December 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Following the President’s live address to the nation, Dan gave his analysis of the speech and invited listeners to share their thoughts on it as well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I w Beasy Boston's
new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Van Walkins, Thank you very much. Big speech by President
Trump tonight went about eighteen minutes by my watch, stayed
on script highlighted. It was sort of what you'd call
a victory lap or maybe and I told you so speech.
There were points in it that I felt he was incorrect,
but most of those were the subjective judgments. A lot
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of facts that were thrown out. Uh, there are none
that I can specifically quibble with, but maybe you can.
So six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Let
me go next to Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve, appreciate
your patience, got you in. You go right ahead?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
By Dan, I thought, I hope you hope everthing's okay
with you. I I just wanted to say. I think
his speech was short and sweet. He threw everything in
the kitchen sink in that speech. I mean, there was
nothing that he missed. All politicians, including Trump, exaggerate, so
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it's to be expected. I thought, the Federal Reserve and
his you know, the new guy that he wants to appoint,
and also the fact that he wants the rates to
go down I think that that might be a little premature,
because I'm not sure that the inflation is going to
be going down anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, one of the one of the things that will
bring inflation down and watch most carefully the gas prices,
because if gas prices stay down, the cost of goods.
Everything you and I buy the store is truck there
by a truck that's running on some form of fuel.
And as long as those prices stay down where they
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are or go lower, that's that's a huge impact on inflation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, a transmit across the factored into the what we
pay at the retail level all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Absolutely, And then at some point also we as
consumers have to say, okay, I've mentioned many times I
used to buy pepperge Farm cookies and when they went up,
I continue to buy pepperge Farm cookies because I like
pepperg Farm cookies. But now the prices have gone down,
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like eggs and others, the peppers from I'm not buying
peppers from cookie cook cookies at four ninety nine for
eight cookies. I'm sorry, No, they're not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
They're good, but they're not that good, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, oh absolutely, I got my my Oreos and my
chips a Hoy absolutely is the Peppers Farm cookie better
quality cookie probably, But guess what you know? I mean,
I could I can find better cookies or equivalent cookies
a lot a lot less expensive. So and I think
we as consumers have to be smart and we got
to at some point say, hey, guess what you know?
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I'll go through the ice cream aisle and normally I
wait until I see, you know, uh, something comes up,
you know, two for seven dollars to get the you know,
gallon of ice cream and what three point fifty or
two ninety nine. I'm not paying for ninety nine for
ice cream. I like ice cream. I don't like it
that much.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sorry, you know you know that that that I was
waiting for the speech, during the speech for him to
talk about Minnesota and that you know age, Yeah, Broad
wasted abuse problemly. And I think that somebody is going
to get indicted there. I think there's some criminal activity
going on, but there's then a way, and I'm glad.
There's one thing that he always says in his speech,
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tax payer paid. Whenever they talk about student loans being forgiven,
they never say who's going to pay for it? And
that in the same thing with the subsidies. You never
hear who's paying for the subsidies. We are Why should
we pay for somebody else's insurance when they can't even
use it because the doctor, the duckables, and the copas
are too high, and even the themiums are kind of
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even with the acepsonies, the insurance companies are making out
like bandits.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know he was going. I was scribbling notes
as quickly as I could, and a point I couldn't
keep up. I mean, I could always keep up with
Joe Biden's pace, but not with Donald Trump's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It was not as I wanted to say. As a
former reporter, and you were a damn good part of
my French You were a very good reporter. And also
you're an attorney. You you hit all the points because
you're looking at it from a different point of view
than the average person listening to him. I mean you,
that's what you did for a living for thirty something years, right.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Thirty one years, and I've been doing this for a
living for my nineteenth year here. So yeah, I'm thinking
about making a career out of this journalism thing.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think you've done very well, but I just think
that Listeneach was exactly what he should have done. He
didn't go for an hour. He could have talked for
an hour easy, but twenty minutes, eighteen minutes, that's pert.
You know, that's most people. You lose their attention after
a I guess that's so whoever designed it. I think
there's some Trump didn't do it all by himself. I
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think the speech writers got involved there, and I give him,
you know, credit for doing what they did.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And he stayed on script, which is what he needs
to do.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know, you know, you hit everything. I mean, you
didn't miss anything on all that think I couldn't believe it.
There was there was a lot of stuff going on there,
and you were rattling them all up. And I said, yep,
that's true, that's true. And I do support Trump on
most everything he does, and I do agree with you
on what he when he went after Rob Reiner, I
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think that was I even have a friend who's solidly Trump,
I mean, one hundred and ten percent for Trump, and
she thought that, you know that what he said about
Rob Reiner as a deceased person was terrible. You know,
just leave him alone, let him rest. In peace. I
would have made no comment at all. I would have
just said, you know, very little. It didn't he didn't,
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you know, he he doesn't agree with him because he's
a far lefty from California. But so that he's gone,
you know, that's it. You know, why why bring him
up so exactly? So anyway, thank you very much, Dan,
and uh, you know, this is an interesting speech. I'll say,
I would say probably one of his top two speeches
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that he's ever made.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. Well, I think that in terms of the White House,
it's as good as any that I've heard him make.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I can't wait here with the the other networks. I'm
sure that we're going to get another spin from the
other networks. Especially.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I want to hear what. I want to hear what
people think. That's what That's what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Your your audience is a good consensus of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, well, we have, we have all points of view. Unfortunately,
Bob from Rhode Island. You heard what he said, you know,
and once once you go to the language that's unacceptable,
the FTC, you're going in the water, and I think,
do not repeat what he said. But you heard what
he said.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, you know he can't do it. You're wanting to
get close.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, it's juvenile, juvenile. See, thank you so always. Merry Christmas.
We'll talk again.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Thank you, mind, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Very quick break. Coming right back on Nightside. The only
line open is six one seven. Uh. Let's just uh.
I got to push you a little bit here, folks,
because I want to get more people in tonight. That's
my goal. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Let me go to Rashid in Dorchester. Rashid, you were
next on Nightside. Your reaction to President Trump's speech.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There was a desperate cry for help. I think that
he's getting killed by his own base. I am one
who's really not satisfied with his performance. We're getting from him,
as he said on Lauren Ingram, six hundred thousand more
Chinese spies to come into our universities. We are getting
more h one B visas, which we don't want. Epstein
(08:02):
files cover up Fumble with embarrassing. The terraff regime that
he's pushing is completely faked. I mean they came out
with twenty five percent tariffs, which I'm for as you know, Dan,
I'm a big economic nationalist and I think tariffs are great.
They had a twenty five percent tariff, and then Bill
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Ackman and all these other Wall Street billionaires and donate
into this campaign called and then said hey, back off.
And then we've been getting this weird terror regime where
it's like, oh, uh, fifteen percent for you or one
hundred and ten percent for China and zero percent for Vietnam,
so China could friends show everything into the country from Vietnam.
And then on the Endless Wars piece, I mean, we're
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getting regime change war in Venezuela, which we don't want,
we don't need. We're getting more funding to Ukraine, which
we don't want and we don't need. And we're getting
we almost got into Yuan, which would have been I
think honestly not good for us.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So it's it's been.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Really frustrating, and I think that President Trump has lost
his base most of it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
The Republicans have.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Done absolutely nothing while they've been in Congress besides a big,
beautiful bill, which is a disaster. I mean, I don't
know how you could justify giving a trillion dollars to
a military industrial complex, and in cutting Medicaid for the
American people like it's weird, and you know, when it
comes to healthcare, I think that, yes, I think he's.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
On the money.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
The insurance companies have been subsidized by Obamacare, and I
think the solution to healthcare in America is subsidized healthcare
provided by the government that is not free market and
it's not socialists.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I mean, that's the least need to do for the people.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean, I just think that they're in some deep trouble.
I think that they see that the terms are not going.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
To be pretty.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
His ratings are in the toilet. So yeah, let's roll
in front the American people and brag about accomplishments that
even the base is not even satisfied with.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Interesting analysis. I know that you were a big Trump supporter,
and you you were very disappointed, Rashida. Appreciate your analysis,
quick and to the point. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks, then, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Let's keep rowling. You're going to go next to Shane
in Plymouth. Shane, you were next on Nightsiger right ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Thank Dan. So there was a lot I could agree
with in his speech, but as a base supporter of
somebody who supported him since before the uh you know,
was given the that go on the you know, Republican
primary back you know, in his first term. I think
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one of the bases simply, I'm a younger person, so
I'm thirty something that you know, most people my age
are younger or on the right. They have a serious
issue with our relationship with the terrorst state right now
that we're continuing to fund that is not just not
just on a political and you know, wrong side of
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history level, like a mistake, but on a on a
visceral like making our stomach turn because it's so what kinds.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm confused here. What country are you talking about, shane.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
H?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
The occupation of Palestine by the country country of Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it is a country. It was, it was well
for well, it's it's been in existence. It's been in
existence in terms of a member of the United Nations
since May of nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I mean another defunct kind of idea considering you know,
any who hasn't been before currents so was their entire Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're breaking up on me a little bit, but I
want to hear what you say. You're telling me that
you're I.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Would like I would I would have liked him to
address the fact that you know, we are we're in
this this parasitic relationship. And I know people are going
to say, oh, you know, they give us technology and
they give us intelligence, and it's like.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
No, you see exactly what their intelligence is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The only democracy, it's the only democracy in the middle,
is what's wrong with Israel. If you're anti Israel, you and.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I national social estate. Yeah, that's fine, It's a national
social estate, not a democracy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Really are you serious? Are you serious when you when
you say that they're not a democracy?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Serious?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Camp? Are you? Are you familiar with with within uh,
what's called the Kanesset over there. They're more democratic in
many respects than the nice what I I have no
idea if you want.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
To tell you know, their media is curated, much like
it was in Germany, and.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Shane, I got to be honest with you. Wait, you're
going off here on a trip. I have no idea
where you're coming from. And in view of what happened
is in.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Look?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Sorry, Dana, know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
What I'm saying is how many times has Israel been
attacked by their Arab neighbors in your in I don't
know how old you are. You said you're only thirty.
So how many times has Israel been attacked by Arab
neighbors since nineteen forty eight? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I could give a ballpark idea. How many times have
they attacked the United States? Like the USS liberty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
First, first of all, everyone wants to mention the USS liberty.
I lived through that, okay, I was actually alive at
that time, and there were there was a mistake made,
but other than the US liberty, which Israel admitted to
had admitted that it was a mistake, and that was
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at the height of the.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Nineteen false flag false flag operations.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Again, you don't want you don't want it. You don't
want to hear what I have to say. So therefore
I was going to try to make you well, I'm
just I want you to understand. You mentioned the USS liberty, okay,
and they said that they yeah, they admitted to it,
and they said it was a mistake. Other than the
USS liberty, name me one member of the US military
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who has ever been killed by Israel. I can name
you thousands that have been killed by Hasballah, by Hamas,
by Iran, by Isis.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
How about the fact that it's all but confirmed outside
of sophistry that Isis would not have existed without the
US Deep State in Israel working conjunction together.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Because I figu're out of Shaine and you've been very polite,
but you hear that I have no idea what I have,
no idea what you're reading, but you're not reading history.
And at this point, I gotta be honest. I believe
whenever someone starts to spout that nonsense to me, I
begin to think that they're more than just anti Israel,
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that they're actually are anti semi uh anti Jewish mindset,
which is frightening to me. It's frightening because so much
of it is percolating up on both extremes in this country.
There was there was a time in this country where
there was a lot of anti Semitism on the American right. Please,
the last place we should find anti Semitism is anywhere
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on the American right. And if you consider yourself a conservative,
and you were you were mouthing the platitudes that you're mouthing,
please consider consider the sources on that I could I
could spend hours having given you actual an education. Uh
on on what you're taught. Every point you've made has
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been incorrect. I mean, it's it's astonishing that someone as
young as you could be that ignorant unless you have
just bought hook Line and Sinker the anti Israeli tropes
of the extremists in this country and on that. We've
had five minutes and it's probably the worst five minutes
of radio that's been on this radio station in a
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long time. Thanks Shane Man six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. He bought the whole thing, hook Line and Sinker,
the USS Liberty, that's nineteen sixty seven what he's talking about.
I have no idea what he must be reading, but
Shane experience. You're too intelligent, too intelligent, Shane to buy
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all of that stuff. That's that stuff has been recycled
for years, Shane. Take it from someone who's been around.
We have no greater friend than Israel. We have no
greater friend in Israel, and just do some history, read
some history. Understand that there's nothing in the Arab States
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like the Kanesset exists in Israel. There are members of
the Kanesset who are Israeli, but their Arab Israeli We'll
take a break six one, seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, ten thirty Coming
right back on night Side. My mind is blown that
someone as young as that could buy into and pretend.
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I think he said he was a conservative. You're not
a conservative, Shane. I don't know what you are at
this point, but you got to open up your mind
a little bit. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Back to the phones we go. Let me see what's
been on. Carol and Riandolph. Hey, Carol, welcome back. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
How are you? Dan?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Wooh?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Little upset with Steve from Plymouth. To be honest with you,
I'm I was.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
It was a lot. That was a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It was tough to figure out where he was going.
But once he you know, clarified where he was going,
I wanted no part of it. So I tried to
be polite and and actually hopeful. I hope he will
open his mind. I didn't read more.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
You were gracious as all as always.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
I mean I.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Watched President Trump's today and I was like, I mean,
siventy nine years old, he didn't need to tell a prompter.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He was, No, he.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Had a prompter. I guarantee you had a prompter. There's
no one in the world. He definitely would have had
a proper prompter.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
But but he was passionate and he was I mean,
I don't agree with everything he does, especially the runner thing.
That took me back. It was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, no, unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I mean it was it was like, oh my god,
I thought you had more class than this.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But yeah, I couldn't agree with you more that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
But no, the way he's directing our country, I completely
agree with him. And I mean it's just where is
the decorum anymore? I mean, why can't we get back
to the middle? That like, well, why so hard?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We have strayed a long way from the middle. There's
a lot of people in the middle. And I would
like to think that most people in this program might
be somewhat to the right, somewhat to the left, but
somewhat in the middle. I keep talking about and you
learned you learned in school if you're any sort of
statistics classes, about the Bell curve, and you know, I
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think the Bell curve is legitimate that you know, they're
even in the political spectrum. We got three percent of
the people on the far left, three percent of the
people in the far right. You got about, you know,
fifteen percent of the people who are pretty shaky. But
most of us are kind of in that big middle.
And some of us are to the right of center,
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some of us are to the left of center. But
we at least should be able to talk to each other.
We're all Ama Americans. We have much more in common
than we have indifference.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Oh my god. I mean I knew when I was
a little kid. My dad said to me when I
was just a baby. He says, you are so fortunate.
You grew up in the most beautiful country in the world.
You have to embrace being an American.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We certainly are the freest country in the world, in
my opinion. And there's only six percent of the world's
population that had the good fortune of being born in America.
So all of us won a lottery who were born
here won a lottery the day we were born here.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Oh my god. And do you know, Dan, I have
been driving back and forth from the Bethezrael hospital every day.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Just visit my husband.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
But when one of your guys was talking about the
gas prices the inner city. Their gas prices are way
higher than in the suburbs. It was like, are you
kidding me? I was on Blue Hill Avenue and it's
like three point thirty nine, and I'm like, are you
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kidding me?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
They are?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Why how did they get away with this?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well? I think that the major petroleum petroleum companies realize
that if people find themselves in need of gas, a
lot of us want to have convenience and quickness. I
normally when my tank gets below a third, I begin
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to look for stations. Now again, I keep mentioning, I
live in you know, near Route nine, and for me
it's Patrion Petroleum because I know the people who are there.
I know the quality of the product. It's not a shell,
it's not a you know, one of the major brands.
But I trust I've driven them their gas for you know,
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ten years, and so I know that the gas is good.
I get good mileage out of it, and the price
cont be beat And I wish that more people, and
I think the President would be smart to go to
some of the big oil companies that say, hey, knock
this stuff off for if you're going to put an
extra cost for gasoline and inner cities. That's just not right.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I mean, that was just it was outrageous to me.
I mean, I go to sell gas at Holbrook, YEP,
which is like the cheapest, and it's like two sixty
nine or whatever, and I'm driving down Blue hilleven. These
poor people are paying three something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, I agree with you on that one for sure, Carol.
I gotta keep rolling. I got pack lines. I'm trying
to get as many people in tonight. Thank you, I
love you, thank you, thank you so much. Let me
go next to I'm going to Linda and Weymouth, Linda.
Next on, Nisa, go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Hi, good evening, Indian. Well, I have to say I
was very pleased with Trump speech tonight for for a
couple of reasons. One, it was shorty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Was comparatively yep.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Absolutely, I expected to be much longer.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
But the only thing is though he was like Rosy
the riveter. I mean, as he was talking, I was
trying to absorb it what he said and when and
then he went on to something else and something else.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
It was rapid. Oh, it was rapid fire. But he
covered a lot and uh and I think it was
I think it was an effective speech. He could have
slowed it down. But then yeah, again it's on the record.
Let the media, uh find whatever questionable uh you know,
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claims might be made. I mean, you know, he gets
into subjectivity about where the hottest comfort country in the world. Okay,
that's I'm glad to hear him say that. But first
of all, I don't know what the hottest company means.
You know, normally I don't use I don't think of
the US economy and the as with an adjective of
the hottest. But that's neither here to there, you know.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
I mean, yeah, that's that's his lingo.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You know that. Yeah, I mean, for a while the Patriots.
For a while, the Patriots were the hottest team in
the NFL, and then they played the Bills. But yeah,
you know what I'm saying. So, but a lot of
the points he made were it was sort of I
called it his I told you so speech, And what
I mean by that is he was trying to say, look,
this is what I said I do, and this is
what I've done, or this is what I said I'm doing,
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this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was coming from like a very
defensive type of a speech you know where where where
he felt he really had to push all these things
because of always been an attacked on them all.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, I also think that you could look at it.
They say the best defense is a good offense, I thought.
But he went on offense, basically saying that someone convinced
him let's stay on script for eighteen minutes, let's mention everything,
and let's put everything out there and let people know
what is going on. And you know, he was I think, look,
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I'll read the New York Times tomorrow and I'm sure
they're going to criticize him for this, criticize them of
that the thing that I thought was the most inaccurate.
He continues to say he won a landslide election, winning
fifty percent of the vote. Is not a landside slight election.
I mean he paid. Yeah, it's as simple as that.
But yeah, I was a.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Little bit confused. I still don't understand about the healthcare. Yeah,
I'm a little I mean I do agree with him
that the insurance companies were in much control, Yes, but
I don't know how he's going to fix this.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, what his what his plan and what the Republican's
plan is, And we'll get into that more later this week.
There attitude is that give checks directly to individuals. First
of all, they want to make sure that the people
who are on Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act are
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actually qualified or qualified. There are some questions about what
should or should not qualify. But then there were a
lot of subsidies which were given on a temporary basis
because of COVID. Now those those subsidies are being what's
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called sunseted sunset and or sunset, whichever you prefer, and
and now they're going to look at them. The Democrats
would love to see them extended another three years. Well,
COVID is over. I've heard that the theory and the
reason for them were that there were a lot of
people who were in economic trouble and COVID not only
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medical trouble, but economic trouble. And so now they're saying, look,
instead of giving the money directly to the insurance companies,
let's give it directly to Americans so they can then
get into the marketplace, which is going to be it'll
be a long slog, and hopefully that's going to be resolved.
My suspicion is there will be some sort of a
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compromise between both the Democrats and the Republicans, at least
I hope so.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I do too, Linda, great call is always. Thank you
so much. I appreciate your timing.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Thank you very much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
For Merry Christmas.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Okay, thanks Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Good night. Six one seven two four ten thirty. There's
one line there, and there's one line at six one
seven nine three one ten thirty. I am more than
happy to talk about this speech and your reaction to
it and get as many different points of view in.
We've had people who liked it, We've had people who
have not liked it. And I'm not keeping score, but
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we're hearing different points of view. I'd like to hear more.
Join the conversation back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right after this, You're on Night Side with Dan Ray
on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Up next, we have Edward down on the South Shore.
Edward you right next on Nightside. Appreciate your patience, your
thoughts on the president's speech tonight.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
I thought it was pretty good. Thank you for taking
my call. I just yes, I just want to say
there's a lot going on. A mentioned before that physically,
people don't catch up on and I'll start with executor
orders from his first term in office. Uh, he has
many that are now coming into play now in today's
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time as well. In twenty eighteen, the whole Venezuela Venezuela
operation was doesn't command with that's when it kicked off.
So if Joe Biden was really legitimate president, why didn't
he do anything about it?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
He was, Oh, well, hold on for a second, hold
on for a second. Joe Biden was a legitimate president.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
He was the resident minister.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He what.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I figure he's a resident I forget the but he
was put there under the Commonwealth one of the Commonwealth acts.
I can't remember at the top of my head.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He was elected. Joe Biden was elected in twenty twenty,
in November of twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Well, that's what they're telling you. However, the United States
Space Force has has it all. They have it all.
The military is he said, we're not telling you guys anything.
As we tell you guys, then the enemy finds up
number one. How did Trump?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Hold on Edward for a second before before I lose
my mind here, do you believe that the twenty twenty
election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was not a
legitimate election?
Speaker 10 (30:04):
Dan, I had the capability of voting three times with
three different names, and I and I thought it, and
I noticed I was into different places on my name.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So who did you vote for, so wastac Edward? Who
did you vote for in twenty twenty? You voted three
times in November twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Well, no, I could have based off where they misput
my address.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You could have, yes, Okay, not do that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Will let me ask you this. You live in Massachusetts, right, yeah, okay,
I'm assuming that you know Massachusetts, of all the states
in the country, the best because you've lived here all
your life.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Other than my time service, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Right, that's thank you, thank you for your service. Okay.
I spent a little bit of time in the service too.
So I'm asking you, honestly, do you have any doubt
that Joe Biden had more support in Massachusetts than Donald
Trump in twenty twenty?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh so you think that Donald Trump would have carried
Massachusetts in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Well, and this is.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's really hard to grasp and understand, but.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
What do they do for a living? Trump? Believe me,
I grasp and understand that if Donald Trump was so
popular and would have won the election in twenty twenty
in Massachusetts, why is it that we we have elected
Elizabeth Warren now three times, we've elected Ed Markey three times.
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Where are the Republicans to win in Massachusetts? I mean,
think what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
So you know what, how come?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
How come do you want? Do you understand what?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Not?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Republican? Democrat? It's it's it's the it's a swamp of them.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's what.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
That's what it is. And it's a it's the military,
it's the swung. It's just it doesn't matter. Democratic, republic, Republican,
they're all right.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well again, so I'm not going to go down this
path with anyone else. I'll finish with you, and I'll
ask you this. If you want to comment on what
President Trump said tonight, I'd love to hear it. But
if you're going to try to persuade me or anyone
in my audience that the twenty twenty election was somehow
rigged and Joe Biden wasn't elected, we elected Joe Biden,
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whether you like it, or not in twenty twenty and
we elected Donald Trump in twenty twenty four because the
country was not happy with Trump's first term. Now you
can argue over why they weren't happy with it, but
that's how the vote came out, and we weren't happy
with Biden and that's why the country swung back to Trump.
You want to react to Trump's speech or do you
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want to move on?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Yes, he said that we're absolutely booming the economy, not
right now early, everyone's kind of it's kind of tough
right now.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
But what he's saying is.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
It's going to be the crypto industry and everything's going
to the quantum financial system. Don't listen to me, to
your own research.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Good, Thanks very much, Edward. Have you ever called you
Shelby for? Is this your first time calling this?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Is that word?
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Call it a couple of times?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, Thanks very much, Eduard, appreciate it. Okay. Next up
is Steve and Easton. Steve, you were next to a
nightside welcome?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Well?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Hi? Is that you?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yes? Steve?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Okay, good, I'm good, it's good.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
First of all, I'm a Republican and I voted for
Donald Trump, and I want to point out some of
the good that he's done, and he's certainly done a
lot of good. Now, if you heard the radio today,
they caught a criminal a lady putting razors and the bread.
And so therefore that's where Donald Trump comes in. He's
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he's got his people out there looking out for things
like that, and and when he.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
By the way, I had I hadn't heard that story.
So I just want to understand where did this Where
did this event happen? I haven't heard that news, but
I'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I didn't hear the whole thing, but I was in
the kitchen getting dressed. I go out late to get
my supper, and then by the time I get home,
I missed between an hour and a half to two
hours of your show. So I usually get you about
ten minutes and ten right up until midnight. A lot
of times I get.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Home at thirty.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Again, all I'm just trying to say is I know
nothing about anyone putting razors in bread. But Donald Trump
made an eighteen minute speech tonight, and I would love
to know if you felt it was a good speech.
It was a bad speech, it.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Was good, it was good. And when they pulled those
people over and cause to check them out and they
go hysterical. That means they're guilty. When someone gets pulled over,
that's the president checking them out to be on the
same sides, to make sure they're not criminals that once
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got over the border. That's why I say that.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So you're happy with the immigration policies. I think it's
a good thing that the borders have tightened up. I
agree with you. Was there anything in the speech that
you disagreed with?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Not really. One of your callers brought up the fact
they thought he was a little hot on poor Rob Rhina.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Who h Yeah, that was That wasn't part of the
speech I mentioned. I thought that the comments that he
made about Rhiners and his wife's murder and passing whatever
phrase you want to use was incredibly unpresident presidential. And
I just think that Donald Trump has more harm to
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himself when he goes off and makes comments like that.
Why not just simply say, gee, I'm sorry to hear
what happened to him?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Rest right, right, you're right, you're right. But I was
trying to point out anything that was part that if
you know, and good and uh, one of your gentlemen
callers thought the gas was not so great. I think
the gas is pretty good. And uh, if you go
to certain supermarkets, you can say that's why you have
(36:15):
to go to a lot of supermarkets to check out
every little thing. You can even get food sometimes in
a Walmart, but don't get the frozen ones because don
and Walmart. The frozen food often gets recalled with little
plastic particles and metal poticles. But if you get some
of the.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Other car I don't do much food shopping in Walmart.
But again, whenever it's good that that bad food is
as we can agree that it's good that that bad
food is recalled in America. The FDA is doing their part, Steve,
I appreciate your call. I got to keep rolling here.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
One more quick thing. I want you to know that
when I go to a supermarket, most of the time
I go to a supermarket where they have the self
checkout because you can get out a lot of faster
and I've been running things.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Disagree on that. I think that's a bad development, but
that's good. Nice to know me. It's a different point
of view. Thank you. Let me go next to William
and Kingston. William save me here go ahead, William.
Speaker 8 (37:14):
Hey, Dan, I think you're you're the equivalent of Mother Teresa.
When you come to the people you're talking to. You're
so patient and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I've never Mother Teresa before, but I do believe in
the First Amendment, and I try to reason sometimes with
unreasonable people. Go right ahead, William, Thank you for a compliment.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
It's impressive.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Dan.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
You you must do some mindfulness or see a therapist
because some of these callers are just whoa in any event. So,
getting back to Donald Trump's speech in the Hottest country
in the in the world last I'm not a big
Biden supporter by any stretch of the imagination, but back
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when he was president, we were creating at least one
hundred and eighty thousand jobs a month, and the unemployment
rate was probably three point six maybe three point eight percent.
Now it's up to four point six.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So I'm just trying to understand something.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
So we're going on and on about the hottest country
in the in the world, but our employment rates going
up by almost ten percent, and then we're not creating
any jobs. October was I think a negative one to ten.
We got sixty thousand in November. How is this the
hottest country in the world. Well me out.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Well, I think from from his point of from the
President Trump's point of view, the he has eliminated okay,
uh Uh, he has eliminated a lot of government jobs.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
And he has he believes that he has laid the
foundation for a real revival. I'm going to hold you
here through the news because I want to be able
to respond to your question.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Stay right there and I'm I've got a break for
the news. I'll be back to you. I promise we'll
start with you right after the break. Stay there if
you haven't called, uh, and you want to talk about
your reaction to Donald trump'speech six one seven two six
one seven nine coming back on Nightside
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I w Beasy Boston's
new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Van Walkins, Thank you very much. Big speech by President
Trump tonight went about eighteen minutes by my watch, stayed
on script highlighted. It was sort of what you'd call
a victory lap or maybe and I told you so speech.
There were points in it that I felt he was incorrect,
but most of those were the subjective judgments. A lot
(00:27):
of facts that were thrown out. Uh, there are none
that I can specifically quibble with, but maybe you can.
So six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Let
me go next to Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve, appreciate
your patience, got you in. You go right ahead?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
By Dan, I thought, I hope you hope everthing's okay
with you. I I just wanted to say. I think
his speech was short and sweet. He threw everything in
the kitchen sink in that speech. I mean, there was
nothing that he missed. All politicians, including Trump, exaggerate, so
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it's to be expected. I thought, the Federal Reserve and
his you know, the new guy that he wants to appoint,
and also the fact that he wants the rates to
go down I think that that might be a little premature,
because I'm not sure that the inflation is going to
be going down anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, one of the one of the things that will
bring inflation down and watch most carefully the gas prices,
because if gas prices stay down, the cost of goods.
Everything you and I buy the store is truck there
by a truck that's running on some form of fuel.
And as long as those prices stay down where they
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are or go lower, that's that's a huge impact on inflation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, a transmit across the factored into the what we
pay at the retail level all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Absolutely, And then at some point also we as
consumers have to say, okay, I've mentioned many times I
used to buy pepperge Farm cookies and when they went up,
I continue to buy pepperge Farm cookies because I like
pepperg Farm cookies. But now the prices have gone down,
(02:18):
like eggs and others, the peppers from I'm not buying
peppers from cookie cook cookies at four ninety nine for
eight cookies. I'm sorry, No, they're not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
They're good, but they're not that good, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, oh absolutely, I got my my Oreos and my
chips a Hoy absolutely is the Peppers Farm cookie better
quality cookie probably, But guess what you know? I mean,
I could I can find better cookies or equivalent cookies
a lot a lot less expensive. So and I think
we as consumers have to be smart and we got
to at some point say, hey, guess what you know?
(02:56):
I'll go through the ice cream aisle and normally I
wait until I see, you know, uh, something comes up,
you know, two for seven dollars to get the you know,
gallon of ice cream and what three point fifty or
two ninety nine. I'm not paying for ninety nine for
ice cream. I like ice cream. I don't like it
that much.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sorry, you know you know that that that I was
waiting for the speech, during the speech for him to
talk about Minnesota and that you know age, Yeah, Broad
wasted abuse problemly. And I think that somebody is going
to get indicted there. I think there's some criminal activity
going on, but there's then a way, and I'm glad.
There's one thing that he always says in his speech,
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tax payer paid. Whenever they talk about student loans being forgiven,
they never say who's going to pay for it? And
that in the same thing with the subsidies. You never
hear who's paying for the subsidies. We are Why should
we pay for somebody else's insurance when they can't even
use it because the doctor, the duckables, and the copas
are too high, and even the themiums are kind of
(04:00):
even with the acepsonies, the insurance companies are making out
like bandits.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know he was going. I was scribbling notes
as quickly as I could, and a point I couldn't
keep up. I mean, I could always keep up with
Joe Biden's pace, but not with Donald Trump's.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It was not as I wanted to say. As a
former reporter, and you were a damn good part of
my French You were a very good reporter. And also
you're an attorney. You you hit all the points because
you're looking at it from a different point of view
than the average person listening to him. I mean you,
that's what you did for a living for thirty something years, right.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Thirty one years, and I've been doing this for a
living for my nineteenth year here. So yeah, I'm thinking
about making a career out of this journalism thing.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I think you've done very well, but I just think
that Listeneach was exactly what he should have done. He
didn't go for an hour. He could have talked for
an hour easy, but twenty minutes, eighteen minutes, that's pert.
You know, that's most people. You lose their attention after
a I guess that's so whoever designed it. I think
there's some Trump didn't do it all by himself. I
(05:09):
think the speech writers got involved there, and I give him,
you know, credit for doing what they did.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And he stayed on script, which is what he needs
to do.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You know, you know, you hit everything. I mean, you
didn't miss anything on all that think I couldn't believe it.
There was there was a lot of stuff going on there,
and you were rattling them all up. And I said, yep,
that's true, that's true. And I do support Trump on
most everything he does, and I do agree with you
on what he when he went after Rob Reiner, I
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think that was I even have a friend who's solidly Trump,
I mean, one hundred and ten percent for Trump, and
she thought that, you know that what he said about
Rob Reiner as a deceased person was terrible. You know,
just leave him alone, let him rest. In peace. I
would have made no comment at all. I would have
just said, you know, very little. It didn't he didn't,
(06:00):
you know, he he doesn't agree with him because he's
a far lefty from California. But so that he's gone,
you know, that's it. You know, why why bring him
up so exactly? So anyway, thank you very much, Dan,
and uh, you know, this is an interesting speech. I'll say,
I would say probably one of his top two speeches
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that he's ever made.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. Well, I think that in terms of the White House,
it's as good as any that I've heard him make.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I can't wait here with the the other networks. I'm
sure that we're going to get another spin from the
other networks. Especially.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I want to hear what. I want to hear what
people think. That's what That's what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Your your audience is a good consensus of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, well, we have, we have all points of view. Unfortunately,
Bob from Rhode Island. You heard what he said, you know,
and once once you go to the language that's unacceptable,
the FTC, you're going in the water, and I think,
do not repeat what he said. But you heard what
he said.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, you know he can't do it. You're wanting to
get close.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, it's juvenile, juvenile. See, thank you so always. Merry Christmas.
We'll talk again.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Thank you, mind, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Very quick break. Coming right back on Nightside. The only
line open is six one seven. Uh. Let's just uh.
I got to push you a little bit here, folks,
because I want to get more people in tonight. That's
my goal. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Let me go to Rashid in Dorchester. Rashid, you were
next on Nightside. Your reaction to President Trump's speech.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There was a desperate cry for help. I think that
he's getting killed by his own base. I am one
who's really not satisfied with his performance. We're getting from him,
as he said on Lauren Ingram, six hundred thousand more
Chinese spies to come into our universities. We are getting
more h one B visas, which we don't want. Epstein
(08:02):
files cover up Fumble with embarrassing. The terraff regime that
he's pushing is completely faked. I mean they came out
with twenty five percent tariffs, which I'm for as you know, Dan,
I'm a big economic nationalist and I think tariffs are great.
They had a twenty five percent tariff, and then Bill
(08:22):
Ackman and all these other Wall Street billionaires and donate
into this campaign called and then said hey, back off.
And then we've been getting this weird terror regime where
it's like, oh, uh, fifteen percent for you or one
hundred and ten percent for China and zero percent for Vietnam,
so China could friends show everything into the country from Vietnam.
And then on the Endless Wars piece, I mean, we're
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getting regime change war in Venezuela, which we don't want,
we don't need. We're getting more funding to Ukraine, which
we don't want and we don't need. And we're getting
we almost got into Yuan, which would have been I
think honestly not good for us.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So it's it's been.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Really frustrating, and I think that President Trump has lost
his base most of it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
The Republicans have.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Done absolutely nothing while they've been in Congress besides a big,
beautiful bill, which is a disaster. I mean, I don't
know how you could justify giving a trillion dollars to
a military industrial complex, and in cutting Medicaid for the
American people like it's weird, and you know, when it
comes to healthcare, I think that, yes, I think he's.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
On the money.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
The insurance companies have been subsidized by Obamacare, and I
think the solution to healthcare in America is subsidized healthcare
provided by the government that is not free market and
it's not socialists.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I mean, that's the least need to do for the people.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I mean, I just think that they're in some deep trouble.
I think that they see that the terms are not going.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
To be pretty.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
His ratings are in the toilet. So yeah, let's roll
in front the American people and brag about accomplishments that
even the base is not even satisfied with.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Interesting analysis. I know that you were a big Trump supporter,
and you you were very disappointed, Rashida. Appreciate your analysis,
quick and to the point. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks, then, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Let's keep rowling. You're going to go next to Shane
in Plymouth. Shane, you were next on Nightsiger right ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Thank Dan. So there was a lot I could agree
with in his speech, but as a base supporter of
somebody who supported him since before the uh you know,
was given the that go on the you know, Republican
primary back you know, in his first term. I think
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one of the bases simply, I'm a younger person, so
I'm thirty something that you know, most people my age
are younger or on the right. They have a serious
issue with our relationship with the terrorst state right now
that we're continuing to fund that is not just not
just on a political and you know, wrong side of
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history level, like a mistake, but on a on a
visceral like making our stomach turn because it's so what kinds.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm confused here. What country are you talking about, shane.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
H?
Speaker 6 (11:20):
The occupation of Palestine by the country country of Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Well, it is a country. It was, it was well
for well, it's it's been in existence. It's been in
existence in terms of a member of the United Nations
since May of nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I mean another defunct kind of idea considering you know,
any who hasn't been before currents so was their entire Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're breaking up on me a little bit, but I
want to hear what you say. You're telling me that
you're I.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Would like I would I would have liked him to
address the fact that you know, we are we're in
this this parasitic relationship. And I know people are going
to say, oh, you know, they give us technology and
they give us intelligence, and it's like.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
No, you see exactly what their intelligence is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The only democracy, it's the only democracy in the middle,
is what's wrong with Israel. If you're anti Israel, you and.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I national social estate. Yeah, that's fine, It's a national
social estate, not a democracy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Really are you serious? Are you serious when you when
you say that they're not a democracy?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Serious?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Camp? Are you? Are you familiar with with within uh,
what's called the Kanesset over there. They're more democratic in
many respects than the nice what I I have no
idea if you want.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
To tell you know, their media is curated, much like
it was in Germany, and.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Shane, I got to be honest with you. Wait, you're
going off here on a trip. I have no idea
where you're coming from. And in view of what happened
is in.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
What kind of.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Look?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Sorry, Dana, know.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
What I'm saying is how many times has Israel been
attacked by their Arab neighbors in your in I don't
know how old you are. You said you're only thirty.
So how many times has Israel been attacked by Arab
neighbors since nineteen forty eight? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
I could give a ballpark idea. How many times have
they attacked the United States? Like the USS liberty.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
First, first of all, everyone wants to mention the USS liberty.
I lived through that, okay, I was actually alive at
that time, and there were there was a mistake made,
but other than the US liberty, which Israel admitted to
had admitted that it was a mistake, and that was
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at the height of the.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Nineteen false flag false flag operations.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Again, you don't want you don't want it. You don't
want to hear what I have to say. So therefore
I was going to try to make you well, I'm
just I want you to understand. You mentioned the USS liberty, okay,
and they said that they yeah, they admitted to it,
and they said it was a mistake. Other than the
USS liberty, name me one member of the US military
(14:14):
who has ever been killed by Israel. I can name
you thousands that have been killed by Hasballah, by Hamas,
by Iran, by Isis.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
How about the fact that it's all but confirmed outside
of sophistry that Isis would not have existed without the
US Deep State in Israel working conjunction together.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Because I figu're out of Shaine and you've been very polite,
but you hear that I have no idea what I have,
no idea what you're reading, but you're not reading history.
And at this point, I gotta be honest. I believe
whenever someone starts to spout that nonsense to me, I
begin to think that they're more than just anti Israel,
(14:57):
that they're actually are anti semi uh anti Jewish mindset,
which is frightening to me. It's frightening because so much
of it is percolating up on both extremes in this country.
There was there was a time in this country where
there was a lot of anti Semitism on the American right. Please,
the last place we should find anti Semitism is anywhere
(15:20):
on the American right. And if you consider yourself a conservative,
and you were you were mouthing the platitudes that you're mouthing,
please consider consider the sources on that I could I
could spend hours having given you actual an education. Uh
on on what you're taught. Every point you've made has
(15:40):
been incorrect. I mean, it's it's astonishing that someone as
young as you could be that ignorant unless you have
just bought hook Line and Sinker the anti Israeli tropes
of the extremists in this country and on that. We've
had five minutes and it's probably the worst five minutes
of radio that's been on this radio station in a
(16:00):
long time. Thanks Shane Man six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. He bought the whole thing, hook Line and Sinker,
the USS Liberty, that's nineteen sixty seven what he's talking about.
I have no idea what he must be reading, but
Shane experience. You're too intelligent, too intelligent, Shane to buy
(16:26):
all of that stuff. That's that stuff has been recycled
for years, Shane. Take it from someone who's been around.
We have no greater friend than Israel. We have no
greater friend in Israel, and just do some history, read
some history. Understand that there's nothing in the Arab States
(16:48):
like the Kanesset exists in Israel. There are members of
the Kanesset who are Israeli, but their Arab Israeli We'll
take a break six one, seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, ten thirty Coming
right back on night Side. My mind is blown that
someone as young as that could buy into and pretend.
(17:09):
I think he said he was a conservative. You're not
a conservative, Shane. I don't know what you are at
this point, but you got to open up your mind
a little bit. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Back to the phones we go. Let me see what's
been on. Carol and Riandolph. Hey, Carol, welcome back. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
How are you? Dan?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Wooh?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Little upset with Steve from Plymouth. To be honest with you,
I'm I was.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
It was a lot. That was a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It was tough to figure out where he was going.
But once he you know, clarified where he was going,
I wanted no part of it. So I tried to
be polite and and actually hopeful. I hope he will
open his mind. I didn't read more.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
You were gracious as all as always.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
I mean I.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Watched President Trump's today and I was like, I mean,
siventy nine years old, he didn't need to tell a prompter.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He was, No, he.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Had a prompter. I guarantee you had a prompter. There's
no one in the world. He definitely would have had
a proper prompter.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
But but he was passionate and he was I mean,
I don't agree with everything he does, especially the runner thing.
That took me back. It was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, no, unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I mean it was it was like, oh my god,
I thought you had more class than this.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But yeah, I couldn't agree with you more that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
But no, the way he's directing our country, I completely
agree with him. And I mean it's just where is
the decorum anymore? I mean, why can't we get back
to the middle? That like, well, why so hard?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We have strayed a long way from the middle. There's
a lot of people in the middle. And I would
like to think that most people in this program might
be somewhat to the right, somewhat to the left, but
somewhat in the middle. I keep talking about and you
learned you learned in school if you're any sort of
statistics classes, about the Bell curve, and you know, I
(19:35):
think the Bell curve is legitimate that you know, they're
even in the political spectrum. We got three percent of
the people on the far left, three percent of the
people in the far right. You got about, you know,
fifteen percent of the people who are pretty shaky. But
most of us are kind of in that big middle.
And some of us are to the right of center,
(19:55):
some of us are to the left of center. But
we at least should be able to talk to each other.
We're all Ama Americans. We have much more in common
than we have indifference.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Oh my god. I mean I knew when I was
a little kid. My dad said to me when I
was just a baby. He says, you are so fortunate.
You grew up in the most beautiful country in the world.
You have to embrace being an American.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
We certainly are the freest country in the world, in
my opinion. And there's only six percent of the world's
population that had the good fortune of being born in America.
So all of us won a lottery who were born
here won a lottery the day we were born here.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Oh my god. And do you know, Dan, I have
been driving back and forth from the Bethezrael hospital every day.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Just visit my husband.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
But when one of your guys was talking about the
gas prices the inner city. Their gas prices are way
higher than in the suburbs. It was like, are you
kidding me? I was on Blue Hill Avenue and it's
like three point thirty nine, and I'm like, are you
(21:08):
kidding me?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
They are?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Why how did they get away with this?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well? I think that the major petroleum petroleum companies realize
that if people find themselves in need of gas, a
lot of us want to have convenience and quickness. I
normally when my tank gets below a third, I begin
(21:36):
to look for stations. Now again, I keep mentioning, I
live in you know, near Route nine, and for me
it's Patrion Petroleum because I know the people who are there.
I know the quality of the product. It's not a shell,
it's not a you know, one of the major brands.
But I trust I've driven them their gas for you know,
(21:58):
ten years, and so I know that the gas is good.
I get good mileage out of it, and the price
cont be beat And I wish that more people, and
I think the President would be smart to go to
some of the big oil companies that say, hey, knock
this stuff off for if you're going to put an
extra cost for gasoline and inner cities. That's just not right.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
I mean, that was just it was outrageous to me.
I mean, I go to sell gas at Holbrook, YEP,
which is like the cheapest, and it's like two sixty
nine or whatever, and I'm driving down Blue hilleven. These
poor people are paying three something.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, I agree with you on that one for sure, Carol.
I gotta keep rolling. I got pack lines. I'm trying
to get as many people in tonight. Thank you, I
love you, thank you, thank you so much. Let me
go next to I'm going to Linda and Weymouth, Linda.
Next on, Nisa, go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Hi, good evening, Indian. Well, I have to say I
was very pleased with Trump speech tonight for for a
couple of reasons. One, it was shorty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Was comparatively yep.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Absolutely, I expected to be much longer.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
But the only thing is though he was like Rosy
the riveter. I mean, as he was talking, I was
trying to absorb it what he said and when and
then he went on to something else and something else.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
It was rapid. Oh, it was rapid fire. But he
covered a lot and uh and I think it was
I think it was an effective speech. He could have
slowed it down. But then yeah, again it's on the record.
Let the media, uh find whatever questionable uh you know,
(23:50):
claims might be made. I mean, you know, he gets
into subjectivity about where the hottest comfort country in the world. Okay,
that's I'm glad to hear him say that. But first
of all, I don't know what the hottest company means.
You know, normally I don't use I don't think of
the US economy and the as with an adjective of
the hottest. But that's neither here to there, you know.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
I mean, yeah, that's that's his lingo.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
You know that. Yeah, I mean, for a while the Patriots.
For a while, the Patriots were the hottest team in
the NFL, and then they played the Bills. But yeah,
you know what I'm saying. So, but a lot of
the points he made were it was sort of I
called it his I told you so speech, And what
I mean by that is he was trying to say, look,
this is what I said I do, and this is
what I've done, or this is what I said I'm doing,
(24:38):
this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was coming from like a very
defensive type of a speech you know where where where
he felt he really had to push all these things
because of always been an attacked on them all.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, I also think that you could look at it.
They say the best defense is a good offense, I thought.
But he went on offense, basically saying that someone convinced
him let's stay on script for eighteen minutes, let's mention everything,
and let's put everything out there and let people know
what is going on. And you know, he was I think, look,
(25:16):
I'll read the New York Times tomorrow and I'm sure
they're going to criticize him for this, criticize them of
that the thing that I thought was the most inaccurate.
He continues to say he won a landslide election, winning
fifty percent of the vote. Is not a landside slight election.
I mean he paid. Yeah, it's as simple as that.
But yeah, I was a.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Little bit confused. I still don't understand about the healthcare. Yeah,
I'm a little I mean I do agree with him
that the insurance companies were in much control, Yes, but
I don't know how he's going to fix this.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, what his what his plan and what the Republican's
plan is, And we'll get into that more later this week.
There attitude is that give checks directly to individuals. First
of all, they want to make sure that the people
who are on Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act are
(26:14):
actually qualified or qualified. There are some questions about what
should or should not qualify. But then there were a
lot of subsidies which were given on a temporary basis
because of COVID. Now those those subsidies are being what's
(26:34):
called sunseted sunset and or sunset, whichever you prefer, and
and now they're going to look at them. The Democrats
would love to see them extended another three years. Well,
COVID is over. I've heard that the theory and the
reason for them were that there were a lot of
people who were in economic trouble and COVID not only
(26:56):
medical trouble, but economic trouble. And so now they're saying, look,
instead of giving the money directly to the insurance companies,
let's give it directly to Americans so they can then
get into the marketplace, which is going to be it'll
be a long slog, and hopefully that's going to be resolved.
My suspicion is there will be some sort of a
(27:18):
compromise between both the Democrats and the Republicans, at least
I hope so.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I do too, Linda, great call is always. Thank you
so much. I appreciate your timing.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Thank you very much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
For Merry Christmas.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Okay, thanks Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Good night. Six one seven two four ten thirty. There's
one line there, and there's one line at six one
seven nine three one ten thirty. I am more than
happy to talk about this speech and your reaction to
it and get as many different points of view in.
We've had people who liked it, We've had people who
have not liked it. And I'm not keeping score, but
(27:55):
we're hearing different points of view. I'd like to hear more.
Join the conversation back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right after this, You're on Night Side with Dan Ray
on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Up next, we have Edward down on the South Shore.
Edward you right next on Nightside. Appreciate your patience, your
thoughts on the president's speech tonight.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
I thought it was pretty good. Thank you for taking
my call. I just yes, I just want to say
there's a lot going on. A mentioned before that physically,
people don't catch up on and I'll start with executor
orders from his first term in office. Uh, he has
many that are now coming into play now in today's
(28:42):
time as well. In twenty eighteen, the whole Venezuela Venezuela
operation was doesn't command with that's when it kicked off.
So if Joe Biden was really legitimate president, why didn't
he do anything about it?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
He was, Oh, well, hold on for a second, hold
on for a second. Joe Biden was a legitimate president.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
He was the resident minister.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He what.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I figure he's a resident I forget the but he
was put there under the Commonwealth one of the Commonwealth acts.
I can't remember at the top of my head.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He was elected. Joe Biden was elected in twenty twenty,
in November of twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
Well, that's what they're telling you. However, the United States
Space Force has has it all. They have it all.
The military is he said, we're not telling you guys anything.
As we tell you guys, then the enemy finds up
number one. How did Trump?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Hold on Edward for a second before before I lose
my mind here, do you believe that the twenty twenty
election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was not a
legitimate election?
Speaker 10 (30:04):
Dan, I had the capability of voting three times with
three different names, and I and I thought it, and
I noticed I was into different places on my name.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
So who did you vote for, so wastac Edward? Who
did you vote for in twenty twenty? You voted three
times in November twenty twenty.
Speaker 10 (30:22):
Well, no, I could have based off where they misput
my address.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You could have, yes, Okay, not do that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Will let me ask you this. You live in Massachusetts, right, yeah, okay,
I'm assuming that you know Massachusetts, of all the states
in the country, the best because you've lived here all
your life.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Other than my time service, okay.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Right, that's thank you, thank you for your service. Okay.
I spent a little bit of time in the service too.
So I'm asking you, honestly, do you have any doubt
that Joe Biden had more support in Massachusetts than Donald
Trump in twenty twenty?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (31:05):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh so you think that Donald Trump would have carried
Massachusetts in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Well, and this is.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's really hard to grasp and understand, but.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
What do they do for a living? Trump? Believe me,
I grasp and understand that if Donald Trump was so
popular and would have won the election in twenty twenty
in Massachusetts, why is it that we we have elected
Elizabeth Warren now three times, we've elected Ed Markey three times.
(31:40):
Where are the Republicans to win in Massachusetts? I mean,
think what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
So you know what, how come?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
How come do you want? Do you understand what?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Not?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Republican? Democrat? It's it's it's the it's a swamp of them.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's what.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
That's what it is. And it's a it's the military,
it's the swung. It's just it doesn't matter. Democratic, republic, Republican,
they're all right.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well again, so I'm not going to go down this
path with anyone else. I'll finish with you, and I'll
ask you this. If you want to comment on what
President Trump said tonight, I'd love to hear it. But
if you're going to try to persuade me or anyone
in my audience that the twenty twenty election was somehow
rigged and Joe Biden wasn't elected, we elected Joe Biden,
(32:31):
whether you like it, or not in twenty twenty and
we elected Donald Trump in twenty twenty four because the
country was not happy with Trump's first term. Now you
can argue over why they weren't happy with it, but
that's how the vote came out, and we weren't happy
with Biden and that's why the country swung back to Trump.
You want to react to Trump's speech or do you
(32:52):
want to move on?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Yes, he said that we're absolutely booming the economy, not
right now early, everyone's kind of it's kind of tough
right now.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
But what he's saying is.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
It's going to be the crypto industry and everything's going
to the quantum financial system. Don't listen to me, to
your own research.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Good, Thanks very much, Edward. Have you ever called you
Shelby for? Is this your first time calling this?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Is that word?
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Call it a couple of times?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay, Thanks very much, Eduard, appreciate it. Okay. Next up
is Steve and Easton. Steve, you were next to a
nightside welcome?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Well?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Hi? Is that you?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yes? Steve?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Okay, good, I'm good, it's good.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
First of all, I'm a Republican and I voted for
Donald Trump, and I want to point out some of
the good that he's done, and he's certainly done a
lot of good. Now, if you heard the radio today,
they caught a criminal a lady putting razors and the bread.
And so therefore that's where Donald Trump comes in. He's
(33:56):
he's got his people out there looking out for things
like that, and and when he.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
By the way, I had I hadn't heard that story.
So I just want to understand where did this Where
did this event happen? I haven't heard that news, but
I'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I didn't hear the whole thing, but I was in
the kitchen getting dressed. I go out late to get
my supper, and then by the time I get home,
I missed between an hour and a half to two
hours of your show. So I usually get you about
ten minutes and ten right up until midnight. A lot
of times I get.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Home at thirty.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Again, all I'm just trying to say is I know
nothing about anyone putting razors in bread. But Donald Trump
made an eighteen minute speech tonight, and I would love
to know if you felt it was a good speech.
It was a bad speech, it.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Was good, it was good. And when they pulled those
people over and cause to check them out and they
go hysterical. That means they're guilty. When someone gets pulled over,
that's the president checking them out to be on the
same sides, to make sure they're not criminals that once
(35:04):
got over the border. That's why I say that.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So you're happy with the immigration policies. I think it's
a good thing that the borders have tightened up. I
agree with you. Was there anything in the speech that
you disagreed with?
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Not really. One of your callers brought up the fact
they thought he was a little hot on poor Rob Rhina.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Who h Yeah, that was That wasn't part of the
speech I mentioned. I thought that the comments that he
made about Rhiners and his wife's murder and passing whatever
phrase you want to use was incredibly unpresident presidential. And
I just think that Donald Trump has more harm to
(35:47):
himself when he goes off and makes comments like that.
Why not just simply say, gee, I'm sorry to hear
what happened to him?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Rest right, right, you're right, you're right. But I was
trying to point out anything that was part that if
you know, and good and uh, one of your gentlemen
callers thought the gas was not so great. I think
the gas is pretty good. And uh, if you go
to certain supermarkets, you can say that's why you have
(36:15):
to go to a lot of supermarkets to check out
every little thing. You can even get food sometimes in
a Walmart, but don't get the frozen ones because don
and Walmart. The frozen food often gets recalled with little
plastic particles and metal poticles. But if you get some
of the.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Other car I don't do much food shopping in Walmart.
But again, whenever it's good that that bad food is
as we can agree that it's good that that bad
food is recalled in America. The FDA is doing their part, Steve,
I appreciate your call. I got to keep rolling here.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
One more quick thing. I want you to know that
when I go to a supermarket, most of the time
I go to a supermarket where they have the self
checkout because you can get out a lot of faster
and I've been running things.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Disagree on that. I think that's a bad development, but
that's good. Nice to know me. It's a different point
of view. Thank you. Let me go next to William
and Kingston. William save me here go ahead, William.
Speaker 8 (37:14):
Hey, Dan, I think you're you're the equivalent of Mother Teresa.
When you come to the people you're talking to. You're
so patient and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I've never Mother Teresa before, but I do believe in
the First Amendment, and I try to reason sometimes with
unreasonable people. Go right ahead, William, Thank you for a compliment.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
It's impressive.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Dan.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
You you must do some mindfulness or see a therapist
because some of these callers are just whoa in any event. So,
getting back to Donald Trump's speech in the Hottest country
in the in the world last I'm not a big
Biden supporter by any stretch of the imagination, but back
(38:05):
when he was president, we were creating at least one
hundred and eighty thousand jobs a month, and the unemployment
rate was probably three point six maybe three point eight percent.
Now it's up to four point six.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
So I'm just trying to understand something.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
So we're going on and on about the hottest country
in the in the world, but our employment rates going
up by almost ten percent, and then we're not creating
any jobs. October was I think a negative one to ten.
We got sixty thousand in November. How is this the
hottest country in the world. Well me out.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Well, I think from from his point of from the
President Trump's point of view, the he has eliminated okay,
uh Uh, he has eliminated a lot of government jobs.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
And he has he believes that he has laid the
foundation for a real revival. I'm going to hold you
here through the news because I want to be able
to respond to your question.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Stay right there and I'm I've got a break for
the news. I'll be back to you. I promise we'll
start with you right after the break. Stay there if
you haven't called, uh, and you want to talk about
your reaction to Donald trump'speech six one seven two six
one seven nine coming back on Nightside
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