WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.960 It's nice eyes, Dan Ray unknowing you Mazy Boston's News Radio. 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:09.039 All right, we have spent two hours and we're going 3 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.560 to continue to talk about this because I think we've 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 had some interesting callers, and we've had some different voices, 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.679 and we've had some familiar voices, but we've had more 6 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:24.399 different voices than familiar voices. And I thank everyone. We 7 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.960 began talking about this. At nine o'clock last night, the 8 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:33.560 Brockton City Council voted to being homeless encampments in the 9 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.719 City of Brockton. According to a city council with whom 10 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:43.960 we spoke earlier this evening, our council is Shirley Asak, 11 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:49.479 there's a group of about fifty sixty maybe seventy, chronically 12 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:55.359 homeless people who are basically camping on public property, and 13 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:58.479 they are doing everything else human beings do in private 14 00:00:58.960 --> 00:00:59.920 on public property. 15 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.200 If you get my drift, which raises. 16 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:07.680 The question of what should be done, what can be done? Well, 17 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:13.120 City of brock then has taken a step, and whether 18 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:17.079 you agree or disagree, let's talk about it. Six one seven, two, five, four, 19 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.920 ten thirty. Those lines are full. The only line that 20 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.200 has opened a six one seven nine three one, ten thirty. 21 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.480 We've had a variety of viewpoints, which is really gratifying, 22 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.319 and the lines are now awful. So let's keep rolling 23 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.359 and we're going to go to Matt. Matt, you are 24 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.040 first up this hour at nightside. 25 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.840 Welcome back, Matt, Hey, Dan, how you done? You're just 26 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:40.359 great man? What are your thoughts on this? 27 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:41.560 All? Right? 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:42.959 So I want to get a couple of and I 29 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.359 want to be quick so everybody else can get in. 30 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:50.239 Let me make a couple of quick comments. In college 31 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.239 and growing up, not only in nass but down in Florida, 32 00:01:54.680 --> 00:02:01.200 I've seen the opioid academic affect many many people. Let 33 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.680 me state I think the idea one of your callers made, 34 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.560 because there is one in the United States since twenty 35 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.840 twenty two in New York and injection clinic. Now at 36 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.639 that clinic, I just want to be clear being no 37 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.560 nurses or anybody are injecting or bringing the substances to you. 38 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.639 But if you were an overdose there, you are supervised. 39 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.840 And there were no deaths over a year and a 40 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:37.560 half span except when they were closed. And this was 41 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.639 in the city of New York. I don't know which 42 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.840 euro occurred, but when they were closed. It did, so 43 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.639 I want to say that that's an idea. However, with 44 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.800 that being the oversight, I think that police, you know, 45 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.520 down a mass ad and down in other places and 46 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:06.039 stuff like that, that alcoholism and things of other you know, 47 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.240 just impoverishment or just not be able to find job placement. 48 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:17.479 There are people who might be rightfully unemployed and homeless, 49 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:19.919 who maybe drug addicts or who may not be. 50 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:20.599 It's not my. 51 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:24.000 Place to decide which of that sixty people are in 52 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.080 Brockton or not because I don't know. But the police 53 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:30.919 will chase you out. 54 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:32.520 The police will chase you out. 55 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.800 People sleep on the train on the key. This is 56 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:39.000 not new that Broughton saying that brought and they're rough 57 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.280 one of the rougher neighborhoods in the state. I wouldn't 58 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.840 say that that's new that they're saying that. Now, will 59 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:52.199 you know, you know, detain you because there are many 60 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.120 people who will find that a natural benefit, people who 61 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:00.360 really dont people who are truly homeless. And it's to 62 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.319 be a very cold as it's starting to and for 63 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.759 a couple of months, you know, a public intoxication misdemeanor 64 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:11.120 charge is not going to be a turn for a 65 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.039 fifty year old. We may have five or six to 66 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:17.759 these charges already and now get you know, three squares. 67 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.319 My bottom line is that we need to address the 68 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.759 main problem in the state with whatever it may be. 69 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.800 And I don't think it's during incarceration. But I don't 70 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.160 think it's through a handout either, making it easy to 71 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.439 say that you could be homeless. But the bottom line 72 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.240 is that what Broxton is doing is not the answer. 73 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.160 And I think that they ultimately need to have funding 74 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.839 where it's put up on a certain level equal to 75 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.000 the level with that right now or less defined proper 76 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.240 for housing, or at least allow these people to encamp. 77 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.199 Thank you, Okay, fair enough. 78 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:07.560 All right, Matt. Interesting points. 79 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:11.839 You made a number of points there and some of them. 80 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.360 Yeah, interesting points. Thanks Matt, appreciate it. 81 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.680 Okay, Okay, keep growing here. 82 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.720 Let's it will continue along. I don't want want to 83 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.040 get to people. Mark and Muburn. You have been patient, 84 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:23.439 you waited through the news. You're next one. 85 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:23.680 Nice. 86 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.279 I go ahead, Mark, I Dan. I just want to 87 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.680 say you've got the best job on the planet. I 88 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.199 would love to get into that anyway. 89 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:37.279 I got to be honest with me. 90 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.839 You have to learn to listen, and you also have 91 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.399 to know when to try to move the conversation. 92 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.439 So it's, yes, agreed, challenge to it. 93 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.560 There's a challenge, agreed. Well, here's something that might open 94 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.439 up a whole new can of worms to keep the 95 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.560 conversation going, which is what we like. 96 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:56.720 Love it? Yeah, I love it. 97 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.560 Yes. Well, first of all, the big issue is funding. 98 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.839 Where's this money going to come from? And nobody wants 99 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.879 to raise tax revenue. However, there's a lot of text, 100 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.240 there are a lot of subsidies that have already been 101 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.079 given out, and personally, I'm an atheist, so I think 102 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.439 you can see where this is going. I would say 103 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.720 to the churches, if you want to keep your tax 104 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:22.360 exempt status, you use some of your buildings, your basements 105 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:27.000 or whatever and help us with this problem. And it 106 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.759 could actually be a good thing because churches have a 107 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:34.079 fantastic way of getting people into recovery. They can recruit 108 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.920 people for the clergy, and I think another solution might 109 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.560 be people who are well enough to enter into military 110 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.279 service if they can get a special dispensation or whatever 111 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.439 blah blah blah, or another like a city year kind 112 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:49.959 of thing. 113 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:55.800 Well, yeah, you'll say, raise three questions. Okay, respond churches 114 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.959 do a lot of this stuff already. It's to compel 115 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.439 at church. I do think that they you could use 116 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.000 that as a little bit of leverage in terms of 117 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.519 how much the churches. The churches are not taxed and 118 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.759 they do not pay. Even schools are taxed, and and 119 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.319 most schools and universities pay a payment in lieu of taxes, 120 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:22.680 churches are not taxed. 121 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.360 I don't know if you can use that as leverage 122 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:24.959 on churches. 123 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.720 I'm a big fan of removing tax exempt status for 124 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.480 religion because I don't want to subsidize it. 125 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.319 Totally. Get it, totally. 126 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.680 And by the way, the churches do great work in 127 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:39.279 terms of educating people and in terms of hospitals, so 128 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.879 they don't write a check every year. Private institutions do 129 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.160 Harvard and MIT and BU and Northeastern, they will write 130 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.319 a check and they will also do like scholarships. But 131 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.959 but churches are loath to write a check, and they 132 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.480 will point to all the good they do. 133 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:58.480 So that's number one. 134 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:05.000 In terms of the military, the military, they have become 135 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.519 a very professional branch and they do not view their 136 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:14.680 their purpose as social service. And the idea about you know, 137 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.519 the old days, it used to be that someone got 138 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:18.279 in trouble, the kid was eighteen years old, and the 139 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.120 jander say, oh look you're either going to go to jail, 140 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:21.519 you're going to join the military. 141 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:22.800 Absolutely, a kid that the. 142 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:23.759 Military could deal with. 143 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.199 But if you say someone who's drug addicted and say 144 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.360 to the military, we want you to kind of work 145 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.920 with this guy, that's gonna be tough, that's well. 146 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.279 But no, but the but the brain surgeon, the neurosis. 147 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.399 You know, there are going to be some people who 148 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.639 I think could be put into that, pushed in that direction, 149 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.080 who can be become I can't think of the word 150 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.039 right now because I'm cold medication, but you know. 151 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:50.039 It can be rehabilitated. 152 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.080 You mean, yes, yes, absolutely, well. 153 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.080 In terms in terms of the story that Mike told 154 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:57.120 from Lynn, I think that's who you're referring to. 155 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.000 Fantastic story. By the way, well it. 156 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.559 Is a fantastic story. But you have to realize that 157 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.039 one is the person as a lawyer now I speak 158 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.480 to you. One is the is the the person who 159 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.039 claims to reinsurch in telling Mike the truth. 160 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.320 So you have those sorts of but are the people 161 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.320 whose lives fall apart. 162 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:27.360 Sure, yes, absolutely, there are lawyers who end up with 163 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:31.919 alcohol serious alcoholic drug problems. Absolutely absolutely those people can 164 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.879 be rehabilitated. But if you're some fifty year old who's 165 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:39.080 a drug addict at this point and you've been involved 166 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:40.200 with drugs for a. 167 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:44.240 Long time, yeah, well that's why I was thinking something 168 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:48.000 like Peace Corps or City Corps or something in that perspective. 169 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.799 City here, those are all great programs, and if you 170 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:55.039 can find someone who's willing to participate in that program 171 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.559 with some discipline, I think those are all good suggestions. 172 00:09:57.639 --> 00:09:59.960 I mean that I'm not patronizing you here. I think 173 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:00.559 those are all No. 174 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.159 I understand, yeah, I understand it. And I was trying 175 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.240 to think outside the box in ways that will not 176 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:11.960 cause more capital, an extra outlay of public funding, if 177 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.480 you know what I'm saying, use the infrastructure that's already there. 178 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.000 Yeah, and you did think outside the box. And by 179 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.600 the way, the public funding isn't going to be there. 180 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.679 I mean, we're looking we have a trillion a thirty 181 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:28.519 six thirty seven trillion dollar deficit debts, a federal debt, 182 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.200 meaning that's what oh, a deficit is how much money 183 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.559 from year to year. So our federal deficit is maybe 184 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.000 a couple of trillion, but you got to put that 185 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:39.559 on top of the thirty five trillion. 186 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.399 That's why you get to thirty seven. It's like absolutely right, 187 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.679 those credit cards. 188 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.440 And the question is is you know, are we going 189 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.519 to be facing austerity measures like Ireland did a few 190 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.399 years ago. But that's another discussion. For another reason, it 191 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:55.399 is yes, it is. 192 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:57.399 Hey, this is your first. 193 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.720 Time calling, right, No, I've called a few times, and 194 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.519 I under the mistaken impression that I had to come 195 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:06.799 up with something that would solve the problem, not to 196 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.799 keep the discussion going. Now I realize part of your 197 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:15.559 job is keeping this discussion going and introducing new ideas 198 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:18.960 and looking at new perspectives so that the discussion is 199 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.480 continued and even impossibly deepened. 200 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.240 Yeah, well you just helped me. You helped me. 201 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.799 Thank you. Okay, Like I said, I think you've got 202 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.600 the best job on the planet. 203 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.159 Well, let me ask it. I'm just curious. 204 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.240 Okay, sure, I think the best job on the planet, 205 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.320 pot probably is playing center field for the Red Sox 206 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.360 or something. But I have a little past aage. What 207 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:42.759 type of work do you do? You sound like a 208 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.240 really bright guy, well spoken. What sort of work do 209 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:46.279 you do generally. 210 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:51.919 We talked before. I'm a rare coin dealer, Oh right, right, right, yeah, yeah, 211 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.759 I'm a paralegal. I have a degree in English literature. 212 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.120 I've studied history, I've done a little bit of everything 213 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.600 in my fifty eight years, and right now I'm dealing 214 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.600 with rare coins and sports cards have kind of gotten 215 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.480 away from me. You know. 216 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:12.639 The the market oftened, the market what the market is 217 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:17.320 softening because of the economic woes, So your precious metals 218 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.639 and things like that, and coins are much more it's 219 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:22.480 a much more stable market. 220 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:22.879 Yeah. 221 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.679 The coin market fascinates me too, because I'm somebody who 222 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.360 I'm always looking at coins. Even when I find the 223 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.960 weak pennies from nineteen forty three, I get it, and 224 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.360 they're not worth They're worth maybe a nickel maybe, So maybe. 225 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.840 You never know when you're going to find a nineteen 226 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:44.159 fourteen with D penny or nineteen fifty five double dye 227 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.200 or nineteen twenty one. There are a few key dates 228 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.120 even in lower grades that yeah, but. 229 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.080 Guess what, You're gonna spend a lot of time looking. 230 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.000 Okay, well, that's part of the fun of the hobby 231 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.759 you know either that are sitting in front of the 232 00:12:57.799 --> 00:12:58.519 TV right. 233 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:01.960 Thanks Mark, I appreciate your call was great. 234 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.000 A pleasure talking with you right. 235 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.960 Back at you. You could do this job, by the way. 236 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.320 You're you're you would love you to. 237 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.759 I know, I believe me, so don't take my job 238 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:10.960 for me. But but you. 239 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.240 Could do what A DJ in college as well? 240 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:13.840 Well? 241 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:19.440 WRU Union College, Oh, Union College, great in. 242 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.080 The the the the alba mater of Chester. 243 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.759 A Arthur a Arthur. Wow, you get twenty extra points 244 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:28.240 for that. 245 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.759 There are not many talk show hosts of America who 246 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.360 can cite Chester A. Arthur from his statue at Union College. 247 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.000 But and one of the least controversial presidents in the 248 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.559 history of our country. 249 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:42.480 This is true, This is true. 250 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:44.559 But it was a it was an interesting time period 251 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.000 in the eighteen eighties, Oh definitely. 252 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.600 I mean that was right after reconstruction kind of collapsed. 253 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.440 And that's another subject for another time. 254 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.200 Thanks Mark, We talk soon, Okay. I love the call. 255 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.679 I look forward to it. Have a wonderful night. 256 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:57.240 Back at you. 257 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:00.519 Okay, got to take a break. I got Mary. Actually 258 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.120 we've got Mark and Cambridge coming up. I got Karen 259 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.600 out in Wisconsin. I got Manny and Gloucester. I got 260 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:07.679 Mike and Lynn, and I got some room for you 261 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:08.879 if you want to give us a call. 262 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:13.039 Six thirty is the only line open. Coming right back 263 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:13.600 on Nightside. 264 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.440 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 265 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.720 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 266 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.240 Next up is Mark, a different Mark. This one's in Cambridge, 267 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.679 Mark and Cambridge. Next on Nightside. Your thoughts, my friend, 268 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:28.360 go right ahead. 269 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.039 Thank you Dan for taking my call. This is Market 270 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:37.519 Central Square, Cambridge. Yeah, I agree with. I agree with 271 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:43.559 the city councils in blockton YEP and just like Cambridge. 272 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.759 Like I said, I live in Central Square and they 273 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.960 just recently removed the benches from the bus depots because 274 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:54.639 everybody's hanging out there. That's that that is not hitting 275 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:57.840 on MBTA. They're hanging out there. They're doing open market 276 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:58.559 drug use. 277 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:00.559 I mean it, mass. 278 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.080 Let me ask you, Mark, and all you know tell me. 279 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.039 I know you'll tell me the truth. Are you you 280 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.559 know you selling here a young guy? Uh So I'm 281 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.440 asking you. Do you ever feel intimidated as you're walking, 282 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.120 you know, through Central Square at any different time during 283 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:20.960 the day or do these folks just kind of state 284 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.360 to themselves or do they Are they ever intimidating? 285 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.600 Well not to me. I'm a big guy. I'm six 286 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.120 feet two inches three hundred and forty pounds. 287 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.279 You could play for the Patriots, man, you could play 288 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:37.080 for the Patriots. 289 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:39.440 They they were looking for some offensive line. But we 290 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:40.519 could have got you a job. 291 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.480 You know, why why? I just need to get knees. 292 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:45.159 I get too knee placements. 293 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.559 Ie to work out every day. But anyway, just recently, 294 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.399 just Saturday, I I one in my building. I'm frankly star. 295 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:54.399 I went in my building and I'm like, what are 296 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.159 you doing through? I mean, oh, I'm looking for somebody. No, no, no, no, 297 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.720 you trying to take packages. So I in the the 298 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.440 you know, the the sogeant in the Cambridge Police department 299 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.759 which covers Central Square, and he came and escorted them out. 300 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.080 I mean, you don't wear gloves in the summertime, right, 301 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:14.480 I mean, but you know they they defecate there by 302 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:19.360 the management office, they urinate, you know. I mean, it 303 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:23.039 is a problem. I mean, everybody has untold story. I 304 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.440 understand that, I get it, but I mean on this, 305 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.159 I mean, I mean, I think it's a good idea 306 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.440 for Boughton and you know what, they shouldn't acted in Cambridge. 307 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:34.399 I mean I just went down math and cast. Yeah there, 308 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.679 I'm a tow truck try without math and cast, and 309 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.840 they got the jersey value from math and cast back 310 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:43.360 to hand the street, which but with that, they're making 311 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.240 people walk onto men in the cast, which I don't 312 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:51.279 think you should be allowed because I mean, person, it's 313 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:53.159 it's it's it's. 314 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.240 You know, we thought that that had been solved. Remember, 315 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.279 they've been a big show of it. They sent the 316 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.440 police down there one night. They took all of the 317 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:02.799 test out and my understanding, I haven't been back there, 318 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.160 but my understanding is that's pretty much back. 319 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:08.160 All they did was just spread it out. They were 320 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.960 massive casts. The other sweet they're off of massat by 321 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.599 U Haul. They're over there. The women are doing prostitution. 322 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.920 I see this. I'm always in the area anyway. I'm 323 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.839 a tow truck operator, so I'm always doing triple A cars. 324 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.960 I've seen them there. They're there and Cambridges. I mean, 325 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:27.480 at least they have the warming center in Central Square. 326 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.480 But for most people that want to go in, it's 327 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:33.559 that don't want to go in. And when I come 328 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:35.400 home at three o'clock in the morning, they're still out 329 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.160 there by Citizen Bank in Central Square, mass AFT. 330 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:39.680 I mean a few of them. 331 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.079 There's fuel them at the Bank of America. 332 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.640 Shame on, Shame on Cambridge. The cambridge doesn't move them 333 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.799 and say, come on, guys, let's go. It's three o'clock 334 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.400 in the morning. Time to go home. 335 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:51.960 Nope, they don't do it. Nope, absolutely not. 336 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.039 So you're you're a tow truck You're a tow truck driver. 337 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.519 With your size, no one's gonna no one's gonna fight 338 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:58.680 with you when you hook that car. 339 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.880 I assume no, I mean now, and then you get 340 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:03.599 somebody else to argue. But like I said, I do 341 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:05.839 tip away. So I'm not really into the trust pass. 342 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.799 You're not a repo guy. God, you got it right. 343 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.359 Hey, darn listen. I appreciate you taking my car, but 344 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.240 like I said, it is a it's a it's a 345 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.119 it's a it's a country epidemic. It's just everywhere. 346 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:19.480 I mean. 347 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:24.079 But let me tell you, I I I really appreciate 348 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.599 your perspective, and I appreciate you calling my program, and 349 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:28.799 please continue to do so. 350 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.880 Okay, I won't thank you very much, Thank you much. 351 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:32.599 Have a good night. 352 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.920 All right, buddy, all right, let me get Karen in Wisconsin. Karen, 353 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.559 I'm going to get you in here before the news. 354 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:38.359 How are you tonight. 355 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:41.559 I'm fine, very sad. 356 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:46.240 I assume that that has that relates to the election. 357 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:49.759 No, what we're talking about. 358 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.880 It's just okay, good. 359 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.039 Got you. Well, yeah, I'm sad about that. You know, 360 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.880 I can't do two things once. I'm just on your topic. 361 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:05.279 I've said this before, and I was part of it 362 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.039 in the it was the eighties, but there was help, 363 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.319 and the funding was taken away. Now at this point 364 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.440 we've got I don't know where the funding comes from, 365 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:21.640 but you've got to make choices between you know, you've 366 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:26.160 got to fund and help people and build places to 367 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.079 help them, or you've got this problem to deal with. 368 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.400 And this is what you've got. And so I know 369 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:39.519 a woman that in Met State, she drank so bad 370 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:45.480 that her whole jaw was so shut, and they finally 371 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.799 committed her for a year. And the crime was because 372 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.400 she couldn't quit drinking and she was cost you know, 373 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:58.240 she was a liability to herself and everyone else. So 374 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:02.839 there was help then, and now there isn't, and you've 375 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.799 got to make choices, get rid of you know what, 376 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.960 make the bike pass skinnier then and put some funding 377 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.519 into helping because otherwise this is all you've got and 378 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.440 we're just going to argue over what to do with them. 379 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:24.079 You know the problem, that's the problem. 380 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:26.359 The problem is when you make those choices, you say 381 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:27.680 to yourself, Okay. 382 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:34.359 Do we keep pouring money down a hole in the ground. 383 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:38.240 I mean, I don't you know the problem with folks 384 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.720 who have addictions, and I have plenty of friends who 385 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.160 have had addictions and plenty of friends who have those addictions. 386 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.799 You've got to want to do it, and there should 387 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.279 be programs available. But I don't think you can force 388 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:54.519 people to do it. I think people have to come 389 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.559 to that realization themselves. That's been the experience I've had. 390 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:03.000 Well, they do, and they do, but there there comes 391 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:06.720 a point where you can you can lock them up 392 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.279 and put them in you know, and lock them up 393 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.519 and you know, put them in a program by locking 394 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:20.160 them up, and maybe if that goes under vagrancy or 395 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.559 you can I got. 396 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:24.720 No, I get it. 397 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.640 You get the Civil Liberties Union coming in and say 398 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.759 that that law is arbitrary, vague, arbitrary, and capricious, and 399 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.000 they throw some lingo in there and the judge says, yeah, 400 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.519 that law is unconstitutional. 401 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.319