April 30, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, that was a tough loss for the for the
Red Stars Star. I mean, it's one thing when you
get blown out. It's another thing when you battle to
the wire. But to have a six to nothing lead
and have it disappear, that's not That's one of those
losses that you might look back on in September and say, man,
that's one we should have won. Anyway, my name's Dan Ray,
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the host of nights Side. Here we are on a
Wednesday night. We have less than an hour left in
the month of April. April is an interesting month. It's
sort of one of those months that it's kind of
a bridge month. It's a bridge from the the waning
winter weeks of March to the I think the best
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weeks and maybe the best month of the year, which
is May. So we will we will talk about that,
I'm sure at some point later on this week, maybe
tomorrow night, by the way, Tomorrow night, just to bring
up to date, we will have the WBC car guys,
Scott and Larry, or Larry and Scott, father and son.
They're the best. They'll answer all your questions about your
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automotive questions about what you're going to need to do
to get your car and tip top driving shape for
the summer driving season, and all of that, whether or
not to get what flow would you have to get
rid of, what flu would you have to replace, all
those questions, what your tie, your tie of pressure should
be right on down the line. And if you're looking
at a new car, or for that matter, or a
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used car, you run by that, you run that information
by Larry and Scott and they will help you out
in terms of what you might expect to pay or
whether or not what you are intend to pay is
more or less than you should pay. So we'll get
to all of that, and then tomorrow I will also
talk with former state Representative Dave Nagel, who got into
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a problem gambling problem that he had dealt with since
he was a teenager, and he will tell his whole story.
He ended up being indicted in federal court for some
fraud charges because he used no public funds but his
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campaign funds, which are private funds, money that he raised
for things that he shouldn't have and he was indicted
and pled guilty and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
During the time of COVID. He served seven months, which
I wouldn't want to serve seven days, seven hours, but
he served seven months, and he'll talk about what he
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learned and how he has changed, and how he hopes
to reclaim his life and contribute again to society. So
I'm looking forward to talking with him tomorrow night. I
hope all of you are as well, along with the
WBC car guys. Now, a couple of things we could
continue to talk about these judges who've been arrested in Wisconsin,
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in Mexico. Every one of the callers during the eleven
o'clock news were excellent callers because they listened. I took
the time to read the specifics of the charges what
these judges are specifically charged with doing. Now you might say, well,
you know, I don't think it was that serious, or
I think it was really serious. That's fine. So if
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you want to talk about that, I'll give you a
couple of minutes to light the lines up. And if not,
I got a couple of other ideas six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty as one number and six nine, three,
one ten thirty. All I can do is come up
with topics that I hope my audience is interested in.
That's what it comes down to, and it's almost like
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a Petri dish. Every night here on Night Side. Very
rarely we had a good hour last hour I was.
I thought that we might get two hours out of that.
If we don't, we're going to move on. I have
a couple of options that I can always use, and
I used the option pretty rarely, one of which is
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an open line option. Very rarely do I go open lines,
but sometimes, and I might be convinced tonight might be
a good night to do open lines and give you
an opportunity to ask anything you want, comment on anything
you'd like to talk about. You basically get control of
the agenda. Will I don't relinquish the control often. The
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other issue that I'm thinking of, and this is one
that I really would love to hear, what you think.
You know, We've gone through so many arguments about public schools,
private schools, and we're talking primarily about high schools, but
we're also talking about elementary schools and junior high schools
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and parochial schools, private schools, charter schools. There's a variety
of homeschooling, variety of ways in which young peop people
can earn their high school diploma and then if they
are so inclined, to go on to college. But here's
one that I actually was thinking of having this guy's
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guy on. I'm not sure if I will. His name
is Mitch Francis, and his public relations person solicited us.
And this is what the public relations person wrote, Hello Dan,
with kids headed back to school soon. They've been in
school for a few months, but that's okay. Maybe they're
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talking about after vacations or something like that. Do you
need a thought provoking guest with bold ideas about how
to fix America's broken public schools? We have Mitch Francis,
author of I'm going to say, I'm going to substitute
the word but here. Okay, bad butt Solutions. You know
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what I'm talking you know, you know, a synonym for
the word but like your rear end, bad butt solutions
of today's big butt problems, to discuss why we should
ban private schools to save public schools. It's really interesting.
A lot of folks in this country like to believe,
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like to believe in incrementalism. The left in America is
really good. Well, we just get a little tax rate
here we'll raise your real estate taxes just a little bit,
and we'll wait in two years from now, I'll come
back for another increase in taxes. Here in Massachusetts, way
we tax the millionaires, We're not going to tax you.
We're just going to tax the millionaires extra money. All
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of that. It's it's it's incrementalism. Okay, we're going to
have a few bike lanes in certain parts of the city,
and then eventually there are bike lanes everywhere. However, public
schools are are failing students across this country, and there's
lots of arguments about what needs to be done. Should
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there be more money spent on public schools, should public
schools be different? The charter schools have been very successful,
But it seems to me when someone basically says, in
order to save public schools, you have to ban private schools,
to me, that just shows one how dumb people are.
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I would call that a dumb butt solution to uh
to today's big butt problems. It's a dumb butt solution
to say, well, we're going to get rid of the
Belmont Hills and the BC Highs and the Catholic Memorials,
Roxbury Latin Schools, and Phillips and over all these You know,
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I could go on and on and on with the
private high schools across New England. What what it's it's
like if you're on the left, uh, and you believe
even something what you want to do is force people
to comply take choice away. They're in favor of choice
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in some in some respects, certainly on their pro choice
in terms of a woman's right to choose, but they're
they're that that whole concept of choice doesn't quite work
in us some other areas. And this is a this
is a blatant example, and I thank this author actually
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for being that blatant to know that there are people
out there who want to ban private schools to make
everyone go to inferior in many cases, inferior public schools anyway,
which you have to pay for. Nonetheless, anyway, go to
take a break. I will decide which way we're going
to go. But in the meantime, feel free. Got a
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couple of ideas there. Six one seven, two thirty, six
one seven, nine thirty. We'll come right back on nights Side.
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Okay, all right. Uh, no one wants to talk about
public schools. That's fine, So I will wave the white
flag here and we're going to do forty minutes from
now the rest of April open lines, whatever subject you
want to talk about. We very rarely do this, but
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I'm giving you every opportunity. You can talk to me
about anything you want. You can bring up any issue
that you feel is important. You can tell me that
I am missing a huge issue that we should be
talking about. The lines are wide open six one, seven, two, five,
four thirty six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
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What I we do here at night is I try
to present the thoughts and ideas or the topics to
my audience. I know my audience pretty well. I've been
doing this for a long time, but very rarely I
give you an opportunity to kind of take control of
the controls. It's almost like on the pilot, and I'm
going to walk back into the first class and coach
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division of the play and say, would anyone like to
fly this thing? It's an automatic pilot up there. You
can tell us what you would like to talk about.
And I'm particularly interested hearing from some of you who
have never called this radio station before, have never called
this show before. Let me know what is on your mind.
Let me know what topic is of interest to you.
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What is the pressing in the pressing issue or the
most pressing issue in your life. We have here on
Night's Side for eighteen years, covered a wide swath of issues,
tried to bring you different topics. I do not like
to do a program in which we talk about the
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same issue night after night after night. That's not what
Nightside is all about. It is an opportunity for you
now to jump on board and let me know what
interests you that you've never heard, that you've never talked
about here on Nightside. Or if you want to express
an opinion. You want to express an opinion about Donald
Trump or Joe Biden or whatever, that's fine too. Let's
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go right to the phone. Is going to give everybody
an opportunity. Let me go to Scott and Quincy. Hey, Scott,
you're a regular caller. Thank you very much for calling in.
This is open Lines, buddy. You you set the agenda.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wow, that was quick. But anyways, Open Lines.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So one of the things I'd like to ask you
about is, you know I listened to b Z all day,
every day, okay, And one of the things that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Upsets me the most is.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
There is a bill that Mara Healy pushed through under
the guise of a quote unquote gun control bill, the
Act to Modernize Firearms or some ridiculous name.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And what it did was.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So I'm a license owner, you know, with a testol permit,
if you have an fi D card, which.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Is just for long guns.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I normally hunters have these for their dear rifles and things.
And what this bill did was it made it illegal for.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
People who had the FID card.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To own.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Semi automatic hunting rifles and shotguns, which are basically a
large majority of hunting class weapons.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Like the Browning eleven hundred.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And when BZ reports on the pro Second Amendment people
trying to get together and we peel the bill, all
they say is all the Second Amendment people want to
peel this bill that bans ghost guns.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And creates red fly claws.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But that's not the case at all. That one of
the main aspects of opposing this bill is it basically
makes some of the most common commonly available firearms that
people depend on owning illegal for the vast majority of
licensed gun owners in the Commonwealth to have it literally
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created a huge class of felons in the state for
the stroke of pens, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They understand that. And if I can comment on that,
I'd like to just say, as clearly as I can say,
blame that. Don't blame the governor. I mean, you can
blame the governor if you want that, you have to
blame blame the gun owners in the state. And what
I mean that's thought, is that elections do have consequences.
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And what happens in a case of saying, maur Heey,
I think that if we sat down with mar Healey,
you and me for lunch someday, then said to her,
listen to God, he can explain this to you, and
if she was inclined, she probably would agree with you. Okay,
But that's not the way it works. So what happens
is whoever is the governor listens to the people who
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support that candidate. And when you get a you know,
a leftist, a progressive governor like mar Heey in office,
people will come into her and say, how do you
feel about gun control? Well, I want to cut down
the number of people who are killed, you know, kids, whatever, whatever,
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And so someone draws up legislation. I don't think the
governor understands the legislature. She knows the legislation is going
to make it more difficult for certain people to have guns,
and she sees that as a good thing. But if
the gun owners in Massachusetts sit back and allow this
to become a one party state, what do you think?
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What do they think is going to happen?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Scott, you know, I'm not I'm not I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Castigating you at all. You you call this program all the time,
but I've done shows on the Second Amendment, and you
don't hear from the gun orner gunners. There's there's few.
There's a guy named Jim Wallace who's really good, and
I've had him on the show, but a lot of
the guys show yeah and he's and he's good. But
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a lot of the guys who have guns and our hunters,
they're rugged individualists. They don't want to listen to talk radio,
they don't want to work for a candidate. They want
to get out and do their thing. And they assume
that that because they live in Massachusetts, Massachusetts will stay
the way it always is. No, it's going to go
more and more progressive, and there will be more and
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more limitations on people's access and ownership of and it
doesn't change until you change the political leadership in estate.
That's not what you want to hear. That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
No, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
But the point of discussion that I was going to
try and get to is, you know, the newsreaders and
the copywriters when they do these news spots about the
Second Amendment people trying to overturn the bill, they just say, oh,
ghost guns and red flag laws. They don't say and oh,
by the way, the Second Amendment. People are opposing this
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because of what it does for restrictions on I mean,
automatic hunting rifles. Why are the newswriters like they're so
by it?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
As that question for you. The answer to the question
is painfully obvious. The newswriters are writing stories that go
twenty seconds thirty seconds max. That's just the way what
newswriters write. They're not writing in depth reports you've heard
you didn't listen to the Hour Last Hour, I assume,
but I advance, Okay, I read very specifically what the judges,
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the judges in Wisconsin and New Mexico are alleged to
have done. I had listened all week long to the
news stations and to TV stations. Look at the evening news,
it's a minute and a half. Let's go here. They're
all talking in hand. Okay, they don't have the time.
The people, the consultants for TV have said, look, gotta
get them quick, gotta give them plenty of stories. It's look,
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it just it's it's axiomatic, Scott. What would you need
is a talk show like this that will actually layout
chapter and verse on this topic or on the topics
of the judges, so people understand that last hour, everyone
agreed with me because I took the time to read
it and explain it. That's what a talk show does.
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But all these these these these gun owners, these Second
Amendment guys, when was the last time they took the
time to call a talk show and say, hey, you
know what, I think that it's a good idea that
that we become a two party state, that we elect
some and we have some balance of the legislation. You
have no balance. And as long as you have no balance,
certain certain groups of people are going to always be
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their rights are going to be diminished. And you have
identified the problem. I have identified a solution.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, and I thought those judges, I think those judges
should go to jail.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That was a great segment.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I appreciate it. I'm always willing to talk talk to
you buddies, you your gun, your your your gun owners.
I believe in the Second Amendment. I think I want
people to have the right to bear arms. I believe
that's what the Constitution says. But there are people who
say no. They It's like the person who wants to
be in private schools. The way to save public schools
is to get rid of the competition. Make everybody go
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to private go to public schools. Brilliant, what a stupid idea.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And all I'm saying is as we talk about here
at nightside, and if people don't want to talk about it,
that's fine. That's that's their choice. If gun owners are
out there and they want to have me do something
on gun ownership, I have. But I think most gun
owners are rugged individual individualists who want to go to
the woods and hunt. They don't want to talk to me,
they don't want to talk to the audience. And when
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they lose their rights, they can look in the mirror.
They don't have to blame Governor Heally. Governor Heally is
doing what instinctively she believes is correct, with the assistance
of lawyers and advisors who will write legislation which will
which will diminish your your freedoms.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yes, well, I'll do the best I can to be
that voice you know.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Well, I hope you will. You were voiced tonight. I
hope some people woke up and listen tonight. We'll see
what happens. They can call me during the day and
they can suggest topics at night. Always interested. Thank you, Scott.
All right, well, talk to you later six seven thirty.
You can't be defeatists, but you have to recognize reality.
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The first the first step of the road to success
is recognize reality. And what I just told Scott is reality.
People aren't going to want to hear it, but that's okay,
that's reality. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Feel free to join. I'd love to hear from some
first time callers as well. What would you like to
hear on Nightside? Coming right back.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, let's get back to the phones. We have
full lines. Let's see what people have to say. That's
what this is all about. Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, next
time nights take go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Hey are you doing Dan?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Good? Jamie? What's your your question or comment?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, this open, open talk, Yes, sir, Mike was perfect
time for me because I wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I go back and forth between you and sports. I
listened to sports information, sure, and I listening to the
dominating thing on the news this whole week in that
category has been Bill Belichick and his book and that
girl that's interfering, that's interfering with everything. I don't know
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if you've been following that.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I have, Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And what was your reaction.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
To her being there at the interview and then that
post that came out recently on Instagram, I mean on
x that had worries that on Belichick Lake.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, he's public he's publicizing his book, so he's going
to do national network interviews and he's going to try
to do it on his terms. She is there, uh,
and in a role I guess. He says that not
only is she a close personal friend, but she's also
sort of his protector or guru or guidance or whatever.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And that's that's always the struggle when people are trying
to sell a book. Most of the people do I
interview here on Night Side. They have a cause separate
and apart from themselves and selling the book. Uh. You know,
tonight we talked with an author who had talked about
anxiety and how to overcome anxiety. Yeah, they want to
sell the book, but they don't have the big name
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that Bill Belichick does. So Belichick has the name. It's
like when people interview an ex president, you know, Barack Obama.
The leverage that the author has is greater than the interviewer,
and they sacrifice some of their independence. And clearly they sacrificed.
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Was it I think it was CBS sacrifice some of
their independence with Belichick. And Belichick is a guy. Look,
we've watched them at press conferences.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Used to ask, you know, coach, what happened the Patriots
lost today? How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The team?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The other team scored more points? Next question?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know, I mean what puzzled?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Like she'd kept jumping into the conversation like she wanted
to be a part of it. And it's Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You and well, unless Bill Belichick was going to say
to his to his you know, his closest friend there
a new friend, Hey, look I can handle this. Please
just sit there and be quiet, He's not gonna do that.
So you got to understand as a reporter of the
dynamic in which you're in, and this is a woman
who has tremendous influence over Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick
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probably likes it that way because as opposed to getting
sitting there being grilled about his personal life, she piped
She just pipes up and says, we're not answering that.
I mean, right, brilliant. He got all the publicity for
the book. Plus it was brilliant when you look about it.
Everybody's gonna read want to read the book now, even though.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Yeah, because what a lot of the pundits were doing,
we're like lost that words. The sports pundits are lost
that words because they're like, how is she controlling his relationships?
He's only twenty three and he's like nine years difference
and stuff like that, and what happens to Bill Belichick?
We knew and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, let me ask you, when you're seventy three and
you've been through a couple of marriages and you have
a twenty three year old girlfriend. You think you're gonna
listen to Yeah, I think so. Yeah, in my opinion,
it's all leverage, baby. In my opinion, Jamie, do me
your favor. Listen, listen more than Nights Side, and we'll
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we'll incorporate more sports. A lot of the sports talk
is really uh, well, the Celtics go to win. You,
I think the Celts are to win. The Celtics w
and win because you know where they gonna win. They
go to school more points than the Magic and plus
you think the Celtics grew better team. What do you think? Well,
I agree with you. I think the Celtics are a
better team and they should win. Yeah, you're wasting your
time listening to sports talk.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Come on you, spiking mad. I listened to those stations.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I get mad because, like I said, I'm a big
Celtic fan, and they never give Teenn any credit.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
It's always all he's soft.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Listen listen to my show, and you know I feel
whenever I flip on sports radio, I feel sometimes brain
cells dying.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
The only reason I listened to it is for the information.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah. Really, Well, you called me, I'll give you all
the information you need. Trust me on that one. Okay,
uh yeah good. Someone once said that sports talk is
like toys in the attic, you know if you want to.
And I know my sports talk pals are going to
disagree with me, but come on, you know they're not
talking about the national debt, they're not talking about tariffs.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
They want to make a name for themselves. That's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, and be outrageous. I'm interested in I'm really interested
in talking about issues that affect your life and affect
your kid's life. And I want to make you think.
I don't think there's too many sports guys out there
who really I listened.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
To, Like now that you said that, I listen to
different sports people that interview and they're trying to show
up the guests like not like you would never do that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, I mean we have good conversations. It's just a
whole different thing. Okay, it's you know, it's like, if
you know, I'm not NPR here, I don't run this
show like NPR. I'm not challenging everybody with big words.
I want to have a conversation that people can enjoy.
I pattern it off of North America's back porch. Let
me tell you, you want to talk sports, sometimes I can
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talk I can talk sports. Anybody who knows me personally
knows I can talk sports. Okay, I played I played sports.
I represented professional athletes in my in my law practice.
I was never a super duper big agent with one
hundred clients because you can't serve the interest of one
hundred people simultaneously. Jamie, I gotta run love your calls me.
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I keep listening to Nightside. Thank you say out in
my sports bells when you talk to them. Let's keep
rolling here, Gonna go to Eddie and Rosendale. Eddie, welcome,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
How are we doing?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think we're doing okay, But you'd be a better
judge of that than me.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Well, just two things real quick, so under judges, I
agree with you one hundred and ten percent, but I
just want to add something and it's my own opinion,
you know it's that's one perfect example as to why
the Democratic Party lass yep.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, you're not going
to get a break if all of a sudden you get,
you get, you get a problem, and you're in court,
no judges coming off the bench and saying, hey, Eddie,
let me slip you off the back door. You know
the best. Maybe it's happened to you, but I don't
think so.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
And all right, and then the other subject I want
to bring up. You know, the marathon was over a
week ago, and one of the things that people forget.
You know, I may not agree with a lot of
the stuff that Trump is doing, but I also agree
with a lot of the things I used to doing. Yeah,
one of the things that I agree with, he's keeping
America safe. And what people forget is that. And again
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my personal opinion, if he was president during the time
with the bombers, the Boston bombers, I don't think that
would ever happen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would hope not, you know, I would hope not.
I think we fell asleep at the switch. The thing
about the Boston the Boston bombers is that we after
the Boston bombers. You know, we had the Boston Bombers,
but before that, we had nine to eleven and we
had the first attempt for the Remember they blew a
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truck up to try to bring down the World Trade
Center and I think it was ninety four.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I mean they were out there, we knew they were
out there. Where were our intelligence There was a there
was an FBI woman, I forget her name, who was
out in Minneapolis, and she knew that some of those
guys were out there taking plane lessons at some of
these airports. And they didn't want to know how to land.
They didn't want to know how to take off. All
they wanted to know was when you're up in the air,
how do I fly the plane? Now? Do you think
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she tried to push that up the ladder within the
FBI and it never went up the ladder, But you
would think that any law enforcement person, And credit to her,
she she yelled and she screamed, and no one listened.
No one listened, No one listened.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
And that's why I think he's doing a better job
trying to keep America safe.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Well, I hope, so, I hope. So. I think closing
the border has been a big success. And look, I'm
not a huge Donald Trump guy. You probably if you
listen to my show, you know I'm not in lockstep.
I think that I think that, Yeah, I think that
I think that this whole conversation about making Canada the
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fifty first state, we're going to take over Greenland. That's
crazy talk. Why you wasted your time, why you wasted
your political capital? Be like me saying, you know what
I want to do. I haven't played baseball in about
fifty years competitively, but I want to pitch for the
Red Sox this summer. You know, you know, you'd say,
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what are you nuts?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
So it's almost like when Michael Jordan went to go
play baseball, right, yeah, yeah, no, no, because you refresh
my memories.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Now.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
The bust of bombers. Were they illegal immigrants or did
they come through.
Speaker 12 (30:25):
The right way.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I believe they came the proper way. They were getting
all sorts of benefits. They were in public housing, they
were on food stamps. The bomber number two became a
US citizen the Labor Day, the September before the bombing
in April of twenty fifteen. He was a US citizen.
His brother wasn't a US citizen, but he was a
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US citizen when he planted those bombs.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Okay, yeah, and then one of them. So the tracks
when he visited, you know, he went to I forgot where.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He went Aagistan, Gagistan pat as bad part of the world,
bad part of the world. Eddie, thank you for calling
being giving you a more frequent caller.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
Okay, definitely, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Thanks, I appreciate you called. Good input quick break. Coming
back on nights, I will get everybody, and I promise.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's Night's Eye with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I got full line is going to try to get
everybody in. So we're gonna have to tighten up just
a little bit. Let me go to Glenn and Bright
and Glenn next one nights. I go, right, Hey, Glenn.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Yeah, I told Rob I'm glad to talk about public schools.
I once defended him. I don't anymore after after listening
to Denish de Suza, who I want to thank for
changing my poetical from west or Right. Okay, uh, yeah,
I know I won't mention names or places, but I
know a woman public school teacher that goes to my church.
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He not only wants to be in charter schools, magnet
schools and private schools, wants to ban home schools.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, how about that? Sure? Because they they they realize
they are the people are walking away from public schools,
and that's not a good thing. I believe in public schools,
but I think public schools have to get a little more,
have to get better, They have to get more innovative,
They have to produce a better product. They need competition.
Competition makes you better, as simple as that.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Well, they need to educate as opposed to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, that's true too. Yeah, I mean I think people
are getting sick of that as well.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Well, that's the thing. Like I, of course, I wise
do up to her. I said, oh, you mean you
don't you want home schools to tell their five year
old kids they can be any gender they want. I
said yeah, and she goes, I can have this discussion,
and she never spoke to me. Again, I don't care
if she does.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That's an open minded that's an open minded liberal or progressive.
Liberals are a Liberals are good people. Liberals they used
to be. Well, I think again, you got to draw
distinctions between liberals and progressives. Okay. I have a lot
of friends of mine, including Harvey Silverglight, who classify themselves
as liberals. But once you get and you start dealing
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with what I call the progressives, some of them are
pretty much out there, and unfortunately it's difficult to have
a conversation. I love having folks on with different points
of view. I wish I had more of those conversations.
I had a guest on last week, Dan Delaney, who
he was the fellow who favors getting rid of life
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without parole. You know, that was that was our story
last Friday night at nine o'clock. He was a gentleman.
I couldn't couldn't disagree with him more, but he was
pleasant to talk to and he had a point of
view that he defended as best he could. And we
had a good conversation that night.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
So yeah, one of my favorite liberals is Seth Moulton.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, Seth is a great guy.
Speaker 10 (33:57):
Sethings were all like him, definitely.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And Seth they wanted to chop his head off for
another part of the academy when when he said that
he didn't want his young girls playing, you know, against
biological boys, you know, in high school sports. All right, Glenn,
I got a roll here, I got full lines. I
got to get everybody in. Okay, man, we'll talk to
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my pleasure. My pleasure will do it more. Trust me. Okay,
as long as people like it. Next up, we're gonna
go Patrick in DC. Hey, Patrick, welcome back. How are
you well.
Speaker 13 (34:31):
I good to be able to speak with you and
good to be able to listen. And as we've talked
about the Second Amendment real quick, you know, additionally, twenty
seven words in that Second Amendment, it's the twenty seven
powerful world words, you know, those second amount of people.
They only had twenty seven words.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That's it, right, But then that that Amendment has been
you know, modified, you know, by statutes forever, it's been defended,
but not not as efficiently or as effectively as it should.
In your honor here, I'm going to read it in
its entirety if I can take that time. Second Amendment,
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right to bear arms a well regulated militia being necessary
to the security of a free state. The right of
the people to keep in bare arms shall not be infringed.
There's been a lot of infringement going on over the
years their Patrick, that's true.
Speaker 13 (35:24):
And then you know when we talk, when you think about,
you know, what would I like to you know here
on nights side, and if I had the luxury of
not having to decide that, I'm not going to give
that up.
Speaker 12 (35:36):
Hey, I get to have my mind stimulated.
Speaker 13 (35:39):
I'm not giving that up at all. So if you
look back at at public schools and now that we
are talking about radio and you know, ban the consultants,
that's for sure, I would be wearing that button. I
would be wearing that button. When you go to Jordan's
Rich's book and about his wife, you know, I wonder
if nowadays that Jordan rich could be developed all on
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his own, you know, to have that drive that I
can do it, I can do it, I can do it,
you know, and go down there and do it. And
I think of public schools. I look at the timing,
you know, and Jordan Riches doesn't have timing. I look
at timing and I think, well, you know, politics is
so much about timing, and I'm just thinking, why don't
we rearrange the school year.
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Do it this way.
Speaker 13 (36:26):
Come the end of December, that's the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
That's it.
Speaker 13 (36:30):
Either you can kind of graduate or whatever. That's the
end of the year. And the new year starts at January.
So you get off running in January, go to the summer.
If you're not doing well there in the first half
of the year, you have all summer to study and
catch up and then come back in September with a
roaring success and go into it. And so this way
you don't have that break, and at Christmas time the
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parents can help the kids get ready for their new year.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So that's a radical idea. But I think that's one
that we should talk about some night. I'm gonna I'm
gonna steal that idea and maybe talk about that something.
I don't see what people think. I think that's very,
very creative, simple as that, Patrick, with a great idea.
I'm gonna let you go. Thank you much as always,
We'll talk soon. Okay, thanks buddy, appreciate it. You have
a great name. Real quickly here, I'm gonna get Tim
(37:18):
and Wilber and Tim, I got three behind you. Help
me out, will you?
Speaker 12 (37:22):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (37:23):
The marathon bombers right, yep. Anyhow, I was brought up
wrong with Chavick, caught white from wrong his son concern
letting them keep living is not right.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I'm with you. I'm with you. One of them's already
gone on to his paradise or wherever, uh, and I
think we should we should allow his brother to join
him as soon as possible. We should expedise.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
I agree with you. Yeah, it's not it's not right
at all. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Well, well we'll continue to talk about it. We had
a good, good hour on that earlier tonight. We could
have done more on it, but we had a good hour.
Thank you man. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 10 (38:05):
Thanks Jim, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I should do open lines more up and we get
more calls than I have. Let me go, Jim, Jim,
you were next on nice That go ahead, Jim. Just
me yes, sir, Jim, that me in.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Okay, okay, Dan, very quickly. This may be a topic
for another night. Yeah, we can find if we can
find an expert on it. But one thing, and it
hasn't come up for a while, but I still feel
like we're being gouged on prices by distributors of these
pinklomerate food like the ConAgra, and also by a grocery
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and view tailors. And one evidence I'll present for it.
You know, all the prices in with ninety nine cents,
So do you think they're rounding down for a loss
of fifty cents per item or are they rounding up?
And if they're rounding up for an average up charge,
but fifty cents per item. That's like one thousand dollars
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per day per store.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Now, I think what they're doing is they try. If
they charge you nine to ninety nine, Psycho watching you
think it's less than ten dollars, that's I suspect that does.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
But really the price, really, the price should be nine
seventy three.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
The price is what people will pay for, Jim. That's
what it comes down to, whatever you sell. The one
good thing that's going on right now oil drop today.
Price of gasoline is going to be going down. And
that's gonna.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
If you could find and neck, if you could find
somebody an insider on that that could could tell us
how exactly how they all the prices are rounded to
do they round them up? And so on?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Okay, and you know what, if you want to suggest
a guess to me on that one, I'd appreciate it
as well. Thanks Bell. Gotta go all right, all right,
good night, Let's go to Steve in Providence, Rhode Island. Steve,
you gotta get you in and maybe one more go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
Ah, Yes, I will do this as quickly as possible. Well,
because I know you're pressed. I wanted to echo the
person that called from Quinsey about the Second Amendment. And
I guess a good suggestion for a show was to
actually get Jim Wallace and hopefully someone like the governor
there or God forbid day.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, I could get Jim Wallace, but I got to
tell you the average gun owner, I don't hear gun
owners calling the show much anymore. To be really honest
with you, I think that they feel that they're set
upon and they have to get involved politically, as simple
as that. Hey, Steve, I'm flat out of time, so
I got to let you run. Okay, Thank you much,
appreciate it. All right, good calls a couple of folks
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in the line, including Christine. I'm sorry, we're flat out
of time, got a call earlier. I'll end tonight as always,
back tomorrow night. We've got a great show Tomorrow night.
Rob Brooks, thank you, Mariita, thank you. All dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. That's what I heell. Charlie
ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago. That's all your
pets are who they loved you, and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. See you again
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tomorrow night or nights out, I'll be on Facebook at
nightside with Dan Ray in a couple of minutes. Have
a great Thursday, everybody
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, that was a tough loss for the for the
Red Stars Star. I mean, it's one thing when you
get blown out. It's another thing when you battle to
the wire. But to have a six to nothing lead
and have it disappear, that's not That's one of those
losses that you might look back on in September and say, man,
that's one we should have won. Anyway, my name's Dan Ray,
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the host of nights Side. Here we are on a
Wednesday night. We have less than an hour left in
the month of April. April is an interesting month. It's
sort of one of those months that it's kind of
a bridge month. It's a bridge from the the waning
winter weeks of March to the I think the best
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weeks and maybe the best month of the year, which
is May. So we will we will talk about that,
I'm sure at some point later on this week, maybe
tomorrow night, by the way, Tomorrow night, just to bring
up to date, we will have the WBC car guys,
Scott and Larry, or Larry and Scott, father and son.
They're the best. They'll answer all your questions about your
(01:09):
automotive questions about what you're going to need to do
to get your car and tip top driving shape for
the summer driving season, and all of that, whether or
not to get what flow would you have to get
rid of, what flu would you have to replace, all
those questions, what your tie, your tie of pressure should
be right on down the line. And if you're looking
at a new car, or for that matter, or a
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used car, you run by that, you run that information
by Larry and Scott and they will help you out
in terms of what you might expect to pay or
whether or not what you are intend to pay is
more or less than you should pay. So we'll get
to all of that, and then tomorrow I will also
talk with former state Representative Dave Nagel, who got into
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a problem gambling problem that he had dealt with since
he was a teenager, and he will tell his whole story.
He ended up being indicted in federal court for some
fraud charges because he used no public funds but his
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campaign funds, which are private funds, money that he raised
for things that he shouldn't have and he was indicted
and pled guilty and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
During the time of COVID. He served seven months, which
I wouldn't want to serve seven days, seven hours, but
he served seven months, and he'll talk about what he
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learned and how he has changed, and how he hopes
to reclaim his life and contribute again to society. So
I'm looking forward to talking with him tomorrow night. I
hope all of you are as well, along with the
WBC car guys. Now, a couple of things we could
continue to talk about these judges who've been arrested in Wisconsin,
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in Mexico. Every one of the callers during the eleven
o'clock news were excellent callers because they listened. I took
the time to read the specifics of the charges what
these judges are specifically charged with doing. Now you might say, well,
you know, I don't think it was that serious, or
I think it was really serious. That's fine. So if
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you want to talk about that, I'll give you a
couple of minutes to light the lines up. And if not,
I got a couple of other ideas six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty as one number and six nine, three,
one ten thirty. All I can do is come up
with topics that I hope my audience is interested in.
That's what it comes down to, and it's almost like
(03:42):
a Petri dish. Every night here on Night Side. Very
rarely we had a good hour last hour I was.
I thought that we might get two hours out of that.
If we don't, we're going to move on. I have
a couple of options that I can always use, and
I used the option pretty rarely, one of which is
(04:02):
an open line option. Very rarely do I go open lines,
but sometimes, and I might be convinced tonight might be
a good night to do open lines and give you
an opportunity to ask anything you want, comment on anything
you'd like to talk about. You basically get control of
the agenda. Will I don't relinquish the control often. The
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other issue that I'm thinking of, and this is one
that I really would love to hear, what you think.
You know, We've gone through so many arguments about public schools,
private schools, and we're talking primarily about high schools, but
we're also talking about elementary schools and junior high schools
(04:49):
and parochial schools, private schools, charter schools. There's a variety
of homeschooling, variety of ways in which young peop people
can earn their high school diploma and then if they
are so inclined, to go on to college. But here's
one that I actually was thinking of having this guy's
(05:10):
guy on. I'm not sure if I will. His name
is Mitch Francis, and his public relations person solicited us.
And this is what the public relations person wrote, Hello Dan,
with kids headed back to school soon. They've been in
school for a few months, but that's okay. Maybe they're
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talking about after vacations or something like that. Do you
need a thought provoking guest with bold ideas about how
to fix America's broken public schools? We have Mitch Francis,
author of I'm going to say, I'm going to substitute
the word but here. Okay, bad butt Solutions. You know
(05:54):
what I'm talking you know, you know, a synonym for
the word but like your rear end, bad butt solutions
of today's big butt problems, to discuss why we should
ban private schools to save public schools. It's really interesting.
A lot of folks in this country like to believe,
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like to believe in incrementalism. The left in America is
really good. Well, we just get a little tax rate
here we'll raise your real estate taxes just a little bit,
and we'll wait in two years from now, I'll come
back for another increase in taxes. Here in Massachusetts, way
we tax the millionaires, We're not going to tax you.
We're just going to tax the millionaires extra money. All
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of that. It's it's it's incrementalism. Okay, we're going to
have a few bike lanes in certain parts of the city,
and then eventually there are bike lanes everywhere. However, public
schools are are failing students across this country, and there's
lots of arguments about what needs to be done. Should
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there be more money spent on public schools, should public
schools be different? The charter schools have been very successful,
But it seems to me when someone basically says, in
order to save public schools, you have to ban private schools,
to me, that just shows one how dumb people are.
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I would call that a dumb butt solution to uh
to today's big butt problems. It's a dumb butt solution
to say, well, we're going to get rid of the
Belmont Hills and the BC Highs and the Catholic Memorials,
Roxbury Latin Schools, and Phillips and over all these You know,
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I could go on and on and on with the
private high schools across New England. What what it's it's
like if you're on the left, uh, and you believe
even something what you want to do is force people
to comply take choice away. They're in favor of choice
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in some in some respects, certainly on their pro choice
in terms of a woman's right to choose, but they're
they're that that whole concept of choice doesn't quite work
in us some other areas. And this is a this
is a blatant example, and I thank this author actually
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for being that blatant to know that there are people
out there who want to ban private schools to make
everyone go to inferior in many cases, inferior public schools anyway,
which you have to pay for. Nonetheless, anyway, go to
take a break. I will decide which way we're going
to go. But in the meantime, feel free. Got a
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couple of ideas there. Six one seven, two thirty, six
one seven, nine thirty. We'll come right back on nights Side.
Right after this.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Okay, all right. Uh, no one wants to talk about
public schools. That's fine, So I will wave the white
flag here and we're going to do forty minutes from
now the rest of April open lines, whatever subject you
want to talk about. We very rarely do this, but
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I'm giving you every opportunity. You can talk to me
about anything you want. You can bring up any issue
that you feel is important. You can tell me that
I am missing a huge issue that we should be
talking about. The lines are wide open six one, seven, two, five,
four thirty six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
(09:59):
What I we do here at night is I try
to present the thoughts and ideas or the topics to
my audience. I know my audience pretty well. I've been
doing this for a long time, but very rarely I
give you an opportunity to kind of take control of
the controls. It's almost like on the pilot, and I'm
going to walk back into the first class and coach
(10:21):
division of the play and say, would anyone like to
fly this thing? It's an automatic pilot up there. You
can tell us what you would like to talk about.
And I'm particularly interested hearing from some of you who
have never called this radio station before, have never called
this show before. Let me know what is on your mind.
Let me know what topic is of interest to you.
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What is the pressing in the pressing issue or the
most pressing issue in your life. We have here on
Night's Side for eighteen years, covered a wide swath of issues,
tried to bring you different topics. I do not like
to do a program in which we talk about the
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same issue night after night after night. That's not what
Nightside is all about. It is an opportunity for you
now to jump on board and let me know what
interests you that you've never heard, that you've never talked
about here on Nightside. Or if you want to express
an opinion. You want to express an opinion about Donald
Trump or Joe Biden or whatever, that's fine too. Let's
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go right to the phone. Is going to give everybody
an opportunity. Let me go to Scott and Quincy. Hey, Scott,
you're a regular caller. Thank you very much for calling in.
This is open Lines, buddy. You you set the agenda.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wow, that was quick. But anyways, Open Lines.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So one of the things I'd like to ask you
about is, you know I listened to b Z all day,
every day, okay, And one of the things that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Upsets me the most is.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
There is a bill that Mara Healy pushed through under
the guise of a quote unquote gun control bill, the
Act to Modernize Firearms or some ridiculous name.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And what it did was.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
So I'm a license owner, you know, with a testol permit,
if you have an fi D card, which.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Is just for long guns.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I normally hunters have these for their dear rifles and things.
And what this bill did was it made it illegal for.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
People who had the FID card.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To own.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Semi automatic hunting rifles and shotguns, which are basically a
large majority of hunting class weapons.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Like the Browning eleven hundred.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And when BZ reports on the pro Second Amendment people
trying to get together and we peel the bill, all
they say is all the Second Amendment people want to
peel this bill that bans ghost guns.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And creates red fly claws.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But that's not the case at all. That one of
the main aspects of opposing this bill is it basically
makes some of the most common commonly available firearms that
people depend on owning illegal for the vast majority of
licensed gun owners in the Commonwealth to have it literally
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created a huge class of felons in the state for
the stroke of pens, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They understand that. And if I can comment on that,
I'd like to just say, as clearly as I can say,
blame that. Don't blame the governor. I mean, you can
blame the governor if you want that, you have to
blame blame the gun owners in the state. And what
I mean that's thought, is that elections do have consequences.
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And what happens in a case of saying, maur Heey,
I think that if we sat down with mar Healey,
you and me for lunch someday, then said to her,
listen to God, he can explain this to you, and
if she was inclined, she probably would agree with you. Okay,
But that's not the way it works. So what happens
is whoever is the governor listens to the people who
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support that candidate. And when you get a you know,
a leftist, a progressive governor like mar Heey in office,
people will come into her and say, how do you
feel about gun control? Well, I want to cut down
the number of people who are killed, you know, kids, whatever, whatever,
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And so someone draws up legislation. I don't think the
governor understands the legislature. She knows the legislation is going
to make it more difficult for certain people to have guns,
and she sees that as a good thing. But if
the gun owners in Massachusetts sit back and allow this
to become a one party state, what do you think?
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What do they think is going to happen?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Scott, you know, I'm not I'm not I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Castigating you at all. You you call this program all the time,
but I've done shows on the Second Amendment, and you
don't hear from the gun orner gunners. There's there's few.
There's a guy named Jim Wallace who's really good, and
I've had him on the show, but a lot of
the guys show yeah and he's and he's good. But
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a lot of the guys who have guns and our hunters,
they're rugged individualists. They don't want to listen to talk radio,
they don't want to work for a candidate. They want
to get out and do their thing. And they assume
that that because they live in Massachusetts, Massachusetts will stay
the way it always is. No, it's going to go
more and more progressive, and there will be more and
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more limitations on people's access and ownership of and it
doesn't change until you change the political leadership in estate.
That's not what you want to hear. That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
No, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
But the point of discussion that I was going to
try and get to is, you know, the newsreaders and
the copywriters when they do these news spots about the
Second Amendment people trying to overturn the bill, they just say, oh,
ghost guns and red flag laws. They don't say and oh,
by the way, the Second Amendment. People are opposing this
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because of what it does for restrictions on I mean,
automatic hunting rifles. Why are the newswriters like they're so
by it?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
As that question for you. The answer to the question
is painfully obvious. The newswriters are writing stories that go
twenty seconds thirty seconds max. That's just the way what
newswriters write. They're not writing in depth reports you've heard
you didn't listen to the Hour Last Hour, I assume,
but I advance, Okay, I read very specifically what the judges,
(17:07):
the judges in Wisconsin and New Mexico are alleged to
have done. I had listened all week long to the
news stations and to TV stations. Look at the evening news,
it's a minute and a half. Let's go here. They're
all talking in hand. Okay, they don't have the time.
The people, the consultants for TV have said, look, gotta
get them quick, gotta give them plenty of stories. It's look,
(17:30):
it just it's it's axiomatic, Scott. What would you need
is a talk show like this that will actually layout
chapter and verse on this topic or on the topics
of the judges, so people understand that last hour, everyone
agreed with me because I took the time to read
it and explain it. That's what a talk show does.
(17:52):
But all these these these these gun owners, these Second
Amendment guys, when was the last time they took the
time to call a talk show and say, hey, you
know what, I think that it's a good idea that
that we become a two party state, that we elect
some and we have some balance of the legislation. You
have no balance. And as long as you have no balance,
certain certain groups of people are going to always be
(18:15):
their rights are going to be diminished. And you have
identified the problem. I have identified a solution.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, and I thought those judges, I think those judges
should go to jail.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That was a great segment.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I appreciate it. I'm always willing to talk talk to
you buddies, you your gun, your your your gun owners.
I believe in the Second Amendment. I think I want
people to have the right to bear arms. I believe
that's what the Constitution says. But there are people who
say no. They It's like the person who wants to
be in private schools. The way to save public schools
is to get rid of the competition. Make everybody go
(18:52):
to private go to public schools. Brilliant, what a stupid idea.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
And all I'm saying is as we talk about here
at nightside, and if people don't want to talk about it,
that's fine. That's that's their choice. If gun owners are
out there and they want to have me do something
on gun ownership, I have. But I think most gun
owners are rugged individual individualists who want to go to
the woods and hunt. They don't want to talk to me,
they don't want to talk to the audience. And when
(19:19):
they lose their rights, they can look in the mirror.
They don't have to blame Governor Heally. Governor Heally is
doing what instinctively she believes is correct, with the assistance
of lawyers and advisors who will write legislation which will
which will diminish your your freedoms.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yes, well, I'll do the best I can to be
that voice you know.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Well, I hope you will. You were voiced tonight. I
hope some people woke up and listen tonight. We'll see
what happens. They can call me during the day and
they can suggest topics at night. Always interested. Thank you, Scott.
All right, well, talk to you later six seven thirty.
You can't be defeatists, but you have to recognize reality.
(20:01):
The first the first step of the road to success
is recognize reality. And what I just told Scott is reality.
People aren't going to want to hear it, but that's okay,
that's reality. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Feel free to join. I'd love to hear from some
first time callers as well. What would you like to
hear on Nightside? Coming right back.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, let's get back to the phones. We have
full lines. Let's see what people have to say. That's
what this is all about. Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, next
time nights take go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Hey are you doing Dan?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Good? Jamie? What's your your question or comment?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, this open, open talk, Yes, sir, Mike was perfect
time for me because I wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I go back and forth between you and sports. I
listened to sports information, sure, and I listening to the
dominating thing on the news this whole week in that
category has been Bill Belichick and his book and that
girl that's interfering, that's interfering with everything. I don't know
(21:13):
if you've been following that.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I have, Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
And what was your reaction.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
To her being there at the interview and then that
post that came out recently on Instagram, I mean on
x that had worries that on Belichick Lake.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, he's public he's publicizing his book, so he's going
to do national network interviews and he's going to try
to do it on his terms. She is there, uh,
and in a role I guess. He says that not
only is she a close personal friend, but she's also
sort of his protector or guru or guidance or whatever.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And that's that's always the struggle when people are trying
to sell a book. Most of the people do I
interview here on Night Side. They have a cause separate
and apart from themselves and selling the book. Uh. You know,
tonight we talked with an author who had talked about
anxiety and how to overcome anxiety. Yeah, they want to
sell the book, but they don't have the big name
(22:14):
that Bill Belichick does. So Belichick has the name. It's
like when people interview an ex president, you know, Barack Obama.
The leverage that the author has is greater than the interviewer,
and they sacrifice some of their independence. And clearly they sacrificed.
(22:34):
Was it I think it was CBS sacrifice some of
their independence with Belichick. And Belichick is a guy. Look,
we've watched them at press conferences.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Used to ask, you know, coach, what happened the Patriots
lost today? How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The team?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The other team scored more points? Next question?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know, I mean what puzzled?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Like she'd kept jumping into the conversation like she wanted
to be a part of it. And it's Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You and well, unless Bill Belichick was going to say
to his to his you know, his closest friend there
a new friend, Hey, look I can handle this. Please
just sit there and be quiet, He's not gonna do that.
So you got to understand as a reporter of the
dynamic in which you're in, and this is a woman
who has tremendous influence over Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick
(23:24):
probably likes it that way because as opposed to getting
sitting there being grilled about his personal life, she piped
She just pipes up and says, we're not answering that.
I mean, right, brilliant. He got all the publicity for
the book. Plus it was brilliant when you look about it.
Everybody's gonna read want to read the book now, even though.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Yeah, because what a lot of the pundits were doing,
we're like lost that words. The sports pundits are lost
that words because they're like, how is she controlling his relationships?
He's only twenty three and he's like nine years difference
and stuff like that, and what happens to Bill Belichick?
We knew and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, let me ask you, when you're seventy three and
you've been through a couple of marriages and you have
a twenty three year old girlfriend. You think you're gonna
listen to Yeah, I think so. Yeah, in my opinion,
it's all leverage, baby. In my opinion, Jamie, do me
your favor. Listen, listen more than Nights Side, and we'll
(24:26):
we'll incorporate more sports. A lot of the sports talk
is really uh, well, the Celtics go to win. You,
I think the Celts are to win. The Celtics w
and win because you know where they gonna win. They
go to school more points than the Magic and plus
you think the Celtics grew better team. What do you think? Well,
I agree with you. I think the Celtics are a
better team and they should win. Yeah, you're wasting your
time listening to sports talk.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Come on you, spiking mad. I listened to those stations.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
I get mad because, like I said, I'm a big
Celtic fan, and they never give Teenn any credit.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
It's always all he's soft.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Listen listen to my show, and you know I feel
whenever I flip on sports radio, I feel sometimes brain
cells dying.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
The only reason I listened to it is for the information.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah. Really, Well, you called me, I'll give you all
the information you need. Trust me on that one. Okay,
uh yeah good. Someone once said that sports talk is
like toys in the attic, you know if you want to.
And I know my sports talk pals are going to
disagree with me, but come on, you know they're not
talking about the national debt, they're not talking about tariffs.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
They want to make a name for themselves. That's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, and be outrageous. I'm interested in I'm really interested
in talking about issues that affect your life and affect
your kid's life. And I want to make you think.
I don't think there's too many sports guys out there
who really I listened.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
To, Like now that you said that, I listen to
different sports people that interview and they're trying to show
up the guests like not like you would never do that,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, I mean we have good conversations. It's just a
whole different thing. Okay, it's you know, it's like, if
you know, I'm not NPR here, I don't run this
show like NPR. I'm not challenging everybody with big words.
I want to have a conversation that people can enjoy.
I pattern it off of North America's back porch. Let
me tell you, you want to talk sports, sometimes I can
(26:27):
talk I can talk sports. Anybody who knows me personally
knows I can talk sports. Okay, I played I played sports.
I represented professional athletes in my in my law practice.
I was never a super duper big agent with one
hundred clients because you can't serve the interest of one
hundred people simultaneously. Jamie, I gotta run love your calls me.
(26:50):
I keep listening to Nightside. Thank you say out in
my sports bells when you talk to them. Let's keep
rolling here, Gonna go to Eddie and Rosendale. Eddie, welcome,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
How are we doing?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think we're doing okay, But you'd be a better
judge of that than me.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 11 (27:07):
Well, just two things real quick, so under judges, I
agree with you one hundred and ten percent, but I
just want to add something and it's my own opinion,
you know it's that's one perfect example as to why
the Democratic Party lass yep.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, you're not going
to get a break if all of a sudden you get,
you get, you get a problem, and you're in court,
no judges coming off the bench and saying, hey, Eddie,
let me slip you off the back door. You know
the best. Maybe it's happened to you, but I don't
think so.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
And all right, and then the other subject I want
to bring up. You know, the marathon was over a
week ago, and one of the things that people forget.
You know, I may not agree with a lot of
the stuff that Trump is doing, but I also agree
with a lot of the things I used to doing. Yeah,
one of the things that I agree with, he's keeping
America safe. And what people forget is that. And again
(28:05):
my personal opinion, if he was president during the time
with the bombers, the Boston bombers, I don't think that
would ever happen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I would hope not, you know, I would hope not.
I think we fell asleep at the switch. The thing
about the Boston the Boston bombers is that we after
the Boston bombers. You know, we had the Boston Bombers,
but before that, we had nine to eleven and we
had the first attempt for the Remember they blew a
(28:36):
truck up to try to bring down the World Trade
Center and I think it was ninety four.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I mean they were out there, we knew they were
out there. Where were our intelligence There was a there
was an FBI woman, I forget her name, who was
out in Minneapolis, and she knew that some of those
guys were out there taking plane lessons at some of
these airports. And they didn't want to know how to land.
They didn't want to know how to take off. All
they wanted to know was when you're up in the air,
how do I fly the plane? Now? Do you think
(29:05):
she tried to push that up the ladder within the
FBI and it never went up the ladder, But you
would think that any law enforcement person, And credit to her,
she she yelled and she screamed, and no one listened.
No one listened, No one listened.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
And that's why I think he's doing a better job
trying to keep America safe.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Well, I hope, so, I hope. So. I think closing
the border has been a big success. And look, I'm
not a huge Donald Trump guy. You probably if you
listen to my show, you know I'm not in lockstep.
I think that I think that, Yeah, I think that
I think that this whole conversation about making Canada the
(29:49):
fifty first state, we're going to take over Greenland. That's
crazy talk. Why you wasted your time, why you wasted
your political capital? Be like me saying, you know what
I want to do. I haven't played baseball in about
fifty years competitively, but I want to pitch for the
Red Sox this summer. You know, you know, you'd say,
(30:10):
what are you nuts?
Speaker 11 (30:12):
So it's almost like when Michael Jordan went to go
play baseball, right, yeah, yeah, no, no, because you refresh
my memories.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Now.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
The bust of bombers. Were they illegal immigrants or did
they come through.
Speaker 12 (30:25):
The right way.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I believe they came the proper way. They were getting
all sorts of benefits. They were in public housing, they
were on food stamps. The bomber number two became a
US citizen the Labor Day, the September before the bombing
in April of twenty fifteen. He was a US citizen.
His brother wasn't a US citizen, but he was a
(30:49):
US citizen when he planted those bombs.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Okay, yeah, and then one of them. So the tracks
when he visited, you know, he went to I forgot where.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He went Aagistan, Gagistan pat as bad part of the world,
bad part of the world. Eddie, thank you for calling
being giving you a more frequent caller.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
Okay, definitely, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Thanks, I appreciate you called. Good input quick break. Coming
back on nights, I will get everybody, and I promise.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's Night's Eye with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
I got full line is going to try to get
everybody in. So we're gonna have to tighten up just
a little bit. Let me go to Glenn and Bright
and Glenn next one nights. I go, right, Hey, Glenn.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Yeah, I told Rob I'm glad to talk about public schools.
I once defended him. I don't anymore after after listening
to Denish de Suza, who I want to thank for
changing my poetical from west or Right. Okay, uh, yeah,
I know I won't mention names or places, but I
know a woman public school teacher that goes to my church.
(31:55):
He not only wants to be in charter schools, magnet
schools and private schools, wants to ban home schools.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, how about that? Sure? Because they they they realize
they are the people are walking away from public schools,
and that's not a good thing. I believe in public schools,
but I think public schools have to get a little more,
have to get better, They have to get more innovative,
They have to produce a better product. They need competition.
Competition makes you better, as simple as that.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Well, they need to educate as opposed to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, that's true too. Yeah, I mean I think people
are getting sick of that as well.
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Well, that's the thing. Like I, of course, I wise
do up to her. I said, oh, you mean you
don't you want home schools to tell their five year
old kids they can be any gender they want. I
said yeah, and she goes, I can have this discussion,
and she never spoke to me. Again, I don't care
if she does.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That's an open minded that's an open minded liberal or progressive.
Liberals are a Liberals are good people. Liberals they used
to be. Well, I think again, you got to draw
distinctions between liberals and progressives. Okay. I have a lot
of friends of mine, including Harvey Silverglight, who classify themselves
as liberals. But once you get and you start dealing
(33:10):
with what I call the progressives, some of them are
pretty much out there, and unfortunately it's difficult to have
a conversation. I love having folks on with different points
of view. I wish I had more of those conversations.
I had a guest on last week, Dan Delaney, who
he was the fellow who favors getting rid of life
(33:33):
without parole. You know, that was that was our story
last Friday night at nine o'clock. He was a gentleman.
I couldn't couldn't disagree with him more, but he was
pleasant to talk to and he had a point of
view that he defended as best he could. And we
had a good conversation that night.
Speaker 10 (33:52):
So yeah, one of my favorite liberals is Seth Moulton.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, Seth is a great guy.
Speaker 10 (33:57):
Sethings were all like him, definitely.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And Seth they wanted to chop his head off for
another part of the academy when when he said that
he didn't want his young girls playing, you know, against
biological boys, you know, in high school sports. All right, Glenn,
I got a roll here, I got full lines. I
got to get everybody in. Okay, man, we'll talk to
(34:22):
my pleasure. My pleasure will do it more. Trust me. Okay,
as long as people like it. Next up, we're gonna
go Patrick in DC. Hey, Patrick, welcome back. How are
you well.
Speaker 13 (34:31):
I good to be able to speak with you and
good to be able to listen. And as we've talked
about the Second Amendment real quick, you know, additionally, twenty
seven words in that Second Amendment, it's the twenty seven
powerful world words, you know, those second amount of people.
They only had twenty seven words.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
That's it, right, But then that that Amendment has been
you know, modified, you know, by statutes forever, it's been defended,
but not not as efficiently or as effectively as it should.
In your honor here, I'm going to read it in
its entirety if I can take that time. Second Amendment,
(35:06):
right to bear arms a well regulated militia being necessary
to the security of a free state. The right of
the people to keep in bare arms shall not be infringed.
There's been a lot of infringement going on over the
years their Patrick, that's true.
Speaker 13 (35:24):
And then you know when we talk, when you think about,
you know, what would I like to you know here
on nights side, and if I had the luxury of
not having to decide that, I'm not going to give
that up.
Speaker 12 (35:36):
Hey, I get to have my mind stimulated.
Speaker 13 (35:39):
I'm not giving that up at all. So if you
look back at at public schools and now that we
are talking about radio and you know, ban the consultants,
that's for sure, I would be wearing that button. I
would be wearing that button. When you go to Jordan's
Rich's book and about his wife, you know, I wonder
if nowadays that Jordan rich could be developed all on
(36:02):
his own, you know, to have that drive that I
can do it, I can do it, I can do it,
you know, and go down there and do it. And
I think of public schools. I look at the timing,
you know, and Jordan Riches doesn't have timing. I look
at timing and I think, well, you know, politics is
so much about timing, and I'm just thinking, why don't
we rearrange the school year.
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Do it this way.
Speaker 13 (36:26):
Come the end of December, that's the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
That's it.
Speaker 13 (36:30):
Either you can kind of graduate or whatever. That's the
end of the year. And the new year starts at January.
So you get off running in January, go to the summer.
If you're not doing well there in the first half
of the year, you have all summer to study and
catch up and then come back in September with a
roaring success and go into it. And so this way
you don't have that break, and at Christmas time the
(36:52):
parents can help the kids get ready for their new year.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So that's a radical idea. But I think that's one
that we should talk about some night. I'm gonna I'm
gonna steal that idea and maybe talk about that something.
I don't see what people think. I think that's very,
very creative, simple as that, Patrick, with a great idea.
I'm gonna let you go. Thank you much as always,
We'll talk soon. Okay, thanks buddy, appreciate it. You have
a great name. Real quickly here, I'm gonna get Tim
(37:18):
and Wilber and Tim, I got three behind you. Help
me out, will you?
Speaker 12 (37:22):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (37:23):
The marathon bombers right, yep. Anyhow, I was brought up
wrong with Chavick, caught white from wrong his son concern
letting them keep living is not right.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I'm with you. I'm with you. One of them's already
gone on to his paradise or wherever, uh, and I
think we should we should allow his brother to join
him as soon as possible. We should expedise.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
I agree with you. Yeah, it's not it's not right
at all. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Well, well we'll continue to talk about it. We had
a good, good hour on that earlier tonight. We could
have done more on it, but we had a good hour.
Thank you man. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 10 (38:05):
Thanks Jim, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I should do open lines more up and we get
more calls than I have. Let me go, Jim, Jim,
you were next on nice That go ahead, Jim. Just
me yes, sir, Jim, that me in.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Okay, okay, Dan, very quickly. This may be a topic
for another night. Yeah, we can find if we can
find an expert on it. But one thing, and it
hasn't come up for a while, but I still feel
like we're being gouged on prices by distributors of these
pinklomerate food like the ConAgra, and also by a grocery
(38:44):
and view tailors. And one evidence I'll present for it.
You know, all the prices in with ninety nine cents,
So do you think they're rounding down for a loss
of fifty cents per item or are they rounding up?
And if they're rounding up for an average up charge,
but fifty cents per item. That's like one thousand dollars
(39:06):
per day per store.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Now, I think what they're doing is they try. If
they charge you nine to ninety nine, Psycho watching you
think it's less than ten dollars, that's I suspect that does.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
But really the price, really, the price should be nine
seventy three.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
The price is what people will pay for, Jim. That's
what it comes down to, whatever you sell. The one
good thing that's going on right now oil drop today.
Price of gasoline is going to be going down. And
that's gonna.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
If you could find and neck, if you could find
somebody an insider on that that could could tell us
how exactly how they all the prices are rounded to
do they round them up? And so on?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Okay, and you know what, if you want to suggest
a guess to me on that one, I'd appreciate it
as well. Thanks Bell. Gotta go all right, all right,
good night, Let's go to Steve in Providence, Rhode Island. Steve,
you gotta get you in and maybe one more go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 12 (39:57):
Ah, Yes, I will do this as quickly as possible. Well,
because I know you're pressed. I wanted to echo the
person that called from Quinsey about the Second Amendment. And
I guess a good suggestion for a show was to
actually get Jim Wallace and hopefully someone like the governor
there or God forbid day.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, I could get Jim Wallace, but I got to
tell you the average gun owner, I don't hear gun
owners calling the show much anymore. To be really honest
with you, I think that they feel that they're set
upon and they have to get involved politically, as simple
as that. Hey, Steve, I'm flat out of time, so
I got to let you run. Okay, Thank you much,
appreciate it. All right, good calls a couple of folks
(40:43):
in the line, including Christine. I'm sorry, we're flat out
of time, got a call earlier. I'll end tonight as always,
back tomorrow night. We've got a great show Tomorrow night.
Rob Brooks, thank you, Mariita, thank you. All dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. That's what I heell. Charlie
ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago. That's all your
pets are who they loved you, and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. See you again
(41:03):
tomorrow night or nights out, I'll be on Facebook at
nightside with Dan Ray in a couple of minutes. Have
a great Thursday, everybody
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