Speaker 1: It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling Easy Boston's radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everyone, and again I want to
Speaker 2: give that number, that long COVID number, one more time.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It doesn't hurt folks to give them a call and
Speaker 2: see what services might be available or what you know,
Speaker 2: what might help you, Uh six one seven five two
Speaker 2: five three six six five one of the things. And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this and not reference uh any criticism,
Speaker 2: but sometimes when you get in a situation where you're
Speaker 2: really debilitated by this horrible, horrible, but it's much better
Speaker 2: to say, Okay, I've told my story, but I want
Speaker 2: to listen because maybe, maybe, just maybe there's someone who
Speaker 2: can provide some help. And Julie Sullivan is great, I think.
Speaker 2: And she sent me more material today than anyone. She
Speaker 2: pull pulled stuff together for me. She was a great guest. Uh,
Speaker 2: answered the questions extraordinarily empathetic. If you've missed the program,
Speaker 2: you may want to just go to Nightside and demand
Speaker 2: tomorrow and listen to the nine o'clock hour. She's the
Speaker 2: program manager. She's been there a long time at the
Speaker 2: COVID Recovery Center in Brigham and Women's Hospital. The phone
Speaker 2: number six one seven five two five three six six five.
Speaker 2: Rob has written that number down. I had people yesterday
Speaker 2: who called me looking for numbers. I had asked that
Speaker 2: Rob write a number down. I'm sure he did, and
Speaker 2: I've got to now get back tomorrow and answer emails
Speaker 2: to people who you know I want to help. One
Speaker 2: of the things I want to do in this program,
Speaker 2: obviously is entertain and inform and all of that, and
Speaker 2: have good conversations. But I also occasionally, or maybe even
Speaker 2: a little more than occasionally, do something that might help.
Speaker 2: We talked about mass energy bills. By the way, I
Speaker 2: got on the phone this morning and I changed my
Speaker 2: energy supplier. Easy, easy to do, and I went from
Speaker 2: paying about twenty five cents a killowatt hour down to
Speaker 2: about twelve and a half cents, basically cut it in half. Now,
Speaker 2: that don't necessarily cut my bill in half, but it will.
Speaker 2: It will save me some money. And I'm in a
Speaker 2: nine month contract with a different company. The lowest rates
Speaker 2: that I found were with a company called Constellation, And
Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I'm not pushing for any
Speaker 2: specific company, but do your research mass energy rates dot com.
Speaker 2: Don't just sit there and pay those big bills. Do
Speaker 2: what you can to and we talked about that last night.
Speaker 2: You need to listen to the two hours last night
Speaker 2: our night sat in Demand if you want. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to replay the hours right now now. In terms
Speaker 2: of an announcement, Rob, we should have had a drum
Speaker 2: roll here or something, but I would like all of
Speaker 2: the night side listeners, and even if you're not a
Speaker 2: nightside listener, to know that every couple of years we
Speaker 2: try to do something that gives night side listeners an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I can meet some of you. Many of you have
Speaker 2: come to know by name over the phone. But we
Speaker 2: did a couple of trips to Polar Park to see
Speaker 2: baseball games. But I thought this year we're going to
Speaker 2: do something different. And here's what we're going to do
Speaker 2: on Sunday. And you may want to make a note
Speaker 2: of this, Okay, and Rob, you know as well as
Speaker 2: I do, if you could note a couple of things
Speaker 2: here in case people call in Sunday April twenty seven,
Speaker 2: that's the Sunday after Easter, April twenty seventh, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: We're going to have a night side brunch at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'm going to run from about eleven to one. However,
Speaker 2: however long you want to stay eleven to one thirty,
Speaker 2: we will be entertained by the Winnaker b ind Bill
Speaker 2: and Bo Winnaker. They have performed at this location for
Speaker 2: about ten months and they tell me it is a
Speaker 2: fabulous restaurant. It is called Neroli n E R O
Speaker 2: l I. They have a brunch option. If you want
Speaker 2: to go all in and have brunch with us, that's great.
Speaker 2: They also have a separate breakfast menu and a lunch menu,
Speaker 2: so if you just want to have something simple, something
Speaker 2: simple pancakes, not going to break the bank. That no,
Speaker 2: will the brunch break the bank, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is really a great place. I've not
Speaker 2: been there, but I trust Bill Winnaker implicitly. They also
Speaker 2: have a lunch menu, so if you sell me said,
Speaker 2: oh my noom time, eleven o'clock, eleven thirty, I want
Speaker 2: a hamburger, they got they got that on the menu
Speaker 2: as well. Here there's the number you need to call
Speaker 2: to make reservations. Okay, and please don't make a reservation
Speaker 2: unless you intend to come, because it's a big location.
Speaker 2: But our area will be relatively small, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: it reminds you that when you make your reservation, tell
Speaker 2: them you want to be sitting in my section, in
Speaker 2: the Dan Ray section. Simple as that. That way we'll
Speaker 2: get a chance to meet everybody, take some selfies, just
Speaker 2: have some fun. The number to make the reservations add
Speaker 2: at the restaurant are seven eight to one three, seven
Speaker 2: five two, five nine four. I give that number again
Speaker 2: in one more time here and a little bit later
Speaker 2: on as well. Seven eight one three, seven five two
Speaker 2: five nine four. This restaurant is on Route one A
Speaker 2: in Westwood, two eighty two Washington Street. A lot of parking,
Speaker 2: big parking lot behind the restaurant, free on street parking,
Speaker 2: so easy to get to, easy to find. The reservations
Speaker 2: need to be made as soon as possible if you
Speaker 2: want to join us. Seven eight one three seven five
Speaker 2: two five nine four. There's no price for the entertainment.
Speaker 2: There's no cover charge. It's just we'll all have breakfast.
Speaker 2: Maybe you'll have brunch and I'll have breakfast, and someone
Speaker 2: else will has a couple of hamburgers. Whatever. Rob you
Speaker 2: got that number. Seven eight one three, seven five two
Speaker 2: five nine four The restaurant is Neuroli n E ro
Speaker 2: o l I. It's an Italian restaurant, which of course
Speaker 2: is tops in my books. Anyway, Sunday, April twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty five, a little over a month from now,
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock, looking forward to meeting as many people.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be a nightside listener to come.
Speaker 2: You can bring your friends, uh. And I believe that
Speaker 2: our producer Lightning aka Marida will join us. I think
Speaker 2: she will be there. I don't know if Rob is
Speaker 2: going to venture down from north of Boston, but certainly
Speaker 2: we'd love to have him come down as well, and
Speaker 2: love to have as many of it there as possible.
Speaker 2: The capacity is immense. I mean, we could have one
Speaker 2: hundred people there easily, and by the way, we could
Speaker 2: have a hundred people by within a week, and once
Speaker 2: those reservations close off, that's it. They haven't limited us yet,
Speaker 2: but I would. I made my reservations today, doctor Good, Seriously,
Speaker 2: trust me, I did. All right, let's move on here
Speaker 2: to the matters at hand. Big story out of New
Speaker 2: Hampshire today. Now some of you might have missed it,
Speaker 2: and if you did, of course, My job is to
Speaker 2: make sure that you're up to date on what's going on.
Speaker 2: The senior senator, I think she is the senior Senator
Speaker 2: from New Hampshire. Former New Hampshire Governor Jean Shaheen announced
Speaker 2: today that she will not seek re election. Now, what
Speaker 2: makes that interesting, Well, what makes it interesting is New
Speaker 2: Hampshire is so it's called the Purple State. It currently
Speaker 2: is represented by two Democratic senators and two members of
Speaker 2: the House Democrats, so all four members of the congressional
Speaker 2: delegation are Democrats. Chris Pappus is a congressman in the south,
Speaker 2: Maggie Goodlander is a congressman in sort of the district
Speaker 2: is kind of cut down the middle, but there's really
Speaker 2: kind of a southeast district in a northwest district in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. And the two senators out there, Maggie Hassen
Speaker 2: and Jean Shaheen. Now, Sahen announced today that she has decided,
Speaker 2: which she has every right to do. She's going to
Speaker 2: serve out her term to twenty twenty six. But that
Speaker 2: will be an open set. And let's listen to a
Speaker 2: little bit of this. Rob Let's go first to twenty
Speaker 2: three A.
Speaker 4: To my remarkable and dedicated staff, and to all those
Speaker 4: who have partnered with us over the years.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Together we have made a difference. Above all, thanks to
Speaker 4: my family who have always been by my side, to
Speaker 4: my husband Billy, who's been there through good times and bad,
Speaker 4: our daughters Stephanie, Stacy and Molly, our sons in law Craig,
Speaker 4: Ryan and Hugh, and our seven wonderful grandchildren. They're the best.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks very much. She talks about urgent challenges, but
Speaker 2: she's not going to be there, and this is her
Speaker 2: comment at twenty three, b Rob.
Speaker 4: There are urgent challenges ahead, both here at home and
Speaker 4: around the world. And while I'm not seeking reelection, believe me,
Speaker 4: I am not retiring. I am determined to work every
Speaker 4: day over the next two years and beyond to continue
Speaker 4: to try and make a difference for the people of
Speaker 4: New hamp sure in this country. I hope you'll join
Speaker 4: me in that effort.
Speaker 2: Shehen, of course the former governor of New Hampshire, as
Speaker 2: was Maggie Hassen Kelly aot. The current governor used to
Speaker 2: be a US Senator. So it's sort of a small
Speaker 2: pool that New Hampshire residents seem to rely upon both
Speaker 2: for their state leadership as governor and their congressional leadership
Speaker 2: in the Senate and in the House. She of course
Speaker 2: a well written statement. I don't think this comes as
Speaker 2: a stunning surprise, but it does change the landscape in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. We're going to talk about that. This is
Speaker 2: her The last bite I will play from Jean Shaheen tonight,
Speaker 2: Senator Jean Shaheen at cut twenty three c rob.
Speaker 4: From the bottom of my heart, thank you New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: Listening to your stories, being your champion, working with you
Speaker 4: on the tough fights has been the honor of a lifetime,
Speaker 4: and we'll keep at it.
Speaker 2: By the way, for those of you who are listening
Speaker 2: and don't know New Hampshire, New Hampshire is a really
Speaker 2: neat state. I mean it's a rural state in many respects.
Speaker 2: It's got a big suburban tier in the southern part
Speaker 2: of the state south of Manchester, and it has some
Speaker 2: pretty big, good sized cities in terms of a state
Speaker 2: the size of New Hampshire, Manchester and Portsmouth Salem conquered.
Speaker 2: It is a winter wonderland. It is a well run state.
Speaker 2: Democratic governors Republican governors have done a great job up
Speaker 2: there over time, and they deserve a great replacement for
Speaker 2: Jean Shaheen. And that's what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from as many of you as possible,
Speaker 2: because the US Senate right now is fifty three to
Speaker 2: forty seven Republican, and that is a Senate that will
Speaker 2: be in play in the twenty twenty sixth election. The
Speaker 2: Republicans have an advantage obviously at this point they have
Speaker 2: an advantage of six three, but fifty three forty seven.
Speaker 2: There are already two other Democrats who have said they
Speaker 2: are giving up their seats. This could be a year
Speaker 2: for the Republicans, and of course it all depend in
Speaker 2: large part upon how Donald Trump is doing. It could
Speaker 2: be a year where the Republicans to open up their
Speaker 2: lead and perhaps have the largest lead in the Senate
Speaker 2: in many many years, again especially with three Democratic senators
Speaker 2: now retiring, including Shahem or or conversely, it could go
Speaker 2: the other way. I want to talk to you about
Speaker 2: who you think should run up there on both sides,
Speaker 2: Republican and Democrat. And also for those of you in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts who pretty much realize that it doesn't make much
Speaker 2: of an effort here in Massachusetts, the Democrats tend to win.
Speaker 2: This is a play a way in which you could
Speaker 2: have a tremendous impact, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican,
Speaker 2: got in New Hampshire and campaign for whoever's running for
Speaker 2: Senate up in New Hampshire. Let me tell you that
Speaker 2: is a great opportunity. With that said, I'm going to
Speaker 2: open up the phone line six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten
Speaker 2: thirty if you're from New Hampshire and you want to
Speaker 2: flow a name, maybe a name that has been thought of,
Speaker 2: maybe a name that hasn't been thought of. That's great.
Speaker 2: On the Republican side, there are two major candidates who
Speaker 2: could run. Former Governor Christan Unu I think would be
Speaker 2: the odds on favorite if he were in He's been
Speaker 2: elected four times up there as governor, his brother was
Speaker 2: a US Senator from up there, from in New Hampshire,
Speaker 2: and of course his dad before him had been the
Speaker 2: governor of New Hampshire. And Christan Uno has just finished
Speaker 2: eight years as governor and it did a great job
Speaker 2: as governor. I think the best governor in the country
Speaker 2: in my opinion. UH Scott, former Massachusetts senator is in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Uh he has run once. Uh he in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: won a special election, then lost to Elizabeth Warren in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, and lost in New Hampshire when he took
Speaker 2: on Maggie Hassen again. I think it would be Chris
Speaker 2: Sunhu's race if he wants it, but there may be others,
Speaker 2: so join the conversation. Six one, seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: to ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I get excited about this because what this means is
Speaker 2: that New Hampshire, Little old New Hampshire maybe is no
Speaker 2: longer a presidential battleground state, but it's maybe one of
Speaker 2: zap ground zero for the twenty twenty six Senate races.
Speaker 2: Every year, every two years, a third of the US
Speaker 2: Senate turns over. We'll be back on nightside. Let's talk
Speaker 2: some politics. Want to hear from you in New Hampshire
Speaker 2: who you would like to see in the Senate to
Speaker 2: represent your interest with coming back on nightside.
Speaker 1: Back to Dan ray Line from the Window World night
Speaker 1: Side Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what folks think about uh this race.
Speaker 2: I mean this, this will be a very closely watched
Speaker 2: national race in twenty twenty six. No presidential race in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, but a watted stake. Christine is in Denham, Massachusetts. Christine,
Speaker 2: what's your thoughts on what's going on up in New Hampshire?
Speaker 2: And it's going to get interesting.
Speaker 6: It's going to get interesting. I think Scott Brown is
Speaker 6: going to put his foot in the door off.
Speaker 3: Really do well?
Speaker 2: Do you think you think that he would he would
Speaker 2: challenge Sonunu if Snunu decided he wanted the first.
Speaker 6: Shot at Yeah, definitely. I think Scott Brown's on the
Speaker 6: wall to be to run the president too, I really do.
Speaker 2: He's got a few guys between them, one guy in
Speaker 2: his name, assuming that Donald Trump gets uh, has a
Speaker 2: good four years uh. I think J. D. Vance Was
Speaker 2: would probably have some thoughts about that. Christine, I don't know, so,
Speaker 2: so tell tell me what why do you think Scott
Speaker 2: Brown should be the Republican nominee? If he you know,
Speaker 2: obviously there are others I don't I like. I.
Speaker 6: I just think he's trying to get himself in there
Speaker 6: and then he's going to run the president. That's my
Speaker 6: I think, And I don't know, well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see. Uh, it's I think it's a long
Speaker 2: way to go for Scott Brown, having lost two Senate races,
Speaker 2: one in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire. But if
Speaker 2: you were to if if Governor Sonunu, who I think
Speaker 2: uh might be offered a fairly significant contract by any
Speaker 2: of a number of the major television networks, he may
Speaker 2: look at that and say, hey, that's a path.
Speaker 3: He just.
Speaker 2: Sununu just turned fifty in last November. He actually turned
Speaker 2: fifty on election day, November fifth, ironically, remember talking to
Speaker 2: him about that that night. Scott is a little older.
Speaker 2: Scott is in his early sixties by a young guy. Nonetheless, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I don't know. You know, it will be It
Speaker 2: will be interesting. I'll tell you this. It gives Republicans
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts and Democrats in Massachusetts, you know, a real
Speaker 2: race that may have national impact to go spend some
Speaker 2: time in New Hampshire campaigning for whoever, for the D
Speaker 2: O the R whoever they prefer. Think upon it? You know, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: You never know, Steve, Thanks thanks for checking in. I
Speaker 2: got you down as Scott Brown and you think he
Speaker 2: might run for president? Hey, I didn't think Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was gonna run, and then I didn't think he could win,
Speaker 2: So I'm no expert. Thanks Christine. Thanks so yeah.
Speaker 6: Next door to the restaurant, they have a like like
Speaker 6: I'll take out two like shandwiches and wood to go
Speaker 6: when they have a dollar Cassen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hearing great things. I'm hearing great things about
Speaker 2: the restaurant, and we're looking looking forward to April twenty seventh.
Speaker 2: I hope you're gonna be there, get a chance to
Speaker 2: meet you and a whole bunch of other nightside listeners.
Speaker 6: And the Muffin House is right next to her.
Speaker 5: Also.
Speaker 2: Oh man, now I'm gonna blow my diere totally in
Speaker 2: that day. Thanks Christine. It sounds too tempting, right, Thanks
Speaker 2: so much. Bye bye, talk to you soon. I'll see
Speaker 2: you on the I hope to see you on the
Speaker 2: twenty seventh.
Speaker 6: Definitely, I'm going to try to go great.
Speaker 2: Okay, make sure you get that reservation in though, because
Speaker 2: and make sure that you're in our section. Okay. Thanks,
Speaker 2: Thanks Christine.
Speaker 6: Talk to you le okay, Hie, Ralph, thank you. Okay.
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm looking for maybe a couple of
Speaker 2: predictions here. From folks in New Hampshire. Brownie in New
Speaker 2: Hampshire joins us on the other side. But who do
Speaker 2: you like up there? Jean Jaheenes stepping away? She'll continue
Speaker 2: as Senator for another twenty months or whatever is left
Speaker 2: in her twenty two months, Yeah, because she would be
Speaker 2: Senator until January of twenty seven, so she's got almost
Speaker 2: two years left. Scott Brown Christinunu on the Republican side,
Speaker 2: If there's another Republican let me know. I don't think
Speaker 2: that Kelly Ayot, who was in the Senate and is
Speaker 2: now the governor, just elected governor, would be interested in
Speaker 2: going back to the Senate. I think there is always
Speaker 2: that sort of been there, done that attitude, and she's
Speaker 2: going to have to do a good job as governor,
Speaker 2: and most govern want to stand for reelection. It's a
Speaker 2: two year term up there, which makes it difficult because
Speaker 2: they're always running for election or who On the Democratic side,
Speaker 2: I'm not as familiar. I certainly know about Congressman PAPIs,
Speaker 2: and I have heard about the other member of Congress
Speaker 2: up there. For a long time there was some Democratic
Speaker 2: members of Congress and they either were upset or or
Speaker 2: resigned that so there's they're both teams, both the Republicans,
Speaker 2: the r's and the d's actually have legitimate candidates up there,
Speaker 2: which makes it so interesting. In a state that could
Speaker 2: go either way, New Hampshi is considered a purple state,
Speaker 2: neither red nor blue. Purple. You have the numbers, I
Speaker 2: got some wide open lines here. Where are my political
Speaker 2: analysts six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six,
Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. I'd love to
Speaker 2: talk about this until at least eleven o'clock. If you know,
Speaker 2: we'll find something else. But this, to me is the
Speaker 2: most exciting story that I know that w b Z
Speaker 2: covered a lot. It was a lead story on at
Speaker 2: least two of the news stations during the day, if
Speaker 2: not at night. Join the conversation. Be right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, man, I'm telling you I want to hear
Speaker 2: from some folks up in New Hampshire an open United
Speaker 2: States Senate seat in twenty twenty six. I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be fun. Let me go to Bernie, who is
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. Bernie, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm well you'reself, Dad, great.
Speaker 2: Are you surprised that Senator shehen? Now again, she's getting
Speaker 2: along in years a little bit, so she obviously has
Speaker 2: some grandchildren she wants to pay attention to. But are
Speaker 2: you surprised tough to give up a Senate seat, don't
Speaker 2: you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, I was very surprised that she gave it up.
Speaker 3: I mean, she did a job for a Democrat, and
Speaker 3: you know what, she did the best she could. And
Speaker 3: I just like, I agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be Chris Sun. I think
Speaker 3: he understands national politics. He knows how to be a
Speaker 3: national politician. He did a great job as governor. I mean,
Speaker 3: he really grew to state and he understands them wants
Speaker 3: and needs of the of his constituency. And I think
Speaker 3: Kelly Aot's going to do a good job replacing him
Speaker 3: in that part. But as far as senator being a senator,
Speaker 3: he comes from a political family. I believe his father
Speaker 3: was a chief of staff, wasn't he.
Speaker 2: Oh? His dad former Governor Johnson, who was George Bush's
Speaker 2: chief of staff at the White House, and then John
Speaker 2: s New's son, John his namesake son was the United
Speaker 2: States senator for I believe two terms up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: I happened to have been with christ Sinunus Saturday night,
Speaker 2: ironically at a dinner in Boston, and we talked quite
Speaker 2: a bit, uh, And it's pretty clear to me that
Speaker 2: he's got a lot of options. I think that he's
Speaker 2: being pursued by some of the national media uh outfits.
Speaker 2: They you know, he's he's he's a guy who's humorous,
Speaker 2: he's funny. Listen to him give a tremendous speech on
Speaker 2: Saturday night. He he's very quick, you know, he's he's sharp.
Speaker 2: He's a sharp m I T graduate and and engineering.
Speaker 2: I mean that's you know, he's he's he's a he's
Speaker 2: a really smart guy. Did a good job as governor. Now,
Speaker 2: he did say, uh that he really wasn't interested in
Speaker 2: going to Washington when he was asked about a potential
Speaker 2: run for senate, uh and be be a what he
Speaker 2: called the backseater, meaning that he likes to be a leader.
Speaker 2: But I think that again, if you know, he probably
Speaker 2: would make much more money with a television contract than
Speaker 2: he would as a United States senator. But he's still young.
Speaker 2: He's fifty years of age he could be elected if
Speaker 2: he were to choose to run, he could be elected
Speaker 2: three times to the Senate. He could serve eighteen years
Speaker 2: in the Senate and be merely seventy years of age,
Speaker 2: which by most Senate US Senate standards is young when
Speaker 2: you look at the Mitch McConnell's and the Ed Markey's
Speaker 2: and the Elizabeth Warrens of the world. I mean, he'd
Speaker 2: be like a kid. But again, I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be up to the voters in New Hampshire. You
Speaker 2: got four federal you know, you have two members of
Speaker 2: Congress right now who are Democrats, and you have two
Speaker 2: US Senators, Shaheen and Hassen, both former governors. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be a battle, and I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna make New Hampshire. Normally New Hampshire is the focus
Speaker 2: of a presidential primary in the in the months of
Speaker 2: January and February, New Hampshire is gonna be in the
Speaker 2: middle of a spotlight and as a battleground state to
Speaker 2: control the US Senate. How exciting is that. I think
Speaker 2: it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. And the
Speaker 3: thing is he's he's gonna represent New Hampshire, which is
Speaker 3: like it's a great state, as you said, it's it's
Speaker 3: a really good state. And a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of the voters in New Hampshire, as you said, I'm
Speaker 3: in the southern part of the state because of the
Speaker 3: most populous cities that a lot of them are transplanted
Speaker 3: for mass And the say in this yere was, don't
Speaker 3: masch up in New Hampshire. But I believe Sanunu can
Speaker 3: play the game and not the game. But he knows
Speaker 3: politics and and you know what, I'm a Trump supporter,
Speaker 3: as you well know, and I believe Chrisnunu understands like
Speaker 3: military in all the issues, the worldwide issues, and I think,
Speaker 3: you know, he may be the guy that stands up
Speaker 3: to Trump on some of these things where Trump goes overboard.
Speaker 3: Although it's hard to stand up to Trump. I understand that,
Speaker 3: and I agree with a lot of stuff Trump's storm,
Speaker 3: But right now I don't see the whole big picture
Speaker 3: with him. But I think Snunu could be a voice
Speaker 3: of reason in that whole thing. Well.
Speaker 2: The thing that makes Sonnu particularly attractive, and it also
Speaker 2: makes Scott Brown attractive, and that they are Republicans but
Speaker 2: they're not doctrinaire Republicans, and I think that, you know,
Speaker 2: Governor Sanunu or Scott Brown would represent the interest of
Speaker 2: New Hampshire and if they had to disagree with the President.
Speaker 2: I was surprised that I believe that President Trump still
Speaker 2: has a line of communication open to Chris Snunu. They
Speaker 2: they they talk periodically and even if you disagree, if
Speaker 2: you're Donald Trump, you have to and you talk to
Speaker 2: Christan Una, realize you're talking to a pretty smart guy.
Speaker 2: He may disagree with President Trump on some things, but
Speaker 2: he's a smart guy. And any political party in America
Speaker 2: this day needs smart people, and both Scott Brown and
Speaker 2: Kristan Unu are smart people and that could be very
Speaker 2: advantageous and neither one of them, you know, the Republicans
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire sometimes end up picking someone who's a
Speaker 2: little further to the right of where New Hampshire is.
Speaker 2: New Hampshire's a purple state. It's not a rock rib
Speaker 2: Republican state like it used to be. But it just
Speaker 2: elected a Republican governor, re elected, re elected a woman
Speaker 2: who had been a senator. Now she's a governor. Christan
Speaker 2: Unho was the governor. Maybe he's going to go back
Speaker 2: to the Senate. We're going to see, that's for sure. Bernie,
Speaker 2: appreciate you call, as we always real quick.
Speaker 3: Then thanks for let me speak. My wife and my
Speaker 3: son's twin sister and I were going down atap my
Speaker 3: son out. He's going to be a US soldier next week.
Speaker 3: We're very powder of him. And if anyone's pout of
Speaker 3: whether your son's a lawyer or a doctor, or a
Speaker 3: factory worker or an engineer, nobody's ever better as pout
Speaker 3: as I have of my son becoming a US soldier.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this. That's something you have in
Speaker 2: common with Kristinnu. He has a twenty year old son
Speaker 2: who is now a US Marine. You know a lot
Speaker 2: of times you think about, you know, the children of politicians.
Speaker 2: Apparently his son said, hey, dad, you know I'd rather
Speaker 2: go and uh and give back to the country and
Speaker 2: spend some time as a US Marine as a helicopter pilot.
Speaker 2: So he's he's a pretty bright kid. I'm sure there
Speaker 2: was he could have gone just about an ecology he wanted.
Speaker 2: So gives you a little insight into the Sonunu family,
Speaker 2: which I think people need to understand. And your son
Speaker 2: is right in the same category as Christ's son here.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure your son had plenty of options
Speaker 2: in front of him. He owes the military. What's he
Speaker 2: what's the boot camp? Is you go down to boot camp? Graduation?
Speaker 2: Is that what's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah? We'll go to Fort Jackson, then he goes to
Speaker 3: ai T, then he goes to Fort Benning.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's he's the US Army. Is he looking
Speaker 2: to become a US Army ranger by any chance?
Speaker 3: If he's a ranger? Yeah, we talked about this the
Speaker 3: first week when he went to boot camp with my
Speaker 3: wife was all the story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's he
Speaker 3: was the un h and he chose to be an
Speaker 3: Army ranger, he said. And what he told my wife's
Speaker 3: surday was he says, mom, there's two models the rangers.
Speaker 3: One the women is lead the rangers, lead the way,
Speaker 3: and the other one is sore spante. And that's why
Speaker 3: I want to be a ranger. All right, all right,
Speaker 3: thank you, Den.
Speaker 2: You should be very proud of your son. Please say
Speaker 2: HI to him for all of us. Okay, congratulated for
Speaker 2: all of us.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bernie talk to you. We'll take quick break, a
Speaker 2: couple of calls on the other other side. I'd like
Speaker 2: more calls six one seven, two thirty one line there,
Speaker 2: six one seven. I get excited about what I think
Speaker 2: will be a really good US Senate race in our backyard.
Speaker 2: That's what excites me about it. Uh. And I think
Speaker 2: the Democrats will put someone up. They got a couple
Speaker 2: of congress people up there who could easily stand for
Speaker 2: move moving up if you will. You know, COEQ will
Speaker 2: just something of the House of the House and Senate.
Speaker 2: But look, most House members always also aspired being in
Speaker 2: the Senate. We'll see what happens. I'm here for the
Speaker 2: next hour fifteen minutes, and if you're not interested in
Speaker 2: talking about that, we can move on. But I love
Speaker 2: this topic. I'm a political guy. I think most of
Speaker 2: you are as well, and this is a race that
Speaker 2: is just beginning to form. Love to get your impression.
Speaker 2: Coming back on Nightside.
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Speaker 2: I've got to get all my clocks in order. Here.
Speaker 2: Rob has the big clock in the studio. Let's go
Speaker 2: next to one of my favorite call is Laurie from Idaho.
Speaker 2: Lauria A. Youre going to come back here and join
Speaker 2: us for the big brunch on April twenty seventh. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try. I'm doing well, except that that green
Speaker 5: glog commercial just as that made me hurt. That's so disgusting.
Speaker 2: But the green block I missed it. I sometimes believe.
Speaker 5: You're talking about a fog drain and he's talking about it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. Anyway, moving on, they try to catch
Speaker 2: your attention, and obviously they succeeded with you. Not maybe
Speaker 2: for the right reason, but no twentyth thing. I know
Speaker 2: that you were originally from New Hampshire, right, so you
Speaker 2: got some of some hometown on the line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, what do you say? This is so exciting? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm very excited, you know, And I love Kristin and
Speaker 5: who and I don't. I would be very very surprised
Speaker 5: if he did this. I mean, he's he's said all
Speaker 5: along he wants to, you know, back in the family
Speaker 5: life and give us this other stuff, and he doesn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, can you.
Speaker 5: Imagine who's sitting in senate meeting. He's going to be
Speaker 5: like that kid in fourth grade that's got ants in
Speaker 5: his pants, So I think he's he's not he's not
Speaker 5: cut out for Washington just yet until he runs for president.
Speaker 5: But I do like Scott Brown, so that might be interesting.
Speaker 2: Well. I think that they are both would be formidable candidates.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that I was at a dinner
Speaker 2: with full M Governor Snunu and I have I have
Speaker 2: an email here from I'm not going to identify who
Speaker 2: it is, but a good friend of mine, Chrisnu should
Speaker 2: seriously consider running for Shaheen's seat because he would win.
Speaker 2: How far he goes after he wins, after he wins,
Speaker 2: is anybody's guests. That's a friend of mine who thinks
Speaker 2: that he's a presidential timber uh, I absolutely, well, Again,
Speaker 2: he has the disadvantage of coming out of a small state. Bye.
Speaker 2: He is very smart. He's young. He's only fifty. Turned
Speaker 2: fifty on election day, ironically, November this past November fifth.
Speaker 2: I interviewed him that night and we talked about he
Speaker 2: had turned fifty. It was like wow, but he that
Speaker 2: I watched. I watched him give a speech in Boston
Speaker 2: on Saturday night. He was incredible. It was it was
Speaker 2: off his top of his head. He was funny, he
Speaker 2: was engaging, he was entertaining. He had the audience on
Speaker 2: the palm of his hand, and he didn't he didn't
Speaker 2: go really hardcore political on it. I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 2: like he was up there trying to, you know, preach
Speaker 2: New Hampshire over Massachusetts, or he's he went to school
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. What was he talking about your Republicans over Democrats.
Speaker 2: It was it was humorous, it was funny, it was entertaining.
Speaker 2: It was exactly what it should be. And I think
Speaker 2: we need more of that in politics, as opposed to
Speaker 2: people like Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell, who, yeah, they
Speaker 2: just drone on and on. You know, if it's if
Speaker 2: it's McConnell, you don't know when he's gonna stop speaking
Speaker 2: or when he's gonna start speaking. And if it's Schumer,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like, we will win, we will win.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know those guys well, and they're not
Speaker 2: the only ones in the in the U S. And
Speaker 2: and get them some B twelve shots or something. I
Speaker 2: don't know. They just well, term limits would be wonderful.
Speaker 2: I agree with that, but no, it's it's none of
Speaker 2: them are going to vote in favor of something that's
Speaker 2: going to end their ability to to stay at the
Speaker 2: at the troth. Now, Christinn, who is the type of
Speaker 2: guy who would I think again, he's shown he could
Speaker 2: win in New Hampshire. Uh, you know, Scott Brown has
Speaker 2: yet to shown he shown he could win. He ran
Speaker 2: one race in Austin. You know, they labeled him a
Speaker 2: carpetbag her and all of that, you know, garbage job.
Speaker 5: But I fo Christian who would win?
Speaker 2: But that's right, No one's going to label christ and
Speaker 2: who do that? And I think he has an appeal
Speaker 2: to moderates. And I'll tell you the Republicans need to
Speaker 2: need to get some representative representation either in the center
Speaker 2: of Howison, New Hampshire. They're a purple state with the
Speaker 2: entire their entire delegation. I mean, we could be if
Speaker 2: Susan Collins loses next year and she's up for election,
Speaker 2: she could be a Republican loss and that would be
Speaker 2: the I think the last ouch. Yeah, well, the last
Speaker 2: Republican senator. I think there's one congressman who's still a
Speaker 2: Republican from northern Maine. But I mean, come on, do
Speaker 2: we want to turn New England into Massachusetts a one
Speaker 2: party revision. Ever, wonder I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 5: You know, Well, so the election isn't until twenty six, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, this plenty of time. But I would assume that.
Speaker 5: Time to live his little fun life after his governorship
Speaker 5: and go out and do and maybe he'll he'll read.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think if he runs, he'll win. I
Speaker 5: just don't know if his the way his life is,
Speaker 5: you know, if he wants a little more freedom for
Speaker 5: a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, if I was Kristan Unhu, and I'm not,
Speaker 2: but if I were Christiana, I'd love to be fifty
Speaker 2: years of agent Kristan Unhu. He should have spent today
Speaker 2: calling the hundred most influential Republicans in New Hampshire and saying, look,
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm going to do, but i'd
Speaker 2: ask you to stand down until I make my decision.
Speaker 2: And I think you have that conversation with one hundred
Speaker 2: influential people in your party, and all of them, I
Speaker 2: suspect are going to say, you know, look fine with me,
Speaker 2: no need to make a decision now. And if I
Speaker 2: decide to go off and become a network commentator, he's
Speaker 2: done a lot on CNN, as you know that's a possibility,
Speaker 2: or I've decided then I'm going to make a run
Speaker 2: for this. I mean, he's in the person.
Speaker 5: He's also so brighton so is he that that that
Speaker 5: commentary thing might get a little old for him after
Speaker 5: a while and he might want to do something else.
Speaker 2: Well, there would be when you talk about travel, this
Speaker 2: is much travel involved in that. Because I got to
Speaker 2: tell you, Yeah, the networks, you know CNN and I
Speaker 2: don't think Fox would. Fox doesn't need them. They have
Speaker 2: all the Republicans they need. Uh, CNN needs them. I
Speaker 2: don't know that he would go to MSNBC. He might
Speaker 2: go to a NBC, ABC, U CBS. They have Sunday
Speaker 2: morning shows. He has plenty of options, including running for
Speaker 2: the US Senate. Not bad when you're fifty years of
Speaker 2: age to have those options. Most of us at the
Speaker 2: age of fifty saying how much do I have to?
Speaker 2: When can I take Social Security? That's not the furthest
Speaker 2: thing from his mind, that's for sure. How's the weather
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 3: In exciting?
Speaker 2: Would you get today? We're going to get over the weekend,
Speaker 2: So tell us what our weather forecast will be for
Speaker 2: the upcoming weekend.
Speaker 5: Today we've had rain and anywhere like forty one to
Speaker 5: thirty nine degrees, and it's supposed to rain for the
Speaker 5: next three days and then there might be some snow
Speaker 5: with no accumulation in three days. And Jim bersons in
Speaker 5: the forties and the forties and the forties, it's very.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. Here, here's the deal. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to get rain. All the weather fore casters that I
Speaker 2: watched tonight said over the weekend, Saturday into Sunday and
Speaker 2: maybe into Monday. So that's exactly what it is. What
Speaker 2: you have today, We're going to get by the by
Speaker 2: the weekend.
Speaker 1: So simple, you got it.
Speaker 2: Laurie is always thank you so much for checking in.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, good night, thank you, have a great night, Laurie.
Speaker 2: Good night. Okay, here's what we're going to do. I
Speaker 2: could see that there wasn't much interest in that race,
Speaker 2: even though I loved it, and I want to thank Christine,
Speaker 2: Bernie and Laurie who took the time to call. I
Speaker 2: love talking politics, and I love talking politics where there's
Speaker 2: a number of options. This is not like you know,
Speaker 2: I hate Donald Trump or I hate the Democrats. This
Speaker 2: is like we're talking options, and so we will leave
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Speaker 8: The top Senate Democrats as Republicans have eschewed by partisanship
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Speaker 8: But even if Republicans in the Senate were interested, the
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