Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ Costin's Radio.
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Speaker 2: will have a ball. We are talking this hour about
Speaker 2: the state of New Hampshire, which is now seriously considering
Speaker 2: getting rid of their annual automobile automobile inspections, not for
Speaker 2: commercial vehicles but for privately owned cars and trucks. And
Speaker 2: we're going to go to Alaska to Joan in Alaska.
Speaker 3: Hi, Joan, how are you Tidan Wurnderful? We don't have
Speaker 3: any sunshines up here?
Speaker 2: But Joe, do you have any sunshine up there? Yet?
Speaker 2: We do?
Speaker 3: The lue will set tonight at about ninety five.
Speaker 2: Wow. I know so well second you I thought you
Speaker 2: would be just I didn't really I know that you're
Speaker 2: going to get to like the twenty four hour sunshine.
Speaker 2: I guess it's in June. I guess, so what time
Speaker 2: does it rise tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's up early. Probably it gets it gets light by.
Speaker 4: About six o'clock, so we're.
Speaker 3: On the manic. Let's get busy. Everybody is happy, but
Speaker 3: I haven't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Do you have vehicle inspections? You know, private cars?
Speaker 3: No, we don't. No, we don't.
Speaker 2: Think so it's a great.
Speaker 3: I remember them well, and I remember the I remember
Speaker 3: them well in Cambridge and people would go to little
Speaker 3: shops that didn't really check and slam the sticker on
Speaker 3: my windshield, and so I never really trusted them anyway.
Speaker 3: But the reason I'm calling, I'm sorry the Red Sox lost.
Speaker 3: But did you get the body? I know? Did you
Speaker 3: see the national anthem?
Speaker 2: I didn't? Is there something? Well?
Speaker 3: Yes, I live in Eagle River, Alaska, and the national
Speaker 3: anthem today was sung by the Jugiac High School choir
Speaker 3: from Eagle River.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great? So they probably at spring break and
Speaker 2: they came to Boston.
Speaker 3: No they're not. I don't. In fact, my sister Rosemary
Speaker 3: and West Roxbury was asking me how they even afforded
Speaker 3: to make the trip, and I don't know. I just
Speaker 3: found out that they were doing it when I woke
Speaker 3: up this morning and saw a post on Facebook. And
Speaker 3: they did a phenomenal job. They were amazed group. How
Speaker 3: big a group is well, probably, i'd say, looking at
Speaker 3: the group off the top of my head, probably twenty students.
Speaker 2: So how did you see it? Do you get the
Speaker 2: Red Sox games up there?
Speaker 3: Well, of course we can if we choose to, but no,
Speaker 3: it was the school district. The school district here in
Speaker 3: Anchorage posted that they were going to be performing at
Speaker 3: Fenway and I was just blown away. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: in a small town outside of Anchorage. It's probably thirty
Speaker 3: thirty five thousand people that live here, and it was
Speaker 3: I mean, I cried when I saw it.
Speaker 2: It was just so did they have it on local TV?
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering how you saw it.
Speaker 3: I saw it because they posted back on Facebook after
Speaker 3: they did it. Oh, so I guess the other reason
Speaker 3: I'm The other reason I'm calling is I would like
Speaker 3: to send you the links so you can see it.
Speaker 3: But also I would like to be able to give
Speaker 3: you an idea for one of your first hour segments.
Speaker 2: Sure, I love it absolutely. First of all, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have I'm going to have Rob give you my direct
Speaker 2: email address.
Speaker 3: Which you probably say that would be wonderful.
Speaker 2: Case I'll also have to give you my direct number.
Speaker 2: What's the segment that you'd like to see covered.
Speaker 3: Well, it's about an app that helps people. Glenn may
Speaker 3: know about it. It's about a service that we can
Speaker 3: all help with to help people who are blind or
Speaker 3: visually impaired or dyslexic. And it's phenomenal, really, it's okay, yes,
Speaker 3: So that's.
Speaker 2: Just if you give Rob that app, I will make
Speaker 2: sure that Maria gets it and we will get uh.
Speaker 2: And if you leave your number, I think I have
Speaker 2: your number one. If you will leave your number with Rob,
Speaker 2: I will make sure you know what day we do
Speaker 2: something on the app. Well, we'll figure it out. Is
Speaker 2: there is it an organization out of Alaska?
Speaker 3: No, no, this is a worldwide organization. It's called Be
Speaker 3: My Eyes. Okay, and I was doing it now for
Speaker 3: a year and I'd love to tell you about it.
Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what. Would you be willing to
Speaker 2: be a guest when we do it?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay, No, thank you, I didn't. We're always whenever people
Speaker 2: recommend to us uh some group or organization like that.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes what we do is we have a tough time
Speaker 2: getting a spokesperson from the group too.
Speaker 3: No, I could tell you all about it.
Speaker 2: Oh, perfect, Joan, That's that's even better. So leave with
Speaker 2: Rob your name and your number. Okay I think I haven't,
Speaker 2: but I don't. He will give you my direct number.
Speaker 2: We'll call you and we will set it up and
Speaker 2: as long as you know. Look, you know the show
Speaker 2: better than as well as anyone. And that's wonderful. So
Speaker 2: how do you participate in what you said that you participate?
Speaker 3: You're a volunteer, yes, and there are millions of volunteers
Speaker 3: around the world. It's phenomenal. It's been I've been doing
Speaker 3: it for a year and I've had just blessings with
Speaker 3: being able to help people and they don't. It's it's
Speaker 3: just very uplifting.
Speaker 4: And I hope you knows about it.
Speaker 2: They connect you with someone who either is blind or
Speaker 2: visually appear I'm assuming.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Actually the people call I get I get a special
Speaker 3: sound on my phone. Yeah, and I it's random. You
Speaker 3: know so many there are so many volunteers, and I
Speaker 3: answer it and they don't have my number. I don't
Speaker 3: have their number, and I just say, how can I
Speaker 3: help you? And the thing that I've been able to
Speaker 3: experience helping people and meeting people who are very grateful,
Speaker 3: and it's it's a wonderful thing to be able to participate,
Speaker 3: and you don't have to take the call when it comes.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, and Joe, here's what we'll do. You leave
Speaker 2: your information with Rob, leave me the name of the app.
Speaker 2: Maria will take care of that, and then we will
Speaker 2: set it up, maybe as early as tomorrow night or
Speaker 2: certainly no later the next week. And what I might
Speaker 2: do is we'll do it with you in an eight
Speaker 2: o'clock hour, and sometimes with special guests. We then turn
Speaker 2: it into an hour later on during the week where
Speaker 2: you then can take some phone calls from people around
Speaker 2: the world, maybe who like you, are volunteers or oh
Speaker 2: it's or people who have availed themselves of the services.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily a view, but if someone else. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I will. I will dig deep on this and I
Speaker 2: am looking forward to it. Joan, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Me too, Me too, And I'll send you the link
Speaker 3: for the I.
Speaker 2: Want to see that. I really do. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: been to February Parker in my life, you know. I
Speaker 2: mean when I say hundreds of times, hundreds of times,
Speaker 2: and I enjoy the pregame and uh and that's sometimes
Speaker 2: even on a day like today, that's the best part
Speaker 2: of the day. Joan, you stay right there. Give all
Speaker 2: that information to Rob. Rob. Make sure you give Joan
Speaker 2: all of my my my email, the direct line. And
Speaker 2: I just wish that you could join us at this
Speaker 2: restaurant in Westwood.
Speaker 3: I know Rosemary wanted to go, but they were full,
Speaker 3: so oh no, well I.
Speaker 2: Know she should try. We'll find another seat. Don't worry.
Speaker 2: Have you give her my number when you talk to
Speaker 2: her and have her give me a call tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I will do that. Thank you so much. Dan.
Speaker 2: Leave your sister's number with Rob and I will call
Speaker 2: her tomorrow and I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 3: For Okay, I will do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't hang up. Rob will take care of it.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break. I want to
Speaker 2: get back to the issue at hand, which is New
Speaker 2: Hampshire's indication that they are willing to eliminate automobile inspections
Speaker 2: and truck inspections for people who own private cars or
Speaker 2: private trucks. Good idea, bad idea, Feel free six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty We got a couple of lines there and
Speaker 2: one line at six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: So great to hear from Joan up in Alaska. It's
Speaker 2: one of our most loyal listeners. Uh in another part
Speaker 2: of the country. We'll be back on nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's nice Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, back to the call is going to go too,
Speaker 2: Angelo in Newton, Angelo, I appreciate your patience, Man, go
Speaker 2: right ahead.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dan, how are you doing. Thank you for
Speaker 5: taking my call.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Thank you so much for holding on.
Speaker 5: Welcome, Thank you for what you gave me. Oh, Okay,
Speaker 5: I think it's wrong, Dan. I think they should they
Speaker 5: should keep it because you know, there's I don't like
Speaker 5: to say this, but there's some people. They they don't
Speaker 5: know much about a car, and so all they do
Speaker 5: is just know how to drive it, and and they
Speaker 5: don't know what's really wrong with it. You don't know,
Speaker 5: they don't know if there's a tire rock gone, or
Speaker 5: could be a ball joint on, and then they end
Speaker 5: up risking their life for what for something that was
Speaker 5: not even being checked. Yeah, here's believe h I believe
Speaker 5: it or not that we had a brand new truck
Speaker 5: and it was not even not even a year old.
Speaker 5: We took up inspection and they jacked it up and
Speaker 5: they checked the front, the front wheels and everything, and
Speaker 5: the ball joints are going on. It was not even
Speaker 5: was was not even a year old.
Speaker 2: I hope was covered by warranty.
Speaker 6: Not really, not really just what you need.
Speaker 2: You need. So so you say, keep them, keep the inspection.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, yeah, because you know, even even the trucks.
Speaker 5: You just see how strict they get. On trucks. They
Speaker 5: checked the staring box, you tie your d ends, your
Speaker 5: ball joints out, They go through the whole frame of
Speaker 5: the truck. Even on the lodger trucks they make you
Speaker 5: put a uh steel arm. Uh uh. You know that
Speaker 5: the covers you put on your valves them on the truck.
Speaker 5: They make us. They make us chose the metal ones,
Speaker 5: not the plastic ones.
Speaker 2: Mmmm.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess because what happens the age after a while,
Speaker 5: and I guess they cracked and they have to falling apart.
Speaker 5: But I think they should keep it because if there's
Speaker 5: people that have cars and trucks and they're just driving,
Speaker 5: how do you know if there's a ball joint going
Speaker 5: like they happen that poor lady look at it.
Speaker 2: Frightening story. That was a frightening story, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Yeah to any of us.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I've been I've been to inspections and I have
Speaker 5: watch them when they expect the vehicles and I can't
Speaker 5: believe somebodys when they jack them up and they checked
Speaker 5: the wheels, and I could not believe what I've seen.
Speaker 5: Sometimes and people don't even know that they could be
Speaker 5: going down the street and something's here is absence. They're
Speaker 5: risking their lives, they're risking somebody else's like going down
Speaker 5: the sheet. You never know what happens.
Speaker 2: All right, Angelo, I got you down as a strong
Speaker 2: vote in favor of keeping the annual inspections. You said
Speaker 2: it well and you you give some people some something
Speaker 2: to think about tonight. Thanks Angelo, appreciate it so much.
Speaker 5: Welcome dance, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Gail is in New Hampshire. Gail, this affects you. You
Speaker 2: live in New Hampshire. Thank you for holding on. Appreciate
Speaker 2: your patience.
Speaker 7: How are you Dan, good to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Think that the whole issue, first of all. I want
Speaker 7: to give a shout out to Deputy Speaker Smith because
Speaker 7: legislators here in New Hampshire are just kicking but they
Speaker 7: are working so hard. They're public servants. They basically do
Speaker 7: it volunteer and they work really really hard, sought and
Speaker 7: by the way, as you know I mentioned very clearly, they're.
Speaker 2: Paid one hundred dollars a year for their service, so
Speaker 2: they're not doing it for the money, right.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine that happening in Massachusetts?
Speaker 4: It could never acten absolutely anyway.
Speaker 2: Did that, or the legislature would be run by a
Speaker 2: bunch of Bolsheviks. I mean literally that.
Speaker 7: You're right, you're right, that would be a scary thought
Speaker 7: as well. I think that the inspection should instead of
Speaker 7: basing it on a yearly basis, what about going to
Speaker 7: a mileage doing it on a mileage basis, so instead
Speaker 7: of doing it every year. You know, there might be
Speaker 7: a woman up the street who's eighty years old and
Speaker 7: she drives car once a week to go to the
Speaker 7: grocery store, and you know she puts on maybe twelve
Speaker 7: hundred dollars dollars, yeah, miles a year, where someone like
Speaker 7: me might put on fifteen thousand a year. I just
Speaker 7: think that it's silly to base it on a timeframe.
Speaker 7: I think if you're going to keep it, then you
Speaker 7: should base it on a mileage rather than on a
Speaker 7: time I.
Speaker 2: Think that's a great suggestion. Earlier tonight, a couple of
Speaker 2: people said, well, if it's a new vehicle, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: have to have to get an inspection for like, let's
Speaker 2: say three years. And I could go with that. You
Speaker 2: buy a new vehicle, that's a huge expense, and you
Speaker 2: get a waiver for the first couple of years, so
Speaker 2: three years or whatever, and then maybe maybe when it
Speaker 2: passes inspection, if it passes inspection with flying colors, the
Speaker 2: next inspection is a couple of years out. But or
Speaker 2: you could do it like you said, based upon you
Speaker 2: know the mileage, or maybe you could have a combination.
Speaker 2: A new vehicle three years or until let's say they
Speaker 2: put twenty five thousand miles on it. Most people would
Speaker 2: put twenty five thousand. Well you know you could you
Speaker 2: could come up with even if you if you got
Speaker 2: twenty five Let's assume you buy a new car and
Speaker 2: you're putting on ten thousand miles a year, Well, you're
Speaker 2: going to hit twenty five thousand after three years, you
Speaker 2: would say three years or twenty five thousand, whichever cars last.
Speaker 2: So in your case you wait for the three years.
Speaker 2: For the lady who only drives, say five thousand miles
Speaker 2: a year, she buys a new car, she doesn't get
Speaker 2: to thirty thousand for six years.
Speaker 7: I mean, you could come up with.
Speaker 2: Something which would be a combination of both time and mileage.
Speaker 2: Your mileage point is an excellent point.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I have Have you ever brought your car
Speaker 7: in for an inspection and had them discover something that
Speaker 7: you didn't know? I have never had them find something
Speaker 7: that I wasn't aware of.
Speaker 2: Well, the guy that I go to does a really
Speaker 2: good job, and he will sometimes you'll say to me,
Speaker 2: it would be more like, hey, you know what you
Speaker 2: want to be keeping this? He does a really good job.
Speaker 2: He's never said to me, oh, do you know that
Speaker 2: you have no oil in your car? Because you're oil
Speaker 2: you know, is leaky. No, but he'll sometimes say, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know what you're doing here, but
Speaker 2: that rear tire is a you've got to keep an
Speaker 2: eye on that that's down a little bit. So he's
Speaker 2: good in that regard. But but I'm like you. No
Speaker 2: one has said to me, hey, you know, do you
Speaker 2: you know you you're you're driving on four ball tires?
Speaker 2: Of course, not because I'm checking my tires every couple
Speaker 2: of months anyway, because because if.
Speaker 7: There's a blow up, serving to do that. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think most drivers are very conscientious and sure there
Speaker 7: are going to be people that drive in cars that
Speaker 7: are are not safe. But like you, I spent many,
Speaker 7: many years as a reporter covering, oh my god, hundreds
Speaker 7: and hundreds of accidents, many of them fatal, and it's
Speaker 7: almost always error.
Speaker 2: You know, now, now I know which Gale this is.
Speaker 2: Initially I didn't catch the voice Gail Huff. How are you?
Speaker 7: I'm good, I'm good. No, this yeah, this is me?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. How Scott doing? Is he going to run for Senate?
Speaker 2: Up there with Well, you co'd probably break that story.
Speaker 7: He's thinking hard. He's thinking hard about it. I can
Speaker 7: say that he is. Yeah, for the past year. He's
Speaker 7: been you know, for for years he was like, well,
Speaker 7: I don't know, been there done that? You know, I
Speaker 7: don't know. And then he started to feel like, oh,
Speaker 7: there are so many things that need to get done.
Speaker 7: I wish I was there to help, et cetera. So
Speaker 7: he's definitely thinking about it.
Speaker 2: He's the guy that can maybe break up that monopoly
Speaker 2: up there. I help her, So I said no, And
Speaker 2: I just think that there should be they should have
Speaker 2: some some strong congressional candidates up there. And you know,
Speaker 2: you know, I wish that the voters of that first
Speaker 2: district have been smart enough to it was district one
Speaker 2: that you ran for.
Speaker 7: Correct, Yes, yeah, yeah, I ran a couple of cycles ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's strange because you know, our executive branch, our governor,
Speaker 7: our legislature is you know, obviously we have a Republican majority,
Speaker 7: but the voters send Democrats to Washington every you know,
Speaker 7: every two.
Speaker 3: Years, and it's I.
Speaker 7: Just don't think they represent the voters of New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Well it wasn't always that way, No.
Speaker 7: It wasn't. No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: You and I both remember when you know, the Warren
Speaker 2: Rudman's of the world and the Gordon Humphreys were up
Speaker 2: there in the Senate, and unfortunately the Republicans are not
Speaker 2: produced people. Maybe you should take a shot at it too, you.
Speaker 7: Know, No, no, no, no, no, no, my god, no, no,
Speaker 7: Grand babies I have, I have four grandchildren.
Speaker 2: Now, well, we may get get a little closer to
Speaker 2: you this weekend where I will tell you and I
Speaker 2: you know, I always believe in jenxus and stuff. But
Speaker 2: we're our son and his wife. We're hoping in the
Speaker 2: next week or so, we'll be presenting us with a
Speaker 2: second But I haven't said much about it because you
Speaker 2: know me, I believe you know I hate jinxes. So
Speaker 2: we'll keep our fingers crossed.
Speaker 7: Okay, how exciting congratulation? Is it not the greatest gift?
Speaker 7: Oh it's well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: They can be a challenge, can't they. I don't know
Speaker 2: how I need to pick up some pointers from you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if I can get pointers, but
Speaker 7: I will say that it's just been for me the
Speaker 7: most amazing experience to be able to go through, you know,
Speaker 7: just the different stages again and and this time do
Speaker 7: it in in such a different light because I don't
Speaker 7: have the same anxiety as you know, being the parent.
Speaker 7: So it's it's so identified with that. Well, good luck
Speaker 7: and congratulations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm I'm the disciplinarian and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like I expect I'm not Yeah, no, well, no,
Speaker 2: you haven't met you haven't met my wife on this one,
Speaker 2: trust me. Okay, it's like if he if he said,
Speaker 2: you know, would you put the apple on your head?
Speaker 2: I want to try to shoot the apple off your
Speaker 2: head with this bow and arrow, all the apples on
Speaker 2: the head. It's like, please whatever, uh, Jail again, I
Speaker 2: love you, please say had to Scott and you talk
Speaker 2: soon and thanks so much for calling in. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: talk soon, thanks so much. All righty ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: the great Gail Huff. I spent so many mornings with
Speaker 2: Gail covering our stories together between four and five. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have a few minutes left in this hour. I
Speaker 2: want to know would you be in favor of eliminating
Speaker 2: your annual automobile inspection, either eliminating it completely or maybe
Speaker 2: making it not an annual inspection, maybe every two years,
Speaker 2: every three years. In New Hampshire, the Republican House of
Speaker 2: Representatives overwhelmingly has voted to eliminate Massachusetts. New Hampshire only
Speaker 2: two of fourteen states that have auto and truck inspection.
Speaker 2: You know, for private automobiles. Commercial vehicle's different story commercial truck.
Speaker 2: Commercial vehicle is still going to be inspected in New
Speaker 2: Hampshire's I understand it. These would be for private automobiles,
Speaker 2: your car, your truck. What do you think if you're
Speaker 2: in a state where you have inspections, would you eliminate it?
Speaker 2: If you're a state that doesn't and there are only
Speaker 2: fourteen that have inspections most I'm here in the Great Northeast.
Speaker 2: If you're in a space in a state that doesn't
Speaker 2: have inspections, do you think it would be smart to
Speaker 2: adopt them? Massachusetts, I think it's thirty nine dollars a year,
Speaker 2: probably's gone up in the last year. I'm suspecting I'm
Speaker 2: due for an inspection sometime next month. We'll see how
Speaker 2: that goes. At eleven o'clock tonight, we are going to
Speaker 2: change topics, so you want to get in now, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to the CEO of a company
Speaker 2: called Bricks Holdings, a multi brand franchising company that now
Speaker 2: owns Friendlies Restaurants, among other chains. They basically bring restaurant
Speaker 2: chains out of bankruptcy, back from the economic dead. We're
Speaker 2: going to we're going to find out what's coming back,
Speaker 2: what's never coming back. That begins at eleven o'clock. I
Speaker 2: would like to continue on this topic until eleven. So
Speaker 2: if you have a thought strongly in one one direction
Speaker 2: or the other about automobile annual automobile inspections, annual private
Speaker 2: you know, your private vehicles just another way in which
Speaker 2: the government can get the hand in your post or
Speaker 2: are they absolutely necessary? I think there's strong arguments on
Speaker 2: either side. Let's light these lines up, finish strong, and
Speaker 2: we'll get to a really different but an equally interesting
Speaker 2: hour at eleven back on night Side right after these
Speaker 2: this news break.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's we can't. We got full lines here.
Speaker 2: This is great, let's keep rolling. Gonna go next to
Speaker 2: Joe and Revere. Hi Joe, how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 8: Hey Dan, I dooling buddy. Thank you for taking my Paul,
Speaker 8: Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 2: What's your thought on this? You're a Massachusetts residence, so
Speaker 2: you gotta pay? What's it? It's it's Is it still
Speaker 2: thirty nine bucks for the inspection.
Speaker 9: I took?
Speaker 8: Correct you it's thirty five?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Okay? For some reason thirty you know.
Speaker 8: As you know I self, guys, I've talked to you. Yep,
Speaker 8: absolutely sure, dealership, any new vehicle that comes in, it's
Speaker 8: a PDI, which is a pre driving inspection. Okay, now
Speaker 8: we can PDI a car. It's just there three weeks
Speaker 8: a recall comes out. Now as the dealership, we do
Speaker 8: get alerted for the recall. But if you run it
Speaker 8: through for a sticker, there's an automatic stop. There's a
Speaker 8: safety belt recall there is. It's just an inspection of this.
Speaker 8: It's that it's a software upgrade. But they come out now.
Speaker 8: If you don't do the sticker, there is a chance
Speaker 8: that no one will know that there's a recall on
Speaker 8: their vehicle.
Speaker 9: So we laugh.
Speaker 8: When we're run new vehicles through, it's like yeah, like
Speaker 8: it ain't gonna pass. Of course it's going to pass.
Speaker 8: But the thing with the sticker is if there is
Speaker 8: a recall that came out a week or two later
Speaker 8: then we bought the vehicle, it's gonna flag it and
Speaker 8: tell them.
Speaker 2: So I guess, Joe, how often does that happen?
Speaker 9: All? Right?
Speaker 8: About eight times? And I've been there fourteen years. Eight
Speaker 8: not often?
Speaker 2: Not off?
Speaker 8: No, okay no, but what if it's a safety recall?
Speaker 6: Did?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I get it. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I understand, and I would assume most of the recalls,
Speaker 2: but maybe maybe I'm making most of the recall safety recalls.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, a safety recall will stop it from stickering.
Speaker 8: If it's not a safety recall, it could be go through.
Speaker 8: But they would alert or something to recall. They would assume.
Speaker 8: I would work for a Chevy dealership.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 8: You know they we do get alerts on these things.
Speaker 8: But you know, I'm assuming, Joe, something could get.
Speaker 2: By God, Joe, here's my question. I'm assuming that most
Speaker 2: recalls are for safety reasons. I mean, I guess there
Speaker 2: could be a recall that wasn't safety. But if it's
Speaker 2: seat belt recall, if there's something wrong, you know with
Speaker 2: the electronics, Uh, I would assume that virtually for them
Speaker 2: to recall and tell everybody who's driving a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three whatever fill in the blank, that's got to be
Speaker 2: pretty serious stuff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, no, sometimes it isn't dan. Sometimes it's an inspection
Speaker 8: stuff like that. But what I'm saying is when the
Speaker 8: new cop comes in, someone buys the new car, we
Speaker 8: run it through. If we don't do a sticker on
Speaker 8: it because we think it's just the state trying to
Speaker 8: get more money because of course it's going to pass.
Speaker 8: They get alerted we could have a car, and then
Speaker 8: two weeks later the recall comes out.
Speaker 2: Now I got it. I got it the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it can happen. I guess it can happen. Hey, Joe, thanks,
Speaker 2: thank you as always for clarifying that. Thanks. How how's
Speaker 2: car business hasn't been heck pic in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks with all this rumors about tariffs and everything.
Speaker 8: Dan, Dan, it's always hectic. By the way, I want
Speaker 8: to sell you an EO V. Your daughter would be
Speaker 8: so proud, okay, she would.
Speaker 2: What do you reckon? What do you now? It was
Speaker 2: you're you said you're a Chevy dealership. What of the
Speaker 2: new Chevys do you think is the best one? What
Speaker 2: was you read?
Speaker 8: I love the Equinox EV. It's the technology is crazy, Dan.
Speaker 8: I'd spend two hours with you. I mean you would
Speaker 8: still be scratching I had saying what else does it do?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 2: What's what's the sticker price? What's the stick a price?
Speaker 2: What's the sticker price on an Equinox EV?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 8: Probably close to forty. But then there's a seventy five
Speaker 8: hundred dollars rebate from the government for buying it, and
Speaker 8: you know it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Then you got to have a Then you have to
Speaker 2: have a charging station at home.
Speaker 8: Right, Well, you could do a one ten depends on
Speaker 8: how much you drive. If you drive, you know, fifty
Speaker 8: miles a day, you can charge it on a regular
Speaker 8: one ten out of it. If you have a two
Speaker 8: twenty feet going in your house, then you can go
Speaker 8: to the higher level charging, which the adapter does in
Speaker 8: the vehicle we sell you, and then you can charge
Speaker 8: it in probably eight hours, don't either.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, something to think about, Joe, I
Speaker 2: got to run here up my break. Always great to
Speaker 2: hear your voice.
Speaker 6: Thank you many sure, thank you.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. Coming right back. On the other side,
Speaker 2: we had two calls from New Hampshire. Bob and Wakefield, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Joe in New Hampshire and Brian and Dery, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: We will get to all three of them and then
Speaker 2: we will change topics at eleven o'clock. If you want
Speaker 2: to try to sneak in, I promise we got Joe,
Speaker 2: Bob and Brian maybe room for you, but you got it.
Speaker 2: You'll be taking a chance coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phone's going to go to Bob and Wakefield. First, Bob,
Speaker 2: you were next on Nightsiger.
Speaker 4: Right ahead, Hey Dan, how are you good, sir?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 4: I get a question. But first of all, as far
Speaker 4: as the inspection stickers, I don't really have a it's
Speaker 4: thirty five bucks a year. I don't really have a
Speaker 4: real problem with that. But I do have a problem.
Speaker 4: It's a pet peeve of mine. It's called noise pollution.
Speaker 4: And I don't know whether you've noticed this, but Ef,
Speaker 4: we're out on the road or the highway or walking
Speaker 4: and you hit these cars going by, they sound like
Speaker 4: a motorcycle.
Speaker 2: You bet you're sure?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, anyway, these are cut off. These are muffler cutoffs
Speaker 4: that they're aftermarket, and the individual that owans these cars
Speaker 4: are putting these things on them purpose. You can buy
Speaker 4: them on eBay, get them on the amaz offered.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I just don't know why. Anybody
Speaker 2: who's in a car once the car does sound like that,
Speaker 2: don't get.
Speaker 4: Here's my issue. No, I totally agree with you. I
Speaker 4: have no idea either. The thing is in Massachusetts General Laws,
Speaker 4: Part one, and there's a whole bunch of other numbers
Speaker 4: after that. No person shall and I'm really used to
Speaker 4: that word shall is Electrician Daniel shell Shells mean you can't.
Speaker 4: So it says no person shall use a muffler cut
Speaker 4: off or a bypass. So my question is, I don't
Speaker 4: know how these cars are going in and getting an
Speaker 4: inspection and not getting flagged for these things because they're
Speaker 4: illegal in Massachusetts. That's that's my problem.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe maybe they're not seeing it. Maybe they're going
Speaker 2: to guys who they know. I wish I could tell you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well maybe maybe if you could do this, Dan, if
Speaker 4: you get the next time I know you've had the
Speaker 4: register on every once in a while, if you get
Speaker 4: the register on, if you could maybe get asked the
Speaker 4: register you know why they're not enforcing that because it
Speaker 4: is it's it's it's absolutely insane. They sound like motorcycles
Speaker 4: going by my house every night.
Speaker 2: Well, the Registrar Motive Vehicles has not been There was
Speaker 2: a period of time we would have the Registrar Motive
Speaker 2: Vehicles on quite frequently, but for some reason, I think
Speaker 2: there's been so many problems that the Registry, including the
Speaker 2: real ID fiasco that's been going on for the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, that I think the Register's last name is
Speaker 2: ogilvy uh, and she hasn't been anxious. They're they're pr people,
Speaker 2: and they basically hide. They get these these great jobs,
Speaker 2: and they figured that they only are going to get
Speaker 2: in trouble doing a radio show. That's what I think
Speaker 2: goes on with a lot of them.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't understand it. But again, this is
Speaker 4: not the step on it. But but you know, I
Speaker 4: just don't understand why.
Speaker 2: I think you raised a great point, Bob. I think
Speaker 2: you raised a great point, as you often do. And
Speaker 2: maybe someone else has a quick answer for us out there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I've listened to some of these cars go
Speaker 2: by me and it's like a nice weather for the
Speaker 2: maybe you got the window halfway down or whatever, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, like come on, what what what's
Speaker 2: this all about? Oh, it's the same way the guy
Speaker 2: that's got the radio, that's got the radio blasted and
Speaker 2: the windows are down. Okay, it's like, if you really
Speaker 2: want the radio that loud pull the windows up so
Speaker 2: it can reverberate inside your darn car. You know, that's
Speaker 2: another story. It's the same mentality. I got to get
Speaker 2: two more in here, Bob, so I'm gonna let you scooter. Kay. Thanks.
Speaker 4: And one last thing. These things are connected to a switchcam, okay,
Speaker 4: so they can turn them on and they can turn
Speaker 4: them off.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 4: If they feel like making some noise, they turn the
Speaker 4: switch on and then they can turn them right off.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous. All right there, buddy, We'll talk to you
Speaker 4: a little later.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thank you, Bob, appreciate its keep rolling here. Going
Speaker 2: to go first to Joe and then to Brian in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Joe you in next one nights.
Speaker 6: I go right ahead, Dan, thanks shaking my call.
Speaker 9: Thank you for getting me through so many drives home.
Speaker 9: I'm actually driving home from Beverly. I had a show
Speaker 9: to night in Beverly, driving back to New Hampshire. So
Speaker 9: this is one that's near and dear in my heart.
Speaker 9: Get rid of it. I always make the joke that
Speaker 9: I want to run for office just to get rid
Speaker 9: of state inspections, and then I'll resign the next day
Speaker 9: and let someone that knows how to do that job.
Speaker 9: Do it. But it's the biggest money grab, the biggest
Speaker 9: scam if anything. I feel like it should be state
Speaker 9: run because personal experience. My wife actually went got an inspection.
Speaker 9: They told her that her brakes were bad and she
Speaker 9: needed new breaks, and the brakes were actually well within
Speaker 9: the regulations. You can go to the New State in
Speaker 9: ma Hampshire website and it tells you what everything has
Speaker 9: to be and like the regulations and her breaks the
Speaker 9: millimeters were well within that. So I've always just been
Speaker 9: soured towards inspections. I actually have not got an inspection
Speaker 9: last year. I was pulled over one time and the
Speaker 9: police officer told me I would never give a ticket
Speaker 9: for an inspection sticker, so just get a new.
Speaker 4: One and that was it.
Speaker 9: So I have two more or it's the end of
Speaker 9: April now, so I probably have a week left before
Speaker 9: I have to get my twenty twenty or twenty twenty
Speaker 9: five sticker I never got last year.
Speaker 2: You you, I am a rebel on the edge.
Speaker 9: I am that guy that didn't rewind the video tapes
Speaker 9: at Blockbuster. No, it's just sort of my my little
Speaker 9: thing to get. I'm just so against them and I
Speaker 9: would rather pay a fine than go to a mechanic
Speaker 9: that I know my car is going to pass an inspection.
Speaker 9: There's nothing wrong with it at all. I just it's
Speaker 9: just my little thing. I don't want to do it.
Speaker 9: My wife is very much about obeying the law, and
Speaker 9: she has an inspection sticker. I won't do it, though.
Speaker 2: Well, you're a little bit of a rebel, but you're
Speaker 2: in a good state. Live for you die. What are
Speaker 2: you a musician that you had a show tonight somewhere?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 9: No, I do professional wrestling. So we actually had an
Speaker 9: event at Endicott College, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Trying to do with college very well. So are you
Speaker 2: a wrestler.
Speaker 9: I'm a manager, So I actually just make everybody really
Speaker 9: mad at me and then get in there and get
Speaker 9: beat up, get paid in the home.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh you know something. One of my favorite sports
Speaker 2: figures was the Grand Wizard of Wrestling. Yah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean back in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 2: He's an icon in my age, in my mind, and
Speaker 2: a brilliant tactician. By the way, I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 9: I actually I feel a lot from him because nobody
Speaker 9: wrestling fans nowadays don't know who the Grand Wizard is,
Speaker 9: and he was probably three years before I started watching wrestling.
Speaker 9: I'm a little bit older than most, but I appreciate
Speaker 9: the Grand Wizard and I love, you know, just doing
Speaker 9: the little things that he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will bet you that you're surprised that this
Speaker 2: talk show host was able to refer to the Grand
Speaker 2: Wizard of wrestling. It shows what a broad college I have.
Speaker 2: Because the thing about wrestling is Eddie Andelman said, it's
Speaker 2: the only sports that never been touched by scandal, and
Speaker 2: it was. It was great minds and tacticians like the
Speaker 2: Grand Wizard of Wrestling who kept it on the level.
Speaker 2: So I thank you for what you do, and I
Speaker 2: hope you're following in his footsteps. And Joe keep us posted.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll do a show some night on wrestling. I
Speaker 2: mean that song.
Speaker 9: I will be the first to call. I would be
Speaker 9: the first.
Speaker 2: We may have you on as a guest and uh
Speaker 2: and get sort of like behind the scenes stuff. But
Speaker 2: that's great. I'm so great. You had a nice crowd
Speaker 2: up at the school tonight, I hope.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there was about five hundred and fifty people and
Speaker 9: they only sold it to the college students.
Speaker 6: So it was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. It's great to get college students into
Speaker 2: the sport because I think it's one of the purest
Speaker 2: sports that there is and I think we should have,
Speaker 2: you know, professional wrestling in the Olympics, and I think
Speaker 2: in my lifetime it's my dream that that we have that. Joe,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your call. Please keep in touch. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean that honestly. Rob will give you my director.
Speaker 2: I want you to have my direct line. Give me
Speaker 2: a call someday. Okay, thank you much. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: one more. Callit here, Brian and Derry, New Hampshire. Brian,
Speaker 2: we've we've blown up New Hampshire tonight. You're gonna end
Speaker 2: in first.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Brian, Hawaii, Dan, thank you. Thirteen states throughout
Speaker 6: the fifty throughout the country don't have inspections thickness thirteen states.
Speaker 2: Thirteen have them.
Speaker 6: Well, no, it's thirty.
Speaker 2: No, No, I think you're I'm gonna disagree with you
Speaker 2: on that. The vast majority of states do not have
Speaker 2: the requirement of inspection stickers.
Speaker 6: That's right, that's right, do not And up here, Okay,
Speaker 6: you got a double niggati about me.
Speaker 2: There but yeah, ironically Massachusetts and New Hampshire we have
Speaker 2: we have laws and requirements in Massachusetts for everything everything.
Speaker 2: In New Hampshire, you guys are live for your die
Speaker 2: state and you still have whatever.
Speaker 6: Whatever, whatever, even doesn't move, its.
Speaker 2: Tax everything in the only two things that, as I've
Speaker 2: said before, anything that moves and anything that doesn't move
Speaker 2: gets taxed. Absolutely, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: And also it should be due to the matt three.
Speaker 9: Years thirty six thousand miles bump a bumper on a
Speaker 9: warranty when you buy a new cap so this stick
Speaker 9: for three years.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's not unreasonable. I think you know. I listened
Speaker 2: to the nine o'clock hour because we had Steve Smith,
Speaker 2: who's the Deputy Speaker of the House, a Republican up
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, and he made a pretty good argument
Speaker 2: for it. I wish it had called earlier and we
Speaker 2: could talk more about it. But thank you for calling
Speaker 2: nonetheless and re emphasizing that we're in the minority with
Speaker 2: with with automobile inspections, and I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: that our roads and our traffic fatality numbers are any safer.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Massachusetts traffic fatalities are up
Speaker 2: over the last few years. Believe it or not. We
Speaker 2: talked with representative of Triple A the other night about
Speaker 2: that very subject. Brian, thank you man, I keep calling
Speaker 2: the show. Give you more time next time, I promise.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, thank you, Dan, have a good evening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks. Okay. Here comes Bine, Here comes the eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock News, and we are going to talk about bringing
Speaker 2: restaurant chains that have gone bankrupt back, reviving them. And
Speaker 2: we're gonna start with the conversation about friendlies. What restaurant
Speaker 2: chain would you like to see come back. We'll be
Speaker 2: back here on Nightside right after the eleven o'clock News