Speaker 1: It's nice eyes Dan Ray Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: So we lost Steve, our caller from Maine. Steve, if
Speaker 2: you want to call back, we'll get you on because
Speaker 2: I kind of short changed you before the break. But
Speaker 2: if you are done, that's okay. This is a little
Speaker 2: bit more of that interview yesterday with the Cole Shanahan.
Speaker 2: This is a podcast, our podcast called Impact Theory. The
Speaker 2: host is a fellow named Tom Bill. You no idea.
Speaker 2: He sat down with Nicole Shanahan. She is the multi
Speaker 2: millionaire from Silicon Valley who was considered quite liberal and
Speaker 2: her money has in large part funded the Bobby Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior RKA Junior's campaign, and she was asked by
Speaker 2: the host if the campaign had talked both to Donald
Speaker 2: Trump into the Democrats. There was at least one network
Speaker 2: reporter tonight, I believe was from ABC who said that
Speaker 2: there had been conversations or there was been to reach
Speaker 2: out from the Kennedy campaign to both Trump and the Democrats.
Speaker 2: This is the question. She calls it fake news. This
Speaker 2: is Nicole Shanahan yesterday, cut twenty two. Please we're up,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: There were rumors going around that RFK was in talks
Speaker 3: with Trump that he was in talks with the Harris
Speaker 3: camp for potential endorsement to either of them if they
Speaker 3: could give him, I presume a spot in one of
Speaker 3: their cabinets. Is there any truth to it? I'd love
Speaker 3: to hear about that.
Speaker 4: Definitely not in talks with Harris. Definitely never have brought
Speaker 4: up this idea of an endorsement with Harris. Definitely ever
Speaker 4: brought up a cabinet position with Harris. So those those
Speaker 4: are the MSN just taking something and spinning it in
Speaker 4: a way that makes you know their chosen political group
Speaker 4: look good.
Speaker 5: Fake news, fake news?
Speaker 2: Where have I heard that trim before? I got a
Speaker 2: couple of lines at six, one, seven, two, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Marty and Florida. Marty, welcome back.
Speaker 2: How are you? I know you're a Trump supporter. I
Speaker 2: assume you're pleased with this news.
Speaker 6: I am very pleased. But let me say one thing,
Speaker 6: and this is to anybody who is not who doesn't
Speaker 6: think they're going to vote for Trump right now, we're
Speaker 6: in a terrible situation in this country. If you heard
Speaker 6: comrade Obama speak, the guy sounds like a communist. Bernie
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders is a communist, So we have an opportunity
Speaker 6: to either put in communists or put in Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Anybody who's going to analyze anything about Donald Trump is
Speaker 6: either very immature or else very selfish, because he's the
Speaker 6: only one. He's the only one right now that makes
Speaker 6: sense to vote. If we don't vote for him, there's
Speaker 6: going to be a serious problem in this country.
Speaker 2: Now I jump in, Marty, let me jump in for
Speaker 2: a second. I want you to take a breath. First
Speaker 2: of all, I don't think labeling people with whom you
Speaker 2: and I might both disagree as communists is helpful because
Speaker 2: I think that that word has been thrown around, and
Speaker 2: both you and I are old enough to remember it
Speaker 2: being thrown around by other people. Just because Bernie Sanders
Speaker 2: is an avowed socialist, it's a big step from being
Speaker 2: a socialist to being a communist. I mean, a communist
Speaker 2: is Vladimir Putin, is Joe Stalin, as Nikita Krushchev is
Speaker 2: Leonid Brezhnev, is you know, is the leaders of North Korea?
Speaker 2: Uh again, it's you know, a communist is the current
Speaker 2: president of China, It's milesse Toung. It's I just think
Speaker 2: that that that is from many people, a step way
Speaker 2: too far. That's all. I don't think it helps your argument.
Speaker 6: Okay, now listen to this. First of all, Comrade Obama
Speaker 6: never had any private job. He spent his whole life
Speaker 6: in politics. He never was in a situation where he
Speaker 6: had a business, where he created jobs or whatever. Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 6: I think there's there's Republicans also who have been elected
Speaker 6: early in their career.
Speaker 2: I mean, what did Mitch.
Speaker 6: Mccau I'm not talking about I'm talking about Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Donald Trump has so many enterprises.
Speaker 2: No, No, I agree with you, and if you and
Speaker 2: if you focus on that, I agree with you. But
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that.
Speaker 6: Also, also, when we remember uh Obama's wife, Michelle, when
Speaker 6: when Obama got elected, Michelle set up until previously, I
Speaker 6: couldn't be proud of his country. You know what, I'm
Speaker 6: a working class person, I'm a retired policeman, I'm from
Speaker 6: a blue collar background, whatever. I've always been proud of
Speaker 6: this country for many different reasons. So they're on a gang,
Speaker 6: a gang that's supporting Harris and I don't care.
Speaker 2: By the way, I think that the the remark that
Speaker 2: you made about which was accurate about Michelle Obama was
Speaker 2: absolutely accurate. And when she said that back in twenty
Speaker 2: and sixteen, I thought to myself, you're a family member
Speaker 2: has to be elected president of the United States before
Speaker 2: you're proud to be an American.
Speaker 6: That's also another thing. Sanders is so wacky because he's
Speaker 6: supposed to be Jewish. He doesn't support Israel.
Speaker 2: Well, Marty, you know as well as I do that
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders, if he was on the phone with us,
Speaker 2: would say that he supports Israel, but he supports it
Speaker 2: in a different way. I mean, I just think that
Speaker 2: that at this point, you want to bring people to you,
Speaker 2: not push them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, but let me say this about Bobby Kennedy Junior. YEP,
Speaker 6: I don't have anything against him. I always looked at
Speaker 6: him with let's say, potential, and what I'm looking at
Speaker 6: him now with his voice problem. I think that the
Speaker 6: Democrats would consider him as damaged goods. Remember what they
Speaker 6: did to what was it, Senator Eagleton. There was two candidates,
Speaker 6: one candidate for a president they dumped because he had
Speaker 6: cancer and another one had a history of mental problems.
Speaker 6: So according to the Devil.
Speaker 2: Eagleton, for those who don't remember, and you have a
Speaker 2: good memory. Eagleton had been chosen. He was a senator
Speaker 2: from Missouri. Tommy Eagleton had been chosen by George mcgovernor
Speaker 2: be his vice president in n his vice presidential nominee
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy two, and it came to be to
Speaker 2: the public's knowledge that Eagleton at that point had spent
Speaker 2: some time counseling with a psychologist, which today most people
Speaker 2: have done that at some point in their life. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's no shame in that. But in nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 2: that was fifty two years ago, he withdrew as vice
Speaker 2: president of candidate, and Sergeant Shriver became the candidate who
Speaker 2: ran with George McGovern and they lost forty nine of
Speaker 2: the fifty saints. But again, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6: I reveal myself as his three boy. I'm seventy seven.
Speaker 6: On anything that ever happened in my lifetime, I remember it,
Speaker 6: and everybody else should remember it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: Your recollection on Eagleton is correct. Your recollection of Michelle
Speaker 2: Obama's comments are correct, Okay, And I think that was
Speaker 2: a disgraceful comment that she made because it almost sounded
Speaker 2: to me like until her husband was elected president. She
Speaker 2: wasn't out of the United States. Wouldn't it be great
Speaker 2: if everyone could be married to someone who's the president
Speaker 2: of the United States. But there's three hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: million people in this country. And that was a crazy
Speaker 2: comment that she made. And she had gone to the
Speaker 2: finest schools. I think she had gone to Princeton and
Speaker 2: I believe she went to Harvard Law School as well
Speaker 2: as President Obama, they were blessed with opportunities that most
Speaker 2: people could only dream about.
Speaker 6: And I would like, I would like people like Michelle
Speaker 6: and Comrade Obama that if they can find.
Speaker 2: In any country around the world, you don't have to
Speaker 2: identify Kenya and Nigeria. Frankly doesn't help your argument. They did.
Speaker 2: Just say any country around the world. Name of a
Speaker 2: country that you'd that you'd prefer to live in. I
Speaker 2: can't think of one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they're supposed to be black there or African American,
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That sounds racist on your part when you say they
Speaker 2: should go to Kenya Nigeria, you don't want to go, yead.
Speaker 6: I said, if they went there to better get a
Speaker 6: better life, they come here, they take advantage. Obama right
Speaker 6: now is a multi millionaire. He lives in places that
Speaker 6: I couldn't afford.
Speaker 2: To question yep.
Speaker 6: And I would like them to say good things about
Speaker 6: this country. And I don't think they feel good about
Speaker 6: this country, but they feel good about what they can
Speaker 6: get from this country.
Speaker 2: All right, Marty, you got it all in. You didn't
Speaker 2: take the advice, but nonetheless, thank.
Speaker 6: You for looking Kennedy supporting the guy on Friday.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see what happens. Thank you, Marty. Appreciate the golf.
Speaker 2: Steven Maine has come back here. We'll give him a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes on the other side because he apparently
Speaker 2: had lost contact. Well, we owe him a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: But I got one line for you if you want
Speaker 2: six one seven. He got ron Bob Fran coming up
Speaker 2: as well. We're going to talk about this till midnight
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. By the way, you will be able to
Speaker 2: hear here on on nightside on WBZ the acceptance speech
Speaker 2: of Vice President Harris in front of the Democratic National
Speaker 2: Convention in its entirety. We may talk about what tone
Speaker 2: she needs to strike tomorrow night, beginning at nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: and then of course, we will react to what she
Speaker 2: has to say tomorrow night, so that'll be probably the
Speaker 2: dominant part of the conversation tomorrow night, after our eight
Speaker 2: o'clock hour with our special guests, as we do every
Speaker 2: night for guests during the nightside news update. Back on Nightside,
Speaker 2: we will be right back, and I want to hear
Speaker 2: from as many of you as possible. I'm certainly looking
Speaker 2: forward to more Robert F. Kennedy supporters. Are you surprised?
Speaker 2: Are you happy? Are you disappointed? I assume most of
Speaker 2: you have some sense of disappointment, But are you prepared
Speaker 2: to follow his lead? If his lead is as many
Speaker 2: are anticipating, as all the networks are not reporting, is
Speaker 2: that he intends to endorse Donald Trump. Back on Nightside
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, you're going to see a story in
Speaker 2: The Globe tomorrow morning. I don't want anyone to be
Speaker 2: shocked by this, particularly those of you who support Senator
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren. The Globe, which is doing some really interesting journalism,
Speaker 2: decided to figure out amongst the New England Congressional delegation,
Speaker 2: which means senators and congress people from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Rhode Island, and Connecticut. That's the New England delegation. How
Speaker 2: many of them come from families that owned slaves, that
Speaker 2: their ancestors owned slaves, leading the Leading the field, Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 2: she comes from people who owned fourteen slaves. Maggie Hassen
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, her family her ancestors owned thirteen slaves.
Speaker 2: Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, her ancestors owned ten slaves.
Speaker 2: And Angus Kane of Maine, his ancestors owned nine slaves.
Speaker 2: No other members of the congressional delegation in any of
Speaker 2: the other states owned slaves. None from Massachusetts, none from
Speaker 2: Rhode Island, none from Connecticut, none from Vermont. And Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Warrant of all people, her family owned the most slaves.
Speaker 2: You can't make this stuff up, Steve. You called back,
Speaker 2: We lost you there. I give you a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes here finish up your thoughts.
Speaker 8: Please go ahead, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 8: The I guess that the recap I was seeing it
Speaker 8: originally as as a protest vote, and this year probably
Speaker 8: aware in May they've signed on to that that that
Speaker 8: hideous system of no matter what, because we we've split
Speaker 8: the electoral college votes. Yes, of that, the regardless of
Speaker 8: what the voters are made to, whoever wins the popular
Speaker 8: vote will get all of our delegates. So Trump Trump
Speaker 8: is never doing anything they can to take Wait. I
Speaker 8: thought I thought that I thought.
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong. But I thought that name
Speaker 2: like Nebraska have some congressional district so in prior elections, Uh,
Speaker 2: the district up north has tended to go Republican and
Speaker 2: the district down south where you are tends to go democratic.
Speaker 2: I thought that there's been a couple of elections where
Speaker 2: Maine has I think four delegates. Uh, you know, four
Speaker 2: electoral votes because you have two US Senators and two
Speaker 2: members of Congress, and that you can get either uh
Speaker 2: you know, either four all four electoral votes or if
Speaker 2: you split, if you win one district or and lose
Speaker 2: the other two votes, that you could have a three
Speaker 2: to one split as opposed to four nothing split? Is
Speaker 2: that not? Has that case changed?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 2: Know?
Speaker 8: What they've done is the legislature are signed on. There
Speaker 8: was a movement across the country that various states voted
Speaker 8: to follow the popular vote. So Trump has won the
Speaker 8: second district in Maine up north the last two elections
Speaker 8: and picked up the electoral college vote. People laugh at
Speaker 8: him the first time around when he was coming to
Speaker 8: the northern district and and and stumping. But get worked out.
Speaker 2: Right, so that that now is is over in Maine.
Speaker 2: And so Maine, whatever the statewide vote is, the candidate
Speaker 2: the Winds would get all four of means electoral votes. Interesting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I can't recall exactly how that landed. It
Speaker 8: had to have some majority of basically democratically controlled states
Speaker 8: to to to join.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna check. I'm gonna check that out because they
Speaker 2: don't want to give out you know, you you're in Maine.
Speaker 2: I'm not so I'm assuming you know more than I do.
Speaker 2: But you know, we'll see. Go go ahead. What's your
Speaker 2: other point, man?
Speaker 8: The you know, the it was kind of an interesting thought,
Speaker 8: even though it was a protest vote that you know,
Speaker 8: hey I got I get a chance to vote for
Speaker 8: the Kennedy lineage. You know, yeah, I didn't think that
Speaker 8: was going to happen in my lifetime. But and then
Speaker 8: the final thought is how the Kennedy cousins and and
Speaker 8: and in fact siblings are are against Bobby Jr.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way I'm looking at I think,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken here, that Maine has not changed
Speaker 2: that so.
Speaker 8: Well, the legislature did approve it, but it was it
Speaker 8: was dependent on a certain number of other states also
Speaker 8: approving it in order for it to be.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a different story. Yeah, that's a different that.
Speaker 2: That's a different story. I think what they were saying
Speaker 2: was that if if the if the pop people vote
Speaker 2: nationally was won by let us say, Hillary Clinton, no
Speaker 2: matter how Maine voted. Yeah, no, they still have the
Speaker 2: congression the district vote in Maine. Trust me on that.
Speaker 2: I think we were both talking about different.
Speaker 8: They wanted to go with the popular vote, if the
Speaker 8: popular vote nationally, which isn't our system correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, that that's a crazy that's a
Speaker 2: crazy rule. It's it's wrong. But but Maine and Nebraska
Speaker 2: are the two states that allow some voting, some of
Speaker 2: the popular votes to be distributed based upon how congressional
Speaker 2: districts vote. So you could have Donald Trump could still
Speaker 2: win one of the congressional districts, and even if he
Speaker 2: lost Maine, he would he could get one vote out
Speaker 2: of Maine, which in a very tight race could be important.
Speaker 8: On it was in twenty sixteen, Yes, it was.
Speaker 2: It was okay. Though he had three hundred and six
Speaker 2: electoral votes in twenty sixteen, he was well over the
Speaker 2: two seventy that year. So yeah, thanks Dave. Got to go.
Speaker 8: In the rank choice voting and we're a mess up here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a total mess. That's that's what I
Speaker 2: thought you were talking about originally. That is a nightmare.
Speaker 2: It is an absolute nightmare and unnecessary. Steve, I got
Speaker 2: to run, Thank you much. Let me go to Ron
Speaker 2: in Weymouth. Run next on nice, I get you in
Speaker 2: here before the newsbreak. Go ahead, run?
Speaker 9: Oh yes, Dan, Yeah. In regards to the gentleman to
Speaker 9: call from Florida, Yeah, that's the things he's saying about communism,
Speaker 9: that would be a trap. Imagine somebody going to either
Speaker 9: eat the convention, they have all the American flags, they're
Speaker 9: running through office, and he jumps up and says, you're
Speaker 9: a communist. I don't think that will go over too good.
Speaker 9: So that's it's just a trap. But regards to the
Speaker 9: upcoming election, if the Democrats go according to what their
Speaker 9: agenda at the convention, which is all thinking about his abortions,
Speaker 9: gender rights, and civil rights and not talk about the
Speaker 9: price of gas, economy, housing, food. Uh, they're going to lose,
Speaker 9: and I I do believe that they will lose anyhow,
Speaker 9: And I believe that Trump will win. I will win,
Speaker 9: and I think it's going to be a hell of
Speaker 9: a battle. The biggest dawning book I think anybody's ever seen.
Speaker 9: But I mean, I'll give my percentages up. If you
Speaker 9: want to do them tonight, I'll call them another night.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we do this thing the last Friday
Speaker 2: of every month at eleven o'clock and we ask people
Speaker 2: to fall in and tell us how they're feeling, and
Speaker 2: we will get to a percentage thing. But we'll do
Speaker 2: that probably sometimes in October. The Wall Street Journal had
Speaker 2: a very interesting article today on some of the issues
Speaker 2: that Tim Wallas has supported. He's guaranteed tuition free college
Speaker 2: for students from lower income families, including undocumented migrants or
Speaker 2: indocumented immigrants or illegal immigrants. He allowed illegal immigrants to
Speaker 2: obtain driver's licenses. He obviously is a proponent of abortions.
Speaker 2: He believes in the right to choice. He strengthened background
Speaker 2: checks on gun purchases. He increased capital gains taxes, which
Speaker 2: generally affects wealthy individuals. He's a he's a very progressive guy,
Speaker 2: and I think that that in a national election, that
Speaker 2: will help him in some states and probably hurt him
Speaker 2: in others.
Speaker 9: I agree with you on in total, with all what
Speaker 9: you said, and like I say, everybody thinks, O. They
Speaker 9: just talk off the top of their heads because what
Speaker 9: it looks like and what is projected like now is
Speaker 9: it's not over yet. Okay, there's we still got well
Speaker 9: just a couple of months there.
Speaker 2: Three months.
Speaker 6: It can change, it can change.
Speaker 9: It's going to go back and forth. And unfortunately with
Speaker 9: some of the media which keeps steering everybody, as we
Speaker 9: all know, I think people are getting smarter to that
Speaker 9: now from what we've heard in the last three years.
Speaker 9: Going on with the illustration.
Speaker 2: We will see. Uh, it's two and a half months.
Speaker 2: You're you're you're much more accurate than I am. It's
Speaker 2: about I think seventy five days at this point, so
Speaker 2: about two and eight months. Remember fifth, make sure everyone
Speaker 2: should make sure they vote. Thanks Ron.
Speaker 9: They should, they should, they should vote. And the people
Speaker 9: who don't vote, they have no say, even if they
Speaker 9: call you up and not a voter, well, doesn't mean
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 2: They can still call you, still call So thanks Ron.
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Speaker 2: All Right, we're talking about the possibility or at this
Speaker 2: point it appears to be the probability that RFK Junior
Speaker 2: is gonna suspend or end his presidential campaign and endorse
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I mean, surprise after surprise. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Bob and Hopkinson. Bob, you're next on Nightside.
Speaker 7: Vocal Harry, Dan, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Bob. What's your thought on this very
Speaker 2: interesting development?
Speaker 7: Well, I got a couple of comments. First of all,
Speaker 7: I want to congratulate you on your professionalism and trying
Speaker 7: to bring both sides together. Were definitely locked in the
Speaker 7: cultural war that we've been locked in since probably the
Speaker 7: nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: You might be right on that. I think it goes
Speaker 2: back a long way. We worked.
Speaker 7: I worked in Father DRIs. Yeah, I worked in Father
Speaker 7: Drining's campaign, and we had a lot of crap during
Speaker 7: that two weeks. We were able to put a long
Speaker 7: term in company who supported the war on Vietnam out
Speaker 7: of office with Father Drining running. But it's hotter and
Speaker 7: haider for people.
Speaker 2: Harold Donahue. Was it Harold Donahue that he beat initially
Speaker 2: or no?
Speaker 7: Who I'm trying to remember, Phil Phil Philbin.
Speaker 2: All right, right, Phil Philbin, who was out of if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, Clinton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: Funny district. At that point, I will tell you this,
Speaker 2: father Driyning went to the same elementary school that I
Speaker 2: went to. It was a Catholic school called Saint Ian's
Speaker 2: School in Reedville. Believe it or not, we were not
Speaker 2: there at the same time. It was there many years
Speaker 2: before me. But I had that in common with him,
Speaker 2: and I once told him that, and he didn't have
Speaker 2: a great interest in talking about it for some reason.
Speaker 7: It was like, I, well, do you remember Bill Bratton,
Speaker 7: the police commissioner went from here to New York to
Speaker 7: la and what's yeah, Bill, I know very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was in my graduating class at Boston Technical High
Speaker 7: School class in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Okay, well I used to play some
Speaker 2: sports again. I went to Latin School. In that time.
Speaker 2: Boston Tech was was as an excellent high school. An
Speaker 2: excellent high school.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was an exam school. I went to Boston
Speaker 7: Lanin for the ninth grade. They couldn't take it. They
Speaker 7: went over to Boston Tech. On the tenth grade. So
Speaker 7: you're smarter than I am.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no. All it meant was
Speaker 2: I was more stubborn and I was willing to deal
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: A lot of great great athletes and great great friends
Speaker 2: came out of there. A guy that I played baseball
Speaker 2: with in college, Mark Mantainis, who was a left handed
Speaker 2: picture at Boston Tech. You probably remember Mark. He was
Speaker 2: a really good picture at Boston Tech.
Speaker 7: Well, listen, in those days, we had some moral education
Speaker 7: in public schools. We had a Bible reading in the morning.
Speaker 7: It was from the Old Testament, so we wouldn't offend
Speaker 7: the Jewish students. And you know, this is what's wrong.
Speaker 7: And I'm glad you let that retired police officer who
Speaker 7: was calling Obat the Obama's comrade in Bernie Sands, a communist,
Speaker 7: because I've been with Bernie for the eight years, going
Speaker 7: back eight years, okay, when he first ran and then
Speaker 7: he granted again. And it's the same old story. They
Speaker 7: screwed Bernie. In my language, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 2: He should have been the nominee in twenty sixteen of
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. We said it at the time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And he would have won, he would have
Speaker 7: beat Trump. I think he would sent Trump off the
Speaker 7: retirement and that would have been it.
Speaker 2: And I said at the time that the only person
Speaker 2: back in twenty sixteen, the only person that I thought
Speaker 2: Donald Trump could beat was Hillary Clinton and exactly. And
Speaker 2: you'll let me ask you this, how does how do
Speaker 2: you how do you react? You're a Democrat? How do
Speaker 2: you react to what Robert F. Kennedy is saying tonight
Speaker 2: and that his that his vice presidential candidate is saying
Speaker 2: tonight that the establishment of the Democratic Party used all
Speaker 2: sorts of tactics against him and his campaign. And now
Speaker 2: I think that's what's going to prompt him to probably
Speaker 2: endorse Donald Trump on Friday.
Speaker 7: Well, I think he's exactly right, and I congratulate you
Speaker 7: on playing his clip. In the clip from his vice
Speaker 7: presidential candidate, I think she's only a very intelligent woman
Speaker 7: who's invested in millions of iron dollars into the campaign,
Speaker 7: and I think I think she's honest when she was
Speaker 7: saying she didn't run to be a spoiler. She ran
Speaker 7: to try to bring this country to some common sense
Speaker 7: in unity through unity, And you're right, they had at
Speaker 7: least fifteen to seventeen percent in the polls early on,
Speaker 7: and they think they should have The Democrats should have
Speaker 7: had an open primary. And Joe Biden must have known
Speaker 7: in his family and his inner circle must have known
Speaker 7: that he was slowing down, and they must have thought
Speaker 7: about how he would be four years forward into a
Speaker 7: second term, and they should have opened it up and
Speaker 7: made it a fair primary. So if he won the primary,
Speaker 7: but it was run fairly with Barbie Kennedy and whoever
Speaker 7: else wanted to run. Fine. Now, I was a Democrat
Speaker 7: for almost my entire life. I switched once back in
Speaker 7: the old days because I wanted to vote in the
Speaker 7: Republican primary here in Massachusetts before they changed the rules.
Speaker 7: Now I'm an independent because like a lot of people,
Speaker 7: we say, look, we didn't leave the Democratic Party. The
Speaker 7: Democratic Party left us. And they are extremists, you know.
Speaker 7: They're the ones that want absolutely no restrictions against abortion,
Speaker 7: but when it comes to gun control, they want all
Speaker 7: kinds of restrictions. Now, why don't we get together and
Speaker 7: the people on both sides of the gun issue, both
Speaker 7: sides of the abortion issue, both sides of the border issue,
Speaker 7: get together, put their heads together and used some calm
Speaker 7: and snatch Back in the day when I supported father
Speaker 7: Drining when he ran for Congress, he used to call
Speaker 7: me a radical liberal.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, he was, he really was. So let me
Speaker 2: ask you this two questions, and I got other calls,
Speaker 2: so I got up as much as is this the
Speaker 2: first time you called? And know you've called before? Right? Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I go way back to David braudnos.
Speaker 2: So my question to you is this, what's of an
Speaker 2: impact if it goes as I think all the networks
Speaker 2: are predicting tonight, and as I think the language that
Speaker 2: Kennedy used that I played earlier in Shanahan used, and
Speaker 2: if you do US as Trump, what sort of a
Speaker 2: realistic impact do you think that has on the final
Speaker 2: outcome in November? In your opinion?
Speaker 7: Well, in my opinion, I think he's totally just decide
Speaker 7: if he doesn't do US Trump because Joe Biden in
Speaker 7: all the powerful Democrats, the rich Democrats, the big funding
Speaker 7: people's billionaires, rounded up the Kennedy cousins and screwed Bobby Kennedy.
Speaker 2: And that what bothered me most about it was they
Speaker 2: did they refused to give him a secret Service protection
Speaker 2: and here was an obvious target and Thank god nothing
Speaker 2: happened to him. But they finally gave him Secret Service
Speaker 2: protection the after after Donald Trump survived that assassination attempt. So, so,
Speaker 2: who are you going to vote for? Have you made
Speaker 2: up your mind?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm kind of split because Bernie Sanders, as much
Speaker 7: as he's been screwed, he's a good sport okay. And
Speaker 7: and and you know, we talked about coaches. I used
Speaker 7: to coach tennis for Saint John's High School up in Shrewsbury,
Speaker 7: and we used to say, yeah, you know what, if
Speaker 7: you win, you have to be a graceful winner. You lose,
Speaker 7: you have to be a good loser. That doesn't mean
Speaker 7: you're a loser. Okay. Now, Bernie, Bernie is saying he's
Speaker 7: kind of he is kind of extreme, Okay, but he's saying, look,
Speaker 7: we have to bring the country together. Donald Trump is
Speaker 7: not going to unify the country. So please do not
Speaker 7: vote for Donald Trump. Vote for Kamala, Okay, Joe Biden
Speaker 7: the country in your opinion, No, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 7: And I think he's done a terrible job and guys
Speaker 7: a terrible job at not getting the long range weapons
Speaker 7: and fight the jets and to the Ukraine, and he's
Speaker 7: you know, and he's done a bad job by reappointing
Speaker 7: the Chairman of the Federal Reserve because that guy had
Speaker 7: been originally appointed by Trump six years ago. And he's
Speaker 7: got a fifty five million dollar personal wealth, and he's
Speaker 7: been pushing the interest rates up to preserve what they
Speaker 7: call preserve acid values, not to stop inflation. He's taking
Speaker 7: care of this.
Speaker 2: Bob. We have covered the waterfront. So I hate to
Speaker 2: do this to you, but I got other calls. We've
Speaker 2: done nine.
Speaker 7: Minutes, and well I appreciate it, you know, and hopefully
Speaker 7: your callers will be thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Call me back more frequently. I still don't know who
Speaker 2: you're gonna trump, you're going to vote for. When you decide,
Speaker 2: you got to call back and let me know, because
Speaker 2: you might be a what I called my weather vane
Speaker 2: voters who will actually decide the election.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm still open minded that I might go Trump
Speaker 7: by Michael Kamal or I don't know. I might write
Speaker 7: in Bobby Kennedy or if he's on the bell, check
Speaker 7: him off.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, thanks Bob, talk to you soon, good
Speaker 2: night night.
Speaker 10: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get one more in here. Before
Speaker 2: the break, and I'm going to clear a couple of
Speaker 2: calls here, so if you want to dial in and
Speaker 2: get last words six one, seven, two, five, four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven ninety, let me go to Frien
Speaker 2: and Lowell. Friend, thank you for your paintings. I'm going
Speaker 2: to take you quickly here.
Speaker 10: Go ahead for the evening.
Speaker 11: The only reason I've stayed online is because i happened
Speaker 11: to tune in at one point when someone was calling
Speaker 11: and criticizing Trump for the name calling that he does.
Speaker 11: And I've waited all this time to hear one other
Speaker 11: person call and allude to that very lopes tenous joke
Speaker 11: that Obama made yesterday was so low in debauched. I
Speaker 11: can't believe that no one else has called. I could
Speaker 11: never ever vote that party that accepted something like that
Speaker 11: as amusing, and that no one else is offended just
Speaker 11: appalled me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he was making he was making a reference,
Speaker 2: and I haven't seen it, I've heard it.
Speaker 11: It is not funny, No, no, I.
Speaker 2: Said, I'm not trying to do it. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: that he was making a reference to Donald Trump's however
Speaker 2: he phrased it. His concern about the size of his crowds.
Speaker 11: He was being clever and you know what he was
Speaker 11: talking about.
Speaker 2: And again I guess the people all you know now
Speaker 2: again yefed it up.
Speaker 11: Now, if Trump had done that, if Trump had dared
Speaker 11: to do that, or said something about his wife or
Speaker 11: any other man on that platform, we would be hearing
Speaker 11: it screaming.
Speaker 2: Well, the only thing I would say about I would
Speaker 2: say about let me little point counterpoint here. Let's see
Speaker 2: if you recall, do you remember when he used to
Speaker 2: talk about Senator Rupe from Florida. This is in twenty
Speaker 2: and sixteen, and he kept referring to him as being,
Speaker 2: you know, little little Mario, and he said he has
Speaker 2: small hands. Do you remember that?
Speaker 11: Do you mean Trump saying this, is that what you're saying? Yeah,
Speaker 11: I have to say I can't remember much about that,
Speaker 11: but I do believe that that Ruvio was was a
Speaker 11: butt of jokes. So I'll just say that much I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he kept saying that, oh that, you know Mario,
Speaker 2: and so so he's employed some of that. I guess
Speaker 2: you'd call it bathroom humor, whatever you want, but it
Speaker 2: was not done by a former president of the United States.
Speaker 2: Referring to another former president.
Speaker 11: In a world wide venue, in a world viewed venue.
Speaker 11: This is US across the world. I'm sorry it's so offensive.
Speaker 11: I find no no forgiveness for it whatsoever. It's really
Speaker 11: I'm still so sucked to about it so long ago.
Speaker 11: I can't get it out of my head yet.
Speaker 2: No redeeming social no redeeming social value to the combat.
Speaker 10: Not a judge.
Speaker 11: So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for being patient, thank you for making
Speaker 2: a point. You made it. Thanks, they keep calling the show. Okay, goodnight,
Speaker 2: We've got to take a break. I got Michael and
Speaker 2: fall River. I got a couple of open lines. I
Speaker 2: want to finish this hour strongly, so light them up.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. The question
Speaker 2: is pretty simple. If, as expected, RFK Junior on Friday
Speaker 2: not only ends his own campaign, whether he suspends the campaign,
Speaker 2: whatever terminology they use or uh, and then endorses Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: how much of an impact will that have on this
Speaker 2: race in your opinion? And how surprised are you at
Speaker 2: what would certainly be considered an unexpected turn of events.
Speaker 2: We've had a few other unexpected term of terms of
Speaker 2: events witnessed the Trump Biden debate and Joe Biden's reluctance
Speaker 2: to step aside, and then his closest supporters in the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party convincing him that he had to step aside. Uh,
Speaker 2: this is this is an amazing election, and we may
Speaker 2: see another amazing chapter unfold on Friday night. If it
Speaker 2: doesn't fold that way, I'd love to know. Tell me
Speaker 2: what you think its impact will be. Will be back
Speaker 2: on Nightside. As I said, six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Write those numbers down so I don't have
Speaker 2: to repeat them as often. Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ the News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, first up, longest wait, Michael and fall River. Michael,
Speaker 2: next on Nightside. Your thoughts about the possibility or maybe
Speaker 2: probability that RFK is going to drop out and his
Speaker 2: campaign and endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 12: I am very happy to hear that he's dropping out.
Speaker 12: I think he shouldn't have been in the race in
Speaker 12: the first place. Okay, So I don't know, I don't
Speaker 12: know why he was running. So here's the thing, right,
Speaker 12: So I'm a Democrat. I would love to vote for
Speaker 12: a Kennedy. If it was a Kennedy running, I would
Speaker 12: be very excited to vote for them to president. And
Speaker 12: I think that you now.
Speaker 2: You told me that he shouldn't have been running, and
Speaker 2: you said you would have been delighted to vote for Kennedy,
Speaker 2: But not that Kennedy.
Speaker 6: I assume exactly.
Speaker 12: Not this Kennedy. I've been saying for a while. But
Speaker 12: I feel like the only thing that people need to do,
Speaker 12: like the winning concoction for being a successful presidential candidate,
Speaker 12: is be named Kennedy. And don't you know, do any harm?
Speaker 12: And I feel that I think that what turns many
Speaker 12: Democrats off about Urka Junior is his stance on vaccines.
Speaker 12: I think he crossed the line there. I think that's
Speaker 12: what keeps people.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming, therefore, you think that his endorsement, if
Speaker 2: he indeed is going to endorse Trump on Friday, we'll
Speaker 2: have little or no impact.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't see it having much of an impact.
Speaker 12: It might have a little bit of an impact, but
Speaker 12: I don't think that. I think that anyone who was
Speaker 12: considering voting for Kennedy probably would also consider voting for Trump.
Speaker 12: So I don't think that his endorsement will really make
Speaker 12: much of a difference.
Speaker 2: All Right, Michael, appreciate you, appreciate your point of view.
Speaker 2: I'm just jamming a little bit to try to get
Speaker 2: a couple of more callers in as well. Thanks Michael.
Speaker 2: Have you called before? Is this your first time?
Speaker 12: I've called many times before. I was with you on
Speaker 12: day one when you signed on the air.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much and thank you for sticking
Speaker 2: with me, and you will more call more often.
Speaker 12: Okay again, absolutely, I.
Speaker 2: Always want to get as many different viewpoints and you
Speaker 2: presented it really well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, Thanks Dan, have a good night you too.
Speaker 2: All right, let me keep rolling. You're going to go
Speaker 2: to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, you gotta be quick for me,
Speaker 2: Please go right ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think this is going to be more like twenty
Speaker 10: sixteen and twenty twenty. And I don't think the enthusiasm
Speaker 10: except the except that the elites has the enthusiasm now
Speaker 10: that Joe dropped out. But down here where the rubber
Speaker 10: meets the road, Dan, there's not much enthusiasm for the
Speaker 10: for Kamal, I can tell.
Speaker 2: You that much. Who's gonna carry Pennsylvania?
Speaker 10: I think Trump's gonna take Pennsylvania. I think we're gonna
Speaker 10: get rid of Senator Casey. I think the McCormick a
Speaker 10: less pointer, a purple heart guy, and a bronze star guy,
Speaker 10: and a great leader. As far as business is gonna
Speaker 10: there's gonna be an upset. I'm gonna tell you it's
Speaker 10: not an upset here, but it's gonna be more like
Speaker 10: twenty sixteen and all these people. Kennedy, Kennedy, I think
Speaker 10: is gonna help Trump.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we'll see what happens. I appreciate it. Bill,
Speaker 2: we've gotta get gonna get a couple more in Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, bigos Bill, Bill, I owe you more time
Speaker 2: next time. Jim in Kansas City. Go ahead, Jim, got
Speaker 2: to be quick for me. Oh I can't hit the
Speaker 2: button there, Go ahead, Jim, My mistake, right ahead, Jim.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Dan, I don't think that's gonna matter at all.
Speaker 6: I don't even think anybody knows that guy's running for office.
Speaker 6: But it's reading.
Speaker 9: Crowd size is important because it's indicative of support by
Speaker 9: the voters.
Speaker 6: Okay, get your next.
Speaker 2: Time, all right, thanks, Jim. Appreciate how much time we
Speaker 2: got left? Rob a minute thirty Okay, Geo, I got
Speaker 2: thirty seconds for you. Go right ahead.
Speaker 13: If I didn't vote for Biden, I might have voted
Speaker 13: for Kennedy. I don't think it's important. I think Jill
Speaker 13: Stein's vote is much more important than Kennedy's would have been.
Speaker 13: But I did want to say something about Kamala Harris.
Speaker 13: Her parents are both mensa IQ. Her father taught economics
Speaker 13: at Stanford, a very conservative school, and her mother worked
Speaker 13: for the Lauren National Laboratories, which is our most important
Speaker 13: government laboratory genetics.
Speaker 2: All right, so there's smart, smart parents. Geeo, I got Jim,
Speaker 2: but I'm getting cramped on time, so I gotta let
Speaker 2: you go. Interesting. That's for sure a lot of smart
Speaker 2: people at Stanford. I don't think it's quite as conservative
Speaker 2: maybe as your thought. But that's okay. Thanks very much
Speaker 2: for your call. As always, wish you called early, because
Speaker 2: we have we're gonna have a longer conversation. I'm done
Speaker 2: for the night. Tomorrow night, we will carry the entire
Speaker 2: presidential nomination accept in speech of Vice President Harris. You'll
Speaker 2: hear that. You'll be able to anticipate it at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: You'll be able to react to it when it finishes
Speaker 2: around ten thirty or so. And I want to thank
Speaker 2: all of you for listening tonight. And I want to
Speaker 2: thank Rob, I want to thank Marita. I want to
Speaker 2: thank all the calls coming back on nights side tomorrow night.
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Speaker 15: I'm Stacy Lynn. On the big political stage of his career.
Speaker 15: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls addressed the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 10: Thanks for putting your trust in me and for inviting
Speaker 10: me to be part.
Speaker 5: Of this incredible campaign.
Speaker 2: And thank you President Joe Biden for.
Speaker 6: Four years of strong, historic leadership.
Speaker 15: Former President Bill Clinton also praised President Biden and reminded
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Speaker 5: Than one election slip away from us when we thought.
Speaker 7: It couldn't haffen when people gotttracted by phony issues.
Speaker 15: Meanwhile, former President Trump held a rally in North Carolina
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Speaker 5: What this November?
Speaker 2: Americans are going to tell Kamalaris Kamala that we've had enough.
Speaker 2: We can't take it anymore. You're doing a terrible job.
Speaker 15: In other news, there are new concerns about what fluoride
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Speaker 15: People may die sooner because of climate change, reporter Tracy
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Speaker 16: rise by more than thirteen percent.
Speaker 15: CBS's Monica Rix tells us what Tailor Swift is saying
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