October 10, 2025 • 40 mins
If you thought President Trump was a shoo-in to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year, think again! This year's Noble Peace Prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, despite Trump's recent involvement in a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, putting a stop to the 2-year war between the warring groups. Many supporters of Trump and those involved with the peace deal believe Trump was snubbed...but was he? Maybe it was just the timing of the voting period as a peace deal with Israel and Hamas just happened within the last day or so. Is it possible Trump may win next year's Nobel Peace Prize? What are your thoughts on the selection?
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the same principle. It's the same principle. Okay, we're going
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to change topics here and we're going to talk about
the Nobel Peace Prize today. Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, for those of.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You who do not know Maria Corina Mashado, and I'm
sure that most of my audience knows the name Donald
Trump much better than the name Maria Karina Mashado. She
is the opposition leader in Venezuela to the President of Venezuela,
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Meduro Nicholas Meduro. Meduro is basically running a dictatorship. The
Trump administration has put a fifty million dollars bounty on
Madeiro's head, so he's got to be looking over his shoulder.
And so the award of this Nobel Peace Prize to
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the woman who is leading the fight against Meduro, Maria
Karina Mashado, is a good award in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, However, however, I think that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The Nobel Committee Prize they do prizes in literature and
medicine as well as the best known as the Nobel
Peace Prize. They have made some I think ridiculous awards
over the years. The most ridiculous was the one they
gave to Barack President Obama in early two thousand and
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nine for some reason his before he had served as
president for any more than a few weeks. I don't
understand why that was given. I certainly can understand why
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the award was given today to this woman in Venezuela, who,
by the way, when she accepted the award, very graciously said,
we are on the threshold of victory, and today, more
than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of
the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the
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democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to
achieve freedom and democracy. As I mentioned, this is an
article out of the Washington Post. Trump has been highly
critical of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, for whom the administration
is offering a fifty million dollar reward for information leading
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to his arrest. Maduro was indicted in the United States
for narco terrorism during the first Trump administration. So this
woman is an ally philosophically of the Trump administration, and
she was very gracious. She may have been surprised my suspicion.
And I know nothing about the Nobel Peace Prize other
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than they gave it to Yastra Arafat one year, to
Barack Obama another year, and they gave it to Jimmy
Carter twenty in two thousand and two, which was a
lovely gesture.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't know, you.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Know what what Jimmy Carter accomplished in terms of peace
and around the world. President Trump should receive the Nobel
Peace Prize for what he's done so far, in my opinion,
and if you agree with me on that, feel free.
Six one, seven, four, ten thirty. If you disagree, feel free.
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But what is going on in Israel right now, the
fact that this administration has been able to bring not
only Jimas and Israel together, but many of the other countries.
As a matter of fact, the President has talked about
that as recently as today, Rob please play President Trump
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cut number thirty four.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
As you know, last night, we reached a momentous breakthrough
in the Middle East, something that people said was never
going to be done. We ended the war in Gaza
had really on a much bigger basis, created peace and
I think it's gonna be a lasting peace, hopefully an
everlasting piece piece in the Middle East. We secured the
release of all of the remaining hostages and they should
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be released on Monday or Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Getting them is a complicated process. I'd rather not tell
you what they have to do together. There are places
you don't want to be, but we are getting the
hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, and that'll be
a day of joy. I'm gonna try and make a
trip over. We're gonna try and get over there.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And by the way, the White House now was confirming
that this is cut number thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Please Rob.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
We're going to go to Egypt where we'll have a signing,
an additional signing. We've already had a signing representing me,
but we're going to have an official signing.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And the amazing thing is all of the countries over there,
from Guitar to Saudi Arabia, all of them, the rich
ones are less than rich ones.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
They've all come together something which is amazing. Actually, they've
all come together for this and they're really probably the
best relationships they've ever had. So it's been really something
incredible and nobody thought it was possible to get it done.
And very importantly, the hostages are coming back.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And by the way, although there has been not a
lot of credit given.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
By the mainstream you know, network media, ABC, NBC, and CBS,
there was this comment made by Martha Raddits, who used
to be a reporter here in Boston and WCVB TV
and is a friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
She gives Trump pretty clear credit, which any person in
their right mind would have to do.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean, this is a goal that was.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It was a goal that was reached for, you know,
the Golden Ring, if you want to call it. It
came to pass in large part because of Benjamin net
Yahoo and what he did to bring his country back
from this horrific event of two years ago on October seventh,
in which twelve hundred people were massacred innocent civilians in
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e rally in his country. But so, this is ABC
reporter Martha Raddit, it's got to give her a credit
for being fair. I mean, look, this is obvious. This
is a no brainer. I don't care what sort of
level of Trump's derangement syndrome someone might be suffering from.
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This is an incredible achievement. And if these hostages come home,
and if Hamas, as they have already agreed, are willing
to disarm and allow the people of Gaza to be
governed by a group of independent Palestinian leaders under some guidance,
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the upside for the people of Gaza is incredible. And
you saw people of Gaza celebrating as well as the
people of Israel in hostage Square.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
This is Martha radd It's cut twenty.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Please Rob tell us about the role President trum playde
and bringing all of this about well, Robin, there's no
question that if this goes as planned, if we see
those remaining hostages freed in Israel begin its withdrawal, it
is a remarkable achievement and President Trump most certainly deserves
credit for his role. He has done this through diplomacy, pressure,
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and the sheer force of his personality and persistence. He
dispatched diplomats again and again, made threats just in the
last few days to Moss say again, if they did
not sign the deal, all hell would break loose, and
they had the bombing of Iran as an example of that.
But perhaps most importantly, he pushed Benjamin Ettan yahuo in
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wighs his predecessor and others have.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Not Robin, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Really accurate analysis by Martha raddits that attack on the
Iranian nuclear facility by the stealth bombers UH is critical
to this, as is the relationships that he has developed.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
President Trump has developed.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Over the years with Middle Eastern leaders who are not
inclined to support anything that benefits Israel. We'll take a
break if you are willing. Even though Donald Trump did
not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, if you want to
express a thought or an opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I've heard what I had to say. Here's the number.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'll say it slowly six one seven, two five, four,
one zero three zero, six, one seven two five four
to ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And I would like to hear.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And I know that I have listeners who are not
supporters of Donald Trump, but you have every.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Right to be.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But I would like to hear all of you step
up to the microphone. I would say, man, apple, woman up,
uh and tell me what you think. This is not
gonna not gonna have you put a Trump bumper sticker
on your car. I guess I get that. But this
is a remarkable achievement. Again, particularly, I'll echo what matha
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Ratits had to say that if this all comes to fruition,
and if it doesn't, I think Israel is ready to
go in and finish the job. Six seven thirty six
one seven, nine three, ten thirty back right after that.
We will talk about this only till eleven o'clock. If
you're calling in at ten fifty eight, you're not going
to get in the year on this. We'll go to
the twentieth hour at eleven and tonight the topic is
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going to be what is the farthest place you've traveled
to or what is the farthest place on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't need anyone calling and telling.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Me Mars that you'd like to travel to and why
back on Night's Side after this.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
During the break, Rob made a comment to me, can
I share the comment with the audience? Rob, Rob, Who's
my friend and a key member of the Knightside team.
He and I don't necessarily always see eye to eye
on every issue, which I really respected.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Admire about Rob.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
He said to me, well, you know, I paraphrase what
he said was that renaming your Defense Department of the
Department of War doesn't screen peace Prize. Well, Rob, to
some extent, I think I could make the argument that
it does. Look, I think that Hamas watched what Trump
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did in terms of Iran. Iran is the huge supporter
and funder of Hezbollah and Hamas as well as the
hoodie rebels and Yemen. But that was a devastating strike
on Iran uh And and I do believe that now
Hamas realizes that their financial Godfather Iran, the religious the
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religious leadership of Iran cannot support Hamas financially as they.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Have over the years.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And I think that that that actually contributed to Hamas
maybe looking at this situation and saying, hey, we need
to survive to fight another day, and if we if
we hold on here, we may all be wiped out.
That's what That's the only thing that I think would
have brought Hamas to the table here. Let let's get
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to phone calls though, six one seven, four ten thirty.
Steve is up in Maine. Hey, Steve, thanks for checking in, sir.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I dance.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I told you i'd call in now.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I appreciate that I have all my friends and listeners
who I know are loyal listeners, and sometimes it's it's
tough to get people to reach for that phone.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So you go right ahead, Steve. What's your thought on
I know that you're a supporter of Donald Trump.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Yes, And I remember a month or so ago you
were asking the audience do you feel optimistic or pessimistic
about where our nation is heading? And I said optimistic
And just what's happening now is a big, big boost
for relations with the I wouldn't trust our enemies, ever,
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I'm kind of interested to see how.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
It's going to turn out.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
I mean, like you said, Iran's kind of on the
heels now. And God, thank God that Donald Trump is
in office, because he's a strong leader and they are
not going to mess around with him. I said, he's
business though.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I said to a friend of mine who was very
worried about the strike on the Iranian nuclear facility, a
bright guy, and I said.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Why you concerned? And they said, whoa, you know this
could lead to nuclear war. I said, no, if you
take a potential rogue nation off the field of of
of of countries that could actually achieve a status of
being a nuclear nation, that actually is something that would
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should qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
I mean yeah, I mean yeah, I mean you're giving
it the Arafat back in the day. I mean, come on,
that's not a very prestigious award because he was a
killer of many, many people, and he hated Israel and
America too, So yeah, no, what he doesn't need a
Noble Peace Prize. He's got his seventy supporters that voted
him in because we knew it was going to come
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to this and we needed a strong leader. And you know,
just what did you get ready to go?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yes, Steve, did you say his seventy eight percent of supporters?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (17:58):
What was the percentage?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I oh, in the election? In the election, I mean
it was very close. I think he got fifty point
one percent. Now, you know, he Yeah, there's never been
a presidential election when when Lyndon Johnson won, well, when
Ronald Reagan won forty nine states against Walter Mondale, I
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think Reagan. I don't think Reagan got sixty percent. It
would have been like fifty eight or fifty nine percent.
But yeah, to get fifty percent and to win all
the battleground states, that's what he stakes his his thought
on to be really deal when he claims he claims
a mandate. You know, when Johnson beat Goldwater in sixty
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four with I think it was sixty percent of the vote,
that was a mandate.
Speaker 12 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So again he has a right to characterize his election
in any way he wants. At the same time, when
when Harris said it was the closest presidential election in
the twenty first century, did she miss the Bush Gore
election of two thousand, did she miss. You know, the
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the the Hillary Clinton election, well the non election of
Hillary in twenty sixteen, when when Hillary actually won the
popular vote but lost.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The electoral college.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Anyway, hey, Steve.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Anyways, I wanted to call the eleventh hour, but I
called early. Well, there's the good news, Clarita, California. You're
going where the furthest I've ever travel is that visit
my cousin or a husband back in two.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Thousand oh, San Clarita, California.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, let me give you good news, and I want
to give good news to all the other callers.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Remember, we have a rule on nightside. We asked people
to call once a week.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But but in the in the twentieth hour on night side, Steve, everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Gets a hall pass.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So even if you want to, if you want, you
want to call back at eleven and and expand on
the trip to Santa Colorina.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Clarita in Colora.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, set Clarina, you got a hall pass. Where's Santa Clarina? There?
Speaker 12 (20:10):
You sir? So nice wicking a delly ticket at.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The You got it right, if you got it, it's
a hall we call it a hall pass.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Thanks, Steve.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
You should have known that do you bet?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
When are you back driving?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Steve Stephen, New Hampshire. I'm going to h Alton, New Hampshire.
When I come back, I'll go to.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Bob hober Run.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Steve, Steve, by the way, is one of those truckers,
those road warriors driving an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And without guys and gals like Steve driving the eighteen wheelers,
there would be nothing in grocery stores and and uh
in stores that you go to.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
So U you couldn't hear that. I did my air
horn on my wheel.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I did. I heard it?
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Oh you heard it?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I consider that to be at night side saloon. So
anybody's going by it.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All right? Thanks Steve, talking to you. Have a great night.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Good night.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right, we'll continue to talk here. Does Donald Trump
deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? I think without question, and
I think that probably the prize, which traditionally is awarded
in October, in the conjunction of the other prizes. I
suspect that this woman from Venezuela, who we mentioned earlier,
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who was very gracious, Maria Karina Machado, the opposition leader
to Nicholas Mendoro. I'm sure that the decision was made
a month ago, and Donald Trump should be the odds
on favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize next October, which,
whether or not he realizes it or not, should be
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something that he should value even more because it's going
to be before the congressional election. I don't want to
be political about it, but that's that's an advantage. Uh,
here we go six one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
We got two lines open at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Let's light him up. We will
end this conversation. I think it's going to be a
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fascinating conversation. I see that Ken from Waltham will be
next in Darryl in Chicago. I believe Daryl's a new caller.
I believe Ken is someone who's not a big fan
of Donald Trump, but I think he's a magnanimous caller
and I will be very surprised if he does not
agree with Martha Raddits and me, uh that this is
an extraordinary achievement by President Trump and his team. And
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guess what, when we elect presidents, I root for them
whoever I voted for, because ironically, today the stock market
and the day we should be celebrating peace in the
Middle East. The stock market today took a dive because
Trump has thrown some more tariffs on China. Uh, it's
it's a funny world out there, ladies and gentlemen. We'll
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be back at Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Let go next to Daryl in Chicago. Daryl, welcome to Nightside.
How are you sir?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Okay? Never one, Darryl.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Are you on a are you on a speakerphone of
some sort or a headset?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You're kind of muffled cell phone, cell phone? Will do
me a favor?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Will you take the mouthpiece of the cell phone and
speak right into the cell phone for me, my friends,
because I want to hear what you have to say.
You're a little off to sell the piece the mouthpiece
of the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Little better, A little better? Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Well, first of all, why he should get it? Never one?
Why is he spending a funny with his children? Get coins? Billions?
Speaker 12 (24:02):
Donalds?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Number one? That's that's a bear run number two. Uh,
I was in the Vietnam War, and that damn guy
he had five deferments for a seat. And uh he
claims the soldier guy in saluting. He didn't he didn't
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come here. Yeah, the other vetention. So I just don't
like it. And the other thing, it's still at Chicago,
and he's got all these sogers now going around the
town screwing us up, and I think it's bad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I And I understand Darryl that you're no fan of
Donald Trump, and that's fine, but I think you should
have the the independence to look at the situation and
if he has been able to bring the warring parties
together in the Middle East, it might mean that a
generation of soldiers won't have to find themselves in a
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bad situation like you found yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
As a young man in Vietnam. That's all.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You don't have to like the fact that he used
medical deferments and avoided what many others could.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Not avoid, including yourself.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You may not like the fact that he's raising money
and selling what ties and gold coins and watches. I
think that's beneath the I agree with you. I think
that's beneath the office and the dignity of the presidency.
But at the same time, I look at this and
I think to myself, no other president was able to
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achieve what he appears to have achieved.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Yeah, I'm not It is a totally one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Okay, Yeah again, Daryl, do me a favor.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Next time you call, I'm going to have Rob trying
to get us a better connection because it's just muffled
and it's tough to hear. But thank you for listening.
Have you called my Showbifurces? This your first time?
Speaker 12 (26:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We give you a kick on the clause wakes Joe
and thanks thanks for listening to us out in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
All right, then we go to Ken in wal dam Ken. Welcome,
How are you, sir?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I'm well Dan, good to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Good to talk with him as well. And you're someone
I know who is not a fan of Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
That is that is true. So first he did he
received forty nine point eight percent of the vote. Jill
Stein and Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Chase Oliver all
got around half a percent, So that dropped him. You know, Nate, Well,
I don't know, maybe Kamala Harris would have got all
those votes, but well.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know, I mean I doubt that. But but what
did Kamala Harris what was her vote total?
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Then she was at forty eight point three. So Trump
did win the popular vote, but he Yeah, but more
people did vote against him than for what I wanted
to say. I can support. I mean, you know, I've
supported him in Israel. I certainly support what he's doing
there and would certainly like to see this really go
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to fruition before giving him too much credit. Uh. And
I certainly supported his response to Iraq, but you know,
I certainly mean Iran.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I think I meant to I Ran, not Iraq.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Thank you, Dan, Yes, I did, Thanks for that correction. Yeah,
but I certainly don't support him winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
And you know, I've been a huge critic of his
response in Ukraine, and I think he's actually I think
the only answer is we have to support Ukraine one
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hundred percent, right until Russia finally gives up or wins.
And I think Trump's actions of supporting Russia when he
has even to the two and withholding you know, intelligence Ukraine,
chewing out Selensky in the White House, that all has
been a benefit to Russia and extended the war, that
will only extend the war.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
In my mind, Well, he may have been.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You know, Kenn again, I don't want to disagree with you,
because you're very magnanimous in your comments.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But I do.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Think that that Trump at his core, at his core,
believes that economics are the way to solve problems. And
you might agree with me and might disagree, but I
think that he views all of these problems can be
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resolved from an economic point of view. And I'm sure
that he began with Zolensky thinking, okay, maybe if if
Zolensky was able to give a little bit here. I
think that's where he was coming from. Now I disagree
with him on that, but I can understand what his
(29:02):
policy was. Now he changed his tune, and I think
he now realizes, and I've talked about this as you know,
that Putin has played him. Putin has played him on
the trip to Alaska. And I think that that Trump
at this point is much more supportive today of Ukraine
(29:24):
and Zolensky. And I think that Trump might do more
for Ukraine from a military point of view than even
Biden did. And Biden, you know, did support Zolensky, uh,
But but I think Trump felt the way to end
the Ukraine War was was to in effect co opt
(29:45):
Putin and he now realizes that Putin played him. I
think it's I think it's more complicated, and I think
part of the economy, the economic.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Rash now was he tried to sell all these guys in.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
The Middle East, look if we can eliminate this Israeli
Hamas thing and you can be a little bit more
accepting of Israel. When he was talking to the to
the emirs and the leaders of these other countries, I
think he was trying to appeal to their wallets, into
their pocketbooks, and maybe it worked.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Maybe it worked.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I don't trust Hamas to follow through with the disarmament,
but boy, he's moved this process a much further down
the field than I ever would have anticipated.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Well, I think we'll see. I hope you're right. Let
me make just a couple other quick arguments that you know,
when he suggested that we need to take control of Greenland,
he wouldn't rule out military action. Same thing in Panama. Again,
he did not sound like a man of peace to.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Panama and Greenland are different things. But I understand your point.
I mean, we gave the Panama Canal away and at
this point red China, China has more influence in the
Panama Canal than the United States. And let me tell
you that's a that's a scary prospect. And so I
look at the Greenland thing as uh as as really
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just uh dumb, stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Not necessary.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
The Panama Canal thing, we got to look at that
a little bit more seriously, Ken in terms of will
be messing around down there.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
But how what's his approach right? I mean so far,
I would say his approach has not been a man
of peace.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Sometimes if he wasn't a man of peace when he
when he dropped, you know, a bunker buster bombs uh
in Iran. But guess what I think that's taken Iran
off the field.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
I mean, no, I'm so I have been one hundred
percent in support of that move, and I would I
have no disagreement with that that you have not actually
ruling up.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, But what I'm saying that's not a man of
peace in the in the classic sense of it. The
fact that he he fiddled and tattled with with some
conversation is about Greenland.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I think part of that was he was giving Denmark.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
A tickle uh and and and laying a foundation.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
For what he's going to do with NATO.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I think he's more complicated than people and more sophisticated
than people realize, and shrouds himself. As as as as
the you know, the guy you know what was that
Teddy Rooseveldt said walk softly, but carry a big stick.
And I think that he's like, talk loud, talk loudly,
uh and and carry a big stick.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But don't use it and you know, do not break
until necessary.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
So I don't think Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
I totally agree with you. But as an example, I
don't think his orchestration of the killing of Osama bin
Laden would have ruled him out for it either, if
that makes any.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Sense, I agree with you. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He took he took somebody who was the mastermind behind
nine to eleven off the field. And I supported Obama
when he took out the chic and Yemen and killed
There was a there was a Muslim cleric who had
lived in the United States, had visited the Obama White
House actually, who they now understood was really tied in
(33:09):
with ISIS and al Qaida, and they they hit him
with a drone while he was driving with a fourteen
year old son in the car killed both of them.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Look, this guy was a threat to the US. You
do what you gotta do.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
So I think Trump's attack on him ran which I
agree with, also doesn't rule him out for the Numbel
Peace Prize, but I certainly don't think he deserves one either.
And if I can just throw out two other.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Did you do it? Did you do it quickly? Because
I'm way past my break. I took you early. Here,
go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Sorry, Yeah, So one is you know UAE what Chris
Murphy's alleging and others is they you know, they invested
billions of dollars in his family's bitcoin and then two
weeks later he gave them access to very uh not
maybe not secret, but very sensitive AI technology chip technology
(34:07):
from the United States. And there's a lot of concern
about that.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, you know what that if that's true, if there
is a quid pro quo there not.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
To utilize the Latin phrase that everybody is not familiar with,
that's potentially an impeachable offense. Okay, that that is, that
is profiting. That's a serious allegation if there is substance
to the allegation. But I don't know how much substance
there is to that allegation. Okay, I haven't seen enough.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
I'm concerned about it. And then and then the last
one Dan I would just throw out is what's happening internally, right.
That's that letter to or that post to Pam Bondy
about going after Schiff and Komi and Latisha James and
sending troops to Portland, Oregon of all places. I mean,
the whole retribucing campaign, I think is well again, not
(34:57):
a man of.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Peace, even though let me tell you we've strayed from
peace to what's good for the goose is good for
the gander. Letician James is the last person who can
be talking about political retribution because she campaigned on the
promise of indicting Donald Trump. You don't run for political office,
(35:19):
in my opinion, in this country and get elected to
political office on the premise of I will indict the
former Republican president.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
I mean, you wouldn't get you wouldn't give her a
Nobel Peace Prize. And Trump bran on twenty sixteen on
lock her up Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yes, well hill thing.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Well that's fine, but so so therefore James did to
Trump what Trump promised he would do at rallies. I
think it's very different between a chant at the rally
to whip up your troops. To the best of my knowledge,
Hillary Clinton was not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Indicted during the first Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
I wouldn't give. I wouldn't give either one of them.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I know they're let's do this, Let's continue our conversation
next week.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I can't. I went way over with you here and
I got to get a couple more in before you.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I do appreciate it, Dan, as always, I enjoyed the
conversations with you. You know that, my friend. We fundamentally
have disagreements, but they're always civil. Thank you much, appreciate.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
It, appreciate my bke all right, you give as.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Good as you get. Coming back on Nightside, Craig and Ohio,
stay right there. I'm going to get you in. I promise.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray Foston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Let's go to Craig you Ohio, Craig, welcome back where
you been, buddy.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
To tell you the truth. Not only did I buy
one radio, but I bought another one. It's been hard
to get me on the radio. I get a couple
of different channels and yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to
get a good radio to take something strong AM signal.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, boy, I'll tell you that's that's disappointing. I know
that some people have told me that our signal has
not been as good as it, you know, as it's been.
But I missed you, man, I missed you. How you
doing all right?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I was afraid you were a regularly regular call. I
was afraid you were sick.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Tell us should Donald Trump get at the Nobel Peace
Prize next year?
Speaker 12 (37:20):
Well, I'll tell you this much. Uh, I drive for
the VA, I take veterans, shoot a doctor's appointments. Yes,
and the general consensus it seems about you know a
monkst veterans was you know, it's like it's over me,
you know, we and it's up to the next generation.
(37:44):
And I truly believe generations z If that's what it
is now, I believe it is. Uh, it's coming up
improving that point. You know, they're they're getting behind people
like Donald Trump and yes, he does theseve the Peace Prize.
You know, it's just.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
All these politicians from my lifetime, going back to Lyndon Johnson,
they would talk about the two state solution and this
and that, and how you know all of them, you know,
the Bushes, the Clinton's, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. I mean,
you compare Donald Trump to Joe Biden, it's not even
(38:26):
I mean, it's not even close. It's like comparing Tom
Brady to a junior varsity high school football quarterback.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
You know, I agree. And uh, the last comment I have,
and I might upset a few of your callers, is now,
Gandhi was a man of peace, yep, but tell me
what he really did.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well again, Yeah, that's okay. Gandhi has his reputation. I
guess it's nice to know there are more paths. I
don't believe that pacifism is the path the piece. As
Ronald Reagan said, no country ever got into a war
because countries thought they were too strong militarily. Generally, it's
weak countries militarily that are attacked. It was our circumstance
(39:14):
in World War Two when we were attacked. And I
think that, I think I don't have a problem calling
it the Department of War because guess what, that's what
it's been. And this whole euphemism of the Department of piece.
So the Department of Defense. The best defense is good offense,
both in football and I think with the military as well. Hey, Greg,
(39:36):
I got to run here. Get a great radio. You
also can listen to us. Do you have a computer?
You get listened to us on iHeart.
Speaker 12 (39:42):
I can listen to you on the phone. But I
too lazy. They're like, well, I'll hang up without call up.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
No, no, no, that presents a problem. Get it.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Get a good radio. Go to you know, go to
on those twos. Get a good radio and we'll get
to pump the signal up. Okay, thank you Greig, Greg.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
Your voice great to you.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Your voice.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Thought about you the other day. We come back the
eleven o'clock news. Everyone has a hall pass. What's the
father's place you've ever visited? And what's the fatherest place
you'd like to visit. We try to come up with
new topics for the twentieth hour. It's I lay it
in front of the audience right now. Let's light them up.
Coming back right after the eleven o'clock news,
He's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZY Constans Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thanks very much, Al Griffin. My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
By the way, those of you who have trouble remembering
the number the calling number, let me repeat it very
clearly and very slowly, and if you have a piece
of paper you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Can write it down. Six one seven There were two numbers.
Both start six one seven, six one seven, two five
four ten thirty at six one seven, two five four
one zero three zero or six one seven nine three
one ten thirty which is six one seven nine three
(00:45):
one one zero three zero. All we were looking for
and I'm hoping that out of this story that we
did to that someone will have a contact with someone
in the Trump administration which can get the UN to
(01:07):
change this stupid policy. This United Nations Agency. The problem
with this these groups are it's like it's a bureaucracy.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And so you have somebody five or six levels down
who writes a memo that says we should tighten up
our security and that's what happens. And Ken, all I
need is one person who might have been listening and
if you want to share that hour and the I
mean that is such such a ridiculous rule that this
(01:41):
UN Postal agency, what is it technically called the Universal
Postal Union, very impressive, the UPU, the Universal Postal Union,
a United Nations agency in burn, Switzerland. That agency needs
to wake up and smell the coffee and realize that
(02:02):
why make it more difficult? Why make it more difficult
for US troops who are stationing around the world to
receive some form of friendly communication from back home.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Anyway, That's all I've said on that.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But you can go tomorrow, you can find that, you
can reference your friends if you want to take any
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Every morning Rob post. He stays until three am in
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I'm sure I don't have to spell that Nightside on
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Speaker 2 (03:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's put up in podcast form which means it's not
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they eliminate the newscasts, so it's a lot easier to hear.
It's only forty two minutes. But even more importantly, if
you know anybody who has some technical computer capabilities, they
can take that down, pull it down, put it up
(03:27):
on their website, they can share it with friends. It's
called communications, ladies and gentlemen in the twenty first century. Okay,
you know in the old days, when you read a
newspaper article and you went upstairs and you were the
only one in the house that had a newspaper, you
handed the newspaper to your neighbor and said, did you
read this or article? You might find an interest. That's
the same principle. It's the same principle. Okay, we're going
(03:50):
to change topics here and we're going to talk about
the Nobel Peace Prize today. Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, for those of.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You who do not know Maria Corina Mashado, and I'm
sure that most of my audience knows the name Donald
Trump much better than the name Maria Karina Mashado. She
is the opposition leader in Venezuela to the President of Venezuela,
(04:25):
Meduro Nicholas Meduro. Meduro is basically running a dictatorship. The
Trump administration has put a fifty million dollars bounty on
Madeiro's head, so he's got to be looking over his shoulder.
And so the award of this Nobel Peace Prize to
(04:49):
the woman who is leading the fight against Meduro, Maria
Karina Mashado, is a good award in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, However, however, I think that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The Nobel Committee Prize they do prizes in literature and
medicine as well as the best known as the Nobel
Peace Prize. They have made some I think ridiculous awards
over the years. The most ridiculous was the one they
gave to Barack President Obama in early two thousand and
(05:27):
nine for some reason his before he had served as
president for any more than a few weeks. I don't
understand why that was given. I certainly can understand why
(05:47):
the award was given today to this woman in Venezuela, who,
by the way, when she accepted the award, very graciously said,
we are on the threshold of victory, and today, more
than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of
the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the
(06:09):
democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to
achieve freedom and democracy. As I mentioned, this is an
article out of the Washington Post. Trump has been highly
critical of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, for whom the administration
is offering a fifty million dollar reward for information leading
(06:29):
to his arrest. Maduro was indicted in the United States
for narco terrorism during the first Trump administration. So this
woman is an ally philosophically of the Trump administration, and
she was very gracious. She may have been surprised my suspicion.
And I know nothing about the Nobel Peace Prize other
(06:50):
than they gave it to Yastra Arafat one year, to
Barack Obama another year, and they gave it to Jimmy
Carter twenty in two thousand and two, which was a
lovely gesture.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't know, you.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Know what what Jimmy Carter accomplished in terms of peace
and around the world. President Trump should receive the Nobel
Peace Prize for what he's done so far, in my opinion,
and if you agree with me on that, feel free.
Six one, seven, four, ten thirty. If you disagree, feel free.
(07:23):
But what is going on in Israel right now, the
fact that this administration has been able to bring not
only Jimas and Israel together, but many of the other countries.
As a matter of fact, the President has talked about
that as recently as today, Rob please play President Trump
(07:45):
cut number thirty four.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
As you know, last night, we reached a momentous breakthrough
in the Middle East, something that people said was never
going to be done. We ended the war in Gaza
had really on a much bigger basis, created peace and
I think it's gonna be a lasting peace, hopefully an
everlasting piece piece in the Middle East. We secured the
release of all of the remaining hostages and they should
(08:10):
be released on Monday or Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Getting them is a complicated process. I'd rather not tell
you what they have to do together. There are places
you don't want to be, but we are getting the
hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, and that'll be
a day of joy. I'm gonna try and make a
trip over. We're gonna try and get over there.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And by the way, the White House now was confirming
that this is cut number thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Please Rob.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
We're going to go to Egypt where we'll have a signing,
an additional signing. We've already had a signing representing me,
but we're going to have an official signing.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And the amazing thing is all of the countries over there,
from Guitar to Saudi Arabia, all of them, the rich
ones are less than rich ones.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
They've all come together something which is amazing. Actually, they've
all come together for this and they're really probably the
best relationships they've ever had. So it's been really something
incredible and nobody thought it was possible to get it done.
And very importantly, the hostages are coming back.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
And by the way, although there has been not a
lot of credit given.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
By the mainstream you know, network media, ABC, NBC, and CBS,
there was this comment made by Martha Raddits, who used
to be a reporter here in Boston and WCVB TV
and is a friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
She gives Trump pretty clear credit, which any person in
their right mind would have to do.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean, this is a goal that was.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
It was a goal that was reached for, you know,
the Golden Ring, if you want to call it. It
came to pass in large part because of Benjamin net
Yahoo and what he did to bring his country back
from this horrific event of two years ago on October seventh,
in which twelve hundred people were massacred innocent civilians in
(10:19):
e rally in his country. But so, this is ABC
reporter Martha Raddit, it's got to give her a credit
for being fair. I mean, look, this is obvious. This
is a no brainer. I don't care what sort of
level of Trump's derangement syndrome someone might be suffering from.
(10:40):
This is an incredible achievement. And if these hostages come home,
and if Hamas, as they have already agreed, are willing
to disarm and allow the people of Gaza to be
governed by a group of independent Palestinian leaders under some guidance,
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the upside for the people of Gaza is incredible. And
you saw people of Gaza celebrating as well as the
people of Israel in hostage Square.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
This is Martha radd It's cut twenty.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Please Rob tell us about the role President trum playde
and bringing all of this about well, Robin, there's no
question that if this goes as planned, if we see
those remaining hostages freed in Israel begin its withdrawal, it
is a remarkable achievement and President Trump most certainly deserves
credit for his role. He has done this through diplomacy, pressure,
(11:34):
and the sheer force of his personality and persistence. He
dispatched diplomats again and again, made threats just in the
last few days to Moss say again, if they did
not sign the deal, all hell would break loose, and
they had the bombing of Iran as an example of that.
But perhaps most importantly, he pushed Benjamin Ettan yahuo in
(11:54):
wighs his predecessor and others have.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Not Robin, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Really accurate analysis by Martha raddits that attack on the
Iranian nuclear facility by the stealth bombers UH is critical
to this, as is the relationships that he has developed.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
President Trump has developed.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Over the years with Middle Eastern leaders who are not
inclined to support anything that benefits Israel. We'll take a
break if you are willing. Even though Donald Trump did
not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, if you want to
express a thought or an opinion.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I've heard what I had to say. Here's the number.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'll say it slowly six one seven, two five, four,
one zero three zero, six, one seven two five four
to ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And I would like to hear.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And I know that I have listeners who are not
supporters of Donald Trump, but you have every.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Right to be.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But I would like to hear all of you step
up to the microphone. I would say, man, apple, woman up,
uh and tell me what you think. This is not
gonna not gonna have you put a Trump bumper sticker
on your car. I guess I get that. But this
is a remarkable achievement. Again, particularly, I'll echo what matha
(13:24):
Ratits had to say that if this all comes to fruition,
and if it doesn't, I think Israel is ready to
go in and finish the job. Six seven thirty six
one seven, nine three, ten thirty back right after that.
We will talk about this only till eleven o'clock. If
you're calling in at ten fifty eight, you're not going
to get in the year on this. We'll go to
the twentieth hour at eleven and tonight the topic is
(13:47):
going to be what is the farthest place you've traveled
to or what is the farthest place on Earth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't need anyone calling and telling.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Me Mars that you'd like to travel to and why
back on Night's Side after this.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
During the break, Rob made a comment to me, can
I share the comment with the audience? Rob, Rob, Who's
my friend and a key member of the Knightside team.
He and I don't necessarily always see eye to eye
on every issue, which I really respected.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Admire about Rob.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
He said to me, well, you know, I paraphrase what
he said was that renaming your Defense Department of the
Department of War doesn't screen peace Prize. Well, Rob, to
some extent, I think I could make the argument that
it does. Look, I think that Hamas watched what Trump
(14:46):
did in terms of Iran. Iran is the huge supporter
and funder of Hezbollah and Hamas as well as the
hoodie rebels and Yemen. But that was a devastating strike
on Iran uh And and I do believe that now
Hamas realizes that their financial Godfather Iran, the religious the
(15:12):
religious leadership of Iran cannot support Hamas financially as they.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Have over the years.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And I think that that that actually contributed to Hamas
maybe looking at this situation and saying, hey, we need
to survive to fight another day, and if we if
we hold on here, we may all be wiped out.
That's what That's the only thing that I think would
have brought Hamas to the table here. Let let's get
(15:42):
to phone calls though, six one seven, four ten thirty.
Steve is up in Maine. Hey, Steve, thanks for checking in, sir.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I dance.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
I told you i'd call in now.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I appreciate that I have all my friends and listeners
who I know are loyal listeners, and sometimes it's it's
tough to get people to reach for that phone.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
So you go right ahead, Steve. What's your thought on
I know that you're a supporter of Donald Trump.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
Yes, And I remember a month or so ago you
were asking the audience do you feel optimistic or pessimistic
about where our nation is heading? And I said optimistic
And just what's happening now is a big, big boost
for relations with the I wouldn't trust our enemies, ever,
(16:34):
I'm kind of interested to see how.
Speaker 11 (16:36):
It's going to turn out.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
I mean, like you said, Iran's kind of on the
heels now. And God, thank God that Donald Trump is
in office, because he's a strong leader and they are
not going to mess around with him. I said, he's
business though.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I said to a friend of mine who was very
worried about the strike on the Iranian nuclear facility, a
bright guy, and I said.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Why you concerned? And they said, whoa, you know this
could lead to nuclear war. I said, no, if you
take a potential rogue nation off the field of of
of of countries that could actually achieve a status of
being a nuclear nation, that actually is something that would
(17:20):
should qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
I mean yeah, I mean yeah, I mean you're giving
it the Arafat back in the day. I mean, come on,
that's not a very prestigious award because he was a
killer of many, many people, and he hated Israel and
America too, So yeah, no, what he doesn't need a
Noble Peace Prize. He's got his seventy supporters that voted
him in because we knew it was going to come
(17:44):
to this and we needed a strong leader. And you know,
just what did you get ready to go?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yes, Steve, did you say his seventy eight percent of supporters?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
What was it?
Speaker 10 (17:58):
What was the percentage?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I oh, in the election? In the election, I mean
it was very close. I think he got fifty point
one percent. Now, you know, he Yeah, there's never been
a presidential election when when Lyndon Johnson won, well, when
Ronald Reagan won forty nine states against Walter Mondale, I
(18:20):
think Reagan. I don't think Reagan got sixty percent. It
would have been like fifty eight or fifty nine percent.
But yeah, to get fifty percent and to win all
the battleground states, that's what he stakes his his thought
on to be really deal when he claims he claims
a mandate. You know, when Johnson beat Goldwater in sixty
(18:42):
four with I think it was sixty percent of the vote,
that was a mandate.
Speaker 12 (18:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So again he has a right to characterize his election
in any way he wants. At the same time, when
when Harris said it was the closest presidential election in
the twenty first century, did she miss the Bush Gore
election of two thousand, did she miss. You know, the
(19:09):
the the Hillary Clinton election, well the non election of
Hillary in twenty sixteen, when when Hillary actually won the
popular vote but lost.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The electoral college.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Anyway, hey, Steve.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Anyways, I wanted to call the eleventh hour, but I
called early. Well, there's the good news, Clarita, California. You're
going where the furthest I've ever travel is that visit
my cousin or a husband back in two.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Thousand oh, San Clarita, California.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, let me give you good news, and I want
to give good news to all the other callers.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Remember, we have a rule on nightside. We asked people
to call once a week.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But but in the in the twentieth hour on night side, Steve, everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Gets a hall pass.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So even if you want to, if you want, you
want to call back at eleven and and expand on
the trip to Santa Colorina.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Clarita in Colora.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, set Clarina, you got a hall pass. Where's Santa Clarina? There?
Speaker 12 (20:10):
You sir? So nice wicking a delly ticket at.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The You got it right, if you got it, it's
a hall we call it a hall pass.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Thanks, Steve.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
You should have known that do you bet?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
When are you back driving?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Steve Stephen, New Hampshire. I'm going to h Alton, New Hampshire.
When I come back, I'll go to.
Speaker 12 (20:33):
Bob hober Run.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Steve, Steve, by the way, is one of those truckers,
those road warriors driving an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And without guys and gals like Steve driving the eighteen wheelers,
there would be nothing in grocery stores and and uh
in stores that you go to.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
So U you couldn't hear that. I did my air
horn on my wheel.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I did. I heard it?
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Oh you heard it?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I consider that to be at night side saloon. So
anybody's going by it.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
All right? Thanks Steve, talking to you. Have a great night.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Good night.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right, we'll continue to talk here. Does Donald Trump
deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? I think without question, and
I think that probably the prize, which traditionally is awarded
in October, in the conjunction of the other prizes. I
suspect that this woman from Venezuela, who we mentioned earlier,
(21:35):
who was very gracious, Maria Karina Machado, the opposition leader
to Nicholas Mendoro. I'm sure that the decision was made
a month ago, and Donald Trump should be the odds
on favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize next October, which,
whether or not he realizes it or not, should be
(21:56):
something that he should value even more because it's going
to be before the congressional election. I don't want to
be political about it, but that's that's an advantage. Uh,
here we go six one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
We got two lines open at six one seven, nine
three one ten thirty. Let's light him up. We will
end this conversation. I think it's going to be a
(22:17):
fascinating conversation. I see that Ken from Waltham will be
next in Darryl in Chicago. I believe Daryl's a new caller.
I believe Ken is someone who's not a big fan
of Donald Trump, but I think he's a magnanimous caller
and I will be very surprised if he does not
agree with Martha Raddits and me, uh that this is
an extraordinary achievement by President Trump and his team. And
(22:42):
guess what, when we elect presidents, I root for them
whoever I voted for, because ironically, today the stock market
and the day we should be celebrating peace in the
Middle East. The stock market today took a dive because
Trump has thrown some more tariffs on China. Uh, it's
it's a funny world out there, ladies and gentlemen. We'll
(23:04):
be back at Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Let go next to Daryl in Chicago. Daryl, welcome to Nightside.
How are you sir?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
Okay? Never one, Darryl.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Are you on a are you on a speakerphone of
some sort or a headset?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You're kind of muffled cell phone, cell phone? Will do
me a favor?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Will you take the mouthpiece of the cell phone and
speak right into the cell phone for me, my friends,
because I want to hear what you have to say.
You're a little off to sell the piece the mouthpiece
of the cell phone.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Little better, A little better? Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Well, first of all, why he should get it? Never one?
Why is he spending a funny with his children? Get coins? Billions?
Speaker 12 (24:02):
Donalds?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
Number one? That's that's a bear run number two. Uh,
I was in the Vietnam War, and that damn guy
he had five deferments for a seat. And uh he
claims the soldier guy in saluting. He didn't he didn't
(24:24):
come here. Yeah, the other vetention. So I just don't
like it. And the other thing, it's still at Chicago,
and he's got all these sogers now going around the
town screwing us up, and I think it's bad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I And I understand Darryl that you're no fan of
Donald Trump, and that's fine, but I think you should
have the the independence to look at the situation and
if he has been able to bring the warring parties
together in the Middle East, it might mean that a
generation of soldiers won't have to find themselves in a
(25:05):
bad situation like you found yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
As a young man in Vietnam. That's all.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You don't have to like the fact that he used
medical deferments and avoided what many others could.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Not avoid, including yourself.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You may not like the fact that he's raising money
and selling what ties and gold coins and watches. I
think that's beneath the I agree with you. I think
that's beneath the office and the dignity of the presidency.
But at the same time, I look at this and
I think to myself, no other president was able to
(25:41):
achieve what he appears to have achieved.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Yeah, I'm not It is a totally one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Okay, Yeah again, Daryl, do me a favor.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Next time you call, I'm going to have Rob trying
to get us a better connection because it's just muffled
and it's tough to hear. But thank you for listening.
Have you called my Showbifurces? This your first time?
Speaker 12 (26:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We give you a kick on the clause wakes Joe
and thanks thanks for listening to us out in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Thank you much.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
All right, then we go to Ken in wal dam Ken. Welcome,
How are you, sir?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I'm well Dan, good to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Good to talk with him as well. And you're someone
I know who is not a fan of Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
That is that is true. So first he did he
received forty nine point eight percent of the vote. Jill
Stein and Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Chase Oliver all
got around half a percent, So that dropped him. You know, Nate, Well,
I don't know, maybe Kamala Harris would have got all
those votes, but well.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know, I mean I doubt that. But but what
did Kamala Harris what was her vote total?
Speaker 8 (26:49):
Then she was at forty eight point three. So Trump
did win the popular vote, but he Yeah, but more
people did vote against him than for what I wanted
to say. I can support. I mean, you know, I've
supported him in Israel. I certainly support what he's doing
there and would certainly like to see this really go
(27:11):
to fruition before giving him too much credit. Uh. And
I certainly supported his response to Iraq, but you know,
I certainly mean Iran.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I think I meant to I Ran, not Iraq.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Thank you, Dan, Yes, I did, Thanks for that correction. Yeah,
but I certainly don't support him winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
And you know, I've been a huge critic of his
response in Ukraine, and I think he's actually I think
the only answer is we have to support Ukraine one
(27:50):
hundred percent, right until Russia finally gives up or wins.
And I think Trump's actions of supporting Russia when he
has even to the two and withholding you know, intelligence Ukraine,
chewing out Selensky in the White House, that all has
been a benefit to Russia and extended the war, that
will only extend the war.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
In my mind, Well, he may have been.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You know, Kenn again, I don't want to disagree with you,
because you're very magnanimous in your comments.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But I do.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Think that that Trump at his core, at his core,
believes that economics are the way to solve problems. And
you might agree with me and might disagree, but I
think that he views all of these problems can be
(28:41):
resolved from an economic point of view. And I'm sure
that he began with Zolensky thinking, okay, maybe if if
Zolensky was able to give a little bit here. I
think that's where he was coming from. Now I disagree
with him on that, but I can understand what his
(29:02):
policy was. Now he changed his tune, and I think
he now realizes, and I've talked about this as you know,
that Putin has played him. Putin has played him on
the trip to Alaska. And I think that that Trump
at this point is much more supportive today of Ukraine
(29:24):
and Zolensky. And I think that Trump might do more
for Ukraine from a military point of view than even
Biden did. And Biden, you know, did support Zolensky, uh,
But but I think Trump felt the way to end
the Ukraine War was was to in effect co opt
(29:45):
Putin and he now realizes that Putin played him. I
think it's I think it's more complicated, and I think
part of the economy, the economic.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Rash now was he tried to sell all these guys in.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
The Middle East, look if we can eliminate this Israeli
Hamas thing and you can be a little bit more
accepting of Israel. When he was talking to the to
the emirs and the leaders of these other countries, I
think he was trying to appeal to their wallets, into
their pocketbooks, and maybe it worked.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Maybe it worked.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I don't trust Hamas to follow through with the disarmament,
but boy, he's moved this process a much further down
the field than I ever would have anticipated.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Well, I think we'll see. I hope you're right. Let
me make just a couple other quick arguments that you know,
when he suggested that we need to take control of Greenland,
he wouldn't rule out military action. Same thing in Panama. Again,
he did not sound like a man of peace to.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Panama and Greenland are different things. But I understand your point.
I mean, we gave the Panama Canal away and at
this point red China, China has more influence in the
Panama Canal than the United States. And let me tell
you that's a that's a scary prospect. And so I
look at the Greenland thing as uh as as really
(31:07):
just uh dumb, stupid.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Not necessary.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
The Panama Canal thing, we got to look at that
a little bit more seriously, Ken in terms of will
be messing around down there.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
But how what's his approach right? I mean so far,
I would say his approach has not been a man
of peace.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Sometimes if he wasn't a man of peace when he
when he dropped, you know, a bunker buster bombs uh
in Iran. But guess what I think that's taken Iran
off the field.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
I mean, no, I'm so I have been one hundred
percent in support of that move, and I would I
have no disagreement with that that you have not actually
ruling up.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, But what I'm saying that's not a man of
peace in the in the classic sense of it. The
fact that he he fiddled and tattled with with some
conversation is about Greenland.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I think part of that was he was giving Denmark.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
A tickle uh and and and laying a foundation.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
For what he's going to do with NATO.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I think he's more complicated than people and more sophisticated
than people realize, and shrouds himself. As as as as
the you know, the guy you know what was that
Teddy Rooseveldt said walk softly, but carry a big stick.
And I think that he's like, talk loud, talk loudly,
uh and and carry a big stick.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But don't use it and you know, do not break
until necessary.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
So I don't think Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
I totally agree with you. But as an example, I
don't think his orchestration of the killing of Osama bin
Laden would have ruled him out for it either, if
that makes any.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Sense, I agree with you. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He took he took somebody who was the mastermind behind
nine to eleven off the field. And I supported Obama
when he took out the chic and Yemen and killed
There was a there was a Muslim cleric who had
lived in the United States, had visited the Obama White
House actually, who they now understood was really tied in
(33:09):
with ISIS and al Qaida, and they they hit him
with a drone while he was driving with a fourteen
year old son in the car killed both of them.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Look, this guy was a threat to the US. You
do what you gotta do.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
So I think Trump's attack on him ran which I
agree with, also doesn't rule him out for the Numbel
Peace Prize, but I certainly don't think he deserves one either.
And if I can just throw out two other.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Did you do it? Did you do it quickly? Because
I'm way past my break. I took you early. Here,
go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Sorry, Yeah, So one is you know UAE what Chris
Murphy's alleging and others is they you know, they invested
billions of dollars in his family's bitcoin and then two
weeks later he gave them access to very uh not
maybe not secret, but very sensitive AI technology chip technology
(34:07):
from the United States. And there's a lot of concern
about that.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, you know what that if that's true, if there
is a quid pro quo there not.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
To utilize the Latin phrase that everybody is not familiar with,
that's potentially an impeachable offense. Okay, that that is, that
is profiting. That's a serious allegation if there is substance
to the allegation. But I don't know how much substance
there is to that allegation. Okay, I haven't seen enough.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
I'm concerned about it. And then and then the last
one Dan I would just throw out is what's happening internally, right.
That's that letter to or that post to Pam Bondy
about going after Schiff and Komi and Latisha James and
sending troops to Portland, Oregon of all places. I mean,
the whole retribucing campaign, I think is well again, not
(34:57):
a man of.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Peace, even though let me tell you we've strayed from
peace to what's good for the goose is good for
the gander. Letician James is the last person who can
be talking about political retribution because she campaigned on the
promise of indicting Donald Trump. You don't run for political office,
(35:19):
in my opinion, in this country and get elected to
political office on the premise of I will indict the
former Republican president.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
I mean, you wouldn't get you wouldn't give her a
Nobel Peace Prize. And Trump bran on twenty sixteen on
lock her up Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yes, well hill thing.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Well that's fine, but so so therefore James did to
Trump what Trump promised he would do at rallies. I
think it's very different between a chant at the rally
to whip up your troops. To the best of my knowledge,
Hillary Clinton was not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Indicted during the first Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
I wouldn't give. I wouldn't give either one of them.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I know they're let's do this, Let's continue our conversation
next week.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I can't. I went way over with you here and
I got to get a couple more in before you.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I do appreciate it, Dan, as always, I enjoyed the
conversations with you. You know that, my friend. We fundamentally
have disagreements, but they're always civil. Thank you much, appreciate.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
It, appreciate my bke all right, you give as.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Good as you get. Coming back on Nightside, Craig and Ohio,
stay right there. I'm going to get you in. I promise.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray Foston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Let's go to Craig you Ohio, Craig, welcome back where
you been, buddy.
Speaker 12 (36:41):
To tell you the truth. Not only did I buy
one radio, but I bought another one. It's been hard
to get me on the radio. I get a couple
of different channels and yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to
get a good radio to take something strong AM signal.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, boy, I'll tell you that's that's disappointing. I know
that some people have told me that our signal has
not been as good as it, you know, as it's been.
But I missed you, man, I missed you. How you
doing all right?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I was afraid you were a regularly regular call. I
was afraid you were sick.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Tell us should Donald Trump get at the Nobel Peace
Prize next year?
Speaker 12 (37:20):
Well, I'll tell you this much. Uh, I drive for
the VA, I take veterans, shoot a doctor's appointments. Yes,
and the general consensus it seems about you know a
monkst veterans was you know, it's like it's over me,
you know, we and it's up to the next generation.
(37:44):
And I truly believe generations z If that's what it
is now, I believe it is. Uh, it's coming up
improving that point. You know, they're they're getting behind people
like Donald Trump and yes, he does theseve the Peace Prize.
You know, it's just.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
All these politicians from my lifetime, going back to Lyndon Johnson,
they would talk about the two state solution and this
and that, and how you know all of them, you know,
the Bushes, the Clinton's, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. I mean,
you compare Donald Trump to Joe Biden, it's not even
(38:26):
I mean, it's not even close. It's like comparing Tom
Brady to a junior varsity high school football quarterback.
Speaker 12 (38:35):
You know, I agree. And uh, the last comment I have,
and I might upset a few of your callers, is now,
Gandhi was a man of peace, yep, but tell me
what he really did.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well again, Yeah, that's okay. Gandhi has his reputation. I
guess it's nice to know there are more paths. I
don't believe that pacifism is the path the piece. As
Ronald Reagan said, no country ever got into a war
because countries thought they were too strong militarily. Generally, it's
weak countries militarily that are attacked. It was our circumstance
(39:14):
in World War Two when we were attacked. And I
think that, I think I don't have a problem calling
it the Department of War because guess what, that's what
it's been. And this whole euphemism of the Department of piece.
So the Department of Defense. The best defense is good offense,
both in football and I think with the military as well. Hey, Greg,
(39:36):
I got to run here. Get a great radio. You
also can listen to us. Do you have a computer?
You get listened to us on iHeart.
Speaker 12 (39:42):
I can listen to you on the phone. But I
too lazy. They're like, well, I'll hang up without call up.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
No, no, no, that presents a problem. Get it.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Get a good radio. Go to you know, go to
on those twos. Get a good radio and we'll get
to pump the signal up. Okay, thank you Greig, Greg.
Speaker 12 (40:00):
Your voice great to you.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Your voice.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Thought about you the other day. We come back the
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