August 13, 2025 • 39 mins
In Boston, there is a rising number of dangerous incidents involving mopeds, e-bikes, and motorized scooters, many of which are operated without licenses, registration, or insurance. Mayor Wu has cited safety concerns regarding food delivery app drivers in the city and filed an ordinance this year to increase accountability. In addition, a bill has been filed, S.2347 An Act Relative to Transportation Safety, aimed at curbing these incidents. The legislation would increase fines for traffic violations and require insurance for commercial use.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm busy, he cast
in his new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, we are talking about a situation which was
brought to my attention. Uh, and we will talk with
State Senator Nick Collins, I hope either tomorrow night or
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Those motorized bicycles, the motorized scooters, the electric bikes, the mopeds,
all those little vehicles that you see zipping in and
out of traffic, even the ones that are used for
commercial activity, meaning delivering food to people who are too
lazy to pick up their own food. But that's okay.
You call a place and bring the Chick fil A
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to your door, whatever you're ordering. Okay, they don't they
don't have to have any commercial even though they're engaged
in commercial activity. Obviously they're being paid to deliver the food.
They don't have insurance. And we've had some great calls,
and one of them is joining us right now. Larry
from Needham. Larry, you talked about in the last hour
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you found an old mopad in your garage or whatever,
and you reconditioned it is what you told me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Right, Yeah, I had it since nineteen sixty seven or
sixty eight. And I had an accident, and then I
discovered in about twenty fourteen that I can get new
and new old parts from Germany and England, so I
said tank to get it running again.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You brought it back to life after, you know, nearly
fifty years. My question to you is how many members
of the Great and General Court you were explaining to
me all the different nuances between your again, your motoria,
your vehicle and other vehicles. How many members of the
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Greater General Court? I certainly I followed what you said,
but I have no clue because I've never I'm not
someone who engages in that. How many members of the
Great General Quote you think would have any idea what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I don't think anybody, including the RMB. I'm sitting at
my computer and I went to the R and B
site and I'm looking at moped definition, which is correct. Okay,
I see that, but it has so many inaccuracies it's unbelievable.
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Must have an automatic transmission. None of them have automatic transmission,
so they might, but the ones I've always seen have
a manual transmission on it. And this says be capable
of a maximum speed of more than thirty miles an hour, okay,
and then further down below. Under restrictions when operating a
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moped and motorized scooter, you cannot be under sixteen years
of age. You must have a valid license or permit.
Moped should not drive its speed greater than twenty five
miles per hour. Where above it says it can't have
a maximum speed of it has a maximum speed of thirty.
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So I don't know why you would say mopeds can't
drive faster than twenty five. If they have if they're
capable of going thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, that's inherently conridictory. That excellently. Yeah, that's inherently contradiction.
Well that's the problem. But I don't think the legislature
knows what there has any real clue. I mean, I
think that they could say to you all that if
they stood in front of the State House, they could
discern the difference between the car and the truck. I
have every confidence that the majority of the Massachusetts legislature
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could say that's a car and that's a truck. I
get it. But anything much beyond that, I don't have
much confidence in them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No, And the next line, next two lines is motorized
scooters should not drive it a speed greater than twenty
miles an hour. It's very hard to gauge how fast
somebody's going on a scooter, but I'll bet you they
can do twenty and that's extremely fast for something like that.
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We are so close to the ground with so little
control on small wheels. But the last item is you
must wear a US DOT standard helmet.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How many kids do you see on scooters without any helmet?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's a round number zero. Hey, Larry, I gotta tell you,
maybe the legislature will hire you as a special consultant
on speak.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think listen. I screamed I had road rates today,
and I'll bear my heart. I screamed at a bicycle.
I screamed at a very fancy guy with very fancy
bicycle clothing today as he went through life. And then
I passed him and came up to the next light,
and there he was a second time.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Did he have some Let me ask you this, what
was he dressed in spandex?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course he had this bright yellow stripe down his
back and uh.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And in his own mind, he probably thinks he's on
a teammate of Lance Armstrong or something he owned well
because he's special. Hey, Larry, I thank you. You know,
confession is good for the soul. And Father Dan has
forgiven you for screaming at the bicyclest. All you have
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to do is say one hail Mary and your sins roomsults.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I have to speak to my rabbi about it.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, that's okay, that whatever you want. Okay, thanks Larry,
Thanks talk to you soon. I'm sure your rabbi will
understand as well. Thank you. All right, Okay, I gotta
take a break. I got one line in six one seven, two,
five four to ten thirty and one line in six
one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I would love
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to talk about this for another forty five minutes. What
we're getting at is exactly what I think is the problem,
and that the legislature doesn't know how to regulate these
new variations of electric and motorized vehicles scooters and again
in the legislation that Senator Collins refers to all motorized bicycles,
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motorized scooters, electric bicycles and mopeds used for commercial activity
shall be required to have insurance the fact that he
has to file legislation like that means obviously there is
no requirement. Now, I think every one of everyone who's
operating a motorized vehicle or or or a vehicle that
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has some form of electric propulsion or whatever could do damage.
And I started the hour by ex plaining to all
of you that, in my opinion, they were two very
serious accidents in Greater Boston last week. I have no clue.
The stories ended the very the next day, so we
have no idea if either of those people who were
critically injured one a pedestrian who was hit by some
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sort of a moped or motorized scooter I'm not sure which,
and a motorized scooter who apparently had an accident with
the car, both critically injured. No follow up in any
of the local papers. I just don't think it's important,
but I want to know. I mean, if people are
being injured or hurt or worse killed, we need to know.
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Back on Nightside right after the break, we will keep
going on this. So you keep calling, We'll keep going.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Let's go to Paul in South Boston. Hate Paul. Welcome
appreciate you waiting through the news. You were next on Nightside, Paul,
Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
How you doing Dan, I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
What's your take on these motorized vehicles? Are they out
of control?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I just want to let you know the previous
call in the last hour said he got his voucher
by the state. I got my voucher from the city.
The city's been doing that for a few years. You
didn't know that, No, no, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How can you keep track of the giveaways? I mean, look,
there's a lot of people in Boston who can use
some help with housing and with food and that giving
away the money to.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The state and the city is doing the same thing. Yeah.
I think the state just started is this summer, but
the city of Boston's been doing it for the last
few years.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean, come on, Well, can I tell you what
my thing on e bike stand. My voucher runs out
the eighteenth of this month, so that's a few more days.
I went to one in Santel Hall to get an
e bike and it looked like a big humdy. You
should have seen the size of the tie is on
it like a track. The trailer. I was petrified of it,
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and it was I think it was twelve hundred and
I had to pay and they wanted me to pay
another hundred for assembly. Yeah, but I was terrified of it.
And I'm afraid I lickt on batteries as well. But
I love.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I love to tell the story, and I'll tell you
I can identify with exactly what you're saying. When I
first moved to the suburbs back when I was a
young a dad let me put it like that. I thought, oh,
this would be great. You know, I can get out
with my son. And I went into a Sears that's
how long ago it was to buy a chainsaw. And
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I thought, this would be great. If my son grows up,
we can go out into the woods and we cut
down trees and everything. So I bought it, walked out,
put it in the trunk of the car, went to
get into the car, and I said, are you nuts?
I took I took the Husquovana chainsaw back. It was
the quickest return in the history of Sears. That I
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will cut my hand off, I will cut my leg
off with this thing. And that was it. Hey, we
just we lost to Paul, call back if you want.
I hope you, I hope you weren't upset about the story.
But yeah, I said to myself, I'm not interested in
committing suicide with the chainsaw. I'll call us back, Paul.
I apologize, but I had to tell that story because
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I identified with exactly what you just said. Let me
go to Devn in Boston. Devon, you are next on Nightside. Welcome. Hi,
Hi Devin.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How are you the voucher thing? Remember how you said
the what was the the reason why the taxpayer would
contribute to that? Yeah, I think it's more of like
the admissions part, Like there's an incentive for people to
use an ebug a set of a car for the admissions.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, I get I understand that there's always a policy
behind it. Okay, I do understand that, but it seems
to me and yeah, I'm just talking to you as
a as another person, Paul rob If Paul calls back,
tell him I'll take him after I finished talking with
Devin here. I know that there's a policy there, okay,
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but it's like we're still taking money from taxpayers, and
you know there are people in our society who are hungry.
There are people in our society who are homeless. There
are people in our society who are addicted. If we
didn't have anybody who's homeless, anyone was hungry and wasn't addicted,
I would say, okay, maybe we can think about it.
But just because some group of politicians think this is
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good or this is not good or whatever, I just
think it's if it's really something that's good, like, for example,
solar panels. A lot of people go and they put
solar panels on their roofs because they want to save
some money. Makes sense to the I.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Don't think it's more about the money. I think it's
more about the environment.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well again, if you buy into that. So let's let
me take this.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Do you think I love I'm Trump all the way?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Don't be wrong, like you know, I mean I Republican
and I don't really agree to anything that the other
side does. But is it more of a biparty than
it's the situation?
Speaker 7 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Probably, I understand your point, but let me make Let
me make my point, and I want your reaction to it.
Let's assume that we here in Massachusetts or even in
New England decided that we were gonna go just totally
environmentally conscious. Let's assume that in the winter time we
turned the heat down h and in the summertime we
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had no air conditioning, and we really did the run,
you know, we did everything, we sacrificed. And do you
think that would make much of a difference, because on
the other side of the world you got countries like
India and Pakistan and wonderful countries. Don't get me wrong,
they're just burning fossil fuel. Crazy, I mean, I think
it's I think it's a con job. Well, if you
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keep the temperature down in your house ten degrees this winter,
and so instead of being at a comfortable let's say
seventy two, keep your temperature down sixty two, because it's
going to save the environment. I think it's a corn job.
I really do.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, I know, I agree, like you know, as far
as like it's really not gonna do that much. But
I think that's the reason why they possibly would use
the taxpayer's money to fund that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well why not do this? Why not buy electric vehicles
for everyone? Why not say you buy an electric car? No,
you laugh at at.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Me, who wants an electric car or electric vehicle?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, doesn't that help the environment?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I mean at some point, but like to make those batteries,
to make the vehicle. It's actually is more of the
you know, well.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's the kind of you're making. You're making my point,
and that is that everything has everything has maybe the
advantage or disadvantage. But it's like, let's just let's let's
all of us, you know, let's let's live in caves.
I think if we all lived in caves, have a
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tremendous uh positive impact on the environment. But we couldn't
burn like wood or make fire anything like that, because
that's gonna cause him.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
No, no, no, no matter what.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Why they no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I get it. I do appreciate it. Hey, Devin, have
you called the show before? No?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
No, it's my first time ever radio ever.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, thank you very much. I did a nice job clause. Yeah,
I'm serious. I really do appreciate it, and I think
maybe you have a future in radio. You you did
a very nice nice job there. What do you don't
work in this business? Do you? What do you do
for a living?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I'm a tattoo artist. I want a tattoo shop. I'm
thirty four years old.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You're a taxidermist.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
No, I'm a tattoo artist. I want a tattoo shop.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh what type of I'm not hearing you, Well, a
tattoo artist. Oh you're a tattoo artist. Oh great house business?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Miss going? You know, some somethings. Some the economy doesn't
go that great. Like it's like now everyone doesn't know
where to spend their money. Yeah, so it's a little
bit slow. But besides that, it's I mean, I love
my job. I have a it's a more of a
healing thing. So how.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Did you become a tattoo artist? I mean, you know,
to me, it must be I worked.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
For twelve years at market Basket full time and then
I and then I left there and started tattooing during COVID.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But how did someone teach you how to tattoo? Did
you learn as an apprentice?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yep, yep, I did.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I'm have been an artist my whole life. And well,
my brother passed away. He always wanted me to open
a tattoo shop. So I was like, you know what,
I'm leaving market Basket like, and I went on the
road and started tattooing. I went to a shop, it
was an apprentice there and then I left there and
I opened my own shop.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, now you don't have to do this, but I
would love to give your business a plug. If you
want to plug your business and tell people where you're located.
And if any of my listeners are going to get
a tattoo in your area, I hope they'll they'll.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I'm actually like one of the only ones around the
area that I'm at in Rowley, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Boston up by Georgetown and that's sort of that neck
of the woods up on ninety five North right.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, so am I myself. Also doubles is like a
therapy session too, because when you get ink, it's like therapy.
So it's called healing ink.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Healing ink in Raley. Okay, I hope. I hope we
drive some business to you. You got some free publicity
by just calling night Side. I love to do that.
I hope someone walks in there tomorrow and says I
was thinking about getting a tattoo and Devin, you is
sounded like a nice person, which you do, and and
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and we.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Drive because people feel good about themselves, like you know this,
like about getting a tattoo and like you know, you know,
communitying yourself to something that you know you love and
say someone passed away, you want to memorialize you know
them and put it on yourself. And you know, I
feel like I can help someone feel good about themselves
and make them remember that person throughout the day and
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you know, whenever they look at it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
How long does it normally take you to apply a tattoo?
And I sure, I'm sure someonere more complicated than others,
but on an average it has to be like at
least an hour I assume.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, I just felt like an hour, two hours, depending
on the detail and everything, but yeah, just about that.
I usually do flash tales on Fridays, so I go,
I have a sale go on Fridays. So okay, well.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
People should look it up. Then again in Raleigh, Massachusetts,
and it's called healing ink.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
A little plu. Let me ask you one of the questions.
I've never had a tattoo. I never really wanted a tattoo.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'll come on down. I love taking deals first time.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now my question is does it hurt? I'm kind of freaked.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Out by It depends on the Like the people on
your arm's not that bad. For some reason, your back
really hurts in like the back of your calves. It
depends on the area.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
To be honest, I guess probably if you if your
nerves are closer to the skin in certain parts of
your body, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Your feet are the worst absolute feat like the most single.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, well, I'll keep that in mind. Devin, thanks so much.
You gotta plug, you gotta plug.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I love that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, keep calling. We'll give you a plug every time
you call. Thanks so much. Okay, thanks Devin, appreciate it.
Have a great thank you, goodbye. All right. I love
that call. It's great to meet people and find out
what people do. Rob Someone told me yesterday, by the way,
that my audio going out over the airway was really good.
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But the person I spoke to said that the call
or were lower. I just want to make sure that
we're we're doing this properly in terms of the audio levels. Okay,
and if I'm overwhelming people, let me know. But I
had a little trouble. I think Devin spoke kind of quickly,
and she had a very pretty voice, but it was
a little soft spoken and I wasn't sure. Thank you
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for telling me, she said, tattoo, but you know, so
I didn't know if she said taxidermy initially six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, that is the only line We're going
to take this, I believe until till eleven o'clock. At
eleven o'clock we got we will change topics. I have
another topic in my pocket, but this has been a
good topic and we're going to keep rolling with it.
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I got Rita is next, Michael Dave and got room
for two people at six one seven two five, four
ten thirty. My name's Dan Ray. This is ninth Side.
We are talking about why motorized vehicles, particularly small vehicles,
motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, mopeads, scooters, why they are not
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regulated in Massachusetts and should they be and should they
have insurance so in case you are hit by someone
of these vehicles, you have your medical bills are covered
and you're not chasing someone in civil court. Back on
Nightside right after the break.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
If you just joined us, We're talking about motorized bikes, bicycles,
motorized scooters, electric bicycles, and mopeds and how little regulation
is imposed upon those and if you are a rider
of one of those or a user of one of
those vehicles, feel free to give us a call. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty is the only line that the two lines open. There.
Let me go to Rita in Boston. Hello Rita, and
welcome to Nightside. Appreciate your patience. You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Oh okay, Hi, thank you again. I remember you began
the program with the pedestrian being hit yes, Copley Square, Yes,
and not getting any.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Follow up follow up.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Not only do we not get follow up on people
getting hit by bicycles or cars or this or that,
but shootings we don't get any. We get under investigation.
That's the end of it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, you're right, and I just don't understand that. Okay,
I don't know. I think there's an underlying political motivation
to be really honest with you, and I think the
police department needs to be a lot more forthcoming. I
think that there should have been an update on the
condition of both those people who were hit upsolutely both men,
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but both of those stories suggested as a matter of fact,
I can just read from a couple of them. Here
The Boston Globe eight days ago, serious electric bike crash
reported in Back Bay. A second crash occurred at Humboldt
Avenue in Stever Street in Roxbury when a person on
a scooter was hit. Scooter rider injured in Roxbury crash.
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He is facing well, it says a person didn't say
who he or she is facing life threatening injuries. And
then the one just life life threatening injury. I want
to know how that person.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Did, so do I? And we we never hear follow
ups for those kinds of accidents or shootings in Roxbury
and Dorchester. We never investigation.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Why do you think that is so?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Because they don't want you to know, that's why.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, I mean most of the shootings we never.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
See the commissioner, We never see the mayor unless it's
something you know, that gets the attention of somebody other
than the people who live here.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah. Well, well, ironically, ironically, most of the shootings in
Boston that results that result in deaths are folks who
live in the poorer sections of Boston. I did a
couple of shows in the last two months and the
little boy, the five year old boy in Hyde Park
who got off his school bus and people twenty eighth
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and was run over by the very school bus that
he had gotten off and there's been nothing to speak
of on that, no indictment. Know what is the investigation
that's not that doesn't that's not as complex as the
Kennedy assassination. And again that wouldn't be tolerated in a
lot of the more affluent suburbs. People would be howling.
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But I think people have been lulled into this sort
of sense of okay, when they're not going to tell
us what's going on, so why should we try? I
want to know who those those people?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
And I'm glad you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm glad you feel as strongly as I do.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
And so the other things are the scooters and the
bikes and this and that. There are different kinds of scooters.
There's these little black buzzy things that zoom through the
back bay Berkeley Street, Clarence Street, Dartmouth Street, Boylston Street,
and they sidle up to cars at the lights. If
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the light is red so they can't go through, they
sidle up, they look this way that way and they
go right through the red light, or they have a
sort of drag race with the cars that are trying
to the cars are obeying the rules and regulations these
scooters and bicycle people, and none of them are, you know,
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working by the rules here. They just don't give a.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Damn well they don't. And the police are understaffed, so
most police officers aren't going to waste a day in
quart or something writing and ticket for something like that.
So it gets the life of the city and people
start to feel, hey, I'm not welcome here. I know,
I don't enjoy going into Boston anymore with all the
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bike lanes. I'm not I'm not on my high horse
and the bike lanes. I think, unfortunately that battle has
been lost.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
There's a bike lane on Berkeley Street that has maybe
one bike every twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Okay, yeah, I think there's.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Nobody using that bike lane from Tremont up to Columbus As. However,
people are using the bike lane, that bike lane which
has an arrow going up to Columbus app coming down
to Tremont straight occasionally there are people doing that. I
agree with everyone who called who talked about buzzing through
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red lights, and they don't obey the rules, and they
don't oby the reser regulations. I suggest perhaps not only
should these people be licensed and pay insurance, but their
clothing should designate their license plate on the back of
their clothing because you can't you can't see these things.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh sure, No, you're right. They can wear like some
some sort of like in a marathon.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
In the marathon, you have like a like a night
light on.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Something like that. And I agree, I agree with you,
and I will tell you this. I'm fearful that they'll
eventually have bike lanes going through people's houses.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
Right through the living room.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know, Well, we're just gonna build a little ramp
up here from the street.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And yeah, they'll have to go through the front door
and out the back, but you know it's it's gonna
be more convenient. Yeah. The bike riders have a very effective,
strong lobby and they.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Get And the other thing I want to bring up
is that me, me, I am subsidizing, do you feel
electric bikes through my supplemental health insurance with Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, And I would like to know what they're
doing for me, nothing other than my paying premiums.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
They are accepting. They are gratefully and sometimes not gratefully
accepting your premiums. Oh, this was a great call, Thank you,
Thank you, Collin.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
So to start with that, Okay, because that's promotion by
not only the state, but the city. And they're and
they're inviting low income people can get fifteen hundred bucks
off an electric bike. And they are also the city.
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The mayor and the people who work for her also
want senior citizens to have these electric bikes so that
they can go shopping.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, how about that.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
We're going to put your cut.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, I think what they should do is they should
they should buy the senior citizens roller skates. I think
that would be first of all, it would be environmentally
sustainable because there would be no carbon dioxide.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Some of us are aren't too agile?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I love the call room. Keep calling my show. I
love your sense of humor. We have to. If we
can't cry, we at least can laugh.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Okay, well you have to, I mean, but they gotta
do something about this, so I hope you have Senator
Nick Collins. Hopefully we can get something done about this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, sounds great. I appreciate your calling much. We'll
talk again, well more often. Thanks. All right, Dave, Michael,
you guys are next. I got Gary. We're going to
get Gary in as well, and then we will change topics.
But we're gonna just roll into a commercial break. We'll
get right out of it and we'll be right back
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're on night Side, Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Go to Michael lenn Aldiborough. Michael, you're next on nice Side.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Welcome, Hey, Dan Hawaiio doing great.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's been a while since you called in. What's up?
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Michael called yesterday, but I got to give you the tip.
There was a media that broke broke onto a roof
up and I think Bill Ricer a piece of media
media rocks.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There was a big one down in Georgia too. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
The the electric cars, I just want to say this quick.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
There have been three fires between Star Drive and other
roads about cars. They don't say if it's because of
the electric but I think it might be because it's
so hot out too. When anyway, I was thinking, you
think they could put a barrier up about two feet
out from the curb, you know, measure measure that all
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the pedals and all that could go through, like a
cement barrier.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And they have cement barriers. Now they have those jersey barriers.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Yea even one skinnier that you got to drive through it.
You have to have plates, and if you don't drive
through it, it takes a picture of your plate and
you get a fine.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
If you don't have a plate, how are they going
to know who de sent a fine to.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
No, no, no, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
Oh, I'm sorry, that's right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I mean, if you could take your plate off your car,
you could drive up and down the Massachusetts Turnpike all
day long and you'll be fine.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Now you remember you remember the plate from the sixties,
the Green Ones? Right, Yeah, did you put on your notice?
I said sixties? You put it on your spokes. But anyway, Hey,
have a great night.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Thanks Michael, great call, appreciate it very much. Thank you, sir. One. Okay,
we're going to go next. That's a quick call for Michael.
Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to Day and Peabody, Dave,
welcome next on Niceac right.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
Ahead, Hey Dan, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Hey, right back at you. What's your take on the
proliferation of these bikes, motorized scooters, motorized electric bikes. What's
your what's your what's your thought on all of that?
Speaker 12 (31:19):
So I have a two thoughts. I think some of
your listeners are misinformed.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
As far as the vouchers, I believe that was a
program that they wanted to help the poorer citizens have
a transportation to work. So it is sort of a
good program.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Well, I'll tell you that the people who are the
people Dave who have called tonight did not say they
They basically said they had an opportunity and none of
them qualified and said, gee, I got this because you know,
I needed it to get to work. You might be right,
but the people who actually call, all who had experienced
the program basically basically said to me that they they
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they were lucky. The first guy said that his name
was picked out of a hat to get you. You
basically applied for it and he won the voucher.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Yeah, I think you have to meet a certain criteria
for the programs that I've heard about. Okay, Yeah, so
I think it's a great idea, you know, for people
that you know, why don't we just.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Get people, Why don't we just get poor people cars?
Why do we do an a voucher? Why don't we
just give them a car?
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Very expensive? What you say, compared to a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, but their hell of a lot safer. I mean,
you give somebody, all hold on, you give somebody a
voucher to buy a bicycle, Dave? What do they do
in the winter? What are they doing a snowstorm? Why not,
if you're really interested in helping poor people, you know,
buy a car for them and and and tell them
that they can they have to keep it for four
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or five years before they can sell it, and that
they need to use it to transport to work. Is that,
you know? If you really want to go all in,
let's go win? Why go half hearted?
Speaker 12 (33:11):
Well, Dan, I'll explain that to you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
I I've called you once, you know, several times before
about issues like this. I actually I think it's a
big help for people. I fight to work seventeen miles
a day.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Good for you? Good for you?
Speaker 12 (33:30):
Well, one way is seventeen miles, so thirty four.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm giving you kudos here. I'm recognizing your virtue signaling
and I'm congratulating you.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
And I also can say I hate when I have
to drive in. I do have to drive in at times,
and like May in.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
A blizzard or something like that, that has to be
quite disconcerting. I understand that I don't like to drive
in snowstorms either go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (33:53):
So so yeah, I think it's a great idea of
that bout your program, and people get you're saying.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You know, it's like it's like giving something, saying, well,
someone's really hungry, I haven't eat in a while, Let's
give them an apple. The apple will take care of them.
Give them, give them an actual meal. That's all I'm
virtue signaling right back to you, Dave. I'm saying that
I want, if we're going to help people, let's really
help them. Let's not give them a bicycle or a
tricycle or whatever. Let's give them a car so that
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they then could actually maybe unlike you, you're in you've got
to be in great shape physically to do thirty four
miles each way. You probably are like an Olympic level
athlete at this point, having done that for some time.
But there's a lot of people who are not in
the prime physical condition that you're in, and for them,
a bicycle doesn't help. I mean, if you're some person
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who's overweight in part because you've been eating food that
maybe hasn't been as nutritious as it should be, all
we're doing is you're compounding the problem here, Dave. You're
not You're virtue signaling, but you're not helping people. You're
actually keeping them in in a bad situation. You know
that's you know, you're the exception to the rule. Were
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you ever like on any of the Lance Armstrong Olympic
cycling teams.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
I guess we're gonna let me talk now, Dan, I
gave you the courtesy to let you talk.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
But that's how I asked you. That was what's called
the question. Go ahead. I get I just wanted I
was complimenting you. I guess you didn't like the compliments.
Speaker 12 (35:24):
Go ahead, And we were having a discussion and the
compliments I understand that you've given them to me before.
About this. We've had this discussion before. So if we
focus on the vulcher situation and given somebody an apple
might not be as efficient as giving somebody the transportation
so they can.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Get to work, we're going to disagree. Okay, we're going
to disagree, Dave, because there's a lot of people unlike you,
who are not finally tuned athletes. Okay, you must get credit.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
I'm not finally tuned. That's why I had I used
to have a regular bike I'm on the wrong side
of sixty now like you like to use, and I
haven't to eat by now, and it's much more efficient
and and it's incredible, how great of a trip I have.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
To I'm glad. I'm glad, you know what.
Speaker 12 (36:07):
I'm glad that it's not you, not even you are
wrong about it, Dan, you were wrong about it being unsafe.
There are more car accidents, more trucks and cars going
through stop signs and stop lights than Bible.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yet, so those car drivers are the people. They're the
bad people. Dave.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
You're the good guy, Dan, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
But you don't drive it all the time because you're
you're you're your bicycling.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
But I have a lot of miles under my belt
on what you do.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
And I'm sure that you and Lance Armstrong probably were
my teammates at one point, Dave, I got to run
here because they got two others. They got to get
to them. I appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Call keep calling disappointing when you don't have the right information.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Dan, No I have. I have the absolute right information,
And I'm just saying I as a I want it
as opposed to giving somebody official eat for a day
I want to teach him how to fish. They can
eat for a lifetime.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
That's the difference between then why why not understand that
the reason behind getting people to you know, the cheap train,
I think of explained to Dave.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I don't think you want to hear the explanation. I
think the audience gets it. I know, run, I got
other people who I'm trying to get in here. Dave,
you've had six minutes. Thank you, good night, Let's go.
I'm gonna try to get Gary in Beverly and and
Bill and NATed. Gary, you gotta be quick for me.
What can what would you like?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
I know if they just dragged this thing out, I'm
telling you, I'm serious. You know I clean, I clean
and win. And I'll tell you something. The worst part
about he talking about cars and stuff, it's the scooters
and and all the mopezz and stuff that fly around
in the city of Lynn through Soft Steign's red lights.
They don't respect the latter on the sidewalks. You almost
they clipped by him motorcycles driving down on twenty eight
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in the center.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Lady.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
And you know what I'm saying, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Totally know what you're saying. But I was. I was
trying to explain to Dave. He's he thinks that that
they're safer than cars. You get hit, you get it.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
But these people don't even have any rules of the road.
They don't have a helmet, saw, they have no they
have no license plates. They're flying around like it's like
and they Lynn is like.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Let them go.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Let them do what they want to do. They're not understaffed.
They're not understaffed in Lynn even in Boston. You know,
respect the rules of the road. That's all comes down to.
I don't care if you're right by fifty miles a day.
Respect the rules of the road.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I'm with you totally. Gary. I wish I saved more
time for you. Man.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I call it by the way, So I'm just but
you know, you know just.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
What.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
So first time caller, all right, do me say next
time you call you let me know the second time
you get more time on the road.
Speaker 8 (38:35):
I'll give a pat on the back and tell them,
tell them to drive fifty miles.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
A day, and then you want to be fine.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
So all right, Bill and David, Bill, you called late.
I'm going to give you about thirty seconds. What can
you do with it?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Buddy, Oh, I can say, damn surprised. I know you
have a legal background that you're misinformed about. Why you
cannot release information about people who are injured once they
get into the hospital. It's not up to any authority
to release information about their conditions. There's a rule called
the Hippa rule.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Oh, I'm very familiar with the Hipper rule. Don't insult me.
I'm very familiar with the Hippa rule. You don't have
to identify the person, but you could say good news tonight, folks,
the individual who was injured last week in that accident.
There's all sorts of stories on television and the newspapers
about people who have recovered from accidents. It's got nothing
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to do with the Hipper rule. But that's okay. Thanks
for calling. Nonetheless, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
We're done. We're going to talk about another a different
subject next hour. You stay with us. Where will you
be buried?
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm busy, he cast
in his new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, we are talking about a situation which was
brought to my attention. Uh, and we will talk with
State Senator Nick Collins, I hope either tomorrow night or
on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Those motorized bicycles, the motorized scooters, the electric bikes, the mopeds,
all those little vehicles that you see zipping in and
out of traffic, even the ones that are used for
commercial activity, meaning delivering food to people who are too
lazy to pick up their own food. But that's okay.
You call a place and bring the Chick fil A
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to your door, whatever you're ordering. Okay, they don't they
don't have to have any commercial even though they're engaged
in commercial activity. Obviously they're being paid to deliver the food.
They don't have insurance. And we've had some great calls,
and one of them is joining us right now. Larry
from Needham. Larry, you talked about in the last hour
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you found an old mopad in your garage or whatever,
and you reconditioned it is what you told me.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Right, Yeah, I had it since nineteen sixty seven or
sixty eight. And I had an accident, and then I
discovered in about twenty fourteen that I can get new
and new old parts from Germany and England, so I
said tank to get it running again.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
You brought it back to life after, you know, nearly
fifty years. My question to you is how many members
of the Great and General Court you were explaining to
me all the different nuances between your again, your motoria,
your vehicle and other vehicles. How many members of the
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Greater General Court? I certainly I followed what you said,
but I have no clue because I've never I'm not
someone who engages in that. How many members of the
Great General Quote you think would have any idea what
you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I don't think anybody, including the RMB. I'm sitting at
my computer and I went to the R and B
site and I'm looking at moped definition, which is correct. Okay,
I see that, but it has so many inaccuracies it's unbelievable.
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Must have an automatic transmission. None of them have automatic transmission,
so they might, but the ones I've always seen have
a manual transmission on it. And this says be capable
of a maximum speed of more than thirty miles an hour, okay,
and then further down below. Under restrictions when operating a
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moped and motorized scooter, you cannot be under sixteen years
of age. You must have a valid license or permit.
Moped should not drive its speed greater than twenty five
miles per hour. Where above it says it can't have
a maximum speed of it has a maximum speed of thirty.
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So I don't know why you would say mopeds can't
drive faster than twenty five. If they have if they're
capable of going thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, that's inherently conridictory. That excellently. Yeah, that's inherently contradiction.
Well that's the problem. But I don't think the legislature
knows what there has any real clue. I mean, I
think that they could say to you all that if
they stood in front of the State House, they could
discern the difference between the car and the truck. I
have every confidence that the majority of the Massachusetts legislature
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could say that's a car and that's a truck. I
get it. But anything much beyond that, I don't have
much confidence in them.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No, And the next line, next two lines is motorized
scooters should not drive it a speed greater than twenty
miles an hour. It's very hard to gauge how fast
somebody's going on a scooter, but I'll bet you they
can do twenty and that's extremely fast for something like that.
(04:16):
We are so close to the ground with so little
control on small wheels. But the last item is you
must wear a US DOT standard helmet.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
How many kids do you see on scooters without any helmet?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's a round number zero. Hey, Larry, I gotta tell you,
maybe the legislature will hire you as a special consultant
on speak.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think listen. I screamed I had road rates today,
and I'll bear my heart. I screamed at a bicycle.
I screamed at a very fancy guy with very fancy
bicycle clothing today as he went through life. And then
I passed him and came up to the next light,
and there he was a second time.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Did he have some Let me ask you this, what
was he dressed in spandex?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Of course he had this bright yellow stripe down his
back and uh.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And in his own mind, he probably thinks he's on
a teammate of Lance Armstrong or something he owned well
because he's special. Hey, Larry, I thank you. You know,
confession is good for the soul. And Father Dan has
forgiven you for screaming at the bicyclest. All you have
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to do is say one hail Mary and your sins roomsults.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I have to speak to my rabbi about it.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, that's okay, that whatever you want. Okay, thanks Larry,
Thanks talk to you soon. I'm sure your rabbi will
understand as well. Thank you. All right, Okay, I gotta
take a break. I got one line in six one seven, two,
five four to ten thirty and one line in six
one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I would love
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to talk about this for another forty five minutes. What
we're getting at is exactly what I think is the problem,
and that the legislature doesn't know how to regulate these
new variations of electric and motorized vehicles scooters and again
in the legislation that Senator Collins refers to all motorized bicycles,
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motorized scooters, electric bicycles and mopeds used for commercial activity
shall be required to have insurance the fact that he
has to file legislation like that means obviously there is
no requirement. Now, I think every one of everyone who's
operating a motorized vehicle or or or a vehicle that
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has some form of electric propulsion or whatever could do damage.
And I started the hour by ex plaining to all
of you that, in my opinion, they were two very
serious accidents in Greater Boston last week. I have no clue.
The stories ended the very the next day, so we
have no idea if either of those people who were
critically injured one a pedestrian who was hit by some
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sort of a moped or motorized scooter I'm not sure which,
and a motorized scooter who apparently had an accident with
the car, both critically injured. No follow up in any
of the local papers. I just don't think it's important,
but I want to know. I mean, if people are
being injured or hurt or worse killed, we need to know.
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Back on Nightside right after the break, we will keep
going on this. So you keep calling, We'll keep going.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Let's go to Paul in South Boston. Hate Paul. Welcome
appreciate you waiting through the news. You were next on Nightside, Paul,
Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
How you doing Dan, I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
What's your take on these motorized vehicles? Are they out
of control?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I just want to let you know the previous
call in the last hour said he got his voucher
by the state. I got my voucher from the city.
The city's been doing that for a few years. You
didn't know that, No, no, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
How can you keep track of the giveaways? I mean, look,
there's a lot of people in Boston who can use
some help with housing and with food and that giving
away the money to.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
The state and the city is doing the same thing. Yeah.
I think the state just started is this summer, but
the city of Boston's been doing it for the last
few years.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean, come on, Well, can I tell you what
my thing on e bike stand. My voucher runs out
the eighteenth of this month, so that's a few more days.
I went to one in Santel Hall to get an
e bike and it looked like a big humdy. You
should have seen the size of the tie is on
it like a track. The trailer. I was petrified of it,
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and it was I think it was twelve hundred and
I had to pay and they wanted me to pay
another hundred for assembly. Yeah, but I was terrified of it.
And I'm afraid I lickt on batteries as well. But
I love.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I love to tell the story, and I'll tell you
I can identify with exactly what you're saying. When I
first moved to the suburbs back when I was a
young a dad let me put it like that. I thought, oh,
this would be great. You know, I can get out
with my son. And I went into a Sears that's
how long ago it was to buy a chainsaw. And
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I thought, this would be great. If my son grows up,
we can go out into the woods and we cut
down trees and everything. So I bought it, walked out,
put it in the trunk of the car, went to
get into the car, and I said, are you nuts?
I took I took the Husquovana chainsaw back. It was
the quickest return in the history of Sears. That I
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will cut my hand off, I will cut my leg
off with this thing. And that was it. Hey, we
just we lost to Paul, call back if you want.
I hope you, I hope you weren't upset about the story.
But yeah, I said to myself, I'm not interested in
committing suicide with the chainsaw. I'll call us back, Paul.
I apologize, but I had to tell that story because
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I identified with exactly what you just said. Let me
go to Devn in Boston. Devon, you are next on Nightside. Welcome. Hi,
Hi Devin.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
How are you the voucher thing? Remember how you said
the what was the the reason why the taxpayer would
contribute to that? Yeah, I think it's more of like
the admissions part, Like there's an incentive for people to
use an ebug a set of a car for the admissions.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, I get I understand that there's always a policy
behind it. Okay, I do understand that, but it seems
to me and yeah, I'm just talking to you as
a as another person, Paul rob If Paul calls back,
tell him I'll take him after I finished talking with
Devin here. I know that there's a policy there, okay,
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but it's like we're still taking money from taxpayers, and
you know there are people in our society who are hungry.
There are people in our society who are homeless. There
are people in our society who are addicted. If we
didn't have anybody who's homeless, anyone was hungry and wasn't addicted,
I would say, okay, maybe we can think about it.
But just because some group of politicians think this is
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good or this is not good or whatever, I just
think it's if it's really something that's good, like, for example,
solar panels. A lot of people go and they put
solar panels on their roofs because they want to save
some money. Makes sense to the I.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Don't think it's more about the money. I think it's
more about the environment.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well again, if you buy into that. So let's let
me take this.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Do you think I love I'm Trump all the way?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Don't be wrong, like you know, I mean I Republican
and I don't really agree to anything that the other
side does. But is it more of a biparty than
it's the situation?
Speaker 7 (12:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Probably, I understand your point, but let me make Let
me make my point, and I want your reaction to it.
Let's assume that we here in Massachusetts or even in
New England decided that we were gonna go just totally
environmentally conscious. Let's assume that in the winter time we
turned the heat down h and in the summertime we
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had no air conditioning, and we really did the run,
you know, we did everything, we sacrificed. And do you
think that would make much of a difference, because on
the other side of the world you got countries like
India and Pakistan and wonderful countries. Don't get me wrong,
they're just burning fossil fuel. Crazy, I mean, I think
it's I think it's a con job. Well, if you
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keep the temperature down in your house ten degrees this winter,
and so instead of being at a comfortable let's say
seventy two, keep your temperature down sixty two, because it's
going to save the environment. I think it's a corn job.
I really do.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, I know, I agree, like you know, as far
as like it's really not gonna do that much. But
I think that's the reason why they possibly would use
the taxpayer's money to fund that.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well why not do this? Why not buy electric vehicles
for everyone? Why not say you buy an electric car? No,
you laugh at at.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Me, who wants an electric car or electric vehicle?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, doesn't that help the environment?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I mean at some point, but like to make those batteries,
to make the vehicle. It's actually is more of the
you know, well.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's the kind of you're making. You're making my point,
and that is that everything has everything has maybe the
advantage or disadvantage. But it's like, let's just let's let's
all of us, you know, let's let's live in caves.
I think if we all lived in caves, have a
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tremendous uh positive impact on the environment. But we couldn't
burn like wood or make fire anything like that, because
that's gonna cause him.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
No, no, no, no matter what.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Why they no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I get it. I do appreciate it. Hey, Devin, have
you called the show before? No?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
No, it's my first time ever radio ever.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, thank you very much. I did a nice job clause. Yeah,
I'm serious. I really do appreciate it, and I think
maybe you have a future in radio. You you did
a very nice nice job there. What do you don't
work in this business? Do you? What do you do
for a living?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I'm a tattoo artist. I want a tattoo shop. I'm
thirty four years old.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You're a taxidermist.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
No, I'm a tattoo artist. I want a tattoo shop.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh what type of I'm not hearing you, Well, a
tattoo artist. Oh you're a tattoo artist. Oh great house business?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Miss going? You know, some somethings. Some the economy doesn't
go that great. Like it's like now everyone doesn't know
where to spend their money. Yeah, so it's a little
bit slow. But besides that, it's I mean, I love
my job. I have a it's a more of a
healing thing. So how.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Did you become a tattoo artist? I mean, you know,
to me, it must be I worked.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
For twelve years at market Basket full time and then
I and then I left there and started tattooing during COVID.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But how did someone teach you how to tattoo? Did
you learn as an apprentice?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yep, yep, I did.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
So.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I'm have been an artist my whole life. And well,
my brother passed away. He always wanted me to open
a tattoo shop. So I was like, you know what,
I'm leaving market Basket like, and I went on the
road and started tattooing. I went to a shop, it
was an apprentice there and then I left there and
I opened my own shop.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, now you don't have to do this, but I
would love to give your business a plug. If you
want to plug your business and tell people where you're located.
And if any of my listeners are going to get
a tattoo in your area, I hope they'll they'll.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I'm actually like one of the only ones around the
area that I'm at in Rowley, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Boston up by Georgetown and that's sort of that neck
of the woods up on ninety five North right.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Yeah, so am I myself. Also doubles is like a
therapy session too, because when you get ink, it's like therapy.
So it's called healing ink.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Healing ink in Raley. Okay, I hope. I hope we
drive some business to you. You got some free publicity
by just calling night Side. I love to do that.
I hope someone walks in there tomorrow and says I
was thinking about getting a tattoo and Devin, you is
sounded like a nice person, which you do, and and
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and we.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Drive because people feel good about themselves, like you know this,
like about getting a tattoo and like you know, you know,
communitying yourself to something that you know you love and
say someone passed away, you want to memorialize you know
them and put it on yourself. And you know, I
feel like I can help someone feel good about themselves
and make them remember that person throughout the day and
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you know, whenever they look at it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
How long does it normally take you to apply a tattoo?
And I sure, I'm sure someonere more complicated than others,
but on an average it has to be like at
least an hour I assume.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, I just felt like an hour, two hours, depending
on the detail and everything, but yeah, just about that.
I usually do flash tales on Fridays, so I go,
I have a sale go on Fridays. So okay, well.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
People should look it up. Then again in Raleigh, Massachusetts,
and it's called healing ink.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
A little plu. Let me ask you one of the questions.
I've never had a tattoo. I never really wanted a tattoo.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'll come on down. I love taking deals first time.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now my question is does it hurt? I'm kind of freaked.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Out by It depends on the Like the people on
your arm's not that bad. For some reason, your back
really hurts in like the back of your calves. It
depends on the area.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
To be honest, I guess probably if you if your
nerves are closer to the skin in certain parts of
your body, that's for sure.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Your feet are the worst absolute feat like the most single.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, well, I'll keep that in mind. Devin, thanks so much.
You gotta plug, you gotta plug.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I love that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, keep calling. We'll give you a plug every time
you call. Thanks so much. Okay, thanks Devin, appreciate it.
Have a great thank you, goodbye. All right. I love
that call. It's great to meet people and find out
what people do. Rob Someone told me yesterday, by the way,
that my audio going out over the airway was really good.
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But the person I spoke to said that the call
or were lower. I just want to make sure that
we're we're doing this properly in terms of the audio levels. Okay,
and if I'm overwhelming people, let me know. But I
had a little trouble. I think Devin spoke kind of quickly,
and she had a very pretty voice, but it was
a little soft spoken and I wasn't sure. Thank you
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for telling me, she said, tattoo, but you know, so
I didn't know if she said taxidermy initially six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, that is the only line We're going
to take this, I believe until till eleven o'clock. At
eleven o'clock we got we will change topics. I have
another topic in my pocket, but this has been a
good topic and we're going to keep rolling with it.
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I got Rita is next, Michael Dave and got room
for two people at six one seven two five, four
ten thirty. My name's Dan Ray. This is ninth Side.
We are talking about why motorized vehicles, particularly small vehicles,
motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, mopeads, scooters, why they are not
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regulated in Massachusetts and should they be and should they
have insurance so in case you are hit by someone
of these vehicles, you have your medical bills are covered
and you're not chasing someone in civil court. Back on
Nightside right after the break.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
If you just joined us, We're talking about motorized bikes, bicycles,
motorized scooters, electric bicycles, and mopeds and how little regulation
is imposed upon those and if you are a rider
of one of those or a user of one of
those vehicles, feel free to give us a call. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty is the only line that the two lines open. There.
Let me go to Rita in Boston. Hello Rita, and
welcome to Nightside. Appreciate your patience. You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Oh okay, Hi, thank you again. I remember you began
the program with the pedestrian being hit yes, Copley Square, Yes,
and not getting any.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Follow up follow up.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Not only do we not get follow up on people
getting hit by bicycles or cars or this or that,
but shootings we don't get any. We get under investigation.
That's the end of it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, you're right, and I just don't understand that. Okay,
I don't know. I think there's an underlying political motivation
to be really honest with you, and I think the
police department needs to be a lot more forthcoming. I
think that there should have been an update on the
condition of both those people who were hit upsolutely both men,
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but both of those stories suggested as a matter of fact,
I can just read from a couple of them. Here
The Boston Globe eight days ago, serious electric bike crash
reported in Back Bay. A second crash occurred at Humboldt
Avenue in Stever Street in Roxbury when a person on
a scooter was hit. Scooter rider injured in Roxbury crash.
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He is facing well, it says a person didn't say
who he or she is facing life threatening injuries. And
then the one just life life threatening injury. I want
to know how that person.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Did, so do I? And we we never hear follow
ups for those kinds of accidents or shootings in Roxbury
and Dorchester. We never investigation.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Why do you think that is so?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Because they don't want you to know, that's why.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, I mean most of the shootings we never.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
See the commissioner, We never see the mayor unless it's
something you know, that gets the attention of somebody other
than the people who live here.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah. Well, well, ironically, ironically, most of the shootings in
Boston that results that result in deaths are folks who
live in the poorer sections of Boston. I did a
couple of shows in the last two months and the
little boy, the five year old boy in Hyde Park
who got off his school bus and people twenty eighth
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and was run over by the very school bus that
he had gotten off and there's been nothing to speak
of on that, no indictment. Know what is the investigation
that's not that doesn't that's not as complex as the
Kennedy assassination. And again that wouldn't be tolerated in a
lot of the more affluent suburbs. People would be howling.
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But I think people have been lulled into this sort
of sense of okay, when they're not going to tell
us what's going on, so why should we try? I
want to know who those those people?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
And I'm glad you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm glad you feel as strongly as I do.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
And so the other things are the scooters and the
bikes and this and that. There are different kinds of scooters.
There's these little black buzzy things that zoom through the
back bay Berkeley Street, Clarence Street, Dartmouth Street, Boylston Street,
and they sidle up to cars at the lights. If
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the light is red so they can't go through, they
sidle up, they look this way that way and they
go right through the red light, or they have a
sort of drag race with the cars that are trying
to the cars are obeying the rules and regulations these
scooters and bicycle people, and none of them are, you know,
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working by the rules here. They just don't give a.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Damn well they don't. And the police are understaffed, so
most police officers aren't going to waste a day in
quart or something writing and ticket for something like that.
So it gets the life of the city and people
start to feel, hey, I'm not welcome here. I know,
I don't enjoy going into Boston anymore with all the
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bike lanes. I'm not I'm not on my high horse
and the bike lanes. I think, unfortunately that battle has
been lost.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
There's a bike lane on Berkeley Street that has maybe
one bike every twelve hours.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Okay, yeah, I think there's.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Nobody using that bike lane from Tremont up to Columbus As. However,
people are using the bike lane, that bike lane which
has an arrow going up to Columbus app coming down
to Tremont straight occasionally there are people doing that. I
agree with everyone who called who talked about buzzing through
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red lights, and they don't obey the rules, and they
don't oby the reser regulations. I suggest perhaps not only
should these people be licensed and pay insurance, but their
clothing should designate their license plate on the back of
their clothing because you can't you can't see these things.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Oh sure, No, you're right. They can wear like some
some sort of like in a marathon.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
In the marathon, you have like a like a night
light on.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Something like that. And I agree, I agree with you,
and I will tell you this. I'm fearful that they'll
eventually have bike lanes going through people's houses.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
Right through the living room.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know, Well, we're just gonna build a little ramp
up here from the street.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And yeah, they'll have to go through the front door
and out the back, but you know it's it's gonna
be more convenient. Yeah. The bike riders have a very effective,
strong lobby and they.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Get And the other thing I want to bring up
is that me, me, I am subsidizing, do you feel
electric bikes through my supplemental health insurance with Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, And I would like to know what they're
doing for me, nothing other than my paying premiums.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
They are accepting. They are gratefully and sometimes not gratefully
accepting your premiums. Oh, this was a great call, Thank you,
Thank you, Collin.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
So to start with that, Okay, because that's promotion by
not only the state, but the city. And they're and
they're inviting low income people can get fifteen hundred bucks
off an electric bike. And they are also the city.
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The mayor and the people who work for her also
want senior citizens to have these electric bikes so that
they can go shopping.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, how about that.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
We're going to put your cut.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, I think what they should do is they should
they should buy the senior citizens roller skates. I think
that would be first of all, it would be environmentally
sustainable because there would be no carbon dioxide.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Some of us are aren't too agile?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I love the call room. Keep calling my show. I
love your sense of humor. We have to. If we
can't cry, we at least can laugh.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Okay, well you have to, I mean, but they gotta
do something about this, so I hope you have Senator
Nick Collins. Hopefully we can get something done about this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, sounds great. I appreciate your calling much. We'll
talk again, well more often. Thanks. All right, Dave, Michael,
you guys are next. I got Gary. We're going to
get Gary in as well, and then we will change topics.
But we're gonna just roll into a commercial break. We'll
get right out of it and we'll be right back
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're on night Side, Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Go to Michael lenn Aldiborough. Michael, you're next on nice Side.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Welcome, Hey, Dan Hawaiio doing great.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It's been a while since you called in. What's up?
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Michael called yesterday, but I got to give you the tip.
There was a media that broke broke onto a roof
up and I think Bill Ricer a piece of media
media rocks.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There was a big one down in Georgia too. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
The the electric cars, I just want to say this quick.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
There have been three fires between Star Drive and other
roads about cars. They don't say if it's because of
the electric but I think it might be because it's
so hot out too. When anyway, I was thinking, you
think they could put a barrier up about two feet
out from the curb, you know, measure measure that all
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the pedals and all that could go through, like a
cement barrier.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
And they have cement barriers. Now they have those jersey barriers.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Yea even one skinnier that you got to drive through it.
You have to have plates, and if you don't drive
through it, it takes a picture of your plate and
you get a fine.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
If you don't have a plate, how are they going
to know who de sent a fine to.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
No, no, no, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
Oh, I'm sorry, that's right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I mean, if you could take your plate off your car,
you could drive up and down the Massachusetts Turnpike all
day long and you'll be fine.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
Now you remember you remember the plate from the sixties,
the Green Ones? Right, Yeah, did you put on your notice?
I said sixties? You put it on your spokes. But anyway, Hey,
have a great night.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Thanks Michael, great call, appreciate it very much. Thank you, sir. One. Okay,
we're going to go next. That's a quick call for Michael.
Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to Day and Peabody, Dave,
welcome next on Niceac right.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
Ahead, Hey Dan, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Hey, right back at you. What's your take on the
proliferation of these bikes, motorized scooters, motorized electric bikes. What's
your what's your what's your thought on all of that?
Speaker 12 (31:19):
So I have a two thoughts. I think some of
your listeners are misinformed.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
As far as the vouchers, I believe that was a
program that they wanted to help the poorer citizens have
a transportation to work. So it is sort of a
good program.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Well, I'll tell you that the people who are the
people Dave who have called tonight did not say they
They basically said they had an opportunity and none of
them qualified and said, gee, I got this because you know,
I needed it to get to work. You might be right,
but the people who actually call, all who had experienced
the program basically basically said to me that they they
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they were lucky. The first guy said that his name
was picked out of a hat to get you. You
basically applied for it and he won the voucher.
Speaker 12 (32:17):
Yeah, I think you have to meet a certain criteria
for the programs that I've heard about. Okay, Yeah, so
I think it's a great idea, you know, for people
that you know, why don't we just.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Get people, Why don't we just get poor people cars?
Why do we do an a voucher? Why don't we
just give them a car?
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Very expensive? What you say, compared to a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, but their hell of a lot safer. I mean,
you give somebody, all hold on, you give somebody a
voucher to buy a bicycle, Dave? What do they do
in the winter? What are they doing a snowstorm? Why not,
if you're really interested in helping poor people, you know,
buy a car for them and and and tell them
that they can they have to keep it for four
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or five years before they can sell it, and that
they need to use it to transport to work. Is that,
you know? If you really want to go all in,
let's go win? Why go half hearted?
Speaker 12 (33:11):
Well, Dan, I'll explain that to you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
I I've called you once, you know, several times before
about issues like this. I actually I think it's a
big help for people. I fight to work seventeen miles
a day.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Good for you? Good for you?
Speaker 12 (33:30):
Well, one way is seventeen miles, so thirty four.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm giving you kudos here. I'm recognizing your virtue signaling
and I'm congratulating you.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
And I also can say I hate when I have
to drive in. I do have to drive in at times,
and like May in.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
A blizzard or something like that, that has to be
quite disconcerting. I understand that I don't like to drive
in snowstorms either go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (33:53):
So so yeah, I think it's a great idea of
that bout your program, and people get you're saying.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You know, it's like it's like giving something, saying, well,
someone's really hungry, I haven't eat in a while, Let's
give them an apple. The apple will take care of them.
Give them, give them an actual meal. That's all I'm
virtue signaling right back to you, Dave. I'm saying that
I want, if we're going to help people, let's really
help them. Let's not give them a bicycle or a
tricycle or whatever. Let's give them a car so that
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they then could actually maybe unlike you, you're in you've got
to be in great shape physically to do thirty four
miles each way. You probably are like an Olympic level
athlete at this point, having done that for some time.
But there's a lot of people who are not in
the prime physical condition that you're in, and for them,
a bicycle doesn't help. I mean, if you're some person
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who's overweight in part because you've been eating food that
maybe hasn't been as nutritious as it should be, all
we're doing is you're compounding the problem here, Dave. You're
not You're virtue signaling, but you're not helping people. You're
actually keeping them in in a bad situation. You know
that's you know, you're the exception to the rule. Were
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you ever like on any of the Lance Armstrong Olympic
cycling teams.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
I guess we're gonna let me talk now, Dan, I
gave you the courtesy to let you talk.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
But that's how I asked you. That was what's called
the question. Go ahead. I get I just wanted I
was complimenting you. I guess you didn't like the compliments.
Speaker 12 (35:24):
Go ahead, And we were having a discussion and the
compliments I understand that you've given them to me before.
About this. We've had this discussion before. So if we
focus on the vulcher situation and given somebody an apple
might not be as efficient as giving somebody the transportation
so they can.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Get to work, we're going to disagree. Okay, we're going
to disagree, Dave, because there's a lot of people unlike you,
who are not finally tuned athletes. Okay, you must get credit.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
I'm not finally tuned. That's why I had I used
to have a regular bike I'm on the wrong side
of sixty now like you like to use, and I
haven't to eat by now, and it's much more efficient
and and it's incredible, how great of a trip I have.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
To I'm glad. I'm glad, you know what.
Speaker 12 (36:07):
I'm glad that it's not you, not even you are
wrong about it, Dan, you were wrong about it being unsafe.
There are more car accidents, more trucks and cars going
through stop signs and stop lights than Bible.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yet, so those car drivers are the people. They're the
bad people. Dave.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
You're the good guy, Dan, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
But you don't drive it all the time because you're
you're you're your bicycling.
Speaker 12 (36:31):
But I have a lot of miles under my belt
on what you do.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
And I'm sure that you and Lance Armstrong probably were
my teammates at one point, Dave, I got to run
here because they got two others. They got to get
to them. I appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
Call keep calling disappointing when you don't have the right information.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Dan, No I have. I have the absolute right information,
And I'm just saying I as a I want it
as opposed to giving somebody official eat for a day
I want to teach him how to fish. They can
eat for a lifetime.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
That's the difference between then why why not understand that
the reason behind getting people to you know, the cheap train,
I think of explained to Dave.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I don't think you want to hear the explanation. I
think the audience gets it. I know, run, I got
other people who I'm trying to get in here. Dave,
you've had six minutes. Thank you, good night, Let's go.
I'm gonna try to get Gary in Beverly and and
Bill and NATed. Gary, you gotta be quick for me.
What can what would you like?
Speaker 8 (37:21):
I know if they just dragged this thing out, I'm
telling you, I'm serious. You know I clean, I clean
and win. And I'll tell you something. The worst part
about he talking about cars and stuff, it's the scooters
and and all the mopezz and stuff that fly around
in the city of Lynn through Soft Steign's red lights.
They don't respect the latter on the sidewalks. You almost
they clipped by him motorcycles driving down on twenty eight
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in the center.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Lady.
Speaker 8 (37:42):
And you know what I'm saying, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Totally know what you're saying. But I was. I was
trying to explain to Dave. He's he thinks that that
they're safer than cars. You get hit, you get it.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
But these people don't even have any rules of the road.
They don't have a helmet, saw, they have no they
have no license plates. They're flying around like it's like
and they Lynn is like.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Let them go.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Let them do what they want to do. They're not understaffed.
They're not understaffed in Lynn even in Boston. You know,
respect the rules of the road. That's all comes down to.
I don't care if you're right by fifty miles a day.
Respect the rules of the road.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I'm with you totally. Gary. I wish I saved more
time for you. Man.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
I call it by the way, So I'm just but
you know, you know just.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
What.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
So first time caller, all right, do me say next
time you call you let me know the second time
you get more time on the road.
Speaker 8 (38:35):
I'll give a pat on the back and tell them,
tell them to drive fifty miles.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
A day, and then you want to be fine.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
So all right, Bill and David, Bill, you called late.
I'm going to give you about thirty seconds. What can
you do with it?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Buddy, Oh, I can say, damn surprised. I know you
have a legal background that you're misinformed about. Why you
cannot release information about people who are injured once they
get into the hospital. It's not up to any authority
to release information about their conditions. There's a rule called
the Hippa rule.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Oh, I'm very familiar with the Hipper rule. Don't insult me.
I'm very familiar with the Hippa rule. You don't have
to identify the person, but you could say good news tonight, folks,
the individual who was injured last week in that accident.
There's all sorts of stories on television and the newspapers
about people who have recovered from accidents. It's got nothing
(39:26):
to do with the Hipper rule. But that's okay. Thanks
for calling. Nonetheless, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
We're done. We're going to talk about another a different
subject next hour. You stay with us. Where will you
be buried?
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