September 25, 2024 • 36 mins
The latest MCAS scores were released this week and show “concerning” results of decline in all major categories amongst all age groups in Massachusetts' public schools. Roughly, 16,000 10th graders failed at least one portion of the 2024 MCAS exam. This comes at a time right before voters’ head to the polls this November to vote on Question 2, whether a passing MCAS score should be a graduation requirement. Dan asked listeners if they plan to vote Yes or No on Question 2.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS constance video
for this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
As I read my Boston Globe, which was delivered today,
I continue some night we should talk about home newspaper
delivery problems. Two of the last three Sundays, my Boston
Globe never got delivered. And try, and I'm saying this
for the people of the Boston Globe who might be listening, try,
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as a subscriber to the Boston Globe, to get your
newspaper delivered. When it's not delivered, you end up talking
to people in Phoenix, Arizona who have no ability to
call the delivery service and say, hey, you missed, you
missed this house, you missed that house.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Extremely frustrating.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And I'm almost beginning to wonder if the Boston Globe
and maybe other newspapers they're going out of business. They're
dropping like five. You almost wonder if they just don't
care anymore. You know, I've been a subscriber to the
Globe for a long time, and one of the reasons
I subscribe is it keeps me informed and gives me
ideas of what I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
On my show.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And this is a little bit of a diversion, and
I apologize, but I want to take just a moment
of personal privilege and if any of you can identify
with what I'm talking about. You wake up on a
Sunday morning, and one of the joys of the weekend
is you can those of you who are newspaper people,
you can immerse yourself in your local newspaper, whether it's
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the Globe of the Herald here in Boston, or the
New York Times or whatever wherever you live. And when
you walk out your front door and go to the spot,
and for us, it's the end of the driveway and
that newspaper isn't there by seven thirty eight o'clock, you
always assume, well, maybe the press is ran a little
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late and maybe maybe it will be there. So you
go inside and you start have breakfast or whatever. Maybe
you go off to church and you come back and
it's still not there. And at that point, you know,
by nine thirty ten o'clock, your heart sinks and you
just realize that you a good portion of your day
that you would look forward to all week long. Can
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any of you identify with what I'm talking about? Sitting
back on a Sunday and actually reading a newspaper early
in the morning. You have no other responsibility that day,
and that might be the most relaxing part of your day,
and the Globe just doesn't care. In my opinion, You
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try to call the main number, you try to call
the circulation department, and is all automated, and it's so frustrating,
and I think all of you probably, if not with
the Globe, would someone have been involved in this. And
it is just frustrating and you come to the to
the opinion that the company that you have been a
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subscriber for for a long time, for a long time
could care less about you as a customer, and it
is It is a compounding tough feeling and you don't
have to. By the way, the reason I subscribe to
the Globe is they got the best sports section I
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think of any anywhere in New England and perhaps maybe
even anywhere in the country. So I don't know if
any of you have. Maybe I'm the only person who
on a Sunday morning when you when you're hoping that
you can call and talk to a human being somewhere
who will be able to say, you know, we live
in an electronic age. You should be able to say.
They should be able to say to you, look, what
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is your address. I'm going to send an email and
there will be you know, let's say that somehow they
have a new person driving the globe around. You know,
they no longer have paper boys on bicycles. It's always
people in cars for deliveries. But it's dispiriting. It's absolutely dispairiting, dispiriting.
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If any of you can can relate to that, I'd
love to hear from you, because to me, it's almost
a personal insult. What I mean by that is newspapers
subscriptions are no longer cheap. You're talking for the globe.
It's upwards of around thirty dollars a month. That's for
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as a subscriber. Now they know that you're accounted every
day as someone who read the newspaper, whether it's delivered
or not. So and then you make the effort to
call and you have to go through you know, got
a listen to this and our new automative system, automated
system will help you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
No, it won't. It will only frustrate me.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not going to help me to try to talk
to someone and there's no human being to talk to.
And what is your problem, and they give you if
it's not my problem, it's your problem.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Is you newspaper missing? Just say missing?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is your newspaper soaked with water? Just say newspaper soaked?
I can say it, okay, But of course it's all
pre programmed. And then when you start to hit zero,
so you want to talk to a human can I
speak with.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
The human being? I don't understand what you've said.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sometime when I think I'm gonna do is rob Is
maybe record this and so that people can hear the frustration.
I'm gonna just take a quick break here, And I
had not intended to do this, but I'm still upset
from Sunday. And then, of course the person that you
talk to with the Globe, you talk to.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Someone in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
By the way, they don't even employ Massachusetts residents, that's
how much they disrespect us. So you talk with someone
in Phoenix, Arizona, who you know.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Isn't a Bostonian.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean there's no, there's not a trace of a
Boston accent. And then when you say to them, well,
can you can you give me the phone number of
the local care so I can call them?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, we count do that. No, no, no, we count
do thath We'll notify them. What do you mean you're
going to notify them? Does that mean it'll be redelivered? Now,
it won't be redelivered. We'll notify them.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What good does that do? Then? It's so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
If you want to comment on this, I have a
topic that's that we're upcoming that is related to the Globe.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A couple of topics related to the Globe.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. If newspapers don't respect us, and if they
take us for granted their days are numbered, maybe it's
the reverse. Maybe they know their days are numbered and
they don't feel they have to respect us anymore. And
if you work for the Globe, you get one subscriber
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here in me. Okay, who's not a fan of your
editorial policy. I'm a fan of your sports pages. If
you really want to stay in business, get your act together,
Get your act together. Two out of the last three Sundays,
no Globe and no recourse. And oh, by the way,
they hit your your credit card every month on you know,
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at twenty every twenty eight days they hit.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The credit card, and the person in Arizona will say.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Wow, I'm god, I give you a credit for all
that wasn't delivered today. No, you never see the credit.
You never see the credit. Oh, I got a bunch
of people lighting up here. That's good. We may stay
with this topic. Yes, we might.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The only line that's left open is SIXE. I'm excited.
Let's go. We'll be back right after the break, and
I want to hear your stories, either about the Globe
or other businesses that no longer respect you as a customer.
Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Sight Studios. I'MBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, it looks like I'm not the only one who's
had problems with delivery service from the Boston Globe. Let
me go to Denise in Medford. You know, it's funny, Denise.
I hadn't planned to do this tonight, but welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Because this has been something that's been weighing. I mean,
and you don't there's nobody to say it to. I
work in elder care, in an assisted living, and you
know the generations they are. The newspaper is such a
big part of their life. And for the last year
it's been incredibly horrible with the delivery system and it
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not only recks there day, but then we have a
lot of people there that are you know, are experiencing
in memory problems, and you know that, and and for
them not to have the newspaper, it's it's you won't
believe the devastation. So it's just and you can't reach anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What you're saying, And it's so true. Just reading the
newspaper stimulates your mind. Yes, one of the things that
I do with the newspaper, and I'm a baby boomer.
Everybody knows that I'll tried the crossword puzzle.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sometimes I'm trying it very late at night and I'm
half asleep, and at some point it's a great way
to go to sleep, to be honest with you, But
also the arrogance of the ownership.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Have you ever tried to.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Call the globe? You don't get you, You don't get anybody,
You don't get a real person. And when you do,
they can't do anything for you. They don't try to deliver, and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They haven't in I think it's in Arizona. Well, I
know it's Arizona. I think they have some people in
Phoenix and some people in Tucson. Some of them are
pretty good with the English language. Some of them are
kind of challenged with the englishe to put it kindly,
but they can't do anything. They have a little script
they read, thank you very much for calling. I hope
you have a great day, a great day.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
My day is ruined.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's like, no, I'm not calling you for you to
tell me have a great day. I'm calling for you
to you so that you could call up the knucklehead
who couldn't find my house to the deliver my newspaper,
which I pay for every day.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
We had better luck with kids that were twelve on
their bikes than we do with adels and vans right now.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What happens is, look, I know it's tough for newspapers
to find people to deliver, Okay, I get it, Okay,
But at the same time, it should not be impossible,
and there should be if someone is a manager of
a newspaper delivering service, and if there's someone out there
who is a manager of a newspaper delivery service, if
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you have someone who day after day after day is
missing houses and there are complaints coming in get rid
of that person. But in the meantime, you, as the
owner of the company, you should get in your car
and you should get those papers delivered and not have
to be called from someone in Phoenix, Arizona. And I
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don't even think they call from I just think they
try to placate you, and I'm getting sick of it.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And I hope that someone in.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Management from the Globe is listening tonight, because look, maybe
you know that the days of newspapers are numbered, but
why don't you go out with some class and style
and treat your customers as any customer wants to be
treated with a little bit of respect.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You're right right, well, excellent topic. Thank you so much,
long time listener, first time calling.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh my goodness, we got a round of applause from you.
Get that digital audience, got a digital studio audience, and
they just gave you a lovely round of applause. I
think it's so great that this is I just felt this.
I was starting relying on the Globe on a couple
of stories today. We'll talk about mcast and we're also
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going to talk about a story later on that Kevin
Collin did on Chinese illegal Chinese platforms in Maine, which
main newspapers broke one year ago and the Globe had
ignored it. So it's going to be a night for
the Globe here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, go get him, you bet.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Your dennyse I'm kind of I'm kind of a pit
bull when I when I get a little bit concerned,
when I get my teeth in something, they stick.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Thanks, all right, let's keep rolling you.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I want to go to Greg up on the North Shore. Greg, welcome.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Dan, longtime listener. I've called you more than a few times.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's okay, no round of applause.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I appreciate your loyalty as a customer and a client
of Nightside, and I mean that honestly.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And we have to protect AM radio to keep what
you do going on every night.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well I appreciate that. And by the way, I spoke
today with Senator of Markey's office. As much as I
disagree with Ed Markey on certain political issues.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
We have to keep AM radio on the market.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well he's been very good on that issue, very very good.
And I kid with him. He's a friend of mine.
I've known him for a long time. I don't agree
with every.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Pill I'm holding that against you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now, that's okay, But but give him credit because he
has been a fighter in the Senate for AM radio,
and I like, I like to be fair and give
people credit where they're where they're the right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Side of an issue. And I mean the right side.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Of an issue in this case, not only the right side,
but the correct side.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Go go ahead, Greg.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So the original reason why I want to talk because
you were going to talk about the MCST.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And we can talk about them.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Cast you get, I'm gonna say, right now, you went
to the globe. I am have had home delivery of
the globe in the lin item.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh I get, I get.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh yeah, so so they give you they send you
the wrong paper, is what you're saying right now.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm oh, you left the globe and now it's subscribe.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We get the globe. The line item living every day
to a house.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Good, Well, that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Then you know what, put a little plug out for
the line item there there. Look, they're gonna everyone's gonna
miss at some point. Okay, someone's gonna be sick or whatever,
or maybe the coyote is gonna run through the.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Papers have gone downhill. And the thing is is they
cannot get the people to deliver the paper to you.
And if I have.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
An answer to that, and he's that, okay, if you
cannot with with all the problems we had with the
economy right now, Uh, you're telling me that there aren't
retired individuals. I don't think kids are doing that job anymore,
that there aren't retired individuals who would like to make
a few more dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
And everybody, I was a paper boy, No, you were.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
A paper boy, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
And you got.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I delivered the Globe to Harold.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Believe it or not. I had to pull a wagon
every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh they were heavy, I remember. I remember they had.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To assemble the paper because it came with an A, A,
A B, A C in a D section. So I
had to every morning before I delivered.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Them, I had to as I had to put all
the papers together.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, and then walk around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And with your red wagon.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
And like on Sundays, you had to bring your red
wagon because like you couldn't bike on Monday through Saturday.
I could ride my bicycle, but the Sunday paper was
so big with all the advertisements.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And by the way, by the way, would people say
to me that the Globe or the delivery services can't
hire people pay them more money. That's what I think
it really comes down to.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If you paid but no one, do you want to
pay ten dollars for a paper?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well no, I don't think you have to make it
that way.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But at the same time, if don't pay minimum wage
and there was pay something a little more responsible. I mean, look,
you're gonna they're gonna go out of business either way.
I guess what why did you go out in style?
Don't be Willie May's playing center field for the Mets
in the last two years.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
And and I and I think you're right, but I
don't think that they can. There's not enough advertisement in
their papers to afford the cost of the printing. And
and like you said, like I have days where I
don't get like we get we don't get the Globe anymore.
We do the And the funny thing is is you
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do the Globe deal. They send you a deal where
you're gonna get a discounted price for the first forty weeks,
and then when that price runs out. Yeah, to try
to call them in disconnect like you were saying before,
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and so I think they did that on purpose.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, here's what I think you can do on that.
Just tell you a credit card that you have stopped.
You've the globe.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, the credit card wants to keep your business. So yeah,
tell me about mcass here what you saw that. And
again if if you can do it in a minute
or so, great, if you kind of hold you over
the globe today talked about m CAST scores, particularly in
English English language arts performance down for every group, every group, Asian, White, black,
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or Latino.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
That's the show. Here's here, here's my MCAST issue is.
And if you have to go to break, Yeah, let.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Me go to break.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Let me go to break, and I'll pick you up
on the other side and we'll get to all the
callers on the line.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I promise. Okay, stay right there. We'll get back with Greg.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He knew we were going to talk about MCAST, but
I'm we're going to stick with the globe delivery. So
trust me, if you're Tom and Watertown, Poller and Hampshire,
Matt and Walpole, Karen in Wisconsin. Even I don't know
if Karen gets delivered the Globe in Wisconsin we'll find
out back on Nightside right after the break here for
the newscast for the news at nine thirty on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
All right, let's go back to the calls. We were
talking with Greg from the north Shore. Greg, go right ahead.
I'm going to push you a little bit here on
your comments because you've had a little bit of time,
but you go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So I live in a town that's having a problem
with their school committee. Okay, And as far as you
go about the mcast, yep, dmcasts were designed to make
sure the teachers are doing a proper job.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I believe that's an accurate comment observation.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, that's what they were completely designed for. So when
they what they do is if a student fails, they
get so all the questions are graded on a scale
of one to five, and if a student fails, they
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get rid of the five and four questions and have
them retake it, so they only get in. Like I said,
the tests are scored.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, okay, So what you're saying is that the four
and five questions are more difficult.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, look, the idea of mcast has been brilliant. It
was it was good meaning Democrats and Republicans on Beacon
Hill in the nineteen nineties who came together and said
we got to do a better job. Look, the public
schools are failing here in Massachusetts. We're not Mississippi or Alabama,
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but they're failing here in Massachusetts. The Teachers Union has
fought against charter schools. Look at the big teacher strike
that the city of Newton, of all places, the city
of Newton, one of our premier cities, suffered through three
weeks of no school last January for their kids. You
remember that strike, Yes, and the teachers Union will tell you, well,
we're we're concerned about the children. Come on the strike
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is Those strikes are always about money. Our teacher's underpaid. Yes,
there's no question. Should they be paid more, Sure they should.
They should be paid a million dollars a year. But
you can't pay a teacher a million dollars a year.
You know, if you want to make a million dollars
a year, go play for the Red Sox or the
Celtics or the Bruins.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Let me tell you, like if you if I offered
you a job where.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
You got.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Four months a year off.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
No, I know this.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
There's a lot of plass to it. And don't they
don't get four months. They they teach from September. They
get July in August, so it's not four I mean
there's some vacation.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
How many holidays are there in between them.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I understand that, I understand that. I'm not here to
bass teachers.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm just here to simply try to try to say
that we gotta we got to get to work on this.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Greg. I'll come back to this probably more often.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Than than so I just want to say this about DMCAST.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, you got to be when they got to be quick.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
When they went like they eliminate the hard questions from
the kids' tests. Yeah, you've already told us that, and
they just let you retake the test. Okay, So if
I if I.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Let you you take the the hardest questions, there is
no way on growing like eventually you'll just have ones
for questions.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
No, I understand that. I do understand that. But again,
we've gone a long time on both subjects. So I
got other folks. I cannot be as generous to them
as I have been to you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
So we will talk again, Dan, Thank you so much.
Thank you my friend. Talk to you about that. Next up,
Tom and water out. Tom. I think you want to
talk about newspaper delivery.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Yeah, I want to rave about my globe delivery person.
You go right ahead, Yes, yeah, she never misses. She
lives in Waltham. I know her address because you leave
me in the envelope I mean now and then, which
I was ashamed to say that I don't fill it
because I give her a tip in the bill there.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, I will tell you that.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
I will tell you, Yeah, I will tell you that
she doesn't. She sends her husband there and all to
fill it out there and all. So I think it's
a you get to know you're a delivery person like
that and all, and they come around a certain time
of the day or they should there and all. And
if you're around there, you know, say hello, when what's
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going on? But still it's I say, yeah, the problem
is problem get deliverers. And you think it isn't just
going to the next street or something like she comes
in from and all.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So well, I'm I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're a happy camper. Tom, I'm glad you're a happy camper.
It's like if you go to a restaurant and you
get shirt of the bad meal. The fact that that
I'm sitting next to you and I say, man, this
lobster is great, Tom, you should have tried the lobster.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That doesn't make you feel any better.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And by the way, I'm here, uh only for a
few months during the year, and every year it's the
same delivery person I got. I wrote, I wrote her
a check uh in late August. I think that was
that was her swan song, because you know, I think
they said you that, Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't Christmas.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
It wasn't the problem with the globe, and you get
the problem with the red sox and where was there
something else going on there? That's something. But Denise got
my applause there.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, I hope I got your applause to Tom, because
guess what, You've got a good delivery person. Enjoy her
value her. Try calling the Globe if she ever misses,
and hopefully she won't. You try calling the Globe and
you're going to get the automated phone system. You won't
be able to talk to a human being. As a
matter of fact, someone living on Mars will be able
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to talk to a human being easier than you can
as a subscriber to the globe to get to a
human being, they will have an equal chance. Let me
put it like that, thank you for the cause.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
At dunkin Donuts, m Cast.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
I'm talking to a couple of kids in high school.
There's a you think of the men in cast. I
got to vote here in November, and what do you
guys think about it? It's awful hide there in all that.
I really know what's going on there and all, and
I know it's English math science. Then they pop up
with the physics on top of that, and I don't
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know what you know how that got in there. But
there's still the young they were talking about it's hard.
And I asked them if they felt pressure about doing
it and all, and they answer yes, there and all
in that one.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And so let me give you a clue.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The next time you talk to those kids, tell them
life is hard and there's a lot of pressure if
you want to succeed in life as well. And that's
a little bit of what school is like you're supposed
to learn.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
I probably won't see him again.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well next time, next time you talk to someone. Life
is hard. Life is hard. There's a lot of kids
their age are who are in the US military. You
want to talk about life being hard, study for the test.
We can either go to social promotion. You want to
continue with social promotion. How old are you seventeen? Okay,
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you're a senior. Now, we don't really care whether you
learned anything or not. We're going to socially promote you.
You'll graduate when you're eighteen and you're out in the
real world. And good luck Jack, because we didn't do
our job and you're screwed for the next fifty years.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Thanks. Thanks talking.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
So we've got well.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'm happy for you got a great newspaper deliver and
a great well and a great school system.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You're doubly blessed. Tom.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Thank you for calling, first time calor.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
First time caller that's come on back anytime to give
you a ride in the frost from my digital audience.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Thanks Tom, talk to you soon. Bye bye. Paula in
New Hampshire. Paula, next time, night.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Right ahead, good even, Thank you so much for taking
my gous. I gotta tell you you hit the nail
on the head.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
Never I thought I was the only one, because that's
just the world I live in. Ye I'm with you,
the frustration of trying to communicate with somebody.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
About something you're paying for, something that you are you know,
you want, something that.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
You're looking forward to, and next.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Thing you find out, uh, another head. I can't say
it enough.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
We're not employing people in our own communities. I'm not
here in New Hampshire, born and raised in Massachusetts. I'm
only a few miles over the border.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
One of the refugees who have fled the state. It's
like South Korea, North Korea.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
You know there you go night and day. So what
is happening is you know, technology have pushed away this
with the good old days of gone picking up a
paper on Sunday morning. I got gentlemen coming into.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
My store all the time. You got the newspaper. Then,
don't want to get involved with it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I remember, you know, as a kid, and even as
a young adult, you go to church on Sunday and
they would have stacks of the Globe, stacks of the Herald,
and you would pick up your Sunday newspaper at church,
and what you know, and again, someone's gonna say, well,
there's Dan talking about the good old days.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You don't it.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Worn's nothing wrong with that, Dan. The good old days
is what made us.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Who we are.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
You know, when somebody enjoys what they're doing, I mean,
you deserve the respect knowledge.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
The Globe gives no respect to this subscriber respect.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
It's like people that I'm from, our communities. We got
enough problems. We could go on and on about that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They used to.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
They used to, whether it's the Globe, whether it's the
electric company. You pick up the phone, you get this
onto me in a system, and you couldn't have said
it any better. Well the cheese.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I am so happy that that you now realize, and
you keep listening, and you listen to that side.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You you are not alone.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Too many of us sitting in our rooms, to sit
in our apartments, are sitting in our homes and think
we're the only one that thinks this way. No, if
I buy a product, if I go to a restaurant room,
I want to walk out of that restaurant whatever I paid.
I want to feel that I had I was treated well.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
It's as simplest we all deserve that. I'm the top.
We're looking for a little happiness, a little respect.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I can't tell you, Paula. And I'm going to brag
a little bit here. I had someone, I had someone
today send me an email and they said, there was
a guest on a show that Morgan White did, and
could I look up the guests? And I have no idea.
I can't go through Morgan's tapes. However, I answered that
person's email and I said, why don't you give our
newsroom a call. It will be a person who I
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gave them the newsroom number. There will be a person
who will answer the phone, and they then can pass
a message on to Morgan. And Morgan may want to
call you back. I call people back. I view, if
you listen to.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
My show, you get engaged, You engage yourself, you involve yourself.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But if you listen to my show, Paula, and you
contact me, you're my customer. You know you're my.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
Customer the phone tonight, I'm out here and MPSH door
dash and making deliveries. You answered my call tonight because
it matters. And if the globe's going on the and
if these businesses I've get in their time because they're
not carried.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You say, it's the.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Nail on that, paul Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
They're not putting themselves out there.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Come on back, Come on back soon. You're always welcome
here on Nightside.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Paula.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Yeah, I hope you have a wonderful even man, and
I love listening to you.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I hope you do as well with me.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
You're giving me about forty eight forty nine years growing
up listening to y'all ever since I was little on
this radio station with my father. So you know one,
I'm glad to be able to do it well.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We love you, Paula. Thank you so much. Coming back soon.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Okay, have a great nask.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
We take a break, take a break, be right back.
We'll keep talking. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's Nightside. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
By the way, Nicole Davis has just passed on to
us that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
On federal criminal charges.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
According to people with knowledge of the matter, will be
the first mayor in the history of New York to
be charged while in office. WHOA, that's a big story.
That is a big story. But this is a big
story too. And we will continue with it. Let me
go to uh next up, Karen and Wisconsin. Karen, how
are you tonight?
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Fine? Maybe I'll read that in the Globe in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'm sure I would hope, so I would.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
If it's delivered it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So do you get your newspaper delivered on time out there, Karen?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
No.
Speaker 13 (31:26):
I when you said that, it just reminded me of
of when we called up and Bradley was no longer
in the air. And that's the same feeling you know again.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Fortunately, Karen, as much as I'd love to talk about that,
I got to get us back on top.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
It's not what.
Speaker 13 (31:46):
I'm talking about. So then you said I could get
the Globe, Well, well, I could get the Globe delivered.
But I guess I'm getting more news by listening to you,
because it's the Globe. I can't even give you the
respect call you when you're right in the city. You're
telling me that they're sending you to Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Oh well, they're referring you to someone in Phoenix who
has no clue about you know, the greater Boston area
or Massachusetts o New England.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
And I'm right there with him. I'll let you go
but I agree with you. I'm so mad with you. Okay,
all right, you're not mad with me.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You're you're mad. You have my back and were shouldered.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
It's right. And I won't order the globe because I'll
never get it out.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh yeah, you have good luck with that. You'd get
it back paying express. Thanks, great night, Good night, Madison Walpole.
Mat'm gonna get you and two more in here. I
do have a guest coming up at ten o'clock. Go ahead, Matt,
I'll be quick.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Ray, thanks so much. First time call a long time listener.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And let's get a round of applause for Matt to all.
Speaker 12 (32:55):
Right, listen forever since for the past twenty years, especially
start out with my dad. So anyways, I just wanted
to say, first off, the driver, the driver for the
newspaper like that pays only forty seven thousand dollars. I
just looked this up. Forty seven thousand dollars an hour.
The third time, you know, over time, you're working like.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Forty seven thousand dollars a year, not an.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Hour, I hope, sorry, sorry, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, thank you, yeah yeah, at forty seven an hour.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
Yeah no. But then the other thing is like it's
you know, I think you're suggesting like for people who
are retired to do the job, it only works like
from twelve am to you know, eight eight am, So
that doesn't like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And then also you got to work all over well, Matt,
when you talk about the drivers, you're talking about the
drivers who are driving the.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Big globe trucks. They probably have to have a CDL license.
Their teamsters. I'm talking about once the globes.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Are delivered to a local area, the someone comes by
and they put the they know what they're root is.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They might deliver one hundred papers. That's all they're doing
in the morning. And they only were still doing it.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
Five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, they do it from like five till nine, from
five o'clock.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
And then the unemployment rates only three point seven percent.
I mean, there's a lot of other jobs that are out.
I can understand why, and I can understand your frustrations
and the absolutely right. The other thing I want to
say with the the USMN cast, thank you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Yes, I.
Speaker 12 (34:25):
Agree with what you're saying, like that it should be
it should be kept. I just don't think it should
be kept as like the end all be all of
how you graduate.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We're going to talk about that whole debate. Yeah, you
keep listening. We're going to do a story. I think
it's on October eighth, if I'm not mistaken. H And
we made I hit that two or three times because
it's a valid question here in Massachusetts and I want
everyone to understand it.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Matt. I got to get one more in. Okay, appreciate you,
Thanks very much, you much appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Ed and Wooster and I gotta get you in here.
You got less than a minute, go for it.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I would say the Globe delivery problems and the Mcast
scores falling. I mean, it's just two sides of the
same thing that has many different other assets. It's basically
a war on competence and a war on excellence. And
it's because the people who publish the Globe, who write
for the Globe, and the people who agree with its
point of view, they think there are masters and they
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don't care what we think. They don't care about us.
Where are irrelevant?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I wish you had called earlier.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
And I'm gonna maybe come back to this issue at
eleven o'clock. So I'm going to give you permission to
call back at eleven o'clock if you would like and
amplify on that fair enough, Okay, call back at eleven,
very really do I do that, But this is an
excellent point.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
To Theodore and Paul in Wakefield.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You guys will also have priority at eleven, but I
had guest scheduled next hour. Great topic coming up. The
Chinese government is growing illegal marijuana in Maine and nothing,
virtually nothing being done about it. That was in the
Globe today, a year after the story was broken by
the Gentleman we'll be talking to right after the ten
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS constance video
for this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
As I read my Boston Globe, which was delivered today,
I continue some night we should talk about home newspaper
delivery problems. Two of the last three Sundays, my Boston
Globe never got delivered. And try, and I'm saying this
for the people of the Boston Globe who might be listening, try,
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as a subscriber to the Boston Globe, to get your
newspaper delivered. When it's not delivered, you end up talking
to people in Phoenix, Arizona who have no ability to
call the delivery service and say, hey, you missed, you
missed this house, you missed that house.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Extremely frustrating.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And I'm almost beginning to wonder if the Boston Globe
and maybe other newspapers they're going out of business. They're
dropping like five. You almost wonder if they just don't
care anymore. You know, I've been a subscriber to the
Globe for a long time, and one of the reasons
I subscribe is it keeps me informed and gives me
ideas of what I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
On my show.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And this is a little bit of a diversion, and
I apologize, but I want to take just a moment
of personal privilege and if any of you can identify
with what I'm talking about. You wake up on a
Sunday morning, and one of the joys of the weekend
is you can those of you who are newspaper people,
you can immerse yourself in your local newspaper, whether it's
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the Globe of the Herald here in Boston, or the
New York Times or whatever wherever you live. And when
you walk out your front door and go to the spot,
and for us, it's the end of the driveway and
that newspaper isn't there by seven thirty eight o'clock, you
always assume, well, maybe the press is ran a little
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late and maybe maybe it will be there. So you
go inside and you start have breakfast or whatever. Maybe
you go off to church and you come back and
it's still not there. And at that point, you know,
by nine thirty ten o'clock, your heart sinks and you
just realize that you a good portion of your day
that you would look forward to all week long. Can
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any of you identify with what I'm talking about? Sitting
back on a Sunday and actually reading a newspaper early
in the morning. You have no other responsibility that day,
and that might be the most relaxing part of your day,
and the Globe just doesn't care. In my opinion, You
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try to call the main number, you try to call
the circulation department, and is all automated, and it's so frustrating,
and I think all of you probably, if not with
the Globe, would someone have been involved in this. And
it is just frustrating and you come to the to
the opinion that the company that you have been a
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subscriber for for a long time, for a long time
could care less about you as a customer, and it
is It is a compounding tough feeling and you don't
have to. By the way, the reason I subscribe to
the Globe is they got the best sports section I
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think of any anywhere in New England and perhaps maybe
even anywhere in the country. So I don't know if
any of you have. Maybe I'm the only person who
on a Sunday morning when you when you're hoping that
you can call and talk to a human being somewhere
who will be able to say, you know, we live
in an electronic age. You should be able to say.
They should be able to say to you, look, what
(03:44):
is your address. I'm going to send an email and
there will be you know, let's say that somehow they
have a new person driving the globe around. You know,
they no longer have paper boys on bicycles. It's always
people in cars for deliveries. But it's dispiriting. It's absolutely dispairiting, dispiriting.
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If any of you can can relate to that, I'd
love to hear from you, because to me, it's almost
a personal insult. What I mean by that is newspapers
subscriptions are no longer cheap. You're talking for the globe.
It's upwards of around thirty dollars a month. That's for
(04:26):
as a subscriber. Now they know that you're accounted every
day as someone who read the newspaper, whether it's delivered
or not. So and then you make the effort to
call and you have to go through you know, got
a listen to this and our new automative system, automated
system will help you.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
No, it won't. It will only frustrate me.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not going to help me to try to talk
to someone and there's no human being to talk to.
And what is your problem, and they give you if
it's not my problem, it's your problem.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Is you newspaper missing? Just say missing?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is your newspaper soaked with water? Just say newspaper soaked?
I can say it, okay, But of course it's all
pre programmed. And then when you start to hit zero,
so you want to talk to a human can I
speak with.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
The human being? I don't understand what you've said.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sometime when I think I'm gonna do is rob Is
maybe record this and so that people can hear the frustration.
I'm gonna just take a quick break here, And I
had not intended to do this, but I'm still upset
from Sunday. And then, of course the person that you
talk to with the Globe, you talk to.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Someone in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
By the way, they don't even employ Massachusetts residents, that's
how much they disrespect us. So you talk with someone
in Phoenix, Arizona, who you know.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Isn't a Bostonian.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean there's no, there's not a trace of a
Boston accent. And then when you say to them, well,
can you can you give me the phone number of
the local care so I can call them?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, we count do that. No, no, no, we count
do thath We'll notify them. What do you mean you're
going to notify them? Does that mean it'll be redelivered? Now,
it won't be redelivered. We'll notify them.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What good does that do? Then? It's so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
If you want to comment on this, I have a
topic that's that we're upcoming that is related to the Globe.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
A couple of topics related to the Globe.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. If newspapers don't respect us, and if they
take us for granted their days are numbered, maybe it's
the reverse. Maybe they know their days are numbered and
they don't feel they have to respect us anymore. And
if you work for the Globe, you get one subscriber
(06:46):
here in me. Okay, who's not a fan of your
editorial policy. I'm a fan of your sports pages. If
you really want to stay in business, get your act together,
Get your act together. Two out of the last three Sundays,
no Globe and no recourse. And oh, by the way,
they hit your your credit card every month on you know,
(07:06):
at twenty every twenty eight days they hit.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The credit card, and the person in Arizona will say.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Wow, I'm god, I give you a credit for all
that wasn't delivered today. No, you never see the credit.
You never see the credit. Oh, I got a bunch
of people lighting up here. That's good. We may stay
with this topic. Yes, we might.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The only line that's left open is SIXE. I'm excited.
Let's go. We'll be back right after the break, and
I want to hear your stories, either about the Globe
or other businesses that no longer respect you as a customer.
Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Sight Studios. I'MBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, it looks like I'm not the only one who's
had problems with delivery service from the Boston Globe. Let
me go to Denise in Medford. You know, it's funny, Denise.
I hadn't planned to do this tonight, but welcome.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How are you.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Because this has been something that's been weighing. I mean,
and you don't there's nobody to say it to. I
work in elder care, in an assisted living, and you
know the generations they are. The newspaper is such a
big part of their life. And for the last year
it's been incredibly horrible with the delivery system and it
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not only recks there day, but then we have a
lot of people there that are you know, are experiencing
in memory problems, and you know that, and and for
them not to have the newspaper, it's it's you won't
believe the devastation. So it's just and you can't reach anybody.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What you're saying, And it's so true. Just reading the
newspaper stimulates your mind. Yes, one of the things that
I do with the newspaper, and I'm a baby boomer.
Everybody knows that I'll tried the crossword puzzle.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sometimes I'm trying it very late at night and I'm
half asleep, and at some point it's a great way
to go to sleep, to be honest with you, But
also the arrogance of the ownership.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Have you ever tried to.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Call the globe? You don't get you, You don't get anybody,
You don't get a real person. And when you do,
they can't do anything for you. They don't try to deliver, and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
They haven't in I think it's in Arizona. Well, I
know it's Arizona. I think they have some people in
Phoenix and some people in Tucson. Some of them are
pretty good with the English language. Some of them are
kind of challenged with the englishe to put it kindly,
but they can't do anything. They have a little script
they read, thank you very much for calling. I hope
you have a great day, a great day.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
My day is ruined.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's like, no, I'm not calling you for you to
tell me have a great day. I'm calling for you
to you so that you could call up the knucklehead
who couldn't find my house to the deliver my newspaper,
which I pay for every day.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
We had better luck with kids that were twelve on
their bikes than we do with adels and vans right now.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What happens is, look, I know it's tough for newspapers
to find people to deliver, Okay, I get it, Okay,
But at the same time, it should not be impossible,
and there should be if someone is a manager of
a newspaper delivering service, and if there's someone out there
who is a manager of a newspaper delivery service, if
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you have someone who day after day after day is
missing houses and there are complaints coming in get rid
of that person. But in the meantime, you, as the
owner of the company, you should get in your car
and you should get those papers delivered and not have
to be called from someone in Phoenix, Arizona. And I
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don't even think they call from I just think they
try to placate you, and I'm getting sick of it.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And I hope that someone in.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Management from the Globe is listening tonight, because look, maybe
you know that the days of newspapers are numbered, but
why don't you go out with some class and style
and treat your customers as any customer wants to be
treated with a little bit of respect.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You're right right, well, excellent topic. Thank you so much,
long time listener, first time calling.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh my goodness, we got a round of applause from you.
Get that digital audience, got a digital studio audience, and
they just gave you a lovely round of applause. I
think it's so great that this is I just felt this.
I was starting relying on the Globe on a couple
of stories today. We'll talk about mcast and we're also
(11:43):
going to talk about a story later on that Kevin
Collin did on Chinese illegal Chinese platforms in Maine, which
main newspapers broke one year ago and the Globe had
ignored it. So it's going to be a night for
the Globe here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, go get him, you bet.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Your dennyse I'm kind of I'm kind of a pit
bull when I when I get a little bit concerned,
when I get my teeth in something, they stick.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Thanks, all right, let's keep rolling you.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I want to go to Greg up on the North Shore. Greg, welcome.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Dan, longtime listener. I've called you more than a few times.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's okay, no round of applause.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I appreciate your loyalty as a customer and a client
of Nightside, and I mean that honestly.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
And we have to protect AM radio to keep what
you do going on every night.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well I appreciate that. And by the way, I spoke
today with Senator of Markey's office. As much as I
disagree with Ed Markey on certain political issues.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
We have to keep AM radio on the market.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well he's been very good on that issue, very very good.
And I kid with him. He's a friend of mine.
I've known him for a long time. I don't agree
with every.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Pill I'm holding that against you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now, that's okay, But but give him credit because he
has been a fighter in the Senate for AM radio,
and I like, I like to be fair and give
people credit where they're where they're the right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Side of an issue. And I mean the right side.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Of an issue in this case, not only the right side,
but the correct side.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Go go ahead, Greg.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So the original reason why I want to talk because
you were going to talk about the MCST.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And we can talk about them.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Cast you get, I'm gonna say, right now, you went
to the globe. I am have had home delivery of
the globe in the lin item.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh I get, I get.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh yeah, so so they give you they send you
the wrong paper, is what you're saying right now.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm oh, you left the globe and now it's subscribe.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
We get the globe. The line item living every day
to a house.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Good, Well, that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Then you know what, put a little plug out for
the line item there there. Look, they're gonna everyone's gonna
miss at some point. Okay, someone's gonna be sick or whatever,
or maybe the coyote is gonna run through the.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Papers have gone downhill. And the thing is is they
cannot get the people to deliver the paper to you.
And if I have.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
An answer to that, and he's that, okay, if you
cannot with with all the problems we had with the
economy right now, Uh, you're telling me that there aren't
retired individuals. I don't think kids are doing that job anymore,
that there aren't retired individuals who would like to make
a few more dollars.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
And everybody, I was a paper boy, No, you were.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
A paper boy, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
And you got.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I delivered the Globe to Harold.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Believe it or not. I had to pull a wagon
every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh they were heavy, I remember. I remember they had.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
To assemble the paper because it came with an A, A,
A B, A C in a D section. So I
had to every morning before I delivered.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Them, I had to as I had to put all
the papers together.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, and then walk around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And with your red wagon.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
And like on Sundays, you had to bring your red
wagon because like you couldn't bike on Monday through Saturday.
I could ride my bicycle, but the Sunday paper was
so big with all the advertisements.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And by the way, by the way, would people say
to me that the Globe or the delivery services can't
hire people pay them more money. That's what I think
it really comes down to.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If you paid but no one, do you want to
pay ten dollars for a paper?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Well no, I don't think you have to make it
that way.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But at the same time, if don't pay minimum wage
and there was pay something a little more responsible. I mean, look,
you're gonna they're gonna go out of business either way.
I guess what why did you go out in style?
Don't be Willie May's playing center field for the Mets
in the last two years.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
And and I and I think you're right, but I
don't think that they can. There's not enough advertisement in
their papers to afford the cost of the printing. And
and like you said, like I have days where I
don't get like we get we don't get the Globe anymore.
We do the And the funny thing is is you
(16:39):
do the Globe deal. They send you a deal where
you're gonna get a discounted price for the first forty weeks,
and then when that price runs out. Yeah, to try
to call them in disconnect like you were saying before,
(16:59):
and so I think they did that on purpose.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, here's what I think you can do on that.
Just tell you a credit card that you have stopped.
You've the globe.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, the credit card wants to keep your business. So yeah,
tell me about mcass here what you saw that. And
again if if you can do it in a minute
or so, great, if you kind of hold you over
the globe today talked about m CAST scores, particularly in
English English language arts performance down for every group, every group, Asian, White, black,
(17:34):
or Latino.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
That's the show. Here's here, here's my MCAST issue is.
And if you have to go to break, Yeah, let.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Me go to break.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Let me go to break, and I'll pick you up
on the other side and we'll get to all the
callers on the line.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I promise. Okay, stay right there. We'll get back with Greg.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
He knew we were going to talk about MCAST, but
I'm we're going to stick with the globe delivery. So
trust me, if you're Tom and Watertown, Poller and Hampshire,
Matt and Walpole, Karen in Wisconsin. Even I don't know
if Karen gets delivered the Globe in Wisconsin we'll find
out back on Nightside right after the break here for
the newscast for the news at nine thirty on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
All right, let's go back to the calls. We were
talking with Greg from the north Shore. Greg, go right ahead.
I'm going to push you a little bit here on
your comments because you've had a little bit of time,
but you go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So I live in a town that's having a problem
with their school committee. Okay, And as far as you
go about the mcast, yep, dmcasts were designed to make
sure the teachers are doing a proper job.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I believe that's an accurate comment observation.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, that's what they were completely designed for. So when
they what they do is if a student fails, they
get so all the questions are graded on a scale
of one to five, and if a student fails, they
(19:16):
get rid of the five and four questions and have
them retake it, so they only get in. Like I said,
the tests are scored.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, okay, So what you're saying is that the four
and five questions are more difficult.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, look, the idea of mcast has been brilliant. It
was it was good meaning Democrats and Republicans on Beacon
Hill in the nineteen nineties who came together and said
we got to do a better job. Look, the public
schools are failing here in Massachusetts. We're not Mississippi or Alabama,
(19:58):
but they're failing here in Massachusetts. The Teachers Union has
fought against charter schools. Look at the big teacher strike
that the city of Newton, of all places, the city
of Newton, one of our premier cities, suffered through three
weeks of no school last January for their kids. You
remember that strike, Yes, and the teachers Union will tell you, well,
we're we're concerned about the children. Come on the strike
(20:22):
is Those strikes are always about money. Our teacher's underpaid. Yes,
there's no question. Should they be paid more, Sure they should.
They should be paid a million dollars a year. But
you can't pay a teacher a million dollars a year.
You know, if you want to make a million dollars
a year, go play for the Red Sox or the
Celtics or the Bruins.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Let me tell you, like if you if I offered
you a job where.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
You got.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Four months a year off.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
No, I know this.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
There's a lot of plass to it. And don't they
don't get four months. They they teach from September. They
get July in August, so it's not four I mean
there's some vacation.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
How many holidays are there in between them.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I understand that, I understand that. I'm not here to
bass teachers.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I'm just here to simply try to try to say
that we gotta we got to get to work on this.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Greg. I'll come back to this probably more often.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Than than so I just want to say this about DMCAST.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, you got to be when they got to be quick.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
When they went like they eliminate the hard questions from
the kids' tests. Yeah, you've already told us that, and
they just let you retake the test. Okay, So if
I if I.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Let you you take the the hardest questions, there is
no way on growing like eventually you'll just have ones
for questions.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
No, I understand that. I do understand that. But again,
we've gone a long time on both subjects. So I
got other folks. I cannot be as generous to them
as I have been to you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
So we will talk again, Dan, Thank you so much.
Thank you my friend. Talk to you about that. Next up,
Tom and water out. Tom. I think you want to
talk about newspaper delivery.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Yeah, I want to rave about my globe delivery person.
You go right ahead, Yes, yeah, she never misses. She
lives in Waltham. I know her address because you leave
me in the envelope I mean now and then, which
I was ashamed to say that I don't fill it
because I give her a tip in the bill there.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well, I will tell you that.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
I will tell you, Yeah, I will tell you that
she doesn't. She sends her husband there and all to
fill it out there and all. So I think it's
a you get to know you're a delivery person like
that and all, and they come around a certain time
of the day or they should there and all. And
if you're around there, you know, say hello, when what's
(22:47):
going on? But still it's I say, yeah, the problem
is problem get deliverers. And you think it isn't just
going to the next street or something like she comes
in from and all.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So well, I'm I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're a happy camper. Tom, I'm glad you're a happy camper.
It's like if you go to a restaurant and you
get shirt of the bad meal. The fact that that
I'm sitting next to you and I say, man, this
lobster is great, Tom, you should have tried the lobster.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
That doesn't make you feel any better.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And by the way, I'm here, uh only for a
few months during the year, and every year it's the
same delivery person I got. I wrote, I wrote her
a check uh in late August. I think that was
that was her swan song, because you know, I think
they said you that, Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't Christmas.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
It wasn't the problem with the globe, and you get
the problem with the red sox and where was there
something else going on there? That's something. But Denise got
my applause there.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, I hope I got your applause to Tom, because
guess what, You've got a good delivery person. Enjoy her
value her. Try calling the Globe if she ever misses,
and hopefully she won't. You try calling the Globe and
you're going to get the automated phone system. You won't
be able to talk to a human being. As a
matter of fact, someone living on Mars will be able
(24:13):
to talk to a human being easier than you can
as a subscriber to the globe to get to a
human being, they will have an equal chance. Let me
put it like that, thank you for the cause.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
At dunkin Donuts, m Cast.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
I'm talking to a couple of kids in high school.
There's a you think of the men in cast. I
got to vote here in November, and what do you
guys think about it? It's awful hide there in all that.
I really know what's going on there and all, and
I know it's English math science. Then they pop up
with the physics on top of that, and I don't
(24:48):
know what you know how that got in there. But
there's still the young they were talking about it's hard.
And I asked them if they felt pressure about doing
it and all, and they answer yes, there and all
in that one.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And so let me give you a clue.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The next time you talk to those kids, tell them
life is hard and there's a lot of pressure if
you want to succeed in life as well. And that's
a little bit of what school is like you're supposed
to learn.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
I probably won't see him again.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well next time, next time you talk to someone. Life
is hard. Life is hard. There's a lot of kids
their age are who are in the US military. You
want to talk about life being hard, study for the test.
We can either go to social promotion. You want to
continue with social promotion. How old are you seventeen? Okay,
(25:37):
you're a senior. Now, we don't really care whether you
learned anything or not. We're going to socially promote you.
You'll graduate when you're eighteen and you're out in the
real world. And good luck Jack, because we didn't do
our job and you're screwed for the next fifty years.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Thanks. Thanks talking.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
So we've got well.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'm happy for you got a great newspaper deliver and
a great well and a great school system.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You're doubly blessed. Tom.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Thank you for calling, first time calor.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
First time caller that's come on back anytime to give
you a ride in the frost from my digital audience.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Thanks Tom, talk to you soon. Bye bye. Paula in
New Hampshire. Paula, next time, night.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Right ahead, good even, Thank you so much for taking
my gous. I gotta tell you you hit the nail
on the head.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
Never I thought I was the only one, because that's
just the world I live in. Ye I'm with you,
the frustration of trying to communicate with somebody.
Speaker 11 (26:38):
About something you're paying for, something that you are you know,
you want, something that.
Speaker 10 (26:44):
You're looking forward to, and next.
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Thing you find out, uh, another head. I can't say
it enough.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
We're not employing people in our own communities. I'm not
here in New Hampshire, born and raised in Massachusetts. I'm
only a few miles over the border.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
One of the refugees who have fled the state. It's
like South Korea, North Korea.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
You know there you go night and day. So what
is happening is you know, technology have pushed away this
with the good old days of gone picking up a
paper on Sunday morning. I got gentlemen coming into.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
My store all the time. You got the newspaper. Then,
don't want to get involved with it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I remember, you know, as a kid, and even as
a young adult, you go to church on Sunday and
they would have stacks of the Globe, stacks of the Herald,
and you would pick up your Sunday newspaper at church,
and what you know, and again, someone's gonna say, well,
there's Dan talking about the good old days.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You don't it.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Worn's nothing wrong with that, Dan. The good old days
is what made us.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Who we are.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
You know, when somebody enjoys what they're doing, I mean,
you deserve the respect knowledge.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
The Globe gives no respect to this subscriber respect.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
It's like people that I'm from, our communities. We got
enough problems. We could go on and on about that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They used to.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
They used to, whether it's the Globe, whether it's the
electric company. You pick up the phone, you get this
onto me in a system, and you couldn't have said
it any better. Well the cheese.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I am so happy that that you now realize, and
you keep listening, and you listen to that side.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You you are not alone.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Too many of us sitting in our rooms, to sit
in our apartments, are sitting in our homes and think
we're the only one that thinks this way. No, if
I buy a product, if I go to a restaurant room,
I want to walk out of that restaurant whatever I paid.
I want to feel that I had I was treated well.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
It's as simplest we all deserve that. I'm the top.
We're looking for a little happiness, a little respect.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I can't tell you, Paula. And I'm going to brag
a little bit here. I had someone, I had someone
today send me an email and they said, there was
a guest on a show that Morgan White did, and
could I look up the guests? And I have no idea.
I can't go through Morgan's tapes. However, I answered that
person's email and I said, why don't you give our
newsroom a call. It will be a person who I
(29:23):
gave them the newsroom number. There will be a person
who will answer the phone, and they then can pass
a message on to Morgan. And Morgan may want to
call you back. I call people back. I view, if
you listen to.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
My show, you get engaged, You engage yourself, you involve yourself.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But if you listen to my show, Paula, and you
contact me, you're my customer. You know you're my.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
Customer the phone tonight, I'm out here and MPSH door
dash and making deliveries. You answered my call tonight because
it matters. And if the globe's going on the and
if these businesses I've get in their time because they're
not carried.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
You say, it's the.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Nail on that, paul Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
They're not putting themselves out there.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Come on back, Come on back soon. You're always welcome
here on Nightside.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Paula.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
Yeah, I hope you have a wonderful even man, and
I love listening to you.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I hope you do as well with me.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
You're giving me about forty eight forty nine years growing
up listening to y'all ever since I was little on
this radio station with my father. So you know one,
I'm glad to be able to do it well.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
We love you, Paula. Thank you so much. Coming back soon.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Okay, have a great nask.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
We take a break, take a break, be right back.
We'll keep talking. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's Nightside. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
By the way, Nicole Davis has just passed on to
us that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
On federal criminal charges.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
According to people with knowledge of the matter, will be
the first mayor in the history of New York to
be charged while in office. WHOA, that's a big story.
That is a big story. But this is a big
story too. And we will continue with it. Let me
go to uh next up, Karen and Wisconsin. Karen, how
are you tonight?
Speaker 13 (31:11):
Fine? Maybe I'll read that in the Globe in the morning.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'm sure I would hope, so I would.
Speaker 12 (31:18):
If it's delivered it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So do you get your newspaper delivered on time out there, Karen?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
No.
Speaker 13 (31:26):
I when you said that, it just reminded me of
of when we called up and Bradley was no longer
in the air. And that's the same feeling you know again.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Fortunately, Karen, as much as I'd love to talk about that,
I got to get us back on top.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
It's not what.
Speaker 13 (31:46):
I'm talking about. So then you said I could get
the Globe, Well, well, I could get the Globe delivered.
But I guess I'm getting more news by listening to you,
because it's the Globe. I can't even give you the
respect call you when you're right in the city. You're
telling me that they're sending you to Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Oh well, they're referring you to someone in Phoenix who
has no clue about you know, the greater Boston area
or Massachusetts o New England.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
And I'm right there with him. I'll let you go
but I agree with you. I'm so mad with you. Okay,
all right, you're not mad with me.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You're you're mad. You have my back and were shouldered.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
It's right. And I won't order the globe because I'll
never get it out.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh yeah, you have good luck with that. You'd get
it back paying express. Thanks, great night, Good night, Madison Walpole.
Mat'm gonna get you and two more in here. I
do have a guest coming up at ten o'clock. Go ahead, Matt,
I'll be quick.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Ray, thanks so much. First time call a long time listener.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And let's get a round of applause for Matt to all.
Speaker 12 (32:55):
Right, listen forever since for the past twenty years, especially
start out with my dad. So anyways, I just wanted
to say, first off, the driver, the driver for the
newspaper like that pays only forty seven thousand dollars. I
just looked this up. Forty seven thousand dollars an hour.
The third time, you know, over time, you're working like.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Forty seven thousand dollars a year, not an.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Hour, I hope, sorry, sorry, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, thank you, yeah yeah, at forty seven an hour.
Speaker 12 (33:22):
Yeah no. But then the other thing is like it's
you know, I think you're suggesting like for people who
are retired to do the job, it only works like
from twelve am to you know, eight eight am, So
that doesn't like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And then also you got to work all over well, Matt,
when you talk about the drivers, you're talking about the
drivers who are driving the.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Big globe trucks. They probably have to have a CDL license.
Their teamsters. I'm talking about once the globes.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Are delivered to a local area, the someone comes by
and they put the they know what they're root is.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They might deliver one hundred papers. That's all they're doing
in the morning. And they only were still doing it.
Speaker 12 (34:00):
Five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, they do it from like five till nine, from
five o'clock.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
And then the unemployment rates only three point seven percent.
I mean, there's a lot of other jobs that are out.
I can understand why, and I can understand your frustrations
and the absolutely right. The other thing I want to
say with the the USMN cast, thank you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Yes, I.
Speaker 12 (34:25):
Agree with what you're saying, like that it should be
it should be kept. I just don't think it should
be kept as like the end all be all of
how you graduate.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We're going to talk about that whole debate. Yeah, you
keep listening. We're going to do a story. I think
it's on October eighth, if I'm not mistaken. H And
we made I hit that two or three times because
it's a valid question here in Massachusetts and I want
everyone to understand it.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Matt. I got to get one more in. Okay, appreciate you,
Thanks very much, you much appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Ed and Wooster and I gotta get you in here.
You got less than a minute, go for it.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I would say the Globe delivery problems and the Mcast
scores falling. I mean, it's just two sides of the
same thing that has many different other assets. It's basically
a war on competence and a war on excellence. And
it's because the people who publish the Globe, who write
for the Globe, and the people who agree with its
point of view, they think there are masters and they
(35:23):
don't care what we think. They don't care about us.
Where are irrelevant?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I wish you had called earlier.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
And I'm gonna maybe come back to this issue at
eleven o'clock. So I'm going to give you permission to
call back at eleven o'clock if you would like and
amplify on that fair enough, Okay, call back at eleven,
very really do I do that, But this is an
excellent point.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
To Theodore and Paul in Wakefield.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You guys will also have priority at eleven, but I
had guest scheduled next hour. Great topic coming up. The
Chinese government is growing illegal marijuana in Maine and nothing,
virtually nothing being done about it. That was in the
Globe today, a year after the story was broken by
the Gentleman we'll be talking to right after the ten
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