January 2, 2025 • 44 mins
In the wake of the recent tragedy in New Orleans, where 14 people were killed by an extremist that authorities are reporting was tied to ISIS, it would appear Americans need to hear stories of heroism and courage more than ever.
This hour Dan asked listeners how they cherish America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a nice Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, I really enjoyed the last hour. I hope you
did as well. His name is Robert Charles. The book
is Cherish America. I want to thank Kristin, Nancy, and
Joe who checked in. I'm sorry that we were kind
of rushed at the end, but Joe raised is a
good point, and that is whether or not any book
that is published should be available for people who are
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cannot read, who are blind. And I think that's that
can only help the number of books that are available
to people. And I think I thank Kristin for going
to the library and asking for the book, and I
think Nancy who said she had already ordered a book
from Amazon. So I want to take this hour and
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very seriously consider how lucky we all are to live
in America. Now. I know, I know that there will
be some people who accuse me of flag waving. Well
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that's their problem, not mine. Okay, this is not a
perfect country. Every election hasn't worked out perfectly. From my
point of view, that's not the point. The point is
that we are fortunate enough to live in a country
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which allows the freedoms that Franklin Roosevelt talked about that
we enjoy in this program every night, one of which
is freedom of speech. Again, I try to give everybody
an opportunity to say whatever they want to say within reason.
I mean, I don't want to have you come on
and use my show to slander other people. If you
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want to argue with me over something, I don't have
a problem with that at all. I just would like
you to kind of keep it within some relative discourse,
decent discourse. But when I think about, how does this
guy and I don't even want to mention his name
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to be really honest with you, But just like I
don't want to mention the names of the Boston bombers,
how does this guy wake up and decide, at the
age of forty two, after he has been in the
US military, who's born in this country? Obviously had a
name that misled people to think that he might have
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been born elsewhere, but born in this country. He was.
He was as American as you are or as I am.
But he made it. He took the decision he's going
to ride a truck down Bourbon Street on New Year's
Eve or New Year's Morning and just slaughter people. What
gave him the right to do that. How does your
mind get so messed up that you even contemplate that. Now,
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I know that he had had some tough breaks in
his life. I guess divorced two or three times. A
lot of people have been divorced two or three times.
A lot of people have been through worse than a divorce.
People have survived through the deaths of close relatives, you
know people. I think of the parents in Newtown, Connecticut
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who lost twenty toddlers or children first graders on that
horrific day, and yet they didn't take to what this
guy did. So I just say that this is a
moment we need to sit back and realize how darn
lucky we are to have been born in this country.
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Whatever our politics, whatever our religion, whatever our gender, whatever
our sexual proclivity. Okay, whether we're Red Sox or Yankee fans.
But I just think that that we need to do
more to protect the country. I talked about it last night.
I'll be happy to talk about it again. But my
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first hope is that some of you will rise to
the occasion and uh enjoin me in saying that that
we have to cherish this country, because if this country
were ever to go down the drain? Where is where
do we go? People from around the world have come
here legally. Of course, some have come here illegally as well.
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I want I prefer people to come legally because they
lived in dictatorships, they lived underpressive, oppressive regimes. If we
ever lost this country and the principles of this country,
where do we go? That's why we need to cherish America.
So I'm going to open up the phone lines six seven,
four ten thirty, six one seven, nine thirty. We have
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seen some horrific events in the last few weeks, the
murder of the healthcare executive in New York City. If
we ever devolve into into a country where people are
just shot at because somehow you feel that you got
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screwed by a healthcare company, Okay, there were ways in
which you can turn this country around. Okay, that's the
beauties of the country. You have elections, you have venues
like this, you have the opportunities newspapers to do what
you can other countries you can't. And just to think
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that that there are people in this country who are
somehow identifying with the murderer in New York, I guess
that there's probably people are identifying with the killer from
Bourbon Street. But if we get to that point, if
we ever get to that point and we lose this country,
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we will never get it back. It's as simple as that. Okay,
I'm going to go to phones. Let me go to
Gary and Wooburn Gary. I have no idea what you're
going to say. I never do. But welcome to nightside
and happy New Year, my friend.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I can hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Obviously what you said was very poetic and so forth.
And me, let's face it, what's going on in the
United States happens in our foreign countries all the time.
What can we do well? Obviously we have to be
very careful when we go outside, you know, and talking
about women with their children and so forth. What I'm
trying to eat and get at is going on at nighttime, Dan,
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I'm sixty one years of age, and let me tell you,
going on at nighttime is very dangerous. It's just it's
just that's where a lot of people it's so doc
out and you can be victimized so easily. And I
always worry about women who even have their children in
a car and being abducted. What's the good called car
what's it called car jackey car jackets?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, yeah, well that's well. Let me just let me
say this, Let me try to turn this around on
you if I can't. Okay, we have the freedom in
this country, uh, to move around anytime we want. There's
a lot of countries in the world that say, oh no,
there's a curfew. You have to be in your home
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from seven o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning. Uh.
There are countries where freedom to travel doesn't exist, freedom
to move around, So I need we need to cherish
that freedom. At the same time, we need to be
vigilant out there. You're right, when you're out at dark
at night, it's you're more susceptible perhaps to some form
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of an assault and attack. But at the same time, hopefully, hopefully,
if people see something like that going on, there will
be enough people who rise to the occasion and interrupt
that that sort of crime. Do you know what I'm
trying to get at. I'm trying to look at the
glasses being half full is supposed to be a half empty.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Gary, Well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Trying to stay on subject matter with you because after all,
I can dress. But one thing that really bothers me.
I work a second shift, the third shift type of
job all the time, and I work oddball hours. And
one thing I notice is this. I know everything comes
down the money in electric bills, that whether it's a
market basker or all these stores, especially at nighttime when
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it hits the fall and winter in neighborhoods. Light up
these neighborhoods, and you know these stores the parking lots
like a Christmas tree. I know it costs a lot
of money for the electric grid, and the people are
paying the bills, the owners and of course the city
and states. But do you agree with me light it
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up like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What you're saying is, I think that businesses that want
people to come to do their stores and spend money,
whether it's a grocery store or it's a big box store,
they have an obligation to provide a greater light to
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make people feel more comfortable. That's what you're saying, right right, Okay.
I would suggest that that if a company was smart
and they were going to be open after dark, and
most companies are, it's in their interest to make sure
that that parking lot is lit up like a Christmas
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tree because it will draw more customers. So I don't
know why any store, you know, major company again, whether
it's a big box store or a grocery store, wouldn't
be smart enough to light up that parking lot and
make sure that there were no dark spots in that
parking lot where people could come shop and be comfortable.
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So I'm agreeing with you, but I also think we're
not gonna be able to pass a lot to make
it that way. We need to vote with our feet.
And if you're not comfortable going to a home depot
or a supermarket after darkness because the parking lot is
not lit up, then find a better short to go
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to if you have to shop at that hour of
the night.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Okay, I want to throw this at you, Dan. Can
I name a certain place in North end of the
Massachusetts that's an apartment complex? Can I name it?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah? But please be careful, hopefully you're not going to
disparage it.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Go ahead, Well, it's called the Royal Crust Apartments and
it's been around for like over forty years or more.
All kinds of people live there and they pay range
wise of two thousand to as much as twenty seven
hundred and fifty dollars for rent. A buddy of mine
had a pizza joint about ten years ago, and I
made a quick delivery for them to help him out.
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The place is so dark, it's like doc parking lot
all the time. These people are came heavy, heavy rents,
and these men and women who are single, they're gonna
walk to their promise in the darkness whatever time they
get home. It's such a disgrace. I can't stand people
being victimized, and so far I am dead set against it.
What do you think of what I just said?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I who would support people being victimized? But again, I
think it's up to those folks to go to their landlord,
you know, and express themselves. That's that's again, I understand
the concerns you are. I'm looking probably to get a
little more positive. So you've had an opportunity to express
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those concerns. If you live in a situation that you're uncomfortable,
you you have every right to call the local police
department and say I think that that this parking lot
needs to be lit up better because it's gonna uh,
it's it's gonna diminish the potential for crime. I mean
people have to take it upon themselves, Gary to to
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pick up the phone or or you know, file a complaint.
I mean, you just can't sit around and say I
want that home people to be to be lit up more.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, maybe they have complain and nobody does nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But thanks very much to the call. Is always happy
new Year. Okay, thank you much. Got to take a break.
Please get me back on track. Folk coming back on
night Side.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I hope I've been clear in what I'd like to
hear you talk about, and that is, what is it
about this country that you cherish? And if there's nothing
that you cherish about this country, you don't have to call.
But let's let's get positive here, because if we don't
keep this country together, we will lose this country. We
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have an obligation to pass this country on to our descendants,
to our kids, into our grandkids, into our grand children.
Let me go to Bill and Lexington. Bill next on
night Side, don't disappoint me. Bill, tell me what you
cherish about America.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Go ahead, Bill didn't happen to. Yeah, I cherish. What
I cherish about America is people die trying to get
here every day. Is it the America I grew up in?
It is not. I think the last time we felt
united was nine to eleven, and I think since then
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we've been torn apart. But it is still the greatest
country on earth, and we we have a lot to
look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, I mean I think that. Look, it is not
a perfect country. There's no perfect country in the world. World.
But I'll tell you no. But when we somehow can
produce nutjobs like this guy that mowed down dozens of
people and killed fourteen people on Bourbon Street, how do
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you get to that point in this country? You know,
if you lived in the if you know, if you
lived in North Korea and and you just felt that
there was nothing you could do, and all of a
sudden you decided that you wanted to, you know, take
out you know, some military people or generals or whatever,
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but you'd taken out innocent people who who you don't
even know. They said that this guy had some postings
on the Internet that he was committed to ISIS and
he wanted to kill his family members, but he didn't
think that that was really make the point, so he
decided to kill just every day Americans. What a fire nutjob.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I heard that afternoon and I was horrified. I have
no idea, Dan, it's you know, people don't in this country.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
If people really get to the point where they don't
like this country to the point that this guy was,
let's you just leave, man. Well it wouldn't have been
just nicer if you together. I said, I am now Isis.
I'm going to go and I'm going to join up
with my colleagues in Isis in Syria. Have the guts
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to follow what you believe.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Go explore Antarctica by yourself. Yeah, that's enough as well,
you know, you know what I mean, like go for
go for to go Explora, you know, and see what happens.
I'm gonna take out innocent people that this is our country.
We should be able to celebrate a New Year's Eve
without anything like that going on. It's disgusting. All around
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the world, you don't see this type of stuff as much.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well, you're sorry. At the German market, the Christmas market
in Germany a few weeks ago, and maybe that's what
gave this guy the idea. I just look at these people,
the people who we have in this country. And again,
I think we talked last night, if if this was
World War two and we found and we had the Internet,
and there were people going to websites, uh that were
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Nazi websites which were teaching them how they could destroy
America from within, those people be put in jail. And
I think we got to go to the point now
we have to say, if you're going to be hanging
out on an ISIS website, if you're gonna be hanging
out at a hate website, a ku Klux Klan website
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or some sort of a website like that, we're gonna
go and we're gonna have a visit with you. We're
gonna find out, and we're gonna we got to stop.
We got to be a little proactive in this country.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Respect. I couldn't agree anymore that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That's constitutional rights. But we've gotten to the point where
now we're now I think we have we have gone
too far to an extreme bill. Thanks for getting us
back on track. I appreciate it much, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Always a pleasure. Happy New Year, Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right back at you. Let me go to Glenn Glenn
and Brighton Glenn. Yeah, you cherish America.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm sure you do well. I hate to sound like
a Trump informa shoe, but I cherished this most recent election.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We cherish the election. But how about this. You can
cherish the result. You cherish the result. I cherish the
fact that we have an election.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Isn't that true? Yes, we need we need Bill. It's
not bullets. No, I just cherished the I mean, I
just cherished that we're about to have a president that
has a problem with illegal sleeping in hotels while home
with veterans who served just sleeping in cardboard boxes.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah. You and I agree on that politically, man.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Yeah, but but but I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Looking at the bigger picture, and the bigger picture is
you know, Joe Biden got elected. You and I were
not fans of Joe Biden's presidency. He was my president
for four years, and I think he did a dismal job,
and I'm not sad to see him leave. Okay, It's
as simple as I hope Donald Trump can have a
better presidency than he did the first time around. I
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hope he can keep his emotions under control, and I
hope he can hire people who are both competent and loyal.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
I know the appointments. I agree with you. We need
to hope he has a better appointments this time so
far in his corner. But you know we have to
wait and see waited four years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yep, we'll starting again. He's he really has about two
years in which he's going to be able to do something,
and if he fails miserably in two years, he's going
to pave the way for a Democrat to retake the
White House in twenty eight. So you know again, I
know that you're a big Trump guy. I want to
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give him every chance. He would be my president as
of January twentieth, and the crazy liberals who are going
to say he's not my president, guess what he is,
just like Joe Biden's been my president for the.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Last four years.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
That's right. I always say, go along for the ride
if you don't like the election. I remember I was
not a Reagan guy, but that he was my president.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I was guy I was before Reagan was president. Trust
me on that. Okay, I wish, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
No, I was. I was not a carter person either.
I didn't like the long gassoline my dad.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But I voted for Jimmy Carter and uh. And we're
going to talk about Jimmy Carter at some point in
the next few days. We tried to do it last night,
but events overtook us. Uh, And I'm gonna I had
the opportunity to meet Jimmy Carter before he was president,
while he was president, and after he was president, and
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every time I felt I was dealing with somebody who
was a gentleman. Oh yeah, I think he was victim
of his circumstances.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh no, I think he was a great former president.
I mean the humanitarian stuff he did after that's easy.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, he was. He was. But I also think that
he was a victim of circumstances that he became president
at a time in which this country needed a revival
and he didn't provide it right.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It was fall off from Watergate.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Fallout from Watergate, fall off from Vietnam, and we had
to go through some ten times then to say once
fought and get back to morning.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know, I just think I voted. I voted to
Jane McCarthy. But you know, whatever, I.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Was, well, not in seventy six, maybe in the primary,
but not in the final election.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Well, no, he was an independent. He ran as an independent,
and he was on the bell as a third party candidate.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
In nineteen seventy six. I forgot that, to be honest
with you, so I always learned something when I talk
with you, my friend. Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
All right, that might be a scary thing, but.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thanks, Glenn, appreciate you call. Okay, happy to you, buddy.
Oh yeah, take a quick break here. Coming back on nights,
I had only one line open, six one, seven thirty.
What do you cherish about America? So far people have
had a little tough time articulating what they cherish about America.
I cherish literally everything about America because there's never been
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a country in the world like this country. It tolerates
more lifestyles, it tolerates more points of view than any
country in the world has ever contemplated. It's a great country.
But at the same time, I think that we now
have reached the point with ISIS and supporters of ISIS
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that they are terrorists and we need now but we
might we need to defend America internally because there is
a real danger in what is going on in some
quarters of America and I think that isis is an
example the far right and the far left. They need
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to be more closely monitored because they would take the
country out if they had the opportunity. I got full lines,
which is a good thing. Back on Nightside, right after.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
This Night's Side with Dan Ray, I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Where do you cherish about America? Let's go back and
going to go to will in Long Island. Hey, we're welcome.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Happy new Year, Happy new Year, Dan. I cherish our
individual civil liberties. I cherish our constitution. I cherish our history,
our founding fathers. You know, those who willingly give up
essential freedoms in exchange for a perceived sense of security
ultimately deserve neither freedom nor security. Benjamin Franklin, Okay, I
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believe in our First and Second Amendment. I believe in
I believe in our freedoms that men fought and died for,
and I wish that our politics would return to that.
I'm old enough to remember when Tiper O'Neill and Ronald
Reagan were friends, and one time Ronald Reagan said to
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tiper O'Neil, why do you say these horrible things? About me,
and he goes, it's just politics, and then they would
eat lunch.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So let me ask nobody U want to. I got
to ask you a question. Okay, here's my question. I
am now an advocate for cracking down, cracking down on
the dark web, and particularly the ISIS sits on the
dark Web, which apparently a radicalizing people. I think I
wanted to equate. I'm equating ISIS sites and the racist
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sites that might exist, the ku klux claim type sites,
assuming they exist with kitty porn. And just as we
need to monitor these kitty porn sites and find out
who's going and who's spending time looking at kitty porn
on the dark web, I think we have to figure
out who's hanging out at ISO sites because there are
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fourteen Americans tonight who are dead who should be allowed.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay, Well, that obviously directly relates to Benjamin Franklin's bull
right there. I believe that right, and I believe that
you have every right to monitor these sites, and I
have every I believe that you have every right, and
our investigative branches of the United States government and state
governments and local officials and all the people that are
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involved in law enforcement have every right to investigate and
infiltrate and find out if the legal activities are going on,
but to arrest people, then we'd be going back to
the McCarthy times.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Oh you look, Just to be clear, I know you're not.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Just to be clear. And and if if, let us say, hypothetically,
fly you decided, well, I'm going to spend some time
looking at kitty porn. Okay, Now you know, maybe you
haven't committed a crime, because maybe there's no statue of
the books that says looking at kitty porn is a
crime per se. Now, if you try to engage in
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kitty porn, that's a different story, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Or distribute it or down.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, fair enough. But if all of a sudden the
FBI knocks at your door and said, well what are
you doing hanging on in these kitty porn sites? That
might send a message which would be enough for you
to say who this is? Not somewhere I really want
to be same way with isis?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Here's how I look at this. We see because here's
the real issue. These people are visiting these sites mostly
as adults and then going out and committing these crimes
on their own volition, not because they read something. The
bottom line is, years ago, many years ago, people in
this country have decided that there is a way to
gain power, political power by teaching people that America was
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founded by evil, racist and became the power that it
is on ill gotten gains. And there is a political
group in this country that is growing and has been
growing for decades by denouncing America and hating America, and
this festering in our colleges and our schools, and now
it's getting down way down to even earlier programs. So
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if you're teaching people that our history is awful and
despicable and racist and evil, and America is evil, then
they grow up believing that, and then that's why they're
going to look at these places. So I agree with
you to investigate these sites and these people. I also
agree that the people that are making these types of
speeches and gaining political power by hating America, maybe they
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don't need to be investigated by our government, but they
certainly need to be denounced and checked by us.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
We the people.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
We don't need the government to do everything for us.
We need to do it ourselves. Were familiar, buddy, I
love America. You know that, and I'm hoping that you know,
I'm in my late forties. I'm hoping that I can
see this country turn around for my kids, your grandkids,
and everybody else that comes after us.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We said, we said thanks, well, appreciate it. Happy New Year.
And next up, let's go to Christine in Dedham. Hi, Christine,
how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Dan.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
I cherished his country. The veterans have made our freedom free.
And I feel like, like you said, we need to
stop these doc websites and just we need to start
respecting America again. And how we will always come together
in times of bed like nine to eleven and the
Boston's Marathon bombing is how we always came together and
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help each other. We just need to stay together and Terrish,
our country. We've got to enclothes aboard us and that
is enough.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah. I mean, I think that we have a right
as a country. And again I'm I'm trying to keep
this as non political as I can, but I think
we have a right to monitor our borders and to
make sure that people who are coming into the country
come in through legitimate access points and we know who
they are and we know why they're coming here, and
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they would have to come here for a reason. Now
they cannot come to America under the law currently for
simply economic reasons. Meaning if somebody lives in a country where,
let us say, the political regime is so oppressive that
they're in fear of their life or in fear of
their freedom, or and fear of their liberty, that is
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a way in which we have allowed people to come here.
But if someone comes here and says, hey, I'd like
to make more money and depth, that's not a reason
to come to the country. So we need to be
clearer for everybody to understand how access to America. I'm
not saying we shut the borders. I mean in the
sense that nobody gets in, But I think that we
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have to do it in a way in which legally
we understand who's coming in, why they're coming in, and
what they have to offer. That's all, you know, Keep
it so people understand it, Christine, is what I think.
There's there's a lot of confusion now as amongst amongst people,
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and they don't know what the purpose of a border is.
If we don't there are people who tell you we
shouldn't have a border you know, a country without borders
is no longer a country. I think. I think I've
lost Christine here. Okay, thanks Christine, appreciate your call. Let
me get one more in here before the break. Let's
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go next to Jamie in Worcester. Jamie next on Nightside.
What do you cherish about America? Jamie?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Hey, I Dan, can you hear me here?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Are you fine? Go right ahead?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
All right, I'm on speak a phone and I just
wanted it's easier to talk to you that way.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I cherish the believe it or not. I cherished the
decision making of our country because you know, the people
of this country every every election I've been through, I'm
I'm fifty two years old, but I don't know. Every time,
in the end, the people make the right choice, you know,
they they weigh the decisions a night. At times, I'm
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worried because of the slander both sides of the of
the side of the campaign, you know, go into it
and telling this and that, and then you hear all
this news and it's like, oh man, you know, people
are going to make the wrong choice. But in the
end they can't for the country, and they make the
right choice. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know that we've always made
the right choice. I think that at critical times we
made the right choice. I think Franklin Roosevelt was the
right choice at the time of depression. He certainly was
the right choice of World War Two. I think Dwight
eisen I think Harry Truman was historically a great president.
I think not someone who people expected a lot from.
Eisenhower was a was a great leader. Kennedy was a
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great leader. I think that that that Nixon so loved
and desired the office that at the end of the day,
he was not the right choice.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, I agree with all that.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But I think I think there have been time time
in this country for conservative Republicans and time in this
country for more you know, liberal Democrats. But I think
we've always tried to stay within some you know boundaries.
I mean that Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George Bush, they
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all I think were fine. President Obama I disagreed a
lot of what he did, but I think he handled himself.
There were things I wish he had done better, but
I thought he had himself well. So yeah, maybe maybe
you're right. Maybe I don't know that we had a
great choice.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Yeah, Because I'm just saying that when I watch elections
from my you know, side of the paytation of politics.
When I was in my early twenties to now in
my fifties, when I remember the Reagan days and the
Obama days and the Clinton days, it was just issues,
and now it's all slander. Like you know, you don't
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know who to believe and who not to believe, and
so it gets really like muddy and you get worried
about who is you know, are people going to fall
for this false lie or that false lie on both sides?
And it's just so that that was my worry. And
I'm not saying I'm going to go on one Caidid
or the other. I'm just saying for the betterment of
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the country, it was a tough decision for people to make,
and based on the whole situation, this is one of
the most difficult political elections I had to vote on.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You know, who'd you vote for? Who'd you finally vote for?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
If I could ask, I did do Trump because because
I just I had to. I just you know, I
know my brother, he's a big Democrat.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And all I can say to you is this I
hope that your confidence in him works out for the country.
I mean, I wanted to succeed, just like I wanted
Joe Biden succeed. I don't think Joe Biden was a
very successful president. Uh and I agree.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yeah. You know, I didn't make my decision on politics.
I was just trying to listen to the betterment of
the country and and it was a tough decision. But
I was like, I don't know what you know, I said,
he I know he has his moments, and you know
we all know that. But I'm like, you got what
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do you do? I said, the guy he's a businessman.
He knows what to do.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well. Again, as I said, I want I don't want
to relitigate the campaign. At some point in the next time.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
I.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Want to go, I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Call me back over time and tell me if you're
happy with how it goes once he becomes president. I
hope he's successful, just as I hope Joe Biden would
be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I exactly me say the same way with me because
I worked for Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
So okay, well that's a good that's a good reason
why your brother should have stuck with him, Jamie, I'm
at my break. I gotta let you run. Appreciate you
call very much.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I know I just called it. I've called you before,
but I don't know if you're remember me.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But do me a favorite. Call more often, and of
course I'm gonna remember you. Okay, call it. I appreciate
you call.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Thanks much every night when I got out of work.
So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I think you'll be an interesting You've been interesting weather Vane.
Meaning if six months from now you feel comfortable about Trump,
then he will be probably doing a good job. If
you're not comfortable about it, he probably won't be doing
a good job. So keep it.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Please give you I'll definitely get him my information.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks. Thanks, Jimmy, have a great night. Good night. Coming
back on Night's Side right after the break. Here we
got four calls. We'll get them all in only line
open six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'm going to try to get everybody in, so we
got to tighten it up. Alex and Millis. Alex next
on Nightside, grow right ahead, what do you cherish about America?
Speaker 10 (35:33):
I cherish that it's a resilient country. So no matter
what happens, uh, all these extremes we've encountered, things seem
to get back to normal, so to speak. And it
is still the greatest country in the world because I
came from I came from, you know, Greece, and that's
a lovely country too, But this is the only country
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where it will let you practice what you want. You know,
our health care system it's not the best, it's not
the worst, and it's not the best, but it's still
better in most places, you.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Know in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Well said, Well, we'll say.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
But there's a lot of nice things. You can say
a lot about America, but I think that we're resilient.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, I think you're right, and I think you said
it well, and I appreciate you taking the time, Alex,
I really do, thank you, sir. Great night, Good night,
Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to joe In,
joe Inn in Waltham, joe In next on nightside. What
do you cherish about America?
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Joe In?
Speaker 11 (36:36):
They did Happy New Year to you and everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
Well, yeah, I had my doubts, but the election restored
my faith in American people half of them. Anyways, it's
it's a wonderful country. It is the best country. And
I agreed with everything Will said, and you said, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I appreciate that. I just think that that that what
my concern is. I don't particularly care whether we have
a Democratic or Republican president. You know, again, we tend
to swing back and forth to go through this with
you many times.
Speaker 11 (37:17):
But if you but was a failure, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
He was very He's a huge disappointment. American hambered particularly well.
But he's he will soon be gone. Uh. And you
know he here heard his party tremendously.
Speaker 11 (37:39):
So I'm just praying Trump will do well.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Well, that's the point. I mean, I hope he does.
And if he does well, we'll all benefit. If he
doesn't do well, he'll be criticized and and not only
will he and four years uh as a failure, but
then the Republican party will watch there as he turns
the country back over to the Democrats. That's the way.
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That was simple.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
That so good.
Speaker 11 (38:05):
And I tried to call you last night because I
had the exact same thing you had.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh I don't want to go into that tonight.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
Yeah, I had the same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I hope we both recover. I think I'm finally almost
out of the woods. When when did you get out
of the woods.
Speaker 11 (38:25):
It took me a month to get rid of the cough.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
What did your doctors diagnose it?
Speaker 7 (38:30):
As?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Did?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I did know?
Speaker 11 (38:32):
I don't go to the doctor. I'm like, it's the
flu or a bad chest cold.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
All right, go to the your brain that I am, Joeanne, trust.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
Me, I guess, and the good wife that I am.
I gave it to my husband and he wanted to
go to the doctor, and I talked him out of it.
They were both fine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Good for you, Joanne. I got to run here. I
get the boy coming up talking every good here's called
you look forward to the next things. Happy New Year.
We're going next going to go to Dan and Brookline. Dan,
what do you charge about America?
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I think it's pretty clear to me. Uh, it's the
Constitution and in particular the Bill of Rights. I think
that a lot of what people have said tonight is
gets you know, has its origin in that. And all
you have to do is look at England, a country,
great Britain, a country that I always thought was kind
of sort of like our sister country, and in the
reality is you've paid attention to what's happening there.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
The lack of a.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Bill of rights, the lack of of you know, hard
coded freedom of speech like we have is just it's
out of control there. They're arresting people for saying things.
It's just it's crazy, and we'm.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Arresting people for saying things. But I am now becoming
much more in favor of monitoring more closely.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Some of them with you.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
Yeah, In fact, I've been paying a lot more attention
to Twitter the last year and a half and some
of the stuff that I read on there is so
awful and horrible and uh, and what it does to people. Again,
you know, this terrorism that we're that we're seeing, I
think a lot of it comes from social media, but
we have to be really careful when we talk about
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censoring it. And so I don't know what the answer is,
but I'm with you, we've got some problems.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I think as we don't censor about I think we
have to monitor more carefully and also get to people
and almost do an intervention and say what the hell
are you doing? And if somebody has a reaction and says,
I'll do what I want to do and blah blah blah.
Then you got to watch them. You got to watch them,
simple as that take the temperature. Thanks Dan, appreciate you calling.
All right, New Year, New you two as well. Let
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me go to Robert and Wellesley. Robert, get time for
you and one more go ahead, Robert.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Good even Jan our chair us religious freedom, our Judeo
Christian culture, and our ethical patriotism. I think that something,
something really went went wrong. We have a great country, uh,
and it's a land of opportunity, but people do get hurt.
(41:10):
I think we have to be have an ethical sense
about how we deal with other other people. And uh
uh something went wrong with that? Was that person in
New Orleans that he felt that the only solace he
had left and it was to use the remainder of
his life to strike out blindly in an act of violence.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
So but but there's a lot of people in that category.
He's not the first. Okay, remember we got the Boston bombers.
You got the guy, the Halloween guy in in New
York a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
These you have Major Nadal Hassan, the guy down at
uh in Texas, at Fort Hood, Texas. Uh, this is
a problem, and we got to deal with it in
some form of FasTIS.
Speaker 13 (41:58):
Oh, I agree?
Speaker 12 (41:59):
This certainly isn't a a need for for our government
services to function the way this's postal function in order
in order to protect us.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
You bet you? Thanks, Robert, appreciate you call very much.
Happy New Year. Gonna wrap it up, barn is mixed up,
Born and Ashley.
Speaker 13 (42:16):
Go ahead, Warren, Hey, Dan, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Show week? I got about thirty seconds to forty five seconds.
Speaker 13 (42:23):
So so we met around Katrina a couple of times,
like three. I'm the guy that brought family stuff from
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yes, sure, absolutely, yep, I enjoyed me.
Speaker 13 (42:38):
Needs to make a very nice man.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Uh, thank you. I'm good.
Speaker 13 (42:43):
I'm confused a couple of topics so I have. I
was a lifelong Democrat and I became a more a
Republican like around two thousand.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Okay, and Warren, I'm running out of town, man, what
do you cherish about the country? What do you real? Quickly, Warren,
I'm out of time.
Speaker 13 (43:06):
Almost well, let's talk again.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Fine, thanks for calling call a little early, give you
more time, but time runs out on this program at midnight.
Thanks Warren, Thank you much, sorry about that, folks, and
Warren apologize, but time time runs out on all of us,
and it runs out every night here on Nightside. Rob Brooks,
thank you very much, Maritas. We'll be here tomorrow at
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four thirty. I'll be back tomorrow night at eight o five,
and of course I'll be on Nightside postgame in a
few minutes, actually going to be there at a couple
of minutes, real quickly. I'll end us always, all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pelle
Charlie ray Is, who passed fourteen years ago in February.
That's whe all your pets are who past. They loved
you and you love them. I do believe you'll see
them again. Hope, see again on night Side tomorrow night.
(43:54):
Have a great Friday, everyone, stay warm, stay warm, and
Wins please slow down. Uh see on Facebook. Night's Out
with Dan Wayne. Just a moment
It's a nice Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, I really enjoyed the last hour. I hope you
did as well. His name is Robert Charles. The book
is Cherish America. I want to thank Kristin, Nancy, and
Joe who checked in. I'm sorry that we were kind
of rushed at the end, but Joe raised is a
good point, and that is whether or not any book
that is published should be available for people who are
(00:28):
cannot read, who are blind. And I think that's that
can only help the number of books that are available
to people. And I think I thank Kristin for going
to the library and asking for the book, and I
think Nancy who said she had already ordered a book
from Amazon. So I want to take this hour and
(00:55):
very seriously consider how lucky we all are to live
in America. Now. I know, I know that there will
be some people who accuse me of flag waving. Well
(01:17):
that's their problem, not mine. Okay, this is not a
perfect country. Every election hasn't worked out perfectly. From my
point of view, that's not the point. The point is
that we are fortunate enough to live in a country
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which allows the freedoms that Franklin Roosevelt talked about that
we enjoy in this program every night, one of which
is freedom of speech. Again, I try to give everybody
an opportunity to say whatever they want to say within reason.
I mean, I don't want to have you come on
and use my show to slander other people. If you
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want to argue with me over something, I don't have
a problem with that at all. I just would like
you to kind of keep it within some relative discourse,
decent discourse. But when I think about, how does this
guy and I don't even want to mention his name
(02:24):
to be really honest with you, But just like I
don't want to mention the names of the Boston bombers,
how does this guy wake up and decide, at the
age of forty two, after he has been in the
US military, who's born in this country? Obviously had a
name that misled people to think that he might have
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been born elsewhere, but born in this country. He was.
He was as American as you are or as I am.
But he made it. He took the decision he's going
to ride a truck down Bourbon Street on New Year's
Eve or New Year's Morning and just slaughter people. What
gave him the right to do that. How does your
mind get so messed up that you even contemplate that. Now,
(03:09):
I know that he had had some tough breaks in
his life. I guess divorced two or three times. A
lot of people have been divorced two or three times.
A lot of people have been through worse than a divorce.
People have survived through the deaths of close relatives, you
know people. I think of the parents in Newtown, Connecticut
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who lost twenty toddlers or children first graders on that
horrific day, and yet they didn't take to what this
guy did. So I just say that this is a
moment we need to sit back and realize how darn
lucky we are to have been born in this country.
(03:54):
Whatever our politics, whatever our religion, whatever our gender, whatever
our sexual proclivity. Okay, whether we're Red Sox or Yankee fans.
But I just think that that we need to do
more to protect the country. I talked about it last night.
I'll be happy to talk about it again. But my
(04:17):
first hope is that some of you will rise to
the occasion and uh enjoin me in saying that that
we have to cherish this country, because if this country
were ever to go down the drain? Where is where
do we go? People from around the world have come
here legally. Of course, some have come here illegally as well.
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I want I prefer people to come legally because they
lived in dictatorships, they lived underpressive, oppressive regimes. If we
ever lost this country and the principles of this country,
where do we go? That's why we need to cherish America.
So I'm going to open up the phone lines six seven,
four ten thirty, six one seven, nine thirty. We have
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seen some horrific events in the last few weeks, the
murder of the healthcare executive in New York City. If
we ever devolve into into a country where people are
just shot at because somehow you feel that you got
(05:22):
screwed by a healthcare company, Okay, there were ways in
which you can turn this country around. Okay, that's the
beauties of the country. You have elections, you have venues
like this, you have the opportunities newspapers to do what
you can other countries you can't. And just to think
(05:47):
that that there are people in this country who are
somehow identifying with the murderer in New York, I guess
that there's probably people are identifying with the killer from
Bourbon Street. But if we get to that point, if
we ever get to that point and we lose this country,
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we will never get it back. It's as simple as that. Okay,
I'm going to go to phones. Let me go to
Gary and Wooburn Gary. I have no idea what you're
going to say. I never do. But welcome to nightside
and happy New Year, my friend.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I can hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Obviously what you said was very poetic and so forth.
And me, let's face it, what's going on in the
United States happens in our foreign countries all the time.
What can we do well? Obviously we have to be
very careful when we go outside, you know, and talking
about women with their children and so forth. What I'm
trying to eat and get at is going on at nighttime, Dan,
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I'm sixty one years of age, and let me tell you,
going on at nighttime is very dangerous. It's just it's
just that's where a lot of people it's so doc
out and you can be victimized so easily. And I
always worry about women who even have their children in
a car and being abducted. What's the good called car
what's it called car jackey car jackets?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, yeah, well that's well. Let me just let me
say this, Let me try to turn this around on
you if I can't. Okay, we have the freedom in
this country, uh, to move around anytime we want. There's
a lot of countries in the world that say, oh no,
there's a curfew. You have to be in your home
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from seven o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning. Uh.
There are countries where freedom to travel doesn't exist, freedom
to move around, So I need we need to cherish
that freedom. At the same time, we need to be
vigilant out there. You're right, when you're out at dark
at night, it's you're more susceptible perhaps to some form
(07:51):
of an assault and attack. But at the same time, hopefully, hopefully,
if people see something like that going on, there will
be enough people who rise to the occasion and interrupt
that that sort of crime. Do you know what I'm
trying to get at. I'm trying to look at the
glasses being half full is supposed to be a half empty.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Gary, Well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Trying to stay on subject matter with you because after all,
I can dress. But one thing that really bothers me.
I work a second shift, the third shift type of
job all the time, and I work oddball hours. And
one thing I notice is this. I know everything comes
down the money in electric bills, that whether it's a
market basker or all these stores, especially at nighttime when
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it hits the fall and winter in neighborhoods. Light up
these neighborhoods, and you know these stores the parking lots
like a Christmas tree. I know it costs a lot
of money for the electric grid, and the people are
paying the bills, the owners and of course the city
and states. But do you agree with me light it
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up like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What you're saying is, I think that businesses that want
people to come to do their stores and spend money,
whether it's a grocery store or it's a big box store,
they have an obligation to provide a greater light to
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make people feel more comfortable. That's what you're saying, right right, Okay.
I would suggest that that if a company was smart
and they were going to be open after dark, and
most companies are, it's in their interest to make sure
that that parking lot is lit up like a Christmas
(09:42):
tree because it will draw more customers. So I don't
know why any store, you know, major company again, whether
it's a big box store or a grocery store, wouldn't
be smart enough to light up that parking lot and
make sure that there were no dark spots in that
parking lot where people could come shop and be comfortable.
(10:04):
So I'm agreeing with you, but I also think we're
not gonna be able to pass a lot to make
it that way. We need to vote with our feet.
And if you're not comfortable going to a home depot
or a supermarket after darkness because the parking lot is
not lit up, then find a better short to go
(10:27):
to if you have to shop at that hour of
the night.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Okay, I want to throw this at you, Dan. Can
I name a certain place in North end of the
Massachusetts that's an apartment complex? Can I name it?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah? But please be careful, hopefully you're not going to
disparage it.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Go ahead, Well, it's called the Royal Crust Apartments and
it's been around for like over forty years or more.
All kinds of people live there and they pay range
wise of two thousand to as much as twenty seven
hundred and fifty dollars for rent. A buddy of mine
had a pizza joint about ten years ago, and I
made a quick delivery for them to help him out.
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The place is so dark, it's like doc parking lot
all the time. These people are came heavy, heavy rents,
and these men and women who are single, they're gonna
walk to their promise in the darkness whatever time they
get home. It's such a disgrace. I can't stand people
being victimized, and so far I am dead set against it.
What do you think of what I just said?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I who would support people being victimized? But again, I
think it's up to those folks to go to their landlord,
you know, and express themselves. That's that's again, I understand
the concerns you are. I'm looking probably to get a
little more positive. So you've had an opportunity to express
(11:51):
those concerns. If you live in a situation that you're uncomfortable,
you you have every right to call the local police
department and say I think that that this parking lot
needs to be lit up better because it's gonna uh,
it's it's gonna diminish the potential for crime. I mean
people have to take it upon themselves, Gary to to
(12:15):
pick up the phone or or you know, file a complaint.
I mean, you just can't sit around and say I
want that home people to be to be lit up more.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, maybe they have complain and nobody does nothing about it.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But thanks very much to the call. Is always happy
new Year. Okay, thank you much. Got to take a break.
Please get me back on track. Folk coming back on
night Side.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I hope I've been clear in what I'd like to
hear you talk about, and that is, what is it
about this country that you cherish? And if there's nothing
that you cherish about this country, you don't have to call.
But let's let's get positive here, because if we don't
keep this country together, we will lose this country. We
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have an obligation to pass this country on to our descendants,
to our kids, into our grandkids, into our grand children.
Let me go to Bill and Lexington. Bill next on
night Side, don't disappoint me. Bill, tell me what you
cherish about America.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Go ahead, Bill didn't happen to. Yeah, I cherish. What
I cherish about America is people die trying to get
here every day. Is it the America I grew up in?
It is not. I think the last time we felt
united was nine to eleven, and I think since then
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we've been torn apart. But it is still the greatest
country on earth, and we we have a lot to
look forward to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, I mean I think that. Look, it is not
a perfect country. There's no perfect country in the world. World.
But I'll tell you no. But when we somehow can
produce nutjobs like this guy that mowed down dozens of
people and killed fourteen people on Bourbon Street, how do
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you get to that point in this country? You know,
if you lived in the if you know, if you
lived in North Korea and and you just felt that
there was nothing you could do, and all of a
sudden you decided that you wanted to, you know, take
out you know, some military people or generals or whatever,
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but you'd taken out innocent people who who you don't
even know. They said that this guy had some postings
on the Internet that he was committed to ISIS and
he wanted to kill his family members, but he didn't
think that that was really make the point, so he
decided to kill just every day Americans. What a fire nutjob.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I heard that afternoon and I was horrified. I have
no idea, Dan, it's you know, people don't in this country.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
If people really get to the point where they don't
like this country to the point that this guy was,
let's you just leave, man. Well it wouldn't have been
just nicer if you together. I said, I am now Isis.
I'm going to go and I'm going to join up
with my colleagues in Isis in Syria. Have the guts
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to follow what you believe.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Go explore Antarctica by yourself. Yeah, that's enough as well,
you know, you know what I mean, like go for
go for to go Explora, you know, and see what happens.
I'm gonna take out innocent people that this is our country.
We should be able to celebrate a New Year's Eve
without anything like that going on. It's disgusting. All around
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the world, you don't see this type of stuff as much.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well, you're sorry. At the German market, the Christmas market
in Germany a few weeks ago, and maybe that's what
gave this guy the idea. I just look at these people,
the people who we have in this country. And again,
I think we talked last night, if if this was
World War two and we found and we had the Internet,
and there were people going to websites, uh that were
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Nazi websites which were teaching them how they could destroy
America from within, those people be put in jail. And
I think we got to go to the point now
we have to say, if you're going to be hanging
out on an ISIS website, if you're gonna be hanging
out at a hate website, a ku Klux Klan website
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or some sort of a website like that, we're gonna
go and we're gonna have a visit with you. We're
gonna find out, and we're gonna we got to stop.
We got to be a little proactive in this country.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Respect. I couldn't agree anymore that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
That's constitutional rights. But we've gotten to the point where
now we're now I think we have we have gone
too far to an extreme bill. Thanks for getting us
back on track. I appreciate it much, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Always a pleasure. Happy New Year, Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right back at you. Let me go to Glenn Glenn
and Brighton Glenn. Yeah, you cherish America.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm sure you do well. I hate to sound like
a Trump informa shoe, but I cherished this most recent election.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We cherish the election. But how about this. You can
cherish the result. You cherish the result. I cherish the
fact that we have an election.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Isn't that true? Yes, we need we need Bill. It's
not bullets. No, I just cherished the I mean, I
just cherished that we're about to have a president that
has a problem with illegal sleeping in hotels while home
with veterans who served just sleeping in cardboard boxes.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah. You and I agree on that politically, man.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Yeah, but but but I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Looking at the bigger picture, and the bigger picture is
you know, Joe Biden got elected. You and I were
not fans of Joe Biden's presidency. He was my president
for four years, and I think he did a dismal job,
and I'm not sad to see him leave. Okay, It's
as simple as I hope Donald Trump can have a
better presidency than he did the first time around. I
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hope he can keep his emotions under control, and I
hope he can hire people who are both competent and loyal.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
I know the appointments. I agree with you. We need
to hope he has a better appointments this time so
far in his corner. But you know we have to
wait and see waited four years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yep, we'll starting again. He's he really has about two
years in which he's going to be able to do something,
and if he fails miserably in two years, he's going
to pave the way for a Democrat to retake the
White House in twenty eight. So you know again, I
know that you're a big Trump guy. I want to
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give him every chance. He would be my president as
of January twentieth, and the crazy liberals who are going
to say he's not my president, guess what he is,
just like Joe Biden's been my president for the.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Last four years.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
That's right. I always say, go along for the ride
if you don't like the election. I remember I was
not a Reagan guy, but that he was my president.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I was guy I was before Reagan was president. Trust
me on that. Okay, I wish, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
No, I was. I was not a carter person either.
I didn't like the long gassoline my dad.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
But I voted for Jimmy Carter and uh. And we're
going to talk about Jimmy Carter at some point in
the next few days. We tried to do it last night,
but events overtook us. Uh, And I'm gonna I had
the opportunity to meet Jimmy Carter before he was president,
while he was president, and after he was president, and
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every time I felt I was dealing with somebody who
was a gentleman. Oh yeah, I think he was victim
of his circumstances.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh no, I think he was a great former president.
I mean the humanitarian stuff he did after that's easy.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, he was. He was. But I also think that
he was a victim of circumstances that he became president
at a time in which this country needed a revival
and he didn't provide it right.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
It was fall off from Watergate.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Fallout from Watergate, fall off from Vietnam, and we had
to go through some ten times then to say once
fought and get back to morning.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know, I just think I voted. I voted to
Jane McCarthy. But you know, whatever, I.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Was, well, not in seventy six, maybe in the primary,
but not in the final election.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Well, no, he was an independent. He ran as an independent,
and he was on the bell as a third party candidate.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
In nineteen seventy six. I forgot that, to be honest
with you, so I always learned something when I talk
with you, my friend. Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
All right, that might be a scary thing, but.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thanks, Glenn, appreciate you call. Okay, happy to you, buddy.
Oh yeah, take a quick break here. Coming back on nights,
I had only one line open, six one, seven thirty.
What do you cherish about America? So far people have
had a little tough time articulating what they cherish about America.
I cherish literally everything about America because there's never been
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a country in the world like this country. It tolerates
more lifestyles, it tolerates more points of view than any
country in the world has ever contemplated. It's a great country.
But at the same time, I think that we now
have reached the point with ISIS and supporters of ISIS
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that they are terrorists and we need now but we
might we need to defend America internally because there is
a real danger in what is going on in some
quarters of America and I think that isis is an
example the far right and the far left. They need
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to be more closely monitored because they would take the
country out if they had the opportunity. I got full lines,
which is a good thing. Back on Nightside, right after.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
This Night's Side with Dan Ray, I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Where do you cherish about America? Let's go back and
going to go to will in Long Island. Hey, we're welcome.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Happy new Year, Happy new Year, Dan. I cherish our
individual civil liberties. I cherish our constitution. I cherish our history,
our founding fathers. You know, those who willingly give up
essential freedoms in exchange for a perceived sense of security
ultimately deserve neither freedom nor security. Benjamin Franklin, Okay, I
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believe in our First and Second Amendment. I believe in
I believe in our freedoms that men fought and died for,
and I wish that our politics would return to that.
I'm old enough to remember when Tiper O'Neill and Ronald
Reagan were friends, and one time Ronald Reagan said to
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tiper O'Neil, why do you say these horrible things? About me,
and he goes, it's just politics, and then they would
eat lunch.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So let me ask nobody U want to. I got
to ask you a question. Okay, here's my question. I
am now an advocate for cracking down, cracking down on
the dark web, and particularly the ISIS sits on the
dark Web, which apparently a radicalizing people. I think I
wanted to equate. I'm equating ISIS sites and the racist
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sites that might exist, the ku klux claim type sites,
assuming they exist with kitty porn. And just as we
need to monitor these kitty porn sites and find out
who's going and who's spending time looking at kitty porn
on the dark web, I think we have to figure
out who's hanging out at ISO sites because there are
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fourteen Americans tonight who are dead who should be allowed.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Okay, Well, that obviously directly relates to Benjamin Franklin's bull
right there. I believe that right, and I believe that
you have every right to monitor these sites, and I
have every I believe that you have every right, and
our investigative branches of the United States government and state
governments and local officials and all the people that are
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involved in law enforcement have every right to investigate and
infiltrate and find out if the legal activities are going on,
but to arrest people, then we'd be going back to
the McCarthy times.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Oh you look, Just to be clear, I know you're not.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Just to be clear. And and if if, let us say, hypothetically,
fly you decided, well, I'm going to spend some time
looking at kitty porn. Okay, Now you know, maybe you
haven't committed a crime, because maybe there's no statue of
the books that says looking at kitty porn is a
crime per se. Now, if you try to engage in
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kitty porn, that's a different story, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Or distribute it or down.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, fair enough. But if all of a sudden the
FBI knocks at your door and said, well what are
you doing hanging on in these kitty porn sites? That
might send a message which would be enough for you
to say who this is? Not somewhere I really want
to be same way with isis?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Here's how I look at this. We see because here's
the real issue. These people are visiting these sites mostly
as adults and then going out and committing these crimes
on their own volition, not because they read something. The
bottom line is, years ago, many years ago, people in
this country have decided that there is a way to
gain power, political power by teaching people that America was
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founded by evil, racist and became the power that it
is on ill gotten gains. And there is a political
group in this country that is growing and has been
growing for decades by denouncing America and hating America, and
this festering in our colleges and our schools, and now
it's getting down way down to even earlier programs. So
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if you're teaching people that our history is awful and
despicable and racist and evil, and America is evil, then
they grow up believing that, and then that's why they're
going to look at these places. So I agree with
you to investigate these sites and these people. I also
agree that the people that are making these types of
speeches and gaining political power by hating America, maybe they
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don't need to be investigated by our government, but they
certainly need to be denounced and checked by us.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
We the people.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
We don't need the government to do everything for us.
We need to do it ourselves. Were familiar, buddy, I
love America. You know that, and I'm hoping that you know,
I'm in my late forties. I'm hoping that I can
see this country turn around for my kids, your grandkids,
and everybody else that comes after us.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We said, we said thanks, well, appreciate it. Happy New Year.
And next up, let's go to Christine in Dedham. Hi, Christine,
how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 9 (27:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Dan.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
I cherished his country. The veterans have made our freedom free.
And I feel like, like you said, we need to
stop these doc websites and just we need to start
respecting America again. And how we will always come together
in times of bed like nine to eleven and the
Boston's Marathon bombing is how we always came together and
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help each other. We just need to stay together and Terrish,
our country. We've got to enclothes aboard us and that
is enough.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah. I mean, I think that we have a right
as a country. And again I'm I'm trying to keep
this as non political as I can, but I think
we have a right to monitor our borders and to
make sure that people who are coming into the country
come in through legitimate access points and we know who
they are and we know why they're coming here, and
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they would have to come here for a reason. Now
they cannot come to America under the law currently for
simply economic reasons. Meaning if somebody lives in a country where,
let us say, the political regime is so oppressive that
they're in fear of their life or in fear of
their freedom, or and fear of their liberty, that is
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a way in which we have allowed people to come here.
But if someone comes here and says, hey, I'd like
to make more money and depth, that's not a reason
to come to the country. So we need to be
clearer for everybody to understand how access to America. I'm
not saying we shut the borders. I mean in the
sense that nobody gets in, But I think that we
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have to do it in a way in which legally
we understand who's coming in, why they're coming in, and
what they have to offer. That's all, you know, Keep
it so people understand it, Christine, is what I think.
There's there's a lot of confusion now as amongst amongst people,
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and they don't know what the purpose of a border is.
If we don't there are people who tell you we
shouldn't have a border you know, a country without borders
is no longer a country. I think. I think I've
lost Christine here. Okay, thanks Christine, appreciate your call. Let
me get one more in here before the break. Let's
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go next to Jamie in Worcester. Jamie next on Nightside.
What do you cherish about America? Jamie?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Hey, I Dan, can you hear me here?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Are you fine? Go right ahead?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
All right, I'm on speak a phone and I just
wanted it's easier to talk to you that way.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I cherish the believe it or not. I cherished the
decision making of our country because you know, the people
of this country every every election I've been through, I'm
I'm fifty two years old, but I don't know. Every time,
in the end, the people make the right choice, you know,
they they weigh the decisions a night. At times, I'm
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worried because of the slander both sides of the of
the side of the campaign, you know, go into it
and telling this and that, and then you hear all
this news and it's like, oh man, you know, people
are going to make the wrong choice. But in the
end they can't for the country, and they make the
right choice. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know that we've always made
the right choice. I think that at critical times we
made the right choice. I think Franklin Roosevelt was the
right choice at the time of depression. He certainly was
the right choice of World War Two. I think Dwight
eisen I think Harry Truman was historically a great president.
I think not someone who people expected a lot from.
Eisenhower was a was a great leader. Kennedy was a
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great leader. I think that that that Nixon so loved
and desired the office that at the end of the day,
he was not the right choice.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, I agree with all that.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But I think I think there have been time time
in this country for conservative Republicans and time in this
country for more you know, liberal Democrats. But I think
we've always tried to stay within some you know boundaries.
I mean that Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George Bush, they
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all I think were fine. President Obama I disagreed a
lot of what he did, but I think he handled himself.
There were things I wish he had done better, but
I thought he had himself well. So yeah, maybe maybe
you're right. Maybe I don't know that we had a
great choice.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Yeah, Because I'm just saying that when I watch elections
from my you know, side of the paytation of politics.
When I was in my early twenties to now in
my fifties, when I remember the Reagan days and the
Obama days and the Clinton days, it was just issues,
and now it's all slander. Like you know, you don't
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know who to believe and who not to believe, and
so it gets really like muddy and you get worried
about who is you know, are people going to fall
for this false lie or that false lie on both sides?
And it's just so that that was my worry. And
I'm not saying I'm going to go on one Caidid
or the other. I'm just saying for the betterment of
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the country, it was a tough decision for people to make,
and based on the whole situation, this is one of
the most difficult political elections I had to vote on.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
You know, who'd you vote for? Who'd you finally vote for?
Speaker 5 (32:56):
If I could ask, I did do Trump because because
I just I had to. I just you know, I
know my brother, he's a big Democrat.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
And all I can say to you is this I
hope that your confidence in him works out for the country.
I mean, I wanted to succeed, just like I wanted
Joe Biden succeed. I don't think Joe Biden was a
very successful president. Uh and I agree.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yeah. You know, I didn't make my decision on politics.
I was just trying to listen to the betterment of
the country and and it was a tough decision. But
I was like, I don't know what you know, I said,
he I know he has his moments, and you know
we all know that. But I'm like, you got what
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do you do? I said, the guy he's a businessman.
He knows what to do.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well. Again, as I said, I want I don't want
to relitigate the campaign. At some point in the next time.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
I.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Want to go, I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Call me back over time and tell me if you're
happy with how it goes once he becomes president. I
hope he's successful, just as I hope Joe Biden would
be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I exactly me say the same way with me because
I worked for Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
So okay, well that's a good that's a good reason
why your brother should have stuck with him, Jamie, I'm
at my break. I gotta let you run. Appreciate you
call very much.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I know I just called it. I've called you before,
but I don't know if you're remember me.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But do me a favorite. Call more often, and of
course I'm gonna remember you. Okay, call it. I appreciate
you call.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Thanks much every night when I got out of work.
So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I think you'll be an interesting You've been interesting weather Vane.
Meaning if six months from now you feel comfortable about Trump,
then he will be probably doing a good job. If
you're not comfortable about it, he probably won't be doing
a good job. So keep it.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Please give you I'll definitely get him my information.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks. Thanks, Jimmy, have a great night. Good night. Coming
back on Night's Side right after the break. Here we
got four calls. We'll get them all in only line
open six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'm going to try to get everybody in, so we
got to tighten it up. Alex and Millis. Alex next
on Nightside, grow right ahead, what do you cherish about America?
Speaker 10 (35:33):
I cherish that it's a resilient country. So no matter
what happens, uh, all these extremes we've encountered, things seem
to get back to normal, so to speak. And it
is still the greatest country in the world because I
came from I came from, you know, Greece, and that's
a lovely country too, But this is the only country
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where it will let you practice what you want. You know,
our health care system it's not the best, it's not
the worst, and it's not the best, but it's still
better in most places, you.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Know in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Well said, Well, we'll say.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
But there's a lot of nice things. You can say
a lot about America, but I think that we're resilient.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, I think you're right, and I think you said
it well, and I appreciate you taking the time, Alex,
I really do, thank you, sir. Great night, Good night,
Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to joe In,
joe Inn in Waltham, joe In next on nightside. What
do you cherish about America?
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Joe In?
Speaker 11 (36:36):
They did Happy New Year to you and everyone.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
Well, yeah, I had my doubts, but the election restored
my faith in American people half of them. Anyways, it's
it's a wonderful country. It is the best country. And
I agreed with everything Will said, and you said, yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
I appreciate that. I just think that that that what
my concern is. I don't particularly care whether we have
a Democratic or Republican president. You know, again, we tend
to swing back and forth to go through this with
you many times.
Speaker 11 (37:17):
But if you but was a failure, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
He was very He's a huge disappointment. American hambered particularly well.
But he's he will soon be gone. Uh. And you
know he here heard his party tremendously.
Speaker 11 (37:39):
So I'm just praying Trump will do well.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Well, that's the point. I mean, I hope he does.
And if he does well, we'll all benefit. If he
doesn't do well, he'll be criticized and and not only
will he and four years uh as a failure, but
then the Republican party will watch there as he turns
the country back over to the Democrats. That's the way.
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That was simple.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
That so good.
Speaker 11 (38:05):
And I tried to call you last night because I
had the exact same thing you had.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh I don't want to go into that tonight.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
Yeah, I had the same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I hope we both recover. I think I'm finally almost
out of the woods. When when did you get out
of the woods.
Speaker 11 (38:25):
It took me a month to get rid of the cough.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
What did your doctors diagnose it?
Speaker 7 (38:30):
As?
Speaker 6 (38:30):
Did?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I did know?
Speaker 11 (38:32):
I don't go to the doctor. I'm like, it's the
flu or a bad chest cold.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
All right, go to the your brain that I am, Joeanne, trust.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
Me, I guess, and the good wife that I am.
I gave it to my husband and he wanted to
go to the doctor, and I talked him out of it.
They were both fine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Good for you, Joanne. I got to run here. I
get the boy coming up talking every good here's called
you look forward to the next things. Happy New Year.
We're going next going to go to Dan and Brookline. Dan,
what do you charge about America?
Speaker 8 (39:09):
I think it's pretty clear to me. Uh, it's the
Constitution and in particular the Bill of Rights. I think
that a lot of what people have said tonight is
gets you know, has its origin in that. And all
you have to do is look at England, a country,
great Britain, a country that I always thought was kind
of sort of like our sister country, and in the
reality is you've paid attention to what's happening there.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
The lack of a.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Bill of rights, the lack of of you know, hard
coded freedom of speech like we have is just it's
out of control there. They're arresting people for saying things.
It's just it's crazy, and we'm.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Arresting people for saying things. But I am now becoming
much more in favor of monitoring more closely.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Some of them with you.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
Yeah, In fact, I've been paying a lot more attention
to Twitter the last year and a half and some
of the stuff that I read on there is so
awful and horrible and uh, and what it does to people. Again,
you know, this terrorism that we're that we're seeing, I
think a lot of it comes from social media, but
we have to be really careful when we talk about
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censoring it. And so I don't know what the answer is,
but I'm with you, we've got some problems.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I think as we don't censor about I think we
have to monitor more carefully and also get to people
and almost do an intervention and say what the hell
are you doing? And if somebody has a reaction and says,
I'll do what I want to do and blah blah blah.
Then you got to watch them. You got to watch them,
simple as that take the temperature. Thanks Dan, appreciate you calling.
All right, New Year, New you two as well. Let
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me go to Robert and Wellesley. Robert, get time for
you and one more go ahead, Robert.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Good even Jan our chair us religious freedom, our Judeo
Christian culture, and our ethical patriotism. I think that something,
something really went went wrong. We have a great country, uh,
and it's a land of opportunity, but people do get hurt.
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I think we have to be have an ethical sense
about how we deal with other other people. And uh
uh something went wrong with that? Was that person in
New Orleans that he felt that the only solace he
had left and it was to use the remainder of
his life to strike out blindly in an act of violence.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
So but but there's a lot of people in that category.
He's not the first. Okay, remember we got the Boston bombers.
You got the guy, the Halloween guy in in New
York a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
These you have Major Nadal Hassan, the guy down at
uh in Texas, at Fort Hood, Texas. Uh, this is
a problem, and we got to deal with it in
some form of FasTIS.
Speaker 13 (41:58):
Oh, I agree?
Speaker 12 (41:59):
This certainly isn't a a need for for our government
services to function the way this's postal function in order
in order to protect us.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
You bet you? Thanks, Robert, appreciate you call very much.
Happy New Year. Gonna wrap it up, barn is mixed up,
Born and Ashley.
Speaker 13 (42:16):
Go ahead, Warren, Hey, Dan, how are you good?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Show week? I got about thirty seconds to forty five seconds.
Speaker 13 (42:23):
So so we met around Katrina a couple of times,
like three. I'm the guy that brought family stuff from
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yes, sure, absolutely, yep, I enjoyed me.
Speaker 13 (42:38):
Needs to make a very nice man.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Uh, thank you. I'm good.
Speaker 13 (42:43):
I'm confused a couple of topics so I have. I
was a lifelong Democrat and I became a more a
Republican like around two thousand.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Okay, and Warren, I'm running out of town, man, what
do you cherish about the country? What do you real? Quickly, Warren,
I'm out of time.
Speaker 13 (43:06):
Almost well, let's talk again.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Fine, thanks for calling call a little early, give you
more time, but time runs out on this program at midnight.
Thanks Warren, Thank you much, sorry about that, folks, and
Warren apologize, but time time runs out on all of us,
and it runs out every night here on Nightside. Rob Brooks,
thank you very much, Maritas. We'll be here tomorrow at
(43:32):
four thirty. I'll be back tomorrow night at eight o five,
and of course I'll be on Nightside postgame in a
few minutes, actually going to be there at a couple
of minutes, real quickly. I'll end us always, all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pelle
Charlie ray Is, who passed fourteen years ago in February.
That's whe all your pets are who past. They loved
you and you love them. I do believe you'll see
them again. Hope, see again on night Side tomorrow night.
(43:54):
Have a great Friday, everyone, stay warm, stay warm, and
Wins please slow down. Uh see on Facebook. Night's Out
with Dan Wayne. Just a moment
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