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Speaker 3: All right, it is thank you very much, Day Hawkins,
Speaker 3: and it is now eleven o eight on a very
Speaker 3: rainy night. By the way, just a little parenthetical comment
Speaker 3: as I I'd like to just mention that do you
Speaker 3: remember a few months ago we had no rain September, October, November,
Speaker 3: I mean very little, And in the last two or
Speaker 3: three days it has been nothing but rain. And today
Speaker 3: I'm listening during the show to the rain outside and
Speaker 3: it's coming down. I'm sure wherever you are as well,
Speaker 3: so maya. My observation is that eventually it kind of
Speaker 3: all evens out. I'll be interested to see if we
Speaker 3: end up with a shortage of whatever our normal rain
Speaker 3: total is. The meteorologists will tell us that. But we
Speaker 3: had obviously the fires that brush fires that broke out
Speaker 3: in October and into November. I don't think we have
Speaker 3: any more brush fires in a while after this reign
Speaker 3: of the last few days. So thank God literally for
Speaker 3: the rain, There's no doubt about that. Anyway, I want
Speaker 3: to talk to you about a subject that is near
Speaker 3: and dear to me, and it should be near and
Speaker 3: dear to you, And I also want to point out
Speaker 3: that at least one of our senators in Massachusetts, Ed Markey,
Speaker 3: has been actually in a leadership position on this. There's
Speaker 3: been an effort by some car makers to I'll try
Speaker 3: to simplify it as much as I can, to eliminate
Speaker 3: AM radios in their cars. Now. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Difficult for me to understand why. But on my car,
Speaker 3: which is I drive a very old car, it's about
Speaker 3: it's over ten years and it's a Volvo. I used
Speaker 3: to like Volvos because I felt they were safe cars.
Speaker 3: I do not have the same feeling. My next card
Speaker 3: will not be a Volvo, at least I don't think
Speaker 3: it will be. I'm looking at a couple of other makes.
Speaker 3: I want safety, and I want the bells and whistles
Speaker 3: that come with new cars. Uh. And I'm happy with
Speaker 3: the numbers of Vovos that I've had over the years.
Speaker 3: But I think that Volvo has recently sold and I
Speaker 3: think that Volvo is is not the same product that
Speaker 3: it was the last time I bought I bought a Vovo.
Speaker 3: But putting that aside, there's an effort by some car
Speaker 3: manufacturers to eliminate AM radios in their cars. Now they're
Speaker 3: bringing more electronics into cars. You have now these big
Speaker 3: screen that you can watch if you if you're doing
Speaker 3: ways or Google Maps or something like that, which is great. Uh.
Speaker 3: And of course FM is a popular band. No one
Speaker 3: said just think to eliminate FM. You can get some
Speaker 3: of these services that are out there which gives you
Speaker 3: satellite services on your car radio that costs money that
Speaker 3: is not free. But AM radio serves an important purpose,
Speaker 3: an important purpose to people in cars, are also an
Speaker 3: important purpose to people at home. For those of you
Speaker 3: who do not realize it. AM radio has a much
Speaker 3: stronger signal than FM radio. FM radio is high quality
Speaker 3: sound and someone argue it's a better sound than AM radio.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that. But what is indisputable is that
Speaker 3: the F stations may have a thirty four maybe even
Speaker 3: a fifty mile reach, but not much more than that.
Speaker 3: We get outside of Boston and try to pick up
Speaker 3: radio stations, you know, Boston FM radio stations, and they're
Speaker 3: tough to get. Now a lot of them will have
Speaker 3: their affiliate down the Cape, or maybe their affiliate in
Speaker 3: New Hampshire or whatever, but it's a different station. You're
Speaker 3: not listening when you listen to WBZ, you're listening to
Speaker 3: the same station, whether you're in New England or whether
Speaker 3: you're further down the coast in North Carolina, Virginia, out
Speaker 3: west West Virginia. We've had callers tonight from those states. Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida.
Speaker 3: We've had again. I think everybody understands it. And AM radio,
Speaker 3: which of course was the original form of radio FM,
Speaker 3: didn't come along until sometime in the late sixties early seventies.
Speaker 3: AM has been around for over one hundred years. WBZ
Speaker 3: celebrated the one hundredth birthday in nineteen twenty one or
Speaker 3: other twenty twenty one. They won in the air in
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty one and all rooms to the contrary. I
Speaker 3: was not working at the station at the time, but
Speaker 3: it's a great history of great tradition and part of
Speaker 3: the service that AM radio has always provided over the
Speaker 3: years is a big signal that reaches a lot of people,
Speaker 3: and in times of crisis, whether it's a blizzard here
Speaker 3: in New England or a hurricane, we can reach a
Speaker 3: lot of people simultaneously, or god forbid, if there was
Speaker 3: ever some sort of a military attack on the United States,
Speaker 3: it's where people would go for their information. So at
Speaker 3: this point, there is an effort in Congress to basically
Speaker 3: say to car manufacturers, you need to have AM radio
Speaker 3: in all of your automobiles as an option. Uh, and
Speaker 3: leading the charge in the Senate, one of the leaders,
Speaker 3: if not the leader, is Senator Marqute from Massachusetts, and
Speaker 3: we have to I have to certainly thank Ed Markey
Speaker 3: for his leadership here. I've tried to reach him in
Speaker 3: the last few days through a couple of his staff people,
Speaker 3: and I was hoping even having on having him on tonight,
Speaker 3: but that didn't work out. And so, Uh, this current Congress,
Speaker 3: it's a lame it's a lame duck session because many
Speaker 3: of these members of Congress are either retiring or they've
Speaker 3: been turned out of office. And right now across the
Speaker 3: board there are more and more House members joining as
Speaker 3: co sponsors. And Inside Radio, which is one of the
Speaker 3: sort of the bibles of this industry, points out that
Speaker 3: right now they have more than enough that they had
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy one supporters in the House to
Speaker 3: basically keep AM radio. The title of the bill is
Speaker 3: the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, so you have
Speaker 3: well above the number of members of the House and
Speaker 3: in the US Senate. In the Senate version, and I'm
Speaker 3: quoting now from the inside Radio says the bill, as
Speaker 3: well as its Senate counterpart, have both passed out of
Speaker 3: committee in both chambers and are awaiting final votes. House
Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana is among the co sponsors,
Speaker 3: but he has yet to bring the bill up for
Speaker 3: a vote. The Senate version passed out of committee in
Speaker 3: July of twenty twenty three, that's over a year ago,
Speaker 3: but Majority Leader Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democratic of
Speaker 3: New York has yet to bring the bill to the
Speaker 3: floor for vote, despite sixty three Senators co sponsoring it,
Speaker 3: Schumer is not among the co sponsors of the legislation. Now,
Speaker 3: that could either mean the Schumer's opposed to it or
Speaker 3: Schumer is agnostic towards it. Not likely, But if they
Speaker 3: do not get this passed and signed by President Biden,
Speaker 3: they go back to square one in the next congress. Now,
Speaker 3: this is pretty simple. It's pretty simple. There are a
Speaker 3: lot of people, a lot of people who rely on
Speaker 3: AM radio, not only here in New England, but around
Speaker 3: the country. The biggest, most powerful radio stations in the
Speaker 3: country in terms of coverage, strength of signal or AM
Speaker 3: radio stations, and in a time of cri you want
Speaker 3: those stations available not only in people's homes, people's places
Speaker 3: of work, but also in their cars. So I'm going
Speaker 3: to open up the lines and give everyone an opportunity
Speaker 3: to tell me what they think about this piece of legislation.
Speaker 3: I know some will say, well, we shouldn't be dictating
Speaker 3: to automobiles what they should or should not have in
Speaker 3: the cars. Well, got to tell you if they were
Speaker 3: going to eliminate windshields in cars, I think that the
Speaker 3: government has an interest in saying nope, nope, they're going
Speaker 3: to eliminate backup mirrors. A lot of the bells and
Speaker 3: whistles that now are in cars. If they're going to
Speaker 3: eliminate side mirrors, look, it's a product I'm talking about
Speaker 3: the automobile that virtually every family in America has one.
Speaker 3: And in case of any sort of a crisis, you
Speaker 3: want everybody to be able to have as many forms
Speaker 3: of communication available to them as possible. That's my position,
Speaker 3: I hope it's yours. Feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 3: One line at six one, seven, two, ten thirty, A
Speaker 3: couple of lines at six one seven nine three one
Speaker 3: ten thirty. And again if Senator Markey is listening, and
Speaker 3: he has listened to this show on occasion, he's actually
Speaker 3: called in a couple of times as a caller. I
Speaker 3: thank Congress Senator Marque. Senator Markey, they want to do
Speaker 3: he was a congressman for a long time. One thanks
Speaker 3: Senator Market for his leadership on this issue. And let's
Speaker 3: get it done, because if they wait until this Congress adjourns,
Speaker 3: they are back at square one with the next Congress.
Speaker 3: Slight these lines up. If you like AM radio and
Speaker 3: you want to have it in your car, particularly a
Speaker 3: time of crisis, whether a natural disaster or a man
Speaker 3: made disaster, you want to urge your member of Congress
Speaker 3: to support this bill, the Am Radio for every Vehicle Act.
Speaker 3: There's a house built. There's a house version in the
Speaker 3: Senate version. I can get into some of that if
Speaker 3: you want, but I prefer to hear from you back
Speaker 3: on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: By the way, Robers sent me an article Ford you
Speaker 3: know an American automobile manufacturer had considered getting AM radios
Speaker 3: out of twenty twenty four models models that are obviously
Speaker 3: on sale now this article, which came out in May
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty three, Ford essentially said no, We've decided
Speaker 3: to keep AM radios. They will continue offering AM radios,
Speaker 3: citing the need for emergency alerts. Exactly what I just
Speaker 3: have been talking about all twenty twenty four Ford and
Speaker 3: Lincoln models will Lincoln models will have AM radio, according
Speaker 3: to a tweet bye Ford CEO Jim Farley. While Ford
Speaker 3: planned to remove AM radios from the it's new vehicles,
Speaker 3: Farley said that plan was mixed due to the importance
Speaker 3: of AM's emergency alert system. Well good for Ford. Since
Speaker 3: AM radio was already discontinued on the F one Lightning
Speaker 3: and Mustang mack E Macmarck E model. Ford plans to
Speaker 3: restore it fire and over the year software update. So
Speaker 3: good for Ford, good for Ford. The demise of AM
Speaker 3: radio was something other automakers such as Audi, BMW, Vovo
Speaker 3: and Tesler have already started to do, specifically on their
Speaker 3: electric vehicles. However, this led to backlash from lawmakers and
Speaker 3: many others who claim AM radio is vital because it's accessible, free,
Speaker 3: and important for public safety. Just last week, a bipartisan
Speaker 3: group of lawmakers this is talking about May of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, introduced important legislation to mandate that automakers offer
Speaker 3: AM radio in new cars. For a Reuter's report, Well, again,
Speaker 3: they're making progress, but we need to make sure we
Speaker 3: get this ball across the line because AM radios in
Speaker 3: cars very very important. Let's go to the phones. We're
Speaker 3: going to start off with someone who's very concerned about
Speaker 3: civil defense issues. It's my friend Patrick down in the
Speaker 3: District of Columbia. Patrick, how are you tonight?
Speaker 1: You better believe this subject caught my ear fast.
Speaker 4: Buddy.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that. I know how committed you are
Speaker 3: and how concerned you are. And look, you got all
Speaker 3: of this stuff. Now. I'm sure you've been following this.
Speaker 3: The drones that are flying over New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Speaker 3: at night and the government says they have no idea
Speaker 3: what those are. Have you heard this story?
Speaker 1: I haven't been following that one because I've been going
Speaker 1: door to door for people who need to organize themselves
Speaker 1: in communities where they would need to evacuate in the
Speaker 1: low lying watershed areas of the Chesapeake Bay. You know,
Speaker 1: to make sure that once again you know who your
Speaker 1: neighbors are and what they need, and you know people
Speaker 1: who are handicapped or you know children with special needs.
Speaker 1: You got to help those families and understand what an
Speaker 1: evacuation is and why you do it, and why am
Speaker 1: I even here telling you to do it? Because we
Speaker 1: are not civil defense minded, and we used to be
Speaker 1: civil defense minded and we were very efficient. That is
Speaker 1: one of the things that has done. We were a
Speaker 1: very efficient country, very organized, and there is something within
Speaker 1: preparedness that puts it all together.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you. I mean, you have to
Speaker 3: think about what if? What if? And I know that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of companies out there trying to sell
Speaker 3: you twenty years of food. I look at that. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you think about those. I look at
Speaker 3: that as a bit of a scam. But the idea,
Speaker 3: why would would any of these vehicle want to take
Speaker 3: AM radio out of their cars in the first place.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I have serious I have serious
Speaker 5: XM radio in my car because when I'm out and
Speaker 5: about it, I'd like to be able to listen to
Speaker 5: something other.
Speaker 3: Than just music and local news. You know, I can.
Speaker 3: I can listen to local news on WBZ. Obviously I
Speaker 3: can listen to some music, but I want to have
Speaker 3: some other options. And one of the options that I
Speaker 3: always want to have is AM radio.
Speaker 1: The fact that I can get in the car and
Speaker 1: I can hear what's going on in Boston, or hear
Speaker 1: what's going on in Pittsburgh, and hear what's going on
Speaker 1: maybe from Saint Louis if the Saint Louis Blues are playing,
Speaker 1: and or WBT coach.
Speaker 3: Now coach now by Jim Montgomery, the Bruins coach that
Speaker 3: was fired and hired by the Blues, with I think
Speaker 3: a matter of forty eight hours, not maybe even less.
Speaker 1: And you know, and then there's the radio station in Charlotte.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's important. If we were discussing things about
Speaker 1: local newspapers providing local news, well, am radio stations provide
Speaker 1: local news, and that is very important as let's bring
Speaker 1: that aspect in here. So released newspapers, local newspapers and
Speaker 1: local stories can can flourish and can develop, and it's
Speaker 1: the skills. It's our free society, it's our freedom of speech, which.
Speaker 6: Makes us us you know.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we should take away AM radio
Speaker 1: and be stupid and take it out of cars because
Speaker 1: we have so many cars as it could be stuck
Speaker 1: in traffic somewhere and they have to have a constant
Speaker 1: signal that's going to provide them with the information that
Speaker 1: they would need. That's just plain and simple. You know,
Speaker 1: you can have a lifesaving situation being a lifesaving situation
Speaker 1: like on the Pennsylvania Turnpike or anywhere in the country
Speaker 1: and you need that constant source. That's it in a nutshell, Harriet.
Speaker 3: Good agree, you more well, said my friend. Thank you Patrick.
Speaker 3: As always, let's keep in touch. Okay, all right, you
Speaker 3: got it, sir, got you soon. Have a great night.
Speaker 3: Next up Pat and Charles Patrick and Charlestown Patrick. Next
Speaker 3: on night Side.
Speaker 7: Oh Ve Dan o, Hey, listen. The one thing that's
Speaker 7: come to mind for me on this is why in
Speaker 7: the world would Republicans ever allow for this to go forward?
Speaker 7: And I have to tip my hat to add Markey
Speaker 7: on this because usually I'm on opposite sides of most
Speaker 7: issues with that guy, but I have to tip my
Speaker 7: hat on him for this one because I mean, if
Speaker 7: you think, especially over the last twenty or thirty years,
Speaker 7: before the advancement of at least Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter,
Speaker 7: we had pretty much dominance one sided view and all
Speaker 7: media disciplines, from newspapers, television, internet platforms banning people. The
Speaker 7: one exception to all of that was AM radio. You
Speaker 7: would get a diverse set of opinions and a diverse
Speaker 7: set of ideas, And it was almost like there's a strangleholder,
Speaker 7: a bottleback on on all major sources of American media,
Speaker 7: but for AM radio and proud voices like you and
Speaker 7: and back when the great Rush Limbaugh was alive, keeping
Speaker 7: debate alive, UH and and to prevent a complete monopoly
Speaker 7: of one one set of views. I just feel as
Speaker 7: though a diverse set of media is absolutely critical for democracy.
Speaker 7: And so it just seems to me that those who
Speaker 7: want to support Republican radio report AM radio would be
Speaker 7: the Republicans. And how I mean, do you agree with that? Dan?
Speaker 7: Is there any any I understand?
Speaker 3: I understand that generally generally UH many talk radio programs
Speaker 3: tend to UH in recent time criticized Democrats. But the
Speaker 3: beauty of AM radio is that there are sometimes broadcasters
Speaker 3: like the late Rush Limbaugh, who are on fifty five
Speaker 3: hundred stations, but that's few and far between. In most communities,
Speaker 3: whether it's a Boston or a Boise, Idaho, or Baltimore,
Speaker 3: Maryland or Montana, you have local voices. I'm a local voice.
Speaker 3: I'm a Boston guy, and I have my takes. And
Speaker 3: sometimes you and I agree, sometimes we disagree, but you're right.
Speaker 3: You're right. Conservative talk radio helped maintain some balance during
Speaker 3: the Obama administration when President Obama was a very popular,
Speaker 3: you know president. It certainly came of age during the
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton years and maybe that was really when talk
Speaker 3: radio took off during the Bill Clinton years. But I
Speaker 3: got to tell you there is bipartisan supporting this, including
Speaker 3: Senator Ed Markey. I don't think anyone has worked harder
Speaker 3: on this than Ed Markey. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: I think Marky's worked hard on it. Ed Markey has
Speaker 3: told me many times the story as a kid. You know,
Speaker 3: he was one couple of summers he were in this
Speaker 3: ice cream truck and there's a capitalist made a lot
Speaker 3: of money, you know, particularly at the time around the
Speaker 3: time of the Red Sox researchence in sixty seven and
Speaker 3: sixty eight, and he tells the story with glee, and
Speaker 3: he talks about meeting Dave Maynard from Channel from w
Speaker 3: b Z and how WBZ has been his favorite radio station.
Speaker 3: And I know that that Senator Markey listens to sometimes
Speaker 3: the night side in the DC are because he's called
Speaker 3: in as a as a as a guest, or as a caller.
Speaker 3: Actually a couple of times he on this issue. You
Speaker 3: would think he would say, well, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: do anything for AM radio because AM radio has always
Speaker 3: been critical of my party. But it's the op it's
Speaker 3: the opposite, And I think that great. The Republicans need
Speaker 3: to drive this. They have the majority in the House
Speaker 3: and they have enough support in the Senate to get
Speaker 3: this done before before this this this session of Congress.
Speaker 3: As Patrick. Yeah.
Speaker 8: And it's so it's important for my liberal friends too,
Speaker 8: because I mean, you could see the pendulum swing back
Speaker 8: and maybe maybe uh poignant important liberal voices might find
Speaker 8: AM radio as a place.
Speaker 7: Where they can get their message out there too. I
Speaker 7: just think it's important for democracy and I cannot imagine
Speaker 7: a time where I can't listen to Dan Ray sit
Speaker 7: in my car having a Kelly's Roast beef. I just
Speaker 7: can't imagine that, Dan, or how many people can't imagine
Speaker 7: listening to the Red Sox on the radio on AM
Speaker 7: radio during during a New England summer night. And it's
Speaker 7: it's part of it's part of America. I just I
Speaker 7: just can't imagine. I just can't imagine we are.
Speaker 3: And I would like to see my phone lines light
Speaker 3: up on this top. I don't think there's going to
Speaker 3: be anyone who's going to call and say get rid
Speaker 3: of AM radio. But if people sit at home and
Speaker 3: don't take the opportunity to call, that's not a good
Speaker 3: thing because this could be taken away from us by
Speaker 3: car manufacturers. Corporate America, believe it or not, would be
Speaker 3: doing in AM radio. And you've got Ed Markey, who's
Speaker 3: a Senator from Massachusetts, one of the more liberal senators,
Speaker 3: fighting to save AM radio. So politics make strange bedfellows, right,
Speaker 3: I guess that's the point of our conversation.
Speaker 7: Patrick, Good for Ed, Good for Ed, Good job, Ed.
Speaker 7: Keep up the good work. We need more more more
Speaker 7: independent thinking like this, and let's keep AM radio. We
Speaker 7: need it.
Speaker 3: Thanks day, sir, Patrick, Talk soon. Mary Christmas. If we
Speaker 3: don't talk again, okay before the twenty fifth. Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: keep rolling here. Just we have the linel lit up.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, everybody. I'm going to try to
Speaker 3: move everybody a little bit more quickly. No one is
Speaker 3: waiting any more than ten minutes or so. I got
Speaker 3: to take a break. I'm going to get to Eileen
Speaker 3: and Kevin down in South Carolina. I got Linda, I
Speaker 3: got ron, I got Corin. We're going to get everybody
Speaker 3: in coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Back to the phones without any further ado, going to
Speaker 3: go to Eileen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ileen, welcome, How are
Speaker 3: you hi?
Speaker 9: I'm fine, but I am for the life of me,
Speaker 9: I can't understand why they want to remove AM radio.
Speaker 9: Is there some electronic reason? Is it more difficult to
Speaker 9: build in or something?
Speaker 3: I think it was. I think the concern initially was
Speaker 3: with some of the EV vehicles. Now I don't know
Speaker 3: if the argument was let's let's create a problem or
Speaker 3: let's not address a problem. That there might have been
Speaker 3: some interference, but that seems to have gone away. According
Speaker 3: to this story that I'm looking at out of what's
Speaker 3: called inside radio today. President Trump obviously said has not
Speaker 3: said whether he supports the bill, and his growing relationship
Speaker 3: with Tesla founder Elon Musk has some believing it could
Speaker 3: sway his opinion. It would be a huge mistake if
Speaker 3: President Trump. That's why I think it's important to get
Speaker 3: it passed before this Congress gets out of session. Tesla
Speaker 3: is among the companies that has removed AM from the
Speaker 3: dashboards of its electric vehicles. Now again, I think that
Speaker 3: they probably think that AM radio is a is a
Speaker 3: form of radio that older people listen to more than
Speaker 3: younger people. But I have plenty of younger callers in
Speaker 3: this show as well, Eileen. So you know, we just
Speaker 3: gotta look ed Markey, who has probably been criticized more
Speaker 3: in AM radio than most because most AM radio tends
Speaker 3: to be to the right of center. He's doing the
Speaker 3: right thing here for free speech and he should be
Speaker 3: commended for it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well, I am I'm older, and I remember I was
Speaker 9: in high school at Northfield, the Northfield School for Girls
Speaker 9: in the nineteen fifties, and we used to WBZ fades
Speaker 9: as you had as you drive west, and we didn't
Speaker 9: get it at Northfield. But if we stayed up late
Speaker 9: half midnight, which.
Speaker 10: We weren't supposed to do.
Speaker 9: We used to be really happy and we could get
Speaker 9: wb Z radio on our radio.
Speaker 3: It has a lot to do with the setting of
Speaker 3: the sun, time of year and all of that. But
Speaker 3: the fact of the matter is if you're on the
Speaker 3: wrong side of a mountain, that's going to be difficult.
Speaker 3: We've heard in places Illinois. I've had calls from places
Speaker 3: like Iowa, so I know that. And these are people
Speaker 3: who are listening on the radio, not on the internet.
Speaker 3: So thank you for your support, Eileen. I hope all
Speaker 3: is going well with you. And if I don't chat
Speaker 3: with you, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 9: Okay, thanks, thank you, all right, thanks Dan much.
Speaker 3: All right, good night. Let me keep rolling. You're going
Speaker 3: to go to Kevin in South Carolina. Kevin, you're listening
Speaker 3: on the radio the internet tonight.
Speaker 11: I listened on Alection because the static is too bad
Speaker 11: to get you on the AM down here. But you know,
Speaker 11: when we have an emergency like a hurricane or something
Speaker 11: and your power goes out and your internet goes out,
Speaker 11: all this great technology isn't worth a broken stick in
Speaker 11: the street. Your am radio that gets you through that says, Okay,
Speaker 11: the tides high, the rivers are backing up, these streets,
Speaker 11: need to evacuate. This is your evacuation route, it's your lifeline.
Speaker 11: Most of your serious stuff, it's all recorded. Those people
Speaker 11: you think they're talking to you, but you know they
Speaker 11: recorded that three days ago and they're somewhere else. They're
Speaker 11: not telling you what's happening this very minute where you are.
Speaker 11: And that's what AM radio does.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, and I'm telling you of that right now.
Speaker 3: The future of AM radio. AM radio will always exist,
Speaker 3: but accessibility, you know, to it could be severely restricted.
Speaker 11: You know, your FM stations are mostly pre recorded. I
Speaker 11: keep hearing Rob's voice saying, the portions of this program
Speaker 11: could be pre recorded all over the country on stations
Speaker 11: I listen to, so you know those are also recorded too.
Speaker 11: But you want a live voice like yours. If you
Speaker 11: said tonight, gee, the the Williams Tunnel is flooded, so
Speaker 11: don't go that way, Okay, I know, yeah, yeah, I know,
Speaker 11: But you know if you didn't say that, I'd drive
Speaker 11: right into it and say, gee, how come it's flooded?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely absolutely, and again thank you. I don't know
Speaker 3: how your members of Congress or how your senators are
Speaker 3: are feeling on this down there, but every vote counts,
Speaker 3: and get in touch with your your two senators from
Speaker 3: South Carolina and your members of Congress.
Speaker 11: Okay, we'll call Nancy Mason the morning.
Speaker 3: All right, I would be surprised if she's not supporting it.
Speaker 3: I would let us know, let us know. Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker 11: It was seventy here today, by the way.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I was warm today. I got up to
Speaker 3: about sixty year but it kept raining and it's still
Speaker 3: raining right now. But hopefully we'll we're gonna get to
Speaker 3: some normal. We've had some cold weather up here too,
Speaker 3: so winter is here, whether we like it or remembers.
Speaker 11: You don't shovel rain here.
Speaker 3: This is very true.
Speaker 6: And I'm very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9: Do you?
Speaker 3: Thanks, Kevin, talk to you soon. Gotta go next to
Speaker 3: Linda and Waymouth, Linda, next on, Nice, I go ahead, Linda.
Speaker 12: Hi, first off, Merry Christmas, and I do celebrate it.
Speaker 12: And I've been looking for a replacement car. I'm looking
Speaker 12: at SUVs and one of the first cars I hopped
Speaker 12: in it had all this technology way up there, and
Speaker 12: I said no before I really checked whether it had
Speaker 12: AMFV because I had bumped it out. But I've been
Speaker 12: listening through the days and you have that advertisement on
Speaker 12: to call to text on AM five to eight eight six.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't be surprised if I hear it later on tonight, okay,
Speaker 12: And that's to let your representative know. And that's texts
Speaker 12: AM five two eight eighty six. So Rob or whoever
Speaker 12: was there can bring it up. But that's one thing
Speaker 12: that I'm going to be looking for as I find
Speaker 12: a replacement car. I'm not looking for electric, so it
Speaker 12: probably have a good, better, better, yeah, better chance of
Speaker 12: finding it. I do appreciate, even though I'm not driving
Speaker 12: the expressway, hearing it for those people who are driving
Speaker 12: it and what options they should have because of backups.
Speaker 12: I appreciate the traffic.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Cliff, I said, I'm with you totally, and
Speaker 3: thank you for your support on this, Linda. We really
Speaker 3: appreciate it.
Speaker 12: So yeah, it's AM five two, got you in here
Speaker 12: before the break?
Speaker 6: Go right ahead, Hi, Dan, I'll be quick earning Christmas
Speaker 6: by the way, in case I don't talk with you,
Speaker 6: but there were two. I mean, I use it that
Speaker 6: I need it every day driving on the map Pike,
Speaker 6: I have to tell you that there's an accent every day.
Speaker 6: So it's very helpful for me to knowing on hospital
Speaker 6: at work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes more than.
Speaker 6: One, sometime more than one exactly. And the other two
Speaker 6: things that I just wanted to chime in with is,
Speaker 6: you know, when we were driving to the War Trade Center,
Speaker 6: that's what we had. Going down the mass Pike heading
Speaker 6: to Fort Stewart Airbase, we had nothing else to give
Speaker 6: us the news that was rapidly changing. And the same
Speaker 6: way it was a Hurricane Katrina. That's what we had.
Speaker 6: And those are two of the There were no political
Speaker 6: sides one way or the other in those moments, and
Speaker 6: so that's that's right.
Speaker 1: That's.
Speaker 3: Test I get that that is very strong testimony. You
Speaker 3: never think that it's something like nine to eleven can happen. Again.
Speaker 3: I know that you're with one of those twenty four
Speaker 3: hour groups where you got to have a bag ready
Speaker 3: to go, and I thank you for that service, and
Speaker 3: I thank you for the call tonight, because I think
Speaker 3: people they forget we get, we get lazy, and as
Speaker 3: they say, I have you offered uttered some criticisms over
Speaker 3: the years of my friend Ed Markey. He stole my friend,
Speaker 3: but on this issue he is, He's in the forefront
Speaker 3: of it. And so we got to get the New
Speaker 3: York the majority leader, New York Senator Chuck Schumer needs
Speaker 3: to take this loose and get it out of committee,
Speaker 3: get it on the floor, and get it over the
Speaker 3: House and get as a president Biden desk. Simple as that.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I will do what I can.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Thank you very much. All right, six one,
Speaker 3: seven thirty. Those are the only lines they're open right now.
Speaker 3: No sense of downing the other six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. Back on the night's side right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Sight Studios, Don Bzy News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, let's head to the to the rest of
Speaker 3: the call. It's going to go to Corinn in Bridgewater. Krinn,
Speaker 3: welcome back. How are you hi?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 6: Great?
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for taking my call. I think
Speaker 13: I'm really yeah, I'm passionate about this, as your other
Speaker 13: callers are in yourself as well. I'm definitely with the
Speaker 13: caller from Cambridge. What's the point. Why why does someone
Speaker 13: just want to make the name for themselves like I
Speaker 13: understand cars grow with technology. We don't have a trax,
Speaker 13: we don't have CDs, we don't have cassetts mostly in
Speaker 13: cars anymore. I get that, But AM radio, what's to
Speaker 13: gain by not having that you have? There's only a
Speaker 13: lose here. Am I missing something?
Speaker 3: I don't think you and I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: you are. As it turns out, it seems to be
Speaker 3: the group that has kind of headed this UH are
Speaker 3: the UH, the the automobile faction manufacturers from out of
Speaker 3: the country, And apparently this was really started by Audi
Speaker 3: and Vovo and Tesla, and I.
Speaker 7: Don't know why.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of them are into electric vehicles,
Speaker 3: and I think that they were concerned that the vehicles,
Speaker 3: the electrical systems in the vehicles might conflict with AM radio.
Speaker 3: I don't understand it, but that's what we're being told.
Speaker 3: So the problem is it is stalled, and if it
Speaker 3: doesn't get passed by time the new Congress is seated,
Speaker 3: which I believe is January third, they got to go
Speaker 3: back and start at square one. And that's not a
Speaker 3: good sign. So at this time, the Republican Mike Johnson,
Speaker 3: the Speaker of the House, and Chuck Schuman, the majority
Speaker 3: leader in the US Senate, the Democrat. They got to
Speaker 3: get their act together and get this passed by both
Speaker 3: both houses and on the desk of President Biden, because
Speaker 3: once January third passes, all the progress that it has
Speaker 3: been made is reversed and they go back to the
Speaker 3: starting line. That's the dirty little secret that I'm trying
Speaker 3: to make people understand tonight. It has to be done now,
Speaker 3: in the next two or three weeks, or it won't
Speaker 3: get done.
Speaker 13: Here're talking to a head addresser, Dan, I hear you,
Speaker 13: and I will be loud and proud about that, believe me,
Speaker 13: all right. I also I'm concerned. I'm concerned about it.
Speaker 13: Sounds like the majority wants to keep it. By the tone,
Speaker 13: it sounds like, so yeah, okay. So I'm confident in
Speaker 13: hearing that, and that makes me feel good because I'm
Speaker 13: the next, uh next fella coming in. I thought he
Speaker 13: was very pro military and understands communications very deep. But
Speaker 13: I don't know if his new friend that doesn't want
Speaker 13: it in his cars are getting more of an air
Speaker 13: from him waiting to kind.
Speaker 3: Of here, good luck with you and me trying to
Speaker 3: get his ear, that's for sure. And again Ed Markey
Speaker 3: has done a good job on this, and so I
Speaker 3: want to commend him for it, as simple as that.
Speaker 3: Hope to right.
Speaker 2: I'm proud you. Let that be known.
Speaker 13: That's it. Thank you, Dan for doing your job and
Speaker 13: getting this message out. I'll keep it up. Okay, thank
Speaker 13: you very.
Speaker 3: Much, great, appreciate it very much. Thank you. All right,
Speaker 3: gotta get three in here, starting off with Jeff and Whitman. Jeff,
Speaker 3: you're next time Nightsager right ahead.
Speaker 14: Hey Dan, I think the thing that's being lost is
Speaker 14: a lot of people like, what does it matter? We
Speaker 14: have these apps and stuff. The problem is you have
Speaker 14: dead zones with SOUL coverage. Take a look at Hanson.
Speaker 14: If I drive through Hanson, my calls drop and data
Speaker 14: is even worse. And that's the big issue.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 14: On the other side, Marque's our rep. I know Steven
Speaker 14: Lynch's office says he's for it. The question is how
Speaker 14: do we escalate it higher? So in our area it
Speaker 14: sounds like everybody's for it.
Speaker 3: First of all, I yeah, well, supposedly sixty three of
Speaker 3: the US senators. That's almost two thirds. All you need
Speaker 3: is a majority, and then two hundred and seventy one.
Speaker 3: I think it's the latest figure in the House. That's
Speaker 3: more than a majority. If you get two eighteen in
Speaker 3: the House, you can pass anything you want. So there's
Speaker 3: obviously bipartisan support, both democratic and liberal, both democratic and
Speaker 3: conservative and the Republican, I should say, or a liberal
Speaker 3: and conservative. Let's get it done, because if we don't
Speaker 3: get it done by January third, everything that isn't done
Speaker 3: goes away. It's not like they say, well, we'll continue
Speaker 3: with and we'll get it done in late January. You
Speaker 3: they'll look at this, it'll be not done for another
Speaker 3: two years. So time is of the essence.
Speaker 6: All right, begg you, sir, begg you, Jeff, talk.
Speaker 3: To Merry Christmas. Let's go to satchi uh in, Saga
Speaker 3: satchi you next time nights. I want to get you
Speaker 3: and Jerry from New York and go ahead, Sachi hi Dan?
Speaker 7: What do you call?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 10: I like the station. Then I listened to a three
Speaker 10: hundred and sixty five days a year. But there's a
Speaker 10: question mark is do you remember the CBE radios?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 10: Okay, so back in the day is CEB radio was
Speaker 10: great and I had to light for licenses back in
Speaker 10: the late eighties to get a frequency. I think it's
Speaker 10: a question mark. Is technology is changing, they don't have
Speaker 10: enough frequency to have it.
Speaker 3: I think I think they might be. I think they
Speaker 3: might be calling it bandwidth, but I don't think that's
Speaker 3: the issue. I think the issue is that some of
Speaker 3: the electric vehicle manufacturers said they had a little bit
Speaker 3: of a problem in basically allowing an electric vehicle to
Speaker 3: accommodate an AM radio, and it can be done. Might
Speaker 3: cost him a few bucks to put in some additional wiring,
Speaker 3: but it's it's a convenience and that that is important.
Speaker 3: That's that's all.
Speaker 10: And I just want to give you a really quick
Speaker 10: one minute story. I used to travel to Toronto, Canada,
Speaker 10: where you offer back in the day, is that I
Speaker 10: used to have a radar detector because of the feeding
Speaker 10: and for the police cause and when you pass the border,
Speaker 10: you cannot have the radar detector because it's interfered with
Speaker 10: the frequency in Toronto, Canada. So if you get caught,
Speaker 10: there's a big fine, like a thousand or two thousand
Speaker 10: dollars fine back in the days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's interesting, but that takes me away from
Speaker 3: what I want to talk about Tonight's at you I
Speaker 3: hope you understand that.
Speaker 10: I just want to bring it up, that's all. And
Speaker 10: technology is changing. Probably they're going to come up with
Speaker 10: something better.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, but I think I want to
Speaker 3: straight Thanks. I have a great night Jerry and New York. Jerry,
Speaker 3: You're next night said you're going to wrap the hour
Speaker 3: for ust go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Dan. I am very upset about
Speaker 4: this issue. I do not understand. I don't understand the
Speaker 4: reasoning for getting of AM radio in cars, and there.
Speaker 3: Was no good reasoning, Jerry. There is no good reasoning
Speaker 3: for it. And the only reasoning that I have heard
Speaker 3: from some of the electric car manufacturers is that AM
Speaker 3: radio might cause some interference in electric vehicles. But all
Speaker 3: they have to do is work on that and fix it. It's
Speaker 3: as simple as that.
Speaker 4: I definitely understand that, and I love your show. I've
Speaker 4: listened to it for years, and if it went if
Speaker 4: it went away because of this issue, I probably it's
Speaker 4: not as serious as being heartbroken, but it is because
Speaker 4: you hit all of the important things and I just
Speaker 4: am a devout listener. I live in Syracuse, my best
Speaker 4: childhood friend lives in Medway. I graduated from Medway and
Speaker 4: to do this year.
Speaker 3: But I am now running out of time. Do me
Speaker 3: a favorite, call me earlier some night, and I'd love
Speaker 3: to know more about your friendship and your relationship with Medfield.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas. Okay, thank you very much. We're done for
Speaker 3: the night. Rob Brooks, thank you very much, Mariita, thank
Speaker 3: you very much. Jerry. I didn't got you off there, Okay,
Speaker 3: I promise we will tell you as always that end
Speaker 3: the show. All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven.
Speaker 3: That's from my pale Charlie Rays, who passed fourteen years
Speaker 3: ago in February. That's all your pets are her past.
Speaker 3: They loved you and you love them. I do believe
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Speaker 3: great Thursday. See you tomorrow, every one. I'm going to
Speaker 3: talk with an expert on serial killers tomorrow