Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a tough loss for the for the
Speaker 2: Red Stars Star. I mean, it's one thing when you
Speaker 2: get blown out. It's another thing when you battle to
Speaker 2: the wire. But to have a six to nothing lead
Speaker 2: and have it disappear, that's not That's one of those
Speaker 2: losses that you might look back on in September and say, man,
Speaker 2: that's one we should have won. Anyway, my name's Dan Ray,
Speaker 2: the host of nights Side. Here we are on a
Speaker 2: Wednesday night. We have less than an hour left in
Speaker 2: the month of April. April is an interesting month. It's
Speaker 2: sort of one of those months that it's kind of
Speaker 2: a bridge month. It's a bridge from the the waning
Speaker 2: winter weeks of March to the I think the best
Speaker 2: weeks and maybe the best month of the year, which
Speaker 2: is May. So we will we will talk about that,
Speaker 2: I'm sure at some point later on this week, maybe
Speaker 2: tomorrow night, by the way, Tomorrow night, just to bring
Speaker 2: up to date, we will have the WBC car guys,
Speaker 2: Scott and Larry, or Larry and Scott, father and son.
Speaker 2: They're the best. They'll answer all your questions about your
Speaker 2: automotive questions about what you're going to need to do
Speaker 2: to get your car and tip top driving shape for
Speaker 2: the summer driving season, and all of that, whether or
Speaker 2: not to get what flow would you have to get
Speaker 2: rid of, what flu would you have to replace, all
Speaker 2: those questions, what your tie, your tie of pressure should
Speaker 2: be right on down the line. And if you're looking
Speaker 2: at a new car, or for that matter, or a
Speaker 2: used car, you run by that, you run that information
Speaker 2: by Larry and Scott and they will help you out
Speaker 2: in terms of what you might expect to pay or
Speaker 2: whether or not what you are intend to pay is
Speaker 2: more or less than you should pay. So we'll get
Speaker 2: to all of that, and then tomorrow I will also
Speaker 2: talk with former state Representative Dave Nagel, who got into
Speaker 2: a problem gambling problem that he had dealt with since
Speaker 2: he was a teenager, and he will tell his whole story.
Speaker 2: He ended up being indicted in federal court for some
Speaker 2: fraud charges because he used no public funds but his
Speaker 2: campaign funds, which are private funds, money that he raised
Speaker 2: for things that he shouldn't have and he was indicted
Speaker 2: and pled guilty and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
Speaker 2: During the time of COVID. He served seven months, which
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to serve seven days, seven hours, but
Speaker 2: he served seven months, and he'll talk about what he
Speaker 2: learned and how he has changed, and how he hopes
Speaker 2: to reclaim his life and contribute again to society. So
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to talking with him tomorrow night. I
Speaker 2: hope all of you are as well, along with the
Speaker 2: WBC car guys. Now, a couple of things we could
Speaker 2: continue to talk about these judges who've been arrested in Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: in Mexico. Every one of the callers during the eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock news were excellent callers because they listened. I took
Speaker 2: the time to read the specifics of the charges what
Speaker 2: these judges are specifically charged with doing. Now you might say, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think it was that serious, or
Speaker 2: I think it was really serious. That's fine. So if
Speaker 2: you want to talk about that, I'll give you a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes to light the lines up. And if not,
Speaker 2: I got a couple of other ideas six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty as one number and six nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. All I can do is come up
Speaker 2: with topics that I hope my audience is interested in.
Speaker 2: That's what it comes down to, and it's almost like
Speaker 2: a Petri dish. Every night here on Night Side. Very
Speaker 2: rarely we had a good hour last hour I was.
Speaker 2: I thought that we might get two hours out of that.
Speaker 2: If we don't, we're going to move on. I have
Speaker 2: a couple of options that I can always use, and
Speaker 2: I used the option pretty rarely, one of which is
Speaker 2: an open line option. Very rarely do I go open lines,
Speaker 2: but sometimes, and I might be convinced tonight might be
Speaker 2: a good night to do open lines and give you
Speaker 2: an opportunity to ask anything you want, comment on anything
Speaker 2: you'd like to talk about. You basically get control of
Speaker 2: the agenda. Will I don't relinquish the control often. The
Speaker 2: other issue that I'm thinking of, and this is one
Speaker 2: that I really would love to hear, what you think.
Speaker 2: You know, We've gone through so many arguments about public schools,
Speaker 2: private schools, and we're talking primarily about high schools, but
Speaker 2: we're also talking about elementary schools and junior high schools
Speaker 2: and parochial schools, private schools, charter schools. There's a variety
Speaker 2: of homeschooling, variety of ways in which young peop people
Speaker 2: can earn their high school diploma and then if they
Speaker 2: are so inclined, to go on to college. But here's
Speaker 2: one that I actually was thinking of having this guy's
Speaker 2: guy on. I'm not sure if I will. His name
Speaker 2: is Mitch Francis, and his public relations person solicited us.
Speaker 2: And this is what the public relations person wrote, Hello Dan,
Speaker 2: with kids headed back to school soon. They've been in
Speaker 2: school for a few months, but that's okay. Maybe they're
Speaker 2: talking about after vacations or something like that. Do you
Speaker 2: need a thought provoking guest with bold ideas about how
Speaker 2: to fix America's broken public schools? We have Mitch Francis,
Speaker 2: author of I'm going to say, I'm going to substitute
Speaker 2: the word but here. Okay, bad butt Solutions. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking you know, you know, a synonym for
Speaker 2: the word but like your rear end, bad butt solutions
Speaker 2: of today's big butt problems, to discuss why we should
Speaker 2: ban private schools to save public schools. It's really interesting.
Speaker 2: A lot of folks in this country like to believe,
Speaker 2: like to believe in incrementalism. The left in America is
Speaker 2: really good. Well, we just get a little tax rate
Speaker 2: here we'll raise your real estate taxes just a little bit,
Speaker 2: and we'll wait in two years from now, I'll come
Speaker 2: back for another increase in taxes. Here in Massachusetts, way
Speaker 2: we tax the millionaires, We're not going to tax you.
Speaker 2: We're just going to tax the millionaires extra money. All
Speaker 2: of that. It's it's it's incrementalism. Okay, we're going to
Speaker 2: have a few bike lanes in certain parts of the city,
Speaker 2: and then eventually there are bike lanes everywhere. However, public
Speaker 2: schools are are failing students across this country, and there's
Speaker 2: lots of arguments about what needs to be done. Should
Speaker 2: there be more money spent on public schools, should public
Speaker 2: schools be different? The charter schools have been very successful,
Speaker 2: But it seems to me when someone basically says, in
Speaker 2: order to save public schools, you have to ban private schools,
Speaker 2: to me, that just shows one how dumb people are.
Speaker 2: I would call that a dumb butt solution to uh
Speaker 2: to today's big butt problems. It's a dumb butt solution
Speaker 2: to say, well, we're going to get rid of the
Speaker 2: Belmont Hills and the BC Highs and the Catholic Memorials,
Speaker 2: Roxbury Latin Schools, and Phillips and over all these You know,
Speaker 2: I could go on and on and on with the
Speaker 2: private high schools across New England. What what it's it's
Speaker 2: like if you're on the left, uh, and you believe
Speaker 2: even something what you want to do is force people
Speaker 2: to comply take choice away. They're in favor of choice
Speaker 2: in some in some respects, certainly on their pro choice
Speaker 2: in terms of a woman's right to choose, but they're
Speaker 2: they're that that whole concept of choice doesn't quite work
Speaker 2: in us some other areas. And this is a this
Speaker 2: is a blatant example, and I thank this author actually
Speaker 2: for being that blatant to know that there are people
Speaker 2: out there who want to ban private schools to make
Speaker 2: everyone go to inferior in many cases, inferior public schools anyway,
Speaker 2: which you have to pay for. Nonetheless, anyway, go to
Speaker 2: take a break. I will decide which way we're going
Speaker 2: to go. But in the meantime, feel free. Got a
Speaker 2: couple of ideas there. Six one seven, two thirty, six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine thirty. We'll come right back on nights Side.
Speaker 2: Right after this.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right. Uh, no one wants to talk about
Speaker 2: public schools. That's fine, So I will wave the white
Speaker 2: flag here and we're going to do forty minutes from
Speaker 2: now the rest of April open lines, whatever subject you
Speaker 2: want to talk about. We very rarely do this, but
Speaker 2: I'm giving you every opportunity. You can talk to me
Speaker 2: about anything you want. You can bring up any issue
Speaker 2: that you feel is important. You can tell me that
Speaker 2: I am missing a huge issue that we should be
Speaker 2: talking about. The lines are wide open six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four thirty six one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: What I we do here at night is I try
Speaker 2: to present the thoughts and ideas or the topics to
Speaker 2: my audience. I know my audience pretty well. I've been
Speaker 2: doing this for a long time, but very rarely I
Speaker 2: give you an opportunity to kind of take control of
Speaker 2: the controls. It's almost like on the pilot, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to walk back into the first class and coach
Speaker 2: division of the play and say, would anyone like to
Speaker 2: fly this thing? It's an automatic pilot up there. You
Speaker 2: can tell us what you would like to talk about.
Speaker 2: And I'm particularly interested hearing from some of you who
Speaker 2: have never called this radio station before, have never called
Speaker 2: this show before. Let me know what is on your mind.
Speaker 2: Let me know what topic is of interest to you.
Speaker 2: What is the pressing in the pressing issue or the
Speaker 2: most pressing issue in your life. We have here on
Speaker 2: Night's Side for eighteen years, covered a wide swath of issues,
Speaker 2: tried to bring you different topics. I do not like
Speaker 2: to do a program in which we talk about the
Speaker 2: same issue night after night after night. That's not what
Speaker 2: Nightside is all about. It is an opportunity for you
Speaker 2: now to jump on board and let me know what
Speaker 2: interests you that you've never heard, that you've never talked
Speaker 2: about here on Nightside. Or if you want to express
Speaker 2: an opinion. You want to express an opinion about Donald
Speaker 2: Trump or Joe Biden or whatever, that's fine too. Let's
Speaker 2: go right to the phone. Is going to give everybody
Speaker 2: an opportunity. Let me go to Scott and Quincy. Hey, Scott,
Speaker 2: you're a regular caller. Thank you very much for calling in.
Speaker 2: This is open Lines, buddy. You you set the agenda.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was quick. But anyways, Open Lines.
Speaker 4: So one of the things I'd like to ask you
Speaker 4: about is, you know I listened to b Z all day,
Speaker 4: every day, okay, And one of the things that.
Speaker 3: Upsets me the most is.
Speaker 4: There is a bill that Mara Healy pushed through under
Speaker 4: the guise of a quote unquote gun control bill, the
Speaker 4: Act to Modernize Firearms or some ridiculous name.
Speaker 3: And what it did was.
Speaker 4: So I'm a license owner, you know, with a testol permit,
Speaker 4: if you have an fi D card, which.
Speaker 3: Is just for long guns.
Speaker 4: I normally hunters have these for their dear rifles and things.
Speaker 4: And what this bill did was it made it illegal for.
Speaker 3: People who had the FID card.
Speaker 1: To own.
Speaker 4: Semi automatic hunting rifles and shotguns, which are basically a
Speaker 4: large majority of hunting class weapons.
Speaker 3: Like the Browning eleven hundred.
Speaker 4: And when BZ reports on the pro Second Amendment people
Speaker 4: trying to get together and we peel the bill, all
Speaker 4: they say is all the Second Amendment people want to
Speaker 4: peel this bill that bans ghost guns.
Speaker 3: And creates red fly claws.
Speaker 4: But that's not the case at all. That one of
Speaker 4: the main aspects of opposing this bill is it basically
Speaker 4: makes some of the most common commonly available firearms that
Speaker 4: people depend on owning illegal for the vast majority of
Speaker 4: licensed gun owners in the Commonwealth to have it literally
Speaker 4: created a huge class of felons in the state for
Speaker 4: the stroke of pens, you know, and.
Speaker 2: They understand that. And if I can comment on that,
Speaker 2: I'd like to just say, as clearly as I can say,
Speaker 2: blame that. Don't blame the governor. I mean, you can
Speaker 2: blame the governor if you want that, you have to
Speaker 2: blame blame the gun owners in the state. And what
Speaker 2: I mean that's thought, is that elections do have consequences.
Speaker 2: And what happens in a case of saying, maur Heey,
Speaker 2: I think that if we sat down with mar Healey,
Speaker 2: you and me for lunch someday, then said to her,
Speaker 2: listen to God, he can explain this to you, and
Speaker 2: if she was inclined, she probably would agree with you. Okay,
Speaker 2: But that's not the way it works. So what happens
Speaker 2: is whoever is the governor listens to the people who
Speaker 2: support that candidate. And when you get a you know,
Speaker 2: a leftist, a progressive governor like mar Heey in office,
Speaker 2: people will come into her and say, how do you
Speaker 2: feel about gun control? Well, I want to cut down
Speaker 2: the number of people who are killed, you know, kids, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 2: And so someone draws up legislation. I don't think the
Speaker 2: governor understands the legislature. She knows the legislation is going
Speaker 2: to make it more difficult for certain people to have guns,
Speaker 2: and she sees that as a good thing. But if
Speaker 2: the gun owners in Massachusetts sit back and allow this
Speaker 2: to become a one party state, what do you think?
Speaker 2: What do they think is going to happen?
Speaker 3: Scott, you know, I'm not I'm not I understand.
Speaker 2: Castigating you at all. You you call this program all the time,
Speaker 2: but I've done shows on the Second Amendment, and you
Speaker 2: don't hear from the gun orner gunners. There's there's few.
Speaker 2: There's a guy named Jim Wallace who's really good, and
Speaker 2: I've had him on the show, but a lot of
Speaker 2: the guys show yeah and he's and he's good. But
Speaker 2: a lot of the guys who have guns and our hunters,
Speaker 2: they're rugged individualists. They don't want to listen to talk radio,
Speaker 2: they don't want to work for a candidate. They want
Speaker 2: to get out and do their thing. And they assume
Speaker 2: that that because they live in Massachusetts, Massachusetts will stay
Speaker 2: the way it always is. No, it's going to go
Speaker 2: more and more progressive, and there will be more and
Speaker 2: more limitations on people's access and ownership of and it
Speaker 2: doesn't change until you change the political leadership in estate.
Speaker 2: That's not what you want to hear. That's the truth.
Speaker 3: No, I know.
Speaker 4: But the point of discussion that I was going to
Speaker 4: try and get to is, you know, the newsreaders and
Speaker 4: the copywriters when they do these news spots about the
Speaker 4: Second Amendment people trying to overturn the bill, they just say, oh,
Speaker 4: ghost guns and red flag laws. They don't say and oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, the Second Amendment. People are opposing this
Speaker 4: because of what it does for restrictions on I mean,
Speaker 4: automatic hunting rifles. Why are the newswriters like they're so
Speaker 4: by it?
Speaker 2: As that question for you. The answer to the question
Speaker 2: is painfully obvious. The newswriters are writing stories that go
Speaker 2: twenty seconds thirty seconds max. That's just the way what
Speaker 2: newswriters write. They're not writing in depth reports you've heard
Speaker 2: you didn't listen to the Hour Last Hour, I assume,
Speaker 2: but I advance, Okay, I read very specifically what the judges,
Speaker 2: the judges in Wisconsin and New Mexico are alleged to
Speaker 2: have done. I had listened all week long to the
Speaker 2: news stations and to TV stations. Look at the evening news,
Speaker 2: it's a minute and a half. Let's go here. They're
Speaker 2: all talking in hand. Okay, they don't have the time.
Speaker 2: The people, the consultants for TV have said, look, gotta
Speaker 2: get them quick, gotta give them plenty of stories. It's look,
Speaker 2: it just it's it's axiomatic, Scott. What would you need
Speaker 2: is a talk show like this that will actually layout
Speaker 2: chapter and verse on this topic or on the topics
Speaker 2: of the judges, so people understand that last hour, everyone
Speaker 2: agreed with me because I took the time to read
Speaker 2: it and explain it. That's what a talk show does.
Speaker 2: But all these these these these gun owners, these Second
Speaker 2: Amendment guys, when was the last time they took the
Speaker 2: time to call a talk show and say, hey, you
Speaker 2: know what, I think that it's a good idea that
Speaker 2: that we become a two party state, that we elect
Speaker 2: some and we have some balance of the legislation. You
Speaker 2: have no balance. And as long as you have no balance,
Speaker 2: certain certain groups of people are going to always be
Speaker 2: their rights are going to be diminished. And you have
Speaker 2: identified the problem. I have identified a solution.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I thought those judges, I think those judges
Speaker 4: should go to jail.
Speaker 3: That was a great segment.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I'm always willing to talk talk to
Speaker 2: you buddies, you your gun, your your your gun owners.
Speaker 2: I believe in the Second Amendment. I think I want
Speaker 2: people to have the right to bear arms. I believe
Speaker 2: that's what the Constitution says. But there are people who
Speaker 2: say no. They It's like the person who wants to
Speaker 2: be in private schools. The way to save public schools
Speaker 2: is to get rid of the competition. Make everybody go
Speaker 2: to private go to public schools. Brilliant, what a stupid idea.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: And all I'm saying is as we talk about here
Speaker 2: at nightside, and if people don't want to talk about it,
Speaker 2: that's fine. That's that's their choice. If gun owners are
Speaker 2: out there and they want to have me do something
Speaker 2: on gun ownership, I have. But I think most gun
Speaker 2: owners are rugged individual individualists who want to go to
Speaker 2: the woods and hunt. They don't want to talk to me,
Speaker 2: they don't want to talk to the audience. And when
Speaker 2: they lose their rights, they can look in the mirror.
Speaker 2: They don't have to blame Governor Heally. Governor Heally is
Speaker 2: doing what instinctively she believes is correct, with the assistance
Speaker 2: of lawyers and advisors who will write legislation which will
Speaker 2: which will diminish your your freedoms.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I'll do the best I can to be
Speaker 3: that voice you know.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you will. You were voiced tonight. I
Speaker 2: hope some people woke up and listen tonight. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens. They can call me during the day and
Speaker 2: they can suggest topics at night. Always interested. Thank you, Scott.
Speaker 2: All right, well, talk to you later six seven thirty.
Speaker 2: You can't be defeatists, but you have to recognize reality.
Speaker 2: The first the first step of the road to success
Speaker 2: is recognize reality. And what I just told Scott is reality.
Speaker 2: People aren't going to want to hear it, but that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's reality. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 2: Feel free to join. I'd love to hear from some
Speaker 2: first time callers as well. What would you like to
Speaker 2: hear on Nightside? Coming right back.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to the phones. We have
Speaker 2: full lines. Let's see what people have to say. That's
Speaker 2: what this is all about. Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, next
Speaker 2: time nights take go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Hey are you doing Dan?
Speaker 2: Good? Jamie? What's your your question or comment?
Speaker 6: Well, this open, open talk, Yes, sir, Mike was perfect
Speaker 6: time for me because I wanted to know.
Speaker 5: I go back and forth between you and sports. I
Speaker 5: listened to sports information, sure, and I listening to the
Speaker 5: dominating thing on the news this whole week in that
Speaker 5: category has been Bill Belichick and his book and that
Speaker 5: girl that's interfering, that's interfering with everything. I don't know
Speaker 5: if you've been following that.
Speaker 2: I have, Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5: And what was your reaction.
Speaker 7: To her being there at the interview and then that
Speaker 7: post that came out recently on Instagram, I mean on
Speaker 7: x that had worries that on Belichick Lake.
Speaker 2: Well, he's public he's publicizing his book, so he's going
Speaker 2: to do national network interviews and he's going to try
Speaker 2: to do it on his terms. She is there, uh,
Speaker 2: and in a role I guess. He says that not
Speaker 2: only is she a close personal friend, but she's also
Speaker 2: sort of his protector or guru or guidance or whatever.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that's that's always the struggle when people are trying
Speaker 2: to sell a book. Most of the people do I
Speaker 2: interview here on Night Side. They have a cause separate
Speaker 2: and apart from themselves and selling the book. Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: tonight we talked with an author who had talked about
Speaker 2: anxiety and how to overcome anxiety. Yeah, they want to
Speaker 2: sell the book, but they don't have the big name
Speaker 2: that Bill Belichick does. So Belichick has the name. It's
Speaker 2: like when people interview an ex president, you know, Barack Obama.
Speaker 2: The leverage that the author has is greater than the interviewer,
Speaker 2: and they sacrifice some of their independence. And clearly they sacrificed.
Speaker 2: Was it I think it was CBS sacrifice some of
Speaker 2: their independence with Belichick. And Belichick is a guy. Look,
Speaker 2: we've watched them at press conferences.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Used to ask, you know, coach, what happened the Patriots
Speaker 2: lost today? How did that happen?
Speaker 3: The team?
Speaker 2: The other team scored more points? Next question?
Speaker 3: You know, I mean what puzzled?
Speaker 6: Like she'd kept jumping into the conversation like she wanted
Speaker 6: to be a part of it. And it's Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2: You and well, unless Bill Belichick was going to say
Speaker 2: to his to his you know, his closest friend there
Speaker 2: a new friend, Hey, look I can handle this. Please
Speaker 2: just sit there and be quiet, He's not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: So you got to understand as a reporter of the
Speaker 2: dynamic in which you're in, and this is a woman
Speaker 2: who has tremendous influence over Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick
Speaker 2: probably likes it that way because as opposed to getting
Speaker 2: sitting there being grilled about his personal life, she piped
Speaker 2: She just pipes up and says, we're not answering that.
Speaker 2: I mean, right, brilliant. He got all the publicity for
Speaker 2: the book. Plus it was brilliant when you look about it.
Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna read want to read the book now, even though.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because what a lot of the pundits were doing,
Speaker 9: we're like lost that words. The sports pundits are lost
Speaker 9: that words because they're like, how is she controlling his relationships?
Speaker 9: He's only twenty three and he's like nine years difference
Speaker 9: and stuff like that, and what happens to Bill Belichick?
Speaker 9: We knew and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you, when you're seventy three and
Speaker 2: you've been through a couple of marriages and you have
Speaker 2: a twenty three year old girlfriend. You think you're gonna
Speaker 2: listen to Yeah, I think so. Yeah, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: it's all leverage, baby. In my opinion, Jamie, do me
Speaker 2: your favor. Listen, listen more than Nights Side, and we'll
Speaker 2: we'll incorporate more sports. A lot of the sports talk
Speaker 2: is really uh, well, the Celtics go to win. You,
Speaker 2: I think the Celts are to win. The Celtics w
Speaker 2: and win because you know where they gonna win. They
Speaker 2: go to school more points than the Magic and plus
Speaker 2: you think the Celtics grew better team. What do you think? Well,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think the Celtics are a
Speaker 2: better team and they should win. Yeah, you're wasting your
Speaker 2: time listening to sports talk.
Speaker 5: Come on you, spiking mad. I listened to those stations.
Speaker 7: I get mad because, like I said, I'm a big
Speaker 7: Celtic fan, and they never give Teenn any credit.
Speaker 5: It's always all he's soft.
Speaker 2: Listen listen to my show, and you know I feel
Speaker 2: whenever I flip on sports radio, I feel sometimes brain
Speaker 2: cells dying.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The only reason I listened to it is for the information.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Really, Well, you called me, I'll give you all
Speaker 2: the information you need. Trust me on that one. Okay,
Speaker 2: uh yeah good. Someone once said that sports talk is
Speaker 2: like toys in the attic, you know if you want to.
Speaker 2: And I know my sports talk pals are going to
Speaker 2: disagree with me, but come on, you know they're not
Speaker 2: talking about the national debt, they're not talking about tariffs.
Speaker 5: They want to make a name for themselves. That's what
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and be outrageous. I'm interested in I'm really interested
Speaker 2: in talking about issues that affect your life and affect
Speaker 2: your kid's life. And I want to make you think.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's too many sports guys out there
Speaker 2: who really I listened.
Speaker 6: To, Like now that you said that, I listen to
Speaker 6: different sports people that interview and they're trying to show
Speaker 6: up the guests like not like you would never do that,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we have good conversations. It's just a
Speaker 2: whole different thing. Okay, it's you know, it's like, if
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not NPR here, I don't run this
Speaker 2: show like NPR. I'm not challenging everybody with big words.
Speaker 2: I want to have a conversation that people can enjoy.
Speaker 2: I pattern it off of North America's back porch. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you, you want to talk sports, sometimes I can
Speaker 2: talk I can talk sports. Anybody who knows me personally
Speaker 2: knows I can talk sports. Okay, I played I played sports.
Speaker 2: I represented professional athletes in my in my law practice.
Speaker 2: I was never a super duper big agent with one
Speaker 2: hundred clients because you can't serve the interest of one
Speaker 2: hundred people simultaneously. Jamie, I gotta run love your calls me.
Speaker 2: I keep listening to Nightside. Thank you say out in
Speaker 2: my sports bells when you talk to them. Let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling here, Gonna go to Eddie and Rosendale. Eddie, welcome,
Speaker 2: You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11: How are we doing?
Speaker 2: I think we're doing okay, But you'd be a better
Speaker 2: judge of that than me.
Speaker 8: Ed.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 11: Well, just two things real quick, so under judges, I
Speaker 11: agree with you one hundred and ten percent, but I
Speaker 11: just want to add something and it's my own opinion,
Speaker 11: you know it's that's one perfect example as to why
Speaker 11: the Democratic Party lass yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, you're not going
Speaker 2: to get a break if all of a sudden you get,
Speaker 2: you get, you get a problem, and you're in court,
Speaker 2: no judges coming off the bench and saying, hey, Eddie,
Speaker 2: let me slip you off the back door. You know
Speaker 2: the best. Maybe it's happened to you, but I don't
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 11: And all right, and then the other subject I want
Speaker 11: to bring up. You know, the marathon was over a
Speaker 11: week ago, and one of the things that people forget.
Speaker 11: You know, I may not agree with a lot of
Speaker 11: the stuff that Trump is doing, but I also agree
Speaker 11: with a lot of the things I used to doing. Yeah,
Speaker 11: one of the things that I agree with, he's keeping
Speaker 11: America safe. And what people forget is that. And again
Speaker 11: my personal opinion, if he was president during the time
Speaker 11: with the bombers, the Boston bombers, I don't think that
Speaker 11: would ever happen.
Speaker 2: I would hope not, you know, I would hope not.
Speaker 2: I think we fell asleep at the switch. The thing
Speaker 2: about the Boston the Boston bombers is that we after
Speaker 2: the Boston bombers. You know, we had the Boston Bombers,
Speaker 2: but before that, we had nine to eleven and we
Speaker 2: had the first attempt for the Remember they blew a
Speaker 2: truck up to try to bring down the World Trade
Speaker 2: Center and I think it was ninety four.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean they were out there, we knew they were
Speaker 2: out there. Where were our intelligence There was a there
Speaker 2: was an FBI woman, I forget her name, who was
Speaker 2: out in Minneapolis, and she knew that some of those
Speaker 2: guys were out there taking plane lessons at some of
Speaker 2: these airports. And they didn't want to know how to land.
Speaker 2: They didn't want to know how to take off. All
Speaker 2: they wanted to know was when you're up in the air,
Speaker 2: how do I fly the plane? Now? Do you think
Speaker 2: she tried to push that up the ladder within the
Speaker 2: FBI and it never went up the ladder, But you
Speaker 2: would think that any law enforcement person, And credit to her,
Speaker 2: she she yelled and she screamed, and no one listened.
Speaker 2: No one listened, No one listened.
Speaker 11: And that's why I think he's doing a better job
Speaker 11: trying to keep America safe.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope, so, I hope. So. I think closing
Speaker 2: the border has been a big success. And look, I'm
Speaker 2: not a huge Donald Trump guy. You probably if you
Speaker 2: listen to my show, you know I'm not in lockstep.
Speaker 2: I think that I think that, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: I think that this whole conversation about making Canada the
Speaker 2: fifty first state, we're going to take over Greenland. That's
Speaker 2: crazy talk. Why you wasted your time, why you wasted
Speaker 2: your political capital? Be like me saying, you know what
Speaker 2: I want to do. I haven't played baseball in about
Speaker 2: fifty years competitively, but I want to pitch for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox this summer. You know, you know, you'd say,
Speaker 2: what are you nuts?
Speaker 11: So it's almost like when Michael Jordan went to go
Speaker 11: play baseball, right, yeah, yeah, no, no, because you refresh
Speaker 11: my memories.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 11: The bust of bombers. Were they illegal immigrants or did
Speaker 11: they come through.
Speaker 12: The right way.
Speaker 2: I believe they came the proper way. They were getting
Speaker 2: all sorts of benefits. They were in public housing, they
Speaker 2: were on food stamps. The bomber number two became a
Speaker 2: US citizen the Labor Day, the September before the bombing
Speaker 2: in April of twenty fifteen. He was a US citizen.
Speaker 2: His brother wasn't a US citizen, but he was a
Speaker 2: US citizen when he planted those bombs.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, and then one of them. So the tracks
Speaker 11: when he visited, you know, he went to I forgot where.
Speaker 2: He went Aagistan, Gagistan pat as bad part of the world,
Speaker 2: bad part of the world. Eddie, thank you for calling
Speaker 2: being giving you a more frequent caller.
Speaker 11: Okay, definitely, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I appreciate you called. Good input quick break. Coming
Speaker 2: back on nights, I will get everybody, and I promise.
Speaker 1: It's Night's Eye with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: I got full line is going to try to get
Speaker 2: everybody in. So we're gonna have to tighten up just
Speaker 2: a little bit. Let me go to Glenn and Bright
Speaker 2: and Glenn next one nights. I go, right, Hey, Glenn.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I told Rob I'm glad to talk about public schools.
Speaker 10: I once defended him. I don't anymore after after listening
Speaker 10: to Denish de Suza, who I want to thank for
Speaker 10: changing my poetical from west or Right. Okay, uh, yeah,
Speaker 10: I know I won't mention names or places, but I
Speaker 10: know a woman public school teacher that goes to my church.
Speaker 10: He not only wants to be in charter schools, magnet
Speaker 10: schools and private schools, wants to ban home schools.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that? Sure? Because they they they realize
Speaker 2: they are the people are walking away from public schools,
Speaker 2: and that's not a good thing. I believe in public schools,
Speaker 2: but I think public schools have to get a little more,
Speaker 2: have to get better, They have to get more innovative,
Speaker 2: They have to produce a better product. They need competition.
Speaker 2: Competition makes you better, as simple as that.
Speaker 10: Well, they need to educate as opposed to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2: Well, that's true too. Yeah, I mean I think people
Speaker 2: are getting sick of that as well.
Speaker 10: Well, that's the thing. Like I, of course, I wise
Speaker 10: do up to her. I said, oh, you mean you
Speaker 10: don't you want home schools to tell their five year
Speaker 10: old kids they can be any gender they want. I
Speaker 10: said yeah, and she goes, I can have this discussion,
Speaker 10: and she never spoke to me. Again, I don't care
Speaker 10: if she does.
Speaker 2: That's an open minded that's an open minded liberal or progressive.
Speaker 2: Liberals are a Liberals are good people. Liberals they used
Speaker 2: to be. Well, I think again, you got to draw
Speaker 2: distinctions between liberals and progressives. Okay. I have a lot
Speaker 2: of friends of mine, including Harvey Silverglight, who classify themselves
Speaker 2: as liberals. But once you get and you start dealing
Speaker 2: with what I call the progressives, some of them are
Speaker 2: pretty much out there, and unfortunately it's difficult to have
Speaker 2: a conversation. I love having folks on with different points
Speaker 2: of view. I wish I had more of those conversations.
Speaker 2: I had a guest on last week, Dan Delaney, who
Speaker 2: he was the fellow who favors getting rid of life
Speaker 2: without parole. You know, that was that was our story
Speaker 2: last Friday night at nine o'clock. He was a gentleman.
Speaker 2: I couldn't couldn't disagree with him more, but he was
Speaker 2: pleasant to talk to and he had a point of
Speaker 2: view that he defended as best he could. And we
Speaker 2: had a good conversation that night.
Speaker 10: So yeah, one of my favorite liberals is Seth Moulton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seth is a great guy.
Speaker 10: Sethings were all like him, definitely.
Speaker 2: And Seth they wanted to chop his head off for
Speaker 2: another part of the academy when when he said that
Speaker 2: he didn't want his young girls playing, you know, against
Speaker 2: biological boys, you know, in high school sports. All right, Glenn,
Speaker 2: I got a roll here, I got full lines. I
Speaker 2: got to get everybody in. Okay, man, we'll talk to
Speaker 2: my pleasure. My pleasure will do it more. Trust me. Okay,
Speaker 2: as long as people like it. Next up, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go Patrick in DC. Hey, Patrick, welcome back. How are
Speaker 2: you well.
Speaker 13: I good to be able to speak with you and
Speaker 13: good to be able to listen. And as we've talked
Speaker 13: about the Second Amendment real quick, you know, additionally, twenty
Speaker 13: seven words in that Second Amendment, it's the twenty seven
Speaker 13: powerful world words, you know, those second amount of people.
Speaker 13: They only had twenty seven words.
Speaker 2: That's it, right, But then that that Amendment has been
Speaker 2: you know, modified, you know, by statutes forever, it's been defended,
Speaker 2: but not not as efficiently or as effectively as it should.
Speaker 2: In your honor here, I'm going to read it in
Speaker 2: its entirety if I can take that time. Second Amendment,
Speaker 2: right to bear arms a well regulated militia being necessary
Speaker 2: to the security of a free state. The right of
Speaker 2: the people to keep in bare arms shall not be infringed.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of infringement going on over the
Speaker 2: years their Patrick, that's true.
Speaker 13: And then you know when we talk, when you think about,
Speaker 13: you know, what would I like to you know here
Speaker 13: on nights side, and if I had the luxury of
Speaker 13: not having to decide that, I'm not going to give
Speaker 13: that up.
Speaker 12: Hey, I get to have my mind stimulated.
Speaker 13: I'm not giving that up at all. So if you
Speaker 13: look back at at public schools and now that we
Speaker 13: are talking about radio and you know, ban the consultants,
Speaker 13: that's for sure, I would be wearing that button. I
Speaker 13: would be wearing that button. When you go to Jordan's
Speaker 13: Rich's book and about his wife, you know, I wonder
Speaker 13: if nowadays that Jordan rich could be developed all on
Speaker 13: his own, you know, to have that drive that I
Speaker 13: can do it, I can do it, I can do it,
Speaker 13: you know, and go down there and do it. And
Speaker 13: I think of public schools. I look at the timing,
Speaker 13: you know, and Jordan Riches doesn't have timing. I look
Speaker 13: at timing and I think, well, you know, politics is
Speaker 13: so much about timing, and I'm just thinking, why don't
Speaker 13: we rearrange the school year.
Speaker 12: Do it this way.
Speaker 13: Come the end of December, that's the end of the year.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 13: Either you can kind of graduate or whatever. That's the
Speaker 13: end of the year. And the new year starts at January.
Speaker 13: So you get off running in January, go to the summer.
Speaker 13: If you're not doing well there in the first half
Speaker 13: of the year, you have all summer to study and
Speaker 13: catch up and then come back in September with a
Speaker 13: roaring success and go into it. And so this way
Speaker 13: you don't have that break, and at Christmas time the
Speaker 13: parents can help the kids get ready for their new year.
Speaker 2: So that's a radical idea. But I think that's one
Speaker 2: that we should talk about some night. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna steal that idea and maybe talk about that something.
Speaker 2: I don't see what people think. I think that's very,
Speaker 2: very creative, simple as that, Patrick, with a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go. Thank you much as always,
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon. Okay, thanks buddy, appreciate it. You have
Speaker 2: a great name. Real quickly here, I'm gonna get Tim
Speaker 2: and Wilber and Tim, I got three behind you. Help
Speaker 2: me out, will you?
Speaker 12: Okay?
Speaker 14: The marathon bombers right, yep. Anyhow, I was brought up
Speaker 14: wrong with Chavick, caught white from wrong his son concern
Speaker 14: letting them keep living is not right.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you. One of them's already
Speaker 2: gone on to his paradise or wherever, uh, and I
Speaker 2: think we should we should allow his brother to join
Speaker 2: him as soon as possible. We should expedise.
Speaker 14: I agree with you. Yeah, it's not it's not right
Speaker 14: at all. Yeah, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2: Well, well we'll continue to talk about it. We had
Speaker 2: a good, good hour on that earlier tonight. We could
Speaker 2: have done more on it, but we had a good hour.
Speaker 2: Thank you man. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 10: Thanks Jim, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I should do open lines more up and we get
Speaker 2: more calls than I have. Let me go, Jim, Jim,
Speaker 2: you were next on nice That go ahead, Jim. Just
Speaker 2: me yes, sir, Jim, that me in.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, Dan, very quickly. This may be a topic
Speaker 8: for another night. Yeah, we can find if we can
Speaker 8: find an expert on it. But one thing, and it
Speaker 8: hasn't come up for a while, but I still feel
Speaker 8: like we're being gouged on prices by distributors of these
Speaker 8: pinklomerate food like the ConAgra, and also by a grocery
Speaker 8: and view tailors. And one evidence I'll present for it.
Speaker 8: You know, all the prices in with ninety nine cents,
Speaker 8: So do you think they're rounding down for a loss
Speaker 8: of fifty cents per item or are they rounding up?
Speaker 8: And if they're rounding up for an average up charge,
Speaker 8: but fifty cents per item. That's like one thousand dollars
Speaker 8: per day per store.
Speaker 2: Now, I think what they're doing is they try. If
Speaker 2: they charge you nine to ninety nine, Psycho watching you
Speaker 2: think it's less than ten dollars, that's I suspect that does.
Speaker 8: But really the price, really, the price should be nine
Speaker 8: seventy three.
Speaker 2: The price is what people will pay for, Jim. That's
Speaker 2: what it comes down to, whatever you sell. The one
Speaker 2: good thing that's going on right now oil drop today.
Speaker 2: Price of gasoline is going to be going down. And
Speaker 2: that's gonna.
Speaker 8: If you could find and neck, if you could find
Speaker 8: somebody an insider on that that could could tell us
Speaker 8: how exactly how they all the prices are rounded to
Speaker 8: do they round them up? And so on?
Speaker 2: Okay, and you know what, if you want to suggest
Speaker 2: a guess to me on that one, I'd appreciate it
Speaker 2: as well. Thanks Bell. Gotta go all right, all right,
Speaker 2: good night, Let's go to Steve in Providence, Rhode Island. Steve,
Speaker 2: you gotta get you in and maybe one more go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 12: Ah, Yes, I will do this as quickly as possible. Well,
Speaker 12: because I know you're pressed. I wanted to echo the
Speaker 12: person that called from Quinsey about the Second Amendment. And
Speaker 12: I guess a good suggestion for a show was to
Speaker 12: actually get Jim Wallace and hopefully someone like the governor
Speaker 12: there or God forbid day.
Speaker 2: Well, I could get Jim Wallace, but I got to
Speaker 2: tell you the average gun owner, I don't hear gun
Speaker 2: owners calling the show much anymore. To be really honest
Speaker 2: with you, I think that they feel that they're set
Speaker 2: upon and they have to get involved politically, as simple
Speaker 2: as that. Hey, Steve, I'm flat out of time, so
Speaker 2: I got to let you run. Okay, Thank you much,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. All right, good calls a couple of folks
Speaker 2: in the line, including Christine. I'm sorry, we're flat out
Speaker 2: of time, got a call earlier. I'll end tonight as always,
Speaker 2: back tomorrow night. We've got a great show Tomorrow night.
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