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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night with Dan ray On telling you Boston's Meet Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to thank my guess last hour, Lance Morgan,
talking about fifty year mortgages. I think that the whole
question of affordability has been a very effective issue raised
by Democrats. Certainly, they kept the race in Tennessee, which
was an overwhelming Republican district. That election earlier this month
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went to the Republican by not nearly the margin that
it was carried by President Trump, and so as we
move into twenty twenty six, we do need to focus
on the question of affordability, which which might end up
being the most important question of the twenty twenty six election.
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I also want to thank thank Attorney Dave Friedman from
the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Anti Semitism. I just
noticed that we had several really appreciative and thoughtful comments.
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I want to thank several people who who wrote in.
I'm not sure where they were all from, but they
all were very complimentary of what Dave Friedman had to
say tonight. Called said he was eloquent, clear and interesting.
They were looking to hear more, but they they thanked
us for talking about what he talked, talked about tonight.
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He's an excellent guest, and I might be willing, because
I had not scheduled a specific topic for this hour,
I might be willing to give you an opportunity if
you would like to comment on the problem of anti
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Semitism in this country that that does exist. And again,
I don't want to overwhelm you with that topic, but
it is a topic that is a great concern to me.
And I'm not Jewish, as I've said many times before.
So what I'm going to do is give you an
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opportunity to comment to what Dave Friedman had to say
and upon the necessity for a commission here to combat
anti Semitism in Massachusetts. I believe it's really important. I
don't happen to be Jewish. That's kind of irrelevant as
far as I'm concerned, because everybody should be concerned about
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anti Semitism. Certainly from a historic point of view, we've
seen what happened in Europe during the middle of the
early to middle part of the twentieth century, something that
costs millions of people their lives. And we we know
what happened on October seventh and has turned out to
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be to be successful for Israel. I'm sure Israel did
not want to endure what they endured and have endured,
but they were able literally to to defeat most of
their opponents who who have pledged to to destroy Israel
for decades. UH. Now Israel's primary opponents Syria, Hesbillah Hamas Iran,
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all of those companies and UH and and and hate
groups have been decimated, thankfully, and maybe uh, maybe we
are now entering uh an era where Israel will be
able to join with other nations in the Middle East
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and build a stronger and a peaceful Middle East. I
do think that President Trump and his administration deserved tremendous
credit going back to his first administration because a lot
of his success is rooted in I think the brilliance
of the Abraham Accords, which appealed to the economic interest
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of several of the Arab nations in the Middle East
and basically saying to them, look, you can live in
peace with Israel, have economic relationship with Israel, allow people
from your country to travel freely in and out of
Israel and it will benefit everybody. Or you can continue
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to have this a lot alliance which speaks hatefully about
Israel and it speaks hatefully about Zionism, and there are
people here in this country who who were celebrating what
happened on October seventh, So I'll be more than happy
to continue that conversation. As they say, there were several
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people who seem to be very pleased and didn't get
a chance to get through and talk to Dave Friedman,
but we could. We could talk about that, because I
think it's an important issue. The other option that we have,
we can we can focus as we did last night,
on what is going on in relation to Venezuela. Are
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the attacks on the drug boats they prelude to something bigger.
There's a lot of US military personnel on the water
and goodness knows where else in Central America right now.
I don't think they're just show I wonder how long
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Maduro is going to hold on. I think it's fascinating
and I don't know if this is something that most
of you think about, but Russia and China are each
trying to get a foothold in Central America and South America,
certainly northern South America, which is in our backyard, and
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I think the Trump administration is smart to be aware
of that. I think the Democrats seemingly are asleep at
the switch here. There's a lot of moving parts here,
a lot going on. So what I'm going to do
is give you an opportunity to comment on any or
all of those situations. And I'll also give you a
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free opportunity and open lines to comment on whatever you
would like. There is nothing that I am compelled to
admit the conversation to this hour. You can react to
the Dave Friedman interview. You can react to what we
talked about last hour with Lance Morgan. It is expected
tomorrow that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. The
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Trump administration, i'm sure will be pleased by that. Where
do you think our economy is going? I think our
economy is in much better shape than people are suggesting.
I'm not necessarily looking to debate that with you. If
you want to, we can have a conversation about it.
The stock market seems to continue moving up, which is
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good for everybody because most people have an interest in
the stock market, either directly or through their union, which
also invests in pension plans, et cetera. I think everybody
understands that concept. Look, I am rooting for success of
whatever president is in office, and here on this program,
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we're not going to hold back criticism of the Trump administration.
There's much to criticize. I think that in many ways,
Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. I have a
nuanced view of this president. I've had a nuanced view
of this president since twenty sixteen. I didn't think he
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was going to run for the office. I didn't think
he would be elected to the office. He has surprised me.
It's been an extraordinary a decade for Donald Trump and
for the nation. He survived at least one direct assassination attempt.
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I believe that he is a transformational president, and I
think that he is doing things which will forever change
this country. Some will say for the worst, will say
for the better. I think the Democrats oftentimes are overreacting
because because Trump overreacts. I don't think it's good for
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the country either for him to be overreacting and to
be hyperbolic, nor is it for the Democrats to be hyperbolic.
So normally we we identify a topic and we say,
let's talk about that topic. I'm just going to open
up open lines. You can you can ask any question
you want, make any comment. You can talk about something
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as as basic as is your Christmas shopping done or you,
as most of us, are always way behind at this
point in the holiday season, whether you celebrate Christmas or
Hanukah or whatever particular holiday you might celebrate. Wide open
lines six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six
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one seven, nine three one ten thirty will get you on.
This is a very quick break, so dial away, let's
get the show going. Here's get the eleven o'clock hour going.
My name's Dan Ray. This is night Side. This is
a great opportunity. You can kind of take control of
the program. Very rarely do we do this, but we're
going to do it right now. Coming back on night
Side after this very very quick break up about a
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minute and a half. Back on night Side after.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This night Side with Dan Ray, I'm delling YOUBSY Boston's
News Radio, or let's.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Get it going here six mone seven two thirty, six
one seven, nine three, one ten thirty. If you're out
there somewhere in a far distant place, love to hear
from you, that is for sure. First time callers always
welcome here, and we can keep it really simple here
between now and midnight and that is, are you in
pretty good shape for whatever holiday season you are celebrating?
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Have you done what you have to do? You know,
the amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year
is as sh orders that could possibly be. It's only
about twenty five days. Thanksgiving was late this year. I
think Thanksgiving was, if I'm not mistaken, on the twenty seventh.
So you add the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend, and
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by time you get home, it's December first, and it's
then two. It's three and a half weeks to Christmas
and Hanukua and all the other celebrations. Let's go to Joe. Joe,
you were first this hour on Nightside. Thanks for checking in, Joe,
How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Good? It is better to light a candle than to
curss the darkness.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Dan, I would agree with you in that one, Joe.
I think whoever said that was a smart person. Go
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I could tell you if you're interested, Sure, I go
right ahead, Joe. Father Keller, the founder of the Christophers.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well that's that's good to know. I've been I've invoked
that that that idom on many many occasions, and now
I'm I'm blessed to know who actually mouth those words
for the first time. Thank you, Joe. What else is
on your mind?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
According to President Trump, our economy is going good because
my source is WBZ.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Joe, go ahead, please, and don't don't use my program
to publicize other new other news, but particularly other electronic
news stations killing you.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Go ahead and do it. I didn't do it to
do that. I just wanted to tell you my source.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And uh. And Trump says, according to him that from
the tariffs, trillions of thowars are starting to come into
the country.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I've heard him say that, Joe. I've heard him say
that at the White House on many occasions in the
last few weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's just also given today are dedicated about twelve billion
dollars for farmers. And some would argue that without the tariff,
the imposition of the tariffs, he wouldn't have had to
have given twelve billion dollars to the farmers. But that's
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that's that's that's a subject that could be argued either way.
As a matter of fact, I may have my tariff
expert on sometime later this week.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What does Trump based his information on.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I assume any president of the United States has reams
of information available at their fingertips, through his cabinet officers
and the people who work in the various departments of
this country. He probably has better sources of information than
even I do, Joe. As difficult as that to be,
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As difficult as that is to believe, Dan.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's always a play pleasure. Nobody does it better.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thanks Joe, I appreciate it. If I don't talk to you,
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Right back at you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All right, Thanks Joe, talk to you soon. Good night
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. If you
want to jump in feel free. Well this is sort
of a qualified open line virtually anything you want. It
made some suggestions. Let's go to Tom down on Cape Cord. Hey, Tom,
welcome back. How are you Dan doing great?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You're my nighttime co pilots. It's meet from Dennis.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm driving home right wet. I got
to get you a radio in your house so when
you after you park the car, you can listen to
the show inside the house.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Go right ahead, by the way I do on my
I do on my phone. Anyways.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, I'm just tesus yea.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I grew up in Brookline and that has a sizeable
Jewish population. Can you tell me all the way back
through the ages, what have did you wish people done
to deserve what they get?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Done nothing, They've done absolutely nothing everywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, they built the nation of Israel in a desert.
I mean, it's it is, It grew up, it grew
from nineteen forty eight to today. It's a miracle. It
is an absolute miracle. And I don't know, I think
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people are jealous. I think they're envious of Jewish people.
You know, Jewish people have always put a tremendous emphasis
within their family on learning, just like Asian kids. I mean,
I found out the smartest kids when I went to
Boston Land School were the Asian kids who went to
the to what was then the Abraham Lincoln School in Boston,
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and the Jewish kids that went to the Solomon Leuinburg.
You know, I meant to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'll tell you it's just, you know, if everything that
happened in World War two was contrived by Hitler, everything
everything he blamed them for was contrived. He made everything up.
Every single every single syllable of what happened, he contrived.
He invented that all that whole thing, and it was
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just because of the political and monetary climate of the
time that people fell for it. Climb and sinker Well Hitler.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hitler blamed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War
One uh on everybody but Germany. Uh and uh. And
that's how he came to power. You know, the beer haul,
the guy who was many people looked at and thought, yeah,
I mean, so, who is this little weirdo. Next thing,
he's the Chancellor of Germany. And at the same time,
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Jews were persecuted in Russia in the programs for for
for centuries, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
They did absolutely nothing. They did absolutely nothing. I don't
think I went to high school and Brod went to
all the grades in school and all the way through
high school, and I don't think i've ever I ever
ran into a Jewish kid start to fight.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But look at look at the anti Semitism that was
celebrated in this country after October seventh. Normally, yeah, normally
you would have the country as one recoil in horror
at the slaughter that occurred on October seventh, And there
were college professors who were celebrating it. Look the fallout
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from October seventh cost Claudine Gay indirectly her job at Harvard.
She was the president of Harvard, she was the posed
the president of the University of Pennsylvania. They disgraced themselves
in front of Congress.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, well you also look at September eleventh, two thousand
and one.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I do you ask if you ask a young person
of what happened on that date, they don't know. We
allowed this, We allowed this country to forget. Well, that
is the worst thing those who don't remember history. It's
bound to repeat itself, in which it's repeating itself right
now with the immigration problem.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Tom. I use as an example, this summer was the
eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two. I
mean World War Two ended in nineteen forty five. This
is now twenty twenty five. That's eighty years since the
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end of World War Two, and I don't remember much
of a celebration or much of even an acknowledgment. Now
you know, Japan is now a great ally of the
United States, and Germany is an ally of the United States.
In Italy is an ally of the Axis powers that
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we fought in the nineteen forties. But there was no celebration,
and I was surprised that it was hardly noticed that.
You know that.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
The other thing is you got to remember too again
it wasn't the Japanese, German or Italian people. It was
the leader that took over at that point in time.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, I wounderstand that, but it was still it was
still World War Two and there was still a lot
of you know us Now again that generation, the so
called greatest generation, and it was the greatest generation has
unfortunately now passed on. I mean, there are still a
henful of men who were there at Pearl Harbor in
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the morning of December seventh, nineteen forty one. But it
just was a amazing to me that the eightieth anniversary
at the end of World War Two passed with such
little notice.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Well, Mike was on a lighter side, and I'll let
you go after this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You can get I think all of us had a
parent or an uncle or maybe you know male role
models who had who served in It was the greatest generation,
no question, absolutely, Tom, Thanks so much, always greet to
you your voice. I appreciate your time and I appreciate
your call much more than I can say. Thank you.
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Soon if I don't talk to you. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Okay your Christmas buddy, My back at you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Good night. Six one, seven thirty. I got some open
lines there. Six one seven nine three thirty. Uh, let's
just have an ongoing conversation. Feel free, love to have
you join the conversation. My name is Dan Ray. Let's
have at it between now and midnight. We got the news.
We just hit eleven thirty almost on the money.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You can listen to the news and let's let's be
right back. I got Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, you
stay right there, and I hope some of you will
join the conversation. This is a cold night getting a
little warmer. We're told going to be a little rainy tomorrow.
But this is the night where you have an opportunity.
If you always want to make a suggestion as to
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what we want to talk about, this is a great
opportunity to do that. It's a Tuesday night. I had
two guest schedule tonight. You heard from Attorney Dave Friedman,
a member of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Anti Semitism,
and you also heard from financial expert Lance Morgan about
the possibility of fifty year mortgages for young people. There's
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a lot of young people right now who cannot get
out of renting an apartment or living at home with
their parents. Join the conversation or any of all of
these topics back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The news, when you're on Nightside with Dan Ray's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
All right, six one seven two six seven. I don't
know what you want to talk about. Give me a call.
Let me go to Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, you're
back from your Thanksgiving visit down south.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yees, sir. We had. We had a great time.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It was a little sad.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Because the first day we was there was the day
that that lunatic decided to attack them National Gud people.
But we had a great time when I started. And
every time I go to DC, Dan, somebody dies. I
gotta stop going there.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, boy, that's a that's a tough one. It's just
amazing that that that could happen, uh to. I just
don't understand it. I mean, obviously we're looking now at
the problems for the Biden administration. They let so many
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people into the country unvetted, including this guy who apparently
was was involved with some c i A operations in Afghanistan,
you know, I mean yeah, and he drives across the
country and just attacks. I mean he basically what a
coward cowardly act. It's tough. How's your son doing. I
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know that he's at Fort pil.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He's doing well.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
No, he's doing well. We had a great time and
his mother got to be with a baby on Thanksgiving.
And he's doing very well. He's doing more training, he
does a lot of training and he but he's doing
very well and he's really enjoying what he's How many.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How many days were you down there? If I could ask?
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We were, and we drove down Tuesday night and we
came back Friday night because you know, his sister, his
sister was saying, so he went down, but at.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Amount of time he came back.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So do you like to when you're doing a long drive,
you like to drive at night?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Yes, for a night, because you get the trick is
to get to get across the George Washington Bridge before
before morning time.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So that I get. But my question is you're out
at night, you're on roads that you're not familiar with,
and you have, you know, some crazy drivers out at night.
And because the police are out of the roads. I mean, uh,
that doesn't appeal to me, Bernie. I'm just wondering what's
the strategy. Besides, you know, what's the advantage of right
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of driving at night?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Well, to me, it's just less traffic. You get you
get to Connecticut, you get to New York, you hit
the Jersey turn by and it's all home free. It's
just the traffic.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Again.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I drive one thousand miles a week, number one, so
driving is not my thing. Number I mean, it doesn't
bother me, right, patient, man, sitting in traffic is not
my thing.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I agree with.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
But no, And then you know, I just called in
real quick to uh, you know, you know, you're like
a kindred spare it to me. Your points of views.
I'm like, he took that break out of my mind.
And I appreciate your show and your producers and the
way that it's put on, and that the different point
of views and your tolerance of some people that like
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are very strong and their points of views. And you
know what someone said earlier about their news source, this
is my greatest news source.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
And I go home, I watch them all.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
I watch them all because I want to get the
different points of view, and then I discerned what I
what I watch and listen to, and I discerned from
that and formulate my own opinion. But the show you
put on to me is just priceless. It's priceless. I
can't put words on it, you know. And and I
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really just want to let you know how much I
appreciate your show.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I so appreciate you taking the time to call again.
I hope you let your Sodden know that we occasionally
chat about him, and we think about him often, and
hopefully he will have a very successful time in the military,
whether he decides to, you know, stick it out for
three years or a little longer, or turns into a
career for him. But we're thinking about him and every
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other member of the military who are separated from their families.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
The odd you know, he has a boy year, he
has a boy year, and he's thinking, I'm doing a
career and it's not honest, mother, that's what the I
mean that it's tied on me too, But I pretend
it isn't because I'm a man.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You know, maybe what's his ranking, what is his rank
at this.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Point, he's only a PFD he's been in a year.
He's nineteen. Yeah, he's an EAT three. He's an eat
three and he's uh, he's doing very well.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
He'll be a sergeant before you know it, trust me.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's kind of a
humble kid and he's you know, and that's not he
just keeps like working hard and doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
What is its, Bernie, what's his mos?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
He's our twelve W carpentry and masonry.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Okay okay, I said, well that's.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
What he wanted.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He went in. He wanted to.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Also get a trade while he was in there and
get then he's gonna go to college and take business
courses on top of that, and he planning us to
do a career and get out and then doing new, new,
uh chapter of his life. He's a very even killed kid.
You know, thank god, he takes after his mother life.
Last week and we went down to uh New York,
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and I told my wife, I says, we're going to
Saint Patrick's Capigl and you're gonna pray to me to
get into heaven. She says, Bernie, even if I like
two candles, I don't think he can piggyback in on me.
I'm sorry, but I'll dry.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Sounds like a perfect relationship if I don't talk. Do
you have great holidays? Do you celebrate christmasnic? What you what?
Your what?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Your Christmas? Christmasboman Catholic? Thank you yourself as well, very
merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And again, thank you so much for for being there
for Nightside and being there for your son as well.
So we will talk soon, my friend. Okay, just keeping.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
You have a good evening. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, thanks Bernie, thank you so much. Okay, all right,
I got wide open lines here, which I don't like
at all, and I know it's kind of where we're
just kind of taking our time getting through the eleven
o'clock hour here, but my audience never leaves me stranded.
So I'm going to basically say, hey, whatever you like
to chat about, it doesn't have to be controversial. If
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you wanted to be controversial, that's fine. If you're out
there listening to us somewhere on a car radio or
on a phone and you're trying to figure out what
radio station am I listening to? You're listening to WBZ.
We're ten thirty in your normally at this hour of
the night, we're doing some sort of contentious Last night
we contentious story. Last night we talked about the activity
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of the US military, which I support totally, in the
Caribbean taking out these terror the narco terrorist boats. These
guys are basically driving poison, taking poison across the open water.
I think the Trump administration is doing the right thing,
very different from the Biden administration. But I think that
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there will be a lot fewer Americans who die in
twenty twenty six of fentanyl. We saw over the weekend
at Providence College seven students, some of whom had to
be revived with narkan, who apparently were victims or they
were people who were trying something that was laced with fentanyl. Again,
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I'm not making any judgments on kids who do dumb things,
whether they go to college or not, but those could
have been lives that could have been lost in Providence
College over the weekend. And thank goodness for the quick
response of EMTs and I assume probably police as well.
Their lives were saved. But I also think that the
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Democrats are just barking up a wrong tree with Donald
Trump at this point. I think the average American realizes that, hey,
this garbage that's coming into the country is doing nothing
but maintaining people who have a drug dependence, and in
many cases that drug dependence, whether it's heroin or fentanyl,
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is taking their lives. We lose and have lost during
the Biden years, about seventy five to eighty thousand people
a year with drug overdoses, many of them you know,
young people in some cases teens and some people in
their twenties. For some reason, the Biden administration was toned
deaf to that. Donald Trump is doing what he believes
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he has to do. Uh, and I commend him for it.
I think that he's doing the right thing. And when
I listen to Democratic legislators returned to the guys who
are running these drugs as sailors. We joked about it
last night. Let's call him mariners or seafareres ridiculous, So
like to join the conversation. Let's light it up. We'll
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be right back. We have fifteen minutes left. I have
some room for you. Six one seven, two, five, four
ten thirty and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
I'm here for you. The question is are you here
for me? We'll be back. Phone lines are lighting up
and I do appreciate that very much. Back on Nightside
right after this.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right back to the phones. You guys never disappointed. Let
me go to Kennon Waltham. Can you? We mentioned in
an email to me today, how are you?
Speaker 9 (31:55):
I am very well and yes, and ID forwarded that
email to me, so thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I really appreciate you'll having trouble getting in contact with it,
but we certainly will have the special needs a representative
and probably Heidi from the special needs Arts program on
our night side charity Combine on Tuesday night, December twenty third.
How long have you been involved in this? She mentioned
you as a supporter.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Yes, over twenty years. Actually her we learned. I grew
up in Lexington, and but my family's immigrated from England,
and two of two generations before me each well they
were talking in England, said oh I have a niece
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in Lexington, and the other gentleman said, oh so do I,
and so The founder of special needs arts programs, Marilyn Abel,
is a distant cousin of mine who also was living
at Lexington at the time, and that that's how my
family got involved. We met them in the mid sixties
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and so it's and and she was a professional singer
like operatic and and recognize that there just earn't enough
arts programs for for those on the spectrum and started
a chorus. And now over the years we've expanded to
many different programs. So I'm gonna let Heidi talk about it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She's much no, no, I know that, But tell Heidi
that I tried to call her twice today and I
get dumped into this weird emoil voicemail thing where announce
yourself and then if the person it's weird, maybe she's
got a better phone number to send to me. But
I still haven't heard back from her. So I want to.
I want to touch with her and explain to her
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how it works. Okay, very good, all right, what else
show your mind?
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Well, I you know, I was thinking about last week.
I think it was last week with David Flynn talking
about David Brodnoy and and your topic tonight. Oh I'm sorry, Danceln,
pardon me. And one of the greatest interviews I ever
heard is when David Brednoy interviewed David Duke. And I
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don't know if you were familiar with this, but I've
heard about it.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't recall hearing the interview itself, though I.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Did hear it live, and Brodnoy, in his just impeccable brilliance,
very calmly let David Duke hang himself. I mean, he
came across almost as if I'm exaggerating a little bit,
but almost as if certainly an impartial interviewer. I was
going to say empathetic, that would probably be too strong words.
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And he just asked him questions where that David Duke
couldn't answer, and it was it was just beautifully done.
And and one example as an example, the easiest one,
and I have one other one, but you know, David
Duke kept just saying, he kept saying that Jews were
members of the polit Bureau and controlled Russia. And yeah,
(35:12):
and finally, you know, David Duke because he just at
one point said, well, can you name three Jewish people
on the polit Bureau?
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You know?
Speaker 9 (35:19):
And it was just as simple as that, and it
was just so well done, and I just thought I
would just bring that up and thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
That's that's a nice memory. But yeah, I mean, David
Duke what a full I'm sure if he had some
sort of like George Wallace did, had some sort of
a death. I think he's still alive, but I think
Wallace had some sort of a conversion where he realized
he was wrong as a segregationist. And I don't know
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if if Duke is even still around or.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Not, but you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure he
is the last favorite from me. He was, you know,
he was really pro Iran, you know, because it was
the enemy of my enemy is my friends.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, as they say that's enough David Duke talk, I
think we'll leave him in the dustbin of history.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
Okay, thank you very much, Steah.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Thanks Ken, we'll talk soon. Thanks man. Good night. Let
me get real quickly here. I got John in New York,
I got Pete in South Carolina, and I got Laurie
and Idaho. Want to get to all of them. Hey, John,
next on night side.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
All right, Dan, uh, I'm following your request of in
the car for the on the radio listening to call
in and here I am.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay, absolutely, thank you very much. Is it's snowing where
you are now, I know you're in western New York.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Actually, no, I'm in the eastern part. I'm by Albany.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh come on, okay, normally a little more west of that. Okay, Yeah,
what are you.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Doing with all?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
But Harry.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Harry is the town I live in within skille Harry County,
and that's right next to Schenectady County, Okay, And it's
about forty five miles from the capital of Walbanty from
where I live.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
All Right, Okay, I got it, I got it. Yeah, Okay,
So I think you're gonna get tonight.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Yeah, I think we're gonna get some two. But how
much I don't know. But we have to see. But
the thing is, I want to thank you again for
keeping me awake on the trip home. I'm only six
miles from home, and I'm gonna make it well. And
I got one question for you quick and then I'm
gonna get off. And that is you were last week
you were talking about your replacement windows in your old home,
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and I'm wondering, what brand are they?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
What'd you get?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Window World?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Now? Is that their own custom made and shop windows?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
They come out, they measure and their custom made. All right,
there was solid today and as tight today as they
were fifteen years ago. Absolutely, what kind do you have?
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Double hon casement sliding?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
The casement? Yeah, I guess you call him casement windows here,
you know, we get they got to get the screens,
and they're just they're just beautiful, beautifully constructed.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
When you open.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
But when you open the window, do you turn a
crank or do you lift it up?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Lift it up?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
You got a double home window.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
All I know. It's easy. It slides, It slides really easily.
And I'm happy camper, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, are they double paint or triple paint or you.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Don't know, don't know, don't know, but I'll tell you
that you can't feel any cold coming through any of
these windows. They're they're they're they're manufactured well and they
are as tight as you can imagine. Hey, John, I'm
gonna run because the two more I gotta sneak in here.
If they took the time to call, I want to
thank you John, thank.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
You for good night.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Okay, get those six miles home and take it easy
to keep away from the blue. Thank you, Thanks buddy.
Talking Let me go real quickly to Pete in South Carolina. Peter,
you want to get you and want to get Laurie
in as well.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Hey Pete, welcome, dang, long time they'll talk to I've
been in the hospital for a while. Everything's all better,
you know, you know, at our age, everything's all better
now good.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
And I just was listening the other night and you
had a gentleman on discussing the fact that the mayor
wants to raise the taxes in Boston by seven percent,
but the city charter says only two point five.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Well, we have a card at the end of that.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Well, yeah, basically that we haven't and there's going to
be a vote tomorrow in the city council. There could
be anywhere from seven to thirteen percent. We have what'll
be called the two and a half percent tax rate
wax cap here in Massachusetts. And you know, commercial property
in Boston has been hit really hard after COVID just
uh yeah, And unfortunately the city has just continued to
(40:05):
spend like a drunken sailor. Except it's unfair to drunken sailors,
because generally drunken sailors, when they run out of their
own money, they stopped spending. But politicians A favorite call.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
You got one laugh, But merry Christmas. If I don't
get to you.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh come on, you got to talk to me before Christmas.
But Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks so much, Pete.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
You got it. Take that'll warm things up. Good night.
Let me go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie, I only
got twenty seconds left for you. How are you.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
I'm good, I'm well, and I just Bernie whatever.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Bernie was awesome, and I you know, I just want
to say that, like Lance Morgan is.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Probably the coolest name of a guess you've.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Ever had, something like a romance novel or something.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, oh, I'm with it. Or he could be like
a third basement for the Red Sox. Maybe. I mean
it's it's a it's a pretty good it's a pretty
cool name. Thank you, thank you. We may talk soon.
We can talk later on during the week. Okay, thanks
so much for going. You got short changed here.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Okay, thanks okay, I didn't know. We will find bye
bye bye.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
All right, done for the night, Rob Brooks, thank you
very much. The nice job. We will We're tight here
on time, so I'm going to end as always with
all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
Mike Pal Charlie Rais, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's why all your pets are past. They loved you,
you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Hopefully you get in the morning and night's side. Have
a great Wednesday everyone. I will be on Facebook in
(41:33):
about two minutes. I promised. Nice side with Dan Ray
and Facebook. Find me there. I want to say hello,
coming back. We'll have a great have a great Wednesday
every week.
It's Night with Dan ray On telling you Boston's Meet Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to thank my guess last hour, Lance Morgan,
talking about fifty year mortgages. I think that the whole
question of affordability has been a very effective issue raised
by Democrats. Certainly, they kept the race in Tennessee, which
was an overwhelming Republican district. That election earlier this month
(00:31):
went to the Republican by not nearly the margin that
it was carried by President Trump, and so as we
move into twenty twenty six, we do need to focus
on the question of affordability, which which might end up
being the most important question of the twenty twenty six election.
(00:53):
I also want to thank thank Attorney Dave Friedman from
the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Anti Semitism. I just
noticed that we had several really appreciative and thoughtful comments.
(01:13):
I want to thank several people who who wrote in.
I'm not sure where they were all from, but they
all were very complimentary of what Dave Friedman had to
say tonight. Called said he was eloquent, clear and interesting.
They were looking to hear more, but they they thanked
us for talking about what he talked, talked about tonight.
(01:38):
He's an excellent guest, and I might be willing, because
I had not scheduled a specific topic for this hour,
I might be willing to give you an opportunity if
you would like to comment on the problem of anti
(01:58):
Semitism in this country that that does exist. And again,
I don't want to overwhelm you with that topic, but
it is a topic that is a great concern to me.
And I'm not Jewish, as I've said many times before.
So what I'm going to do is give you an
(02:20):
opportunity to comment to what Dave Friedman had to say
and upon the necessity for a commission here to combat
anti Semitism in Massachusetts. I believe it's really important. I
don't happen to be Jewish. That's kind of irrelevant as
far as I'm concerned, because everybody should be concerned about
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anti Semitism. Certainly from a historic point of view, we've
seen what happened in Europe during the middle of the
early to middle part of the twentieth century, something that
costs millions of people their lives. And we we know
what happened on October seventh and has turned out to
(03:09):
be to be successful for Israel. I'm sure Israel did
not want to endure what they endured and have endured,
but they were able literally to to defeat most of
their opponents who who have pledged to to destroy Israel
for decades. UH. Now Israel's primary opponents Syria, Hesbillah Hamas Iran,
(03:41):
all of those companies and UH and and and hate
groups have been decimated, thankfully, and maybe uh, maybe we
are now entering uh an era where Israel will be
able to join with other nations in the Middle East
(04:04):
and build a stronger and a peaceful Middle East. I
do think that President Trump and his administration deserved tremendous
credit going back to his first administration because a lot
of his success is rooted in I think the brilliance
of the Abraham Accords, which appealed to the economic interest
(04:31):
of several of the Arab nations in the Middle East
and basically saying to them, look, you can live in
peace with Israel, have economic relationship with Israel, allow people
from your country to travel freely in and out of
Israel and it will benefit everybody. Or you can continue
(04:58):
to have this a lot alliance which speaks hatefully about
Israel and it speaks hatefully about Zionism, and there are
people here in this country who who were celebrating what
happened on October seventh, So I'll be more than happy
to continue that conversation. As they say, there were several
(05:19):
people who seem to be very pleased and didn't get
a chance to get through and talk to Dave Friedman,
but we could. We could talk about that, because I
think it's an important issue. The other option that we have,
we can we can focus as we did last night,
on what is going on in relation to Venezuela. Are
(05:40):
the attacks on the drug boats they prelude to something bigger.
There's a lot of US military personnel on the water
and goodness knows where else in Central America right now.
I don't think they're just show I wonder how long
(06:05):
Maduro is going to hold on. I think it's fascinating
and I don't know if this is something that most
of you think about, but Russia and China are each
trying to get a foothold in Central America and South America,
certainly northern South America, which is in our backyard, and
(06:29):
I think the Trump administration is smart to be aware
of that. I think the Democrats seemingly are asleep at
the switch here. There's a lot of moving parts here,
a lot going on. So what I'm going to do
is give you an opportunity to comment on any or
all of those situations. And I'll also give you a
(06:50):
free opportunity and open lines to comment on whatever you
would like. There is nothing that I am compelled to
admit the conversation to this hour. You can react to
the Dave Friedman interview. You can react to what we
talked about last hour with Lance Morgan. It is expected
tomorrow that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. The
(07:15):
Trump administration, i'm sure will be pleased by that. Where
do you think our economy is going? I think our
economy is in much better shape than people are suggesting.
I'm not necessarily looking to debate that with you. If
you want to, we can have a conversation about it.
The stock market seems to continue moving up, which is
(07:38):
good for everybody because most people have an interest in
the stock market, either directly or through their union, which
also invests in pension plans, et cetera. I think everybody
understands that concept. Look, I am rooting for success of
whatever president is in office, and here on this program,
(08:03):
we're not going to hold back criticism of the Trump administration.
There's much to criticize. I think that in many ways,
Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. I have a
nuanced view of this president. I've had a nuanced view
of this president since twenty sixteen. I didn't think he
(08:23):
was going to run for the office. I didn't think
he would be elected to the office. He has surprised me.
It's been an extraordinary a decade for Donald Trump and
for the nation. He survived at least one direct assassination attempt.
(08:49):
I believe that he is a transformational president, and I
think that he is doing things which will forever change
this country. Some will say for the worst, will say
for the better. I think the Democrats oftentimes are overreacting
because because Trump overreacts. I don't think it's good for
(09:10):
the country either for him to be overreacting and to
be hyperbolic, nor is it for the Democrats to be hyperbolic.
So normally we we identify a topic and we say,
let's talk about that topic. I'm just going to open
up open lines. You can you can ask any question
you want, make any comment. You can talk about something
(09:31):
as as basic as is your Christmas shopping done or you,
as most of us, are always way behind at this
point in the holiday season, whether you celebrate Christmas or
Hanukah or whatever particular holiday you might celebrate. Wide open
lines six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six
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one seven, nine three one ten thirty will get you on.
This is a very quick break, so dial away, let's
get the show going. Here's get the eleven o'clock hour going.
My name's Dan Ray. This is night Side. This is
a great opportunity. You can kind of take control of
the program. Very rarely do we do this, but we're
going to do it right now. Coming back on night
Side after this very very quick break up about a
(10:17):
minute and a half. Back on night Side after.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
This night Side with Dan Ray, I'm delling YOUBSY Boston's
News Radio, or let's.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Get it going here six mone seven two thirty, six
one seven, nine three, one ten thirty. If you're out
there somewhere in a far distant place, love to hear
from you, that is for sure. First time callers always
welcome here, and we can keep it really simple here
between now and midnight and that is, are you in
pretty good shape for whatever holiday season you are celebrating?
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Have you done what you have to do? You know,
the amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year
is as sh orders that could possibly be. It's only
about twenty five days. Thanksgiving was late this year. I
think Thanksgiving was, if I'm not mistaken, on the twenty seventh.
So you add the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend, and
(11:13):
by time you get home, it's December first, and it's
then two. It's three and a half weeks to Christmas
and Hanukua and all the other celebrations. Let's go to Joe. Joe,
you were first this hour on Nightside. Thanks for checking in, Joe,
How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Good? It is better to light a candle than to
curss the darkness.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Dan, I would agree with you in that one, Joe.
I think whoever said that was a smart person. Go
right ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I could tell you if you're interested, Sure, I go
right ahead, Joe. Father Keller, the founder of the Christophers.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well that's that's good to know. I've been I've invoked
that that that idom on many many occasions, and now
I'm I'm blessed to know who actually mouth those words
for the first time. Thank you, Joe. What else is
on your mind?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
According to President Trump, our economy is going good because
my source is WBZ.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Joe, go ahead, please, and don't don't use my program
to publicize other new other news, but particularly other electronic
news stations killing you.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Go ahead and do it. I didn't do it to
do that. I just wanted to tell you my source.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And uh. And Trump says, according to him that from
the tariffs, trillions of thowars are starting to come into
the country.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I've heard him say that, Joe. I've heard him say
that at the White House on many occasions in the
last few weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He's just also given today are dedicated about twelve billion
dollars for farmers. And some would argue that without the tariff,
the imposition of the tariffs, he wouldn't have had to
have given twelve billion dollars to the farmers. But that's
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that's that's that's a subject that could be argued either way.
As a matter of fact, I may have my tariff
expert on sometime later this week.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
What does Trump based his information on.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I assume any president of the United States has reams
of information available at their fingertips, through his cabinet officers
and the people who work in the various departments of
this country. He probably has better sources of information than
even I do, Joe. As difficult as that to be,
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As difficult as that is to believe, Dan.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It's always a play pleasure. Nobody does it better.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Thanks Joe, I appreciate it. If I don't talk to you,
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Right back at you, Dan.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All right, Thanks Joe, talk to you soon. Good night
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. If you
want to jump in feel free. Well this is sort
of a qualified open line virtually anything you want. It
made some suggestions. Let's go to Tom down on Cape Cord. Hey, Tom,
welcome back. How are you Dan doing great?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You're my nighttime co pilots. It's meet from Dennis.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'm driving home right wet. I got
to get you a radio in your house so when
you after you park the car, you can listen to
the show inside the house.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Go right ahead, by the way I do on my
I do on my phone. Anyways.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, I'm just tesus yea.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I grew up in Brookline and that has a sizeable
Jewish population. Can you tell me all the way back
through the ages, what have did you wish people done
to deserve what they get?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Done nothing, They've done absolutely nothing everywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, they built the nation of Israel in a desert.
I mean, it's it is, It grew up, it grew
from nineteen forty eight to today. It's a miracle. It
is an absolute miracle. And I don't know, I think
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people are jealous. I think they're envious of Jewish people.
You know, Jewish people have always put a tremendous emphasis
within their family on learning, just like Asian kids. I mean,
I found out the smartest kids when I went to
Boston Land School were the Asian kids who went to
the to what was then the Abraham Lincoln School in Boston,
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and the Jewish kids that went to the Solomon Leuinburg.
You know, I meant to.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'll tell you it's just, you know, if everything that
happened in World War two was contrived by Hitler, everything
everything he blamed them for was contrived. He made everything up.
Every single every single syllable of what happened, he contrived.
He invented that all that whole thing, and it was
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just because of the political and monetary climate of the
time that people fell for it. Climb and sinker Well Hitler.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hitler blamed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War
One uh on everybody but Germany. Uh and uh. And
that's how he came to power. You know, the beer haul,
the guy who was many people looked at and thought, yeah,
I mean, so, who is this little weirdo. Next thing,
he's the Chancellor of Germany. And at the same time,
(16:53):
Jews were persecuted in Russia in the programs for for
for centuries, and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
They did absolutely nothing. They did absolutely nothing. I don't
think I went to high school and Brod went to
all the grades in school and all the way through
high school, and I don't think i've ever I ever
ran into a Jewish kid start to fight.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
But look at look at the anti Semitism that was
celebrated in this country after October seventh. Normally, yeah, normally
you would have the country as one recoil in horror
at the slaughter that occurred on October seventh, And there
were college professors who were celebrating it. Look the fallout
(17:41):
from October seventh cost Claudine Gay indirectly her job at Harvard.
She was the president of Harvard, she was the posed
the president of the University of Pennsylvania. They disgraced themselves
in front of Congress.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, well you also look at September eleventh, two thousand
and one.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I do you ask if you ask a young person
of what happened on that date, they don't know. We
allowed this, We allowed this country to forget. Well, that
is the worst thing those who don't remember history. It's
bound to repeat itself, in which it's repeating itself right
now with the immigration problem.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Tom. I use as an example, this summer was the
eightieth anniversary of the end of World War Two. I
mean World War Two ended in nineteen forty five. This
is now twenty twenty five. That's eighty years since the
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end of World War Two, and I don't remember much
of a celebration or much of even an acknowledgment. Now
you know, Japan is now a great ally of the
United States, and Germany is an ally of the United States.
In Italy is an ally of the Axis powers that
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we fought in the nineteen forties. But there was no celebration,
and I was surprised that it was hardly noticed that.
You know that.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
The other thing is you got to remember too again
it wasn't the Japanese, German or Italian people. It was
the leader that took over at that point in time.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, I wounderstand that, but it was still it was
still World War Two and there was still a lot
of you know us Now again that generation, the so
called greatest generation, and it was the greatest generation has
unfortunately now passed on. I mean, there are still a
henful of men who were there at Pearl Harbor in
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the morning of December seventh, nineteen forty one. But it
just was a amazing to me that the eightieth anniversary
at the end of World War Two passed with such
little notice.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Well, Mike was on a lighter side, and I'll let
you go after this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You can get I think all of us had a
parent or an uncle or maybe you know male role
models who had who served in It was the greatest generation,
no question, absolutely, Tom, Thanks so much, always greet to
you your voice. I appreciate your time and I appreciate
your call much more than I can say. Thank you.
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Soon if I don't talk to you. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Okay your Christmas buddy, My back at you.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Good night. Six one, seven thirty. I got some open
lines there. Six one seven nine three thirty. Uh, let's
just have an ongoing conversation. Feel free, love to have
you join the conversation. My name is Dan Ray. Let's
have at it between now and midnight. We got the news.
We just hit eleven thirty almost on the money.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
You can listen to the news and let's let's be
right back. I got Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, you
stay right there, and I hope some of you will
join the conversation. This is a cold night getting a
little warmer. We're told going to be a little rainy tomorrow.
But this is the night where you have an opportunity.
If you always want to make a suggestion as to
(21:19):
what we want to talk about, this is a great
opportunity to do that. It's a Tuesday night. I had
two guest schedule tonight. You heard from Attorney Dave Friedman,
a member of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Anti Semitism,
and you also heard from financial expert Lance Morgan about
the possibility of fifty year mortgages for young people. There's
(21:43):
a lot of young people right now who cannot get
out of renting an apartment or living at home with
their parents. Join the conversation or any of all of
these topics back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The news, when you're on Nightside with Dan Ray's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
All right, six one seven two six seven. I don't
know what you want to talk about. Give me a call.
Let me go to Bernie in New Hampshire. Bernie, you're
back from your Thanksgiving visit down south.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yees, sir. We had. We had a great time.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It was a little sad.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Because the first day we was there was the day
that that lunatic decided to attack them National Gud people.
But we had a great time when I started. And
every time I go to DC, Dan, somebody dies. I
gotta stop going there.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, boy, that's a that's a tough one. It's just
amazing that that that could happen, uh to. I just
don't understand it. I mean, obviously we're looking now at
the problems for the Biden administration. They let so many
(22:57):
people into the country unvetted, including this guy who apparently
was was involved with some c i A operations in Afghanistan,
you know, I mean yeah, and he drives across the
country and just attacks. I mean he basically what a
coward cowardly act. It's tough. How's your son doing. I
(23:19):
know that he's at Fort pil.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He's doing well.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
No, he's doing well. We had a great time and
his mother got to be with a baby on Thanksgiving.
And he's doing very well. He's doing more training, he
does a lot of training and he but he's doing
very well and he's really enjoying what he's How many.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
How many days were you down there? If I could ask?
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We were, and we drove down Tuesday night and we
came back Friday night because you know, his sister, his
sister was saying, so he went down, but at.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Amount of time he came back.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
So do you like to when you're doing a long drive,
you like to drive at night?
Speaker 7 (23:59):
Yes, for a night, because you get the trick is
to get to get across the George Washington Bridge before
before morning time.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So that I get. But my question is you're out
at night, you're on roads that you're not familiar with,
and you have, you know, some crazy drivers out at night.
And because the police are out of the roads. I mean, uh,
that doesn't appeal to me, Bernie. I'm just wondering what's
the strategy. Besides, you know, what's the advantage of right
(24:33):
of driving at night?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Well, to me, it's just less traffic. You get you
get to Connecticut, you get to New York, you hit
the Jersey turn by and it's all home free. It's
just the traffic.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Again.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
I drive one thousand miles a week, number one, so
driving is not my thing. Number I mean, it doesn't
bother me, right, patient, man, sitting in traffic is not
my thing.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I agree with.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
But no, And then you know, I just called in
real quick to uh, you know, you know, you're like
a kindred spare it to me. Your points of views.
I'm like, he took that break out of my mind.
And I appreciate your show and your producers and the
way that it's put on, and that the different point
of views and your tolerance of some people that like
(25:22):
are very strong and their points of views. And you
know what someone said earlier about their news source, this
is my greatest news source.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
And I go home, I watch them all.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
I watch them all because I want to get the
different points of view, and then I discerned what I
what I watch and listen to, and I discerned from
that and formulate my own opinion. But the show you
put on to me is just priceless. It's priceless. I
can't put words on it, you know. And and I
(25:53):
really just want to let you know how much I
appreciate your show.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I so appreciate you taking the time to call again.
I hope you let your Sodden know that we occasionally
chat about him, and we think about him often, and
hopefully he will have a very successful time in the military,
whether he decides to, you know, stick it out for
three years or a little longer, or turns into a
career for him. But we're thinking about him and every
(26:19):
other member of the military who are separated from their families.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
The odd you know, he has a boy year, he
has a boy year, and he's thinking, I'm doing a
career and it's not honest, mother, that's what the I
mean that it's tied on me too, But I pretend
it isn't because I'm a man.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You know, maybe what's his ranking, what is his rank
at this.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Point, he's only a PFD he's been in a year.
He's nineteen. Yeah, he's an EAT three. He's an eat
three and he's uh, he's doing very well.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
He'll be a sergeant before you know it, trust me.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's kind of a
humble kid and he's you know, and that's not he
just keeps like working hard and doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
What is its, Bernie, what's his mos?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
He's our twelve W carpentry and masonry.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Okay okay, I said, well that's.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
What he wanted.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He went in. He wanted to.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Also get a trade while he was in there and
get then he's gonna go to college and take business
courses on top of that, and he planning us to
do a career and get out and then doing new, new,
uh chapter of his life. He's a very even killed kid.
You know, thank god, he takes after his mother life.
Last week and we went down to uh New York,
(27:42):
and I told my wife, I says, we're going to
Saint Patrick's Capigl and you're gonna pray to me to
get into heaven. She says, Bernie, even if I like
two candles, I don't think he can piggyback in on me.
I'm sorry, but I'll dry.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Sounds like a perfect relationship if I don't talk. Do
you have great holidays? Do you celebrate christmasnic? What you what?
Your what?
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Your Christmas? Christmasboman Catholic? Thank you yourself as well, very
merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And again, thank you so much for for being there
for Nightside and being there for your son as well.
So we will talk soon, my friend. Okay, just keeping.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
You have a good evening. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, thanks Bernie, thank you so much. Okay, all right,
I got wide open lines here, which I don't like
at all, and I know it's kind of where we're
just kind of taking our time getting through the eleven
o'clock hour here, but my audience never leaves me stranded.
So I'm going to basically say, hey, whatever you like
to chat about, it doesn't have to be controversial. If
(28:47):
you wanted to be controversial, that's fine. If you're out
there listening to us somewhere on a car radio or
on a phone and you're trying to figure out what
radio station am I listening to? You're listening to WBZ.
We're ten thirty in your normally at this hour of
the night, we're doing some sort of contentious Last night
we contentious story. Last night we talked about the activity
(29:09):
of the US military, which I support totally, in the
Caribbean taking out these terror the narco terrorist boats. These
guys are basically driving poison, taking poison across the open water.
I think the Trump administration is doing the right thing,
very different from the Biden administration. But I think that
(29:31):
there will be a lot fewer Americans who die in
twenty twenty six of fentanyl. We saw over the weekend
at Providence College seven students, some of whom had to
be revived with narkan, who apparently were victims or they
were people who were trying something that was laced with fentanyl. Again,
(29:53):
I'm not making any judgments on kids who do dumb things,
whether they go to college or not, but those could
have been lives that could have been lost in Providence
College over the weekend. And thank goodness for the quick
response of EMTs and I assume probably police as well.
Their lives were saved. But I also think that the
(30:14):
Democrats are just barking up a wrong tree with Donald
Trump at this point. I think the average American realizes that, hey,
this garbage that's coming into the country is doing nothing
but maintaining people who have a drug dependence, and in
many cases that drug dependence, whether it's heroin or fentanyl,
(30:39):
is taking their lives. We lose and have lost during
the Biden years, about seventy five to eighty thousand people
a year with drug overdoses, many of them you know,
young people in some cases teens and some people in
their twenties. For some reason, the Biden administration was toned
deaf to that. Donald Trump is doing what he believes
(31:01):
he has to do. Uh, and I commend him for it.
I think that he's doing the right thing. And when
I listen to Democratic legislators returned to the guys who
are running these drugs as sailors. We joked about it
last night. Let's call him mariners or seafareres ridiculous, So
like to join the conversation. Let's light it up. We'll
(31:22):
be right back. We have fifteen minutes left. I have
some room for you. Six one seven, two, five, four
ten thirty and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
I'm here for you. The question is are you here
for me? We'll be back. Phone lines are lighting up
and I do appreciate that very much. Back on Nightside
right after this.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right back to the phones. You guys never disappointed. Let
me go to Kennon Waltham. Can you? We mentioned in
an email to me today, how are you?
Speaker 9 (31:55):
I am very well and yes, and ID forwarded that
email to me, so thank you my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I really appreciate you'll having trouble getting in contact with it,
but we certainly will have the special needs a representative
and probably Heidi from the special needs Arts program on
our night side charity Combine on Tuesday night, December twenty third.
How long have you been involved in this? She mentioned
you as a supporter.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Yes, over twenty years. Actually her we learned. I grew
up in Lexington, and but my family's immigrated from England,
and two of two generations before me each well they
were talking in England, said oh I have a niece
(32:43):
in Lexington, and the other gentleman said, oh so do I,
and so The founder of special needs arts programs, Marilyn Abel,
is a distant cousin of mine who also was living
at Lexington at the time, and that that's how my
family got involved. We met them in the mid sixties
(33:03):
and so it's and and she was a professional singer
like operatic and and recognize that there just earn't enough
arts programs for for those on the spectrum and started
a chorus. And now over the years we've expanded to
many different programs. So I'm gonna let Heidi talk about it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
She's much no, no, I know that, But tell Heidi
that I tried to call her twice today and I
get dumped into this weird emoil voicemail thing where announce
yourself and then if the person it's weird, maybe she's
got a better phone number to send to me. But
I still haven't heard back from her. So I want to.
I want to touch with her and explain to her
(33:48):
how it works. Okay, very good, all right, what else
show your mind?
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Well, I you know, I was thinking about last week.
I think it was last week with David Flynn talking
about David Brodnoy and and your topic tonight. Oh I'm sorry, Danceln,
pardon me. And one of the greatest interviews I ever
heard is when David Brednoy interviewed David Duke. And I
(34:19):
don't know if you were familiar with this, but I've
heard about it.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't recall hearing the interview itself, though I.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Did hear it live, and Brodnoy, in his just impeccable brilliance,
very calmly let David Duke hang himself. I mean, he
came across almost as if I'm exaggerating a little bit,
but almost as if certainly an impartial interviewer. I was
going to say empathetic, that would probably be too strong words.
(34:49):
And he just asked him questions where that David Duke
couldn't answer, and it was it was just beautifully done.
And and one example as an example, the easiest one,
and I have one other one, but you know, David
Duke kept just saying, he kept saying that Jews were
members of the polit Bureau and controlled Russia. And yeah,
(35:12):
and finally, you know, David Duke because he just at
one point said, well, can you name three Jewish people
on the polit Bureau?
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You know?
Speaker 9 (35:19):
And it was just as simple as that, and it
was just so well done, and I just thought I
would just bring that up and thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
That's that's a nice memory. But yeah, I mean, David
Duke what a full I'm sure if he had some
sort of like George Wallace did, had some sort of
a death. I think he's still alive, but I think
Wallace had some sort of a conversion where he realized
he was wrong as a segregationist. And I don't know
(35:50):
if if Duke is even still around or.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Not, but you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure he
is the last favorite from me. He was, you know,
he was really pro Iran, you know, because it was
the enemy of my enemy is my friends.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, as they say that's enough David Duke talk, I
think we'll leave him in the dustbin of history.
Speaker 9 (36:15):
Okay, thank you very much, Steah.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Thanks Ken, we'll talk soon. Thanks man. Good night. Let
me get real quickly here. I got John in New York,
I got Pete in South Carolina, and I got Laurie
and Idaho. Want to get to all of them. Hey, John,
next on night side.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
All right, Dan, uh, I'm following your request of in
the car for the on the radio listening to call
in and here I am.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay, absolutely, thank you very much. Is it's snowing where
you are now, I know you're in western New York.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Actually, no, I'm in the eastern part. I'm by Albany.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh come on, okay, normally a little more west of that. Okay, Yeah,
what are you.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Doing with all?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
But Harry.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
Harry is the town I live in within skille Harry County,
and that's right next to Schenectady County, Okay, And it's
about forty five miles from the capital of Walbanty from
where I live.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
All Right, Okay, I got it, I got it. Yeah, Okay,
So I think you're gonna get tonight.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Yeah, I think we're gonna get some two. But how
much I don't know. But we have to see. But
the thing is, I want to thank you again for
keeping me awake on the trip home. I'm only six
miles from home, and I'm gonna make it well. And
I got one question for you quick and then I'm
gonna get off. And that is you were last week
you were talking about your replacement windows in your old home,
(37:41):
and I'm wondering, what brand are they?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
What'd you get?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Window World?
Speaker 8 (37:46):
Now? Is that their own custom made and shop windows?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
They come out, they measure and their custom made. All right,
there was solid today and as tight today as they
were fifteen years ago. Absolutely, what kind do you have?
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Double hon casement sliding?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
What do you have?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
The casement? Yeah, I guess you call him casement windows here,
you know, we get they got to get the screens,
and they're just they're just beautiful, beautifully constructed.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
When you open.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
But when you open the window, do you turn a
crank or do you lift it up?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Lift it up?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
You got a double home window.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
All I know. It's easy. It slides, It slides really easily.
And I'm happy camper, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, are they double paint or triple paint or you.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Don't know, don't know, don't know, but I'll tell you
that you can't feel any cold coming through any of
these windows. They're they're they're they're manufactured well and they
are as tight as you can imagine. Hey, John, I'm
gonna run because the two more I gotta sneak in here.
If they took the time to call, I want to
thank you John, thank.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
You for good night.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Okay, get those six miles home and take it easy
to keep away from the blue. Thank you, Thanks buddy.
Talking Let me go real quickly to Pete in South Carolina. Peter,
you want to get you and want to get Laurie
in as well.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Hey Pete, welcome, dang, long time they'll talk to I've
been in the hospital for a while. Everything's all better,
you know, you know, at our age, everything's all better
now good.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
And I just was listening the other night and you
had a gentleman on discussing the fact that the mayor
wants to raise the taxes in Boston by seven percent,
but the city charter says only two point five.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Well, we have a card at the end of that.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Well, yeah, basically that we haven't and there's going to
be a vote tomorrow in the city council. There could
be anywhere from seven to thirteen percent. We have what'll
be called the two and a half percent tax rate
wax cap here in Massachusetts. And you know, commercial property
in Boston has been hit really hard after COVID just
uh yeah, And unfortunately the city has just continued to
(40:05):
spend like a drunken sailor. Except it's unfair to drunken sailors,
because generally drunken sailors, when they run out of their
own money, they stopped spending. But politicians A favorite call.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
You got one laugh, But merry Christmas. If I don't
get to you.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Oh come on, you got to talk to me before Christmas.
But Merry Christmas to you too. Thanks so much, Pete.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
You got it. Take that'll warm things up. Good night.
Let me go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie, I only
got twenty seconds left for you. How are you.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
I'm good, I'm well, and I just Bernie whatever.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Bernie was awesome, and I you know, I just want
to say that, like Lance Morgan is.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
Probably the coolest name of a guess you've.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Ever had, something like a romance novel or something.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, oh, I'm with it. Or he could be like
a third basement for the Red Sox. Maybe. I mean
it's it's a it's a pretty good it's a pretty
cool name. Thank you, thank you. We may talk soon.
We can talk later on during the week. Okay, thanks
so much for going. You got short changed here.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Okay, thanks okay, I didn't know. We will find bye
bye bye.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
All right, done for the night, Rob Brooks, thank you
very much. The nice job. We will We're tight here
on time, so I'm going to end as always with
all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
Mike Pal Charlie Rais, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's why all your pets are past. They loved you,
you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Hopefully you get in the morning and night's side. Have
a great Wednesday everyone. I will be on Facebook in
(41:33):
about two minutes. I promised. Nice side with Dan Ray
and Facebook. Find me there. I want to say hello,
coming back. We'll have a great have a great Wednesday
every week.
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