Speaker 1: It's Night's Eyes with Dan Ray. I'm going you mazy
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: I know certainly is. We are in the final hour
Speaker 2: of myself filling in for Dan Ray on night side
Speaker 2: on WBZ. Ben Parker here and normally you would hear
Speaker 2: me from two until six o'clock at the afternoon doing
Speaker 2: the news here on WBZ. But Dan is away and
Speaker 2: I get a chance to play, so very nice to
Speaker 2: be here with you. We've had a great night tonight.
Speaker 2: We talked a bit about Kamala Harris's pick for Vice President.
Speaker 2: Tim Walls, the Minnesota governor, get a little bit into
Speaker 2: the housing crisis with the Massachusetts Housing and Livable Communities
Speaker 2: Secretary at Augustus, little gun violence talk shot spotter system.
Speaker 2: And then the Paris Olympics. We got to talk about
Speaker 2: that a little bit. And we also got to talk
Speaker 2: to a gold medal Olympian named Michael Ruzioni, who is
Speaker 2: from Winthrop and you've probably heard of, the captain of
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics hockey team. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: a little trip back in time a couple of different
Speaker 2: ways here in this half hour. First of all, we're
Speaker 2: going to go back just over a year. Everybody is
Speaker 2: very well aware and was very well aware at the time,
Speaker 2: and hopefully you still are, and maybe say an extra
Speaker 2: prayer or something at night for the folks of Lahaina
Speaker 2: in Maui in Hawaii, because it's been a year just
Speaker 2: about since the devastating wildfire that everybody saw, whether on
Speaker 2: social media or on the news or on wherever the internet,
Speaker 2: and they're still dealing with this. Just because we all
Speaker 2: moved on with our lives and something else grabbed our attention,
Speaker 2: they are still dealing with it. And I'm honored to
Speaker 2: bring in tonight the founder of Rebuildmaui dot Org Alfi
Speaker 2: Bassetturro and welcome to the show. Alfi.
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you, Ben, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that absolutely, and I think it's important
Speaker 2: that people realize that things are still going on there.
Speaker 2: And I shouldn't say it that way. I make it
Speaker 2: sound like nobody knows that stuff's still going on there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure plenty of people do, but it's not top
Speaker 2: of mind u for for most people, most Americans, as
Speaker 2: it was a year ago or so when when it
Speaker 2: when it first happened. But well, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff that still needs to take place there where where
Speaker 2: are we, I guess, And when I say we, I
Speaker 2: mean you in terms of getting things back to some
Speaker 2: semblance of something normal.
Speaker 3: So it's it's really been challenging here. Okay. So if
Speaker 3: anyone's been to Maui or why do, they'll know that
Speaker 3: if you're trying to build something, create something, it always
Speaker 3: takes much much longer than it would on the mainland,
Speaker 3: right when you're in Boston. So because of the island,
Speaker 3: if you're trying to shift something here, the work ethic
Speaker 3: here is also a little bit delayed. Normally, if you're
Speaker 3: trying to build anything here, you're you're talking about twice
Speaker 3: as long. It's not three times as long. So now
Speaker 3: you layer in the fact that we were hit by
Speaker 3: a mega fire right. It took about it took us
Speaker 3: a couple of thousand homes within the fire right. We
Speaker 3: are approaching our one year anniversary and we haven't had
Speaker 3: one home to rebuilt since that time. It's a shame
Speaker 3: to be able to report that, but that's the current status,
Speaker 3: right Like, we haven't had one structure, we built one home,
Speaker 3: one residence. A lot of folks are still living in
Speaker 3: hotel shelters. Some posts are still are homeless after this event,
Speaker 3: and I mean, I wish we had something better to report,
Speaker 3: but that's that's the current state you know of events
Speaker 3: at the moment.
Speaker 2: I did. I did see a news story this week that, uh,
Speaker 2: some of the survivors of the wildfires moving into a
Speaker 2: former hotel as well. So I mean, there's there's places
Speaker 2: to put people. But first of all, I would I
Speaker 2: would imagine that I don't care where you're staying. If
Speaker 2: you're not staying in your own home, you're not staying
Speaker 2: where you want to be.
Speaker 3: Okay, So listen, we lost our home in the fire.
Speaker 3: We lost three businesses and fire we had to evacuate
Speaker 3: five times. So what what I mean by that is
Speaker 3: when we were at our home, we saw the we
Speaker 3: saw the fire start. We started the fire approach our
Speaker 3: home and it was about two buildings away. At that
Speaker 3: point we said, okay, time to leave. We we evacuated.
Speaker 3: We went to another location. When the fire got there,
Speaker 3: We're like, let's get out of here. So we evacuated
Speaker 3: five times total. Now with now, yeah, with that said,
Speaker 3: it's I mean, like you fast forward one year later,
Speaker 3: everyone's just trying to get on with their life. But
Speaker 3: it's really hard, man. Some people are stuck and when
Speaker 3: something grand like this happens, to get stuck in that event, right,
Speaker 3: Like if they're in divorced, if they lose a family member.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about this fire, I'm talking about it
Speaker 3: in life and something huge happens, they get stuck in
Speaker 3: that event, right. So a lot of people are stuck
Speaker 3: and they have really hard time moving on. And I
Speaker 3: see a lot of those people, right, I really struck.
Speaker 3: Yes for some people, like did you just mentioned then,
Speaker 3: who are moving into some shelters that's not home. I
Speaker 3: mean it's not home. Like, we lived in a hotel
Speaker 3: for two months. We had to get out of there
Speaker 3: because we weren't on vacation and people who were staying
Speaker 3: in the hotel with us were on vacation. And I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna, like, I'm not going to like judge them
Speaker 3: for like having a good time or ordering drinks and
Speaker 3: like they're on vacation and I'm in a hotel, right,
Speaker 3: And so we got out of there as quickly as
Speaker 3: we could. We found a home to live. But when
Speaker 3: the fire happened, all of the renolds they increased two
Speaker 3: to three times. I'm going to tell you what that means. So,
Speaker 3: for instance, I was running a home before the fire happened.
Speaker 3: It was five thousand dollars right it's it's forty five hundred,
Speaker 3: and we lived right across from the ocean. Now Reynolds
Speaker 3: are going for the house that right now is ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, So it's you know, I don't know how
Speaker 3: many people can afford ten thousand dollars, but I have
Speaker 3: the least spensive rental on Maui or bedroom on Maui
Speaker 3: on the west side of Mountain, because right now the
Speaker 3: two houses that are on my streets are running for
Speaker 3: eighteen and twenty one thousand dollars a money. Now, I
Speaker 3: don't know about you, Ben, but that's a ton of
Speaker 3: money to pay on a monthly basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's my man. I would guess it's
Speaker 2: almost impossible for anybody who's not already made a money,
Speaker 2: which you know, a lot of people who are just
Speaker 2: regular people living in Maui aren't made of money. I mean, sure,
Speaker 2: there's celebrities who go there and buy millions and millions
Speaker 2: of dollars, you know, in terms of estates, and stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the average person's not not walking up with
Speaker 2: eighteen grand a month and going I'd like to live here, please.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't even qualify for the rental, you know that,
Speaker 3: Like you go apply for the rentals, they don't even qualify.
Speaker 3: They didn't make sure the Yeah, no, no, the renolds
Speaker 3: are you have to get them through FEMA or you
Speaker 3: have to get them through the county, and those are
Speaker 3: far and few between. So there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: who are who are being lost to shuffle and it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: And you know who's speaking really lost to shuffle is
Speaker 3: the teenagers. The teenagers because right now there is very
Speaker 3: little mental health and whether anyone wants to talk about
Speaker 3: it or not, but let me just tell you something.
Speaker 3: Whenever a crisis it's a family, right, it could be
Speaker 3: it could be loss of life, It could be lost
Speaker 3: your home and a fire. It could be you know, hurricane, tornado, whatever, Right,
Speaker 3: it could be flood. Right when something when something significant
Speaker 3: happens and it changes the course of your life, that's
Speaker 3: when trauma occurs, right, trauma. Right, But right now we
Speaker 3: have very little attention on mental health care, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of kids who are suffering from that right now,
Speaker 3: and it's a shame. And I'm only mentioning that because
Speaker 3: a lot of our teenagers need that. We have a
Speaker 3: huge emphasis right now on bringing trauma therapists into our
Speaker 3: community to provide that kind of care for our kids,
Speaker 3: because it's it's not being aggressive.
Speaker 2: So anyway, one of the one of the reasons I
Speaker 2: wanted to do a check here on how things was going.
Speaker 2: There was a little bit of a selfishness to it.
Speaker 2: And I alluded to this before we brought you on earlier,
Speaker 2: back in uh many years, many many years ago. I
Speaker 2: actually I worked in Hawaii. I was actually a DJ
Speaker 2: on a cruise ship out of Honolu and we thankfully,
Speaker 2: by the way, Maui's my favorite island that we that
Speaker 2: we visited because we were there two days a week.
Speaker 2: We were there two days a week. We docked over
Speaker 2: in ka Alui, which is where I had my mail delivered.
Speaker 2: So technically, at least according to the post office, that's
Speaker 2: where I lived, although it was hard to live in
Speaker 2: a little post office.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But but of course, you know, we would come over
Speaker 2: to Lahaina, whether we would have lunch or we just
Speaker 2: drive over there. We'd go up Alaiakala. Sometimes we'd over
Speaker 2: to Hannah. We would snorkele up on Kinapali, off the
Speaker 2: off the beaches there by the hotels. I mean. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm of all the islands in Hawaii and
Speaker 2: and and certainly I saw, you know, many of them.
Speaker 2: Maui is is is is my favorite for a number
Speaker 2: of reasons, not the least of which is it's a
Speaker 2: really beautiful island. But I spent the most time there
Speaker 2: of any island. And so when I heard, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: and obviously not about me, but when I heard thea
Speaker 2: was burned to the ground, it was like, holy you know,
Speaker 2: somebody could have hit me in the side of the
Speaker 2: head with a baseball bat and it wouldn't have hurt anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was really unfortunate, man, And I
Speaker 3: just wish there was.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and I still know people who live there
Speaker 2: and and and worked there longer than I did. I mean,
Speaker 2: this was many, many, many years ago.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you go somewhere and you work
Speaker 2: and you know people, and you've met people, and you've
Speaker 2: you've gone to these places, and and even someone who
Speaker 2: just goes there from vacation for a week, probably fe
Speaker 2: in their heart about Lahaida. But I mean this was
Speaker 2: a place I went every week for two days a
Speaker 2: week and you know, fell in love with because everybody
Speaker 2: does unless they're crazy. So yeah, I mean my heart
Speaker 2: bleeds for you guys, knowing that you A went through
Speaker 2: this and b that you're still going through this. I mean,
Speaker 2: the ocean still looks blue and it's beautiful, but holy cow,
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine you know, what you're seeing on
Speaker 2: the shore there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's still beautiful here. It's still wonderful. Like
Speaker 3: I'm actually at the beach right now with some friends
Speaker 3: that are visiting from the mainland right now. But I'm
Speaker 3: always I will always stake time to talk about what's
Speaker 3: happening here, because yeah, I mean, everyone's for gonden about
Speaker 3: what's happening here.
Speaker 4: And I don't blame the.
Speaker 3: I'm not criticizing anyone for like, forgetting or moving on,
Speaker 3: because it's just what happens, right, But I will tell
Speaker 3: you that there there was over you know, over seven
Speaker 3: thousand people who were displaced fire right and a lot
Speaker 3: of those people had to move. They didn't want to,
Speaker 3: but they had to.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We have a ton of families who are still living
Speaker 3: in these you know, subpar you know housing, you know structures.
Speaker 3: Because we're an island, we can't just move to the
Speaker 3: next city. We don't have that. You know, when on
Speaker 3: the mainland, if a tornado hits, what do they do
Speaker 3: They just drive to the next town right where the
Speaker 3: tornado didn't affect it. We don't have that capability. And
Speaker 3: that's just that's just the way it is, right So,
Speaker 3: but you know, there's just there's there's a lot of
Speaker 3: people who are still suffering. There's a lot of people
Speaker 3: who still need us son of help. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of kids. There's a lot of kids need a lot
Speaker 3: of help because when parents are in crisis, kids are
Speaker 3: and right now that's our big focus right now. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of kids just need a ton of help.
Speaker 3: Even if there was no fire that ever happened, right zero,
Speaker 3: think about them. Think about when you were a teenager,
Speaker 3: you just you just don't know, Like there's just so
Speaker 3: many questions about life. You know, you're question yourself. You're
Speaker 3: like you wonder if you're good enough, you wonder if
Speaker 3: you're enough you want to like those are kids are
Speaker 3: still dealing with that. Plus to dealing with the fact
Speaker 3: that you want their homes when they're dealing with the
Speaker 3: fact that they all lot their their parents lost their job.
Speaker 3: They're dealing with the fact that their parents don't get
Speaker 3: along anymore because they don't know if they're going to
Speaker 3: be able to live here anymore. And that's really difficult, right. So,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't blame anyone for like rushing over
Speaker 3: here and trying to help. That's not what I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do. I'm just trying to just explain what's happening here, because, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, when people realize, like, hey, there's still a
Speaker 3: lot of families kids, I my kids, they have friends
Speaker 3: who are living in a hotel and who are still
Speaker 3: expected to go to school.
Speaker 4: And it's bad.
Speaker 3: It breaks my heart because it's really people realize like
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, you're in a hotel, you're in a resort,
Speaker 3: you're living on the beach. It's cool, no, but you
Speaker 3: don't realize you have to get to the you have
Speaker 3: to walk to the parking structure which is minutes away,
Speaker 3: and you have to get in your car, you have
Speaker 3: to drive off, you have to park in the parking
Speaker 3: structure again, and none of this feels like home. You're
Speaker 3: not stucking down my ties, enjoying life. You're only worried
Speaker 3: about when you have to leave. No one tells you
Speaker 3: when you have to leave. That's a really hard part
Speaker 3: because you know, usually you have like a leaf right
Speaker 3: or you have a mortgage, and that tells you how
Speaker 3: long you have to live there.
Speaker 4: This is different.
Speaker 3: No one tells you how long you get to stay
Speaker 3: in your current residence. So it could be tomorrow, it
Speaker 3: could be today, it could be three weeks, and that
Speaker 3: becomes really really stressful for a lot of parents. So
Speaker 3: you know, I just want to tell people what's happening
Speaker 3: on Maui and that I just I also want to
Speaker 3: think we want people to still come to visit Malle.
Speaker 3: Our economy depends on tourism. And I know it sounds like,
Speaker 3: you know, you're speaking out of both sides your mouth.
Speaker 3: That's that's the fact of the matter. We need to WURSM.
Speaker 3: But yet we're still recovering, and that's it's going to
Speaker 3: be that way for years. That's the unfortunate truth.
Speaker 2: Well, Alfie, we wish you all the best, and I
Speaker 2: know the website will direct people there so they can
Speaker 2: check it out. And yeah, go visit Maui if you can.
Speaker 2: I mean, who doesn't want to visit Hawaii? And it's
Speaker 2: beautiful there, and it's you know, it's still beautiful. And
Speaker 2: the people, by the way, I got to say this,
Speaker 2: and I'm not saying this to uh, you know, to
Speaker 2: kiss up to you or anything, but you know, the
Speaker 2: people there are just such wonderful people in Hawaii. You
Speaker 2: don't know until you go in and and and hang
Speaker 2: out with them.
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm going to say this, and then
Speaker 3: we can go. When people come to Maui, they realize
Speaker 3: it can be kinder. You can be more patient, they
Speaker 3: can be more generous because everyone else is. They feel
Speaker 3: like they've been giving they been given permission to be
Speaker 3: the kindest version of themselves. Everyone's waiting for permission to
Speaker 3: be kinder. And when they come to Maui to finally
Speaker 3: find that, when they go back home, they're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can't be that way. I got to haunt my horn.
Speaker 3: I got to be even patient. When they come to
Speaker 3: Mawi they can find us, so like, yes, that's what
Speaker 3: you can find. And it's a wonderful place to come
Speaker 3: and invite everyone to come out here and enjoy it,
Speaker 3: experience it. But we're still recovering. But it's gonna take
Speaker 3: a while. But you know what all over the world
Speaker 3: is people suffering bad things that happen to everyone. So
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to tell anyone like what was you know, No, man,
Speaker 3: bad things happen to everyone. Now it's our turn. We're
Speaker 3: going to figure it out. It's gonna take a little while,
Speaker 3: so I appreciate you taking a few moments to focus
Speaker 3: on us. Thank you, Ben, thank you for your listeners,
Speaker 3: and you know, thank you for taking the time to
Speaker 3: be interesting though.
Speaker 2: Absolutely by the way, Alfie, as I let you go,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of things that I haven't said in
Speaker 2: a long time because you know, I'm not working in
Speaker 2: Hawaii anymore, but I've always wanted to say it while
Speaker 2: I was here. So mahalo for joining us. And aloha
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 3: Hey, aloha my friend. I really appreciate you. Gay, thank
Speaker 3: you for not forgeting about us. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right? There he is? That is That is Alfie
Speaker 2: best Soto. He is with rebuild Maui dot org. It's
Speaker 2: the website we build Malui dot org. Go ahead, check
Speaker 2: it out. They're rebuilding Maui. That's gonna take a long
Speaker 2: time to do it, and I just thought that we
Speaker 2: should get an update. It's been a year since the
Speaker 2: wildfires that everybody seemed to be glued to their TVs
Speaker 2: and cell phones and whatever on, and they're still there
Speaker 2: and they're still trying to get things back together. And yes,
Speaker 2: I have a personal issue there because of working in
Speaker 2: Hawaii so many years ago and spending so much time
Speaker 2: in Maui. But I figured i'd share with you and
Speaker 2: maybe you could share with somebody else. Not right, We'll
Speaker 2: be back as we continue. Ben Parker filling in for
Speaker 2: Dan Ray on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: That's not true. Not back to Dan Ray. Ben Parker
Speaker 2: filling in for Dan Ray on Night's Side on this
Speaker 2: Tuesday evening. We unpacked a whole bunch of stuff this
Speaker 2: evening and we still have another half hour ago before
Speaker 2: we're done. We did talk about and we'll take phone
Speaker 2: calls if you want to talk about any of the
Speaker 2: things we talked about tonight, including the picking of Tim
Speaker 2: Walls as Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate. We also
Speaker 2: talked a little bit about the Olympics this evening. Were
Speaker 2: you watching them? Are you watching them? Do you care?
Speaker 2: Do you not care? Who knows? And we, of course
Speaker 2: we just talked about Maui. There's not really much to
Speaker 2: call in on on that particular topic, but I did
Speaker 2: want to just kind of revisit, and I thank Alfi
Speaker 2: for joining us. Did you notice, by the way, when
Speaker 2: we were talking to Alfie and he said I was
Speaker 2: at the beach, it sounded like the beach. God, I
Speaker 2: missed the beaches of Maui. Spent almost a year there
Speaker 2: back in the early nineties as a DJ on a
Speaker 2: cruise ship, and it was a lot of fun. And
Speaker 2: I met a lot of great people working on the
Speaker 2: cruise ship. I met a lot of great people who
Speaker 2: came as tourists on the cruise ship, and a whole
Speaker 2: lot of great people in Hawaii that you know, lifelong friendships.
Speaker 2: In fact, some still I am friends with so And
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm gonna throw this out there too.
Speaker 2: You didn't ask, but I'm going to tell you that
Speaker 2: the first time because we just had if you remember,
Speaker 2: in April we had the full solar eclipse. A lot
Speaker 2: of went saw it. They went up and saw it
Speaker 2: across parts of northern New England and other parts of
Speaker 2: the country. I went up to Vermont to see it
Speaker 2: because I wanted to see a full solar eclipse again,
Speaker 2: because in nineteen ninety one that is the first place
Speaker 2: I ever saw one out the middle of the ocean
Speaker 2: on a cruise ship.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 2: Hey, look look who's on the telephone? Figured out how
Speaker 2: to call me tonight? Glenn's and brighton? Hey there, Glenn?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 4: Ben? Have it took to you in two years? I know?
Speaker 2: Well, you don't call me anymore, and that's it makes
Speaker 2: me sad. But go ahead.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, before I get to my call, what how
Speaker 4: do you spell team's last name? Kamala Harris's pick w
Speaker 4: A l z Oh. I thought it was waos h
Speaker 4: like Marty Walsh.
Speaker 2: Its walls yeah, walls? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right? Are were you're going? You writing him a letter?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, thought maybe you were writing him a letter and
Speaker 2: you wanted to get the spelling right before you dropped
Speaker 2: it in the mailbox.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm not on his side politically, so that's not
Speaker 4: one I didn't want to.
Speaker 2: It's all right, you don't have to be. You don't
Speaker 2: have to be on anybody's side politically. Last time I
Speaker 2: checked your word in American. I'm an American. Everybody's American.
Speaker 2: We're all friends here, and we can we can be adults.
Speaker 2: We can be the adults in the room if if
Speaker 2: other people don't want to be that right.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I called on the Mount rush Oh on
Speaker 4: the Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we didn't get to well, we didn't get
Speaker 2: to that exactly yet because we're going to start after
Speaker 2: the half hour. Go ahead, who's if we were going
Speaker 2: to put somebody on Mount Rushmore, anybody as a fifth
Speaker 2: face up there? Who would you put?
Speaker 4: Guitarist Jimmy Hendrix. He played two months before he died.
Speaker 4: He played on a volcanic on that said ali in Maui, Hawaii.
Speaker 4: What's the name of the aliak? I can't pig of
Speaker 4: which that's on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a bootleg vinyl with him called Maui Broadcast.
Speaker 2: He played on on the top of Haleakala.
Speaker 4: Yes and JOEI wait JOI have seventy with JOI thirtieth.
Speaker 2: By the way, last time I was on Haleakalo, which
Speaker 2: was some years and years ago, and people never believe
Speaker 2: me when I tell him this. If you haven't been there,
Speaker 2: it's cold. It's cold. Oh my, is it cold? Right
Speaker 2: before sunrise? You go up there to watch the sunrise.
Speaker 2: And you know, not every day is it as cold
Speaker 2: as other days. But boy, you go up there, you've
Speaker 2: better bring a jacket or you're not gonna be happy
Speaker 2: with yourself. I just thought to tell you.
Speaker 4: That because Hawaii is known for nice weather.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it snows in Hawaii, you know.
Speaker 4: Well the high elevations.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I wish it only snowed in the high
Speaker 2: elevations in New England, but that doesn't work.
Speaker 4: But originally from Rhene Island and Deck when Hendricks was
Speaker 4: a Brown University's radio station used to call him an
Speaker 4: electric libertarian guitarist because he's a loud, free and uninhibited Oh.
Speaker 2: There you go, so so I see you have hit
Speaker 2: all the milestones here, Glenn, and then we gotta go
Speaker 2: for news. But I wanted to know who and why,
Speaker 2: and you did both the who and the why. So
Speaker 2: I do appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, it's this is fun. You're a good seiling.
Speaker 4: I like when you're failing.
Speaker 2: All right, don't be a stranger. Glenn, I'll talk later,
Speaker 2: all right, all right, right, all right, so we've got
Speaker 2: to move along here and do some news. But he
Speaker 2: Glenn kind of stole a little bit of the thunder
Speaker 2: there coming up in the next half hour, and I'll
Speaker 2: explain exactly why when we get there. There's four faces
Speaker 2: on Mount Rushmore. As you're probably aware, there could be
Speaker 2: a fifth. I suppose maybe a sixth, seventh, eighth, Who
Speaker 2: knows if you you were in charge of putting a
Speaker 2: fifth face on Mount Rushmore. American got to be American
Speaker 2: and does not be a politician. But why who and
Speaker 2: why who? And why would you put on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: You can give us a call and tell us your thoughts.
Speaker 2: We will continue as we go here on a Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: Ben Parker filling in for Dan Ray on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 7: So he wasn't a good place to make whatever decision
Speaker 7: at top of his game, such a consequential president of
Speaker 7: the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president of
Speaker 7: the United States. Want to know what comes next that
Speaker 7: he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 6: Lincoln and Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: But you got Teddy Roosevelt up there and he's wonderful.
Speaker 7: I don't say take him down, but you can add Biden.
Speaker 2: That is Nancy Pelosi talking to CBS is Leslie Stall
Speaker 2: and you heard it. You've probably heard the cut already before,
Speaker 2: but where she talks about serious or not whatever, right
Speaker 2: Joe Biden being on Mount Rushmore. I don't want to
Speaker 2: make this political. I just thought to myself, well, probably
Speaker 2: not going to happen. Then again, probably nobody's going to
Speaker 2: end up on Mount Rushmore other than the ones who
Speaker 2: were already there. So I thought, well, maybe we could
Speaker 2: figure out who maybe should be on Mount Rushmore. There's
Speaker 2: got to be somebody right worthy of being on Mount Rushmore,
Speaker 2: at least according to Knight's Side listeners Ben Parker filling
Speaker 2: in for Dan Ray on Nightside. So, with Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 2: telling CBS that Joe Biden belongs on Mount Rushmore, who
Speaker 2: do you think belongs on out Rushmore? We already had
Speaker 2: Jimmy Hendrix mentioned we also in my ear just a
Speaker 2: short time ago from our illustrious producer Carry Grant. Because
Speaker 2: because by the way, not a bad reason, maybe not
Speaker 2: the maybe not would I agree that he belongs on
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore. But because of the movie north By Northwest
Speaker 2: where he was on Mount Rushmore, you get it. That
Speaker 2: was pretty good. Nice shot. Rob Brooks. Appreciate the effort.
Speaker 2: So you give us a call at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty and tell us who who should be on
Speaker 2: Maunt Rushmore. And by the way, does not have to
Speaker 2: be a president, as you noticed by Jimmy Hendrix and
Speaker 2: Kerry Grant. Doesn't even have to be a politician. It
Speaker 2: can be anybody. But they gotta be American or at
Speaker 2: least best known for American stuff. And you got to
Speaker 2: tell me why why do they belong on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 2: Because if you don't have a reason, then why would
Speaker 2: we put them up there? For you garrets in Wooburn,
Speaker 2: Welcome to night side, Gary. How are you?
Speaker 8: That's actually one years of age? I get a little
Speaker 8: confused about life questions the Mount Rushmore. There's two different Roosevelts.
Speaker 8: Who was the one that won both the wars against
Speaker 8: Japan and Germany.
Speaker 2: That would be Fdr Roosevelt. No, the other Roosevelt's up there, Teddy.
Speaker 8: Okay, now, question why is Teddy up there?
Speaker 2: He had a good agent, you know, I think partly.
Speaker 2: And I may be wrong, but I for some reason
Speaker 2: it to me. I think because of his ties to
Speaker 2: the outdoors. He was a big outdoorsman, and he also
Speaker 2: did a lot with the National Park Service and all
Speaker 2: that and establishing it, and I think that's why. I
Speaker 2: think that's at least one of the reasons why he
Speaker 2: ended up up there. But am I one hundred percent sure? No,
Speaker 2: And it does. He always seemed to a degree like
Speaker 2: the weird just one up there. I don't mean weird,
Speaker 2: just like he was weird. I just mean it. It
Speaker 2: seemed like, you know, you had Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln,
Speaker 2: and you go, oh, yeah, that makes sense. And then
Speaker 2: you're like Teddy Roosevelt. I don't know so, but so
Speaker 2: you think.
Speaker 8: FDR, you gotta go with Franklin.
Speaker 4: We have to.
Speaker 8: He fought to was at once the United States. Of course,
Speaker 8: we use the atomic bomb on Japan. Uh, even though
Speaker 8: through the year is I questioned that, But then again,
Speaker 8: I guess it was legal to do that back then.
Speaker 2: Correct, Well, they did it. Of course FDR was dead
Speaker 2: when we dropped the bombs on Japan. Uh. So uh,
Speaker 2: you know, he didn't he didn't do that, But He's
Speaker 2: the only four four term presidents, so I guess that
Speaker 2: gives him something. And look, FDR is a safe guest
Speaker 2: or bet for anybody who wants to uh uh to
Speaker 2: put another face on on Rushmore. And you went with
Speaker 2: the presidential angle, which which is fine because there already
Speaker 2: are presidents up there. But would you something?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you taught me something. You you said that he
Speaker 8: died and then our government still did it. Correct? Yes,
Speaker 8: Now who made the call on that, Congress?
Speaker 4: Harry S.
Speaker 2: Truman?
Speaker 4: What was that? Truman?
Speaker 8: Harry S. Truman? Okay, fine, so I'm giving credit to
Speaker 8: somebody different.
Speaker 2: Well, and now mind you, and and I'm not defending
Speaker 2: We're not defending FDR. I mean he was a two
Speaker 2: four term president and did guide us mostly through the
Speaker 2: wars and all of that. So now people have their
Speaker 2: their downsides on on Roosevelt, and other people love Roosevelt
Speaker 2: at the end of the world. But he did not.
Speaker 2: He was not alive when they when they dropped the bombs.
Speaker 8: So you just taught me some. Thank you on that note.
Speaker 8: But one question I have for you, Uh he got
Speaker 8: a suit the depression? Correct? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Some, I mean some would argue that you know,
Speaker 2: he didn't. He didn't help as much as he could have.
Speaker 2: But yes, he was that. He was there when we
Speaker 2: got through the depression. So yeah, I mean he gets
Speaker 2: well and he of course the New Deal and putting
Speaker 2: in a lot of the social programs that we know today,
Speaker 2: at least at the beginning back in his administration. So
Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of things that people point
Speaker 2: out that make him a good choice to be on
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore. So I was kind of hoping you go
Speaker 2: with a rock star or something that would be kind
Speaker 2: of cool.
Speaker 8: Right, I got the perfect one. Then go ahead and
Speaker 8: we'll forget about the presidence for a moment. How about
Speaker 8: why don't we just go with any type of man's
Speaker 8: statue of a man in uniform of the military of
Speaker 8: the United States one fifteen million men the next day
Speaker 8: at the Pearl Harbor in les into the military. What
Speaker 8: do you think of that?
Speaker 2: I can't argue with you. I mean, if you're going
Speaker 2: to put somebody up on Mount Rushmore and mas will
Speaker 2: be a service member, maybe what you do and thank
Speaker 2: thanks for the call, Gary, Maybe what you do just
Speaker 2: to keep people happy, because you know that's what I
Speaker 2: like to do. I'm a happiness maker. Maybe you have
Speaker 2: to put two new faces on Rushmore, right, one with
Speaker 2: a military man and one with a military woman. Maybe
Speaker 2: one of the wax or something on one end of
Speaker 2: the All right, we're gonna get too confused if we
Speaker 2: keep doing this. Anyway, Who do you think should be
Speaker 2: on Mount Rushmore? Nancy Pelosi thinks Joe Biden should be,
Speaker 2: So why not go off the reservation here and say, well,
Speaker 2: it's probably a bad choice of words, right, since there
Speaker 2: was Native American land never mind, I didn't mean to
Speaker 2: do that, but so so I just thought, you know,
Speaker 2: we got four presidents up there. Do we need another one?
Speaker 2: Even if we all agree, Let's pretend we all agree
Speaker 2: Joe Biden should be on Mount Rushmore. Did we really
Speaker 2: need another president on Mount Rushmore? Let's get somebody else,
Speaker 2: somebody who did something else for society, Tim's and Winthrop.
Speaker 2: Who do you think should be up there on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 9: I get two of them. Ronald Reagan again.
Speaker 2: A president, but yep, go ahead.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 9: And Benjamin Franklin and do you know brand new and
Speaker 9: Franklin Washington wanted to be president.
Speaker 2: He said no, thanks, that's the smartest thing he ever
Speaker 2: did in his life.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you he did everything else. And Ronald Reagan
Speaker 9: did so much for the country. He brought us out
Speaker 9: of the from Killie Cotter in those days the seventies
Speaker 9: were down the dumps. And another one maybe mikeah Rizzione
Speaker 9: that the whole hockey team.
Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah, Well Mike was on with us tonight and
Speaker 2: I should have mentioned that to him. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he would have wanted to be on to Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had him on earlier. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He lives right around the corner from me.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, well tell me my said hi.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, since you didn't hear the show, you probably don't
Speaker 2: know that he and I are going to start training
Speaker 2: to do some curling at the Olympics next time around.
Speaker 4: So you're serious, No.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, we talked about that, but we weren't serious.
Speaker 9: So yeah, he's a good guy, you know, he's he's
Speaker 9: very generous and he just knew his limits and he
Speaker 9: came back and gave back, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: But Benin and Frank Ronald Reagan and getting back to him,
Speaker 9: he did so much to help this country.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm gonna do you one better on
Speaker 2: the Benjamin Franklin one. You know how they put the
Speaker 2: the the antenna things on top of the buildings, and
Speaker 2: lightning rod.
Speaker 9: Types of things, and metro electricity.
Speaker 2: Well you gotta put on if you put if you
Speaker 2: put Benjamin Franklin on top of Mount Rushmore, you got
Speaker 2: to put a lightning rod up there, so whenever the
Speaker 2: lightning strikes, it hits Ben Franklin's head. Well, well I
Speaker 2: think it makes sense, all right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well he's one of the ones. And well Reagan
Speaker 9: really did a lot, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and of course, you know, thanks for the
Speaker 2: call to him. Of course, that's why I want. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm fine with people suggesting presidents, but we get into
Speaker 2: a little bit of debate over well I didn't like
Speaker 2: him because he was this or he was that, or
Speaker 2: he was liberal, or he was conservative or he was whatever.
Speaker 2: You can make arguments for every president, maybe not everyone,
Speaker 2: but most of them, to maybe peek up there, depending
Speaker 2: on how rabid you are a fan of that particular president.
Speaker 2: But I've just kind of thought it'd be neat. Hey,
Speaker 2: we got we got four presidents. We got enough presidents
Speaker 2: up there already. Certainly Joe Biden's probably not going up there,
Speaker 2: as Nancy Pelosi suggested, So so who rock star? Maybe
Speaker 2: a I don't know, maybe some other politician if you choose,
Speaker 2: but well, maybe an actor. But I want to know
Speaker 2: why they got to be American. And I want to
Speaker 2: know why Laurie is an Idaho Wow, all the way
Speaker 2: from my hope. Hi, Laurie, welcome to Night Hide.
Speaker 3: Why thank you?
Speaker 10: Actually A big fan of Dan Ray's on Nightside, and
Speaker 10: you are the only substitute I have ever called?
Speaker 2: Well, thank you? Who should be? Who should be on
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 4: Now, well, I was trying to lead.
Speaker 2: I was trying to lead you somewhere. I didn't know
Speaker 2: if you're better take them so big?
Speaker 10: You should have your own mountain.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Thank you.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 10: I actually just wanted to say you are my favorite
Speaker 10: Besy anchored during the week, and I just want to
Speaker 10: say I really appreciate you and your sense of humor
Speaker 10: and everything else, and you're as funny tonight as you
Speaker 10: are on the air, And so I just wanted to say,
Speaker 10: and you No, I'm sort of a purist, and that
Speaker 10: Mount Rushmore is for presidents and I don't think anybody
Speaker 10: else can be there because these are presidents that were
Speaker 10: in the formation and the frontiering and the pioneering of
Speaker 10: our country. And sadly, the times there's such that no
Speaker 10: other president really have that opportunity.
Speaker 2: Maybe to make Laurie happy, we need to we need
Speaker 2: to have a new mountain, and we carve in four
Speaker 2: new faces of I don't know, movie stars and the rock.
Speaker 10: Stars exactly make a new mountain all right now?
Speaker 2: Now, well that could be a whole other topic right
Speaker 2: for another day. I mean, who do we put first
Speaker 2: on the on the rock star and movie star mountain?
Speaker 8: So are they together?
Speaker 10: Are they mountains?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean we might look into six new mountains here.
Speaker 2: Yea, I'm gonna have to fill in for Dan and
Speaker 2: off a lot more there. So who knows, I guess.
Speaker 2: So thank you Laurie for the compliments and for checking in.
Speaker 10: Thank you, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's there's Laurie from Idaho. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: I you know. Here here's the problem. That whole topic
Speaker 2: that we just spun off on, uh is it could
Speaker 2: be show after show after show. I might have to
Speaker 2: fill in for Dan for weeks. Uh, just to figure
Speaker 2: out where we're going to put the mountain? Are we
Speaker 2: doing all rock stars? Is it going to be one
Speaker 2: for the male rock stars? Female? And then and then
Speaker 2: if you let's say, for example, let's say you picked
Speaker 2: uh and I'll only pick him because they just retired,
Speaker 2: right Aerosmith? Right, so Steven Tyler? You want to put
Speaker 2: Steven Tyler up on a mountain to honor him? Do
Speaker 2: you have to put all of arrows Smith up there?
Speaker 2: I mean it seems like could be fair. Well, now
Speaker 2: you've got more heads to car. Now it's a more
Speaker 2: expensive project. Now you've got to you'll raise taxes. We'll
Speaker 2: just go with the one added to Mount Rushboard just
Speaker 2: for fun. You can give us a call if if
Speaker 2: you'd like to chime in, Uh, six one seven two
Speaker 2: five four ten thirty. We got Tom standing by. We'll
Speaker 2: get to him in a few minutes and hopefully you
Speaker 2: at six one seven two five four ten thirty. Who
Speaker 2: should be on Mount Rushmore with the four heads that
Speaker 2: are already up there. Ben Parker, filling in for Dan
Speaker 2: ray on Nightside.
Speaker 1: US, is directing it now back to Dan ray line
Speaker 1: from the Window World night Sight Studios on WBZ.
Speaker 2: To news radio. Hey Dan, get in here. It's back
Speaker 2: to you. I just said it right on the radio.
Speaker 2: I just heard him.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Dan Ray's not here. Ben Parker filling in for
Speaker 2: Dan Ray on Night's side. We've got just about ten
Speaker 2: minutes to go on the show, and then I will
Speaker 2: leave and you will stay here hopefully six one, seven thirty.
Speaker 2: If you want to give us a call, we are
Speaker 2: asking the question who should be on Mount Rushmore if
Speaker 2: we were going to add a fifth head to Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi told CBS that Joe Biden belongs on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: You may have heard the clip of this or heard
Speaker 2: about it. We're not getting the political here. This is
Speaker 2: the catalyst. However, for this particular topic. We got enough presidents.
Speaker 2: We got four of them on Mount Rushmore. If we're
Speaker 2: going to put a fifth head up there, we'd have
Speaker 2: to put our heads together and figure out who should
Speaker 2: be up there and why. So they don't have to
Speaker 2: be a politician, they don't have to be a president.
Speaker 2: They should be American or at least known for stuff
Speaker 2: they did in America, the United States thereof, and why
Speaker 2: should they be up there? Give us a call at
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty if you'd
Speaker 2: like to chime in, like Tom and Yarmouth is doing.
Speaker 5: Hi there, Tom, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I am well? How are you tonight? It's a Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: We're not even at Wednesday yet. Do you believe that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I do, Thank God, listen, I'll buy yeahbe you should.
Speaker 4: Go on there?
Speaker 2: Oh that is that is very nice of you to say.
Speaker 2: I don't look in Stone. Let me just put it down.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you one thing is for the past
Speaker 5: few weeks, fast few villains. I won't mention any names.
Speaker 5: But I'm not too impressed with that individual.
Speaker 8: You are.
Speaker 5: You are much more, much more unbiased, and I'm much
Speaker 5: easier person to listen to. So I can't wait. If
Speaker 5: Dan can't be there, I wish you would make sure
Speaker 5: that you were there more often, because the other individual
Speaker 5: doesn't impress me much with his his bias.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Tom, I appreciate that, and I also
Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that you want me to be on
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore. I of course am biased, because of course,
Speaker 2: of course I should be on Mount Rushmore. I should
Speaker 2: have statues and everything. For crying out loud, it's taken
Speaker 2: so long. Rick's in Maine. Welcome to night side.
Speaker 4: Rick.
Speaker 2: Who do you think should be on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 6: Well, Ben, I know you're type a time. I have three.
Speaker 6: The first one Neil Armstrong, but he has to have
Speaker 6: the space helmet on when it's carved into the into
Speaker 6: Mount Rushmore. Would they would be one?
Speaker 2: Well, let me let me ask you this would would
Speaker 2: would people know it was him? If it was just
Speaker 2: a space helmet? I mean'd have to probably have something
Speaker 2: that would indicate because of all the astronauts there are,
Speaker 2: I mean, people would go which at is that?
Speaker 6: Maybe have Armstrong across the top of the helmet.
Speaker 2: I don't know, good idea.
Speaker 6: The second one Thomas Edison, and he could be holding
Speaker 6: a light bulb for that matter. And the third one
Speaker 6: because the visual would be fantastic. Albert Einstein with the hair.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a boy, you'd have to pay extra to
Speaker 2: have somebody carve that hair though, yeah, heart, it would
Speaker 2: be the carve that hair out of the stone.
Speaker 6: We'd have to get a stone hairdresser.
Speaker 2: Is there such a thing, Well, there could be, there
Speaker 2: would be. Now this would be a new, a new
Speaker 2: industry that we could develop exactly.
Speaker 6: But those of those of mine with Armstrong one, though,
Speaker 6: I think that without the helmet, I think would be okay.
Speaker 2: I don't buy the way, and I know he's not American,
Speaker 2: but I and I don't want to start a war here.
Speaker 2: But if we're gonna put uh Edison up there, should
Speaker 2: shouldn't we consider a Tesla Nicola Tesla.
Speaker 6: Well, he had, he had great breakthroughs. But of course
Speaker 6: the other one would be Henry Ford. M hmmm, who
Speaker 6: did a lot as far as the Industrial Revolution, great American.
Speaker 6: Of course I didn't know him personally, but history has
Speaker 6: treated him well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: James saw his name's still on car, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: just not just the.
Speaker 2: The only Ford whose name's not on a car.
Speaker 6: Is Edzel, Right, thanks Ben.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks Rick? Just a little inside Ford joke.
Speaker 2: I tell that it all the Ford get togethers that
Speaker 2: I'm not invited to. Uh six one seven thirty. Nancy
Speaker 2: Pelosi told the CBS that Joe Biden should be on
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore, insinuated in not so many words, Hey, he
Speaker 2: should be up there. You know, I don't want more
Speaker 2: presidents than Mount Rushmore. And I'm not saying that because
Speaker 2: I don't think some presidents maybe deserve it. But we
Speaker 2: did the president thing. Well, Mount Rushmore's got the president's
Speaker 2: we need to if we're going to add somebody, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, nobody's really talking about really adding somebody.
Speaker 2: But I'd like to know if if we were going
Speaker 2: to add somebody, who should we put on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. They can
Speaker 2: be a politician, they don't have to be. They can
Speaker 2: be a president, but I would prefer they're not because
Speaker 2: we've got enough presidents up there. So if you have
Speaker 2: an idea of someone who should be or could be
Speaker 2: on Mount Rushmore, I've already been suggested, So don't don't
Speaker 2: do that. It'll just look like I'm trying to stuff
Speaker 2: the ballot box. Six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We only got a handful of minutes left, so I'd
Speaker 2: like to sneak in another call or two, So give
Speaker 2: us a called Mount Rushmore. By the way, I don't
Speaker 2: want anybody, because nobody's uh suggested women, and I don't
Speaker 2: want people to think that, well, it's got to be
Speaker 2: a guy, because there's already four guys up there. We
Speaker 2: need another guy.
Speaker 4: That you know.
Speaker 2: How about how about this, I'll throw one out and
Speaker 2: we have Gena and Evert, which will go to a second.
Speaker 2: And this is gonna make some people upset, but I'm
Speaker 2: saying it because, boy, if you're talking about somebody who's
Speaker 2: made an impact on the United States and the world economy,
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift. I put Taylor Swift up there?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: I mean, why, but why not? Jean's and Everett? Who
Speaker 2: should go on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 11: Gene Hi, thank you? Who should go on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 11: I have a few, a few of them.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, Yeah, I take it to a Trump fan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 11: And you and Nancy okay, and Dan Ray of course,
Speaker 11: who almost puts up with me, and Rob and also
Speaker 11: Laurie who does the traffic report in the morning.
Speaker 2: Great Lori Grandy, Yeah, we love Yeah. By the way,
Speaker 2: I hate to break the news to you, Jean, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to get into wy or why not.
Speaker 2: Some of those people shouldn't be up there. But you're
Speaker 2: going to need a whole new mountain with all those
Speaker 2: people you want to add.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but you know, I don't ask so much.
Speaker 2: So blue Hill available, we could, you know, we could
Speaker 2: see if Blue Hill's available and put us down there.
Speaker 11: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: All right, Gene, thanks for checking out.
Speaker 11: In Mount tom They could maybe just something on that one,
Speaker 11: all right, see you later.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea. Just a lot of people. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of carving. They already did a lot
Speaker 2: of carving. We don't have time for all these faces.
Speaker 2: Maybe we just do a little one, like a like
Speaker 2: a miniature Mount Rushmore with our heads on it. John's
Speaker 2: in Braintree. Hi there, John, How are you good?
Speaker 4: How you doing good?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the night's side. What do you got?
Speaker 8: I got John McKay. I'm sorry, John McCain.
Speaker 2: I got John McCain. That sounded almost like you had
Speaker 2: a disease. I got John McCain. I'm trying to get
Speaker 2: rid of it, but I got John McKay.
Speaker 8: The reason is is because you know what you were
Speaker 8: talking about military, Yeah, you were talking about stomach.
Speaker 4: A hero.
Speaker 8: He was, in my mind, was definitely a hero. I
Speaker 8: would have voted say him for president until he picked
Speaker 8: Sarah Palin. And in comparison to Donald Trump, he is
Speaker 8: who would really be a good president, Not Donald Trump,
Speaker 8: that woman.
Speaker 2: And of course he's yeah, he's the he's the late
Speaker 2: uh senator uh uh and and and and he he
Speaker 2: came class. I mean, he know he had a chance
Speaker 2: and and I don't know, maybe his running mate did
Speaker 2: do him in, but yeah, he was a class guy.
Speaker 8: I thought he was a class thought very quickly. I
Speaker 8: watched one of his rallies. A woman came up to
Speaker 8: him and slammed, Obama. You know what I mean, an
Speaker 8: older woman. He got down on one knee and he
Speaker 8: said to him, he said, maam. He says, Obama is
Speaker 8: a great guy. He's he's a gentleman. He's a good guy.
Speaker 8: The only difference between me and him is our policies.
Speaker 8: Now that's a class guy. Donald Trump would have thought
Speaker 8: of a six year old name to call him. I
Speaker 8: just you know, you know that's what John McCain's my choice.
Speaker 2: All right, John McCain, it is Thank you, John. I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. And that's gonna wrap things up. We got
Speaker 2: to get out of here.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tally up the votes. I was mentioned the
Speaker 2: most time, so I'm going up there. Thanks quick for me,
Speaker 2: all right, Thanks for joining us on nights. Dan Ray
Speaker 2: will be back at some point. I don't know who's
Speaker 2: in tomorrow, but I'm doing the news tomorrow starting at
Speaker 2: two in the afternoon. Tune in on WBC