saying,
we will vote to open the government if you agree
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to A B, C and D and you know before
before we vote to open and then we'll have negotiations. Well,
if the Republicans agree to ABC and D, there's nothing
to negotiate. I mean, it's insane. And by the way,
the national news media is not presenting an accurate picture
to the American public. It's as simple as absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
The lion Dan and the call before they were talking
about Venezuela and Columbia. You know, VENNISI Whela and Columbia
directly responsible for our citizens. One hundred thousand every year
died from obidoses, YEP and gang violence, gang violence and oberdopses.
Loose countries need to be held the honiblefore our citizens dying.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yet, I'm with you totally, John, I'm with you totally. John,
A passionate phone call. I thank you for it, but
I got a roll here because I'm I'm getting killed
on time, So let's uh, let's talk again real soon. Okay,
you did, Thanks John, appreciate your call very much. Have
a great one. Good call. We'll take a break. I
got a couple of more lines if you want to
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jump in. We're going to have to move a little
bit more quickly. Six one seven thirty six one seven nine.
We got Patrick coming up in Charlestown. Nick is in Winchester.
I both know both of them. They're good callers, if
you've never called before, feel free, feel free let us
know what you think. You can disagree with me, just
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let's keep it playing. Don't be David from San Francisco,
because David from San Francisco. Trump is living in David's
head free of charge. And I don't know what's going
on in David's head either. He's uh, he is. He's
a one note guy. And you know, I try to
treat him decently. I try to be polite to him.
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I try to welcome him every time, and it always
ends up the same way. Back on nights Side, got
a couple of open lines. Join us.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm gonna get everybody and let me go to Patrick
and Charlestown. Patrick, welcome back.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
How are you Dan? How are you doing, Buddies.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm doing fine, actually tonight, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Dan, Dan, Dan and Kentucky. A couple of days ago,
an engine sell off a plane. I saw that, an
engine sell off a plane. Why in the world would
anybody want to fly right now under the conditions we
have the maintenance cruise. I don't know who's hiring them.
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I don't I don't believe in them anymore. Well, I
think at this point you pick your favorite movie line.
This is like Clint Eastwood, you fail, Lucky Hunk, you
want to fly?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
This makes I mean we have I mean what four
or five days ago Logan Airport we had uh, we
had a flight coming in almost smashed into a Cape
Air flight. I think the jet was one hundred and
twenty five feet off the ground.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I mean, who are who are.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
We hiring for our air traffic controls these days? We
had another what this summer in a jet blue airplane
go off the runway of Logan.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
More than more than a few near misses obviously last
January with the helicopter that uh, that was flying at
the wrong level and and and wiped out the plane
that took so many lives from Boston. I mean, we
forget about it. But that's like last January. I mean,
we have a short attention span here. And and you raised,
you raised great points, Patrick, I mean that that shot
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of that plane, I mean, how can that happen? Up?
An engine falls off a plane? What are we talking about?
Somebody didn't you know we've had We've had planes, planes,
weren't properly de Ice. We've had human error. We have
to make sure that these planes are in top condition.
That plane spent I guess two or three months being
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reconditioned before it flew up to Louisville. It was somewhere
in Dallas or Houston, somewhere in Texas for like three
or four months.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
It just came I just I think it just came
back online and not told us so. But we don't
know what happened, so I don't want to speculate, but
I mean, obviously the props in me in time to
this thing coming off, we know.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
We know the result. That video was frightening. Patrick, I
got a couple more. I'm going to try to sneak in.
Thank you. My friend has.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Always so fly drive everybody.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm with you with your dad. Nick is in Winchester. Nick,
you're next on nightside. Go right ahead, SIRP How you doing,
Dan doing okay? Nick? What's what's on your mind tonight? No?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I won't be traveling, but I am affected by this
whole Washington circulation because I want to, uh, well, I'm
make a point blank. I'm a Snap recipient and I
had no money on my card. So I want to
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market Basket to grab a couple of things, and the
guy comes up in front of me and swipes his
cordway to the thing. The manager of the store knew
my situation and he paid for my groceries.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Good for you, Nick, I am delighted to hear that.
I am delighted to hear that. And again, I'm holding
Governor Heliot fault. We have an eight point eight billion
dollar rainy day fund.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
She could pull the uncalled fault Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I mean you know, I've talked about that, and
she's refusing and and and she's complicit in this as well,
with the Democrats causing pain to people unnecessarily.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Nick, Keep keep in touch the.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
Other best program, best show on this side of the Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well, thank you, man, I appreciate that. Keep in touch, Okay,
keep in touch. There were ways in which we can
help out people here, so keep in touch.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Okay, Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Thanks Nick, talk to you so good night. I was
in market Basket today as well. Linda in Weymouth. Linda,
thanks for checking in. I got a minute or so
maybe two for you. Go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
Okay, Dan, how are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Better? Tonight? We've had some spirited conversation, which is what
this show is all about.
Speaker 10 (37:34):
And you have Yeah, I have so many.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
People who understand what's going on, and then I have
someone like David from San Francisco who somehow tries to
hijack the show every time, and I'm polite to him,
and I'm beginning to lose my patience.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
Go right ahead, Well, I am in total agreement with you.
And we all know that it is a Democrat reason.
The media really isn't telling the truth about it, and the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Mainstream if you watch the nightly newscast, they don't even
touch this at all. And and and that is just
so unfair to everybody. And there are still people who
rely upon, you know, the the nightly news shows. The
only one that I can watch at this point is CBS,
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not CBS's ABC toos. And even there, I feel that
so much of it is there's been a huge problem.
We'll tell you about that later. You won't believe who
died today. We'll show you the picture of the dead person.
And it's like everything is ts ts ts. They these network,
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these network TV shows need to get their act together
and hopefully Barry Weiss at CBS is going to change
things with CBS in my opinion.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yeah, well, my my question to you is how long
can this actually go on? And shouldn't there be some
way that the president could step in and do something
about this.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
The only thing they can do is break the filibuster.
If the Democrats won't participate, this should be laid at
the feet of the Democrats. They could break the philipbuster
and basically just on a majority vote in the Senate,
but that's a dangerous president for either party. The Democrats
did it with Harry Reid back a few years ago
dealing with federal judges. Linda, I got a run. I
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know that you always call late, and I thank you
if you call and mentally not a problem. We got
you in. Thanks Linda, to talk to you soon, Rob Brooks.
Other than not getting the plank on time for David,
he did a great job tonight. I want to thank
everybody who called, those of you who listened. I will
be on nightside with Dan Ray in just a moment.
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
my pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
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That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
see them again. David in San Francisco. I'm not sure
about have a great fraud. Hey everyone, see you tomorrow
night or nights out. I'll see you on Facebook. Nice hour,
Dan ran a couple of minutes
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, thank you very much, Al Griffin. As we head
into our fourth and final hour. Interesting, I thought that
there would have been more people interested in talking to
my guest last hour. He handled himself quite well, and
my suspicion is that that might not be as controversial
a move as originally it appeared to be. We'll have
(00:30):
to see how that we will follow along that. Now,
I want to talk about something that not all of
us are going to face, but many of us might
face in the days and weeks ahead. So I think
all of you know. The government shutdown is now, I
guess in its thirty seventh day, longer shutdown in the
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history of government shutdowns. We've had several in recent years.
And I'm not so much interested in the power politics
of it, because frankly, I don't think my audience is
interested in the politics of it. It obviously is impacting
a lot of people in a lot of ways, people
who are in need of snap funds. It appears that
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it's now, if I'm not mistaken, it is November the sixth,
So we're now six months into November, and there are
probably many people now who have no money on their
SNAP card, which means they, in theory, unless they have
saved some money somewhere or earned some money somewhere, that
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they do not have money to get out and purchase
the necessities of life. And in this case, we're talking
about food, and we have talked about that, but now
there's an entire another group of people who are going
to be affected. Not only is it SNAP recipients, not
only is it federal employees who members of the military
(02:01):
who may not be receiving their paychecks, but now the
traveling public, people who rely on getting from point A
to point B and use airlines. As of today, there
have been cutbacks at airports around the country and every
day apparently those cutbacks will increase by about one percent
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four percent today, one percent tomorrow, another one percent on Friday,
another one percent Saturday Sunday. Until next week, ten percent
of the regularly scheduled airline flights will be off the board.
They each of the major airlines and the minor airlines
are going to have to cancel air travel. So that
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presents a dilemma, a big dilemma if you are someone
who is planning to go somewhere in the next I
don't know, you know, the next month or so. I
don't know how long the shutdown is going to continue.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm wondering if
already people are changing plans. I watched a couple of
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the newscasts tonight, as they do every night, and there
was a fellow who was heading to the football game
this weekend. The Patriots are playing in Florida, and he
purchased tickets. He's going to go down and watch the
Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have added on Sunday.
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He's concerned about how does he get back here. Well,
I guess you can always rent a car and drive
from Florida. But that's pretty inconvenient, would you say, because
not only are you going to roll up the expenses
of ready the car, but I don't think anyone's going
to drive all the way from Florida to Boston or
New England without spending a night or two at hotels
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along the way, which will increase. Then you got to
call in sick out of work. I mean, most employers
should underst I'd love to know from you if you
are are thinking about this or are you just saying yourself,
guess what, It's not going to affect me because at Thanksgiving,
I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about you. Because
at Thanksgiving you're going to go to your family's gathering spot,
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which is twenty miles from your house, of thirty miles
from your house to getting your cry on your drive
in the morning. But what if you had planned to
fly halfway across the country to Minneapolis, or to Texas,
or to any other point in between and spent Thanksgiving. Now,
this indecision and this crisis, which has maybe not affected
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you in any way, shape or form, now has the
potential to impact you. So I want to open up
lines and give people an opportunity and if you want
to weigh in as to how this should be resolved.
You have politicians who most of them are still getting paid,
so they're not feeling the crunch, and that has been
(05:03):
mentioned by several callers to me and also by several emailers.
They are not impacted adversely by this. Now I assume
that yeah, they fly back and forth to their home districts,
but many of them may live within an automobile rides
distance of Washington, not all of them. Obviously, many of
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them might say, look, we're going to stay here in
Washington and wait it out. There are some political leaders
elected officials who have said they're not accepting their paychecks
most What that means is they're putting them in a
trust account so that when the matter gets resolved, they
then will get their money. I don't think anyone is
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losing paychecks or losing funds who are elected officials. So
whole bunch of issues here, and I would love to
talk to people who now find themselves saying, Okay, it
is November. We're about one hour away for less than
an hour away from November seventh. Thanksgiving is late this month,
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which is I guess a good thing at this point
because Thanksgiving is three weeks from today. And if you're
going to travel home for Thanksgiving, well you don't travel
primarily on Thanksgiving. So you have twenty one days to
twenty one days from right now twenty beginning tomorrow, the
family gather, your family gathers for Thanksgiving. Oh, you go
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back and you meet your college friends or whatever you do.
You don't have you have about eighteen days here. When
you think about it, If you've made reservations and you
have airfare already, airline tickets. Will the plane that you
have booked will that fly or not? Ten percent of
the planes apparently until the government maybe more if the
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government shut down continues longer, Might it be more. I
don't know. I think it's going to be very interesting
when this, assuming that the shutdown doesn't happen quickly, and
I don't think there's any indication that it is that
it's imminent. I'd love to know what you think and
what your plans are. Do you have contingency plans or
do you say to yourself, you know what, I don't
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get home. I don't get home. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Those lines are full. The only line I
have open right now is six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. Jump on board. Let's have a conversation
and and not everyone's going to be affected by this,
but a lot more people are going to feel the
brunt of the problem in the next few days, assuming
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this continues. Back on nights, side phone calls coming up next,
and let's fill the lines and let's have a let's
have a good conversation on this, because if the politicians
can't figure it out. Maybe we can figure it out.
Probably not, but let's give it a try back on
Nightside after.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This, It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, the only lines open are six one, seven, nine thirty,
so don't bruise your knuckles or your fingers by trying
to dial six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
Those are full. Let me start it off with my
friend David from San Francisco. David, welcome back to Nightside.
How are you well?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Don't you that bad?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Dan?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't particularly fly, but I noticed that San Francisco's
on the list, but Silicon Valley is not. And since
Trump is really invested in crypto, so let's bet that
Peter Thiel and Project twenty twenty five are going to.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Be Before you go off here, let me just let me,
let me try to I want to have a conversation
with you, David. Okay, San Francisco is listed because of
the airport SFO right, that's yeah, that's San Francisco. So
people who work in Silicon Valley, what airports did they
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fly out of? I assume it's San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Santa Clara, Santa Clara how many?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How many? And again, I've flown in and out of
San Francisco many times. I'm familiar with San Francisco. How
many flights do you get from, say Santa Clara directed
to New York or Boston.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Probably not many, is the point. So what I'm saying
is if I don't think, I know, you're trying to
make a reach here and you're somehow trying to figure out.
But look, your Boston is on the list. Every major
airport in the country's on the list. Reagan National is
on the list, b b W I, Baltimore, Philadelphia, all
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the New York airports, Houston, Miami, Dallas. I mean, if
you're gonna cut back flights, you don't go to John
Wayne International Airport in Ontario, California, Dario, California and say, well,
you have to cut back five percent of your flights
because they probably don't have that many flights.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But it's pretty clear that you know, since the government
it's shutdown is based upon the Epstein files, Donald Trump is.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The government shutdown is not based upon the Epstein files.
I mean, let's be realistic, David, which group of senators
are voting to open the government, and which group of
senators generally have been voting to keep the government closed?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, which congresswoman is not being sworn in?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's my question for us that I'll answer yours.
Which group of US senators, the Republicans or Democrats, have
voted fourteen times to open the government and which group
have voted fourteen times to keep the government closed? Because
I would think, well, I think you Democrats, you're spinning it.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Dan.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Isn't this about the DOGE cuts? And that if they
agree to open the government, it's just has to do with.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
David. I'm not going to let you hijack the show. Okay.
This is when David calls, and I always go out
of my way to try to allow him to say
whatever he wants to say. He's going to somehow related
to the Epstein files. If it was related to the
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Epstein files, David, you moron, The Democrats would be voting
to open the government yesterday, last week, a month ago.
It's the Republicans who are voting to open the government.
It's the Democrats who are voting to close the government.
It's the Democrats who are not willing to sit down
and have this conversation. They want the Republicans to agree
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that they will concede on all the points that the
Democrats want in order just to have the negotiation. David,
you know, this was probably one of you worst phone calls.
I mean, you've never been a good caller to this show.
I always try to treat you with respect and give
you an opportunity. But your act is wearing thin. It's
as simple as that, let me go next to that
(12:13):
line has now been filled, David. I got a better
caller who's stepping in for you. But that's okay. We're
gonna go to gonna go to Will on Long Island. Will.
I'm a patient person. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Listen, Dan, you start you're starting to sound like me
a little bit there. But I can understand you losing
your temper with someone like that. I mean, listen, what
I'm losing my temper with.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know, what I'm losing my temper with is that
Rob doesn't have his finger on the plank as soon
as this guy is on.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
You know, I got We've heard him, Paul. I've heard
him call many times over the years, and he really
has not just a biased opinion, just a superficial idiotic
opinion like people. You know, when you say all opinions
are equals, they're not all equals.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No, I don't say that. All I say I try
to respect as best, all welcome you're all opinions because
because that's the way I try to run this show,
will uh. And there are sometimes when you and I disagree,
but you always stay within, you stay on within the
rails of the road, you know.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Dan, I can be.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I am.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I am obviously a little bit more you know, extreme
than you, It's obvious. And you are much nicer and kinder.
And like I said, you like Charlie kirk socratic method.
I listen to guys like that, and I'm like your
own narrative here that nobody's talking about. Nobody, not even
their side, is saying that this chuckdown is related to
the steam files. They're saying that they want to fund healthcare,
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and the Republicans are saying, we don't want to give
you money to pay for legal immigrants, and we know
what goes.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There and what and what the Democrats are saying essentially,
and the Republicans have not gotten this message out. What
the Democrats are saying is we will vote to open
the government and we will negotiate with you. But before
we vote to open the government, there's three or four
things here that you have to commit to, right, which.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Is basically you're holding us hostage.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
We understand what a shutdown is.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's amazing how many times when the Republicans did it,
you know, they always but it's the Republican just opened
the governments and this and that, and now that they're
doing it, it's somehow still they would blame the Republicans
even though you had a clean appropriations. But he could
have voted on and you guys could have been arguing
this until the twenty second and you could have had
all your debates in front of the whole country to watch,
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and you could have said how important healthcare is, and
you could have and you could have fought it out
and possibly had another extension to find a way to
fund the government and keep fighting about it. But no,
you didn't, and it would have been funded.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And I'd love to get you a take on this,
because I think what the president.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yes, I'm being.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Very affective, I'm being very effective.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, hold on for a second. I want to get that,
but I want to ask you one question. I think
President Trump is wrong when he's telling these senators to
blow up the filibuster. I think that the filibuster rule
UH should remain. It was Harry Reid that blew it
up dealing with federal judges a long time ago. That
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was a yeah, we have this in order to have
some balance. If the Republicans can't get sixty senators, I
guess they have Fetterman. I don't know if I think
I've heard that Durbin was thinking about going over and
Schumer summoned him to his office. And you know, there
should be some Democrats who would be reasonable and say, look,
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let's let's let's get this. What do you want. I
want to see the people who are are are on
the Snap benefits program. I want to see them get
the money. I don't want fraud, but I want people
who are in need to get their money because that's
part my part of my taxes go for that. And
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I don't want a bunch of Democrats. I don't want
Warren and Marky basically preventing my money going to help
people who need help.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, listen, let's face it, a lot of the people
that are on Snap Benefits of voting Democrat and they're
literally hurting their own constituents by trying to make a
political stance.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So it was also Catharine Clark up here was a congresswoman.
She's number three. She said, well, a lot of people
have are feeling pain, but that's the only leverage we have.
That's what Clark, a congress woman from Massachusetts, number three
in the leadership change, said, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Will right.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Imagine a Republican said that what they'd be saying. And
not only that, A lot of federal employees of which
my wife is one, and she's furloughed and has a
very nice government job, okay, a very important government job, okay,
and it's furloughed. So our family is hurt in that area.
And on top of that, I'm leaving for Columbia Sunday morning. Okay,
(16:53):
I'm leaving at a JFK airport Sunday morning. Now, I'm
not as worried about getting there. If you don't get
me there, fine, I'm more worried about being stuck.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
There, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I'm more worried about being stuck in South America with
a president that is fighting with our president. Our president
wants to bomb this guy, and I'm going to be stuck.
And and Columbia, South America.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Hold on, I thought he wants to bomb Venezuela. Does
he want to bomb Colombia too?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
No, But but Venezuela and in Colombia, which were always
at odds with each other, now they're falling in the
same camp and supporting the same people. And the president
Gustavo Patro has been coming out saying some horrible things
about Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
And you know how Donald Trump is.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
He doesn't let little third world dictators say horrible things
about him.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He made this I literally send his plane, Remember when
he made him send He made this guy, Gustavo Patro,
send his plane, his own plane to come pick up
the illegal Colombians that he had here to send them home.
The guy literally sent his presidential plane to get them.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, And I think the president of Globby was trying
to make a statement there. That was my interpretation of it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
But maybe and listen, if you know anything about the politics,
you know it's not a very safe place for me
to be in. It's certainly not a safe place for
me to be stuck down there and not knowing if
I'm being able to get home because the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
To ask you a question. And again, if I'm asking
a question that you can't answer, fine, are you going
down there for pleasure of business? I assume business.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I always go and have you know, I do visit
a lot of things and see things. I speak Spanish fluently.
I do a lot of things when I'm there. I
own property there. I'm going mostly for business, but I
am going with my family. I'm going with my children.
I'm visiting family. I'm going to be in a scary,
possible place. And you know, this place was a safe place.
(18:43):
It's less safe with him as president, and with all
of this going on. And then when you're doing business there,
there's a reason why I have to get there and
get it done because a lot of people like me,
Americans that have money in this country, Europetans that have
money in this country. We're looking to lee because if
he gets elected again, we won't believe the integrity of
(19:05):
their elections. With how poorly he's doing, we're not going
to believe it, especially if he gets the Maduro style election.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, well, I wish you. I wish you was safe trip.
I certainly would think about maybe delaying the trip. I
don't think this. I've been wrong before. I think this
government shutdown has gone on way too long, and I
would hope that some Democratic senators would come to their senses.
I wish Joe Manchin was still in the Senate. I
(19:33):
think he would be back to back.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
With I wish Joe Manchin was the president. To tell
you the truth, if I was going to vote for
a Democrat, it would have been a Joe Mansion style Democrat.
I wish that some of them would come back to
the party, which is why I hate the fact that
they leave. Somebody needs to fix this party. We can't
have med Manny's running around leading the Democrat Party because
then we'll just wind up with just a crazy party
and just one other party. We can't have that anymore.
(19:58):
We need two solid parties. I need to be able
vote Democrat again. I feel like I'm forced into a camp.
I don't belonging, Like I'm gonna tribe. I do not
belong in all right, Dan, take any man. Thank you
call you when I get back, hopefully up safe.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, do me a favor. Please do call me when
you get back, and if if you're able to call
ill you're able to call it from there. If you
run into problems, you know, give me a call and
I can always try to reach out.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I'll get you on the phone. Is they call Trump
and tell him that I love him and I voted
for him, Maybe he'll come save me if he knows
that I like him, if I have a problem.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Because that would be the way I would go to
get you out of here. If that's okay? Will all right?
Take anyway? I have people. I have people six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
There'll always be people who would be willing to go
down and pull you out. Uh. I want to know,
is this disrupting your plans? I kind imagine anyone who's
(20:49):
facing a decision as difficult as will and Long Island.
But maybe you are six one seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty
if you have travel plans, What are you doing? What
adjustments are you making? I guess some of the airlines
are telling people get backup tickets on another flight. That's insane.
(21:10):
That's absolutely insane. This is not the way this country
should be functioning. Who do you blame. Feel free to
bring it on coming back on nightside. I'm more interested
in your stories those of you who have plans. I
mean this. You know, you make plans and you're gonna
meet with family, and now you don't know if you
(21:32):
can get back home. Join the conversation back after this.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
With Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Just a couple of programming notes real quickly here. Tomorrow
night at nine o'clock, we're going to take on the
issue of what President Trump is doing with the Venezuelan
drug boats. We have a college professor who's coming in
who is studying that, and we will talk him at
nine o'clock. And then tomorrow night we will talk with
a woman who we had earlier this week. Her name
(22:06):
is doctor Chloe Carmichael, and she has written a book
that we talked about earlier this week, Why Free Speech Matters.
And of course we'll have our twentieth hour tomorrow night.
Not exactly sure what we'll talk about, we'll try to
do something interesting and fun. And in addition, I will
remind you that on Monday night at eight o'clock, we
(22:28):
will have two incredible admissions deans. The Dean at Harvard
with us for the nineteenth year we've done this college
admissions panel show. If you have anyone in your family
on the cusp of applying to colleges, whether you're a
grandparent or a parent, it's a son or a daughter,
(22:50):
or a gr grandson, granddaughter, niece, nephew, they should be listening.
You should be to Bill Fitzsimmons, the longtime dean of
admissions at Harvard, and Grant Goslin, the dean of Admissions.
And again the titles are a little bit different. I'll
have the titles for you at Boston College. Again, such
important information and they they do it at the busiest
(23:10):
time of the year. It's a real honor to have
the two of them on the air with me on
Monday ninety eight o'clock. So that is uh, that is
appointment Radio. It's as simple as that. Let's get back
to the calls. Let me go to Bill and Danvers.
Bill you are next one night, said welcome.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Yes, Dan, I think, uh, you know, I know they
have these these call outs, you know, and Duffy's managing
and I think the best they can by, you know,
doing this thing with the airspace to try to be proactive,
you know, safety wise, you know, of course, I think
that's the point. But uh, and I think.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Overall the trends, I think you're doing a very.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Good job compared to the guy that was there before.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
But if they just did I don't know if you
called the blue flu or whatever, but if they did
the airports around Washington, d C. And that would really
affect the politicians in the staffs too, So that would
really maybe this thing would end a lot quicker, you know,
and they'll let them start feeling it, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, No, I understand that. And I'm sure that the
average person those airports are going to be impacted BWY
in Baltimore, Washington, Baltimore Washington International, as well as Reagan Airport.
I'm sure Dallas at the same time, it could. There's
(24:27):
no reason this should be going on, in my opinion now,
I think the Democrats have messaged this better than the Republicans,
and I think a lot of people assume it's the Republicans.
It's not. And I also think it has to do
with a lot of people just don't understand what the
filibuster and cloture mean and why the Republicans who have
(24:48):
fifty three Senators. In order to force the issue to
a vote on the floor, they have to get seven Democrats,
and they're not even close at this point. The Democrats
are voting to keep the government closed. The Republicans are
voting uniformly.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
They yeah, Angus, King and Maine, and they had some
other one too, I don't know, maybe the one from Nevada,
I think of them.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think Senator Rosen maybe was mentioned. Well, what happens.
It's almost like a little bit of a shell game.
Fetterman clearly wants to open the government, and I say,
hats off to John Fetterman. Rand Paul apparently is the
one Republican who's off the Republicans reservation. So you don't
have fifty three, you only have fifty two. But yeah,
(25:37):
I mean, I don't understand it. It seems to me
that we are such a bitterly divided nation. Hey, bottom
line is Trump was elected president, and whether you like
him or not, he is your president. I didn't particularly
like Joe Biden, but Joe Biden was my president for
four long years, simple as that. But there are people
(25:59):
on the other side at this point deny in their
mind that they're in a fantasy land. Okay, if you
live in New York, I don't care who you are.
Mamdani is the mayor elect of New York. Deal with it.
Deal with it, okay, same way. I just think that
(26:20):
I just think we as a country don't realize how
lucky we are that we have elections. There are people
around the world where people are being slaughtered because of
their religion, and we see what goes on in the
Middle East. There there's a lot of real greedy people
in this country. And I'm not talking about greedy money wise. Necessarily,
there are successful people, and some of those successful people
(26:42):
are greedy, and they probably want more money than anyone
has a right to. Witness what's going on with Elon.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Musk and I do fly like probably three maybe some
years for a time. In fact, I'm going to go
to Columbia the end of January twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I'll believing, well, you can, you can get up with
Will from Long Island. If Will doesn't get out of there,
you can you can bring down some.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well you know, buddies of mine, and said, he sure
you want to go. And I've been sort of playing
for a year. Usually I usually end of January I mean,
I've been in panama A Costa Rica before, I've been
the Dominican several times. I've even gone out to Hawaii.
But you know, Columbia has been on the list, you know,
(27:26):
and I wanted to go now because you know, like
he said that president, he could get elected, and who
knows after that what happens could turn into Venezuela. It'd
be terrible because it's it's made such a comeback from
the nineties. Dan, you know what I mean, And uh,
it'd be terrible to go backwards. But look at New York.
They're going to stay.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
They're going safe. That's all I hear. Don't want to
lose you as a listener.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Okay, Yeah, So well if I get stuck down there,
if I could listen on the because I get it
through the internet, they get down there, give.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Me a call again if you if you need, if
you need to get out like I got people.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay, all right, sounds good Dan, All right, thanks Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Ha great. Now, I'm only joking when I say that,
so please don't take me at my word here. But uh,
there were ways to get people out. Believe that they were. Look,
they got people out of Afghanistan. I mean, under even
worse circumstances, you might have to pay for though, realize
that it might might be a puppy run.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Hey, yeah, that's the way it is down there. Anytime
I travel to carry a certain I carry a backup wall,
and then I carry a thing of fire, and I
wish talk to everybody. I first went down one time.
I'm not gonna name the country, but the guys were
all there, the police or the military. Guys. My Spanish
isn't bad. I talked to him. I gave him twenty
bucks a piece and bottom lunch, and they escorted.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Me, how about that?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Now you're talking. Now you're talking. You're making friends from
making friends? Simple? Is that? I gotta run. I gotta run,
Thanks Bill, Thank you soon. Where are we gonna go
next year? Let me get John in Boston in here, John,
want to get you in here before the break? Right ahead?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thanks Dan. First of all, they guy David said that
you were spinning the question. He told you asked some
simple question here. It was the Democrats, the Republicans, they
will hold this up, very simple, Dan, Like you said,
fourteen times Republicans were voted to open up the government
and the Democrats voted against it, and before under Biden
they voted thirteen times to vote to keep it open.
(29:19):
So Chuck Schumer, the Senator who threatened Kavanaugh, which going
to reach the whirlwind well right now, parts and pots
boiling something.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Schumer. Schumer is looking older and more haggard, and with
Nancy Pelosi now exiting stage left, I think Schumer should
be thinking about following because AOC is definitely going to
take him out next July. Next June when they have
the Senate primary in New York, put your money on
(29:52):
AOC as well.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And again Schumer has no respect in Jeffrey Sue for
the citizens of this country. This twenty until Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
we get to what that means. Basically, people they're preparing
for Thanksgiving now, the restaurants, hotels, and he's gonna hold
the country hostage. It's costing billions of dollars. I just
keep him logan the airport and I'm picking up someone Dan,
a friend, and it's the delays we're Unbelieva was costing
(30:17):
billions of dollars for him to hold hostes for one
point five trillion dollars for a health care for illegals.
Schuman's gonna hold the country hostage. The pot's boiling. Chuck,
we get two weeks, and you know what, there's forty
two million people right now that are on there wait
for that snap assistance. So when they don't get it,
(30:38):
there's gonna be forty two million people two weeks for now.
Dan really upset at Chuck Schumer and Jeffries. People need
to know it's the Democrats, Chuck Schumer the leader, and
Jeffries that's holding this up from you getting your assistance
because President Trump and the Republicans voted for you to
get it, and they keep voting it down. Be very
(30:58):
clear about that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And and well, you know, technically, let's let's be accurate.
Let's President Trump has advocated, he hasn't, he doesn't have
a vote in this. He certainly would be willing to
sign what would have been willing to sign the continuing Resolution,
the clean continuing Resolution. But what the Democrats are saying,
we will vote to open the government if you agree
(31:20):
to A B, C and D and you know before
before we vote to open and then we'll have negotiations. Well,
if the Republicans agree to ABC and D, there's nothing
to negotiate. I mean, it's insane. And by the way,
the national news media is not presenting an accurate picture
to the American public. It's as simple as absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
The lion Dan and the call before they were talking
about Venezuela and Columbia. You know, VENNISI Whela and Columbia
directly responsible for our citizens. One hundred thousand every year
died from obidoses, YEP and gang violence, gang violence and oberdopses.
Loose countries need to be held the honiblefore our citizens dying.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yet, I'm with you totally, John, I'm with you totally. John,
A passionate phone call. I thank you for it, but
I got a roll here because I'm I'm getting killed
on time, So let's uh, let's talk again real soon. Okay,
you did, Thanks John, appreciate your call very much. Have
a great one. Good call. We'll take a break. I
got a couple of more lines if you want to
(32:23):
jump in. We're going to have to move a little
bit more quickly. Six one seven thirty six one seven nine.
We got Patrick coming up in Charlestown. Nick is in Winchester.
I both know both of them. They're good callers, if
you've never called before, feel free, feel free let us
know what you think. You can disagree with me, just
(32:43):
let's keep it playing. Don't be David from San Francisco,
because David from San Francisco. Trump is living in David's
head free of charge. And I don't know what's going
on in David's head either. He's uh, he is. He's
a one note guy. And you know, I try to
treat him decently. I try to be polite to him.
(33:05):
I try to welcome him every time, and it always
ends up the same way. Back on nights Side, got
a couple of open lines. Join us.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm gonna get everybody and let me go to Patrick
and Charlestown. Patrick, welcome back.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
How are you Dan? How are you doing, Buddies.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm doing fine, actually tonight, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Dan, Dan, Dan and Kentucky. A couple of days ago,
an engine sell off a plane. I saw that, an
engine sell off a plane. Why in the world would
anybody want to fly right now under the conditions we
have the maintenance cruise. I don't know who's hiring them.
(33:49):
I don't I don't believe in them anymore. Well, I
think at this point you pick your favorite movie line.
This is like Clint Eastwood, you fail, Lucky Hunk, you
want to fly?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
This makes I mean we have I mean what four
or five days ago Logan Airport we had uh, we
had a flight coming in almost smashed into a Cape
Air flight. I think the jet was one hundred and
twenty five feet off the ground.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I mean, who are who are.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
We hiring for our air traffic controls these days? We
had another what this summer in a jet blue airplane
go off the runway of Logan.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
More than more than a few near misses obviously last
January with the helicopter that uh, that was flying at
the wrong level and and and wiped out the plane
that took so many lives from Boston. I mean, we
forget about it. But that's like last January. I mean,
we have a short attention span here. And and you raised,
you raised great points, Patrick, I mean that that shot
(34:49):
of that plane, I mean, how can that happen? Up?
An engine falls off a plane? What are we talking about?
Somebody didn't you know we've had We've had planes, planes,
weren't properly de Ice. We've had human error. We have
to make sure that these planes are in top condition.
That plane spent I guess two or three months being
(35:11):
reconditioned before it flew up to Louisville. It was somewhere
in Dallas or Houston, somewhere in Texas for like three
or four months.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
It just came I just I think it just came
back online and not told us so. But we don't
know what happened, so I don't want to speculate, but
I mean, obviously the props in me in time to
this thing coming off, we know.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
We know the result. That video was frightening. Patrick, I
got a couple more. I'm going to try to sneak in.
Thank you. My friend has.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Always so fly drive everybody.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm with you with your dad. Nick is in Winchester. Nick,
you're next on nightside. Go right ahead, SIRP How you doing,
Dan doing okay? Nick? What's what's on your mind tonight? No?
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I won't be traveling, but I am affected by this
whole Washington circulation because I want to, uh, well, I'm
make a point blank. I'm a Snap recipient and I
had no money on my card. So I want to
(36:13):
market Basket to grab a couple of things, and the
guy comes up in front of me and swipes his
cordway to the thing. The manager of the store knew
my situation and he paid for my groceries.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Good for you, Nick, I am delighted to hear that.
I am delighted to hear that. And again, I'm holding
Governor Heliot fault. We have an eight point eight billion
dollar rainy day fund.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
She could pull the uncalled fault Yep.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I mean you know, I've talked about that, and
she's refusing and and and she's complicit in this as well,
with the Democrats causing pain to people unnecessarily.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Nick, Keep keep in touch the.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
Other best program, best show on this side of the Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well, thank you, man, I appreciate that. Keep in touch, Okay,
keep in touch. There were ways in which we can
help out people here, so keep in touch.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Okay, Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Thanks Nick, talk to you so good night. I was
in market Basket today as well. Linda in Weymouth. Linda,
thanks for checking in. I got a minute or so
maybe two for you. Go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
Okay, Dan, how are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Better? Tonight? We've had some spirited conversation, which is what
this show is all about.
Speaker 10 (37:34):
And you have Yeah, I have so many.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
People who understand what's going on, and then I have
someone like David from San Francisco who somehow tries to
hijack the show every time, and I'm polite to him,
and I'm beginning to lose my patience.
Speaker 10 (37:48):
Go right ahead, Well, I am in total agreement with you.
And we all know that it is a Democrat reason.
The media really isn't telling the truth about it, and the.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Mainstream if you watch the nightly newscast, they don't even
touch this at all. And and and that is just
so unfair to everybody. And there are still people who
rely upon, you know, the the nightly news shows. The
only one that I can watch at this point is CBS,
(38:26):
not CBS's ABC toos. And even there, I feel that
so much of it is there's been a huge problem.
We'll tell you about that later. You won't believe who
died today. We'll show you the picture of the dead person.
And it's like everything is ts ts ts. They these network,
(38:47):
these network TV shows need to get their act together
and hopefully Barry Weiss at CBS is going to change
things with CBS in my opinion.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yeah, well, my my question to you is how long
can this actually go on? And shouldn't there be some
way that the president could step in and do something
about this.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
The only thing they can do is break the filibuster.
If the Democrats won't participate, this should be laid at
the feet of the Democrats. They could break the philipbuster
and basically just on a majority vote in the Senate,
but that's a dangerous president for either party. The Democrats
did it with Harry Reid back a few years ago
dealing with federal judges. Linda, I got a run. I
(39:29):
know that you always call late, and I thank you
if you call and mentally not a problem. We got
you in. Thanks Linda, to talk to you soon, Rob Brooks.
Other than not getting the plank on time for David,
he did a great job tonight. I want to thank
everybody who called, those of you who listened. I will
be on nightside with Dan Ray in just a moment.
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
my pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
(39:51):
That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
see them again. David in San Francisco. I'm not sure
about have a great fraud. Hey everyone, see you tomorrow
night or nights out. I'll see you on Facebook. Nice hour,
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