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Speaker 2: us go back to Kathy. Kathy, you were talking about
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Kathy, yep.
Speaker 4: No, My point was just that food and what is
Speaker 4: in food more importantly affects everybody, you know, from caffeine
Speaker 4: stimulants to you know, these energy drinks at teens, drength,
Speaker 4: to the food dies that are more prominently in kids
Speaker 4: snacks and so forth, and you know, coust behavioral issues
Speaker 4: in school, and you know, and so forth, and just
Speaker 4: trickle into other problems.
Speaker 2: Well, we can't. We could give a thousand you know,
Speaker 2: kids who eat, who do not eat properly, they're overweight,
Speaker 2: We have all sorts of problems. The question is do
Speaker 2: we really want And I think this is a philosophical question,
Speaker 2: do we really want the government, whether it's the administration
Speaker 2: of Joe Bilin or of Donald Trump, telling us what
Speaker 2: can and cannot be so the grocery stores. I think
Speaker 2: that these are these are some interesting questions.
Speaker 4: It is, but I think we're at a crisis point.
Speaker 4: And you know, just from what I've seen, particularly with kids,
Speaker 4: I think we're at a crisis point. And food is
Speaker 4: just so overprocessed.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, then you would say yes, and it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 2: So if the next administration decides to come in and
Speaker 2: uh and and crack down more the the the the
Speaker 2: argument is who's who is the person best to decide
Speaker 2: what their family eats, mom and dad or the government.
Speaker 2: And I think that generally Republicans would say mom and dad.
Speaker 2: Democrats might say the government. So it's interesting. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be. It would be interesting if if
Speaker 2: if Donald Trump, along with RFK Junior, took on this
Speaker 2: cause could be fascinating.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think the other real important point right now,
Speaker 4: what's prominent to is theack vaccines and the effect that
Speaker 4: they've played the COVID vaccine. I have not been vaccinated.
Speaker 4: I know a number of people that have, and I
Speaker 4: know a number of people who are suddenly battling cancer.
Speaker 2: But see, here's the thing on that one, Kelly, I
Speaker 2: hope you'll understand that on that issue, on that issue,
Speaker 2: you were saying, I don't want the government telling me
Speaker 2: what vaccine I can or cannot take or the food.
Speaker 2: You want the government involved. So you got you've got
Speaker 2: to have some allies who are going to agree with you.
Speaker 2: On the phone.
Speaker 4: You can twist and turn things anyway, you know.
Speaker 2: Dan, I'm just saying, Look, they say consistency is the
Speaker 2: hobgoblin of small minds. I'm just saying that, when you
Speaker 2: think about it, it really comes down to a choice.
Speaker 2: Should the government those vaccines on people? You're gonna say no, okay, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Should the government impose what can and cannot be sold
Speaker 2: at the supermarket? You're gonna say yes. Others are going
Speaker 2: to say no. I think it's a wonderful conversation for
Speaker 2: talk show hosts, and I will look forward to it.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks Kathy, Okay, not.
Speaker 2: A problem again. We should have those choices. I'm a
Speaker 2: big guy for choice. That's all. Okay, Thanks Kathy. I
Speaker 2: have a great night. Let's keep on. Let's take a break.
Speaker 2: Take a break. I don't want to short change anyone.
Speaker 2: It's eleven fourteen. I only have one line open, which
Speaker 2: is six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. That
Speaker 2: makes me very happy. Feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know what you think about the h
Speaker 2: the Matt Gates nomination for Attorney General. I'm blown away
Speaker 2: by that. I just think that there must be better choices. Look,
Speaker 2: half the Republicans in Congress properly or our attorneys. Donald
Speaker 2: Trump knows a lot of attorneys. Is Matt Gates the
Speaker 2: best that he can come up with. I think it's
Speaker 2: a controversial choice, and I think, well, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's going to get through. I can count the Republicans
Speaker 2: on one hand. I think all the Democrats are going
Speaker 2: to say no. Has Donald Trump put him out there
Speaker 2: as a sacrificial lamb so that all of the ire
Speaker 2: of members of his own party in the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: going to focus solely on Gates. The president has a
Speaker 2: right to nominate his cabinet, there's no question about that.
Speaker 2: Jack Kennedy nominated his brother Bobby Kennedy in nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2: President Obama nominated Eric Holder. But I don't think there
Speaker 2: was any questions about their ethics. And there's a lot
Speaker 2: of questions about Matt Gates's ethics that have swirled around
Speaker 2: him for sometime. And he also was the guy that
Speaker 2: led the charge that basically took McCarthy out as Speaker
Speaker 2: of the House. For better or worse, I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of Republicans who want to see him fail
Speaker 2: as well. We'll see, we'll see. Let's keep our eye
Speaker 2: on that one. Let's keep our eye on the Robin F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy nomination. The only line is six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. That's the only one you should be down
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Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan ray line from the Window World
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Speaker 2: The New York Times is reporting tonight that President elect
Speaker 2: Trump has picked North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham to be
Speaker 2: Interior Secretary. So, uh, the Trump team is hitting the
Speaker 2: ground running. Let's go next, Let's go to the calls.
Speaker 2: Let's go too. Daniel in West Virginia, Daniel in West Virginia,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you sure? I am good? Dan?
Speaker 3: I just want to say before we get started, I'm
Speaker 3: a very blue person. That the very red state which
Speaker 3: did not used to be so red, but oh it
Speaker 3: used to.
Speaker 2: It used to be a very democratic state and uh
Speaker 2: not so long ago, and that it flipped very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yes, it did much too much to my well, I
Speaker 3: don't like it. Let's just put it that way. We'll
Speaker 3: we'll never have another senator like the great Robert C.
Speaker 2: Bird. But anyway, Matt, so you're a Robert Bruyd guy. Okay,
Speaker 2: I wasn't a fan of Robert Buruyd. What do you
Speaker 2: think about the new senator with his with his English bulldog?
Speaker 2: Senator James Justice, your former governor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like him either. He was liked as
Speaker 3: a Democrat and changed to a Republican while he was
Speaker 3: in office.
Speaker 2: How do you How do you like his dog? His dog?
Speaker 2: I saw his dog today on television. It's a cute dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it kind of looks like, actually, go ahead, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, yeah, Matt, Matt Gate's good Greek. I mean that
Speaker 3: that just completely blows my mind. Such a I mean,
Speaker 3: it's crazy, man, I understanding Why do you.
Speaker 2: Think why did Trump do that?
Speaker 3: Do you think because he wants to create chaos and mayhem?
Speaker 3: I think that's the reason.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, so if you think it's in Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's interest to nominate someone who probably is going to
Speaker 2: have to withdraw, I mean, what will happen is they'll
Speaker 2: come up to a voter and they'll say, look, we
Speaker 2: got thirty five votes and he needs not even close
Speaker 2: to what they need. I don't understand that. The only
Speaker 2: way I can figure it out is that if he
Speaker 2: feels that by doing by nominating Gates, all of the
Speaker 2: fury and the outrage of Democratic senators will focus on
Speaker 2: Gates and that that will make it an easier way
Speaker 2: for some of the other cabinet nominees to get through.
Speaker 2: Or do you think I'm crazy when I when I
Speaker 2: posit that.
Speaker 3: As an idea, I mean, I don't know. I just
Speaker 3: I just think the man wants to create chaos and
Speaker 3: Mayhem and like RFK for Department of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 5: Good grief.
Speaker 3: If he would have been the secretary during COVID, we
Speaker 3: would still have COVID going on at least, that's my opinion.
Speaker 2: That's a legitimate that's you have a right to European
Speaker 2: I think that the Matt Gates nomination is one unto
Speaker 2: itself in my opinion. I mean, my question is, you
Speaker 2: said he wants to create chaos in Mayhem. Why would
Speaker 2: he want to create chaos in Mayhem for his own
Speaker 2: second term in office? Didn't you have enough in the
Speaker 2: first term.
Speaker 3: Well that's just the way the man's mind works. And
Speaker 3: obviously I did not vote for him, No, I didn't.
Speaker 2: No, I understand. I'm just trying to figure out some
Speaker 2: way why how that benefits him. I don't know. You know,
Speaker 2: there were some of his nominations that I think the
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio nomination is one that we'll get through pretty easily.
Speaker 2: I think he has respect amongst both parties. Ratcliffe as
Speaker 2: a former Texas congressman, and he's been involved Telsey Gabbert
Speaker 2: Director of National Intelligence. I think that that's a good nomination.
Speaker 2: I think that she is a disenfranchised Democrat or disenchanted Democrat,
Speaker 2: I should say, but she was a Democratic congresswoman elected
Speaker 2: several times from Hawaii military veteran. So I think some
Speaker 2: of his picks make sense. But the Gates pick, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one that blows my mind the most.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's going to be next. He's going to
Speaker 3: nominate Elon Musk for Secretary of the Department of Labor
Speaker 3: or something. I mean, that wouldn't shock me at all.
Speaker 2: Well, he's got him in a new department that doze,
Speaker 2: the Department of Government Efficiency, government deficiency, and hey, if
Speaker 2: if must can find money that is being I don't
Speaker 2: want my tax dollars being spent inefficiently. I I'm and
Speaker 2: I'm sure you don't either.
Speaker 3: Nope, I certainly don't. And something else that completely blows
Speaker 3: my mind. Dan, I'll tell you, you know, why do people
Speaker 3: in poor states like West Virginia and Kentucky vote for
Speaker 3: all these Republicans that are going to do absolutely nothing
Speaker 3: to help them?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Do you think I think the Democrat?
Speaker 2: I think the Democrat. Look, the result speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: People may be poor in West Virginia and Kentucky, but
Speaker 2: they're not stupid. Uh And although you disagree, which is
Speaker 2: perfectly understandable, the Democrats. Apparently these folks feel the Democrats
Speaker 2: have have made a lot of promises and haven't followed through.
Speaker 2: That's the only that's the only rationale I can come
Speaker 2: up with. Most people vote in what they perceive to
Speaker 2: be their self interest, and that may be true.
Speaker 3: And of course people vote with their pocketbooks, right.
Speaker 2: Well, that that defines you, That defines yourself interest. Okay.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if you've hit upon hard times and
Speaker 2: you feel that it's the fault of the Biden administration,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to be particularly inclined to
Speaker 2: vote for his vice president, do you.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the way a lot of people look at it.
Speaker 3: You know, It's like, well, the cost of gas is
Speaker 3: too high. The cost of eggs is too high.
Speaker 2: And you know, well you go to look you let
Speaker 2: me ask you this, Well, you go to the grocery store,
Speaker 2: do you you must feel that that that additional cost.
Speaker 2: Everybody does. I'm the shopper in my family. I know
Speaker 2: what eggs cost, I know what gasoline costs. We finally
Speaker 2: are a little bit below three dollars a gallon. Here
Speaker 2: where I can find gas at two ninety five. Now,
Speaker 2: it's been a long time. It's a long time, Daniel.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, probable.
Speaker 3: Please two fifty four here right now?
Speaker 2: Well, you're doing better than we are. Hey, do me
Speaker 2: a favorite. Please keep listening, and please keep calling. I
Speaker 2: want to get different points of view, and yours oftentimes
Speaker 2: is a different point of view. And I thank you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for taking my caul, Sir.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you later, absolutely looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to where we're going to go here,
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna go. Let's go to Patrick and Charlestown,
Speaker 2: Patrick next on nightside.
Speaker 5: How are you how you doing?
Speaker 6: Daniel?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 6: Listen, so good, good good. So the one thing I
Speaker 6: wanted to bring up is about this Matt Gates thing
Speaker 6: that I think is that I think is that that
Speaker 6: I think is really prophetic, as it says we are
Speaker 6: in charge, we are not sorry, we are serious, and
Speaker 6: we are coming after you if you broke the law,
Speaker 6: and your days of being in charge of the law
Speaker 6: and who gets prosecuted and who doesn't are over and
Speaker 6: you should scared because we're coming. And the days of
Speaker 6: Trump hiring Republican establishment people to fill professional major roles.
Speaker 6: Examples William Barr, John Bolton, Jeff Sessions who did not
Speaker 6: clash the Russia hoax when he could have and probably
Speaker 6: flipped Congress in twenty eighteen. All of these old school
Speaker 6: Republicans aren't one thing. They aren't loyal. And in the
Speaker 6: position of Attorney general, it's less important to be the
Speaker 6: world's greatest trial attorney because we will have those working
Speaker 6: under him. It's far more important to have somebody who
Speaker 6: is a true ally of Trump's policy goals, and Matt
Speaker 6: Gates is exactly that. And that's why they are so surprised,
Speaker 6: because it shows we are bringing our one hundred miles
Speaker 6: an hour fastball and we are serious and you should
Speaker 6: be scared.
Speaker 5: And I love it.
Speaker 2: So here's my question to you, Uh, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Tell me what you we may disagree. What do you
Speaker 2: think the chances are that Matt Gates's nomination will make
Speaker 2: it through the Senate, that he'll get he'll get the
Speaker 2: necessary votes.
Speaker 6: To be I don't I don't know, but you know
Speaker 6: Trump Trump is going to have this problem with all
Speaker 6: of his nominees.
Speaker 2: He think, hold on, let's just have a conversation. I
Speaker 2: gave you a good two minute speech there for a second.
Speaker 2: Do you think he's gonna have that trouble with with Mario,
Speaker 2: with Marco Rubio?
Speaker 6: I think he's going to have trouble with all of them,
Speaker 6: I really do.
Speaker 2: I mean, so, Okay, if you and I were either
Speaker 2: one of us are betting men. But if you and
Speaker 2: I were were betting men, Okay, what do you think
Speaker 2: the over under is on Matt Gates? Right now?
Speaker 6: Let's be real, I'd say I don't know about over
Speaker 6: I'd say is about a one in four one and
Speaker 6: three chances of being approved, and it's it's real. The
Speaker 6: thing is, though it's brilliant, it's a brilliant political ploy,
Speaker 6: if it doesn't work, because what's going to happen is
Speaker 6: he's going to be able to put in somebody just
Speaker 6: a little bit more tolerable than him. That is also
Speaker 6: an ally of Trump's policy initiatives.
Speaker 2: And so I assumed that, I assume that he has
Speaker 2: the pick of a bunch of lawyers. But this guy
Speaker 2: has has been dealing with Now again they're allegations are pedophilia. Okay, yes,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I don't think Joe Biden, please don't
Speaker 2: go I know where you're going to go here. Please
Speaker 2: don't go there because I'm enjoying the conversation too much. Okay,
Speaker 2: please please not me.
Speaker 6: I mean it was his daughter's a diary general. I mean,
Speaker 6: but I won't. I won't go there.
Speaker 2: You want to go, well, I'm just saying that that
Speaker 2: that has been discredited. I just I'm not gonna entertain
Speaker 2: the conversation. I want to give you a conversations to
Speaker 2: what I'm saying here. Okay, We're not going there, Okay,
Speaker 2: on this program. It means you I go there within
Speaker 2: another programs, I'm not going there in this program, yes, okay.
Speaker 2: So now my question is this, are there no other
Speaker 2: lawyers who would be as tenacious and be as tough
Speaker 2: as Matt Gates who don't have pedophilia allegations. He's been
Speaker 2: investigated by the House Empics Committee. Well, do you know,
Speaker 2: have you ever watched the guy on television, Trey Goudi
Speaker 2: from a congressman from South Carolina. I'm sure you have.
Speaker 2: He's pretty yeah. Yeah, I mean I think he would
Speaker 2: be a great Now, he would be controversial because thet's Hey,
Speaker 2: he's a politician, just like any of them. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Democrats are not going to I mean, none of
Speaker 2: these people are going to be approved one hundred to
Speaker 2: one hundred to zero. I know that there's going to
Speaker 2: be thirty five Democrats who are going to vote against
Speaker 2: all of them. But I think Lee Zelden will be approved.
Speaker 2: I think that the former governor of Arkansas, Huckabee, will
Speaker 2: be approved. I think I think no, Christy, No, they.
Speaker 6: Want people, they want neuted people. We're not We're not
Speaker 6: doing that anymore.
Speaker 2: We're in name name me one neuted people, namely one
Speaker 2: neuted person that that Trump has nominated so far.
Speaker 6: Uh not in this not this go around, not this
Speaker 6: go around. But you know, and there's no more Mitt
Speaker 6: Romney's and there's no more.
Speaker 2: Okay, Republic, I don't think Mitt Romney ever had a
Speaker 2: chance to be nominated. I think we can agree upon that. Patrick,
Speaker 2: we're up to eleven thirty. I appreciate your calling. You're
Speaker 2: always a tough caller. But do me a favor when
Speaker 2: when Gates is confirmed by the US Senate, I want
Speaker 2: you to call me and I want you to take
Speaker 2: a huge victory lap.
Speaker 5: And he might not be.
Speaker 6: If he's not, he's going to be. He's going to
Speaker 6: be a senator. He's going to be take that senator
Speaker 6: spot in Florida, So get used to calling him senator.
Speaker 6: If he's not a g h.
Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what we'll we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: But if he's, if he's not approved, I hope you
Speaker 2: and I know, because you're from Charlestown, you'll be man
Speaker 2: enough to call me back and say, Daniel.
Speaker 6: I'll call you back then. I appreciate you very much
Speaker 6: as always.
Speaker 2: Back you have a great night. Okay, we'll take a break.
Speaker 2: The only lines that are available right now were six one,
Speaker 2: seven four thirty. Uh, both of the other lines are packed,
Speaker 2: soho dial six one, seven, two five four ten thirty
Speaker 2: will get John before midnight. I promise RFK Secretary of
Speaker 2: Health and Human Services. I think that he'll get through.
Speaker 2: I do. I don't think Gates will get through, but
Speaker 2: I could be wrong on both or all of them.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after the News at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: The night Side, Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, back to the call as we go. Where we're
Speaker 2: gonna go next. Mike is in Beverly, Mike next on Nightside.
Speaker 5: Gott ahead, Hey, good name Dandy and me.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, here you find Mike right ahead.
Speaker 7: So I like his picks.
Speaker 5: I understand that.
Speaker 7: Hello, think about the Matt Gay spot, I get it,
Speaker 7: you know, But I I here's a lot of people
Speaker 7: you would not expect as far as Picstow. But I
Speaker 7: can tell you you know, it's a bold move. I
Speaker 7: get it, you know. I didn't even think of the
Speaker 7: Trey Goudie picked Giance. I listen to Tray all the time.
Speaker 7: He's a good, good person.
Speaker 2: But well, I also think he's he's a former prosecutor, he's,
Speaker 2: you know, a former member of Congress. I think that
Speaker 2: he would bring a lot more to the table. And
Speaker 2: I just wonder why Trump is spending political capital. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, some of these picks would be tough to
Speaker 2: get through. I think he'll get most of them through,
Speaker 2: if not all of them, other than Gates. That's all
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 7: But the RFK part, though, I think it is I
Speaker 7: don't mind it. I think he's really good because you know,
Speaker 7: I was talking to somebody today about you know, our food.
Speaker 7: There's so much additives in it that they don't allow
Speaker 7: in like Germany or somewhere over there, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's we we we have a very we
Speaker 2: we want choice and all that. I mean, there's all
Speaker 2: that's It's interesting that normally the Republicans will say, hey,
Speaker 2: keep the government out of the out of the boardroom. Well,
Speaker 2: this is one where the government now wants to go
Speaker 2: into the boardroom and say to these cereal companies, which
Speaker 2: is probably great. I mean, I I have a cereal
Speaker 2: that I get from awake in one to eighty every morning.
Speaker 2: That's that's my breakfast. It's delicious, and it's uh, there's
Speaker 2: low calories, and it's it's not artificially sweetened. And that's
Speaker 2: a that's part of the key to my success of
Speaker 2: having lost thirty five pounds and keeping it off if
Speaker 2: I was eating a lot of that. You look at
Speaker 2: a lot of the breakfast cereals and a lot of
Speaker 2: it is is pumped up with with junk, and hey, uh,
Speaker 2: I don't eat those cereals. So I'm not gonna go
Speaker 2: out and demonstrate and say, hey, you're taking gocoa puffs
Speaker 2: off the market. I want my gocoa puffs or whatever,
Speaker 2: the the whatever the worst offenders.
Speaker 5: Are, I get it.
Speaker 7: I just don't know how you how you think government
Speaker 7: is in that would be in the in the food
Speaker 7: by if they're just saying, you know, we moved this
Speaker 7: part and whatever this ad event, I want to even
Speaker 7: whatever you call about it.
Speaker 2: Well, normally, normally I use this short of shorty ind term,
Speaker 2: and that is that generally Democrats are more concerned with
Speaker 2: the government being in the bedroom, and the Republicans are
Speaker 2: more concerned with government being in the boardroom. You know.
Speaker 2: The libertarian friends don't want don't want the government in
Speaker 2: the bedroom or the boardroom. Uh. And it's just a
Speaker 2: little bit of a switch here. I mean, Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior comes from a different perspective. It's worked out
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump, It's worked out for him, and who knows,
Speaker 2: maybe to work out for the American people, I'll say,
Speaker 2: give it a shot. You know they were elected.
Speaker 7: Give my how depicts what Mike brompeo. But I think
Speaker 7: Mike has some medical stuff going on because he lost
Speaker 7: some way Way Draska recently, so I think he has
Speaker 7: stomach surgery done or something. So I wondered that's why
Speaker 7: he is picking because I think Mike was a good
Speaker 7: pick the last administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was I thought a really good you know, Secretary
Speaker 2: of the Defense of Defense did a great job. He
Speaker 2: was I think number one in his class at West
Speaker 2: Point and number one at Harvard High School. But I
Speaker 2: think that he was thinking. He was one of the
Speaker 2: reasons I think he lost weight. I hadn't heard he
Speaker 2: was sick. But one of the reasons that he had
Speaker 2: lost weight, in my opinion, was he was thinking about
Speaker 2: running for the office, and maybe that turned turned up
Speaker 2: against him. I don't know, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just know I've seen him recently and he lost
Speaker 7: a drastic recently, so that was my thing.
Speaker 2: But again I've read nothing about that, so maybe it's true,
Speaker 2: but maybe you're speculating, but I've not heard that per
Speaker 2: se so. Hey, Michael, I was clearly lost a lot
Speaker 2: of weight, no doubt appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks quick comma damn well, last guys, quick comment
Speaker 7: about the thing last night, about the homeless thing last night.
Speaker 7: You're way off talked back about the drug addiction as
Speaker 7: a person long term recovery. You guys have no idea
Speaker 7: what you're talking about.
Speaker 8: Was that part?
Speaker 7: How hot is it to get one day clean?
Speaker 5: You guys think.
Speaker 2: I have had personal experience with friends of mine who
Speaker 2: were heroinautics. Okay friend, okay, uh, they were friends. I
Speaker 2: didn't know they were heroinadutics. My hat goes off to
Speaker 2: anyone who's able to beat that addiction. We had a
Speaker 2: guy on in the in the eight o'clock hours tonight.
Speaker 2: His name was Faust Rgario just wrote a book on
Speaker 2: how to fix your addiction. You should listen. Go to
Speaker 2: Nightside and Demand sometime tomorrow and listen to the beginning
Speaker 2: of the eight o'clock hour. I stand second to none
Speaker 2: in admiration of people who have beaten this a beaten
Speaker 2: any type of addiction, but particularly alcoholic drugs. Just so
Speaker 2: you know, because the.
Speaker 7: Guy another and you know Hallway another network that as
Speaker 7: a friend of mine. He susould talk to them about.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Is it a guy I think you're talking
Speaker 2: about a guy I worked with.
Speaker 7: No, he's done. He's another network. He's in your building
Speaker 7: down the hall. That as a friend of mine that's
Speaker 7: been clean as long as me, that he knows well
Speaker 7: about it. He can help your few information.
Speaker 2: I don't want to. Let me tell you, Mike, Mike,
Speaker 2: let me. Let me. Let me tell you something. I've
Speaker 2: had close, close personal friends who I have worked with
Speaker 2: for years, for years who went through heroin addiction. I
Speaker 2: could identify them because their public figures and their story
Speaker 2: has been out there, but I choose not to. So
Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about. I know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about, and I had I had on the show recently,
Speaker 2: a great friend of mine, Ted Wayman, who works at
Speaker 2: Channel five, who was at Alcoholic and he beat alcohol.
Speaker 2: That's why I thought you were referring to. But No,
Speaker 2: leave the other name out of it. I gotta go.
Speaker 5: I don't want to, I know.
Speaker 2: I congratulations, congratulations on your recovery. Thank you, sir, go
Speaker 2: and talk to you too. Let's go next to Cape
Speaker 2: Don the Cape Christ and the Cape Chris and Cape Cod.
Speaker 2: Welcome Chris, how are you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Hi?
Speaker 2: Dan uh Hello.
Speaker 5: I've got to I've got to agree with your comment
Speaker 5: earlier that Gates is a sacrificial lamb.
Speaker 8: But is he?
Speaker 5: I think with the rapidity that I mean, how how
Speaker 5: quickly he resigned from his position, the chessboard is is
Speaker 5: open and clearly. Uh. That allows his his representative steep
Speaker 5: to be rapidly filled in time, perhaps by January third
Speaker 5: or fourth.
Speaker 2: I don't think they can fill it. That. I don't
Speaker 2: think under the law in Florida they can fill it.
Speaker 2: That's eight weeks. Well, I think the eight week eight.
Speaker 2: You know, Christmas will be in one. I mean today's
Speaker 2: the fourteenth. So whatever he lives that, they probably won't
Speaker 2: lose the seat.
Speaker 5: In his district. It's it's definitely going to be a
Speaker 5: Republican that would fill his seat.
Speaker 2: Right, agree with you?
Speaker 5: Gates goes and Rubio hasn't resigned.
Speaker 2: Right, oh, but he will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that delays that and for enough time for
Speaker 5: Gates to get slaughtered by a Republican majority Senate and
Speaker 5: then he runs for Rubyo's seat, wins it clearly, and
Speaker 5: then the real candidate or ag comes forward having slaughtered
Speaker 5: one Republican. I don't think a Republican led Senate can
Speaker 5: afford in this climate, given the mandate of the past election.
Speaker 2: I agree, No, I think, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: For Gates, it's a big gamble. He had a safe
Speaker 2: congressional seat at the same time. I guess there was
Speaker 2: this ethics report that I've read conflicting reports that because
Speaker 2: he resigned, the ethics report might never see the light
Speaker 2: of day. But I guess these senators are now saying,
Speaker 2: even Republican senators, we want to see that report. So
Speaker 2: I think it's fascinating. Let's see how it works out.
Speaker 2: I certainly don't think he will be the next attorney general,
Speaker 2: but I've been wrong on other things. But I have
Speaker 2: to take a position and tell you what I think.
Speaker 2: I owe that to my audience. So do you think
Speaker 2: do you think that there's any way he gets he
Speaker 2: gets confirmed as an Attorney general? I don't see that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I think it's a planned uh okay, slaughter, Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not disagree with you. I'm not disagree
Speaker 2: with you at all.
Speaker 5: Chris, appreciate you dealing with the Donald Trump, who is
Speaker 5: the master negotiator, and he'll let one slide. But can
Speaker 5: you imagine him, that is, Gates coming back as a
Speaker 5: senator and sitting with fellow senators that have slaughtered him
Speaker 5: in his nomination process. That's another sort of Machiavellian strategy.
Speaker 2: But I guess it is, and and you might well
Speaker 2: be right. The only question is that if in the
Speaker 2: if in the process, the confirmation process, a lot of
Speaker 2: the information that may may not be public at this
Speaker 2: point comes out, does some other Republican die in Florida?
Speaker 2: And there are members of Congress, you know, any member
Speaker 2: of Congress, and there's a lot of Republicans in Congress
Speaker 2: who might say, hey, I'll give up my seat in
Speaker 2: the Senate in the hope of give up my seat
Speaker 2: in the House and the hope of becoming a US senator. Sure,
Speaker 2: I mean, so, who knows. We'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 2: But you called me back. If it works out exactly
Speaker 2: as you suggested, Chris, you've got a victory lap right
Speaker 2: here on Night's side.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, good night, Dan, good night, take.
Speaker 2: It easy, appreciate it, Chris, So take a very quick break. Okay,
Speaker 2: what have we got for open lines? I got two
Speaker 2: at six one seven two it there and one at
Speaker 2: six one seven, two, five, four to ten thirty. We're
Speaker 2: talking about President Trump's cabinet selections. My sense is that
Speaker 2: some of you might know might not know who all
Speaker 2: these folks are. Uh, you could just pick one or
Speaker 2: two and say whether you think they're good, bad, or indifferent.
Speaker 2: I think the Kennedy selection is interesting. Many people said
Speaker 2: that position is going to go to Ben Carson's. Kennedy
Speaker 2: might get a position, but he certainly not going to
Speaker 2: get the head of the Secretariat Secretary of Health and
Speaker 2: Human Services. Kennedy has that the big surprise is the
Speaker 2: Matt Gates domination at this point, and I think it
Speaker 2: is a I think Gates is a sacrificial lamb. You've
Speaker 2: heard my theory. I'd love to hear yours. We'll be
Speaker 2: back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, we will continue talking about Donald Trump's selections for
Speaker 2: his cabinet, some of which will be accepted and some
Speaker 2: of which won't be trust me on that. Let's go
Speaker 2: next too. I'm going to go up to Brian out
Speaker 2: in Franklin, Hey, Brian out in four ninety five Territory.
Speaker 2: How are you tonight.
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Speaker 8: Hey Dan, I'm doing good. How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. Which cabinet position would you like
Speaker 2: to talk about?
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I was calling in because you brought up
Speaker 8: a good point about Gates and like the sacrificial lamb.
Speaker 8: I and I think that when you said it brought
Speaker 8: up Prey Goudy. I thought to myself, you know, if
Speaker 8: he is that lamb, this will be a good opportunity
Speaker 8: for the Republicans to show that they have some resistance
Speaker 8: backbone against Donald Trump, to you know, show America that
Speaker 8: they're not just going to do everything that he says
Speaker 8: or everything he wants, you know, so like that would
Speaker 8: be a good good uh. You know, I'm looking at
Speaker 8: this as like political chess. And then like say, all right,
Speaker 8: if you want to have an office of you know,
Speaker 8: spending government spending efficiency, then like let's call up on
Speaker 8: Paul Rand. Paul, let's get some Libertarians in there. And
Speaker 8: then maybe at this point, why don't we step across
Speaker 8: the aisle like we did with Tulcy Gabbert and you know,
Speaker 8: offer some Democrats some jobs. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 8: saying we should put Elizabeth Warren as Secretary of Treasury,
Speaker 8: but I know I look at things as like you know,
Speaker 8: the session of the presidency and you know, as a
Speaker 8: constitution as a whole. So and you know, when you're
Speaker 8: picking these people and here you got to think about
Speaker 8: things like that, unfortunately. But yeah, well I think it's
Speaker 8: the United States government, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean the problem is that in terms of
Speaker 2: you know, Trump's persona he is, he is not a
Speaker 2: Republican that a lot of Democrats want to associate with. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, Bobby Kennedy Junior is there and he's been
Speaker 2: reward Telsey Gabbert is there, and I think they're there
Speaker 2: for all the right reasons, and and she's she's been rewarded.
Speaker 2: But I don't know how many Democrats that I could
Speaker 2: think of that Donald Trump could work with. Now, maybe
Speaker 2: there's some in private business who but amongst the political class,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, But I just the
Speaker 2: the Gates nomination is one that kind of mystifies me,
Speaker 2: because there are good, solid Republicans, you know who either
Speaker 2: you know, either are serving in government or outside of government,
Speaker 2: who would have been good. I mean, I I'll tell
Speaker 2: you you have a you had a former US attorney
Speaker 2: here in Boston, Andy Yella Lelling, who was a Republican
Speaker 2: nominated and he was nominated by Trump. I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 2: and solid as a rock. So there's plenty of Republicans.
Speaker 2: I just think the Gates thing is weird.
Speaker 8: I mean it's honestly. I woke up, I turned on
Speaker 8: the news, I saw that.
Speaker 5: I laughed.
Speaker 8: I just was like, Okay, then that's how we're going
Speaker 8: to start off today on the news, Like that's an
Speaker 8: interesting pick. Continue today and see what else he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean most of his other picks, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, some of them have been a little edgy,
Speaker 2: but I think you know, Marco Rubio's pretty solid pick
Speaker 2: for Secretary of State, Huckabee the ambassador of Israel. That
Speaker 2: that's an easy one. No one's gonna fight that, I
Speaker 2: don't think, so we'll say. We'll say. Brian always great,
Speaker 2: dear your voice, Thanks very much for joining us. I
Speaker 2: want to get one more in before I have to
Speaker 2: shut the shut the studio down.
Speaker 8: Okay, yes, thanks Dan for doing your job.
Speaker 2: Well, do me a favorite. Keep calling the show. I
Speaker 2: love to hear different voices. You've called before, have you not?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 8: I like to call when I'm driving down the pike.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, be careful, good night. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Brianna and Everett. I know Brianna, Hi, Brianna, how are you?
Speaker 10: Why Dan, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 2: How are your children? Everybody behaving themselves?
Speaker 10: I hope, yes, they are getting there, growing every day.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what's happens when you feed them, so you know,
Speaker 2: be aware. So, so what's your thought on some of
Speaker 2: the names that President Trump has now nominated to be
Speaker 2: to be in his cabinet.
Speaker 10: So, Dan, I put on my when I look into
Speaker 10: your show, I put it on my my other my tablet,
Speaker 10: and I think it's backtracked to I think it was
Speaker 10: maybe last night show because I was hearing about the
Speaker 10: homeost encampment thing, and I wasn't hearing about the this,
Speaker 10: so I was calling in about that. Is there any
Speaker 10: way I can just speak a couple of minutes about that.
Speaker 2: You're talking about Brockton out of all? Yeah, absolutely, no, absolutely,
Speaker 2: Well what happened was we were supposed to talk about
Speaker 2: the denominations last night, but the Brockton topic just lit up,
Speaker 2: and the phone calls were very, very interesting, and we
Speaker 2: did three hours on Brockton. So go ahead, if you
Speaker 2: want to talk about Brockton, go right ahead. Thank you
Speaker 2: for thank you for telling me and explaining to me.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So I am a recovering addict. I have four years clean,
Speaker 10: thank you. And I've been homeless and I've lived that
Speaker 10: life and it's very very hard. There's like a fluped outside.
Speaker 10: I think that maybe the encampment there, some of them
Speaker 10: aren't like keeping them clean and then making crashing around
Speaker 10: like that's just to me, that's just disgusting because and
Speaker 10: I don't mean to be like offensive to anybody it's
Speaker 10: just that I understand that you're homeless. I live that life,
Speaker 10: and it's it's tough, but you are still a human
Speaker 10: being and you still need to think of other people
Speaker 10: that you're around. There's children, there's you know, like right now,
Speaker 10: my my mother and my father have temporary custody of
Speaker 10: my children and coming half on four years clean, you know,
Speaker 10: it's like I'm trying to get them back and I
Speaker 10: was almost for so long and now I'm finally in
Speaker 10: a place where they're helping me get housing. And it
Speaker 10: took forever to get here. But basically I want to
Speaker 10: let like everyone know that, like you're not alone, Like
Speaker 10: it's possible. It might take some time, but like you'll
Speaker 10: get there.
Speaker 2: And Banna, that's an inspiring message, okay, of hope and resiliency. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: we're flat out of time, but I I'm so glad
Speaker 2: you called h and left that message. It's a great
Speaker 2: point to end our program on. We're going to do
Speaker 2: more on this topic, I'm sure, and I want you
Speaker 2: to continue to call and continue to listen because your
Speaker 2: voice is important on this conversation.
Speaker 10: I will Dan, thank you so much. I have a
Speaker 10: great night you too.
Speaker 2: Brianna, best best wishes, Congratulations. It's amazing that people can
Speaker 2: actually survive and prosper and Branness do him great. My
Speaker 2: name's Dan Ray. I'm dumbing to night Rob Brooks, thank
Speaker 2: you very much. I'll end as always all and Marita
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