Speaker 1: It's a nice sime with Ray und you easy Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Linus in Avon Linus. You're next to
Speaker 2: night Side. Hi.
Speaker 1: How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing better with you than I was doing with
Speaker 2: with Lou or Ryan or whatever his name was. Go
Speaker 2: right ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh that makes perfect sense. I just I have an
Speaker 3: issue with with the you know, the finances right now,
Speaker 3: because you know, my father is sixty four years old.
Speaker 3: He was on Social Security and they cut it because
Speaker 3: he had to go back to work full time. And
Speaker 3: you know, Mayo wu is, you know, spend all this
Speaker 3: money to support people who are not here legally, and
Speaker 3: yet my dad can get his Social Security check because
Speaker 3: he had to go back to work full time at
Speaker 3: sixty four just to try to provide fairs bortgage.
Speaker 1: And my mother.
Speaker 2: Did he he he took his Social Security payments early.
Speaker 2: I assume.
Speaker 3: No, he's sixty three, he's sixty four years old, and
Speaker 3: so he started collecting. Then he had to go back
Speaker 3: to work full time.
Speaker 2: Well, right, that's what I said. Just listen to what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Okay, I just want to make sure we're
Speaker 2: on the same page. He began taking his Social Security
Speaker 2: payments at the age of sixty three.
Speaker 3: You just said, right, No, sixty four, Okay, most partial
Speaker 3: partial payments.
Speaker 2: It's been one of those nights. But what do you
Speaker 2: mean by partial payment?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know the full details, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Clear you don't. And what I'm saying is what I'm
Speaker 2: saying to you, Linus, is if your dad had begun
Speaker 2: taking his Social Security payments and had begun taking his
Speaker 2: you know, regular whatever normally, if you don't get your
Speaker 2: full Social Security until you're sixty six or sixty seven.
Speaker 2: At this point, I forget exactly what the age is.
Speaker 2: But you can take your SOCI Security pays at a
Speaker 2: reduced rate a little earlier, or you can hold on
Speaker 2: and actually you can take him hold off until ninth
Speaker 2: until you're seventy. If there's no reason. If your dad's
Speaker 2: on Social Security and then he decides that he has
Speaker 2: to go back to work and Soci Security's not giving
Speaker 2: him enough money, why does he lose his so Security?
Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I don't understand, because he went back
Speaker 3: towards they said he was making too much money because
Speaker 3: he started working at all time.
Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, Linus, that doesn't sound right to me. You
Speaker 2: live in Avon? Right? So who is your congressman? Probably
Speaker 2: Steve Lynch? Yes, okay. What I would suggest you do
Speaker 2: is you call you have your dad? Wherever your dad lives?
Speaker 2: Is your dad? I don't know how old are you Linus?
Speaker 2: If I could ask?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Nine twenty nine? Okay? So your dad probably is in
Speaker 2: his sixties, as you've indicated, right, Yes, okay, why don't
Speaker 2: you where does your dad live? Does he live in
Speaker 2: Avon or close by?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, he lives in mass but not close by.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, whoever his congressman is? If you told me
Speaker 2: what town he was living in, maybe I could tell
Speaker 2: you he could find out the name of his congressman
Speaker 2: or congresswoman and he should call them. Every member of
Speaker 2: Congress generally has someone in their office who has some
Speaker 2: level of expertise and issues like this. Uh, And I
Speaker 2: think that there's something wrong here and your dad should
Speaker 2: not suffer the consequences of having you know, if he's
Speaker 2: taking his Social Security payments and now he's gone back
Speaker 2: to work, I don't see why he can't take your
Speaker 2: sol Security payments and pick up another job. There should
Speaker 2: be nothing.
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 3: And then on another part, my mother she's you know,
Speaker 3: she's been doing cancer research her entire career, and yeah,
Speaker 3: she's gonna lose a job, you know, working at a
Speaker 3: university because Trump wants to cut all this cancer research funds.
Speaker 2: And you know, man, suspicion, my suspicion line is is
Speaker 2: that that the Trump administration is not going to cut
Speaker 2: cancer research funds.
Speaker 3: I think they they they are already already give and notice.
Speaker 2: So okay, well, again, I can't get into your mom's case.
Speaker 2: I would also say that your mom should probably get
Speaker 2: in touch with the congress person's office and find out
Speaker 2: has your mum been working there a long time or she.
Speaker 3: Relatively new, oh twenty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no reason that that. Look, they have they have.
Speaker 3: It's all grant it's all grant funded. It's all grant funded.
Speaker 3: And Trump does not want to support the grants.
Speaker 2: And I longa I suspect that there will be a
Speaker 2: lot of pressure on this administration to draw our distinction
Speaker 2: between supporting you know, you know, opera performances in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2: I think that stuff is gone. But I do not
Speaker 2: believe that any president of the United States, and if
Speaker 2: he does, I'll criticize him. That is going to cut
Speaker 2: you know, cancer research funds. It doesn't make sense. It
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. I know that's what it means. I
Speaker 2: know that's what's being said. Okay. You know during the
Speaker 2: campaign they said that that that one of the things
Speaker 2: Trump would do is he would not support I VF
Speaker 2: you know, in vitro fertilization and one of the executives.
Speaker 3: She works on DNA, DNA d casing.
Speaker 2: You know, gotcha. Okay, I think I think line is.
Speaker 2: I think we're we're kind of talking past each other.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to let you run. But I wish
Speaker 2: best of luck to you, to your mom and your dad,
Speaker 2: and I hope it's gonna be okay. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back. We
Speaker 2: will regroup here here on Nightside. The lines are full.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Light Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Next up is
Speaker 2: Dave and Wrentham. Dave your next high Side, help me out,
Speaker 2: Dave got ahead.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, I'll do my best. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: I love your show.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks very much, and thanks you being on the
Speaker 2: ball and being Dave from.
Speaker 4: This Well, I totally agree with your comments on cancer research.
Speaker 4: I think that some people are saying, you know, it's
Speaker 4: being eliminated completely, even it's not even going to be cut.
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll find a better ways of doing it save money,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 5: Not going to be cut.
Speaker 4: But that's not why I call it.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I called I wanted to talk about immigration.
Speaker 7: Sure, so I've seen.
Speaker 6: A lot of articles there. Let's say that the immigrants
Speaker 6: commit crimes, filing crimes specifically at a lower rate than
Speaker 6: native more in Americans. And I don't doubt for a
Speaker 6: second that that's true, and it probably should be true
Speaker 6: in every country, that that's the people that they let
Speaker 6: in through immigration, because you're picking people that you either
Speaker 6: need and want, and you know you're not going to people.
Speaker 2: By the way. I don't know that's true. And you
Speaker 2: know why I don't know that's true. Why can you
Speaker 2: tell me how many people are here in this country
Speaker 2: as immigrants, either legal or illegal?
Speaker 6: I think we could. I can't tell you either of those,
Speaker 6: but I think we could probably say how many people
Speaker 6: are here legally and have been done it because we
Speaker 6: can count them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we have no idea how many people are
Speaker 2: here illegally. So if you don't know how many people
Speaker 2: are here illegally, and and and you want to find
Speaker 2: out how many murders or rapes are committed, or are
Speaker 2: armed robberies or bank robberies. When someone says, uh, it's well, no,
Speaker 2: the crime rate amongst the illegals is lower. How do
Speaker 2: you First of all, you say, how do you know it?
Speaker 2: Number one? Number two, there's no statistics that I know
Speaker 2: of that that someone can say, well, you know, the
Speaker 2: percentage of murders by illegal immigrants is x and there
Speaker 2: are y number of people. So therefore the murder rate
Speaker 2: amongst all illegals, because we know the numbers is point
Speaker 2: zero zero four percent. We're amongst the population as a whole.
Speaker 2: We know it's three hundred and twenty million people in America.
Speaker 2: We know how many you know, homicides there are in
Speaker 2: America in a given ear. You can figure that out,
Speaker 2: but you can't figure out the percentage on the other
Speaker 2: On the other side, and then the other question is
Speaker 2: this that's the issue, that's not even the issue. The
Speaker 2: issue is we have enough homegrown murderers and rapists in America.
Speaker 2: We don't need any more so, what you know, if
Speaker 2: if you killed tomorrow by your next door neighbor who's
Speaker 2: an American citizen, we're really sad that you got killed,
Speaker 2: but we can't like you can't call the cops and say,
Speaker 2: you know, this guy next door, I really don't like him.
Speaker 2: Can you get him out of the country. What are
Speaker 2: they gonna say to you? They're gonna say, he's a citizen.
Speaker 2: We can't do that.
Speaker 6: Right, If we get better our citizens, we'd have a
Speaker 6: bunch lower crime rate.
Speaker 2: Well, it isn't a question of vetting. It's a question
Speaker 2: of you have a population that by fact they're citizens.
Speaker 2: You can't look around and say, you know what, I
Speaker 2: see that guy over there, he's going to commit a
Speaker 2: serious crime. Let's get him out of here. You know
Speaker 2: he's a citizen. However, we don't need more murderers and
Speaker 2: rapists coming into country. And one of the ways we
Speaker 2: can't guarantee, by the way, that if we admit people
Speaker 2: legally that some of them might not commit murder or rape.
Speaker 2: But I think there's less of a chan hans. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know who Lincoln Riley is right right?
Speaker 4: Ye, she would be.
Speaker 2: Alive today if the Biden administration had kept the border
Speaker 2: uh somewhat tighter. The guy came in, he was thrown out,
Speaker 2: he came back in. I think that how many times
Speaker 2: he came in across the border he killed lacoln Riley. Now,
Speaker 2: guess what most people could give a could care less
Speaker 2: about Lake and Riley. You know why because they don't
Speaker 2: know lacln Riley. But if that was your daughter, my daughter,
Speaker 2: your your niece, my niece, you know, where's our brains?
Speaker 2: Do we need more murderers in this country? Do we
Speaker 2: need more people in this country who we don't know?
Speaker 2: Because if you say it doesn't matter. Do we need borders?
Speaker 2: I think we need borders. Am I right or wrong
Speaker 2: on that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? And I think the reason I was calling this
Speaker 4: even if historically illegal aliens or illegal immigrants have had
Speaker 4: a lower crime rate than native born American citizens, even
Speaker 4: if that were true.
Speaker 2: Which is which which cannot be proven, but go ahead,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Were I doubt that the crime rate is as low
Speaker 4: as it has been with all the illegals we've had
Speaker 4: in the last four years come in, they're not vetted.
Speaker 4: You know that can't be you know, a good, a
Speaker 4: good chunk of the population can't be a good chunk
Speaker 4: of the population because they weren't vetted. We don't know
Speaker 4: they are also also there.
Speaker 2: By the way, can you turn your radio down because
Speaker 2: we're getting we're getting feedback. Do you are you sitting?
Speaker 2: Are you in a car somewhere?
Speaker 4: I'm in a car, so I have to have it
Speaker 4: on to hear you.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, fair enough. What I'm saying to you is
Speaker 2: that every person who comes across the border illegally with
Speaker 2: Sentinel is is, I guarantee you is killing Americans. That
Speaker 2: alone should be reason to support tightening the border. And
Speaker 2: the Biden administration didn't do anything about that for four years.
Speaker 8: Four years.
Speaker 4: Yep, I totally agree. But are you on Twitter?
Speaker 2: Am I on Twitter?
Speaker 3: On Twitter?
Speaker 4: But do you use it? X?
Speaker 2: Yes? They do, Yes, they do. Yeah.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of twin brothers, Ed and Brian. Are
Speaker 4: you familiar with them?
Speaker 2: Uh know? Why should I be?
Speaker 4: Well, if you're on Twitter? But anyway, they're very smart,
Speaker 4: they're very left wing liberals, and they're on it all
Speaker 4: day long and putting all this stuff out there. They
Speaker 4: actually made a claim which I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people believe, if you let more people into the country,
Speaker 4: illegal aliens that have a lower crime rate than native
Speaker 4: born American citizens. It's going to lower the chance that
Speaker 4: a native born American citizen will be subject to a
Speaker 4: violent crime.
Speaker 2: Which is so I got a better idea. Let me.
Speaker 2: Let me take that absurd comment. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: you're absurd. Let me take their absurd comment. And here's
Speaker 2: what I think we should do. We should kick we
Speaker 2: should allow as many illegal immigrants in the country as
Speaker 2: we can, open the borders, and all US citizens should
Speaker 2: be forced to leave America and go back to the
Speaker 2: country from which the Four Bears came. I will gladly
Speaker 2: go back to Ireland, Okay, because I have a dual citizenship.
Speaker 2: Once we get all the U. S. Citizens out of
Speaker 2: America and illegal aliens filling America, no U. S. Citizens
Speaker 2: will be killed by illegal aliens in America and I
Speaker 2: and that's a fact. Yeah, those those guys are First
Speaker 2: of all, if you're on Twitter, listen to night Side, Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean you know it's it's why would you even
Speaker 2: listen or follow two knuckleheads who don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell they're talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I like to follow people knuckleheads who
Speaker 4: don't know what they're talking about, so I can correct them.
Speaker 2: You know what, You're gonna die trying because, uh, there
Speaker 2: are people who call me on the station. I try
Speaker 2: to talk with them, have a conversation. They're impossible to reach.
Speaker 2: And those guys, they they got a Twitter following. Good
Speaker 2: for them. Thank God for the First Amendment. Any night
Speaker 2: you want, Dave, give me a call, but I got
Speaker 2: to run. Thanks man, We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Good night, Mike and Quincy. Mike your next one nights.
Speaker 2: I go right ahead.
Speaker 1: Hey, he thinks Dan.
Speaker 2: Now are you I'm fine? Mike? How you doing.
Speaker 1: I want to do? Yeah, we'll do it. Senship. You
Speaker 1: gotta tell me what's your citship? Mike.
Speaker 2: I'm having trouble hearing you. Can you maybe speak more
Speaker 2: into the phone.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to know you have a ship, Citienship.
Speaker 1: We'll coming ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob, Why don't you talk to Mike? Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: you can figure that. I'm having tough time understanding Mike.
Speaker 2: But we've got quite a streak going on here, folks.
Speaker 2: Tim and winterro go ahead, Tim, there goes Tim. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll keep rolling here. Let's go to will On Long Island.
Speaker 2: Hey Will, I know who Will is?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Damn, I have never had a series of callers.
Speaker 1: It's like a full moon out and I got'll fly
Speaker 1: it off too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got a little
Speaker 1: wild up. I can understand your agitation and your frustration
Speaker 1: because I've listened for a little while now and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where are these people? What's happening here? This is not
Speaker 1: your tip of You have pretty good calls usually, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening right now. So I'm weird.
Speaker 1: Is happening?
Speaker 2: Edited Mike the Twins I want to follow?
Speaker 1: Edit The guy Lou who was coming from Lou wants
Speaker 1: to talk about WU and I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 2: He's I'm wrong?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the last guy is I think he had a
Speaker 1: few too many cocktails, right. I think that he was
Speaker 1: asking you where's your citizenship? And you just explained to
Speaker 1: us you have dual citizenship with Ireland, which I also
Speaker 1: could have. I just refused. Now at this point, Ireland
Speaker 1: is not the is not the country that my family
Speaker 1: fled there for a reason, and when we're here now
Speaker 1: for a reason. But I was I wanted to share my.
Speaker 2: Last time when was the last time you were back
Speaker 2: in Ireland.
Speaker 1: I I have never gone back, and I don't think
Speaker 1: and I heard it's beautiful and a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends have gone back, but it's just And I'm half
Speaker 1: Italian too, actually raised by Italian immigrants, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I would go there either. We we we fly
Speaker 1: an American flag in both of my households that were
Speaker 1: both Irish and Italian descent, and my grandfather came from
Speaker 1: Italy and fought against Italy and World War two here
Speaker 1: for the United States. We just believed that.
Speaker 2: Will will. All I'm trying to say to you is
Speaker 2: that if this country goes down to drain, I don't
Speaker 2: know where the hell else people can go. I mean
Speaker 2: the thing America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have the screen in South America. I would
Speaker 1: go there.
Speaker 2: Well, then you know, we can send Christmas cards to
Speaker 2: each other. But I'll be an. I listen to what
Speaker 2: do you want to talk about last night?
Speaker 1: Last night? Listen. I know that I voted for this
Speaker 1: man to shake things up, right, but between Zelenski and
Speaker 1: the White House and between what I saw last night,
Speaker 1: I'm like in like a a state of shock. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest. I mean, we had the president of
Speaker 1: the United States. And let me tell you something. CBS
Speaker 1: poll on the on the speech last night. I know
Speaker 1: that fifty one percent of the audience viewership was Republican,
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent was independent. But it had a seventy
Speaker 1: six percent approval rating last night. Okay, that he talked
Speaker 1: about things they cared about, and that they agreed with
Speaker 1: the things that he spoke about. Okay, So it was
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly positive for the president, all right, And how could
Speaker 1: it not be with the things that he was talking about.
Speaker 1: But when he literally pointed out he said dangerous left
Speaker 1: lunatics and pointed to the Democrats when he called Focahontas
Speaker 1: over there that you have in Massachusetts called it. When
Speaker 1: he called it Pocahontas in front of the entire chamber,
Speaker 1: I said, WHOA. This guy is on a mission. He is.
Speaker 1: This is a complete and total about face for the
Speaker 1: United States. We are telling the world that we are
Speaker 1: going to straighten out asymmetrical trade deals. We are going
Speaker 1: to bring I remember when Democrats told me my whole life.
Speaker 1: I'm almost fifty years old. I've been told by Democrats
Speaker 1: my whole life that we need to have strong industries
Speaker 1: here in America and a strong American worker in taxation
Speaker 1: in Paris were part of that plan in order to
Speaker 1: procure and save American jobs. And now when a former
Speaker 1: Democrat is saying the same thing, they're on the opposite side.
Speaker 1: It is absolute insanity. And sorry to all the Democrats
Speaker 1: out there. I am registered independent. I've voted Democrat before,
Speaker 1: but the party, like your friend Jeff at the Globe,
Speaker 1: nice guy, but your party needs to be completely annihilated
Speaker 1: and rebuilt with the old Democrats that believed in the
Speaker 1: American worker and America first. They believe the same thing
Speaker 1: that we loved America. We disagreed on things, but we
Speaker 1: weren't the enemy. We weren't each other's enemies. Dan, good luck,
Speaker 1: have fun tonight. Cheer up a little bit. It'll get better,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: No, I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I'm sorry that
Speaker 2: you're going to be in South America. We'll all going
Speaker 2: to be in Ireland. But that's need to hear me there,
Speaker 2: will Let me ask you this. You left me hang
Speaker 2: in here, so I don't want to leave me hanging.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So were you proud of Trump last night or appalled
Speaker 2: by Trump last night?
Speaker 1: I was extremely proud of Trump, but I can't understand
Speaker 1: how there are going to be some Republicans, even certainly
Speaker 1: more moderates like you. You know that I'm one of those.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the rhetoric. I enjoy a little bit that
Speaker 1: I like about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't sure which way you were going. That's
Speaker 2: why I asked.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that can see things from
Speaker 1: both sides. I can see things from both sides.
Speaker 2: You kin, I'm trying to have a conversation with you,
Speaker 2: will help me out here. I asked you the question,
Speaker 2: were you pleased or appalled? Because it wasn't clear to
Speaker 2: me from what you said, and I wasn't sure which
Speaker 2: way you were going. I think that there were some
Speaker 2: fundamental mistakes in his speech last night. I think that
Speaker 2: this the language about how that there's you know, fifty
Speaker 2: one thousand people over one hundred and fifty years of age.
Speaker 2: I've read some articles which is just to me that
Speaker 2: there's a coding era within the social Security system, which
Speaker 2: is a lot more likely. If there are people, hold on,
Speaker 2: let me just finish my point, then you can have it.
Speaker 2: You can have the microphone. Okay, if there are people
Speaker 2: out there who have been accepting checks over a long
Speaker 2: extended period of time for relatives who passed away twenty
Speaker 2: or thirty or forty years ago. Those people should go
Speaker 2: to jail. So let's find out if we're really going
Speaker 2: to do a deep dive and we're going to talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, fifty one thousand people over the age of
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty, whatever the hell the numbers were
Speaker 2: he mentioned, I need to see some action, I need
Speaker 2: to see some support, I need to see some evidence
Speaker 2: on that. So I'm still I'm probably a little bit
Speaker 2: more centered than you are. Go ahead, you can finish.
Speaker 1: You get the one when he got when he went
Speaker 1: actually when he got to that, I felt the same
Speaker 1: exact way, because I know that they input dates sometimes
Speaker 1: from people that they didn't have a correct date of birth,
Speaker 1: or this coding errors or there's mistakes. I get that,
Speaker 1: I understand, but when we're talking about millions of them,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean they're all fraudulent, but it does mean
Speaker 1: that you know this, You know that these things are
Speaker 1: in there to the tune of millions of over one
Speaker 1: hundred years old, Okay, at some point, whether it was
Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred and nine hundred times number Yep,
Speaker 1: when you add them all up, there's the tunes of millions. Okay,
Speaker 1: how come you haven't corrected that by now, even though
Speaker 1: probably ninety percent may not be fraudulent. What have you
Speaker 1: been doing while you've been sitting home working for the
Speaker 1: Social Security Administration?
Speaker 7: And if you if, if.
Speaker 2: That, if, if that was the point he was making,
Speaker 2: it would have been effective. Because it's the same way
Speaker 2: with with the Zelensky situation. It appears to me that
Speaker 2: Zolensky may come back and sign that Rear Earth Minerals deal.
Speaker 2: If if he does, it will prove that the behavior
Speaker 2: in the Oval office was justified. That never should have
Speaker 2: been played out in front of live television cameras. It diminished.
Speaker 1: It was also a little justified because he humiliated our
Speaker 1: delegation in the Ukraine by screaming at them with the
Speaker 1: reporters could hear him outside the room where our delegate
Speaker 1: actually came out visibly uh shaken after being berated.
Speaker 2: Well, under those circumstances. Under those circumstances, Zelensky should not
Speaker 2: have been invited to the White House. You do not
Speaker 2: from a diplomatic point of view and from a staff
Speaker 2: point if you. You do not do something that that
Speaker 2: is gonna fall apart like that. That's that's bad staff work.
Speaker 2: There should have been somebody who should have said, taking
Speaker 2: Zelenski aside and said, look, we're going to the White House.
Speaker 2: You gotta be in your best behavior. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: a photo op. That's gonna be it. If this questions,
Speaker 2: the President will will say thank you very much, and
Speaker 2: they move the cameras out. That's what they do. And
Speaker 2: then we're gonna go into a room and the documents
Speaker 2: are gonna be there. You will have already signed the documents, okay,
Speaker 2: and when the press comes in, we're gonna be sitting
Speaker 2: there and it's gonna be a done deal. That's the
Speaker 2: way you do it. Well, I gotta run. I'm way
Speaker 2: behind into my okay, bent.
Speaker 1: You all right. I have a good rest of the night, buddy.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks buddy, talk to you later. We're coming
Speaker 2: right back on Night Side.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with.
Speaker 4: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Next up is Christine. Hi, Christine, appreciate you calling in.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be great to hear your voice. How are you, Christine?
Speaker 7: Good News?
Speaker 9: Had a crazy night?
Speaker 2: Huh, Well, it's funny all of it was going pretty good,
Speaker 2: and people you were making some pretty good points and
Speaker 2: kind of started with I don't know. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: tough to tell. I was wondering if maybe we got
Speaker 2: a full moon going on, but Rob says, we don't
Speaker 2: have a full moon until the fourteenth of March.
Speaker 9: You know what I think it is, I'm saying, you know,
Speaker 9: I think people can't get out because it's been so cold,
Speaker 9: when people are just so tired of being in.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think, to be honest with you, I think that
Speaker 2: I'm too nice a person. And I mean that seriously
Speaker 2: in the sense that I know that a lot of
Speaker 2: people when they call here, they can be a little nervous.
Speaker 2: And I try to give people and then if there
Speaker 2: are people who have language difficulties and are calling in
Speaker 2: English is their second language. I always try to go
Speaker 2: out of my way to be kind. But some people
Speaker 2: recognize kindness as weakness, and that's a big mistake when
Speaker 2: you're dealing with me.
Speaker 9: Trust me, you know that's the way you've been brought
Speaker 9: up to be nice to people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what we do is we keep we track
Speaker 2: numbers to be honest with you and so Rob has
Speaker 2: a list of numbers. So this guy who's been calling us,
Speaker 2: I'm tempted to give his number out in the air. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm tempted to give I'm not going to. But but
Speaker 2: if he wants to keep up calling incessantly and we
Speaker 2: we might you know, either that or what I might
Speaker 2: do is I have some friends who who are very
Speaker 2: very loyal to this program, and they they get quite
Speaker 2: upset with people who harass Rob. And I would not
Speaker 2: want those people to get upset because we obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: we we never want to have anybody, you know, in
Speaker 2: a situation that they're uncomfortable. But anyway, yeah, now people,
Speaker 2: there are some people who were jerks and I have
Speaker 2: to recognize that and accept it and deal with it.
Speaker 2: But you're not a jerk. Christine, you one of my
Speaker 2: favorite callers, and I'm so glad to hear you. How'd
Speaker 2: you think? What'd you think? Did you? Did you watch
Speaker 2: the mayor at all tonight? I don't know.
Speaker 9: I did. Wow, she really got growed.
Speaker 2: Yeah she did get she was in the hot seat.
Speaker 2: She she did fine. She was well well prepared. But
Speaker 2: for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I guess she
Speaker 2: should be well prepared.
Speaker 9: I know, what do you think of her comment at
Speaker 9: Boston the safe city? Do you think it's true?
Speaker 2: I think that Boston is a city that has a
Speaker 2: lot of problems that have not been addressed by the mayor.
Speaker 2: I think that the massive cast situation has never been
Speaker 2: fully addressed. I think we saw what happened in Boyleston
Speaker 2: Street this weekend. There have been some incidents h and
Speaker 2: there's there's there's areas of the city that are are
Speaker 2: are problematic, and we leave the league in bike lanes,
Speaker 2: but I don't think we leave the league in safety.
Speaker 2: And yes, indeed homicides have gone down, but that's been
Speaker 2: a trend that's been going on for a long time,
Speaker 2: and I would suggest that that's very much the responsibility
Speaker 2: and to the credit of the police officers who are
Speaker 2: out there. However, however, there are some areas of the
Speaker 2: city where we're seeing an uptick in violent crime, which
Speaker 2: is troubling and we'll and and probably be an issue
Speaker 2: in this campaign upcoming. So buckle up, it's going to
Speaker 2: be an interesting year. Christine is always thank you so much.
Speaker 9: What did you think of did you see that? Ayana
Speaker 9: Presley today.
Speaker 2: She never disappoints, does she. No, Yeah, I thought that
Speaker 2: all of a sudden when she was arguing with the
Speaker 2: chairman of the committee and was she made some as
Speaker 2: a I guess she at some point. I'm unfamiliar with
Speaker 2: her personal life, and I don't want anything bad to
Speaker 2: happen anybody. But all of a sudden she somehow she
Speaker 2: was being interruptive of the chairman, which is not good
Speaker 2: for him, and all of a sudden she was she
Speaker 2: was like screaming at the chairman and it was like,
Speaker 2: come on, that's not the qorum that makes Boston proud.
Speaker 2: I was proud of Steve Lynch, who's a classy guy
Speaker 2: and handled himself classically in a classy way.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I went a lot.
Speaker 2: I had a conversation privately with Aana Pressley two years
Speaker 2: ago at a charity fundraiser which we both attend, in
Speaker 2: which I will be attending on March fifteenth, is a
Speaker 2: fundraiser for a food pantry in Dorchester, and I spoke
Speaker 2: with her privately and I and she said, when when
Speaker 2: can I be in your show? I said, I'd love
Speaker 2: to have you in my show. You know, let's do it.
Speaker 2: She's well, I have my press person call you. I
Speaker 2: said love to I haven't heard from her. Thanks Christine.
Speaker 2: I got to run talk soon. Okay, okay, Christine, have
Speaker 2: a great night. Okay, good night. All right. Let me
Speaker 2: get one more in here before the break. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to Joe and Boston. Joe you next time, nights.
Speaker 2: I got ahead, my brother, Joe. Are you great? To
Speaker 2: see great? I was hoping it was you, but.
Speaker 7: I feel for you. I heard. I mean, callers have
Speaker 7: been thrown your ways into.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm welcome, I welcome you. But some of these,
Speaker 2: some of these folks, I don't know if if they're look,
Speaker 2: if they want to try to bother me, they just
Speaker 2: gonna get get bumped a little bit more quickly, that's all.
Speaker 2: Some people mistake a kindness for weakness. And I'm a
Speaker 2: kind person, but I'm not a weak person, so you know,
Speaker 2: let them know that forward. Anyway, did you watch me
Speaker 2: all today or no?
Speaker 7: Oh you watch a little bit of it? And I
Speaker 7: mean for the money that she is spending on it,
Speaker 7: I mean to get to fear. He had these talking
Speaker 7: line that was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I mean, she had she she had some talking points
Speaker 2: and boy that those are expensive talking points.
Speaker 7: But she's beast when you can get her without any preparation.
Speaker 7: I mean, she's a harbor lady. Okay, she comes from
Speaker 7: Harvard in Chicago before that, so she should be prepared
Speaker 7: for any answers, like she was a voice of the
Speaker 7: sweet that she which he show up for the shooting.
Speaker 7: You seere with their face, and the first thing that
Speaker 7: he comes up is to apologize to the criminal who
Speaker 7: tried to assist inmate A couple of people or more,
Speaker 7: to apologize to them first. I mean she tried to
Speaker 7: make it up the next day, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, I think I think that I think
Speaker 2: that that showed her real instinct. Do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Why the first words out of your mouth
Speaker 2: would be to somehow extend condolences. I almost thought she
Speaker 2: was going to say to the victim of the shooting, Uh,
Speaker 2: to the person who died, he's dead. First of all,
Speaker 2: he doesn't need condolences. You want to extend condolences, can
Speaker 2: extend it to his family, but the first concern should
Speaker 2: be the safety of the citizens and the good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, there is not. There is no second change
Speaker 7: for first impression. The first impression was what.
Speaker 1: Came out of her mouth.
Speaker 7: And another thing is that in this city.
Speaker 8: They claimed that the crime rate is so so low.
Speaker 7: However, there is a whole bunch of stuff that is
Speaker 7: on the reporter because I know people there are on
Speaker 7: the job and I hear about things that never make
Speaker 7: the news, then never make the news. But there's a
Speaker 7: lot of you reported.
Speaker 2: I mean, the stuff that's going on in in downtown
Speaker 2: Crossing is pretty ugly and that has spread over now
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Yes, she tried to get props to her police commission
Speaker 7: her police commissioner. He has been a huge disappointment, huge
Speaker 7: disagree because.
Speaker 8: Her and he's not saying anything and they are on
Speaker 8: the reporting things. There is a whole bunch of things
Speaker 8: that we actually you and I have talked about, and
Speaker 8: that there was a I think about a year and
Speaker 8: a half two years ago, a fourteen year old that
Speaker 8: got killed the Agaso Square and we never hear anything
Speaker 8: nails after that. I mean, a fourteen year old, Come on.
Speaker 7: I know, what what about what about.
Speaker 2: The grandmother a few years the grandmother in Dorchester who
Speaker 2: was sitting on her front porch on a sac from
Speaker 2: board six o'clock that case has never been solved. Where's
Speaker 2: the district attorney on that case?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so, yeah, exactly. That's we agree so much.
Speaker 2: We agree so much. I got you in before the break,
Speaker 2: but I'm now way past my break and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get me in trouble with Rob the producer. So I
Speaker 2: gotta let you go. But you, I love you.
Speaker 7: I mean, let's work for it. Let's work for the city.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, and please give my best to
Speaker 2: your wife and kids. Okay, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 7: All right, days, I thanks, all right, good night, my
Speaker 7: brother at you.
Speaker 2: Good night. Okay, here comes a break and we we
Speaker 2: will finish up. John, Matt and Joe stay right there.
Speaker 2: You're going to be in the year next back after
Speaker 2: this one night side. Now back to Dan ray Mine
Speaker 2: from the window World.
Speaker 3: Night Side Studios on w b Z the news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, next up, we got Joe in Revere. Joe, appreciate
Speaker 2: you call getting a little light a little late, tight
Speaker 2: on time, Go right.
Speaker 10: Ahead, Joe, Hey, Dan, how you doing. I thought the
Speaker 10: President did a great job last night, by the way,
Speaker 10: but that's not why I'm calling. Sure talking about immigration
Speaker 10: a lot tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because of Mayor wu and the appearance of the
Speaker 2: the mayors, the city mayors of Chicago, Denver, in Boston,
Speaker 2: and New York City.
Speaker 11: My question to you, Dan was, if an illegal alien
Speaker 11: commits murder, robbery, rape, and they get sent back to
Speaker 11: their country, do they actually get incarcerated.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends. It depends upon the country.
Speaker 10: And then come back to lock country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends upon the country.
Speaker 10: Number one and number two.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, it depends upon the country. And
Speaker 2: my position is the same as the US attorney who
Speaker 2: we had on last week here on Nightside, Leo, and
Speaker 2: that is that if someone is convicted for crime in America,
Speaker 2: let him serve their time here before we deport them.
Speaker 2: And if if they are somebody who is a real
Speaker 2: bad criminal, let's deport him, let's put them at Guantanamo
Speaker 2: and let him serve their time at Guantanamo.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So it depends on each case individually.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm just absolutely depends on each case and he's in
Speaker 2: each country. Joe, I got to keep rolling here. I know,
Speaker 2: I got I short at you on the time here,
Speaker 2: but it's late and I'm trying to get everybody in.
Speaker 10: Okay, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Dan, Joe, do me a favorite, call more often and
Speaker 2: call early. Was some good conversation. That was a great question.
Speaker 4: I love your show.
Speaker 2: But thank you very much, Bell. I appreciate it. Next up, Matt, Matt,
Speaker 2: you were next on nice.
Speaker 5: I go ahead, all right, Dan, just to jump right
Speaker 5: into it, you know from the show. WU I'll give her.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not a supporter of her, but I'll
Speaker 5: give her the credit that she did get some you know,
Speaker 5: she was growed slightly and she was able to stand
Speaker 5: to the agenda in which she was going to go
Speaker 5: win with.
Speaker 2: She was well prepped, well prepped, That's what exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But I do want to.
Speaker 5: Call out the weak points that made her look good,
Speaker 5: which is that you're going up against she's asking for
Speaker 5: good control, she's asking for other control. But Boston's at
Speaker 5: the lowest high the lowest gun rate crime in decades
Speaker 5: as of twenty twenty four. So when you go against that,
Speaker 5: and it's true questioning, but you have so many well
Speaker 5: prept you know, things going.
Speaker 1: In your favor. I think it's like you said.
Speaker 7: It's law enforcement.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of problems that they get into dress
Speaker 5: like you know, you know, mass ab you know down
Speaker 5: in that area.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that I know of crime in
Speaker 2: I know of crime in West Roxbury that I'm not
Speaker 2: allowed to talk about. But when you have crime happening
Speaker 2: in West Roxbury, that's a problem because West Roxbury is
Speaker 2: probably the best part of the city in terms of
Speaker 2: a stable tax base. And if all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: people in West Roxbury who now have lost the opportunity
Speaker 2: to send their kids to the schools, the exam schools,
Speaker 2: that's gonna cast that's gonna cost a problem as well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, Well, I just want to just say
Speaker 10: that part.
Speaker 2: I think you got it in. You got it in,
Speaker 2: and you got I got time for John and Foxborough.
Speaker 2: Thanks Matt. All right, all right, talk soon next up
Speaker 2: John and Foxborough. John, they got about a minute for
Speaker 2: You've called late, So I don't mind chopping you in
Speaker 2: terms of time, but I got you in.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, John, No, or does I appreciate you?
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: So I was talking to a relative mind that's law enforcement.
Speaker 1: So I said they in regards to you know, this
Speaker 1: hearing coming up, and I'm like, must be a lot
Speaker 1: better that that Trump's to Now He's like, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: They don't honor the ice detainers at all. And something
Speaker 1: else that I didn't know. I figured they didn't anyway,
Speaker 1: But you know, all these mirrors are spinning around and
Speaker 1: saying that they do honor the ice detainers. They don't.
Speaker 1: And another thing too, is when they get feeled out
Speaker 1: when the build bondsman comes. You know, eight years ago
Speaker 1: you had to pay out of your own pocket. That
Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore. We the taxpayers pay now, and it's
Speaker 1: actually double in the bonds. So I would say, well,
Speaker 1: what's the like. If there's a serious crime, tell me,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is, don't pay hold them. And
Speaker 1: Tom Holmer was right, he said no, he goes it's
Speaker 1: a disgrace because yeah.
Speaker 2: Well let's let's let's get the facts out Let's get
Speaker 2: the facts out there, figure out who's telling the truth.
Speaker 2: I think anybody who's here illegally and commits a serious
Speaker 2: crime should be deported immediately, because they've already committed a
Speaker 2: crime by coming in here illegally. John, you made some
Speaker 2: great points in a short period of time, but I
Speaker 2: gotta let you go call earlier and give you much
Speaker 2: more time.
Speaker 1: Thank you much, absolutely, thank you, Good night.
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