July 2, 2025 • 40 mins
It’s like a 20th hour, but on Dan’s last broadcast hour of the 4th of July holiday week! As we approached America’s birthday, we asked the listeners about their pride for America. In your opinion, what’s the best part about living in the U.S.?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nights with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you very much, Dan Watkins. We have reached the
twelfth hour of the week. I'm off for the balance
of the week. So for me, this is my last
night for about ten days. I'll be back on the
fourteenth of July, which is a Monday. I just want
to make sure when the calendar changes, but to make sure, yeah,
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the fourteenth, Yeah, I'm going to be off tomorrow, Friday,
and next week. I've actually had a fairly busy six months.
We have knocked out about one hundred and twenty one
shows since New Year's Night, and I was actually on
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New Year's Night. So what I want to do is finish.
We are literally at the cusp of the Fourth of
July weekend. This is the two hundred and forty ninth
celebration of the Fourth of July here in America. Next
year will be the big round number two fifty, and
I just want to open up the lines and give
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you a chance. I know that the Fourth of July
a lot of people think of it as picnics and barbecues,
and a lot of people think about maybe having a
couple of drinks whatever, go to a ballgame, all of
which is good, all of which is great. But the
meaning of the fourth of July is that two and
forty nine years ago, a bunch of Americans who none
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of us knew personally, who have long since passed generations,
before they rolled the dice, they gambled their their lives
and their fortune and their future by breaking away from
Britain and initiating the with what happened at Conquered Lexington
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in seventeen seventy five and Bunker Hill, which we've just celebrated,
and then on the director that the Declaration of Independence
and threw into the seventeen eighties until we finally were
able to convince the Brits that we were indeed a
nation of our own. We over the course of the
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year here on Night Side, we often deal with issues
and we get people who disagree on topics and all
of that, and I realized that that in the era
of Donald Trump, there are strong feelings in both directions,
on both sides. However, this is the time of year,
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the one weekend I would hope that we can put
our political positions aside and just say, hey, whether you're
a conservative, Republican liberal Democrat ended end. I don't know
even a socialist from New York City running for mayor,
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that we're all lucky to be here, that we live
in the safest country in the world. We have crime. Sure, absolutely,
has there been an attack, yeah, nine to eleven. Absolutely,
Pearl Harbor before it, of though Hawaii was not a
state at the time. So I'd like to hear from you,
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and what is it that you like best about America.
I'm sure that there's a lot of things that you
don't like, and whether you're a conservative or a liberal,
there's plenty that you could cite for me what you
don't like. But I think that all of us, really
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we're very lucky to be born here. Now, there may
be other countries around the world that you'd prefer to
live in, Okay, that's fine. You may want to tell
me that there's a paradigm in Sweden and Norway one
of the Baltic countries, so you'd rather live I don't
know wherever Canada, Okay, But I don't see too many
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people leaving America. To be really honest with you, I
know that every once in a while you'll have some
ROSI o'donnald type who who. I don't know if they
really leave for good, or if they leave for ulterior motives,
or if they're looking for some publicity. Their careers are
a little bit of a reach the twilight stage. I
don't know. But what is it about America that you
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like best? And I'll bet you we will get a
variety of points of view. For me, it is the
judicial system that we have. And again, maybe as a lawyer,
you would expect me to say that, but it is true.
I mean, it is a judicial system where, in all honesty,
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we as a country made it as decision a long
time ago that it's better to have one hundred guilty
people go free than one innocent person be convicted. And
we're not talking about the death pedal there. So I
just want to open it up. I could talk all
night about how lucky I feel to have been born
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in America. I have great memories of Fourth of July
as a kid, I grew up in Reidville, as they think,
all of you know at this point, which is a
part of Boston, a part of Hyde Park, if you will.
We always thought of ourselves as a separate section. And
I can remember that on the fourth of July. The
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big kick was this is back in now in the
late fifties, early sixties, the MDC, the Metropolitan District Commission.
Back in the day, you could go up to Camp
Megs and they would give you a Hoodsie cup a
hoodsy cap if you remember those in a little wooden spoon.
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Maybe some of you remember them, maybe you don't. I
just am going to open up the lines here. What
is it you like best about this country? And do
you consider yourself liking to be an American? Do you
consider yourself liking to be born here? I know there
are people who don't, but I'm hoping to hear from
as many of my callers as possible. If you've called
earlier this week, you always have a hall pass on
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the final hour of the week. This is not the
twentieth hour, but it's the twelfth hour. It's a relatively
shortened week for me. As I said, my good friend
Morgan White will be here tomorrow night and Friday night.
Thank you, Morgan White, and please treat Morgan well as
you always do, and then I'll be back on March
four or July fourteenth. March fourteenth, if only no the
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vacation will not be that long. On July fourteenth. Here
are my numbers, and they're pretty easy. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
I will be sorely disappointed if on a topic as
simple as this, on the cusp of the fourth of
July weekend, these lines do not explode and stay lit
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until midnight. Six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I hope
when you tell me what you like best about America,
I hope that you will need to identify yourself. So
maybe people who have a different view of this country
than you politically will be able to realize that there
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are good people on both sides of the political spectrum,
and whether you again are a Republican conservative republican or
just a conservative, or a liberal Democrat or died in
the world democrat, whatever you want to call it, that
there are people who disagree with you politically but fundamentally
wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world and
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feel that they lucked out on the I guess I'll
call it the birth lottery to have been born here
and even at this time back on Nightside. The only
lines open right now are six one seven, nine three,
one ten thirty. Let's light them all up. Let's light it.
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Light my lines up like a Christmas tree. Let's let
him look like fireworks. Feel free to join this conversation
back after this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Folks. The the six months of a nine three, one
ten thirty line is now two lines there are full,
So Shana and Pete stay right there. A bunch of
you had filled up the six one, seven, two, five
four ten thirty line, and several of you dropped off.
So if you've had a connectivity problem, call back and
we will put you back in priority. Let me go
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to Joel and Natick. Joel, what do you like about America?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Joel?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The best part of living in the United States Dan
is being able to listen to Dan Ray at nightside.
Monday was Friday, eight pm to bednight.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, I'm sure, thank you very much, my friend, but
I'm sure there's a lot of better things that this
country has to offer. That's for sure. You're very kind, Joel,
too kind, that's for sure. I wouldn't want to live
anywhere else. What about you?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You know, I bet stay in the United States. Yeah, yeah,
there's Yeah, you have the freedom to do anything you
want while getting into trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, there's some guardrails, and most of
us observe the guard rails, and and and things go along.
I'm sure that all of us have complaints. We as
Americans tend to be uh kind of complainers. We get
a little cranky, we don't want to pay as much taxes.
We're concerned that. You know, all of us have our
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pet peeves. You wouldn't be an American without a pet peeve.
But it's important to let people know this weekend and
tell people not only here on the on night side,
but tell them everywhere that, hey, you're proud to be
an American and for all of our flaws, we're still
the best country in the world. I hope you agree
with me that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh, definitely, definitely, Dan, Definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There are some other great countries out there, Okay, and
there's some other real tough countries to live in, but
nothing as good as far as I'm concerned as this country.
And I've traveled a little bit, I've seen a pretty
good part of the world. Never been to Asian, never
been in Africa, never been to South America, spent a
lot of time in different countries in Europe and European countries.
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They're wonderful, no question, but they can't talk the good
old US of a.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
In my opinion, Dan, where are you going to find
democracy like the United States?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Israel?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Besides US? Do aren't any others?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well? I mean you'll have other democracies Britain, But I
think of Israel as a democracy that's under fire, and
yet they've been able to survive seventy seven years since
they're founding in nineteen forty eight. Yeah, that's there were
fewer democracies in the world than people realize, and that
that is scary. Joe, you have a great fourth of July,
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and I thank you for joining the conversation tonight. You're
a great friend.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Thanks Joel to have a big fucking right, Darren, take care.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Thanks Pal, talk to you soon. Let me go next
to Shana is in Milton. Hey, Shana, welcome, you're next
to the nightside.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Hey Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm great? Is this Shane or Shana?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'm confused Shana, Shana, no worries?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, great Shana? What what's best about living in the
US For.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Me, it's it's truly the land of opportunity. Is somebody
who is a first generation American here in this country great,
which I absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You know, my mother moved over here from Ireland in
nineteen eighty six with forty one dollars in her pocket
and a checked luggage bag, and you know turned it
into being able to give me everything I have today.
And you know you can't. There's no other place where
you could be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Boy, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So you're you were born here obviously, Yes, what do
you do? What sort of work do you do?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I just finished my master's degree in social work, so
I'm working in the mental health world. And you know
it's she came here and she got her nursing degree
while while she had us, and you know it's nowhere else,
exactly nowhere else you could do that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, when you put it in the terms of your
mom comes here with forty one dollars in her pocket.
Uh uh and is able to successfully navigate everything that
she had to navigate. Wow, I'm glad I didn't have
to have those obstacles. To be honest with you, and
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many How many siblings do you have?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Myself and my sister, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Your sister's doing well? Is also I.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Hope yes, she's. She's hoping to get onto a police
force soon, you know. And these opportunities you can't get
them anywhere else, and there's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
SHANEA, thanks so much, Thanks so much. You're called what
what county did your mom come from?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I just got back from a couple of weeks stay
in Ireland. We are from County Claire. We're from right
outside of Kilkee, right on the west coast there.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, I know County Claire. I've been there. My four
beers came from County Cork.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Uh I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, so a little town called Mala m a l
l o w or m a l a with with
the with the Irish or the Gaelic spelling. Thanks Shanna.
I so appreciate you calling. Have a great night, good night.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Thank you, Dan, you too, Bye bye, all right, thank
you much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is your first I should have asked you, is
this your first time calling?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, we got to give you a wrong so we
like to welcome people here, so come on back soon.
I'll look forward to you next call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Absolutely, I love the show. Thank you bye, thanks you by.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We're going to go next. Yeut, let me go to
Pete in South Carolina. Pete, welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I'm fine, my friend. What do I like best about
this country? I love the history. I've lived and worked
in Boston, as you know, I'm from Philly, and the
history is fantastic. And the opportunities so that everybody can
get if you'd want to take advantage of them, they're there, Yeah,
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they're there, no question about it. And the other thing
I wanted to tell you, I've been listening to you
for I don't know how many years you been on now,
eighteen eighteen, Well it would be eighteen. I've got about seventeen.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, it will be eighteen on October first. We'll start
year nineteen on October first.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Okay, Well, I got one other thing to tell you,
because they know you want to get a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Of callers there, Sure, go ahead and take it down.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This is important.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
On July eighth, you and I are going to turn
one year older, So happy birthday. Because I won't be
able to get hold of you.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well yeah, well you know what you could always get
a hold of me. But happy birthday to you, Pete.
I know that we do share that birthday and it's
not the same year, but we're pretty close. We're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So one year.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And no one has to know who's older or younger,
as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I'm not saying a word my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I also like the fact that I like this kid
who's playing for Boston Roman Anthony. Yeah, I really like him.
Did he play for your son?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No? He he was I think at Double A last
year and okay, and he came up and he was
on the fast track. He's he's the young good yeah. Yeah.
And they they almost swept the Red Legs, but they
they were leading three nothing tonight and unfortunately one of
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the relievers gave up a grand Slam home run to
I think eight hitter. So but they won. They won
the series. I'm not sure they're going to the World
Series this year, but there certainly are between between Anthony
Christian Campbell, the kid that they sent down, uh and Meyer,
the kid who's primarily playing third base. They have some
young young guy there and some young people there. And
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I also very much like there was a pitcher named
Dobbins who's won a bunch of games. Young guy and
another guy named Fitz who they they got from the
Yankees and he hasn't won his first game yet, but
he's pitched really well. So I think this hope for
the Red Sox going forwards, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Not to see what happens. Maybe it'll be a Red
Sox silly World series that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Would be fun. We'd have to have some out of
a bet on that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You would thinks absolutely will have a bet.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Thanks, p talk soon, Happy for you have a good one.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He's safe on your vacation. Happy birthday and I'll talk
to you later.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Happy Birthday to you in turn. Thanks good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, triple eight nine ten thirty. Gonna go to
my friend Joe in Boston. Joe, I know you're proud
to be an American.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I am Dan.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
This is one of the best charges I ever made,
Like I tell people on the second best choice that
I ever made.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Your wife, absolutely exactly exactly, and I can not be
more grateful.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I mean, this is the country that gave me the
opportunity and we just keep on doing it. And I'm
thank God for Donald Trump because we were going on
the wrong path and he brought us back.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, I know, I know that you did. You feel
strongly about that, and there's a point of personal privilege.
I'll let you get that in. But I hope that
I'll get people on both sides of the equation, the
political equations.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Absolutely, It's like being a results fan and a Yankish fan.
We all can be friends at the end of the day, Yes,
but not when it comes to it. In American number
one for me in my book, because the opportunities that
I have and this is the best country that there is,
second to none. Absolutely, And I love you with all
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the best of you and your family Joe right with
the grand kids around, which is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
To me, dear to my heart.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You know in sense when it comes to grandkids, how.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Many do you have? Give me? We only have two?
How many do you have?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I got a big bolly, the one that you've seen before,
but totally is.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Five of them.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
So I can now be more grateful. I thank God
every single day. In a whole bunch of times, I'm sudden.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, I'm with you totally. I like you. We share
a lot of similar feelings show and not at least
of which is blessed to be here and blessed to
have good families. Joe will talk to Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I love you that, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Thank you, love you too, Joe, you know that. Thanks
so much.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'll talk soon. Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, we've got a couple of lines here now six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. Uh, and now the one that's wide
open in six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
I just want to hear from from my listeners. And
if you're a first time caller, as SHANEA was, all
the better. I have two older listen I shouldn't say older,
but old friends listeners regular listeners lined up. So whether
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you're a regular listener, or you've been on this show
one hundred times or you've never been on it before,
light it up. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten
thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Coming
right back on nights Side. And for those of you
who dropped off, if you're in a bad city situation
with a cell dropping off in a car, call back
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and we'll get you back to where you were in line. Okay,
thanks very much. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We're asking people to call in and tell us what
they like about America. There's a lot to like about America.
Let's next up, Eileen, I Lean welcome you and next
on Nightside.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh well, thank you well. I love America. And I
was a child during the Second World War and I
was so grateful that we didn't have war here. And
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I actually I spent uh good amount of time with
one of my my aunt Irene in Cleveland, Ohio, and
we had I had cousins who were uh from who
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lived in England and they were sent here and they
lived with They lived with her too, So I got
to know my English cousins very well. But in America,
we have many opportunities, and I I feel very lucky
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for the education that I've been able to.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Nowhere.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nowhere in the world, a lot of a lot of
countries around the world have these caste systems, and that's
they decide when you're in the seventh or sixth or
seventh grade if your college bound are going to go
in a different direction. Thank you so much, thank you
for joining us tonight, as all was always lovely to
hear your voice. And you have a great fourth of July.
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Are you going to be heading down to the water,
I hope. Oh yeah, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Okay, okay, thanks dam Let's go.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Next to Christina. Christina, you are next on night Side.
What do you like about this country? Hi, Christina, I.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Love this country so much. I'm very blessed. My my
parents always taught me so much history, and I was
very blessed my my you know, I had my my
father was in the Air Force, my uncle was close God.
And I have a nephew now serving in the Army.
So I'm very blessed, like I have so much. You know,
I'm so lucky to be here in America.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You have the branch, you have the service branches covered
in your family. That's a very very patreonic family.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Yeah, my father and mother always is still so much
history into us. They I like, you know, to be here,
to be uh taught freedom and you know that we're
lucky to be here. They always make sure.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, you know, the funny thing about it, Aileen, as
as you know, is it's kind of a quirk of faith.
I mean, I have no idea why I was born
in America. Uh, I mean I kind of look at
it like, there's X numbers of babies who are born
around the world, and I think our population is six percent,
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so kind of added about a six percent shot could
have been born in a whole bunch of different places.
And uh I liked. I like where I landed, and
uh I like Boston as well. To be honest with you,
I did a lot of parts of the country I
would have been comfortable with. But I like this city
and I like I like I like the weather, I
like the change of seasons. I know that there's other
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parts of the country where people live where uh you know,
the weather's a nice seventy degrees most days, a few
little cool days and some warmer days. But I'm I'm happy.
I'm a happy camper, simplest, simple ast that about. The
other thing is about drivers. That's we could do a little.
We could all become better drivers, I think right, and
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it would be perfect. Thanks Thanks so much, Christina. Always
great to hear your voice. Christine, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Happy for it to July. I have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I sure will. I'll be back. I'll be back on
the fourteenth of July. Thanks Christine. Let me go to
Matt Matt and Brighton. Matt, you were next on Nightside.
What do you like best about America? Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Well, first off, man, I wish you and your family
to come blessed fourth of July and Pennans Day.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Right back at.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Absolutely thank you. You know, I'm of the younger generation.
America is something that I never want to take for granted.
I am born here and it brings so much opportunity.
There are issues and all that, but it brings so
much opportunity, so much happiness. We're in a free, democratic society,
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and that's so important to grow up around and understand
and the foundation of understanding that notion that I've been
able to have the luxury of having that so many
billions that people don't have. That's why I'm proud to
be an American. I love this country.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I kind of imagine what it would be like to
live in some of these other countries, whether they're right
wing dictatorships or communist countries, or where you can't even
talk openly to your neighbor or your friend because you
don't know if you live in Cuba, for example, or
if you live in Venezuela. They will want to find
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out if you're a loyal citizen. And you know, here
in America, with all of the controversy surrounding President Trump,
thank god, we have the First Amendment and people can
get out there in protest, and many of those people
don't realize that they're very The very fact of their
protest proves the strength of the country.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
You know, I agree, I agree, and it might not
be protests I agree with, but we have the First
Amendment give us a great right for free speech. And
this is a great country. And everyone who fought for
our safety, who fought overseas, my gratitude goes out to them,
as to you. You gett your service, and it just
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is a great country. And I am thankful to be
born here. And I don't take it for granted for
a second.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You bet you, Matt. I appreciate very a great a
great call as always, Thanks Matt. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thanks, thank you much.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So let me go to Christian up in Pbdy, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Christian, go right ahead, happy fourth of July week.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm right back at you. And that this is first
of all, it's a great time of year. I remember
as a kid school was out, you know, I thought
that the summer would never end. And you know then
then it was became labor day and you were back
in school.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
Kind of a It's funny how when you get older,
how fast time flies from season to season. But one
thing that we enjoyed most about this country, it is
the greatest generation that fought World War two. Yes, because
we gave everything so we did not have to look
over our shoulder. We could be whatever we had for
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purpose in life, to be educational, freedom, you know, be
a good person, and not have to worry about the
things that the countries have to worry about. It's just
to me, it's I believe that our process, regardless of
whatever is in charge, has a process that everybody their
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doors understaying it's it's beginnings. And somewhere in their arts
they're like, I have my version, but yeah, there's no
better place to be on earth.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah. And also, by the way, as much as we
want to criticize the founders of this country, they were
pretty smart guys. Uh, and women and and and without
their you know, their courage as well as their intellect.
It was an amazing combination of courage and intellect. It's
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one thing to have people who are intellectual, but it's
also a great gift to have people who will defend others.
And you know, that's that's a part of America that
I don't think is as appreciated as maybe most of us.
It should realize that that those men, you know, Washington
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and Franklin, Adams and Jefferson and Monroe and Madison and
and all of them, the leadership that happened to just
be born at that particular point in time. Boy, we
were lucky. We were lucky. We have they are few
and far between today as far as as far as
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I'm concerned, you know, And I'm just I were so
lucky when you think about it. No, we all complained,
we all have difficult days, and but to live here,
where else would you prefer? I mean, there's nowhere else
from me. And I got to tell you, when I
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feel it the most is when I'm coming home, particularly
if I'm coming home from overseas. And I realized, Yeah,
I was in Italy last summer. It was great, it
was fun. I was in Ireland a couple of years
before that. It was great, it was fun. I was
all over Europe on a couple of boat cruises. Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary,
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name it. I was there, but it's when you come
home to them. You just use a feeling. You can't
describe it, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
I'm on the same page as you. It's just to
me when I look at what we have, it's you
can be whatever you want.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
You can be free.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
To be yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, and there were there were people who there are
people who will actively deny that, but it's an undeniable
fact because there's so many people that you can be
born in poverty and you can end up a billionaire.
You can be born as a millionaire and you can
end up in poverty too. By the way, there are
those who go up and those who go down. Hey, Christian,
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I loved you call man. Thank you, thank you very much.
Taking the time to be happy fourth too, Thank you much.
All Right. I got a couple more lines that are open,
and they're wide open right now. Six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty one line at six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Take a very quick break coming right now
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We're talking about the fourth of July and are you
proud to be an American? Is there somewhere else in
the world you'd like to live? I can't think of
anywhere left to know what you think. Next up, Laurie, Laurie,
how are you today? Big day in Idaho?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Huh yeah, yep. That was a really interesting hearing.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What made it interesting? I didn't get a chance to
watch it. He will. Guy had a weird demeanor, didn't he.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
The judge or Colberg?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Colberg, okay, well, day one.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, he's a weirdo. He's well he was being told
exactly what to say and don't screw it up. And
you can see he at the laptop in front of him,
and she was showing him everything he needed to see
you pretty much?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah. When they asked him me, did you do this? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Ye?
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Are you guilty of premeditated human being?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
The guy had a million quite the judge and a
million questions. He went in and around to satisfy himself
that he wasn't being coercid, this is what he really
meant to do, and all sort of stuff. But the
judge opened with what we were kind of talking about
the other night a little bit, Yeah, sort of with
very strong words to the folks who had been inundating
his office with phone calls and letters. Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh? I did?
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Yeah, And then he said I passed them off to
the security or to the law enforcement, whichever was necessary.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well, but I also thought that he's a little tone
deaf there. Okay, if you can't take the heat, judge,
why don't you step off the bench and let someone
else take this. Yeah, it's a big case. People have
a right now.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Dis impressed with him?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, Yeah, he's the most important guy
in the room and he's not going to be influenced
by anybody. And I just got I have no idea
anything about his background, but I suspect if I looked
at his background pretty closely, I wouldn't like it very much.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Now, I wasn't really that impressed with the state that
prusp either either, But yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was odd.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
But now we wait till the twenty third. So anyway,
I love my country. I'm proud to be American. I
love the flag, and I could echo everything else that
the veil says, but one of the things I absolutely
love is that from seventeen seventy six, till today, we've
had only one government with some tweaks here and there,
which is pretty cool, very cool. Fundamental government, fund fundamental,
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and we celebrate the heck out of it every year.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah. Absolutely. I it's frustrating because it's so easy when
something goes wrong that everybody wants to pick apart. It's
almost like a family. No family is perfect. I've never
known a perfect family, and I guess there's never a
perfect country. Maybe maybe North Korea is a perfect country.
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If you want to make sure that you can't say anything,
you've got to be perfectly quiet, and you have to
be perfectly submissive, and you have to perfectly you know.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Yeah, they'd last about two days there.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, yeah, oh really. Yeah, you have to wear the
same type clothes, you have to salute the emperor and
all of that. There's none of that here, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
We haven't changed governments. We haven't had coops or anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So yeah, no, right, although some people will think that
there were those who were little concerned. Anyway, Hey, Laurie
is always thank you so much. We'll talk again, Okay,
thank you, good night, love her calls. Okay, next up,
Jim rather Tim excuse me, Tim and Winthrop. Tim, next nights,
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I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I can just got two things to say. Sure, I reflect.
The other gentleman said, God blessed Donald Trump and our president,
and he's going to hell of a job. And the
other thing to say is more important. Benjamin Franklin once
said that freedom is a great thing. You can keep it.
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That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
No, I understand that, but but that's not neither of
those the issues tonight, Tim, The issue is are you're
proud of the country.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm proud of the country.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was irrespective of who the president is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I wasn't too proud last year, right.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
But what I'm saying is it's it's it's easy to
be proud of America if the president is like you
voted for. It's more difficult to be proud of America
when you're on the losing end. That's all I'm trying
to say. And I was hoping to get more people.
You know, I expect the Trump people would be pretty
happy right now.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Make America be happy.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But I want it. But but I want to hear
from people on both.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Ronald Reagan's still my Favorite's.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right, right?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Thanks Tim, appreciate your call very much. I have a
great night. Good night. Let me go. Okay, we're going
to go to Daryl in New Brunswick. Daryl, you can
tell me you're proud of Canada as well, or you
can tell me you're proud of America, whichever you like.
Speaker 13 (35:57):
Daryl, I'm proud of both because my grandfather's mother was
from northern Michigan. All right, we're talking, but that goes
back to the whole point. Is you mentioned being overseas
Italy and Europe and whatnot, and even when you're in Africa,
different places of the world, Caribbean. The best thing about
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coming home. I grew up on the Ontario Michigan border, say,
ten football fields away from the US. And the nice
thing is we could actually go to the US with
a driver's license, but we can actually coming back from overseas,
we could go to a drive through or the burger
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joint with the old hot rod. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
How that relates to what we're talking about tonight. So
you can drive over and get a burger in America
and drive back, right, is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 13 (36:54):
Well, we grew up about forty five minutes from Detroit.
So dearborn Michigan actually has the big, biggest hot rod
run every year.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Okay, well, that's a good thing to be proud of,
even even if you are technically live on the other
side of the demarcation line.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
But at the same time, we grew up on the river,
Saint Clair River, and we get fireworks on the first
and the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Now you're talking, Now you're talking. That's a good thing too, Daryl.
I got a two or three other folks. They got
to sneak in here. Great to hear your voice. Happy
fourth of July. I know you don't celebrate it up there,
but you're gonna have a Fourth of July, just like
you're gonna have a third and the fifth of July.
Speaker 13 (37:37):
Okay, Hey, we're gonna have one of those days every
year until that stops.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Thanks, Thanks, Daryl. I appreciate it. All right, We're gonna
go down real quick. Jim, I got you in. You
called late. Are you proud to be in America?
Speaker 12 (37:51):
Dan? Yes, I am. I just want to say it's
not Thanksgiving, okay, it's fourth of July. It's about telling
you and I'm not saying everybody should be a rebel
every day, but you should have that rebel spirit in
you that you just don't necessarily don't drink the kool aid.
All right, taking that call?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Thanks by, Thanks, Thanks Jim. And I know you're a rebel.
You've proven it to me. Darlene in Watertown, Hi, Darlene,
how are you?
Speaker 14 (38:18):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm too it great? We got to be quick for
because we're getting out of time. Here go ahead, darling.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Oh I'm the land on the last one.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Hey, there's one behind you. Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (38:30):
Happy birthday America. Yes, I am so proud to be
in American I have enph you going into the Navy
real soon, and I couldn't be more proud. But I'm
calling to say Dan, have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Thank you very much. Have you called before? Is this
your first time calling?
Speaker 14 (38:50):
Oh? I have called before, But Dan, I just wish
you have the best vacation. And that's what America is
all about.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
It is everybody needs a vacation. Thanks so much, Call
more often. Okay. I love you, I love your spirit,
I love your voice. Thanks. Have a great one. By
all right, what did we get down to one?
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Here?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Okay? Here we go Flabberto in Rhode Island, Fliberto, I
got about twenty seconds for you. You've called late, but
donad you're here, Coren ahead. I'm welcome, all.
Speaker 15 (39:17):
Right, Dan, great, great, thank you so much. Sure I'm
probed to be an American, neprowise American and excellent history
history and uh well everything in the patunity is everything
that's that's with the Country Office.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Flaberto, you're a man of your word. Happy fourth to July.
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 15 (39:38):
Thank you for the same to you, and a happy
birthday for next.
Speaker 14 (39:40):
Week with you.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, thanks buddy, Okay, all right, we're done for
the night and I'm done for the week. Morgan White's
here tomorrow and Friday night. Treating well, Shane and Rob.
Great job, Marita, great job. As always. I will end
as always, all dogs, all cats, all pets go to him.
That's why Pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago
in February, that's where your pets are who passed. They
loved and you love that and I do believe you'll
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see them again. Have a great fourth of July, every one.
I'll see you on the fourteenth, Dan Ray for night's
side stakehold
It's Nights with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you very much, Dan Watkins. We have reached the
twelfth hour of the week. I'm off for the balance
of the week. So for me, this is my last
night for about ten days. I'll be back on the
fourteenth of July, which is a Monday. I just want
to make sure when the calendar changes, but to make sure, yeah,
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the fourteenth, Yeah, I'm going to be off tomorrow, Friday,
and next week. I've actually had a fairly busy six months.
We have knocked out about one hundred and twenty one
shows since New Year's Night, and I was actually on
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New Year's Night. So what I want to do is finish.
We are literally at the cusp of the Fourth of
July weekend. This is the two hundred and forty ninth
celebration of the Fourth of July here in America. Next
year will be the big round number two fifty, and
I just want to open up the lines and give
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you a chance. I know that the Fourth of July
a lot of people think of it as picnics and barbecues,
and a lot of people think about maybe having a
couple of drinks whatever, go to a ballgame, all of
which is good, all of which is great. But the
meaning of the fourth of July is that two and
forty nine years ago, a bunch of Americans who none
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of us knew personally, who have long since passed generations,
before they rolled the dice, they gambled their their lives
and their fortune and their future by breaking away from
Britain and initiating the with what happened at Conquered Lexington
(01:59):
in seventeen seventy five and Bunker Hill, which we've just celebrated,
and then on the director that the Declaration of Independence
and threw into the seventeen eighties until we finally were
able to convince the Brits that we were indeed a
nation of our own. We over the course of the
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year here on Night Side, we often deal with issues
and we get people who disagree on topics and all
of that, and I realized that that in the era
of Donald Trump, there are strong feelings in both directions,
on both sides. However, this is the time of year,
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the one weekend I would hope that we can put
our political positions aside and just say, hey, whether you're
a conservative, Republican liberal Democrat ended end. I don't know
even a socialist from New York City running for mayor,
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that we're all lucky to be here, that we live
in the safest country in the world. We have crime. Sure, absolutely,
has there been an attack, yeah, nine to eleven. Absolutely,
Pearl Harbor before it, of though Hawaii was not a
state at the time. So I'd like to hear from you,
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and what is it that you like best about America.
I'm sure that there's a lot of things that you
don't like, and whether you're a conservative or a liberal,
there's plenty that you could cite for me what you
don't like. But I think that all of us, really
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we're very lucky to be born here. Now, there may
be other countries around the world that you'd prefer to
live in, Okay, that's fine. You may want to tell
me that there's a paradigm in Sweden and Norway one
of the Baltic countries, so you'd rather live I don't
know wherever Canada, Okay, But I don't see too many
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people leaving America. To be really honest with you, I
know that every once in a while you'll have some
ROSI o'donnald type who who. I don't know if they
really leave for good, or if they leave for ulterior motives,
or if they're looking for some publicity. Their careers are
a little bit of a reach the twilight stage. I
don't know. But what is it about America that you
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like best? And I'll bet you we will get a
variety of points of view. For me, it is the
judicial system that we have. And again, maybe as a lawyer,
you would expect me to say that, but it is true.
I mean, it is a judicial system where, in all honesty,
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we as a country made it as decision a long
time ago that it's better to have one hundred guilty
people go free than one innocent person be convicted. And
we're not talking about the death pedal there. So I
just want to open it up. I could talk all
night about how lucky I feel to have been born
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in America. I have great memories of Fourth of July
as a kid, I grew up in Reidville, as they think,
all of you know at this point, which is a
part of Boston, a part of Hyde Park, if you will.
We always thought of ourselves as a separate section. And
I can remember that on the fourth of July. The
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big kick was this is back in now in the
late fifties, early sixties, the MDC, the Metropolitan District Commission.
Back in the day, you could go up to Camp
Megs and they would give you a Hoodsie cup a
hoodsy cap if you remember those in a little wooden spoon.
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Maybe some of you remember them, maybe you don't. I
just am going to open up the lines here. What
is it you like best about this country? And do
you consider yourself liking to be an American? Do you
consider yourself liking to be born here? I know there
are people who don't, but I'm hoping to hear from
as many of my callers as possible. If you've called
earlier this week, you always have a hall pass on
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the final hour of the week. This is not the
twentieth hour, but it's the twelfth hour. It's a relatively
shortened week for me. As I said, my good friend
Morgan White will be here tomorrow night and Friday night.
Thank you, Morgan White, and please treat Morgan well as
you always do, and then I'll be back on March
four or July fourteenth. March fourteenth, if only no the
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vacation will not be that long. On July fourteenth. Here
are my numbers, and they're pretty easy. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
I will be sorely disappointed if on a topic as
simple as this, on the cusp of the fourth of
July weekend, these lines do not explode and stay lit
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until midnight. Six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I hope
when you tell me what you like best about America,
I hope that you will need to identify yourself. So
maybe people who have a different view of this country
than you politically will be able to realize that there
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are good people on both sides of the political spectrum,
and whether you again are a Republican conservative republican or
just a conservative, or a liberal Democrat or died in
the world democrat, whatever you want to call it, that
there are people who disagree with you politically but fundamentally
wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world and
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feel that they lucked out on the I guess I'll
call it the birth lottery to have been born here
and even at this time back on Nightside. The only
lines open right now are six one seven, nine three,
one ten thirty. Let's light them all up. Let's light it.
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Light my lines up like a Christmas tree. Let's let
him look like fireworks. Feel free to join this conversation
back after this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Folks. The the six months of a nine three, one
ten thirty line is now two lines there are full,
So Shana and Pete stay right there. A bunch of
you had filled up the six one, seven, two, five
four ten thirty line, and several of you dropped off.
So if you've had a connectivity problem, call back and
we will put you back in priority. Let me go
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to Joel and Natick. Joel, what do you like about America?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Joel?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The best part of living in the United States Dan
is being able to listen to Dan Ray at nightside.
Monday was Friday, eight pm to bednight.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, I'm sure, thank you very much, my friend, but
I'm sure there's a lot of better things that this
country has to offer. That's for sure. You're very kind, Joel,
too kind, that's for sure. I wouldn't want to live
anywhere else. What about you?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You know, I bet stay in the United States. Yeah, yeah,
there's Yeah, you have the freedom to do anything you
want while getting into trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, there's some guardrails, and most of
us observe the guard rails, and and and things go along.
I'm sure that all of us have complaints. We as
Americans tend to be uh kind of complainers. We get
a little cranky, we don't want to pay as much taxes.
We're concerned that. You know, all of us have our
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pet peeves. You wouldn't be an American without a pet peeve.
But it's important to let people know this weekend and
tell people not only here on the on night side,
but tell them everywhere that, hey, you're proud to be
an American and for all of our flaws, we're still
the best country in the world. I hope you agree
with me that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh, definitely, definitely, Dan, Definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There are some other great countries out there, Okay, and
there's some other real tough countries to live in, but
nothing as good as far as I'm concerned as this country.
And I've traveled a little bit, I've seen a pretty
good part of the world. Never been to Asian, never
been in Africa, never been to South America, spent a
lot of time in different countries in Europe and European countries.
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They're wonderful, no question, but they can't talk the good
old US of a.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
In my opinion, Dan, where are you going to find
democracy like the United States?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Israel?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Besides US? Do aren't any others?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well? I mean you'll have other democracies Britain, But I
think of Israel as a democracy that's under fire, and
yet they've been able to survive seventy seven years since
they're founding in nineteen forty eight. Yeah, that's there were
fewer democracies in the world than people realize, and that
that is scary. Joe, you have a great fourth of July,
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and I thank you for joining the conversation tonight. You're
a great friend.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Thanks Joel to have a big fucking right, Darren, take care.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Thanks Pal, talk to you soon. Let me go next
to Shana is in Milton. Hey, Shana, welcome, you're next
to the nightside.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Hey Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm great? Is this Shane or Shana?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
I'm confused Shana, Shana, no worries?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, great Shana? What what's best about living in the
US For.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Me, it's it's truly the land of opportunity. Is somebody
who is a first generation American here in this country great,
which I absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You know, my mother moved over here from Ireland in
nineteen eighty six with forty one dollars in her pocket
and a checked luggage bag, and you know turned it
into being able to give me everything I have today.
And you know you can't. There's no other place where
you could be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Boy, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So you're you were born here obviously, Yes, what do
you do? What sort of work do you do?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I just finished my master's degree in social work, so
I'm working in the mental health world. And you know
it's she came here and she got her nursing degree
while while she had us, and you know it's nowhere else,
exactly nowhere else you could do that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well, when you put it in the terms of your
mom comes here with forty one dollars in her pocket.
Uh uh and is able to successfully navigate everything that
she had to navigate. Wow, I'm glad I didn't have
to have those obstacles. To be honest with you, and
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many How many siblings do you have?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Myself and my sister, and.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Your sister's doing well? Is also I.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Hope yes, she's. She's hoping to get onto a police
force soon, you know. And these opportunities you can't get
them anywhere else, and there's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
SHANEA, thanks so much, Thanks so much. You're called what
what county did your mom come from?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I just got back from a couple of weeks stay
in Ireland. We are from County Claire. We're from right
outside of Kilkee, right on the west coast there.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, I know County Claire. I've been there. My four
beers came from County Cork.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Uh I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, so a little town called Mala m a l
l o w or m a l a with with
the with the Irish or the Gaelic spelling. Thanks Shanna.
I so appreciate you calling. Have a great night, good night.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Thank you, Dan, you too, Bye bye, all right, thank
you much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is your first I should have asked you, is
this your first time calling?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, we got to give you a wrong so we
like to welcome people here, so come on back soon.
I'll look forward to you next call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Absolutely, I love the show. Thank you bye, thanks you by.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We're going to go next. Yeut, let me go to
Pete in South Carolina. Pete, welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I'm fine, my friend. What do I like best about
this country? I love the history. I've lived and worked
in Boston, as you know, I'm from Philly, and the
history is fantastic. And the opportunities so that everybody can
get if you'd want to take advantage of them, they're there, Yeah,
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they're there, no question about it. And the other thing
I wanted to tell you, I've been listening to you
for I don't know how many years you been on now,
eighteen eighteen, Well it would be eighteen. I've got about seventeen.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, it will be eighteen on October first. We'll start
year nineteen on October first.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Okay, Well, I got one other thing to tell you,
because they know you want to get a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Of callers there, Sure, go ahead and take it down.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This is important.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
On July eighth, you and I are going to turn
one year older, So happy birthday. Because I won't be
able to get hold of you.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well yeah, well you know what you could always get
a hold of me. But happy birthday to you, Pete.
I know that we do share that birthday and it's
not the same year, but we're pretty close. We're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So one year.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And no one has to know who's older or younger,
as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I'm not saying a word my friend.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I also like the fact that I like this kid
who's playing for Boston Roman Anthony. Yeah, I really like him.
Did he play for your son?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No? He he was I think at Double A last
year and okay, and he came up and he was
on the fast track. He's he's the young good yeah. Yeah.
And they they almost swept the Red Legs, but they
they were leading three nothing tonight and unfortunately one of
(16:12):
the relievers gave up a grand Slam home run to
I think eight hitter. So but they won. They won
the series. I'm not sure they're going to the World
Series this year, but there certainly are between between Anthony
Christian Campbell, the kid that they sent down, uh and Meyer,
the kid who's primarily playing third base. They have some
young young guy there and some young people there. And
(16:33):
I also very much like there was a pitcher named
Dobbins who's won a bunch of games. Young guy and
another guy named Fitz who they they got from the
Yankees and he hasn't won his first game yet, but
he's pitched really well. So I think this hope for
the Red Sox going forwards, maybe.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Not to see what happens. Maybe it'll be a Red
Sox silly World series that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Would be fun. We'd have to have some out of
a bet on that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You would thinks absolutely will have a bet.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Thanks, p talk soon, Happy for you have a good one.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He's safe on your vacation. Happy birthday and I'll talk
to you later.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Happy Birthday to you in turn. Thanks good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, triple eight nine ten thirty. Gonna go to
my friend Joe in Boston. Joe, I know you're proud
to be an American.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I am Dan.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
This is one of the best charges I ever made,
Like I tell people on the second best choice that
I ever made.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Your wife, absolutely exactly exactly, and I can not be
more grateful.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I mean, this is the country that gave me the
opportunity and we just keep on doing it. And I'm
thank God for Donald Trump because we were going on
the wrong path and he brought us back.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, I know, I know that you did. You feel
strongly about that, and there's a point of personal privilege.
I'll let you get that in. But I hope that
I'll get people on both sides of the equation, the
political equations.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Absolutely, It's like being a results fan and a Yankish fan.
We all can be friends at the end of the day, Yes,
but not when it comes to it. In American number
one for me in my book, because the opportunities that
I have and this is the best country that there is,
second to none. Absolutely, And I love you with all
(18:31):
the best of you and your family Joe right with
the grand kids around, which is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
To me, dear to my heart.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You know in sense when it comes to grandkids, how.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Many do you have? Give me? We only have two?
How many do you have?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I got a big bolly, the one that you've seen before,
but totally is.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Five of them.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
So I can now be more grateful. I thank God
every single day. In a whole bunch of times, I'm sudden.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, I'm with you totally. I like you. We share
a lot of similar feelings show and not at least
of which is blessed to be here and blessed to
have good families. Joe will talk to Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I love you that, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Thank you, love you too, Joe, you know that. Thanks
so much.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'll talk soon. Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, we've got a couple of lines here now six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty. Uh, and now the one that's wide
open in six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
I just want to hear from from my listeners. And
if you're a first time caller, as SHANEA was, all
the better. I have two older listen I shouldn't say older,
but old friends listeners regular listeners lined up. So whether
(19:43):
you're a regular listener, or you've been on this show
one hundred times or you've never been on it before,
light it up. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten
thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Coming
right back on nights Side. And for those of you
who dropped off, if you're in a bad city situation
with a cell dropping off in a car, call back
(20:03):
and we'll get you back to where you were in line. Okay,
thanks very much. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
We're asking people to call in and tell us what
they like about America. There's a lot to like about America.
Let's next up, Eileen, I Lean welcome you and next
on Nightside.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Oh well, thank you well. I love America. And I
was a child during the Second World War and I
was so grateful that we didn't have war here. And
(20:49):
I actually I spent uh good amount of time with
one of my my aunt Irene in Cleveland, Ohio, and
we had I had cousins who were uh from who
(21:11):
lived in England and they were sent here and they
lived with They lived with her too, So I got
to know my English cousins very well. But in America,
we have many opportunities, and I I feel very lucky
(21:38):
for the education that I've been able to.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Nowhere.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nowhere in the world, a lot of a lot of
countries around the world have these caste systems, and that's
they decide when you're in the seventh or sixth or
seventh grade if your college bound are going to go
in a different direction. Thank you so much, thank you
for joining us tonight, as all was always lovely to
hear your voice. And you have a great fourth of July.
(22:04):
Are you going to be heading down to the water,
I hope. Oh yeah, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Okay, okay, thanks dam Let's go.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Next to Christina. Christina, you are next on night Side.
What do you like about this country? Hi, Christina, I.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Love this country so much. I'm very blessed. My my
parents always taught me so much history, and I was
very blessed my my you know, I had my my
father was in the Air Force, my uncle was close God.
And I have a nephew now serving in the Army.
So I'm very blessed, like I have so much. You know,
I'm so lucky to be here in America.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You have the branch, you have the service branches covered
in your family. That's a very very patreonic family.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Yeah, my father and mother always is still so much
history into us. They I like, you know, to be here,
to be uh taught freedom and you know that we're
lucky to be here. They always make sure.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, you know, the funny thing about it, Aileen, as
as you know, is it's kind of a quirk of faith.
I mean, I have no idea why I was born
in America. Uh, I mean I kind of look at
it like, there's X numbers of babies who are born
around the world, and I think our population is six percent,
(23:28):
so kind of added about a six percent shot could
have been born in a whole bunch of different places.
And uh I liked. I like where I landed, and
uh I like Boston as well. To be honest with you,
I did a lot of parts of the country I
would have been comfortable with. But I like this city
and I like I like I like the weather, I
like the change of seasons. I know that there's other
(23:50):
parts of the country where people live where uh you know,
the weather's a nice seventy degrees most days, a few
little cool days and some warmer days. But I'm I'm happy.
I'm a happy camper, simplest, simple ast that about. The
other thing is about drivers. That's we could do a little.
We could all become better drivers, I think right, and
(24:13):
it would be perfect. Thanks Thanks so much, Christina. Always
great to hear your voice. Christine, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Happy for it to July. I have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I sure will. I'll be back. I'll be back on
the fourteenth of July. Thanks Christine. Let me go to
Matt Matt and Brighton. Matt, you were next on Nightside.
What do you like best about America? Oh?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
Well, first off, man, I wish you and your family
to come blessed fourth of July and Pennans Day.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Right back at.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Absolutely thank you. You know, I'm of the younger generation.
America is something that I never want to take for granted.
I am born here and it brings so much opportunity.
There are issues and all that, but it brings so
much opportunity, so much happiness. We're in a free, democratic society,
(25:10):
and that's so important to grow up around and understand
and the foundation of understanding that notion that I've been
able to have the luxury of having that so many
billions that people don't have. That's why I'm proud to
be an American. I love this country.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I kind of imagine what it would be like to
live in some of these other countries, whether they're right
wing dictatorships or communist countries, or where you can't even
talk openly to your neighbor or your friend because you
don't know if you live in Cuba, for example, or
if you live in Venezuela. They will want to find
(25:49):
out if you're a loyal citizen. And you know, here
in America, with all of the controversy surrounding President Trump,
thank god, we have the First Amendment and people can
get out there in protest, and many of those people
don't realize that they're very The very fact of their
protest proves the strength of the country.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
You know, I agree, I agree, and it might not
be protests I agree with, but we have the First
Amendment give us a great right for free speech. And
this is a great country. And everyone who fought for
our safety, who fought overseas, my gratitude goes out to them,
as to you. You gett your service, and it just
(26:34):
is a great country. And I am thankful to be
born here. And I don't take it for granted for
a second.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You bet you, Matt. I appreciate very a great a
great call as always, Thanks Matt. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thanks, thank you much.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So let me go to Christian up in Pbdy, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Christian, go right ahead, happy fourth of July week.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm right back at you. And that this is first
of all, it's a great time of year. I remember
as a kid school was out, you know, I thought
that the summer would never end. And you know then
then it was became labor day and you were back
in school.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
Kind of a It's funny how when you get older,
how fast time flies from season to season. But one
thing that we enjoyed most about this country, it is
the greatest generation that fought World War two. Yes, because
we gave everything so we did not have to look
over our shoulder. We could be whatever we had for
(27:30):
purpose in life, to be educational, freedom, you know, be
a good person, and not have to worry about the
things that the countries have to worry about. It's just
to me, it's I believe that our process, regardless of
whatever is in charge, has a process that everybody their
(27:54):
doors understaying it's it's beginnings. And somewhere in their arts
they're like, I have my version, but yeah, there's no
better place to be on earth.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah. And also, by the way, as much as we
want to criticize the founders of this country, they were
pretty smart guys. Uh, and women and and and without
their you know, their courage as well as their intellect.
It was an amazing combination of courage and intellect. It's
(28:25):
one thing to have people who are intellectual, but it's
also a great gift to have people who will defend others.
And you know, that's that's a part of America that
I don't think is as appreciated as maybe most of us.
It should realize that that those men, you know, Washington
(28:47):
and Franklin, Adams and Jefferson and Monroe and Madison and
and all of them, the leadership that happened to just
be born at that particular point in time. Boy, we
were lucky. We were lucky. We have they are few
and far between today as far as as far as
(29:08):
I'm concerned, you know, And I'm just I were so
lucky when you think about it. No, we all complained,
we all have difficult days, and but to live here,
where else would you prefer? I mean, there's nowhere else
from me. And I got to tell you, when I
(29:30):
feel it the most is when I'm coming home, particularly
if I'm coming home from overseas. And I realized, Yeah,
I was in Italy last summer. It was great, it
was fun. I was in Ireland a couple of years
before that. It was great, it was fun. I was
all over Europe on a couple of boat cruises. Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary,
(29:54):
name it. I was there, but it's when you come
home to them. You just use a feeling. You can't
describe it, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
I'm on the same page as you. It's just to
me when I look at what we have, it's you
can be whatever you want.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
You can be free.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
To be yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, and there were there were people who there are
people who will actively deny that, but it's an undeniable
fact because there's so many people that you can be
born in poverty and you can end up a billionaire.
You can be born as a millionaire and you can
end up in poverty too. By the way, there are
those who go up and those who go down. Hey, Christian,
(30:41):
I loved you call man. Thank you, thank you very much.
Taking the time to be happy fourth too, Thank you much.
All Right. I got a couple more lines that are open,
and they're wide open right now. Six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty one line at six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Take a very quick break coming right now
on night Side.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
We're talking about the fourth of July and are you
proud to be an American? Is there somewhere else in
the world you'd like to live? I can't think of
anywhere left to know what you think. Next up, Laurie, Laurie,
how are you today? Big day in Idaho?
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Huh yeah, yep. That was a really interesting hearing.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What made it interesting? I didn't get a chance to
watch it. He will. Guy had a weird demeanor, didn't he.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
The judge or Colberg?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Colberg, okay, well, day one.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yeah, he's a weirdo. He's well he was being told
exactly what to say and don't screw it up. And
you can see he at the laptop in front of him,
and she was showing him everything he needed to see
you pretty much?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah. When they asked him me, did you do this? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Ye?
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Are you guilty of premeditated human being?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
The guy had a million quite the judge and a
million questions. He went in and around to satisfy himself
that he wasn't being coercid, this is what he really
meant to do, and all sort of stuff. But the
judge opened with what we were kind of talking about
the other night a little bit, Yeah, sort of with
very strong words to the folks who had been inundating
his office with phone calls and letters. Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh? I did?
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Yeah, And then he said I passed them off to
the security or to the law enforcement, whichever was necessary.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well, but I also thought that he's a little tone
deaf there. Okay, if you can't take the heat, judge,
why don't you step off the bench and let someone
else take this. Yeah, it's a big case. People have
a right now.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
Dis impressed with him?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, Yeah, he's the most important guy
in the room and he's not going to be influenced
by anybody. And I just got I have no idea
anything about his background, but I suspect if I looked
at his background pretty closely, I wouldn't like it very much.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Now, I wasn't really that impressed with the state that
prusp either either, But yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was odd.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
But now we wait till the twenty third. So anyway,
I love my country. I'm proud to be American. I
love the flag, and I could echo everything else that
the veil says, but one of the things I absolutely
love is that from seventeen seventy six, till today, we've
had only one government with some tweaks here and there,
which is pretty cool, very cool. Fundamental government, fund fundamental,
(33:27):
and we celebrate the heck out of it every year.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah. Absolutely. I it's frustrating because it's so easy when
something goes wrong that everybody wants to pick apart. It's
almost like a family. No family is perfect. I've never
known a perfect family, and I guess there's never a
perfect country. Maybe maybe North Korea is a perfect country.
(33:52):
If you want to make sure that you can't say anything,
you've got to be perfectly quiet, and you have to
be perfectly submissive, and you have to perfectly you know.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Yeah, they'd last about two days there.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, yeah, oh really. Yeah, you have to wear the
same type clothes, you have to salute the emperor and
all of that. There's none of that here, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
We haven't changed governments. We haven't had coops or anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
So yeah, no, right, although some people will think that
there were those who were little concerned. Anyway, Hey, Laurie
is always thank you so much. We'll talk again, Okay,
thank you, good night, love her calls. Okay, next up,
Jim rather Tim excuse me, Tim and Winthrop. Tim, next nights,
(34:38):
I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I can just got two things to say. Sure, I reflect.
The other gentleman said, God blessed Donald Trump and our president,
and he's going to hell of a job. And the
other thing to say is more important. Benjamin Franklin once
said that freedom is a great thing. You can keep it.
(35:01):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
No, I understand that, but but that's not neither of
those the issues tonight, Tim, The issue is are you're
proud of the country.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm proud of the country.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Was irrespective of who the president is.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I wasn't too proud last year, right.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
But what I'm saying is it's it's it's easy to
be proud of America if the president is like you
voted for. It's more difficult to be proud of America
when you're on the losing end. That's all I'm trying
to say. And I was hoping to get more people.
You know, I expect the Trump people would be pretty
happy right now.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Make America be happy.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But I want it. But but I want to hear
from people on both.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Ronald Reagan's still my Favorite's.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
All right, right?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Thanks Tim, appreciate your call very much. I have a
great night. Good night. Let me go. Okay, we're going
to go to Daryl in New Brunswick. Daryl, you can
tell me you're proud of Canada as well, or you
can tell me you're proud of America, whichever you like.
Speaker 13 (35:57):
Daryl, I'm proud of both because my grandfather's mother was
from northern Michigan. All right, we're talking, but that goes
back to the whole point. Is you mentioned being overseas
Italy and Europe and whatnot, and even when you're in Africa,
different places of the world, Caribbean. The best thing about
(36:19):
coming home. I grew up on the Ontario Michigan border, say,
ten football fields away from the US. And the nice
thing is we could actually go to the US with
a driver's license, but we can actually coming back from overseas,
we could go to a drive through or the burger
(36:41):
joint with the old hot rod. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
How that relates to what we're talking about tonight. So
you can drive over and get a burger in America
and drive back, right, is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 13 (36:54):
Well, we grew up about forty five minutes from Detroit.
So dearborn Michigan actually has the big, biggest hot rod
run every year.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Okay, well, that's a good thing to be proud of,
even even if you are technically live on the other
side of the demarcation line.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
But at the same time, we grew up on the river,
Saint Clair River, and we get fireworks on the first
and the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Now you're talking, Now you're talking. That's a good thing too, Daryl.
I got a two or three other folks. They got
to sneak in here. Great to hear your voice. Happy
fourth of July. I know you don't celebrate it up there,
but you're gonna have a Fourth of July, just like
you're gonna have a third and the fifth of July.
Speaker 13 (37:37):
Okay, Hey, we're gonna have one of those days every
year until that stops.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Thanks, Thanks, Daryl. I appreciate it. All right, We're gonna
go down real quick. Jim, I got you in. You
called late. Are you proud to be in America?
Speaker 12 (37:51):
Dan? Yes, I am. I just want to say it's
not Thanksgiving, okay, it's fourth of July. It's about telling
you and I'm not saying everybody should be a rebel
every day, but you should have that rebel spirit in
you that you just don't necessarily don't drink the kool aid.
All right, taking that call?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Thanks by, Thanks, Thanks Jim. And I know you're a rebel.
You've proven it to me. Darlene in Watertown, Hi, Darlene,
how are you?
Speaker 14 (38:18):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I'm too it great? We got to be quick for
because we're getting out of time. Here go ahead, darling.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Oh I'm the land on the last one.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Hey, there's one behind you. Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (38:30):
Happy birthday America. Yes, I am so proud to be
in American I have enph you going into the Navy
real soon, and I couldn't be more proud. But I'm
calling to say Dan, have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Thank you very much. Have you called before? Is this
your first time calling?
Speaker 14 (38:50):
Oh? I have called before, But Dan, I just wish
you have the best vacation. And that's what America is
all about.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
It is everybody needs a vacation. Thanks so much, Call
more often. Okay. I love you, I love your spirit,
I love your voice. Thanks. Have a great one. By
all right, what did we get down to one?
Speaker 6 (39:07):
Here?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Okay? Here we go Flabberto in Rhode Island, Fliberto, I
got about twenty seconds for you. You've called late, but
donad you're here, Coren ahead. I'm welcome, all.
Speaker 15 (39:17):
Right, Dan, great, great, thank you so much. Sure I'm
probed to be an American, neprowise American and excellent history
history and uh well everything in the patunity is everything
that's that's with the Country Office.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Flaberto, you're a man of your word. Happy fourth to July.
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 15 (39:38):
Thank you for the same to you, and a happy
birthday for next.
Speaker 14 (39:40):
Week with you.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, thanks buddy, Okay, all right, we're done for
the night and I'm done for the week. Morgan White's
here tomorrow and Friday night. Treating well, Shane and Rob.
Great job, Marita, great job. As always. I will end
as always, all dogs, all cats, all pets go to him.
That's why Pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago
in February, that's where your pets are who passed. They
loved and you love that and I do believe you'll
(40:01):
see them again. Have a great fourth of July, every one.
I'll see you on the fourteenth, Dan Ray for night's
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