WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.919 It's nice eyes, Dan Ray unrebellian Mazy Boston's News Radio. 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:10.039 All right, we're talking about a poll that was conducted 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.800 by the University of Massachusetts that found the highest percentage 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:18.399 of Massachusetts residents ever or i should say, in over 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.199 four years, police base state is on the wrong track. 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.519 Forty one percent of the respondents say the common walts 7 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:26.719 moving in the wrong direction. Do you agree or disagree 8 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:32.520 if you go back just two years ago, little over, well, no, 9 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.119 actually four years ago, to go back to the height 10 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:39.880 of the COVID pandemic in August of twenty twenty, things 11 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:44.479 were pretty tough. Back then, twenty eight percent of the 12 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.200 people in Massachusetts felt the state was in the wrong direction. 13 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.520 Now four years later, it's forty one percent. So we 14 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.200 got problems, and that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna 15 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.240 talk about them. We'll continue on here. Who Bill and 16 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.880 Lowell has called back. So let's let's give Bill a shot. 17 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:02.960 He was he was on before. Bill, you were back here, 18 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:09.760 go right ahead, sir. Well, maybe he's not, so we'll 19 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.719 put him on hold again. We're patient. He gets three 20 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:16.439 three shots. Let's go to Eric and Appleborrow. Hey, Eric, 21 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:17.239 how are you tonight. 22 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.040 Good Dan, How are you doing. 23 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.120 Well? It's great to hear your voice. 24 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.239 No, I I've been trying to call a little bit more. 25 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.560 I mean, just you know, quick back, I've listened to 26 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.959 you since i'd say two thousand and eight, like twenty ten, 27 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:39.040 probably the first time. 28 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:43.159 So I've been doing this show since since two thousand 29 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:43.519 and seven. 30 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.840 Go right ahead, yes, and I mean, I will admit 31 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.079 there's been you know, periods of time like when I'm 32 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:54.000 just not listening to am radio. So like you know, 33 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.959 just like sometimes just follow out the way you know 34 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:02.200 I'm gonna. I've always enjoyed into your show. It's it's 35 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.680 but also you know, it's it's quality, it's solid. And 36 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.919 that's why I wanted to point this out when you 37 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.680 talk about this poll, like there's something that's so much 38 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:19.400 more profound in terms of like the way that the 39 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.080 you know, forty years ago, like being the United Nations, 40 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.360 you know, classified a refugee. Okay, if somebody that was 41 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.680 like whose life was in danger in their home country 42 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.479 and they needed asylum, that was like a very furious, real, 43 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.599 you know, threat to that to that person who required asylum. 44 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.719 And I and I mean I followed this, you know, 45 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.479 I read a lot of the you know, I've just 46 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.000 been following this topic pretty closely with the changes with 47 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.800 the United Nations, and slowly over the course of time 48 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.000 that the ground has been softened for where economic migrant 49 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:06.639 becomes interchangeable with refugee and you know kind of you know, 50 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.680 to explain to people that the necessity to have to 51 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.960 bring in people that are not refugees like fleeing a 52 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:20.680 crisis in their home country, it's it's baffling to Americans that, 53 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.759 you know, I would say, you know, the critical costs 54 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:32.719 to live like food, housing, transportation, medical, I'm forty five 55 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.199 years old. I'd say that these costs have astronomically exploded 56 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:40.879 in proportion to like wages and earnings for just ordinary 57 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.280 working class, you know, like you know, middle class, you know, 58 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.159 middle to upper middle to lower just working people, like 59 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:54.000 their wages do not keep pace with these exploding costs. 60 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.439 I mean, well, they certain paced in the last four years. 61 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:02.719 We've had a huge in Anybody who who's gone to 62 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:07.759 a grocery store recently understands that, oh yeah, absolutely yeah. 63 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.520 And then that's another thing too, so so like another 64 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.560 part of the root of the rot is like somehow 65 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:18.319 like with you know, morphing the definition of a refugee 66 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.959 and migrant into like you know, one and the same, 67 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.399 like almost you know, it's pathological altruism. I mean, you know, 68 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:27.319 I don't mean to use that as a pejorative, but 69 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.160 it's true. Like there is a force you know, certain 70 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:35.759 social uh you know political, you know forces you know 71 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.839 who are passionate about their beliefs that you know, rally 72 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.720 for you know, social justice. I respect it, but almost 73 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.040 you know, make it the imperative, like a moral imperative 74 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.079 for a monolithic, homogenous group to have to welcome. 75 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.680 Yeah. Well well said and well reasoned. I would just simply. 76 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.560 There was just one one more thing I wanted to say, 77 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.839 and I appreciate you. Let me speak then, like is 78 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:07.160 that see inflation? Like we all know it's real, I 79 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:10.879 mean like strict you know, I mean the print you know, 80 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:15.560 just the availability of I don't like to say money 81 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.480 machine go burr, but the printing of the money during 82 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.120 you know, during the pandemic, you know, money that you 83 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.000 know for the Cares Act, and also money that was 84 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.920 you know, injected by the Federal Reserve into the equity 85 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.839 markets to retire treasury stock. I mean, you know, that 86 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:34.920 is inflation, and that's the other crisis we have. We 87 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.279 have leadership that tells us. Number one, we don't have 88 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.600 a national identity. We're just an idea. Like America is 89 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.399 just an idea. It's not a nation state. It's not 90 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.319 a civilizational state, like like there's no such thing as 91 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.399 an American. It's an idea. And also we have leadership 92 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.600 that lies to us. I mean that that you know, 93 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.319 everyone knows. I mean it's real, like that inflation is 94 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:03.120 or was real. And but for leadership, and it's both sides, Okay, Democrat, Republic, 95 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:07.279 it's all the same. See the Press secretary is up there, 96 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:13.199 just you know, obfuscating, contorting, conflating, you know, just totally. 97 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:13.920 You know. 98 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.800 Well, ye let me bring you back here, let me 99 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.800 let me really you back in for a second. Okay, first, okay, no, no, 100 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.920 I'm just saying that you've hit upon some wonderful points. 101 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:29.360 But one, we no longer have borders. Okay. We've had 102 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.120 millions of people across our borders from around the world. 103 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.199 I think it's one hundred and eighty five countries that 104 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:37.800 come in from It's just not people coming across from 105 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:43.639 Mexico or people sneaking in from Canada. It's a worldwide 106 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:50.439 crisis now, maybe because travel is easier. Look anyone who 107 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.839 is studying this and has looked at the people coming 108 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.560 across the border. You have the people who clearly have 109 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.759 nothing except the clothes in their back, and yet I 110 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:03.600 saw groups of Chinese people coming in with rollaway luggage 111 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.600 dressed they look like they were a professional soccer team 112 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.600 on a CBS report that sharonel Fonsi did a few 113 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.800 months ago. So there's a white swathe here. In addition 114 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.319 to that, we have a federal debt of thirty five 115 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:22.160 trillion dollars. What percentage of the American public do you 116 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.240 think could quote that figure accurately? I assume you know 117 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.240 what that number is. What percentage of the American public 118 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.199 do you think knows or cares how much of a 119 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:33.639 federal debt this country is carrying? 120 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:40.120 Yeah, I mean a very small minute percentage, Like actually 121 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.959 realize the enormity of what that means. So we have 122 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:45.519 dumbed down. 123 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:48.319 We have dumbed down intentionally with dumbed down high schools. 124 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.519 No longer do they teach any sort of home act 125 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.240 or civics sort of the basic courses that high school 126 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.879 students need to get a little bit a knowledge about. 127 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.199 They don't they don't them. 128 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:04.040 Yeah, I know, see I look at you know, that's 129 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.879 a big part. Like it's so easy to point out, 130 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:14.399 you know, to point out the problems and unfortunately, you know, 131 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.720 well that's what I thought. And and my part of 132 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.279 like a radical solution I have, which could be you know, 133 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:33.399 depending on which well which you know, Trust and Safety Council, uh, 134 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:38.879 social media, uh, you know, mechanism however they deem you know, 135 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:43.480 my my radical solution or one is I want, you know, 136 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.279 for children. I mean, that's the future of a nation, 137 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:52.000 is the children. And beyond just being equipped with Shakespeare 138 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.919 and trigonometry. I want children. I mean radical overhaul of 139 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.399 public you know, education system or maybe a pail system 140 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.240 that's made available, you know. I mean I'm speaking in 141 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:04.440 ideological terms. 142 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.240 Out No, it's called charter schools. It's called charter schools, 143 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.279 but the public steachers unions. But death to that. 144 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.559 Well, but but I guess i'd say to utopian sense 145 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.639 of the word, it would be a public school where 146 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:18.960 we're going to cut out some of the trigonometry in 147 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.720 Shakespeare and we're going to teach kids two primary like 148 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.120 concepts like from K through twelve, which is number one 149 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.399 is you know, self defense and taking care of oneself. 150 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.000 So it's not just you know, self defense and combat, 151 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.320 but also how to forage for food, how to prepare 152 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.519 a meal, how to properly thought out, you know, meet, 153 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.240 you know how to, you know how to do laundry. 154 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:42.000 As they get older, you know how to you know 155 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.000 multituder things. And then another philosophy is you know how 156 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.759 you know first aid, like caring for their comrade or 157 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.960 for their neighbor. Because we don't have a hot we 158 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.639 no longer have high trust society in massachut. 159 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.639 Is Eric, I think you're you're in And I'm not 160 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:02.799 criticizing to hear, but I just think that it's getting 161 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:09.480 a little idyllic care And yeah, we used to look. Look, 162 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:11.639 kids used to join the Cup Scouts and the Boy 163 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.879 Scouts and they would learn that sort of stuff. They'd learn, 164 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.919 life saving, they would learn. But but that is now 165 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.440 fallen out of vogue. I mean, uh, the Boy Scouts 166 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.399 I don't think really exist any longer because they were 167 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.639 considered to be a sexist organization. There was the Boy 168 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.480 Scouts and the Girl Scouts, and now I think so 169 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:33.279 so that was attacked, that institution was attacked by people 170 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.399 who didn't understand the value of it. That you know, 171 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.720 boys could grow up and be boys, girls could grow 172 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.559 up and be girls, and then eventually, you know, obviously 173 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.919 they they end up going in high school together or whatever. 174 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:46.879 So a lot of the fundamental institutions in this country 175 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.960 have been have been set upon and destroyed. And a 176 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.519 lot of those attitutions that you that you're talking about 177 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:57.840 taught some of this self reliance and all of that. 178 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.960 But it's a huge it is, it is a huge problem. 179 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.279 I will never have lack of topics to talk about, 180 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.399 but I want to focus tonight on what we can 181 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.360 do to turn the call multa Massachusetts around. We're a 182 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.159 one party state. It's as simple as that. So when 183 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.360 you go to the polls, vote for the same people 184 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.799 in office. If you're happy with what's going on, vote 185 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.080 for the same people that are in office. Now, never 186 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:23.519 vote against Incombon State Rep. We've talked about that so 187 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.320 many times. And I don't mean to get up here 188 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.320 in a soapbox and I'm just saying that people got 189 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:29.759 to wake up. 190 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.399 Oh No, it's good stuff. You're right, got to wake up. 191 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.879 I can tell you my wake up call kind of 192 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.759 came in twenty eighteen when I actually attended the first 193 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:42.120 town council, you know, for the municipality I lived in 194 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.960 at the time, and started to actually like just pay 195 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.039 attention to how local politics work and how decisions are 196 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:49.720 made on how to you know. 197 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:52.000 On how Eric. I hate to do this to you, man. 198 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.679 We've done eleven minutes and my producer's going to be 199 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.919 screening the way past you. You do the next time 200 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.480 you call, Let's focus down on one or two topics, 201 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.639 because I think the two of us kind of spun 202 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.279 off each other here and I'm not sure that that 203 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.840 that I can't the call as well as I should have. 204 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:15.440 Okay, No, yeah, I appreciate, I hear me a good point, 205 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.399 and thank you for you know, letting me express myself. 206 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.559 In Yeah, call, call more often, and let's focus on 207 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:22.960 what we're talking about that particular night, and then you 208 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.399 can call frequently. That's what I That's what I need you. 209 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.440 People people call and they feel they got to get 210 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.919 everything out at one time, and what I'd rather do 211 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.240 is just deal with one or two topics tonight. I'm 212 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:34.120 talking about the direction of the common wealth and what 213 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.000 can we do to make Massachusetts better. We got a 214 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.320 lot of stuff going for us, but right now we 215 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.840 have a situation where we got people coming in here 216 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:45.720 who are just taking money away from programs that we 217 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:47.360 need for people in Massachusetts. 218 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.840 I agree, I mean, I think the number one thing 219 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.519 people get, the compassionate and considerate or the surroundings to 220 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.879 begin with, absolutely good. 221 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.679 Agree with you more. Thanks, Eric, appreciate it, Thank you much. 222 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.080 All right, coming right back. I promise I'll move it 223 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.759 quit more quickly. Eric's was a good guy, good caller. 224 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:10.200 One word led to another. Let's focus on Massachusetts and 225 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:14.360 let's focus on what we can do to make Massachusetts 226 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:18.519 work better. We got problems right now. Okay, this poll 227 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.840 shows the problems, but they identify solutions which will only 228 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:25.799 make the problems, in my opinion, worse. If you agree, fine, 229 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:28.879 if you disagree, even better. Coming back on Nightside. 230 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.879 Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 231 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.120 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 232 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.799 What we'll get Massachusetts back on track. This poll says 233 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.879 forty one percent of people in Massachusetts think we're on 234 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.399 the wrong track. What will get us back in the 235 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.080 right track? Joe and Dorchester. Joe next on Nightside, go righthead, Joe. 236 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:51.639 How are you doing, Dan? 237 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.039 I'm doing great. What's on your mind tonight? 238 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.320 What can get us back. 239 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:56.120 On the right track. 240 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.399 I was just listening to the last conversation. It was 241 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.759 all over. But anyway, Uh. I used to drive a 242 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:07.480 bus for in Massachusetts, you know, for Boston obviously, and 243 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.080 I remember a couple of guys got on the bus. 244 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.399 I used to drop them off in Long Island shelter 245 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.240 over there in Quincy, and they would say, oh, we 246 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.720 love Massachusetts, we love coming here. I said, hey, why 247 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.919 you know, we get free sneakers, we get free boots, 248 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.519 we get this, you know, you get it at check 249 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.960 you know. I said, Wow, that's great. Huh, you know, 250 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:31.240 and it's just all free. 251 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:32.600 It's all free, right. 252 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.639 All free, everything free. And you know, I'm like, wow, 253 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.120 this is justin here. I am a busting my fanny, 254 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.960 you know. And these guys get it for free, you know. 255 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.919 But uh, well again that that's the culture that we 256 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.840 have in Massachusetts. And guess what, there were people in 257 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.240 Massachusetts who really need help. They're not getting the help. 258 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:55.720 Oh, I know, a lot of people are disability and everything. 259 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.440 They were getting like eighteen dollars a month for food stamps, 260 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.799 you know, and need people that need it. They worked before, 261 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.639 you know, it wasn't it wasn't a handle. They worked 262 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:06.639 there and you know, they needed the money and they 263 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:07.600 couldn't get anything. 264 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.399 We're spending one billion. We're spending one billion dollars a 265 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.159 year on people who have come to Massachusetts because they 266 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.159 know they're from they're not from this country. I have 267 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:23.000 I have no problem with people coming here legally, but 268 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.080 I have a huge problem with people coming here illegally. 269 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:31.600 Let's help all people they live here, you know, and 270 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.559 people that come legally. That's all. It's not high I think. 271 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:40.279 Yeah, it's not rocket science, is what we're saying. You know. 272 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:42.480 All right, I'll let you go. 273 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.759 Daan, thank you, Joe, thank you much, appreciate your focus. 274 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.639 Thank you. By no, let's keep let's keep rolling. He 275 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.840 love to hear from some new callers tonight as well 276 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.960 on this. Let me go to Peg up in Haveril, Peg. Welcome. 277 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.399 We're we're talking about Massachusetts. According to a U to 278 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.960 a U, mass Amherst Pole being on the ron track. 279 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.759 Do you think we're on the right track of the 280 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.519 wrong track here in Massachusetts. I know that's a broad question. 281 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.559 We are so on the wrong track. Let me tell 282 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.600 you two things, Dan. In the past two years, my 283 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:18.279 rent in Massachusetts has been increased by eight hundred and 284 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.080 fifty five dollars. 285 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:25.320 Wow a month a month, that's that's ten thousand dollars 286 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:25.759 a year. 287 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.320 Oh yeah, I didn't even put that together. I don't 288 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.919 even have a dishwasher, Dan, I don't even have a dishwasher. 289 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.360 My washing machine is in my kitchen. There's a huge 290 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.799 mouse problem. It's only a three family out in the 291 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.480 boonies eight hundred and fifty five dollars. But the more 292 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.639 important reason why we are not doing good as a 293 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:54.480 state is last night I gave a woman, a homeless woman, 294 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.519 a sleeping bag and some jeans and some sweaters. And 295 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:05.880 she is camping, as she worded it, with a bunch 296 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.160 of other people outside of a motel right up from 297 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:12.599 the place that I work. And they can't go into 298 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:13.079 the motel. 299 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:14.359 They can't. 300 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.160 That is that a motel for the folks, for the 301 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.480 new newcomers. 302 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:22.559 From what I understand, I'm not sure one hundred percent 303 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.640 sure of that, but I believe. So that's what the 304 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.039 woman has said. She's a status heel at the state. 305 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:35.160 She's been homeless for a year and a half, and so. 306 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.559 She's when you say she's not allowed to go into 307 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.400 the hotel, she doesn't have the funds to go in 308 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.359 the hotel or they have them. 309 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:46.640 Yeah, yeah, you know. 310 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.839 And I haven't been down there. It's not it's probably 311 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.480 half a mile from where I am. But if I 312 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.440 find out that it's anything, I probably would get arrested. 313 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.440 So if it is a hotel like that when there 314 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.039 are people can't camping. Yeah, so here it is here. 315 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.720 It is the middle of October. It's not going to 316 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:08.480 get warmer for the next few months. 317 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:10.920 Turned on my heat? Did you turn on your heat yet? 318 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.440 Yep, yes, ye, yes, yeah, And I gave you and 319 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:17.799 I have the wherewithal. How much are you paying for 320 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:21.799 rent right now? If you've if it's gone up fifty dollars? 321 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.119 Are you ready for this? I hope you're sitting down 322 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:29.880 because it's so. The rent went up to twenty one 323 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.640 hundred dollars a month. But because I told them I 324 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.440 need a month's month as opposed to a year's lease, 325 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.319 I can't do a year's least because I'm I'm moving out. 326 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:44.680 I have to find some place, you know, which we did, 327 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:49.519 but they're charging me an extra hundred dollars a month. 328 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:55.720 This is a management company that there was a local 329 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.400 people that owned property in the town I live in, 330 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.920 and they retired a couple of years ago. They sold 331 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:08.400 their properties and one place bought it whoever, but a 332 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.160 management company ran it for a year and then they 333 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:17.359 sold the properties and split them up. And the management 334 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.319 company that we went to, they're awful, but eight hundred 335 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:22.720 and fifty five dollars. And I've talked to you before. 336 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.319 I told you I'm very close to retirement and die 337 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:26.039 of a hot attack. 338 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.480 First, I hear you. 339 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:33.640 I totally hear you. Yeah, I am twenty one hundred dollars. 340 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.119 That's twenty five thousand dollars a year to rent an apartment. 341 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:40.839 And again, you're not in the seaport, you're not in 342 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.880 downtown Boston. You're in Haral, which is a lovely community. 343 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:48.559 But that's a lot of money in Habral And yeah, 344 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:50.799 so I think you think we're going in the wrong direction. 345 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:54.119 That homeless woman who you were kind enough to give 346 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:58.720 a sleeping bag to and some clothes. Wow, you know 347 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:01.920 the people don't have a voice, but come on in 348 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:07.319 and again a billion dollars a year on newcomers. People 349 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:08.720 who have come to this country. 350 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:12.240 Not newcomers, they're they're here legally. 351 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:12.319 You know. 352 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.680 No, it's euphemism that is used by the people who 353 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:19.519 are in charge. You know. Well, they actually have signs 354 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.160 welcome to the newcomers. It's like, oh, you've moved here 355 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.279 from California. How are you tonight, Well, welcome to Massachusetts. No, 356 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:32.200 you've moved here from Croatia, or from Peru or from Venezuela. 357 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:38.119 I mean, yeah, yeah, and I can tell you stories. Actually, 358 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:39.680 I think I owe you a phone call. 359 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.759 Give me a call. Well, this is a good one. 360 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.599 You call any night, okay, Beeg, I really mean that, seriously, 361 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.200 you call me any night. Okay. Since since you we 362 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.319 did a kind thing for the woman, I want to 363 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:56.359 send you a night side T shirt. It won't keep 364 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.839 you warm in the winter, but it'll be an extra 365 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:02.759 layer of clothing. We for our buddies at college Hype 366 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:08.359 have UH some nightside T shirts. They're in the color 367 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:12.640 pink Nightside with Dan Ray to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 368 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:15.599 UH and so I'd love to be able to send 369 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.200 one to you and invite any of our callers who 370 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:20.240 would like to buy one. All you gotta do is 371 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:23.359 go to nightside gear dot com, where you find sweatshirts, 372 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:29.079 nightside sweatshirts, nightside t shirts, all sorts of nightside gear. 373 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:32.759 But again, you stay in the line. You give Rob 374 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.160 a size and an address and a phone number, and 375 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.920 we'll get that to you in a few days. Okay, 376 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:40.359 and thank you. 377 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:41.160 Oh thanks so much. 378 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:42.400 That's awesome, thank you. 379 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:45.319 Thanks, thanks, And again no double xes. They only do 380 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.720 x ls, l's and mediums. You know, that's the only thing. 381 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:51.759 And again, thanks for being nice to that woman. Okay, 382 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.640 you're a kind person. You're genuinely a kind person. We'll 383 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:58.599 take a break. It's news at the bottom of the arrow, 384 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:03.319 coming right back on Nightside, Some. 385 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:08.480 Night Side with Dan Ray on ws Boston's news radio. 386 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:12.319 All let's get back to the calls. We get everyone in, 387 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.799 I promise, Tom and Ohio, Tom, how are you doing 388 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.200 in Ohio? You know how you're here, how we're doing 389 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:18.839 here in Massachusetts? Go right ahead. 390 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:23.240 Oh well, it's a little chilly, and yes I have 391 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:25.720 it with furnace and I've kicked it up and not lately. 392 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:29.200 But you know, Dan, at the end of your show, 393 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:31.319 I get a little bit choked up every time when 394 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:34.759 you say all your pets go to heaven and everything and. 395 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.160 All dogs, cats, all pets go to heaven. I do 396 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:37.720 believe that. 397 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:44.119 Well, I mean, uh, our little dog, Talco. He was 398 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:47.359 a half miniature pincher, half Chihuahwei and he has little left. 399 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:49.839 He had these big ears. He's picked up ears from there. 400 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:52.480 The left ear was always turned to the left hand 401 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:58.880