Speaker 1: It's nice time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: All right now, Grippin appreciate it very much. So here's
Speaker 2: what I'd like to do. With your permission and your cooperation.
Speaker 2: I simply can suggest the topics you you can you
Speaker 2: can decide to arise to debate or not. But I
Speaker 2: know there's been a lot of talk and conversation about Bidenomics.
Speaker 2: The stock market had a very good day today, and
Speaker 2: apparently they said that because the the inflation rate dipped
Speaker 2: by a tenth of a percentage point from last July
Speaker 2: when it was three percent, and this past July, meaning
Speaker 2: July twenty twenty four, it was two point nine percent.
Speaker 2: That got the market going today. And of course many
Speaker 2: people were going to try to say, hey, we just
Speaker 2: proves that things are going great here. This was the
Speaker 2: president yesterday when he was asked by someone in the
Speaker 2: press pool if he had beaten inflation cut number one, Rob.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I told you to have a soft landing.
Speaker 2: We're going to have a soft landing my policies and
Speaker 2: work and start writing that way. Okay, all right, that's
Speaker 2: pretty direct.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Of course, Donald Trump sees it somewhat differently. So this
Speaker 2: is the former president in North Carolina yesterday cut number two.
Speaker 5: Rob Does anyone here phil richer under Kamala Harris and
Speaker 5: Crooked Joe than you were during the Trump administration? Is
Speaker 5: anything less expensive under Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: And Crooked Joe.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had inflation that I don't believe we've
Speaker 5: ever had inflation like that.
Speaker 2: You can go back a long way.
Speaker 5: Are you better off now with Harris and Biden than
Speaker 5: you were with a person named President Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump?
Speaker 1: Do you know him?
Speaker 5: He's a nice gentleman.
Speaker 2: So earlier today I believe it was No, I guess
Speaker 2: it was yesterday. Jared Bernstein, who's the head of the
Speaker 2: White House Council of Economic Advisors, in the wake of
Speaker 2: yesterday morning's report of inflation again year to year being
Speaker 2: down from three point zero percent to two point nine percent, That,
Speaker 2: of course, is peggybacked on top of the previous year's
Speaker 2: inflation up, which was as much as nine percent. Okay,
Speaker 2: take a look at what you're paying in stores for
Speaker 2: regular things. I mean a package of Oriole cookies, I
Speaker 2: mean whatever you want, a gallon of milk. That's been
Speaker 2: my experience. Maybe some of you can help me find
Speaker 2: a better stores to work up. But Bernstein was asked
Speaker 2: about the fact that voters may hear these these these analysis,
Speaker 2: but they're not feeling it. So this was Jared Bernstein
Speaker 2: yesterday cut number nine.
Speaker 1: When I talked to.
Speaker 6: Voters in the field, when my colleagues talk to people,
Speaker 6: they still don't think the economy isn't a better shape
Speaker 6: than it was when President Biden christ took office.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know about that in terms of the
Speaker 7: broader economic assessment of where the you know, the economy is,
Speaker 7: because you know, I think people do know that the
Speaker 7: job market's been strong. Sixteen million jobs, that's record job growth.
Speaker 7: The unemployment rate has been historically low. GDP growth has
Speaker 7: been strong. But I think your question is a valid one,
Speaker 7: which is Okay, people, I think are aware of many
Speaker 7: of those many of many of the elements of that progress,
Speaker 7: but they're still discomforted by the high prices.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean I agree with him there. I
Speaker 2: think that a lot of the numbers of phony numbers.
Speaker 2: And we lost millions of jobs because of COVID. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was as simple as that. There were when you
Speaker 2: think about it, there were restaurants that were closed. There
Speaker 2: were stores that were closed. Those businesses laid people off.
Speaker 2: They have come back, many of those restaurants, and many
Speaker 2: of those stores have come back. Okay, there wasn't much
Speaker 2: of a need for Walmart greeters. For example, when when
Speaker 2: COVID hit, Birnsting went on to say, he was again
Speaker 2: I think I think he added to this comment, this
Speaker 2: is a comment nine A again the head of the
Speaker 2: White House Council of Economic Advisors, trying to make it simple.
Speaker 2: I guess you know.
Speaker 7: I have three words for people who feel the way
Speaker 7: you just said, which is, we hear you. The President
Speaker 7: hears you, the Vice President hears you. We will never
Speaker 7: stand here and say, oh, no, you're wrong. Look at
Speaker 7: the GDP statistics. You know that's not the way it works.
Speaker 7: That's not President Biden's orientation. We believe that people are
Speaker 7: the best arbiters of how they experienced this economy, and
Speaker 7: that's why we're working so aggressively on agenda, on an
Speaker 7: agenda to help them cut costs in all the areas
Speaker 7: I ticked through before, to make investments in ki areas,
Speaker 7: particularly in places that have long been left behind and
Speaker 7: hollowed out by irresponsible trade policy.
Speaker 2: Very nice words, but I don't know what they mean. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe some of you can explain to me what they mean.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what they mean. And then when
Speaker 2: we hear the White House Press Secretary Caarine Jean Pierre,
Speaker 2: she said this earlier this month, was on August sixth. Again,
Speaker 2: she works for President Biden. I get it, she's not
Speaker 2: gonna say anything that's negative, but this is a little
Speaker 2: hyperbole here cut twenty four, please Rob, and we understand.
Speaker 6: What the President inherited when he walked in was a
Speaker 6: you know, an economic economy that was in the downturn.
Speaker 8: He had to turn that around.
Speaker 1: And that's what the president was able.
Speaker 2: To do, turn the economy around. Well, I don't know
Speaker 2: about that, but that's what the that's what they say.
Speaker 2: So my question is real simple, how's your economy? Are
Speaker 2: you making more money these days? Inflation cumulatively over the
Speaker 2: last four years is up around twenty percent? Okay, simple
Speaker 2: as that most items are, on average, are going to
Speaker 2: cost you twenty percent more. So that package of cookies
Speaker 2: that was I don't know, two ninety nine in the
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, Nile's going to be
Speaker 2: man two three seventy five, three seventy nine or whatever
Speaker 2: a gallon of gas. You know what you were paying
Speaker 2: for gas? I mean, is it as bad as it was? No?
Speaker 2: Is it gonna go down more? I'm not sure.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: And there are factors over which we frankly have no control.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if war breaks out in the Middle East,
Speaker 2: you can blame, you can lay that, You can lay
Speaker 2: that at the feet of a politician and say, hey,
Speaker 2: you did a good job here, whatever. But I just
Speaker 2: want to know how you're doing. Are you going out
Speaker 2: to dinner as often as you did back in the
Speaker 2: in the late teens? You know, essentially, when Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was president, before COVID, obviously COVID, our world changed for
Speaker 2: about a year and a half dramatically, and we're still
Speaker 2: feeling consequences of it. COVID was not Donald Trump's fault.
Speaker 2: COVID was not Joe Biden's fault. COVID was China's fault.
Speaker 2: No matter how you cut that, folks, It's as simple
Speaker 2: as that. And that is not an anti Chinese statement.
Speaker 2: It came from China, whether it came from a lab
Speaker 2: or whether it came from a what market, or whether
Speaker 2: it came from some bat that, somehow someone ate. There's
Speaker 2: all sorts of theories. But my question to you is
Speaker 2: how are you doing? How are you doing? Do you
Speaker 2: have more money in the bank, do you feel more comfortable? Obviously,
Speaker 2: mortgage prices have gone up. My son was telling me
Speaker 2: the other day that he back in I guess it
Speaker 2: was I'm trying to think twenty eighteen, he was able
Speaker 2: to refi at a two point seven five percent. I
Speaker 2: mean he said, hey, you know, never find a mortgage
Speaker 2: like that two point seven five percent today. So it's
Speaker 2: really a question. It's a personal thing. And also will
Speaker 2: it affect how you will vote? Will your economic circlemstances
Speaker 2: push you to vote one way or the other. You've
Speaker 2: got two choices and maybe it won't. Maybe you, irrespective
Speaker 2: of how well you're doing or how poorly you doing,
Speaker 2: you are going to vote Democrat or Republican. I just
Speaker 2: want to know how we talk about the economy, talk
Speaker 2: about the GDP, talk about the inflation rate, uh, talk
Speaker 2: about the feder Reserve. Will they will they cut rates?
Speaker 2: Will will rate stay the same? All of that stuff, okay,
Speaker 2: which is what you'd call macro economics. That's what it's
Speaker 2: called macro economics. Okay, the price of gas, you could
Speaker 2: you could impact you. You can't impact the price of gas.
Speaker 2: You can impact the way you drive your car as
Speaker 2: opposed to doing five errands every day. If you have
Speaker 2: the time, you know, drive to the to the to
Speaker 2: the laundry, get your clothes, drive home, drive to the
Speaker 2: to the grocery store, get your food, come back home,
Speaker 2: drive to the post office, mail your letters, come back home. Oh.
Speaker 2: The smarter way obviously, Uh. Perhaps less convenient is make
Speaker 2: a list, pick them up, one two, figure it out
Speaker 2: how you're going to go and save yourself some mileage.
Speaker 2: So the question is, how is your economy working right now? Uh?
Speaker 2: And if you want to give Joe Biden credit and
Speaker 2: tell me that daidnomics has been the best thing that
Speaker 2: you've ever experienced, that's great. If you want to tell
Speaker 2: me it's all a bunch of whoy uh and that
Speaker 2: you're worse off now than you were four years ago,
Speaker 2: that's fine too. Six one seven thirty, triple eight nine
Speaker 2: two nine ten thirty or six one seven, nine, three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Your points of view are what makes
Speaker 2: this program work because we get every night a variety
Speaker 2: of callers, different callers last night, I think we had
Speaker 2: four first time callers in a row. I haven't had
Speaker 2: four first time callers in a row in a long time,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, because we have UH callers
Speaker 2: who call infrequently, callers who call more frequently. UH. But
Speaker 2: to get four first time callers in a row, that
Speaker 2: was pretty good. I'd love to get some first time
Speaker 2: callers tonight. But I want to hear from you, whether
Speaker 2: you've called before or not. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine, ten thirty those
Speaker 2: are the two best numbers. How is your economy working
Speaker 2: in your household? Or are you? Are you just such
Speaker 2: that you can buy whatever you want to buy? Open
Speaker 2: it up, let's go. I want to hear your story
Speaker 2: up close and personal. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: He's just talking to Rob. You're on the break. And
Speaker 2: everyone is different, Everyone really is different. Single people, married couples,
Speaker 2: married couples with kids, older folks who are looking to retire.
Speaker 2: The economy, which of course again is the macroeconomy, effects
Speaker 2: all of us differently. And I just let to get
Speaker 2: a sense from you as to how your economy is going.
Speaker 2: Let's start it off with Jim in Bridgewater. Jim, you
Speaker 2: were next on Nightside, first this hour and night Side.
Speaker 2: How's your economy, Jim.
Speaker 10: Dan, I've always been a frogo guy. I drive a
Speaker 10: twenty year old car. I have a forty year old boat.
Speaker 10: I've always been lucky enough to.
Speaker 3: Fix and maintain those things good.
Speaker 10: But under Trump, I had extra money. We could go
Speaker 10: out and use those things more we could use we
Speaker 10: had money in the bank, we could go out to dinner,
Speaker 10: you know. But now it's it's a paycheck to paycheck
Speaker 10: like Style flarees, it's it's And I don't understand how
Speaker 10: people are blinded and as soon as the other side
Speaker 10: says something flowery and happy, they're like, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 10: is this is the way it's going to be. Look,
Speaker 10: look it's all turning around.
Speaker 4: Well here's the.
Speaker 2: Thing, here's the thing, and the reason I'm doing this
Speaker 2: tonight is really simple. The average person, including me, gets
Speaker 2: overwhelmed by the economists because just like you can get
Speaker 2: at a criminal trial, you can get expert witnesses on
Speaker 2: any side of the issue. You know, if you're doing
Speaker 2: blood testing, if you're doing forensics there there are hired
Speaker 2: guns out there. So when you hear a conservative economists
Speaker 2: say oh, things are terrible and uh and we're heading
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction, or then you hear Austin Goldsby
Speaker 2: who will say, oh, this is great everything we're coming
Speaker 2: around the president talking about it's a soft landing. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a soft landing. To be
Speaker 2: really honest with you, I mean, it's that's all hyperbole.
Speaker 2: And it comes down to how are we feeling? How
Speaker 2: am I feeling? How are you feeling? You know, I've
Speaker 2: I've been blessed to have a pretty good job for
Speaker 2: a long time. Uh and and I've been pretty immune
Speaker 2: to the ups and downs. But but not everybody is
Speaker 2: that is that way, and that's why I'd like I'd
Speaker 2: like to find out who who's happy who's not. So
Speaker 2: you're not happy, Jim, right.
Speaker 10: And I'm not happy for my friends that I know
Speaker 10: they can't fix things, and I know they have car
Speaker 10: payments and mortgages, and I feel I don't even ask
Speaker 10: them to come out because I know they can't afford
Speaker 10: to come out. You know, it's just so upsetting.
Speaker 2: So who's the one. Who's who's to blame for that?
Speaker 2: Is it? Do you pin that on someone or is
Speaker 2: that just the ebb and flow and the economy irrespective
Speaker 2: of who's in the White House or who isn't.
Speaker 10: I absolutely blame the administration. It's one hundred percent. You've
Speaker 10: seen it every day on the new not on the
Speaker 10: news because they hide it constantly. But listening to people
Speaker 10: that are intelligent and do things like you do, and
Speaker 10: you know, stay in the middle as best you possibly
Speaker 10: can with the facts.
Speaker 8: And well I always the fact.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the thing that's great is that each one
Speaker 2: of us have our own set of facts. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, no one you know, you're right when the
Speaker 2: when the inflation number yesterday came out and said that
Speaker 2: year to year, you know, July to July inflation was
Speaker 2: only up two point nine percent, so it was under
Speaker 2: this magic number of three percent. So that was good. However,
Speaker 2: you know, your set of facts might be different than
Speaker 2: my set of facts, and you are going to rely
Speaker 2: when you go to the polls on your set of facts,
Speaker 2: just like how we rely upon my set of facts,
Speaker 2: you know. And that's what's beautiful. We all have within
Speaker 2: When they talk about the American economy. We all we
Speaker 2: all have an economy ourselves. That's the point that I'm
Speaker 2: trying to drive home tonight, right that it really is
Speaker 2: what your economy feels like. And I get at this
Speaker 2: point you're not happy with your economy. Great college, Jim.
Speaker 10: Relationship also very impressful.
Speaker 2: No whole question about that. They say that when you
Speaker 2: talk about married couples, the greatest problem, the problem that
Speaker 2: most married couples have who have problems a financi is financial. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: Sun Jim, great call, Thank you so.
Speaker 8: Much, have a good night, Thank you too.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. Let me see who's next. They're
Speaker 2: going to go to an in Boston. And the same
Speaker 2: question for you, how's your economy doing.
Speaker 11: Well? I could say that twenty nineteen was definitely a
Speaker 11: lot better two thousand. I'm in the service industry and
Speaker 11: I was rocking. I mean I had so from two
Speaker 11: thousand until twenty sixteen, I was helping somebody who was very,
Speaker 11: very sick and died. And then after that I really
Speaker 11: was able to work, and I worked really hard. I'm
Speaker 11: a hard worker, and I was doing so well and
Speaker 11: I was ready to buy a house. I was going
Speaker 11: to buy a house up in New Hampshire, and nothing exactly,
Speaker 11: you know, just I always live within my means. But
Speaker 11: and then they shut us down March twenty, twenty twenty,
Speaker 11: and I literally, in front of my eyes watched every
Speaker 11: house that I had on railtor that I was just
Speaker 11: so excited to look into more and more, just go
Speaker 11: in front of my eyes, contingent, contingent, contingent, and they
Speaker 11: basically shut I don't know who's responsible, if it's Baker
Speaker 11: or Marty Walsh, but I don't believe it was President Trump.
Speaker 11: I do believe that it was state. The decisions of
Speaker 11: the state so on that I'm going to go with.
Speaker 11: I don't believe it was Trump's fault. I just I don't.
Speaker 11: But that being said, they shut me down for five months.
Speaker 2: When I went back, well, you say they shut you down.
Speaker 2: Did you own a business or were you an employee
Speaker 2: of a business.
Speaker 11: I was an employee, and just give me very very business.
Speaker 2: You're just generically what were you doing?
Speaker 11: If I could ask, let's uh in the alternative health
Speaker 11: business to put it that way, okay, and yeah, I
Speaker 11: wouldn't be too specific.
Speaker 2: I love that. I'm not gonna pry so alternative health
Speaker 2: and things were going really well for you. But when
Speaker 2: COVID hit, Yes, and look, Massachusetts was a fairly restrictive state.
Speaker 2: I can remember you had to you had to wear
Speaker 2: masks all the time and uh, and then we had
Speaker 2: shortages and which was which was no one's fault? I
Speaker 2: mean the fact that people went to stores and hoarded
Speaker 2: toilet paper, for example. But the feeling that you had
Speaker 2: in the summer of twenty nineteen when things were rolling
Speaker 2: for you soon about the change, that feeling hasn't come back, right.
Speaker 11: No, So when we reopened, my client said, well, the
Speaker 11: U haul truck just kept coming. So we decided to
Speaker 11: move too, and you know, a lot of people moved
Speaker 11: out of the city. And I worked really hard, as
Speaker 11: a lot of people do in the city, building a clientele,
Speaker 11: and then nine months later we ended up closing. And
Speaker 11: so unfortunately, I had a feeling that was going to happen,
Speaker 11: and Boston was very empty. I would walk around the
Speaker 11: city and see, you know, retail space available, apartment space available,
Speaker 11: commercial space. I mean it was frightening actually. So then
Speaker 11: a lot of.
Speaker 2: That, by the way, still has not come back. Ye,
Speaker 2: a lot of that has not come back.
Speaker 11: Go ahead, really neither have I. So I haven't really
Speaker 11: been back to Boston. I'm from Boston, and I love Boston.
Speaker 11: I think it's the greatest city in the whole country.
Speaker 11: And I've been all over the country.
Speaker 2: Where are you're working? Now, generally you don't have to
Speaker 2: tell me exactly where you've been out in the suburbs,
Speaker 2: somewhere up in New Hampshire. Where are you working?
Speaker 11: It's been difficult. So I decided not just yeah, I
Speaker 11: decided not to go back to Boston. And I did
Speaker 11: go up to New Hampshire and it wasn't the same.
Speaker 11: It's just been very different. It's not the same busyness
Speaker 11: that I've had. And I would say that my income
Speaker 11: has gone down from easily the seventies to the twenties
Speaker 11: and thirties. Huge job, and I've had to drive a
Speaker 11: lot further which and gas has gone up, so my
Speaker 11: cost of getting to work is higher. But I am single,
Speaker 11: and I don't see like I have it at so
Speaker 11: I also I decided to go to Florida to see
Speaker 11: if that was a better economy, but actually I won't
Speaker 11: go into that. But I wasn't happy with it down there,
Speaker 11: so I came back and now I can't even find
Speaker 11: an apartment. I'm actually I'm either staying with friends or hotel.
Speaker 11: I can't find an affordable apartment. It has gone up
Speaker 11: so high that I just it's impossible. And so that's
Speaker 11: where I'm at. But I have saved. I am not
Speaker 11: you know, I knew something was coming. And if I
Speaker 11: can also say, I don't believe it's Biden, I don't
Speaker 11: believe it was Trump. I think it goes back further.
Speaker 11: I think it goes back to Obama. I think it
Speaker 11: has to do with overspending. I think the Fetter Reserve
Speaker 11: has something to do with it. I think printing, printing,
Speaker 11: printing for many years. I think getting off the gold
Speaker 11: and silver standard has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 11: I don't think it's just one administration. I think it's
Speaker 11: a very complex problem that we really need to learn from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I can tell you that that no matter
Speaker 2: who gets elected, Republicans and Democrats. When when Bill Clinton
Speaker 2: left office, we were we had a federal debt of
Speaker 2: about five trillion dollars. When George Bush left office eight
Speaker 2: years that federal debt had increased to about ten It
Speaker 2: had doubled to about ten trillion dollars. When President Obama
Speaker 2: left twenty sixteen, it was up to about twenty trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: It also doubled, and Donald Trump pushed it up, and
Speaker 2: Joe Biden pushed it up. Now, both Biden and Trump
Speaker 2: could say, well, nobody else dealt with COVID, the world
Speaker 2: shut down, but they both everything's gone up. We now
Speaker 2: have a debt of about thirty five trillion dollars and
Speaker 2: a GBT a gross domestic product GDP of about twenty
Speaker 2: six twenty seven trillion dollars, and so that's dangerous areas
Speaker 2: to be I I loved your call, but I really
Speaker 2: got a run up gone on longer than I've gone
Speaker 2: through the newscast almost. Hey, great call. Please continue to
Speaker 2: call this program. It's a great call.
Speaker 11: Thank you great again.
Speaker 4: I have a great All.
Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna keep rolling here. I have one line
Speaker 2: at six one, seven thirty. I have two lines at
Speaker 2: five at six one, seven nine thirty. My question is
Speaker 2: really simple, really simple. Everyone should be able to participate.
Speaker 2: How is your economy? Ian just explained her economy like
Speaker 2: an economist. You don't have to be that sophisticated. I
Speaker 2: want to know how your economy is are you feeling good?
Speaker 2: Are you feeling not so good? Back on night side.
Speaker 1: After this, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on
Speaker 1: WZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We we're gonna go
Speaker 2: next to Hey, let's go to Glenn and Brighton Glenn,
Speaker 2: how's your economy? I know that you hurt in the
Speaker 2: economy as a piano tuner, for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah. By the way, before I get to that, my
Speaker 4: heart goes out to that last color where she sounds
Speaker 4: like a wholesome human being.
Speaker 2: Excellent, she was.
Speaker 4: Not only not only I love the way she.
Speaker 2: Very intelligent, thoughtful, and clearly has done a lot to
Speaker 2: improve her lot and everything has gone southward.
Speaker 4: Right, it sounds like she went from riches to rags.
Speaker 4: It's really sad.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that for sure. Thanks for making
Speaker 2: that comment. That's very thoughtful. I hope she heard it.
Speaker 4: Thanks you too. So it stinks, As I told you, screener,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to be poite about it before. First of all,
Speaker 4: the Yeah, the music store that I've been working for
Speaker 4: since twenty thirteen is going out of business on September first,
Speaker 4: and they're evicting the tenants and they're auctioning off everything
Speaker 4: in the building and they're selling the building going yep,
Speaker 4: I won't even get to say goodbye to my favorite
Speaker 4: piano that's in the cat corner in the back of
Speaker 4: the store.
Speaker 2: But that's that's terrible, really is terrible. Why are they
Speaker 2: going out of business that.
Speaker 4: People not Well, that's what I'm going to get to.
Speaker 4: Before the virus, I was working Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
Speaker 4: three days a week, and we were selling pianos and
Speaker 4: people were calling the store and they would drive me
Speaker 4: out to tune them. But after, even though the pandemic
Speaker 4: is over, people the economy is such people don't want
Speaker 4: to pay that. People aren't wanting their pianos tone, they're
Speaker 4: not wanting to buy that. We haven't sold anything. Nobody's
Speaker 4: calling the store looking for a tuner. H And it
Speaker 4: just got to the point where the wife and the
Speaker 4: two daughters told the husband, look, we can't do this anymore.
Speaker 4: The guy that owns it, the husband is a dieheart
Speaker 4: acoustic piano person.
Speaker 2: But wall I want, I mean, have pianos gone out
Speaker 2: of style?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, partially, I mean the digital pianos are
Speaker 4: becoming more popular because they're easier to move around. They
Speaker 4: never needed tuning. It's like the Maytag with paying me.
Speaker 2: What is a digital piano?
Speaker 4: Well, it's not an acoustic. It's an electronic piano that's
Speaker 4: pre tuned at the factory and it stays that way
Speaker 4: through it. Because it's so it's.
Speaker 2: It's smaller, it's more portable, expensive, right, yes, yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's not that.
Speaker 4: Doesn't take ten men and a small boy to move it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll hear you. I totally hear you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but there's nothing like having a piano in your home.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you have to, and they're not. It's
Speaker 2: not the most I mean, people can throw money away
Speaker 2: in a lot of stuff, but a piano, as always
Speaker 2: I thought was a pretty good investment because you're never
Speaker 2: going to lose money.
Speaker 4: At the piano hand infect my hair goes off to
Speaker 4: Morgan Way while you were vacation vacation, he had the
Speaker 4: Winnikers on and he let me give my name and
Speaker 4: number over the year if anybody wants here piano tune. Actually,
Speaker 4: the Winnikers said, can go and give this. There was
Speaker 4: their idea. I hope the program director doesn't get upset.
Speaker 2: But you did any business with I don't know not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not a single call.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what what do you want to get?
Speaker 2: I hasten to do that. You know, do you do
Speaker 2: you have a website that people can go to.
Speaker 4: No, I'm I'm computer illiterate. I'm a tragodyte. My friends
Speaker 4: call me troggy pooh.
Speaker 2: Why don't I do this if anybody wants needs a
Speaker 2: piano tuner instead of me having you put your number
Speaker 2: out of the air, which can be dangerous. If anybody
Speaker 2: is in need of a great piano tuner, Rob, you
Speaker 2: can have them give them my phone number if they
Speaker 2: want to call in my direct line and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what it is at six one seven seven eight
Speaker 2: seven seven oh three three call me and I'll put
Speaker 2: you touch with Glenn if you give me permission.
Speaker 4: Glenn to give you a Yeah, you have my information. Fact,
Speaker 4: I haven't heard from you in a while. I weave
Speaker 4: you messages, but I thought you didn't love me anymore,
Speaker 4: you know, I just.
Speaker 2: Get back from Europe. Man, I gotta tell you, do
Speaker 2: you have many messages? How many emails I got to
Speaker 2: get rid of? I trust?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know? And you know how many people call me
Speaker 2: during the day and they'll they'll call up just to
Speaker 2: kind of chat, and it's like, right, you know, as
Speaker 2: much as I love all you guys, I try to
Speaker 2: be a little a little fear.
Speaker 9: But it's just tough to spend, uh, you know, every
Speaker 9: you know, I get, you know, probably twenty to fifty
Speaker 9: phone calls a day and a couple of hundred emails
Speaker 9: and emails a people who I don't know, and they're
Speaker 9: looking for either advice I had. Yeah, well I'm legal
Speaker 9: or financial and I don't do financial advice because I'm
Speaker 9: not a certified you know, financial advisor.
Speaker 2: But I try to be polite. But you know, someone
Speaker 2: like you, you know, if you call up and just
Speaker 2: tell me a story about what's going on, I'm probably
Speaker 2: not going to call you back and say, geez, Glenn,
Speaker 2: that was an interesting story. If you call up and
Speaker 2: you got a problem, that's a different story. So if
Speaker 2: anybody wants a great piano tuner in the greater Boston area,
Speaker 2: Glenn and Brighton does a great job. And if you
Speaker 2: want and reasonable reasonable prices with Glenn, okay, but they
Speaker 2: got that under the wire there. And if you have
Speaker 2: a piano you want, how often do people get pianos.
Speaker 4: Tuned well ideal, you should do it every six months
Speaker 4: to maintain this. I mean if you do it a
Speaker 4: year or a year and a half, that's fine. What
Speaker 4: happens I wanted the stuff that hasn't been done since
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy three, and they wonder why it takes me
Speaker 4: five hours? And I tell them pianos are like teeth.
Speaker 4: If you neglect them, they're going to let you know it.
Speaker 4: I know because I neglected my beautiful teeth.
Speaker 2: And now I have situation but that you should charge
Speaker 2: on a on a per hour basis as opposed to
Speaker 2: a per job basis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do by the job. Someone said I charge
Speaker 4: it should charge one hundred bucks an hour.
Speaker 2: Well, whatever I've come up with the number, maybe have
Speaker 2: a minimum number of one hundred and fifty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2: But if it's if it exceeds you, if it exceeds
Speaker 2: two hours, charge him seventy five an hour. So if
Speaker 2: it's four hours, it's three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Years ago, very quick, A couple of years ago, Johnny
Speaker 4: mutual friend, Johnny Volzio, got me two pianos to tune
Speaker 4: at the Cattle Center and they gave me two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty dollars apiece, but they have since gotten rid
Speaker 4: of the pianos. I don't know why what they all?
Speaker 2: Right, Glenn, we tried to generate some business that people
Speaker 2: would like to have. Glenn, come in to me a piano,
Speaker 2: reasonable price, great piano tuner, uh six eight seven, seven
Speaker 2: oh three three, and I'll pass. They'll ban numbers along. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Glenn, Thank you? All right, that quick break, coming
Speaker 2: right back on Nightside, Bill, Mike Herschel, Warren, We got
Speaker 2: you all coming up right after the break.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nice Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Here Herschel, Herschel's in Boston. Herschel, how's your economy?
Speaker 8: Well, Dan, I have a particular view on all this stuff.
Speaker 8: I'm just I'm gonna try and make it quick. Number one,
Speaker 8: I personally don't believe whether the Trump, Bush, Reagan, Obama, Clinton,
Speaker 8: Biden or Harris can fix the majority of our issues.
Speaker 8: What happens is, as far as I'm concerned, each president
Speaker 8: gets in, each administration gets in, and they tinkle with
Speaker 8: certain stuff, and it seems like you're getting more money.
Speaker 8: But at some point in time, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 8: pay for what you're missing out on. Now, Okay, the
Speaker 8: stockholders control the gas prices, so you're the president, and
Speaker 8: the gas prices go down, you get credit for that.
Speaker 8: But also when the gas prices go well, you take
Speaker 8: the hit for that.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about let me. Let me pick
Speaker 2: a fight with you just a little bit here. If
Speaker 2: all of a sudden things blow up in the Middle
Speaker 2: East tomorrow, okay, uh, and let's say that the hoodies
Speaker 2: are blocking you know, ships leaving for the Middle East.
Speaker 2: I guarantee if gas prices are going to go up
Speaker 2: because the supply, the gas supply will be reduced.
Speaker 8: And I agree with you there. I'm talking basic, everyday,
Speaker 8: regular life. I'm not talking about extreme circumstances. Okay enough,
Speaker 8: basically out of control.
Speaker 2: Okay. Of one of the reasons that the gas prices
Speaker 2: went down under Trump, and I will just say this
Speaker 2: is because of COVID. Fewer people were using their cars,
Speaker 2: So there are external factors that do affected.
Speaker 8: But go ahead, that's true. But you know, again, we're
Speaker 8: talking about something extreme that's out of our basic everyday control. Okay,
Speaker 8: food prices, how many how many people actually own the
Speaker 8: major food stores across the country, like the Shaws, the
Speaker 8: Stop and Shop, uh you know, and others tigli wiggly
Speaker 8: roups out in Capable.
Speaker 2: I think they're owned by big corporations. The Shaws is
Speaker 2: now owned by Colbertson there right, you know, I means
Speaker 2: is still a family owned business, but they're they're big corporations.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I would say, and why can't this see,
Speaker 8: in my opinion, the things that the president can do
Speaker 8: and they don't do because and this is a dirty
Speaker 8: statement that I'm about to make, sometimes they really back
Speaker 8: off some stuff. It's almost like I'm going to give
Speaker 8: you part of this candy and I'm going to keep
Speaker 8: the other half so that you'll want more. Okay, If
Speaker 8: I was president, I would call all these corporations the
Speaker 8: head CEOs on a zoom call. If they look, these
Speaker 8: people out here are hurting. You need to fix it,
Speaker 8: and I want each one of you to tell me
Speaker 8: now on a zoom call, how you're going to fix it,
Speaker 8: and I'm gonna hold you to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's called job boning. That's called job boning,
Speaker 2: and presidents have done that before. But I don't really
Speaker 2: want a president calling supermarkets and tell them to cut
Speaker 2: prices because I think that that. Look, I go into
Speaker 2: supermarkets now, this stuff that I bought five years ago
Speaker 2: that I will not buy because the price is twice
Speaker 2: twice as expensive. Okay, it's as simple as that. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's my decision. Now. If other fools are going to
Speaker 2: go in there and spend eight dollars for cookies that
Speaker 2: cost three dollars you know, five years ago, that's not
Speaker 2: my problem. Good luck. Enjoy the cookies. They're not worth
Speaker 2: it to me.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 8: Now, your statement just leads me to my next point. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 8: Dad used to say this years ago. People do exactly
Speaker 8: what they want to do, right, sure, And I look
Speaker 8: at the football stadiums, I look at the basketball games,
Speaker 8: the Olympics, yeah, women'ston tennis. These crowds are not lacking.
Speaker 8: They're in there, so somebody's paying the price. And I
Speaker 8: just feel people pay what they want to. Pray. Now,
Speaker 8: when it comes down to a president again, I don't
Speaker 8: believe a president has all the answers. I think people
Speaker 8: vote for a president that has the charisma that they like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we have a capitalistic system. What I'm saying
Speaker 2: is if you and I want to go to a
Speaker 2: Patriots game, Okay, we're gonna have to pay to get
Speaker 2: a good seat. What now, two hundred bucks. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna pay two hundred bucks to go to a Patriots
Speaker 2: game to get good seats. I'm gonna watch it on.
Speaker 8: TV, you know what. And I agree with you, But
Speaker 8: somebody's gonna pay.
Speaker 2: My point is, yeah, and as long as there's somebody
Speaker 2: paying two hundred bucks, keep charging two hundred bucks. That's
Speaker 2: what's called capitalism.
Speaker 8: Right, I know what. And the two hundred well, I
Speaker 8: don't have a problem capitalism. You know, get what you
Speaker 8: can get. My thing is, if people are paying what
Speaker 8: they want to pay, don't really complain too much because
Speaker 8: that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But at the same time, there are some people
Speaker 2: out there who do not have that disposable income. You
Speaker 2: heard Ian earlier herschel. I love your call. You first
Speaker 2: time call her and know have you called before?
Speaker 8: I've called before, sir.
Speaker 2: Do me a favorite. Keep calling, very thoughtful calling. I
Speaker 2: want to try to get one more in here before
Speaker 2: the break.
Speaker 8: Okay, no problem, you have a good day.
Speaker 2: Personal YouTube. Appreciate the call. Coming back on night's side.
Speaker 2: But let me get before that. We got Mike and Beverly. Mike,
Speaker 2: you've been holding on the longest.
Speaker 3: Go right ahead, Hey, Dan, goodding, Mike and the car Hawaii.
Speaker 3: Can hear anybody?
Speaker 2: I could hear you find mikeel right ahead.
Speaker 3: The inflation, Dan, so listen, I'm in Beverly. I'm in
Speaker 3: long time with Cavey. That call before the end. By
Speaker 3: as far as the prices go, it'siculous. I'll lively either
Speaker 3: homeless my car or I live in the room. Enough
Speaker 3: now I can't afford a parma, Dan, And like I'm
Speaker 3: hope with in an election, I want to move on
Speaker 3: to Masters and move into Hampshire because I want to
Speaker 3: go to a mobile home trailer park. There's something I
Speaker 3: can afford because I'm fifty seven. Then I'll be fifty
Speaker 3: eight in November. I can't afford a home and I
Speaker 3: don't have kids on that sort of stuff then, And
Speaker 3: this Masters is just too much money, too much money.
Speaker 3: I can't I can't do it here. And it's just
Speaker 3: crazy the amount of inflation. And it's still the yadd
Speaker 3: I'll pay my tax, Dan, And it makes it hard
Speaker 3: for myself to stay in recovery, and doing this sort
Speaker 3: of stuff again. I see all those you know, Marty Healley,
Speaker 3: giving them money away to free free people, and like,
Speaker 3: why can't I get something of it? I pay my tax,
Speaker 3: do all that stuff. It worked, and I still can't afford.
Speaker 3: You're gonna make a hundred and thirty grand a year
Speaker 3: to have a Massusetts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw that statistic today. Yeah, and that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: That's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well I'll tell you I call him.
Speaker 3: Today upon today, Dan, they want six you the credit score,
Speaker 3: first class security, and that brokera fee. So if someone's
Speaker 3: eight grand out fried just to get a key, who's
Speaker 3: who's got that kind of money? I don't have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there aren't that many people who have that that
Speaker 2: amount of disposable cash, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: The cash is a credit score. I don't have a
Speaker 3: perfect Credis score.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I don't. A lot of people
Speaker 3: don't have a perfect score.
Speaker 2: When this, when was the last time you were were
Speaker 2: renting an apartment? Because they think you've told me before
Speaker 2: you live in your car oftentimes, right, Yeah, here's the
Speaker 2: least time that you were renting an apartment.
Speaker 3: I never had one.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you ever own a house?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Okay? Have you lived in your car? You said you're
Speaker 2: fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I listened, Dan, I lived a homeless and a
Speaker 3: car or a rooming house.
Speaker 2: Dan. Okay, okay, all right, well and well I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: You know, my heart goes out to you.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: I just this is not this you know you should
Speaker 2: be You should be living in one of the shelters
Speaker 2: being paid for by the state, like the new folks
Speaker 2: who are coming in, and you should be able to
Speaker 2: work and build a little bit of cash and get
Speaker 2: back on your feet. That is what the right to
Speaker 2: shelter law was intended to do back in nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 2: and it has been turned now into a boondoggle for
Speaker 2: people who are just coming here illegally.
Speaker 3: I get it quickly for your counting off. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: just want to say quickly. It gets time because so
Speaker 3: you know what. Meanwhile, Henri Counry, I do my fine
Speaker 3: mistay clean all this sort of stuff. But I got
Speaker 3: to honestly, it gets hot, and I sometimes to do
Speaker 3: life every day. Sometimes I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2: Biden, Well, hang in there, hanging there, okay, and hopefully
Speaker 2: it'll turn around for you. Mike, I gotta go because
Speaker 2: I'm up in the eleven.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 2: You know what you two felt. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Hang in there, God, I love you. Take a break. Bill,
Speaker 2: you stay right there. Mike and Attleborough, stay there, Warren
Speaker 2: don fall Rivers, stay there. We got two lines open
Speaker 2: six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine thirty. How is your economy back after this