Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's
Speaker 1: and News Radio.
Speaker 2: Where we're talking about the events of the weekend. And
Speaker 2: the only events of the weekend that we're talking about
Speaker 2: are the decision by the Trump administration to bomb the
Speaker 2: three nuclear sites in Iran and what has happened in
Speaker 2: short order apparently, and again, we're still trying to monitor
Speaker 2: this as you are. We're following this story just like you.
Speaker 2: According to the President of United States, there will be
Speaker 2: a complete and total ceasefire a little less than an
Speaker 2: hour from now, he put on Trump's social about six
Speaker 2: two tonight. The congratulations everyone. It's been fully agreed by
Speaker 2: and between Israel and AROUND that there will be a
Speaker 2: complete and total ceasefire. And approximately six hours from now,
Speaker 2: when Israel and AROUND have Israel and Iran have wound
Speaker 2: down and completed their in progress final missions for twelve hours,
Speaker 2: at which point the war will be considered officially ended. Officially,
Speaker 2: Iran will start the cease fire upon the twelfth hour.
Speaker 2: Israel will start the cease fire upon the twenty fourth hour.
Speaker 2: So if I'm reading this correctly, and I don't know
Speaker 2: that I am, as of midnight, Iran will have twelve hours. Well, no,
Speaker 2: Iraq will start the cease fire, and I meaning at midnight,
Speaker 2: and upon the twelfth hour, which would be noon tomorrow
Speaker 2: our time, Israel will start the cease fire. And upon
Speaker 2: the twenty fourth hour this midnight tomorrow night, an official
Speaker 2: end of the twelve day war will be saluted by
Speaker 2: the world. Well again, believe it when we see it,
Speaker 2: but certainly, certainly that is a development that I'm sure
Speaker 2: makes a lot of people happy, makes me happy, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it makes people in Iran and Israel happy as well.
Speaker 2: And who would have thunk that on Saturday night, about
Speaker 2: forty eight hours ago, when all of us were digesting
Speaker 2: the word of the attacks by the USB two bombers,
Speaker 2: a fleet of seven B two bombers that hit these sites,
Speaker 2: as well as some missiles fired from a US submarine offshore,
Speaker 2: did some damage. We don't know exactly how much. The
Speaker 2: presidents that obliterated using the same word that Hillary Clinton
Speaker 2: had used. By the way, this I find kind of
Speaker 2: interesting those of you who haven't heard this in the
Speaker 2: last hour, Rob, I want you to play the cut
Speaker 2: of Hillary Clinton. It's only thirty seconds. This is Hillary
Speaker 2: Clinton from two thousand and eight, promising to attack Iran
Speaker 2: and using the same word that the President used, obliterate.
Speaker 2: Cut one oh three, Rob.
Speaker 3: And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm
Speaker 3: the president, we will attack Iran. Whatever stage of development
Speaker 3: they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the
Speaker 3: next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching
Speaker 3: an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally
Speaker 3: obliterate them.
Speaker 4: That's a terrible thing to say.
Speaker 5: That those people who.
Speaker 3: Run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will
Speaker 3: deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish,
Speaker 3: and tragic.
Speaker 2: And there were some Republicans and Democrats over the weekend
Speaker 2: who were quick to criticize, in fact, for the Trump
Speaker 2: administration not having complete knowledge of when what damage had
Speaker 2: been done. This is representative Roe Kanna. He's a actually
Speaker 2: a Philly rational Democrat on face the nation. Cut number
Speaker 2: three already, please, Rob.
Speaker 6: Now you've put American troops at risk. Now you're wasting
Speaker 6: billions of our dollars because we're sending more troops to
Speaker 6: the Middle East. What did you accomplish and why are
Speaker 6: you oblivious to the American people who are sick of
Speaker 6: these wars?
Speaker 2: If it turns out that Donald Trump is successful here
Speaker 2: and has forced a ceasefire. I think mister Khanna will
Speaker 2: be eating those words. But there was also a Republican
Speaker 2: some guy out of Kentucky who I'd never really heard
Speaker 2: of before, Representative Thomas Massey. He is an R after
Speaker 2: his name cut thirty one.
Speaker 7: I think this what has happened, what has transpired this
Speaker 7: week has been planned for months that you know, this
Speaker 7: administration and maybe even the administration prior to that said,
Speaker 7: you go in and soften them up, take out their
Speaker 7: air defense capabilities, and then we'll send in the big bombers.
Speaker 2: Well tell me something I couldn't figure out myself. Congressman. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would hope it was planned for months, and I
Speaker 2: would hope that they kept it on the quiet on
Speaker 2: the d LO. No sense of telling around ahead of time,
Speaker 2: what were plans are there? These are the people who
Speaker 2: we elect to congress in this country. Okay, let's go
Speaker 2: to Will on Long Island. Hey, Will, welcome back. You're
Speaker 2: on nightside. We'll go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Hey Dan, are you trying to tell me that countries
Speaker 8: like Israel and the United States just don't go free
Speaker 8: willy nilly bombing? Things over there and knocking out nuclear
Speaker 8: facilities without knowing what the impact might be, not just
Speaker 8: on the Iranian population, but the entire Middle East. You're
Speaker 8: trying to tell me that they just don't just go
Speaker 8: throwing bombs around. I'm in complete shock.
Speaker 2: Well that's what, that's what.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Thank you Congress and Massie for letting us
Speaker 8: know that the United States just doesn't just throw bombs
Speaker 8: around like they did I don't know in Yemen, in Syria,
Speaker 8: in Somalia. Wait, all these acts were done with what again, Oh,
Speaker 8: without congressional approval by Barack Obama, who actually bombs more
Speaker 8: countries than George Bush. Yeah, Afghanistan, Pakistan. I should go
Speaker 8: on and on and on and on at all the
Speaker 8: countries that Barackobamba bombed without prior congressional approval. And now
Speaker 8: here we are because Democrats don't think that we have
Speaker 8: this thing called video where we get to watch. Let
Speaker 8: me tell you a little something about Hillary Clinton when
Speaker 8: she was when Joe Biden was in the primaries. Okay,
Speaker 8: with for a part of the hates old white guys,
Speaker 8: they really had the two oldest white guys they could
Speaker 8: find leading that primary with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, right.
Speaker 8: And I remember saying to my friends, I said, you know,
Speaker 8: I wish Hillary would come back. At the time, I
Speaker 8: had a little show. I'm on the air, I'm talking
Speaker 8: to people. They're yelling at me, But you if you
Speaker 8: have somebody with a different opinion, and I asked them
Speaker 8: very simply, I said, I love America more than I
Speaker 8: love any party. And I'm not a Republican. I know
Speaker 8: you guys don't understand that, but I'm not. And I said,
Speaker 8: I would rather have Hillary Clinton than this Volkswagen car
Speaker 8: full of clowns that got out juggling bulls that are
Speaker 8: up on the stage at the primaries right now, God forbid,
Speaker 8: Joe Biden becomes the president of the United States. Right.
Speaker 8: And it was partially because of things like that that
Speaker 8: Hillary said right there. Yes, I didn't like her. I
Speaker 8: thought she was despicable, and I would certainly vote for
Speaker 8: Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. But if we lost, would
Speaker 8: we not have been in better hands with Hillary Clinton
Speaker 8: than a demented Joe Biden or a crazy socialist like
Speaker 8: Bernie Sanders. I mean, I love my country more than politics,
Speaker 8: and I have to worry about.
Speaker 2: You're right, I mean I think that Joe Biden basically
Speaker 2: was past his prime. It was only in an election
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty where Joe Biden was able to stay
Speaker 2: in his basement and not be exposed for whatever frailties
Speaker 2: he had developed.
Speaker 8: Then it was when the Democrats tried to cover for
Speaker 8: him or your friends let's say, let's say your friends, right,
Speaker 8: the people you know that are supposedly sensible Democrats, And
Speaker 8: they started saying as the presidency went on and the
Speaker 8: mess in Afghanistan, they started saying things like, well, we
Speaker 8: didn't know would be this dad. Really, really, he looked
Speaker 8: like he was in a standing a count. Every question
Speaker 8: that he answered during the apartment she was saying, oh,
Speaker 8: put the record player on. They don't know what to do, Mauge.
Speaker 8: It was insane what I was watching. I was watching
Speaker 8: a man stare into space. He should have been in
Speaker 8: a nursing home, throwing jello at the orderlies for bringing
Speaker 8: him the wrong flavor pudding or whatever. I couldn't believe
Speaker 8: what I was watching. And we voted for that, And
Speaker 8: now we have a president that finally did. If he
Speaker 8: didn't knock out all the nuclear capabilities or whatever, he
Speaker 8: certainly sent a message that the capabilities of Israel and
Speaker 8: America are so far beyond. When we spoke last week,
Speaker 8: what did we talk about, I said, and Iran's military
Speaker 8: is severely overrated by the rest of the world. They
Speaker 8: are a regional power at best, and they stanned absolutely
Speaker 8: zero chance. The operation that we ran, we sent a
Speaker 8: bunch of planes across the world. We refueled them in
Speaker 8: the middle of the air. We had them drop the
Speaker 8: bomb within a fifteen or twenty minute window and then
Speaker 8: fly out the other side of their country without a
Speaker 8: shot being fired at us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by by the way, in order to because of
Speaker 2: each of these bombers carried two thirty thousand pounds bombs,
Speaker 2: and each of those bombers could not get off the ground,
Speaker 2: could not get off the ground with a full fuel tank.
Speaker 2: So they had to keep the amount of fuel below
Speaker 2: a certain level in order to get these bombers up
Speaker 2: in the air. And that's why also they had to
Speaker 2: do some refueling. Obviously, they had a thirty seven hour
Speaker 2: round trip, which also was a huge.
Speaker 8: Fan crazy And one more thing I'd like to say about,
Speaker 8: you know, being a sensible politician and someone that's that's
Speaker 8: just honest Okay, that's just honest with me. I did
Speaker 8: not agree when Pennsylvania, I thought voted for a guy
Speaker 8: that you know, unfortunately suffered a severe stroke. I didn't
Speaker 8: know much about him before that, Okay, but I was like,
Speaker 8: you literally would rather vote for a stroked out guy
Speaker 8: than doctor Oz? Really? Is that what we come down to?
Speaker 8: And now after his recovery, listening to John Feederman, not
Speaker 8: just because he's somewhat on our side, because he's just honest,
Speaker 8: because he doesn't have to poll everything he says. He
Speaker 8: goes out there and he says it, and it doesn't
Speaker 8: matter if this party agrees with him. He stands with
Speaker 8: Israel unapologetically. He said he would have attacked Iron. He
Speaker 8: stands behind the president on this issue. Many of them
Speaker 8: he disagrees with him with. These are the type of
Speaker 8: Democrats that I used to vote for. These ones right here,
Speaker 8: all right, Dan, thanks for having me so much time.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it great, And I would take quick break
Speaker 2: here one line at six one seven, two, five four
Speaker 2: to ten thirty and the other line. We got to
Speaker 2: double check those lines six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. They have been very quiet tonight. Six one
Speaker 2: seven two five, four to ten thirty just filled up,
Speaker 2: which is great. However, you got a couple of open
Speaker 2: lines at six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Back on nightside, I got Octane coming up, and also Shana,
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to those conversations coming right back on
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Speaker 9: Hick.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go. Let's go to Octane
Speaker 2: in Brighton. Hi, Octane, how are you tonight, Dandre?
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing excellent? What's your take on all of this? Octane?
Speaker 10: I My take on this is that I have a
Speaker 10: question for you actually too, So why do you think
Speaker 10: these neighbor these neighboring countries, why do you think they're
Speaker 10: so quiet out to the stripe they that we got
Speaker 10: to Iran? Why you think they're so quiet? Isn't that
Speaker 10: frightening to you?
Speaker 2: No, I think, to be really honest with you, I
Speaker 2: think it's heartening. I think that the reason these countries
Speaker 2: are quiet they don't like Iran. They Iran has caused
Speaker 2: problems for a lot of these countries. Iran is no
Speaker 2: friend of Saudi Arabia, is no friend of Jordan. Iran
Speaker 2: is estrange from most of the countries.
Speaker 10: About Afghanistan in the Middle East, well, about Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: I think that Afghanistan and the Taliban are an interesting
Speaker 2: group in that I don't think I think that they
Speaker 2: are so isolated. I don't think that they do much
Speaker 2: with any of the other Middle Eastern countries. And obviously
Speaker 2: today Iran just threw, you know, fourteen missiles in on
Speaker 2: the country of Katar, on a US air base in Qatar.
Speaker 2: But they still decide to do that. Israel know, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of countries over there, as I'm sure you
Speaker 2: know the the UAE, UH, uh, Bahrain, uh and cut it,
Speaker 2: who have established relations with Israel uh, and they're they're
Speaker 2: engaging in economic uh and UH. You know passports now
Speaker 2: or they used to be a period in time where
Speaker 2: if you had an Israeli passport you couldn't travel to
Speaker 2: a lot of these countries. So I think things are
Speaker 2: getting better. You've heard of the Abraham Accords, I'm sure, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think things are getting better for Israel. And I
Speaker 2: think people are looking at Iran as a bunch of
Speaker 2: nut jobs, and I think that people have come to
Speaker 2: the conclusion, Yeah, they were all geeked when when Hyatola
Speaker 2: hom Aani came back and they took the US hostages
Speaker 2: and the big bad the United States was on its
Speaker 2: back and all of that. But I think they're I
Speaker 2: think they were afraid of Iran and they and they're
Speaker 2: they're very happy that the US has has crippled their
Speaker 2: nuclear program. Right.
Speaker 10: So my other question to you is that do you
Speaker 10: think in our lifetime nine to eleven is the worst
Speaker 10: disaster that we're going to see in this country?
Speaker 2: Well? I hope so. I mean, I think that there's
Speaker 2: a panoply of other disasters, chemical attacks, biological radiological attacks, EMPs.
Speaker 10: The reason, the reason I reason I got on that
Speaker 10: topic is because of the strike that we have put
Speaker 10: on Iran. When with that Saturday, correct, yes, Saturday, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 10: they know they can't stand up to the United States militarily.
Speaker 9: They know that.
Speaker 10: So with the border ben wide open, that Joe Biden
Speaker 10: has led all these millions of people into our country,
Speaker 10: they're going to try to retaliate on us any kind
Speaker 10: of way. They don't think that this is going to
Speaker 10: go away just because we bomb them and really crippled them.
Speaker 10: They're not going to forget about this.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. But one of the things that
Speaker 2: I said earlier, and I hope you heard me say this.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when after nine to eleven, we were
Speaker 2: told by everybody, hey, if you see something, say something,
Speaker 2: and you know, and and there came a point in
Speaker 2: time where people will became a little apprehensive in that.
Speaker 2: Let's say you saw someone who happened to be Middle
Speaker 2: Eastern who was acting suspiciously uh and, and you then
Speaker 2: would be accused of, well, you're being biased towards people
Speaker 2: because the person appeared to be Middle Eastern. And maybe
Speaker 2: in some cases there was a bias. Maybe there was
Speaker 2: in some cases, but that didn't make us any safer, right, right,
Speaker 2: And I just.
Speaker 10: Want to put the Democrats on Front Street. You remember
Speaker 10: when Obama was in power in office and he put
Speaker 10: the allowed the military to strike Lebanon. You remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. He also he killed some other There was
Speaker 2: a Urican citizen who had actually visited the White House
Speaker 2: while he was president. I forget the guy's name, but
Speaker 2: he was a he was a Muslim cleric uh and
Speaker 2: was considered to be uh and and President Obama I
Speaker 2: think hit him while he was driving with his son
Speaker 2: in Yemen, right, and they were hit with a drone
Speaker 2: and there was a lot of criticism or President Obama.
Speaker 10: Yeah right, But didn't Hillary Clinton have something to do
Speaker 10: with that?
Speaker 2: I don't know if if she was had authorized that
Speaker 2: and not. I know that that Hillary Clinton was very
Speaker 2: happy when Kadafi was taken out. She said, we came,
Speaker 2: we saw he died. So yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff going on here. You're a pretty good historian here, Octane.
Speaker 11: I like that, right, right?
Speaker 10: And one more question, one more question, Well is the
Speaker 10: comment comment? I should say, like I said, putting those
Speaker 10: Democrats on front Street, they didn't never want to impeach
Speaker 10: Obama when he'd done that in Lebanon, and when Joe
Speaker 10: Biden just flooded our country with all these wackles from
Speaker 10: all over all over the world, they didn't know talk
Speaker 10: about impeaching him. So we got a president that's actually
Speaker 10: standing up and doing his job, but they want to
Speaker 10: impeach him. What kind of sense does that make to you?
Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't make sense to me. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is a situation where obviously he he told Iran, he
Speaker 2: sent them a letter, what's it sixty seven days ago?
Speaker 2: It was pretty clear that everybody knew that the possibility
Speaker 2: of a military action was there. He acted upon it
Speaker 2: a little sooner than people expected. But again, unfortunately, it
Speaker 2: used to be in this country octane. And you may
Speaker 2: remember this, or maybe you don't. They used to say
Speaker 2: that political dis agreements amongst the Democrats and Republicans it
Speaker 2: was supposed to stop at the water's edge, meaning, you know,
Speaker 2: whatever the president did, we did it, you know as
Speaker 2: a country, and we But now, no matter what Trump
Speaker 2: does is a lot of Democrats want to go after him,
Speaker 2: and no matter what. By now there were a lot
Speaker 2: of Republicans who want after him, and it becomes everything
Speaker 2: is much more partisan than it ever was in this country,
Speaker 2: right right, I agree with you on that.
Speaker 10: I just want to I just want to call in
Speaker 10: and give my two cents on it, more than it was.
Speaker 2: More than two cents. O take How to ask you
Speaker 2: how old are you?
Speaker 10: If I could ask, I'm a little younger than you.
Speaker 11: I'm sixty three, just a little.
Speaker 2: I've asked you that before. You have a very young voice.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're you know, you sound very intelligent,
Speaker 2: but you sound like you're twenty five or thirty.
Speaker 10: I've been listening to you for so many years. I
Speaker 10: used to watch you on wb Z, and that's why
Speaker 10: I'm listen to you every night. That's what I want
Speaker 10: to ask you. Are you live on Sunday Sunday evenings?
Speaker 2: No, that that's the best off is what we consider
Speaker 2: to be the most interesting or different show. We use
Speaker 2: that Sunday night slot at eleven o'clock to try to
Speaker 2: reach other people who might not ordinarily be listening.
Speaker 10: Well, you got a big support in me, Dan Ray.
Speaker 10: You keep it up and you got a good show.
Speaker 10: Appreciate it very much, Shane.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call. Thank you much. We'll talk again. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. We got to take a quick break,
Speaker 2: you know what. I'm not going to do that. I
Speaker 2: want to go to Shana. Shane. I don't want you
Speaker 2: to have to wait. We'll delay the news a little
Speaker 2: bit for you. How are you tonight, Shana?
Speaker 12: Oh? I am good. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: I can hear you great. Thanks for calling. And you
Speaker 2: are the first female voice that I've heard tonight, and
Speaker 2: I congratulate you and thank you for joining us.
Speaker 12: Go right ahead, I know, and a first time call.
Speaker 12: I heard you say that about women not calling in
Speaker 12: and off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, first time call or Shane or all right, yeah,
Speaker 2: well we talked about this on Friday night, and all
Speaker 2: the calls from male callers, and you know, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of women who who are very small, who are
Speaker 2: really good analyst as to what's going on, and fifty
Speaker 2: percent of the population as women. I want fifty percent
Speaker 2: of my callers to be women too.
Speaker 8: Go right ahead, Shana, all right, I guess I'll have
Speaker 8: to call back again sometimes.
Speaker 2: I bet you'll want you to call that nothing on
Speaker 2: what you think tonight? Go right ahead.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, this whole thing is unfortunate. You know,
Speaker 12: no one wants to, in my opinion, use you know,
Speaker 12: war and weapons when they don't have to, and innocent people,
Speaker 12: you know, always end up getting hurts is general what happens.
Speaker 12: But I'm also just a big proponent of science. And
Speaker 12: I'll say upfront, you know, I don't listen to enough
Speaker 12: politics to make a completely informed opinionedness. But what I
Speaker 12: do know is, you know, if you bomb somewhere with
Speaker 12: nuclear weapons and materials, you might end up the much
Speaker 12: bigger whoopsie than if you had just bombed I don't know,
Speaker 12: a regular old military base and We do not need
Speaker 12: more nuclear explosions in this world and nuclear falla which
Speaker 12: can reach across countries. People don't realize. And I mean,
Speaker 12: I think we should have learned that from Chernobyl. But anyway,
Speaker 12: I just think, you know, it was it's reckless to
Speaker 12: bomb a nuclear site.
Speaker 8: I just you know, nuclear war.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me, just for the fun of it, ask
Speaker 2: you devil's advocate question, and that is if if if
Speaker 2: Iran was close to basically developing enough plutonium that they
Speaker 2: were able to enrich and make you know, ten or
Speaker 2: twelve nuclear bombs. You I'm sure know enough about that country. Uh.
Speaker 2: And the government there, it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 2: theocracy run by a bunch of clerics. They've said all
Speaker 2: along that they'd love to wipe Israel off the face
Speaker 2: of the earth. I know that it's a risk, and
Speaker 2: you're right, scientifically, it's a risk when you when you bomb.
Speaker 2: You know, you know that what we did on what
Speaker 2: the United States did on Saturday night. But I don't
Speaker 2: know that we could allow run to have developed nuclear
Speaker 2: weapons and and and slept well at night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, there's no good end to this.
Speaker 12: You know, in an ideal world, people wouldn't be developing
Speaker 12: nuclear bombs, and you know, the atomic bomb never would
Speaker 12: have happened. We don't live in an ideal world.
Speaker 2: Well, the only thing with the atomic bomb. Do you
Speaker 2: know how many lives American lives were saved by getting
Speaker 2: japansa suror under in nineteen forty five?
Speaker 12: Absolutely, absolutely, no one wins in war, No, no.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, I'm with you totally. And but what I'm
Speaker 2: saying is World War two the United States was started
Speaker 2: with Pearl Harbor, Okay, And when Pearl Harbor occurred, uh,
Speaker 2: it put it put the United States in a war,
Speaker 2: and we if we had had to have invaded Japan,
Speaker 2: the estimates were a million American soldiers would have died.
Speaker 2: And so Harry Truman had a tough decision to make
Speaker 2: and he made it terrible, terrible decision to make. But
Speaker 2: if if Harry Truman had made that decision, maybe people
Speaker 2: like you and I wouldn't even be alive today. If
Speaker 2: you get my.
Speaker 4: Drift, I totally get your drift.
Speaker 12: There's no good outcome of this. And you know, had
Speaker 12: Tom Brahms and nuclear weapons never been developed, you know
Speaker 12: we'd be having a different conversation. But I just I
Speaker 12: just hope they don't get used. I mean, if you
Speaker 12: have to bomb so that they don't get used, and
Speaker 12: that's I guess that's fine. You know, what are you
Speaker 12: gonna do?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm agreeing with you now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you've changed your argument a little bit, which is good,
Speaker 2: and that is that, uh, I think a run is
Speaker 2: less likely to develop and therefore very less likely to
Speaker 2: ever use and a nuclear weapon as a result of
Speaker 2: what happened on Saturday night.
Speaker 12: You know, I mean, I totally agree. It all makes sense.
Speaker 12: It's just it's such a it's just such a scary process.
Speaker 12: I mean again, you know, just just the use of
Speaker 12: these weapons is so scary because you know, it's not
Speaker 12: just bombing. You know an area and you know thousands die,
Speaker 12: and it's fire and exclusion. You get into these nuclear weapons.
Speaker 12: It's just such a whole at a ball game, and
Speaker 12: you have mushroom clouds and radiation under filed.
Speaker 2: I was in Poland as a as a TV reporter
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six, just a couple of months after Chernobyl,
Speaker 2: So believe me, I know what you're talking about in
Speaker 2: terms of that that leak, that radioactive leak from Chernobyl.
Speaker 2: So yeah, hey, SHANEA. I loved your call. I hope
Speaker 2: you continue to listen to us more and call more often.
Speaker 2: Could I could I be bold and ask you how
Speaker 2: you are, because I'm always looking for younger callers, and
Speaker 2: yourself a younger woman.
Speaker 12: I am great. I'm I'm thirty six. I just pulled
Speaker 12: into a construction site I'm working at, so I'm going
Speaker 12: to get to work shortly. But I do have another
Speaker 12: couple of really quick questions. Well, I don't even know
Speaker 12: what times and days of the week your show is.
Speaker 12: That's a kibid question.
Speaker 2: But eight to midnight Monday through Friday, all right?
Speaker 11: Cool?
Speaker 12: I only, I mean it only started working nights a
Speaker 12: couple of months ago. So it's it's been It's been
Speaker 12: a pleasure listening to you, and I appreciate it. Another
Speaker 12: call off. I'm just super curious by the sound of
Speaker 12: some of the callers. And again I'm not going to
Speaker 12: find anybody, but just like it's it's it's funny to me.
Speaker 12: Do some people call you drunk?
Speaker 2: No, I we we do not let people drunk on
Speaker 2: the air. There there are a lot of people we've
Speaker 2: learned over the years. I've done this for a while. Uh,
Speaker 2: some people get nervous, but no, we can tell. We're
Speaker 2: able to tell people when when when they're drunk, and
Speaker 2: that's not what we want to do here on night side.
Speaker 2: If someone wants to if someone's maybe had a beer
Speaker 2: and they're able to haverry a decent conversation, I'm not
Speaker 2: the alcohol police. But if someone calls up and and
Speaker 2: and they're under the weather, as we would say, we
Speaker 2: very politely asked them to call another time. Simple is that? Okay?
Speaker 12: I was just curious because some of these and just
Speaker 12: everyone has their opinion. But to be frank, some of
Speaker 12: it's just so comical, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Well again, one other thing we do in this program
Speaker 2: is we invite all points of view. We don't cut
Speaker 2: people off and allow people to express themselves. I get
Speaker 2: criticized for that sometimes, but the whole idea of this
Speaker 2: program is I don't care what you think. I just
Speaker 2: care you thinking. That's what I mean. What I mean
Speaker 2: by that is I want people who are thinking. That's all.
Speaker 2: I want everyone to think. I don't care what concluded.
Speaker 12: I totally agree with that.
Speaker 4: I totally agree with that.
Speaker 12: I think everyone's opinion to be heard, and it was
Speaker 12: very interesting for that reason.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Thanks SHANEA. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 2: Stay be good call soon. Okay, thank you very much,
Speaker 2: and stay safe and work. Thanks. Good night. All right,
Speaker 2: we did push the news back. I'm sorry. Here it
Speaker 2: comes right now.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Back we go. Let me go to Tony in Los Angeles. Tony,
Speaker 2: you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 9: Welcome Dan.
Speaker 13: How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great, Tony. I haven't heard from you
Speaker 2: in a while. Good to hear your voice. What do
Speaker 2: you think about what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 9: I am worried about one country. One country, Dan, which China? China?
Speaker 2: I think that's that's a legitimate concern.
Speaker 9: Yes, I think what mister Trump did was important, had
Speaker 9: to be done. But now what is China going to do?
Speaker 9: Of course we don't know that, do we.
Speaker 2: Well, unless China looked at what happened and said, hey,
Speaker 2: this guy serious, I mean, that's possible. Possibly, or China
Speaker 2: may have said, hey, he took bold action and was rewarded.
Speaker 2: You know, assuming that that we do get a a
Speaker 2: cessation of hostilities, China might say Hey, why shouldn't we,
Speaker 2: you know, take to try to take advantage of a situation?
Speaker 9: Good point, No, I know, Dan. I want to say
Speaker 9: one thing. You are the best talk show host in
Speaker 9: the USA, in the whole world because you let people
Speaker 9: of all different magnitudes and all different anythings speak on
Speaker 9: your radio show.
Speaker 2: All view points, Tony, as you indicate, all view points
Speaker 2: are very welcome on this program.
Speaker 9: Yes, Dan, you are the best. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 9: Talk to you soon, Tony.
Speaker 2: I will talk with you soon.
Speaker 9: And God bless America.
Speaker 2: Dan, looking forward to seating back in Boston sometime.
Speaker 9: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Bye bye, I'm right with you. God Bless America. Let
Speaker 2: me go to Laurie in Idaho. Laurie, thank you very
Speaker 2: much for calling in. How are you tonight? You know
Speaker 2: what I missed the wrong This is Maria Maria. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: we put Maria. I'm Marius, Laurie. Now we get Laurie.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I hit the wrong button. Rob, Please apologize Maria.
Speaker 2: I'll get to her next. Laurie, how are you. How's
Speaker 2: everything out in Idaho? Warm? Here in Boston?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you took away all our warm weather, so
Speaker 4: it's been called. We got really actually, really well needed rain.
Speaker 2: It's going to be one hundred tomorrow. We'll send it.
Speaker 9: Back, Okay, I'll take it. Get a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: No, well, we got some really needed rain. It hadn't
Speaker 4: rain for like three weeks, so it got some nice rain.
Speaker 4: But it was It was forty two one Sunday, I think,
Speaker 4: which you know, I'm not thrilled with. But we're getting
Speaker 4: back up into the seventies. I think tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're gonna have and we're gonna be. Some
Speaker 2: are saying we might be over one hundred. That's awesome,
Speaker 2: that's awesome or awful. Yeah, I think it's awful.
Speaker 4: No, it's awesome. I love my heat, and lo it
Speaker 4: is natural. I don't want the heat turned up inside
Speaker 4: that hot, but as long as it's natural.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you we're going to be going through a
Speaker 2: lot of air conditioning. Those of us we are lucky
Speaker 2: enough to have it, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Those of us who choose to use it, I don't.
Speaker 11: I won't touch the thing.
Speaker 4: That's okay. Yeah, shower and a fan and I'm good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a big ac guy either. To be
Speaker 2: honest with you, Yeah, maybe you wake up in the
Speaker 2: morning and your hand's like, oh God, why did I
Speaker 2: do that? Why did I do that? What's your take
Speaker 2: on the president here tonight? What do you think?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 4: Saturday night and so obviously I'm three hours behind, you know,
Speaker 4: when everybody in the East Coast heard about So I
Speaker 4: listened to a lot of the news through the course
Speaker 4: of the night. I am amazed, absolutely amazed that he
Speaker 4: got this thing off with nobody knowing. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think I don't maybe that's already been talked about enough
Speaker 4: and nobody cares anymore. But just the specture of this
Speaker 4: thing so big, and you know, now, let's send these
Speaker 4: two little bombers ever flight where we can feed them,
Speaker 4: and everyone else is going to go east and quietly.
Speaker 4: And that was amazing. I mean, those the guys that
Speaker 4: the folks that ran that, the military folks must have
Speaker 4: been Jack when I got back. What a great mission, you.
Speaker 2: Know, thirty seven hours in the air. And there were
Speaker 2: women pilots involved as well as men by the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean amazing, amazing, and nobody shot at
Speaker 4: them because they had that little force that went through before.
Speaker 4: It was just brilliant. And I get so frustrated with
Speaker 4: these congress people who are like, oh, you knew you
Speaker 4: had to run it to the committee, you had to
Speaker 4: run it through up. They never could have pulled it off.
Speaker 4: It never would have stayed secret.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you're gonna, you know, have Elon Omar or
Speaker 2: AOC consultant.
Speaker 4: They can keep their mouths shut to say their soul.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren could well, yeah, yeah, she would have said,
Speaker 2: smoke signals up somewhere they.
Speaker 4: Know exactly exactly whether whether Big Rug or whatever fire.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so I kind of pleased. I don't this
Speaker 4: this whole, so I kind of look at it with
Speaker 4: the twelve hours twelve hours, I don't know that Israel
Speaker 4: is allowed to actually do stuff during the next twelve hours,
Speaker 4: but maybe they are allowed to be on you know,
Speaker 4: they don't have to stand down there and stand by
Speaker 4: in case Iran doesn't follow yeah rules for twelve hours.
Speaker 2: I really hope so. But uh, the president's statement tonight
Speaker 2: was a little confusing in that point.
Speaker 13: It was that someone show, you know, he's not saying
Speaker 13: anything that he hasn't checked in with, you know, so
Speaker 13: he's oh, yeah, on lockstep, so he thinks.
Speaker 2: They joined at the hip on this one, Laurie, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Yes, sir, Hey, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: calling in. I got to take a quick break here,
Speaker 2: and I got a pack a full up calls behind you.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to get them all in. We'll
Speaker 2: talk soon. Okay, Thanks Laurie. Thanks, good night. All right, Rob,
Speaker 2: I think I got to there, goes Laurie. Okay, and
Speaker 2: we will go to Maria next. We're coming Maria. I apologize,
Speaker 2: I hit your button inadvertently. You will be next up
Speaker 2: right after the break.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, Maria, I'm I hit the wrong button before. Welcome Marie.
Speaker 5: How are you hi, I'm well, Dan, thank you so
Speaker 5: much for taking my call. You're welcome. This is my
Speaker 5: second time calling. I called once before and ahaha, thank you.
Speaker 5: I live up in the Finger Lakes, but I'm from
Speaker 5: mass originally. I just I have two things and I'll
Speaker 5: try to keep it real quick. The first thing is
Speaker 5: I've been concerned about Iran for years and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: talk about nuclear Oh no, we don't have it. Oh no,
Speaker 5: it's none of your business.
Speaker 9: Whatever.
Speaker 4: So they've been a.
Speaker 5: Problem for some time, and I think it's good that
Speaker 5: we stood up to them, and I'm I was glad
Speaker 5: to hear Netanya Who's words of thanking us and thank
Speaker 5: God bless America.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I think that let's hope that that
Speaker 2: what President Trump said tonight, is that there's going to
Speaker 2: be some sort of a cease fire. I mean'd be
Speaker 2: great if out of this there's an absolutecy's fire. We'll see.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I just before I came into this room, on the news,
Speaker 5: they reported that that is so far not true at
Speaker 5: all or hasn't happened, making it sound like or I
Speaker 5: inferred from the headline that the president wasn't telling the truth.
Speaker 10: So I don't know what's.
Speaker 2: Going on, but well tended to somehow engage in hyperbole too.
Speaker 2: It's you know, everything is this is the rightest nothing
Speaker 2: ever has been better than this is just unbelievably good.
Speaker 2: But you know, let's hope.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: By the way, the stock market, the futures in the
Speaker 2: stock market, it was a good day for the stock
Speaker 2: market today and it looks as the futures are going
Speaker 2: to open well tomorrow, which is a pretty good indicator
Speaker 2: as to how the market at least sees things trending.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very intable.
Speaker 9: We'll see if I could.
Speaker 5: The second thing I want to bring up is just
Speaker 5: real brief, and this might be too off topic, but
Speaker 5: I was falling asleep when I heard your your caller.
Speaker 5: But by the way, great college tonight, Shane especially, but
Speaker 5: somebody mentioned you guys were talking about Pearl Harbor and
Speaker 5: it reminded me. Years ago I read a biography of
Speaker 5: Claire booth Loose.
Speaker 4: You remember who she was, sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was the owner of Time magazine. Yep.
Speaker 8: And she was the wife of Henry.
Speaker 5: Luce Henry Loose. So the story and the biography, and
Speaker 5: I believe it was written by a man named Frank
Speaker 5: Ward or Frank Sheed, you know Sheet and Ward publishers.
Speaker 5: All right, long story short, Claire booth Loose tried to
Speaker 5: tell the president at the time that an attack was
Speaker 5: imminent by the Chinese, by the Japanese. Excuse me, and
Speaker 5: the reason she Maybe you've heard that story.
Speaker 2: I have not heard that specific story, but I've heard
Speaker 2: stories that we were aware that an attack was Some
Speaker 2: people think that we actually we're happy to use that
Speaker 2: as an entree into the war. I never been able
Speaker 2: to nail that down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, do you want me to tell you the
Speaker 5: quick story or no about her. Okay, So she and
Speaker 5: mister Luce made a trip overseas because he was raised
Speaker 5: by missionary parents and he loved the people of China,
Speaker 5: and they go on this big tour and on their
Speaker 5: way back, coming to back to the US, they stop
Speaker 5: and they attend this big dinner by the man who
Speaker 5: was the head of the Philippines.
Speaker 2: At the time, Marcos remember Marcos.
Speaker 5: No no, no no before him another man. And anyway,
Speaker 5: that gentleman was very charmed by missus Luce. And they
Speaker 5: get talking and she says, you know, aren't you concerned
Speaker 5: about the Japanese? And he says, listen, if you ever
Speaker 5: hear in the news that I have headed to the
Speaker 5: hills the mountains, then you know that I know that
Speaker 5: the Japanese are coming. And she just kind of tucked
Speaker 5: that away, you know. So then they go back to
Speaker 5: the US and okay, now we're in December of nineteen
Speaker 5: forty one, and she reads in the papers that that
Speaker 5: gentleman has taken to the hills, that he has completely
Speaker 5: abandoned his people and gone to the hills, and she says,
Speaker 5: she convinces her husband he's got to take the train
Speaker 5: to Washington from New York City and go tell the
Speaker 5: President that an attack is imminent by the Japanese. And
Speaker 5: she convinces her husband and he does it, and the
Speaker 5: President and his Secretary of War, I think they laughed
Speaker 5: at him. And he went back to her and said,
Speaker 5: don't you ever ask me to do something like that again.
Speaker 5: And the next day was Pearl harborow Maria.
Speaker 2: I got three callers behind you. I'm going to let
Speaker 2: you go. Thanks, call again, thank you very much, very quickly.
Speaker 2: Ron helped me out here. You got to be quick
Speaker 2: for me. Ron, I get two behind you.
Speaker 11: Okay. Just things influenced my perspective at the moment number one,
Speaker 11: when nine to eleven happened, I remember that some of
Speaker 11: the folks in Middle East rejoicing over the fact that
Speaker 11: this had happened to us. And two years later, I
Speaker 11: find myself in Iran, actually not far from Tehran. I
Speaker 11: can tell you my experience. Although we treated about a
Speaker 11: thousand people, and well it's a somewhat small sample size,
Speaker 11: I can tell you that a lot of the people
Speaker 11: are not, you know, on board with the theocratic leaders.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, we've seen the Green Revolution over there.
Speaker 2: We've seen that government shoot people in the streets and
Speaker 2: shoot them, shoot them dead.
Speaker 11: Some of the worst individuals I have seen. I mean,
Speaker 11: some of these folks have never seen a doctor. Their
Speaker 11: dentician is so bad as you look into their mind,
Speaker 11: their clothing is tattered.
Speaker 2: Well, that can happen when you know autocrats are running
Speaker 2: your country for forty six years or whatever the number is.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and so the one question I have for you
Speaker 11: and not I'll let you go, is that you know
Speaker 11: we had two choices.
Speaker 13: Wen.
Speaker 2: You gotta be quick. I got about I got ten
Speaker 2: seconds left. Ron, you gotta be real quick for me.
Speaker 12: Hey, go ahead.
Speaker 11: What's the question, live in fear or do something? What's
Speaker 11: your choice?
Speaker 2: Do something?
Speaker 11: That's my point.
Speaker 2: Thanks John, Thanks Ron, great question, great call, and thank
Speaker 2: you very much to the callers in the line. I
Speaker 2: really do apologize, but we had some open lines early tonight.
Speaker 2: Wish you had gotten through. We'll make it up to
Speaker 2: you tomorrow night. To Tim and SATCHI sorry about that,
Speaker 2: Rob Brooks, thank you very much, Marita, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it very quick. Nice I postgame
Speaker 2: at WBC. Nice I with Dan Ray about I don't
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Speaker 2: to heaven. That's min Pell Charlie ray Is who passed
Speaker 2: who fifteen years ago in fairly. That's all your pets
Speaker 2: who are past. They loved you, you love that. I
Speaker 2: do believe you'll see them again. Seekin in morning or nights.
Speaker 2: That everyone have a great Tuesday. Thank you,