August 19, 2024 • 39 mins
The Democratic National Convention is underway at the United Center in Chicago and President Joe Biden spoke Monday evening. Dan chatted shared his thoughts on the President's speech and heard your thoughts on the convention and its speakers!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Fay Boston.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The Democrats are underway in Chicago, and we have a
lot to talk about. And of course the Republicans had
their convention earlier this well, actually in late late July,
now that I think about it, Yeah, they were done
in July. And the Democrats are just on day one
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right now. Hillary Clinton, a beloved.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Figure within the Democratic Party, is is addressing the convention.
So it's it's sort of ghosts of Democrat past and
the Democrat that everyone wants to hear from. I won't speak,
as I understanding, until Thursday night, although tonight President Biden
will deliver his swan song. Interesting article by Maureen Daud
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in The.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
New York Times late last week, actually on Saturday. She
starts off, we head to Chicago in a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation,
excitement and even you might say ecstasy. It's going to
be a glorious coronation, except that everyone's mad at one another.
She goes on to to talk about how Joe Biden
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was done in and how that he's not happy. And
again this is I woring down no fan of Donald Trump.
She she quotes Trump in the article and talks about uh,
(01:37):
Well Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. This is where
it gets kind of interesting. He says, the president already
resented meaning the president meaning President Biden already resented Obama
for shoving him aside for Hillary, and he even resented
Hillary for squandering that opportunity and losing to trum And
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even this is Mareen Daoud, not me. Even though Obama
tried to do everything quietly to protect his saintly status,
Joe was furious that Obama was sidelining him twice Michelle's
Obama's relationship with Biden soward when his family ostracized Hunter's
first wife, Michelle's friend Kathleen. That's one reason the popular
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Michelle wasn't on the campaign trail for Biden. It gets
into really deep stuff in the family here. Kamala can't
be thrilled with Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer that Obama, Pelosi,
and Schuma hesitated to endorse her because they wanted more
moderate rivals to compete in an open mini primary. And
Biden and Harris staffs are also TETCHI. I don't know
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exactly what she means by that word, as Kamala's lawyers
layers on her own people. It's pretty Shakespearean. Biden still
thinks he could have taken Trump, so how could he
reconcile being shoved off the sled. On Wednesday, Ron Klain,
Biden's longtime adviser, expressed to Inoson Cooper biden World's feelings
about the Jacquarie heard round the world. I think it
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was unfortunate because I think the president had won the
nomination fair and square. Fourteen million people had voted for
him and the vice president as vice president. He added,
I do think you know the president was pushed by
public calls from elected officials for him to drop out,
from donus calling for him to drop out, and I
think that was wrong. Those who pushed out Biden should
be proud they saved him and their party from a
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likely crushing defeat, letting Trump snake back in and soil
democracy that would keep Biden off Rushmore. It's the headline
is the Dems are delighted, but a coup is still
a coup. So the Democrats gather in Chicago. The Harris
campaign has slowly maturely emerging, and over the weekend. Over
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the weekend, Michelle Obama made some comments that Drew I
thought some interesting raised eyebrows. This is the vice president
talking about her economic plan. She miss reads or misspeaks
the word gouging. She calls it gauging. So don't be upset.
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Don't be confused by that, Rob. This is cut one.
This is the vice president over the weekend, talking in
part about her economic plan. Here we go, Cut one.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I will work to pass the first ever federal ban
on price gauging on food. My plan will include new
penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's a little vague. I would think a democratic commentator
had his comment on that. And this is Chris Cuomo
talking about the vice president's price gouging policy. This is
cut number twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Please Rob, all right, So price gauging versus gouging.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
She made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We noted it.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Second, going after corporations is popular. Doing it about inflation
is popular. Sixty percent of us believe corporations are to
blame for it. The question is what do you do
right blame versus change. So Harris says she's targeting price gouging.
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I don't really care about gouging, gauging, I don't care,
all right. You got to take the level of talent
where you find it. We don't have great talent in
our politics right now. We got to wait for better
people to want to get involved in what is such
a poison process.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But this is what we got. No what you call
an endorsement, per se. Look, the Vice president was running
for president in twenty nineteen and she was in Iowa
talking about this is extraordinary, talking about the government takeover
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of companies' patents. I mean, that is what this system
of capitalism and the society in which we live is
all about. You come up with an idea, you patent
the idea, or you copyright the book or the song,
or you trademark the symbol, and you are protected protected
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from people seizing and exploiting your work product. This was
the Vice president in a twenty nineteen video in Iowa.
Just listen to the first few words. We will smash
their patents. This has cut nineteen.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Rob snatch their patent so that we will take over.
And yes we can do that, Yes, yes we can
do that. Yes we can do that. It's the question
is do you have the will to do it? I
have the will to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That is the potential future president of the United States,
and that is what we are now left with. We're
left with one candidate who who I don't understand Donald Trump.
Haven't understood Donald Trump? Maybe some of you do. Over
the weekend, he said he was better looking than Kamala Harris. Really,
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I mean, is that the level of presidential debate? Who's
better looking? And look, I'm in no position to judge,
but I don't think Donald Trump isn't any position a
judge either. So what we have is someone who has
expressed a willingness to literally literally have government control the economy.
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And you know what happens when government controls the economy.
Things disappear, Shelves go bare. Think Cuba, think Venezuela, Think Russia,
think countries behind the Iron Curtain. We are a nation
that has so much, so much natural resources, so many
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wonderful farms. We feed the world, We feed our company,
our country. We have social food programs here that are extraordinary.
Do we really want to have food and price controls? Basically,
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the vice president maybe she doesn't realize it. She can
go back to nineteen seventy one. Here was a Republican
President Richard Nixon talking about freezing prices one a rob.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
The time has come for decisive action, action that will
break the vicious circle of spiraling prices and costs. I
am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages
throughout the United States for a period of ninety days.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
How did that work out for you, trickster? It didn't,
it didn't. We are in looneytoo Land, looneytune land right now, okay,
And I have no idea. I do think I have
an understanding of where she's coming from. I think she
looks upon unbridled government authority and power like no presidential
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candidate in my lifetime has ever looked at it. That
scares me. And Donald Trump, who is not able to
have the discipline to go out and talk about issues
and forget the adominum attacks on his opponent and his
former opponent. I mean, he acts like a sixth grader.
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Maybe no, he doesn't act like a sixth grader. I
give him too much credit. He acts like about a
third grader, you know, who wants to get into a fight,
a school yard fight with every kid in the school
yard because he's a little bigger or whatever. This is
the choice we're left with. This is it, folks, for
twenty twenty four. I would love to have your thoughts
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on pick your poison six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven, nine three ten thirty. This
is frightening when you talk about we will smash their patents,
we will take them. That's that's that is the comment
of a fascist. That is the comment of a fascist.
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We will take over industry if we have to. We
do not care about a free market system. We do
not care about a capitalistic system. We have more variety
in now. There are prices that are overpriced. There's no
question about it. Guess what the solution prices overpriced is.
The solution is real simple. Don't buy the prices it
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don't buy, don't don't spend the money on the prices,
don't buy the products. I walk proudly past items that
I like because I think they are priced higher than
I want to pay for them. That's an individual decision
that I have a right to make as an American citizen.
And if you want to put a package of cookies
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on the shelf and charge eighteen dollars, will all walk
past that price, Okay? And guess what. Eventually the prices
will come down. Fundamental economics one oh one. Inflation has
caused when too much money is chasing too few goods.
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That's the problem we have right now, and it is
not going to be solved by smashing patents and taking
over companies like was done in Nazi Germany or in
communists in the Soviet Union. I want to hear from you,
and I'm hoping there's some people out who understand what
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is at stake here. This is the future, not of
my country, because frankly, you know, I am well on
the wrong side of fifty. But I'm worried about my kids,
my grandkids, about where we're headed headed at this point,
and somehow, some way, we as a nation have to
figure it out. And I'm not sure there's a good
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solution here. Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
nights Side Studios on DUBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's go to the calls six triple eight, nine, nine,
ten thirty and also six one, seven, nine thirty. We
got full lines. Let me go to Mike and Beverley
mic first up this hour and Nightside Gor.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Ahead, Wow, Hey, d me, yes, sir, here you find
go right ahead, Hey, so quickly about the the Trump'm
saying about the the looking looking good situation. That was
about the Time magazine how to go about Kamala Harris,
about how they they they they hand drew her picture
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Time Magazine, How I go and now it his they
they they they screwed it all up, stuff like that,
and they should have put a they didn't put as
on the Time magazine.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
But you have the shift by some on bios on
the Time magazine because she came back one out of
gold and she was the most decorated Gold medalist, but
they said she put Kama Arason that you know, thing
could be about the whole Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That is the key issue. I would tell you this, Mike,
That's one of the key issues in this campaign. And
I'm glad that Trump is spending time talking about that
one because I think that is a pressing issue.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
Yeah, I get it. It's a big time you know,
yeah much, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Is forefront in my mind. I care about inflation, I
care about immigration, and I care about the federal debt.
But whether or not whose position is on whose pictures
on the cover of Time magazine, particularly after the Olympics.
That to me is the number one issue.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
I agree with you, Yeah, I get that, But he
was just short around on his feet there other day
about the situation I get, but a whole inflation about though.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, well, I think that when you when you think
about you know, for example, some some of the presidential
comments by you know, President Roosevelt, we have nothing to
fear but fear itself. Uh, you know, President Kennedy, ask
not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
For your country.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I think that we would add to that list. Whatever
Donald Trump said about Time magazine and Simone Biles, it
should be. I think it should be. It should be
emblazoned on buildings across America. That's how strongly I feel
about him bringing that important issue to the forefront.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
I get him, But if people don't understand the part
of inflation, you know, inflation of as you just said,
it is about the whole spending money too much, too much,
and too much coming back and the free money given out.
That's why places is so high, and they don't understand that.
And most of his still gas, you know, the fuel economy,
and the LA goes on that sort of stuff. They
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give them money away like like it's like it's candy,
and that's a desire inflation. Now there's other virus to
kill everyone else.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, well, I mean you know right now, you know
Harris wants to give first time home buyers twenty five
thousand dollars. I want to give him fifty thousand dollars.
I mean, why not one hundred thousand dollars? What can
you get for twenty five thousand dollars? This is cut
two way, This.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Is this is some of the economic.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Brilliance of the Vice president. Two way, please Rob.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
In addition, while we work on the housing shortage, my
administration will provide first time home buyers with twenty five
thousand dollars to help.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
WHOA maybe good, Yeah that's great. Why not fifty thousand?
Why not? Why is it twenty five thousand dollars will
get you nothing? Maybe you'll get you something.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
How's that gonna help them?
Speaker 11 (16:45):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (16:46):
That's gonna cause inflation and the big at debt. That's
what it's gonna cause.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Though you are absolutely right, Mike, you know something. You're
you're you're a good economist. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
I think it's saying I'm in the poss of your business.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
I understand these things, and.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
It's so simple. People don't understand it. Why isn't Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Let me ask you this, Mike, why doesn't you and
men Trump talk about that as opposed to who's better
looking and whether or not some own bios pictures should
be on Time magazine?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
He does, he does, he was doing on record. He
was just showing around sometimes he's done.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I thinks too much time screwing around in
your words, Mike, loved you call me, and I keep
calling the program.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Okay, thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
is there. Let's keep it rolling, coming back right after
the news here on Nightside on a Monday night. We
got a lot of luck to talk about tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All right, let us keep rolling here, going to go
to Rachel in Quincy, Rachel next on Nightside.
Speaker 12 (17:54):
Welcome back, Hey, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
So Mike comments is if she's running for president and
she had four years to do what she's saying, she
wants to do what you know.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
What I'm saying is I know exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Look, when all of a sudden the vice president came
out and copied former President Trump's idea of no taxes
on tips for waiters and waitresses and you know, hostesses
and bartenders. I think that's a great idea, Okay, But
where was the Biden Harris administration with the last three
and a half years. I mean, did that thought not
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pass to anyone's mind? And why didn't they act on it?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:43):
Exactly, she's saying, oh, we're gonna build three million dollar homes.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
By the way, By the way, that the only homes
the government builds are homes that they build with our
federal tax dollars. They don't build homes. They tax people,
and then with that tax money they build some homes.
But it's it's builders who build the homes.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
My thing is is, why is she promising she's going
to do this and do that when she had four years?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You know, you're asking, you're asking a great what's called
a rhetorical question. You know what the answer to that is.
And the answer to that is she's trolling for votes.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Shame on her, okay, And you know what, and then
and then with mister Trump, right, It's like, who cares
what anybody looks like. We don't care what you look like.
We need to hear what you're going to do for
our country. And if you keep like you know, you're
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not going to be voted, you're not going to be voted.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you this. This guy almost sounds
to me like every day he wants to say something
really insulting, really abrasive, and he wants to further turn
off the voters that he needs to win. You almost
wonder if Donald Trump really wants to win this office
or whether he would prefer to lose again and wallow
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in his own misery, in his own martyrdom.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
I agree with you. So I need to ask you something, Dan,
which not like into voting, but who else Like you
know what mister Kennedy is, he's somebody that could take
our country four percent.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
His poll right now is he's polling in four percent.
So Rosspureau. Ross Pureau won nineteen percent of the popular
vote in nineteen ninety two, nineteen percent, almost twenty percent.
You know how many electoral votes ross Boro? One? No,
it's a very round number. It's called zero. Really, in
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order to in order to win electoral votes. You got
to get somewhere up in the high the mid to
high thirties and hope that it splits in your direct No,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is that this path as days
go by, becoming more and more of a non factor.
It's going to be Harris or Trump.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
But I just I have a question though, Right, so
all we see is Trump and what's her face? Why
don't we see more of the other parties?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What other parties?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I'm just saying, you.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Know, the Green Party or the Libertarian Party.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because for years and years and years,
the Green Party have run candidates Jill Stein for the
most part, the Libertarians always run a candidate.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They get like one and a half percent of the
vote in a few states. They're not relevant. I mean,
you know in terms of sadly, I mean you you
can argue and say, oh, it's too bad we only
have two major parties, but that's what it is.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I'm telling you think, I know, do you think that
that is? Okay? So my thing is right, It's like,
like I said, I'm not really into politics, but I'm like,
why can't we just pick somebody that is going to
run our country. It doesn't matter what party. This is
where I get confused.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Well, what happens is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You have these two major parties that are around now
for hundreds of years, a couple of hundred years. And
you know, the Republican Party was formed, you know, in
eighteen sixty what would before that? But when they first
elected Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats been around for a long time.
They have each you involved in different directions. They represent
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the two significant philosophical philosophies of political thought, a more
progressive liberal thought, whatever you want to call it, more
conservative traditional thought. And that's what happens. And at the
end of the day, we have third parties in this country,
but they never get traction. I don't have a better
answer than that, Rachel. I got to keep rolling, though.
Where have you been? I haven't talked to you in
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a while. Come on back more often, will you?
Speaker 12 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Dan, I got some issues I got, like Parkinson's. That's
something I would love to hear about. I get I
taking care of my dad and my mom.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Are you dealing with it? Are you dealing with it?
Are your parents?
Speaker 13 (23:39):
No?
Speaker 11 (23:40):
I do not have it, but my dad has it,
and I know that We've talked about my niece, the homeless.
I can't find her place because of the immigration stuff whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But well again, feel free to call you. Know, as
you probably know, our dear friend Jordan Rich is also
dealing with Parkinson's and.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
So you know, I would love to like I know
you had asked Rob to reach out to me for
a private EMA for you, and I would love to
chat with you and.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Rob, give you direct Hang on, Robi, give you my
direct number. Call that and I'll call you back. Okay,
don't have all right?
Speaker 11 (24:17):
All right, thanks, don't hang up.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Let's keep going. Here're gonna go to Steve and Merrimack,
New Hampshire. Steve, appreciate you calling in you next to
the night Side. Steve.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Hey, Hey, Dan, it's good talking to you again. And
I just can't want to say now I know why
you're a great talk shows host and you have a
great legal mind as an attorney, because every single point
you made tonight were all the points that I was
talking to my friends about today and then some and
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then Steve, you're a student of history, so on why
I lived through nineteen seventy one. I remember the price controls,
you know it didn't work. Nothing works like that. You
know you got and when you were talking about the
grant for you know, the first time home buyers, it's
an arbitrary amount. It has nothing to do with anything.
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It's just they just want to fand or her roads.
And then and then Trump, like you were talking about,
you know, his name calling, which he he can. He
incessantly does that all the time. He can't stop. He
can't help himself. We're doing I don't know helse to
put it. I don't think we can win no matter
who wins this election.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well that's the problem.
Speaker 14 (25:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think I think Nixon lost his mind in about
nineteen seventy one. I think he became enthralled with the
with it with mouth say tongue and the Chinese communist
He was reaching out with Henry Kissinger to detaunt with China,
and all of a sudden he's like talking about, what
do you think this is what they do in communist China,
this is what they do in communist countries around the world.
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It's like, we're going to have price controls. And what
happens is you have price controls and no one says, well,
why am I going to make bread. If I can't
make money, I'm not going to spend my day working
on loaves of bread.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
I mean, that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And think there's an underground economy you'll bag mell be
just like drugs. You'll be You'll be meeting some guy
in a parking lot late at night. Stay. Yeah, got
a loaf of sour dough. Okay, how much? Five bucks?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Okay, that's what's gonna happen in Venezuela. Try and get
toils they were down there. Good luck to you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 10 (26:20):
His history tends to repeat itself. What they do is
they wait until people forget what happened way back when,
and then they put the same theories and issues forward
that don't work, and they think that things are somewhow
going to change. I think that's the definition of insanity.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
I mean, it's you know, command controlled economy by the government.
We live in the freest country in the world, thank god.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
The answer is to tell tell some cookie maker, you know,
tell famous Namous God bless him. He died the other day,
but it'll be back telling famous Amos. You can sow
your cookies for three. You you have to charge one
ninety nine. What's he gonna do?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Kidding?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's insanity. And guess what, you listen to those people
as soon as she talked about it, they're clapping. They'll
like clapping seals. They're so dumb, literally, they have no
clue what they're applauding. But yeah, we're gonna have absolutely
free cookies. Well, I'm with you, free cookies. It's nice.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
We have gone through a disaster for the last four years,
and nothing is gonna change no matter who gets elected,
except that there's just gonna be more acrimony, you know,
from one side over the other, and the I think
the people in this country are the ones that are
gonna be suffering the wrath of what happens. Trump is
gonna be He's gonna get if he wins, which I'm
not sure he will, he will probably get impeached again
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because that's all they know how to do. And I
don't know what's gonna happen with his trials and all that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I'm looking. I'm looking for the next John Kennedy and
the Democratic Party and the next Ronald Reagan, and I
don't see them.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
John Kennedy says the world two times. Well, I should
say the Cuban Missi crisis, which I wrote a paper
on when I was in college. He saved the world.
If he hadn't been assassinated, we wouldn't have had Vietnam.
I think you'd have to agree that he was way
too smart to get us into that mess.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But well, I don't know, he wan. I must tell
you if you read history on it. Okay, I can
tell you this. When when JFK became President of the
United States, we had about nine hundred advisors in self Vietnam.
When he was assassinated, that number had had grown to
sixteen thousand. So there was a significant uptick whether or
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not he was having you know, people believed that he
would have pulled back, but it was from the from
Eisenhower to Kennedy there was an uptick. That's what the
numbers show.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
But you know, heart of the Cold War, that was
the coal mentality, it was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It was the Domino theory. You remember all of that. Steve,
I got to run him on my break. I love
your calls, you know that keep calling a show.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
Oh yeah, I loved you. Agree with you one hundred percent.
I mean, not even at every single point.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It was disagree We gotta have an argument.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Okay, I've never heard I've never disagreed with you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's scary. Sometimes I disagree with myself. Thanks, they've talk
to you.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
You got you got it. Lay on the mark. You're
hitting the nail on the head man.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I appreciate it. Thank you much. We'll keep it. Take
take a very quick break here. The only line that's
opened dial six one, seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
You'll be okay. The others are all full six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty. Coming back. I got James
and Stowton, I got Patrick in d C, Trisha in
Lynn uh and I don't know where Joseph is. We'll
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figure that one out. We'll get everybody in. We're going
to go into the next hour on this, so don't
hesitate to light those lines. Coming back on night's side.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World Nights.
Thanks Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Next up is my friend Patrick and DC where every
problem M and A's from. Hey, Patrick, how are you?
Speaker 12 (29:56):
I'm doing pretty good? Fortunately you did not catch me
going testing one two three four.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Very good, It's very good. Nice strong start. To the
call What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (30:06):
So anyway, those people were on the television over in
the other room, and I can see them in my
left eye. I can hear them out of my left
ear if I needed to hear them. And there was
a gentleman from the U a W. I guess that
is the United Autos Workers, right, And then the next
guest or speaker is that Bartenders from Brooklyn.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
New York.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
And I had to get up and turn the television
off because I am not going to waste my heart
earn electricity. Yes, I had to turn that off real quick,
and I was that was in between the m cast
and so I'm really excited to be here talking with
the gang. Uh much better than watching the conventions.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
As President Biden's got to be close to his nap time.
Have they not let him speak yet?
Speaker 10 (30:52):
That's off.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I turned it with AOC now, so I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
About Joe Biden, remember him, he's the president.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Yeah, I know I turned it off. I don't know.
I don't know when he spuck.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
You know, if people get down in the coal mine
and risk their lives to make that electricity, they don't
need to put her on the air. Okay, you asked
to pick our poison, right, Let's get to the Let's
get to the nitty gritty. Sure, the poison's coming into
our country and we don't have to pick it. Who's
gonna Who's gonna stop it? And we'll you're talking about
fentanyl amongst other things we're talking to Yeah, we're talking
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about fentanyl. We're talking about immigration. Who's going to be
the one that is going to really put their foot down?
And I believe the only one who's going to be
able to do it is Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I understand that argument, but can you explain to me
why he's incapable of talking about issues? And all he
wants to talk about is the twenty twenty election and
who's better looking and and whether or not uh Kamala
Harris has now decided that she's black or Asian? I mean,
come on, what is he wasting his time for? What's
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he trying to do?
Speaker 12 (31:53):
That is a waste of time. I really wish that
I could speak with him and ask, you know, I
don't think I don't want.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Can change this guy's mind. I think he's you know,
he goes back to this thing about now he talks
about the ultimate ward is award is not the Congressional
Medal of Water. What is he nuts?
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Yeah? Uh? What do they say was about the Dixon campaign?
Just don't say anything, and let me just say this.
The words you just you just smile and wave and
say hello and I thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah,
I'm just kind of glad to be here. Everyone looks great.
Definitely really not.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah. So the one thing you have, you have the
vice president who wants to pander to everybody. We'll build
three million homes, We'll give twenty five thousand dollars to everybody,
and the world will be happy. And uh, and season
tickets to the to the to the Major League if
you live in a major league city, let's give Let's
give everybody season tickets to the Red Sox games and
the Yankee games and the Nationals games.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
Right right, So, after a year and a half of
building up to this thing, the presidential election campaign, it's
now here. It's the build up was not what it was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The building is better than the results.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Anyway, Hey, Patrick, love your calls, man, Okay, keep checking
in on this.
Speaker 12 (33:07):
Okay, you got it, man, Thank you much.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Doctor. Soon let me go next to James and Stoton. James,
how are you tonight?
Speaker 15 (33:15):
Oh sir, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Feels great? What's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (33:19):
I find something troubling about some of the talking points
I hear from people. First of all, I don't think
a lot of people that are politically as do everyone
who barely got a high school all a sudden now
is a political punting and become on social media and
he just bows bs. You cannot explain to me how
people who live in the poorest parts of our country.
If you look at the poorest states, they're mostly red states, Mississippi, Alabama.
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But you have to keep talking about the Republicans are
good for the economy. In fact, I think it's the
Economy Policy Institute. You can google it from nineteen fourty
nine to now. Where can people do better underneath Democrats?
I'm a union construction worker. I'll tell you right now.
I remember make over fifty dollars an hour than being
massasapi and make fourteen dollars an hour reading my Bible,
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shoe my gun at ducks. Listen to these moralus what
we should have did after the Civil Wars to buy
the country. You know what this country will look like
just look at the Korean peninsula northwest south. So I
mean people could believe with the one, but just stay
down there. Every time I go to a construction site,
you know why I see license plates from Tennessee, Arkansas.
If Republicans are so great at kream jobs, tell the
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n Breeds to stay down there?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Why are you so why you so mad at these people?
I mean, they haven't right to have this set. Let
me ask I hate Okay, let me ask you this.
For the last I don't know, at least well close
to one hundred years, black Americans have been very supportive
of Democratic presidential candidates.
Speaker 10 (34:55):
And yet I look at did you say one hundred years?
Speaker 15 (34:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Democrats into like in what the sixties,
no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, no, no, no, no, nineteen thirties. I think there
was a switch in the Roosevelt election of nineteen thirty two.
And I don't know that black Americans have received a
fair shake because I look at poverty levels in this country.
I look at the school systems that you know, most
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black kids find themselves, particularly in urban northern areas, and
I just think there's a lot of people who get
comfortable with one party or the other, and they don't
consider that, they don't consider the alternatives. I think.
Speaker 15 (35:43):
I've heard that argument, and I'll say right now, I'm
doing better than my cousins in the South and the
vast Victoria.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Let me ask you. You're doing better. You're living in
Boston or living in Stoughton, which is great, okay, but
what about the kids in Chicago? Will favor do me
a favorite? Don't tell me what I believe in? Don't
you language of the year? That is? That's inappropriate, okay,
And don't try to tell me what I believe. I
won't tell you. I won't tell you what you believe.
If you got into my questions, that's your problem, not mine.
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Let me go next to Tricia Elinn.
Speaker 12 (36:14):
Tricia, you next on Nightsiger, right ahead, Hi, Dan boy,
those two people that are running.
Speaker 13 (36:23):
I love Trump, but I mean the insults and all
that grade school stuff is terrible. But I believe that
he would be better to handle people like Ninya who
are putin than Kamela would. She is a very attractive woman.
I didn't have my Internet on, but I did this weekend,
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and it's the first time I heard her speak and
saw her really up close and the crowds clapping, and
my nickname for her is Giggles. And I don't think
she could handle foreign policy at all. I don't think
she's really in touch. I don't think she has children.
She's never been in a grocery store. She's out of
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her mind socialists and I can't stand that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What what what does her status of having children have
to do with anything?
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Well, because people have children, they they're more like they're
in the grocery stores, they're buying groceries. They you know,
they need more money to send the kids to college
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
But you know, to live however you live.
Speaker 13 (37:28):
I mean she's I don't know, she's class well, she worked,
she worked at I believe her biography suggests that she
worked as the McDonald's when she was.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
When when she was in school to help get herself
through school. I don't know what she.
Speaker 13 (37:45):
Was yeah, good, yeah, what she was. What she was
talking about was like and she get an applause about
abortion and at one time she had said something about
lowering the population so everybody can have clean drinking water.
And what she was supposed to what about the immigrants,
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you know, people coming into this country. That's overpopulation right there,
off the charts. The nuns taught us in nineteen sixty
four about overpopulation and that's what we're experiencing now. The
shortage of housing and so forth. Our country is not
at all the same. And you're right pandering for votes
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and everybody would clap, and this thing about abortion and
everybody would clap. You know, it's ridiculous. You have to
concentrate on the big issues, the border and foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, I think the big party, each party, will, you know,
emphasize their issues. I think that out in Chicago today,
I think that there were vans out there from some
clinic which was offering not only free abortions, but free vs. Actomies.
And I mean didn't wasn't something that I'd necessarily be
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interested in. But if that's what their constituents feel they
need and they can get them for free, good luck,
good luck. I hate to do this to you, Trish,
but I got I gotta run here, and I got
to step aside for the eleven o'clock news. Come on
back soon. Become more of a regular world.
Speaker 13 (39:19):
This world Buddhism, check it out with people don't want
to live in a tranquility and vote for giggles. We
have to stop that ridiculous thank.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You, no sense of, no sense of don't call her names,
you know, just I mean, I'm just tired of the
name call, and I really am, and I think that
let's deal with issues. Let's try to deal with issues
and stop calling you know people name simple as that.
Thanks chrissure, I have a great night. We'll be back
on Night's side right after the eleven o'clock news
It's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Fay Boston.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The Democrats are underway in Chicago, and we have a
lot to talk about. And of course the Republicans had
their convention earlier this well, actually in late late July,
now that I think about it, Yeah, they were done
in July. And the Democrats are just on day one
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right now. Hillary Clinton, a beloved.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Figure within the Democratic Party, is is addressing the convention.
So it's it's sort of ghosts of Democrat past and
the Democrat that everyone wants to hear from. I won't speak,
as I understanding, until Thursday night, although tonight President Biden
will deliver his swan song. Interesting article by Maureen Daud
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in The.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
New York Times late last week, actually on Saturday. She
starts off, we head to Chicago in a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation,
excitement and even you might say ecstasy. It's going to
be a glorious coronation, except that everyone's mad at one another.
She goes on to to talk about how Joe Biden
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was done in and how that he's not happy. And
again this is I woring down no fan of Donald Trump.
She she quotes Trump in the article and talks about uh,
(01:37):
Well Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama. This is where
it gets kind of interesting. He says, the president already
resented meaning the president meaning President Biden already resented Obama
for shoving him aside for Hillary, and he even resented
Hillary for squandering that opportunity and losing to trum And
(02:00):
even this is Mareen Daoud, not me. Even though Obama
tried to do everything quietly to protect his saintly status,
Joe was furious that Obama was sidelining him twice Michelle's
Obama's relationship with Biden soward when his family ostracized Hunter's
first wife, Michelle's friend Kathleen. That's one reason the popular
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Michelle wasn't on the campaign trail for Biden. It gets
into really deep stuff in the family here. Kamala can't
be thrilled with Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer that Obama, Pelosi,
and Schuma hesitated to endorse her because they wanted more
moderate rivals to compete in an open mini primary. And
Biden and Harris staffs are also TETCHI. I don't know
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exactly what she means by that word, as Kamala's lawyers
layers on her own people. It's pretty Shakespearean. Biden still
thinks he could have taken Trump, so how could he
reconcile being shoved off the sled. On Wednesday, Ron Klain,
Biden's longtime adviser, expressed to Inoson Cooper biden World's feelings
about the Jacquarie heard round the world. I think it
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was unfortunate because I think the president had won the
nomination fair and square. Fourteen million people had voted for
him and the vice president as vice president. He added,
I do think you know the president was pushed by
public calls from elected officials for him to drop out,
from donus calling for him to drop out, and I
think that was wrong. Those who pushed out Biden should
be proud they saved him and their party from a
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likely crushing defeat, letting Trump snake back in and soil
democracy that would keep Biden off Rushmore. It's the headline
is the Dems are delighted, but a coup is still
a coup. So the Democrats gather in Chicago. The Harris
campaign has slowly maturely emerging, and over the weekend. Over
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the weekend, Michelle Obama made some comments that Drew I
thought some interesting raised eyebrows. This is the vice president
talking about her economic plan. She miss reads or misspeaks
the word gouging. She calls it gauging. So don't be upset.
(04:18):
Don't be confused by that, Rob. This is cut one.
This is the vice president over the weekend, talking in
part about her economic plan. Here we go, Cut one.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I will work to pass the first ever federal ban
on price gauging on food. My plan will include new
penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's a little vague. I would think a democratic commentator
had his comment on that. And this is Chris Cuomo
talking about the vice president's price gouging policy. This is
cut number twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Please Rob, all right, So price gauging versus gouging.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
She made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We noted it.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Second, going after corporations is popular. Doing it about inflation
is popular. Sixty percent of us believe corporations are to
blame for it. The question is what do you do
right blame versus change. So Harris says she's targeting price gouging.
(05:37):
I don't really care about gouging, gauging, I don't care,
all right. You got to take the level of talent
where you find it. We don't have great talent in
our politics right now. We got to wait for better
people to want to get involved in what is such
a poison process.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But this is what we got. No what you call
an endorsement, per se. Look, the Vice president was running
for president in twenty nineteen and she was in Iowa
talking about this is extraordinary, talking about the government takeover
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of companies' patents. I mean, that is what this system
of capitalism and the society in which we live is
all about. You come up with an idea, you patent
the idea, or you copyright the book or the song,
or you trademark the symbol, and you are protected protected
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from people seizing and exploiting your work product. This was
the Vice president in a twenty nineteen video in Iowa.
Just listen to the first few words. We will smash
their patents. This has cut nineteen.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Rob snatch their patent so that we will take over.
And yes we can do that, Yes, yes we can
do that. Yes we can do that. It's the question
is do you have the will to do it? I
have the will to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That is the potential future president of the United States,
and that is what we are now left with. We're
left with one candidate who who I don't understand Donald Trump.
Haven't understood Donald Trump? Maybe some of you do. Over
the weekend, he said he was better looking than Kamala Harris. Really,
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I mean, is that the level of presidential debate? Who's
better looking? And look, I'm in no position to judge,
but I don't think Donald Trump isn't any position a
judge either. So what we have is someone who has
expressed a willingness to literally literally have government control the economy.
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And you know what happens when government controls the economy.
Things disappear, Shelves go bare. Think Cuba, think Venezuela, Think Russia,
think countries behind the Iron Curtain. We are a nation
that has so much, so much natural resources, so many
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wonderful farms. We feed the world, We feed our company,
our country. We have social food programs here that are extraordinary.
Do we really want to have food and price controls? Basically,
(09:01):
the vice president maybe she doesn't realize it. She can
go back to nineteen seventy one. Here was a Republican
President Richard Nixon talking about freezing prices one a rob.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
The time has come for decisive action, action that will
break the vicious circle of spiraling prices and costs. I
am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages
throughout the United States for a period of ninety days.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
How did that work out for you, trickster? It didn't,
it didn't. We are in looneytoo Land, looneytune land right now, okay,
And I have no idea. I do think I have
an understanding of where she's coming from. I think she
looks upon unbridled government authority and power like no presidential
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candidate in my lifetime has ever looked at it. That
scares me. And Donald Trump, who is not able to
have the discipline to go out and talk about issues
and forget the adominum attacks on his opponent and his
former opponent. I mean, he acts like a sixth grader.
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Maybe no, he doesn't act like a sixth grader. I
give him too much credit. He acts like about a
third grader, you know, who wants to get into a fight,
a school yard fight with every kid in the school
yard because he's a little bigger or whatever. This is
the choice we're left with. This is it, folks, for
twenty twenty four. I would love to have your thoughts
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on pick your poison six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven, nine three ten thirty. This
is frightening when you talk about we will smash their patents,
we will take them. That's that's that is the comment
of a fascist. That is the comment of a fascist.
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We will take over industry if we have to. We
do not care about a free market system. We do
not care about a capitalistic system. We have more variety
in now. There are prices that are overpriced. There's no
question about it. Guess what the solution prices overpriced is.
The solution is real simple. Don't buy the prices it
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don't buy, don't don't spend the money on the prices,
don't buy the products. I walk proudly past items that
I like because I think they are priced higher than
I want to pay for them. That's an individual decision
that I have a right to make as an American citizen.
And if you want to put a package of cookies
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on the shelf and charge eighteen dollars, will all walk
past that price, Okay? And guess what. Eventually the prices
will come down. Fundamental economics one oh one. Inflation has
caused when too much money is chasing too few goods.
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That's the problem we have right now, and it is
not going to be solved by smashing patents and taking
over companies like was done in Nazi Germany or in
communists in the Soviet Union. I want to hear from you,
and I'm hoping there's some people out who understand what
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is at stake here. This is the future, not of
my country, because frankly, you know, I am well on
the wrong side of fifty. But I'm worried about my kids,
my grandkids, about where we're headed headed at this point,
and somehow, some way, we as a nation have to
figure it out. And I'm not sure there's a good
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solution here. Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
nights Side Studios on DUBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's go to the calls six triple eight, nine, nine,
ten thirty and also six one, seven, nine thirty. We
got full lines. Let me go to Mike and Beverley
mic first up this hour and Nightside Gor.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Ahead, Wow, Hey, d me, yes, sir, here you find
go right ahead, Hey, so quickly about the the Trump'm
saying about the the looking looking good situation. That was
about the Time magazine how to go about Kamala Harris,
about how they they they they hand drew her picture
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Time Magazine, How I go and now it his they
they they they screwed it all up, stuff like that,
and they should have put a they didn't put as
on the Time magazine.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
But you have the shift by some on bios on
the Time magazine because she came back one out of
gold and she was the most decorated Gold medalist, but
they said she put Kama Arason that you know, thing
could be about the whole Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That is the key issue. I would tell you this, Mike,
That's one of the key issues in this campaign. And
I'm glad that Trump is spending time talking about that
one because I think that is a pressing issue.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
Yeah, I get it. It's a big time you know,
yeah much, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Is forefront in my mind. I care about inflation, I
care about immigration, and I care about the federal debt.
But whether or not whose position is on whose pictures
on the cover of Time magazine, particularly after the Olympics.
That to me is the number one issue.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
I agree with you, Yeah, I get that, But he
was just short around on his feet there other day
about the situation I get, but a whole inflation about though.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, well, I think that when you when you think
about you know, for example, some some of the presidential
comments by you know, President Roosevelt, we have nothing to
fear but fear itself. Uh, you know, President Kennedy, ask
not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
For your country.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I think that we would add to that list. Whatever
Donald Trump said about Time magazine and Simone Biles, it
should be. I think it should be. It should be
emblazoned on buildings across America. That's how strongly I feel
about him bringing that important issue to the forefront.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
I get him, But if people don't understand the part
of inflation, you know, inflation of as you just said,
it is about the whole spending money too much, too much,
and too much coming back and the free money given out.
That's why places is so high, and they don't understand that.
And most of his still gas, you know, the fuel economy,
and the LA goes on that sort of stuff. They
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give them money away like like it's like it's candy,
and that's a desire inflation. Now there's other virus to
kill everyone else.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, well, I mean you know right now, you know
Harris wants to give first time home buyers twenty five
thousand dollars. I want to give him fifty thousand dollars.
I mean, why not one hundred thousand dollars? What can
you get for twenty five thousand dollars? This is cut
two way, This.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Is this is some of the economic.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Brilliance of the Vice president. Two way, please Rob.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
In addition, while we work on the housing shortage, my
administration will provide first time home buyers with twenty five
thousand dollars to help.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
WHOA maybe good, Yeah that's great. Why not fifty thousand?
Why not? Why is it twenty five thousand dollars will
get you nothing? Maybe you'll get you something.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
How's that gonna help them?
Speaker 11 (16:45):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (16:46):
That's gonna cause inflation and the big at debt. That's
what it's gonna cause.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Though you are absolutely right, Mike, you know something. You're
you're you're a good economist. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
I think it's saying I'm in the poss of your business.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
I understand these things, and.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
It's so simple. People don't understand it. Why isn't Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Let me ask you this, Mike, why doesn't you and
men Trump talk about that as opposed to who's better
looking and whether or not some own bios pictures should
be on Time magazine?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
He does, he does, he was doing on record. He
was just showing around sometimes he's done.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I thinks too much time screwing around in
your words, Mike, loved you call me, and I keep
calling the program.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Okay, thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
is there. Let's keep it rolling, coming back right after
the news here on Nightside on a Monday night. We
got a lot of luck to talk about tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All right, let us keep rolling here, going to go
to Rachel in Quincy, Rachel next on Nightside.
Speaker 12 (17:54):
Welcome back, Hey, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 11 (17:58):
So Mike comments is if she's running for president and
she had four years to do what she's saying, she
wants to do what you know.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
What I'm saying is I know exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Look, when all of a sudden the vice president came
out and copied former President Trump's idea of no taxes
on tips for waiters and waitresses and you know, hostesses
and bartenders. I think that's a great idea, Okay, But
where was the Biden Harris administration with the last three
and a half years. I mean, did that thought not
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pass to anyone's mind? And why didn't they act on it?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 11 (18:43):
Exactly, she's saying, oh, we're gonna build three million dollar homes.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
By the way, By the way, that the only homes
the government builds are homes that they build with our
federal tax dollars. They don't build homes. They tax people,
and then with that tax money they build some homes.
But it's it's builders who build the homes.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
My thing is is, why is she promising she's going
to do this and do that when she had four years?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You know, you're asking, you're asking a great what's called
a rhetorical question. You know what the answer to that is.
And the answer to that is she's trolling for votes.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
Shame on her, okay, And you know what, and then
and then with mister Trump, right, It's like, who cares
what anybody looks like. We don't care what you look like.
We need to hear what you're going to do for
our country. And if you keep like you know, you're
(19:58):
not going to be voted, you're not going to be voted.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you this. This guy almost sounds
to me like every day he wants to say something
really insulting, really abrasive, and he wants to further turn
off the voters that he needs to win. You almost
wonder if Donald Trump really wants to win this office
or whether he would prefer to lose again and wallow
(20:23):
in his own misery, in his own martyrdom.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
I agree with you. So I need to ask you something, Dan,
which not like into voting, but who else Like you
know what mister Kennedy is, he's somebody that could take
our country four percent.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
His poll right now is he's polling in four percent.
So Rosspureau. Ross Pureau won nineteen percent of the popular
vote in nineteen ninety two, nineteen percent, almost twenty percent.
You know how many electoral votes ross Boro? One? No,
it's a very round number. It's called zero. Really, in
(21:09):
order to in order to win electoral votes. You got
to get somewhere up in the high the mid to
high thirties and hope that it splits in your direct No,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is that this path as days
go by, becoming more and more of a non factor.
It's going to be Harris or Trump.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
But I just I have a question though, Right, so
all we see is Trump and what's her face? Why
don't we see more of the other parties?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What other parties?
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Well, I'm just saying, you.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Know, the Green Party or the Libertarian Party.
Speaker 14 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because for years and years and years,
the Green Party have run candidates Jill Stein for the
most part, the Libertarians always run a candidate.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They get like one and a half percent of the
vote in a few states. They're not relevant. I mean,
you know in terms of sadly, I mean you you
can argue and say, oh, it's too bad we only
have two major parties, but that's what it is.
Speaker 11 (22:18):
I'm telling you think, I know, do you think that
that is? Okay? So my thing is right, It's like,
like I said, I'm not really into politics, but I'm like,
why can't we just pick somebody that is going to
run our country. It doesn't matter what party. This is
where I get confused.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
Well, what happens is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You have these two major parties that are around now
for hundreds of years, a couple of hundred years. And
you know, the Republican Party was formed, you know, in
eighteen sixty what would before that? But when they first
elected Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats been around for a long time.
They have each you involved in different directions. They represent
(23:02):
the two significant philosophical philosophies of political thought, a more
progressive liberal thought, whatever you want to call it, more
conservative traditional thought. And that's what happens. And at the
end of the day, we have third parties in this country,
but they never get traction. I don't have a better
answer than that, Rachel. I got to keep rolling, though.
Where have you been? I haven't talked to you in
(23:24):
a while. Come on back more often, will you?
Speaker 12 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Dan, I got some issues I got, like Parkinson's. That's
something I would love to hear about. I get I
taking care of my dad and my mom.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Are you dealing with it? Are you dealing with it?
Are your parents?
Speaker 13 (23:39):
No?
Speaker 11 (23:40):
I do not have it, but my dad has it,
and I know that We've talked about my niece, the homeless.
I can't find her place because of the immigration stuff whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But well again, feel free to call you. Know, as
you probably know, our dear friend Jordan Rich is also
dealing with Parkinson's and.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
So you know, I would love to like I know
you had asked Rob to reach out to me for
a private EMA for you, and I would love to
chat with you and.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Rob, give you direct Hang on, Robi, give you my
direct number. Call that and I'll call you back. Okay,
don't have all right?
Speaker 11 (24:17):
All right, thanks, don't hang up.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Let's keep going. Here're gonna go to Steve and Merrimack,
New Hampshire. Steve, appreciate you calling in you next to
the night Side. Steve.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Hey, Hey, Dan, it's good talking to you again. And
I just can't want to say now I know why
you're a great talk shows host and you have a
great legal mind as an attorney, because every single point
you made tonight were all the points that I was
talking to my friends about today and then some and
(24:44):
then Steve, you're a student of history, so on why
I lived through nineteen seventy one. I remember the price controls,
you know it didn't work. Nothing works like that. You
know you got and when you were talking about the
grant for you know, the first time home buyers, it's
an arbitrary amount. It has nothing to do with anything.
(25:06):
It's just they just want to fand or her roads.
And then and then Trump, like you were talking about,
you know, his name calling, which he he can. He
incessantly does that all the time. He can't stop. He
can't help himself. We're doing I don't know helse to
put it. I don't think we can win no matter
who wins this election.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well that's the problem.
Speaker 14 (25:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think I think Nixon lost his mind in about
nineteen seventy one. I think he became enthralled with the
with it with mouth say tongue and the Chinese communist
He was reaching out with Henry Kissinger to detaunt with China,
and all of a sudden he's like talking about, what
do you think this is what they do in communist China,
this is what they do in communist countries around the world.
(25:45):
It's like, we're going to have price controls. And what
happens is you have price controls and no one says, well,
why am I going to make bread. If I can't
make money, I'm not going to spend my day working
on loaves of bread.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
I mean, that's true.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And think there's an underground economy you'll bag mell be
just like drugs. You'll be You'll be meeting some guy
in a parking lot late at night. Stay. Yeah, got
a loaf of sour dough. Okay, how much? Five bucks?
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Okay, that's what's gonna happen in Venezuela. Try and get
toils they were down there. Good luck to you.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, right.
Speaker 10 (26:20):
His history tends to repeat itself. What they do is
they wait until people forget what happened way back when,
and then they put the same theories and issues forward
that don't work, and they think that things are somewhow
going to change. I think that's the definition of insanity.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
I mean, it's you know, command controlled economy by the government.
We live in the freest country in the world, thank god.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
The answer is to tell tell some cookie maker, you know,
tell famous Namous God bless him. He died the other day,
but it'll be back telling famous Amos. You can sow
your cookies for three. You you have to charge one
ninety nine. What's he gonna do?
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Kidding?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's insanity. And guess what, you listen to those people
as soon as she talked about it, they're clapping. They'll
like clapping seals. They're so dumb, literally, they have no
clue what they're applauding. But yeah, we're gonna have absolutely
free cookies. Well, I'm with you, free cookies. It's nice.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
We have gone through a disaster for the last four years,
and nothing is gonna change no matter who gets elected,
except that there's just gonna be more acrimony, you know,
from one side over the other, and the I think
the people in this country are the ones that are
gonna be suffering the wrath of what happens. Trump is
gonna be He's gonna get if he wins, which I'm
not sure he will, he will probably get impeached again
(27:46):
because that's all they know how to do. And I
don't know what's gonna happen with his trials and all that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I'm looking. I'm looking for the next John Kennedy and
the Democratic Party and the next Ronald Reagan, and I
don't see them.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
John Kennedy says the world two times. Well, I should
say the Cuban Missi crisis, which I wrote a paper
on when I was in college. He saved the world.
If he hadn't been assassinated, we wouldn't have had Vietnam.
I think you'd have to agree that he was way
too smart to get us into that mess.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
But well, I don't know, he wan. I must tell
you if you read history on it. Okay, I can
tell you this. When when JFK became President of the
United States, we had about nine hundred advisors in self Vietnam.
When he was assassinated, that number had had grown to
sixteen thousand. So there was a significant uptick whether or
(28:33):
not he was having you know, people believed that he
would have pulled back, but it was from the from
Eisenhower to Kennedy there was an uptick. That's what the
numbers show.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
But you know, heart of the Cold War, that was
the coal mentality, it was.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It was the Domino theory. You remember all of that. Steve,
I got to run him on my break. I love
your calls, you know that keep calling a show.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
Oh yeah, I loved you. Agree with you one hundred percent.
I mean, not even at every single point.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It was disagree We gotta have an argument.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Okay, I've never heard I've never disagreed with you.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's scary. Sometimes I disagree with myself. Thanks, they've talk
to you.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
You got you got it. Lay on the mark. You're
hitting the nail on the head man.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I appreciate it. Thank you much. We'll keep it. Take
take a very quick break here. The only line that's
opened dial six one, seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
You'll be okay. The others are all full six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty. Coming back. I got James
and Stowton, I got Patrick in d C, Trisha in
Lynn uh and I don't know where Joseph is. We'll
(29:35):
figure that one out. We'll get everybody in. We're going
to go into the next hour on this, so don't
hesitate to light those lines. Coming back on night's side.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World Nights.
Thanks Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Next up is my friend Patrick and DC where every
problem M and A's from. Hey, Patrick, how are you?
Speaker 12 (29:56):
I'm doing pretty good? Fortunately you did not catch me
going testing one two three four.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Very good, It's very good. Nice strong start. To the
call What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (30:05):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (30:06):
So anyway, those people were on the television over in
the other room, and I can see them in my
left eye. I can hear them out of my left
ear if I needed to hear them. And there was
a gentleman from the U a W. I guess that
is the United Autos Workers, right, And then the next
guest or speaker is that Bartenders from Brooklyn.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
New York.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
And I had to get up and turn the television
off because I am not going to waste my heart
earn electricity. Yes, I had to turn that off real quick,
and I was that was in between the m cast
and so I'm really excited to be here talking with
the gang. Uh much better than watching the conventions.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
As President Biden's got to be close to his nap time.
Have they not let him speak yet?
Speaker 10 (30:52):
That's off.
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I turned it with AOC now, so I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
About Joe Biden, remember him, he's the president.
Speaker 12 (30:58):
Yeah, I know I turned it off. I don't know.
I don't know when he spuck.
Speaker 10 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
You know, if people get down in the coal mine
and risk their lives to make that electricity, they don't
need to put her on the air. Okay, you asked
to pick our poison, right, Let's get to the Let's
get to the nitty gritty. Sure, the poison's coming into
our country and we don't have to pick it. Who's
gonna Who's gonna stop it? And we'll you're talking about
fentanyl amongst other things we're talking to Yeah, we're talking
(31:23):
about fentanyl. We're talking about immigration. Who's going to be
the one that is going to really put their foot down?
And I believe the only one who's going to be
able to do it is Trump.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I understand that argument, but can you explain to me
why he's incapable of talking about issues? And all he
wants to talk about is the twenty twenty election and
who's better looking and and whether or not uh Kamala
Harris has now decided that she's black or Asian? I mean,
come on, what is he wasting his time for? What's
(31:52):
he trying to do?
Speaker 12 (31:53):
That is a waste of time. I really wish that
I could speak with him and ask, you know, I
don't think I don't want.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Can change this guy's mind. I think he's you know,
he goes back to this thing about now he talks
about the ultimate ward is award is not the Congressional
Medal of Water. What is he nuts?
Speaker 12 (32:11):
Yeah? Uh? What do they say was about the Dixon campaign?
Just don't say anything, and let me just say this.
The words you just you just smile and wave and
say hello and I thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah,
I'm just kind of glad to be here. Everyone looks great.
Definitely really not.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah. So the one thing you have, you have the
vice president who wants to pander to everybody. We'll build
three million homes, We'll give twenty five thousand dollars to everybody,
and the world will be happy. And uh, and season
tickets to the to the to the Major League if
you live in a major league city, let's give Let's
give everybody season tickets to the Red Sox games and
the Yankee games and the Nationals games.
Speaker 12 (32:48):
Right right, So, after a year and a half of
building up to this thing, the presidential election campaign, it's
now here. It's the build up was not what it was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The building is better than the results.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Anyway, Hey, Patrick, love your calls, man, Okay, keep checking
in on this.
Speaker 12 (33:07):
Okay, you got it, man, Thank you much.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Doctor. Soon let me go next to James and Stoton. James,
how are you tonight?
Speaker 15 (33:15):
Oh sir, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Feels great? What's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (33:19):
I find something troubling about some of the talking points
I hear from people. First of all, I don't think
a lot of people that are politically as do everyone
who barely got a high school all a sudden now
is a political punting and become on social media and
he just bows bs. You cannot explain to me how
people who live in the poorest parts of our country.
If you look at the poorest states, they're mostly red states, Mississippi, Alabama.
(33:45):
But you have to keep talking about the Republicans are
good for the economy. In fact, I think it's the
Economy Policy Institute. You can google it from nineteen fourty
nine to now. Where can people do better underneath Democrats?
I'm a union construction worker. I'll tell you right now.
I remember make over fifty dollars an hour than being
massasapi and make fourteen dollars an hour reading my Bible,
(34:08):
shoe my gun at ducks. Listen to these moralus what
we should have did after the Civil Wars to buy
the country. You know what this country will look like
just look at the Korean peninsula northwest south. So I
mean people could believe with the one, but just stay
down there. Every time I go to a construction site,
you know why I see license plates from Tennessee, Arkansas.
If Republicans are so great at kream jobs, tell the
(34:31):
n Breeds to stay down there?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Why are you so why you so mad at these people?
I mean, they haven't right to have this set. Let
me ask I hate Okay, let me ask you this.
For the last I don't know, at least well close
to one hundred years, black Americans have been very supportive
of Democratic presidential candidates.
Speaker 10 (34:55):
And yet I look at did you say one hundred years?
Speaker 15 (34:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because Democrats into like in what the sixties,
no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, no, no, no, no, nineteen thirties. I think there
was a switch in the Roosevelt election of nineteen thirty two.
And I don't know that black Americans have received a
fair shake because I look at poverty levels in this country.
I look at the school systems that you know, most
(35:27):
black kids find themselves, particularly in urban northern areas, and
I just think there's a lot of people who get
comfortable with one party or the other, and they don't
consider that, they don't consider the alternatives. I think.
Speaker 15 (35:43):
I've heard that argument, and I'll say right now, I'm
doing better than my cousins in the South and the
vast Victoria.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Let me ask you. You're doing better. You're living in
Boston or living in Stoughton, which is great, okay, but
what about the kids in Chicago? Will favor do me
a favorite? Don't tell me what I believe in? Don't
you language of the year? That is? That's inappropriate, okay,
And don't try to tell me what I believe. I
won't tell you. I won't tell you what you believe.
If you got into my questions, that's your problem, not mine.
(36:11):
Let me go next to Tricia Elinn.
Speaker 12 (36:14):
Tricia, you next on Nightsiger, right ahead, Hi, Dan boy,
those two people that are running.
Speaker 13 (36:23):
I love Trump, but I mean the insults and all
that grade school stuff is terrible. But I believe that
he would be better to handle people like Ninya who
are putin than Kamela would. She is a very attractive woman.
I didn't have my Internet on, but I did this weekend,
(36:45):
and it's the first time I heard her speak and
saw her really up close and the crowds clapping, and
my nickname for her is Giggles. And I don't think
she could handle foreign policy at all. I don't think
she's really in touch. I don't think she has children.
She's never been in a grocery store. She's out of
(37:05):
her mind socialists and I can't stand that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What what what does her status of having children have
to do with anything?
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Well, because people have children, they they're more like they're
in the grocery stores, they're buying groceries. They you know,
they need more money to send the kids to college
and things like that.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
But you know, to live however you live.
Speaker 13 (37:28):
I mean she's I don't know, she's class well, she worked,
she worked at I believe her biography suggests that she
worked as the McDonald's when she was.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
When when she was in school to help get herself
through school. I don't know what she.
Speaker 13 (37:45):
Was yeah, good, yeah, what she was. What she was
talking about was like and she get an applause about
abortion and at one time she had said something about
lowering the population so everybody can have clean drinking water.
And what she was supposed to what about the immigrants,
(38:07):
you know, people coming into this country. That's overpopulation right there,
off the charts. The nuns taught us in nineteen sixty
four about overpopulation and that's what we're experiencing now. The
shortage of housing and so forth. Our country is not
at all the same. And you're right pandering for votes
(38:29):
and everybody would clap, and this thing about abortion and
everybody would clap. You know, it's ridiculous. You have to
concentrate on the big issues, the border and foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, I think the big party, each party, will, you know,
emphasize their issues. I think that out in Chicago today,
I think that there were vans out there from some
clinic which was offering not only free abortions, but free vs. Actomies.
And I mean didn't wasn't something that I'd necessarily be
(39:02):
interested in. But if that's what their constituents feel they
need and they can get them for free, good luck,
good luck. I hate to do this to you, Trish,
but I got I gotta run here, and I got
to step aside for the eleven o'clock news. Come on
back soon. Become more of a regular world.
Speaker 13 (39:19):
This world Buddhism, check it out with people don't want
to live in a tranquility and vote for giggles. We
have to stop that ridiculous thank.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You, no sense of, no sense of don't call her names,
you know, just I mean, I'm just tired of the
name call, and I really am, and I think that
let's deal with issues. Let's try to deal with issues
and stop calling you know people name simple as that.
Thanks chrissure, I have a great night. We'll be back
on Night's side right after the eleven o'clock news
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