Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS constance video
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Speaker 2: As I read my Boston Globe, which was delivered today,
Speaker 2: I continue some night we should talk about home newspaper
Speaker 2: delivery problems. Two of the last three Sundays, my Boston
Speaker 2: Globe never got delivered. And try, and I'm saying this
Speaker 2: for the people of the Boston Globe who might be listening, try,
Speaker 2: as a subscriber to the Boston Globe, to get your
Speaker 2: newspaper delivered. When it's not delivered, you end up talking
Speaker 2: to people in Phoenix, Arizona who have no ability to
Speaker 2: call the delivery service and say, hey, you missed, you
Speaker 2: missed this house, you missed that house.
Speaker 3: Extremely frustrating.
Speaker 2: And I'm almost beginning to wonder if the Boston Globe
Speaker 2: and maybe other newspapers they're going out of business. They're
Speaker 2: dropping like five. You almost wonder if they just don't
Speaker 2: care anymore. You know, I've been a subscriber to the
Speaker 2: Globe for a long time, and one of the reasons
Speaker 2: I subscribe is it keeps me informed and gives me
Speaker 2: ideas of what I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 3: On my show.
Speaker 2: And this is a little bit of a diversion, and
Speaker 2: I apologize, but I want to take just a moment
Speaker 2: of personal privilege and if any of you can identify
Speaker 2: with what I'm talking about. You wake up on a
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, and one of the joys of the weekend
Speaker 2: is you can those of you who are newspaper people,
Speaker 2: you can immerse yourself in your local newspaper, whether it's
Speaker 2: the Globe of the Herald here in Boston, or the
Speaker 2: New York Times or whatever wherever you live. And when
Speaker 2: you walk out your front door and go to the spot,
Speaker 2: and for us, it's the end of the driveway and
Speaker 2: that newspaper isn't there by seven thirty eight o'clock, you
Speaker 2: always assume, well, maybe the press is ran a little
Speaker 2: late and maybe maybe it will be there. So you
Speaker 2: go inside and you start have breakfast or whatever. Maybe
Speaker 2: you go off to church and you come back and
Speaker 2: it's still not there. And at that point, you know,
Speaker 2: by nine thirty ten o'clock, your heart sinks and you
Speaker 2: just realize that you a good portion of your day
Speaker 2: that you would look forward to all week long. Can
Speaker 2: any of you identify with what I'm talking about? Sitting
Speaker 2: back on a Sunday and actually reading a newspaper early
Speaker 2: in the morning. You have no other responsibility that day,
Speaker 2: and that might be the most relaxing part of your day,
Speaker 2: and the Globe just doesn't care. In my opinion, You
Speaker 2: try to call the main number, you try to call
Speaker 2: the circulation department, and is all automated, and it's so frustrating,
Speaker 2: and I think all of you probably, if not with
Speaker 2: the Globe, would someone have been involved in this. And
Speaker 2: it is just frustrating and you come to the to
Speaker 2: the opinion that the company that you have been a
Speaker 2: subscriber for for a long time, for a long time
Speaker 2: could care less about you as a customer, and it
Speaker 2: is It is a compounding tough feeling and you don't
Speaker 2: have to. By the way, the reason I subscribe to
Speaker 2: the Globe is they got the best sports section I
Speaker 2: think of any anywhere in New England and perhaps maybe
Speaker 2: even anywhere in the country. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: any of you have. Maybe I'm the only person who
Speaker 2: on a Sunday morning when you when you're hoping that
Speaker 2: you can call and talk to a human being somewhere
Speaker 2: who will be able to say, you know, we live
Speaker 2: in an electronic age. You should be able to say.
Speaker 2: They should be able to say to you, look, what
Speaker 2: is your address. I'm going to send an email and
Speaker 2: there will be you know, let's say that somehow they
Speaker 2: have a new person driving the globe around. You know,
Speaker 2: they no longer have paper boys on bicycles. It's always
Speaker 2: people in cars for deliveries. But it's dispiriting. It's absolutely dispairiting, dispiriting.
Speaker 2: If any of you can can relate to that, I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from you, because to me, it's almost
Speaker 2: a personal insult. What I mean by that is newspapers
Speaker 2: subscriptions are no longer cheap. You're talking for the globe.
Speaker 2: It's upwards of around thirty dollars a month. That's for
Speaker 2: as a subscriber. Now they know that you're accounted every
Speaker 2: day as someone who read the newspaper, whether it's delivered
Speaker 2: or not. So and then you make the effort to
Speaker 2: call and you have to go through you know, got
Speaker 2: a listen to this and our new automative system, automated
Speaker 2: system will help you.
Speaker 3: No, it won't. It will only frustrate me.
Speaker 2: It's not going to help me to try to talk
Speaker 2: to someone and there's no human being to talk to.
Speaker 2: And what is your problem, and they give you if
Speaker 2: it's not my problem, it's your problem.
Speaker 3: Is you newspaper missing? Just say missing?
Speaker 2: Is your newspaper soaked with water? Just say newspaper soaked?
Speaker 2: I can say it, okay, But of course it's all
Speaker 2: pre programmed. And then when you start to hit zero,
Speaker 2: so you want to talk to a human can I
Speaker 2: speak with.
Speaker 3: The human being? I don't understand what you've said.
Speaker 2: Sometime when I think I'm gonna do is rob Is
Speaker 2: maybe record this and so that people can hear the frustration.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just take a quick break here, And I
Speaker 2: had not intended to do this, but I'm still upset
Speaker 2: from Sunday. And then, of course the person that you
Speaker 2: talk to with the Globe, you talk to.
Speaker 3: Someone in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2: By the way, they don't even employ Massachusetts residents, that's
Speaker 2: how much they disrespect us. So you talk with someone
Speaker 2: in Phoenix, Arizona, who you know.
Speaker 3: Isn't a Bostonian.
Speaker 2: I mean there's no, there's not a trace of a
Speaker 2: Boston accent. And then when you say to them, well,
Speaker 2: can you can you give me the phone number of
Speaker 2: the local care so I can call them?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, we count do that. No, no, no, we count
Speaker 2: do thath We'll notify them. What do you mean you're
Speaker 2: going to notify them? Does that mean it'll be redelivered? Now,
Speaker 2: it won't be redelivered. We'll notify them.
Speaker 3: What good does that do? Then? It's so frustrating.
Speaker 2: If you want to comment on this, I have a
Speaker 2: topic that's that we're upcoming that is related to the Globe.
Speaker 3: A couple of topics related to the Globe.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. If newspapers don't respect us, and if they
Speaker 2: take us for granted their days are numbered, maybe it's
Speaker 2: the reverse. Maybe they know their days are numbered and
Speaker 2: they don't feel they have to respect us anymore. And
Speaker 2: if you work for the Globe, you get one subscriber
Speaker 2: here in me. Okay, who's not a fan of your
Speaker 2: editorial policy. I'm a fan of your sports pages. If
Speaker 2: you really want to stay in business, get your act together,
Speaker 2: Get your act together. Two out of the last three Sundays,
Speaker 2: no Globe and no recourse. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: they hit your your credit card every month on you know,
Speaker 2: at twenty every twenty eight days they hit.
Speaker 3: The credit card, and the person in Arizona will say.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm god, I give you a credit for all
Speaker 2: that wasn't delivered today. No, you never see the credit.
Speaker 2: You never see the credit. Oh, I got a bunch
Speaker 2: of people lighting up here. That's good. We may stay
Speaker 2: with this topic. Yes, we might.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The only line that's left open is SIXE. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Let's go. We'll be back right after the break, and
Speaker 2: I want to hear your stories, either about the Globe
Speaker 2: or other businesses that no longer respect you as a customer.
Speaker 2: Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Sight Studios. I'MBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, it looks like I'm not the only one who's
Speaker 2: had problems with delivery service from the Boston Globe. Let
Speaker 2: me go to Denise in Medford. You know, it's funny, Denise.
Speaker 2: I hadn't planned to do this tonight, but welcome.
Speaker 3: How are you.
Speaker 5: Because this has been something that's been weighing. I mean,
Speaker 5: and you don't there's nobody to say it to. I
Speaker 5: work in elder care, in an assisted living, and you
Speaker 5: know the generations they are. The newspaper is such a
Speaker 5: big part of their life. And for the last year
Speaker 5: it's been incredibly horrible with the delivery system and it
Speaker 5: not only recks there day, but then we have a
Speaker 5: lot of people there that are you know, are experiencing
Speaker 5: in memory problems, and you know that, and and for
Speaker 5: them not to have the newspaper, it's it's you won't
Speaker 5: believe the devastation. So it's just and you can't reach anybody.
Speaker 2: What you're saying, And it's so true. Just reading the
Speaker 2: newspaper stimulates your mind. Yes, one of the things that
Speaker 2: I do with the newspaper, and I'm a baby boomer.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that I'll tried the crossword puzzle.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm trying it very late at night and I'm
Speaker 2: half asleep, and at some point it's a great way
Speaker 2: to go to sleep, to be honest with you, But
Speaker 2: also the arrogance of the ownership.
Speaker 3: Have you ever tried to.
Speaker 5: Call the globe? You don't get you, You don't get anybody,
Speaker 5: You don't get a real person. And when you do,
Speaker 5: they can't do anything for you. They don't try to deliver, and.
Speaker 2: They haven't in I think it's in Arizona. Well, I
Speaker 2: know it's Arizona. I think they have some people in
Speaker 2: Phoenix and some people in Tucson. Some of them are
Speaker 2: pretty good with the English language. Some of them are
Speaker 2: kind of challenged with the englishe to put it kindly,
Speaker 2: but they can't do anything. They have a little script
Speaker 2: they read, thank you very much for calling. I hope
Speaker 2: you have a great day, a great day.
Speaker 3: My day is ruined.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, I'm not calling you for you to
Speaker 2: tell me have a great day. I'm calling for you
Speaker 2: to you so that you could call up the knucklehead
Speaker 2: who couldn't find my house to the deliver my newspaper,
Speaker 2: which I pay for every day.
Speaker 5: We had better luck with kids that were twelve on
Speaker 5: their bikes than we do with adels and vans right now.
Speaker 2: What happens is, look, I know it's tough for newspapers
Speaker 2: to find people to deliver, Okay, I get it, Okay,
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it should not be impossible,
Speaker 2: and there should be if someone is a manager of
Speaker 2: a newspaper delivering service, and if there's someone out there
Speaker 2: who is a manager of a newspaper delivery service, if
Speaker 2: you have someone who day after day after day is
Speaker 2: missing houses and there are complaints coming in get rid
Speaker 2: of that person. But in the meantime, you, as the
Speaker 2: owner of the company, you should get in your car
Speaker 2: and you should get those papers delivered and not have
Speaker 2: to be called from someone in Phoenix, Arizona. And I
Speaker 2: don't even think they call from I just think they
Speaker 2: try to placate you, and I'm getting sick of it.
Speaker 3: And I hope that someone in.
Speaker 2: Management from the Globe is listening tonight, because look, maybe
Speaker 2: you know that the days of newspapers are numbered, but
Speaker 2: why don't you go out with some class and style
Speaker 2: and treat your customers as any customer wants to be
Speaker 2: treated with a little bit of respect.
Speaker 5: You're right right, well, excellent topic. Thank you so much,
Speaker 5: long time listener, first time calling.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, we got a round of applause from you.
Speaker 2: Get that digital audience, got a digital studio audience, and
Speaker 2: they just gave you a lovely round of applause. I
Speaker 2: think it's so great that this is I just felt this.
Speaker 2: I was starting relying on the Globe on a couple
Speaker 2: of stories today. We'll talk about mcast and we're also
Speaker 2: going to talk about a story later on that Kevin
Speaker 2: Collin did on Chinese illegal Chinese platforms in Maine, which
Speaker 2: main newspapers broke one year ago and the Globe had
Speaker 2: ignored it. So it's going to be a night for
Speaker 2: the Globe here on Nightside.
Speaker 3: Okay, go get him, you bet.
Speaker 2: Your dennyse I'm kind of I'm kind of a pit
Speaker 2: bull when I when I get a little bit concerned,
Speaker 2: when I get my teeth in something, they stick.
Speaker 3: Thanks, all right, let's keep rolling you.
Speaker 2: I want to go to Greg up on the North Shore. Greg, welcome.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
Speaker 6: Dan, longtime listener. I've called you more than a few times.
Speaker 3: That's okay, no round of applause.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your loyalty as a customer and a client
Speaker 2: of Nightside, and I mean that honestly.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 6: And we have to protect AM radio to keep what
Speaker 6: you do going on every night.
Speaker 2: Well I appreciate that. And by the way, I spoke
Speaker 2: today with Senator of Markey's office. As much as I
Speaker 2: disagree with Ed Markey on certain political issues.
Speaker 6: We have to keep AM radio on the market.
Speaker 2: Well he's been very good on that issue, very very good.
Speaker 2: And I kid with him. He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I've known him for a long time. I don't agree
Speaker 2: with every.
Speaker 6: Pill I'm holding that against you.
Speaker 2: Now, that's okay, But but give him credit because he
Speaker 2: has been a fighter in the Senate for AM radio,
Speaker 2: and I like, I like to be fair and give
Speaker 2: people credit where they're where they're the right.
Speaker 3: Side of an issue. And I mean the right side.
Speaker 2: Of an issue in this case, not only the right side,
Speaker 2: but the correct side.
Speaker 3: Go go ahead, Greg.
Speaker 6: So the original reason why I want to talk because
Speaker 6: you were going to talk about the MCST.
Speaker 3: And we can talk about them.
Speaker 6: Cast you get, I'm gonna say, right now, you went
Speaker 6: to the globe. I am have had home delivery of
Speaker 6: the globe in the lin item.
Speaker 3: Oh I get, I get.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so so they give you they send you
Speaker 2: the wrong paper, is what you're saying right now.
Speaker 3: I'm oh, you left the globe and now it's subscribe.
Speaker 6: We get the globe. The line item living every day
Speaker 6: to a house.
Speaker 3: Good, Well, that's great.
Speaker 2: Then you know what, put a little plug out for
Speaker 2: the line item there there. Look, they're gonna everyone's gonna
Speaker 2: miss at some point. Okay, someone's gonna be sick or whatever,
Speaker 2: or maybe the coyote is gonna run through the.
Speaker 6: Papers have gone downhill. And the thing is is they
Speaker 6: cannot get the people to deliver the paper to you.
Speaker 6: And if I have.
Speaker 2: An answer to that, and he's that, okay, if you
Speaker 2: cannot with with all the problems we had with the
Speaker 2: economy right now, Uh, you're telling me that there aren't
Speaker 2: retired individuals. I don't think kids are doing that job anymore,
Speaker 2: that there aren't retired individuals who would like to make
Speaker 2: a few more dollars.
Speaker 6: And everybody, I was a paper boy, No, you were.
Speaker 3: A paper boy, okay.
Speaker 7: And you got.
Speaker 4: I delivered the Globe to Harold.
Speaker 6: Believe it or not. I had to pull a wagon
Speaker 6: every Sunday.
Speaker 3: Oh they were heavy, I remember. I remember they had.
Speaker 4: To assemble the paper because it came with an A, A,
Speaker 4: A B, A C in a D section. So I
Speaker 4: had to every morning before I delivered.
Speaker 6: Them, I had to as I had to put all
Speaker 6: the papers together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then walk around the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: And with your red wagon.
Speaker 6: And like on Sundays, you had to bring your red
Speaker 6: wagon because like you couldn't bike on Monday through Saturday.
Speaker 6: I could ride my bicycle, but the Sunday paper was
Speaker 6: so big with all the advertisements.
Speaker 2: And by the way, by the way, would people say
Speaker 2: to me that the Globe or the delivery services can't
Speaker 2: hire people pay them more money. That's what I think
Speaker 2: it really comes down to.
Speaker 4: If you paid but no one, do you want to
Speaker 4: pay ten dollars for a paper?
Speaker 3: Well no, I don't think you have to make it
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, if don't pay minimum wage
Speaker 2: and there was pay something a little more responsible. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: you're gonna they're gonna go out of business either way.
Speaker 2: I guess what why did you go out in style?
Speaker 2: Don't be Willie May's playing center field for the Mets
Speaker 2: in the last two years.
Speaker 6: And and I and I think you're right, but I
Speaker 6: don't think that they can. There's not enough advertisement in
Speaker 6: their papers to afford the cost of the printing. And
Speaker 6: and like you said, like I have days where I
Speaker 6: don't get like we get we don't get the Globe anymore.
Speaker 6: We do the And the funny thing is is you
Speaker 6: do the Globe deal. They send you a deal where
Speaker 6: you're gonna get a discounted price for the first forty weeks,
Speaker 6: and then when that price runs out. Yeah, to try
Speaker 6: to call them in disconnect like you were saying before,
Speaker 6: and so I think they did that on purpose.
Speaker 3: Well, here's what I think you can do on that.
Speaker 3: Just tell you a credit card that you have stopped.
Speaker 3: You've the globe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the credit card wants to keep your business. So yeah,
Speaker 2: tell me about mcass here what you saw that. And
Speaker 2: again if if you can do it in a minute
Speaker 2: or so, great, if you kind of hold you over
Speaker 2: the globe today talked about m CAST scores, particularly in
Speaker 2: English English language arts performance down for every group, every group, Asian, White, black,
Speaker 2: or Latino.
Speaker 6: That's the show. Here's here, here's my MCAST issue is.
Speaker 6: And if you have to go to break, Yeah, let.
Speaker 3: Me go to break.
Speaker 2: Let me go to break, and I'll pick you up
Speaker 2: on the other side and we'll get to all the
Speaker 2: callers on the line.
Speaker 3: I promise. Okay, stay right there. We'll get back with Greg.
Speaker 2: He knew we were going to talk about MCAST, but
Speaker 2: I'm we're going to stick with the globe delivery. So
Speaker 2: trust me, if you're Tom and Watertown, Poller and Hampshire,
Speaker 2: Matt and Walpole, Karen in Wisconsin. Even I don't know
Speaker 2: if Karen gets delivered the Globe in Wisconsin we'll find
Speaker 2: out back on Nightside right after the break here for
Speaker 2: the newscast for the news at nine thirty on Nightside.
Speaker 1: If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the calls. We were
Speaker 2: talking with Greg from the north Shore. Greg, go right ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm going to push you a little bit here on
Speaker 2: your comments because you've had a little bit of time,
Speaker 2: but you go right ahead.
Speaker 6: So I live in a town that's having a problem
Speaker 6: with their school committee. Okay, And as far as you
Speaker 6: go about the mcast, yep, dmcasts were designed to make
Speaker 6: sure the teachers are doing a proper job.
Speaker 3: I believe that's an accurate comment observation.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's what they were completely designed for. So when
Speaker 6: they what they do is if a student fails, they
Speaker 6: get so all the questions are graded on a scale
Speaker 6: of one to five, and if a student fails, they
Speaker 6: get rid of the five and four questions and have
Speaker 6: them retake it, so they only get in. Like I said,
Speaker 6: the tests are scored.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So what you're saying is that the four
Speaker 2: and five questions are more difficult.
Speaker 6: You're exactly right.
Speaker 2: Well, look, the idea of mcast has been brilliant. It
Speaker 2: was it was good meaning Democrats and Republicans on Beacon
Speaker 2: Hill in the nineteen nineties who came together and said
Speaker 2: we got to do a better job. Look, the public
Speaker 2: schools are failing here in Massachusetts. We're not Mississippi or Alabama,
Speaker 2: but they're failing here in Massachusetts. The Teachers Union has
Speaker 2: fought against charter schools. Look at the big teacher strike
Speaker 2: that the city of Newton, of all places, the city
Speaker 2: of Newton, one of our premier cities, suffered through three
Speaker 2: weeks of no school last January for their kids. You
Speaker 2: remember that strike, Yes, and the teachers Union will tell you, well,
Speaker 2: we're we're concerned about the children. Come on the strike
Speaker 2: is Those strikes are always about money. Our teacher's underpaid. Yes,
Speaker 2: there's no question. Should they be paid more, Sure they should.
Speaker 2: They should be paid a million dollars a year. But
Speaker 2: you can't pay a teacher a million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: You know, if you want to make a million dollars
Speaker 2: a year, go play for the Red Sox or the
Speaker 2: Celtics or the Bruins.
Speaker 8: Dan.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you, like if you if I offered
Speaker 6: you a job where.
Speaker 8: You got.
Speaker 4: Four months a year off.
Speaker 3: No, I know this.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of plass to it. And don't they
Speaker 2: don't get four months. They they teach from September. They
Speaker 2: get July in August, so it's not four I mean
Speaker 2: there's some vacation.
Speaker 6: How many holidays are there in between them.
Speaker 3: I understand that, I understand that. I'm not here to
Speaker 3: bass teachers.
Speaker 2: I'm just here to simply try to try to say
Speaker 2: that we gotta we got to get to work on this.
Speaker 3: Greg. I'll come back to this probably more often.
Speaker 6: Than than so I just want to say this about DMCAST.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be when they got to be quick.
Speaker 6: When they went like they eliminate the hard questions from
Speaker 6: the kids' tests. Yeah, you've already told us that, and
Speaker 6: they just let you retake the test. Okay, So if
Speaker 6: I if I.
Speaker 8: Let you you take the the hardest questions, there is
Speaker 8: no way on growing like eventually you'll just have ones
Speaker 8: for questions.
Speaker 2: No, I understand that. I do understand that. But again,
Speaker 2: we've gone a long time on both subjects. So I
Speaker 2: got other folks. I cannot be as generous to them
Speaker 2: as I have been to you.
Speaker 3: So we will talk again, Dan, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you my friend. Talk to you about that. Next up,
Speaker 3: Tom and water out. Tom. I think you want to
Speaker 3: talk about newspaper delivery.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I want to rave about my globe delivery person.
Speaker 9: You go right ahead, Yes, yeah, she never misses. She
Speaker 9: lives in Waltham. I know her address because you leave
Speaker 9: me in the envelope I mean now and then, which
Speaker 9: I was ashamed to say that I don't fill it
Speaker 9: because I give her a tip in the bill there.
Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you that.
Speaker 9: I will tell you, Yeah, I will tell you that
Speaker 9: she doesn't. She sends her husband there and all to
Speaker 9: fill it out there and all. So I think it's
Speaker 9: a you get to know you're a delivery person like
Speaker 9: that and all, and they come around a certain time
Speaker 9: of the day or they should there and all. And
Speaker 9: if you're around there, you know, say hello, when what's
Speaker 9: going on? But still it's I say, yeah, the problem
Speaker 9: is problem get deliverers. And you think it isn't just
Speaker 9: going to the next street or something like she comes
Speaker 9: in from and all.
Speaker 3: So well, I'm I'm glad.
Speaker 2: You're a happy camper. Tom, I'm glad you're a happy camper.
Speaker 2: It's like if you go to a restaurant and you
Speaker 2: get shirt of the bad meal. The fact that that
Speaker 2: I'm sitting next to you and I say, man, this
Speaker 2: lobster is great, Tom, you should have tried the lobster.
Speaker 3: That doesn't make you feel any better.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm here, uh only for a
Speaker 2: few months during the year, and every year it's the
Speaker 2: same delivery person I got. I wrote, I wrote her
Speaker 2: a check uh in late August. I think that was
Speaker 2: that was her swan song, because you know, I think
Speaker 2: they said you that, Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't Christmas.
Speaker 9: It wasn't the problem with the globe, and you get
Speaker 9: the problem with the red sox and where was there
Speaker 9: something else going on there? That's something. But Denise got
Speaker 9: my applause there.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope I got your applause to Tom, because
Speaker 2: guess what, You've got a good delivery person. Enjoy her
Speaker 2: value her. Try calling the Globe if she ever misses,
Speaker 2: and hopefully she won't. You try calling the Globe and
Speaker 2: you're going to get the automated phone system. You won't
Speaker 2: be able to talk to a human being. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, someone living on Mars will be able
Speaker 2: to talk to a human being easier than you can
Speaker 2: as a subscriber to the globe to get to a
Speaker 2: human being, they will have an equal chance. Let me
Speaker 2: put it like that, thank you for the cause.
Speaker 9: At dunkin Donuts, m Cast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 9: I'm talking to a couple of kids in high school.
Speaker 9: There's a you think of the men in cast. I
Speaker 9: got to vote here in November, and what do you
Speaker 9: guys think about it? It's awful hide there in all that.
Speaker 9: I really know what's going on there and all, and
Speaker 9: I know it's English math science. Then they pop up
Speaker 9: with the physics on top of that, and I don't
Speaker 9: know what you know how that got in there. But
Speaker 9: there's still the young they were talking about it's hard.
Speaker 9: And I asked them if they felt pressure about doing
Speaker 9: it and all, and they answer yes, there and all
Speaker 9: in that one.
Speaker 3: And so let me give you a clue.
Speaker 2: The next time you talk to those kids, tell them
Speaker 2: life is hard and there's a lot of pressure if
Speaker 2: you want to succeed in life as well. And that's
Speaker 2: a little bit of what school is like you're supposed
Speaker 2: to learn.
Speaker 9: I probably won't see him again.
Speaker 2: Well next time, next time you talk to someone. Life
Speaker 2: is hard. Life is hard. There's a lot of kids
Speaker 2: their age are who are in the US military. You
Speaker 2: want to talk about life being hard, study for the test.
Speaker 2: We can either go to social promotion. You want to
Speaker 2: continue with social promotion. How old are you seventeen? Okay,
Speaker 2: you're a senior. Now, we don't really care whether you
Speaker 2: learned anything or not. We're going to socially promote you.
Speaker 2: You'll graduate when you're eighteen and you're out in the
Speaker 2: real world. And good luck Jack, because we didn't do
Speaker 2: our job and you're screwed for the next fifty years.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Thanks talking.
Speaker 9: So we've got well.
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you got a great newspaper deliver and
Speaker 2: a great well and a great school system.
Speaker 3: You're doubly blessed. Tom.
Speaker 9: Thank you for calling, first time calor.
Speaker 2: First time caller that's come on back anytime to give
Speaker 2: you a ride in the frost from my digital audience.
Speaker 3: Thanks Tom, talk to you soon. Bye bye. Paula in
Speaker 3: New Hampshire. Paula, next time, night.
Speaker 10: Right ahead, good even, Thank you so much for taking
Speaker 10: my gous. I gotta tell you you hit the nail
Speaker 10: on the head.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 10: Never I thought I was the only one, because that's
Speaker 10: just the world I live in. Ye I'm with you,
Speaker 10: the frustration of trying to communicate with somebody.
Speaker 11: About something you're paying for, something that you are you know,
Speaker 11: you want, something that.
Speaker 10: You're looking forward to, and next.
Speaker 11: Thing you find out, uh, another head. I can't say
Speaker 11: it enough.
Speaker 10: We're not employing people in our own communities. I'm not
Speaker 10: here in New Hampshire, born and raised in Massachusetts. I'm
Speaker 10: only a few miles over the border.
Speaker 2: One of the refugees who have fled the state. It's
Speaker 2: like South Korea, North Korea.
Speaker 11: You know there you go night and day. So what
Speaker 11: is happening is you know, technology have pushed away this
Speaker 11: with the good old days of gone picking up a
Speaker 11: paper on Sunday morning. I got gentlemen coming into.
Speaker 10: My store all the time. You got the newspaper. Then,
Speaker 10: don't want to get involved with it. It's not worth it.
Speaker 3: I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, as a kid, and even as
Speaker 2: a young adult, you go to church on Sunday and
Speaker 2: they would have stacks of the Globe, stacks of the Herald,
Speaker 2: and you would pick up your Sunday newspaper at church,
Speaker 2: and what you know, and again, someone's gonna say, well,
Speaker 2: there's Dan talking about the good old days.
Speaker 3: You don't it.
Speaker 10: Worn's nothing wrong with that, Dan. The good old days
Speaker 10: is what made us.
Speaker 4: Who we are.
Speaker 11: You know, when somebody enjoys what they're doing, I mean,
Speaker 11: you deserve the respect knowledge.
Speaker 3: The Globe gives no respect to this subscriber respect.
Speaker 10: It's like people that I'm from, our communities. We got
Speaker 10: enough problems. We could go on and on about that.
Speaker 3: They used to.
Speaker 10: They used to, whether it's the Globe, whether it's the
Speaker 10: electric company. You pick up the phone, you get this
Speaker 10: onto me in a system, and you couldn't have said
Speaker 10: it any better. Well the cheese.
Speaker 2: I am so happy that that you now realize, and
Speaker 2: you keep listening, and you listen to that side.
Speaker 3: You you are not alone.
Speaker 2: Too many of us sitting in our rooms, to sit
Speaker 2: in our apartments, are sitting in our homes and think
Speaker 2: we're the only one that thinks this way. No, if
Speaker 2: I buy a product, if I go to a restaurant room,
Speaker 2: I want to walk out of that restaurant whatever I paid.
Speaker 2: I want to feel that I had I was treated well.
Speaker 10: It's as simplest we all deserve that. I'm the top.
Speaker 10: We're looking for a little happiness, a little respect.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you, Paula. And I'm going to brag
Speaker 2: a little bit here. I had someone, I had someone
Speaker 2: today send me an email and they said, there was
Speaker 2: a guest on a show that Morgan White did, and
Speaker 2: could I look up the guests? And I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I can't go through Morgan's tapes. However, I answered that
Speaker 2: person's email and I said, why don't you give our
Speaker 2: newsroom a call. It will be a person who I
Speaker 2: gave them the newsroom number. There will be a person
Speaker 2: who will answer the phone, and they then can pass
Speaker 2: a message on to Morgan. And Morgan may want to
Speaker 2: call you back. I call people back. I view, if
Speaker 2: you listen to.
Speaker 10: My show, you get engaged, You engage yourself, you involve yourself.
Speaker 3: But if you listen to my show, Paula, and you
Speaker 3: contact me, you're my customer. You know you're my.
Speaker 11: Customer the phone tonight, I'm out here and MPSH door
Speaker 11: dash and making deliveries. You answered my call tonight because
Speaker 11: it matters. And if the globe's going on the and
Speaker 11: if these businesses I've get in their time because they're
Speaker 11: not carried.
Speaker 5: You say, it's the.
Speaker 3: Nail on that, paul Thank you so much.
Speaker 10: They're not putting themselves out there.
Speaker 2: Come on back, Come on back soon. You're always welcome
Speaker 2: here on Nightside.
Speaker 6: Paula.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I hope you have a wonderful even man, and
Speaker 10: I love listening to you.
Speaker 3: I hope you do as well with me.
Speaker 10: You're giving me about forty eight forty nine years growing
Speaker 10: up listening to y'all ever since I was little on
Speaker 10: this radio station with my father. So you know one,
Speaker 10: I'm glad to be able to do it well.
Speaker 3: We love you, Paula. Thank you so much. Coming back soon.
Speaker 12: Okay, have a great nask.
Speaker 2: We take a break, take a break, be right back.
Speaker 2: We'll keep talking. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, Nicole Davis has just passed on to
Speaker 2: us that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted.
Speaker 3: On federal criminal charges.
Speaker 2: According to people with knowledge of the matter, will be
Speaker 2: the first mayor in the history of New York to
Speaker 2: be charged while in office. WHOA, that's a big story.
Speaker 2: That is a big story. But this is a big
Speaker 2: story too. And we will continue with it. Let me
Speaker 2: go to uh next up, Karen and Wisconsin. Karen, how
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 13: Fine? Maybe I'll read that in the Globe in the morning.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I would hope, so I would.
Speaker 12: If it's delivered it.
Speaker 3: So do you get your newspaper delivered on time out there, Karen?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 13: I when you said that, it just reminded me of
Speaker 13: of when we called up and Bradley was no longer
Speaker 13: in the air. And that's the same feeling you know again.
Speaker 2: Fortunately, Karen, as much as I'd love to talk about that,
Speaker 2: I got to get us back on top.
Speaker 11: It's not what.
Speaker 13: I'm talking about. So then you said I could get
Speaker 13: the Globe, Well, well, I could get the Globe delivered.
Speaker 13: But I guess I'm getting more news by listening to you,
Speaker 13: because it's the Globe. I can't even give you the
Speaker 13: respect call you when you're right in the city. You're
Speaker 13: telling me that they're sending you to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Oh well, they're referring you to someone in Phoenix who
Speaker 2: has no clue about you know, the greater Boston area
Speaker 2: or Massachusetts o New England.
Speaker 13: And I'm right there with him. I'll let you go
Speaker 13: but I agree with you. I'm so mad with you. Okay,
Speaker 13: all right, you're not mad with me.
Speaker 3: You're you're mad. You have my back and were shouldered.
Speaker 13: It's right. And I won't order the globe because I'll
Speaker 13: never get it out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have good luck with that. You'd get
Speaker 2: it back paying express. Thanks, great night, Good night, Madison Walpole.
Speaker 2: Mat'm gonna get you and two more in here. I
Speaker 2: do have a guest coming up at ten o'clock. Go ahead, Matt,
Speaker 2: I'll be quick.
Speaker 12: Ray, thanks so much. First time call a long time listener.
Speaker 3: And let's get a round of applause for Matt to all.
Speaker 12: Right, listen forever since for the past twenty years, especially
Speaker 12: start out with my dad. So anyways, I just wanted
Speaker 12: to say, first off, the driver, the driver for the
Speaker 12: newspaper like that pays only forty seven thousand dollars. I
Speaker 12: just looked this up. Forty seven thousand dollars an hour.
Speaker 12: The third time, you know, over time, you're working like.
Speaker 3: Forty seven thousand dollars a year, not an.
Speaker 12: Hour, I hope, sorry, sorry, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, yeah yeah, at forty seven an hour.
Speaker 12: Yeah no. But then the other thing is like it's
Speaker 12: you know, I think you're suggesting like for people who
Speaker 12: are retired to do the job, it only works like
Speaker 12: from twelve am to you know, eight eight am, So
Speaker 12: that doesn't like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And then also you got to work all over well, Matt,
Speaker 2: when you talk about the drivers, you're talking about the
Speaker 2: drivers who are driving the.
Speaker 3: Big globe trucks. They probably have to have a CDL license.
Speaker 3: Their teamsters. I'm talking about once the globes.
Speaker 2: Are delivered to a local area, the someone comes by
Speaker 2: and they put the they know what they're root is.
Speaker 3: They might deliver one hundred papers. That's all they're doing
Speaker 3: in the morning. And they only were still doing it.
Speaker 12: Five in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do it from like five till nine, from
Speaker 3: five o'clock.
Speaker 12: And then the unemployment rates only three point seven percent.
Speaker 12: I mean, there's a lot of other jobs that are out.
Speaker 12: I can understand why, and I can understand your frustrations
Speaker 12: and the absolutely right. The other thing I want to
Speaker 12: say with the the USMN cast, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yes, I.
Speaker 12: Agree with what you're saying, like that it should be
Speaker 12: it should be kept. I just don't think it should
Speaker 12: be kept as like the end all be all of
Speaker 12: how you graduate.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that whole debate. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: keep listening. We're going to do a story. I think
Speaker 2: it's on October eighth, if I'm not mistaken. H And
Speaker 2: we made I hit that two or three times because
Speaker 2: it's a valid question here in Massachusetts and I want
Speaker 2: everyone to understand it.
Speaker 3: Matt. I got to get one more in. Okay, appreciate you,
Speaker 3: Thanks very much, you much appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Ed and Wooster and I gotta get you in here.
Speaker 2: You got less than a minute, go for it.
Speaker 7: I would say the Globe delivery problems and the Mcast
Speaker 7: scores falling. I mean, it's just two sides of the
Speaker 7: same thing that has many different other assets. It's basically
Speaker 7: a war on competence and a war on excellence. And
Speaker 7: it's because the people who publish the Globe, who write
Speaker 7: for the Globe, and the people who agree with its
Speaker 7: point of view, they think there are masters and they
Speaker 7: don't care what we think. They don't care about us.
Speaker 7: Where are irrelevant?
Speaker 3: I wish you had called earlier.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna maybe come back to this issue at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. So I'm going to give you permission to
Speaker 2: call back at eleven o'clock if you would like and
Speaker 2: amplify on that fair enough, Okay, call back at eleven,
Speaker 2: very really do I do that, But this is an
Speaker 2: excellent point.
Speaker 3: To Theodore and Paul in Wakefield.
Speaker 2: You guys will also have priority at eleven, but I
Speaker 2: had guest scheduled next hour. Great topic coming up. The
Speaker 2: Chinese government is growing illegal marijuana in Maine and nothing,
Speaker 2: virtually nothing being done about it. That was in the
Speaker 2: Globe today, a year after the story was broken by
Speaker 2: the Gentleman we'll be talking to right after the ten