Speaker 1: It's nice eyes, Dan Ray, untelling you Mazy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Before we get back to the callers, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to open up another topic. I'll take a quick comment
Speaker 2: from anyone who's on the line about Boycott's but then
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the potential of a government
Speaker 2: shutdown about twenty four hours from now that is appearing
Speaker 2: less likely, thankfully. We'll talk about that. But for those
Speaker 2: of you in the Boston area who have expressed an interest,
Speaker 2: we're going to do a night side brunch on Saturday,
Speaker 2: excuse me, on Sunday, April twenty seventh. This will be
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock at a great restaurant in Westwood called
Speaker 2: Nioli an e Roli. It's an Italian restaurant on Route
Speaker 2: one A in Westwood, two eighty two Washington Street. There's
Speaker 2: a great parking, easy accessible, free parking behind the restaurant,
Speaker 2: free on street parking, no meters or to worry about.
Speaker 2: Even though it is a Sunday, I have to make
Speaker 2: a reservation and say you want to sit in my
Speaker 2: section at the restaurant, Dan Ray, The Winnaker Band will
Speaker 2: be there, which is just fabulous news. They are a
Speaker 2: great band. Uh and I'm looking forward to seeing Bill
Speaker 2: Winnoker and Bo Winnaker and they have they have an
Speaker 2: incredible female singer. They have a pianist who works with
Speaker 2: them as well. And this is at eleven o'clock on Sunday,
Speaker 2: April twenty seventh. Now, if you I'm going to tell
Speaker 2: you right now, this is no joke. It is very
Speaker 2: close to a sellout. We only open this up a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago and it is close to a sellout.
Speaker 2: So if you call, you need to call. If not
Speaker 2: now tonight, the first thing in the morning. And again
Speaker 2: I'm not joking with you. They don't know what has happened,
Speaker 2: but we it's it's almost a sellout. Seven eight one
Speaker 2: three seven five two four. That's seven eight one three,
Speaker 2: seven five two five nine four. I've been asked by
Speaker 2: listeners for a couple of years, is there an event
Speaker 2: we could have where nightside listeners could go and enjoy
Speaker 2: themselves and meet other nightside listeners. Marita, the producer of
Speaker 2: the program, will be there. I will be there. I
Speaker 2: hope you'll be there. They have a great menu. Bill
Speaker 2: Winaker tells me this the food is fabulous, and I
Speaker 2: believe it is. They have a brunch menu. They also
Speaker 2: have a breakfast menu and a lunch menu, so you
Speaker 2: can order brunch or you can just order something simple
Speaker 2: for breakfast or order something simple for lunch. If this
Speaker 2: sells out, and I believe it's going to sell out
Speaker 2: in the next day, okay, So that's why you need
Speaker 2: to make reservations. Does it cost you anything to make reservations?
Speaker 2: Please don't make them if you don't intend to come,
Speaker 2: but they very well may double up on it. We
Speaker 2: may have one lunch at eleven, one brunch at eleven,
Speaker 2: and one brunch at twelve thirty. So we're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out and accommodate how many people want to go.
Speaker 2: So if you have any questions, you can call me,
Speaker 2: call Rob. We have all the information. The number is
Speaker 2: seven eight one three seven five two five nine four
Speaker 2: Niroli's Restaurant in Westwood on Route one eight. Parking behind
Speaker 2: the restaurant and on the street. It's supposedly a great
Speaker 2: It is a great restaurant from everything that I have heard,
Speaker 2: And when you make a reservation, make sure because there
Speaker 2: will be other people in the restaurant other than us.
Speaker 2: We've only been given a certain amount of space. So
Speaker 2: we will will fill that space once. We might fill
Speaker 2: it twice. But if you want to be there at eleven,
Speaker 2: you got to call. I would say no later than
Speaker 2: tomorrow seven eight, one, three, seven, five, two, five, nine four.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to force you to call. I
Speaker 2: want I want you to be there, but I only
Speaker 2: want you to be there if you if you want
Speaker 2: to be there. And again, all you doing is just
Speaker 2: paying for breakfast, whatever you have, breakfast, brunch or whatever.
Speaker 2: There's no admission. The entertainment is included. It's going to
Speaker 2: be great. Okay. Now, before we get back to a
Speaker 2: call or two, if they want to talk about Boycott's,
Speaker 2: that's fine. I want to talk about the potential government shutdown.
Speaker 2: This is a story you're going to see evolve in
Speaker 2: the next day or so. Some of you probably know
Speaker 2: a lot about it. Right now. The government has to
Speaker 2: raise the debt ceiling. Because we have thirty seven trillion
Speaker 2: dollars in federal debt. It gets pretty complicated. What they
Speaker 2: do is they pass a limited continuing resolution. The Republicans
Speaker 2: in the House have passed it by the thinnest of March,
Speaker 2: and there was one Democrat who voted for it and
Speaker 2: one Republican who voted against it, and I think the
Speaker 2: vote was two seventeen to two eighteen. It was razor thin,
Speaker 2: just the long party lines. Now it goes to the Senate.
Speaker 2: The President will sign it if it gets out of
Speaker 2: the Senate. The Senate has this filibuster where you need
Speaker 2: sixty votes. Even though the Republicans have fifty three and
Speaker 2: the Democrats only have forty seven, the Republicans need seven
Speaker 2: Democratic votes to break the filibuster. If the filibuster continues,
Speaker 2: then the government basically shuts down tomorrow night at midnight.
Speaker 2: That's what's going on. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Late today, late today, it is being reported that Democrats
Speaker 2: the majority, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York,
Speaker 2: has told NPR that shutting down the government would give
Speaker 2: musk Endozed carte blanche to do what he wants. However,
Speaker 2: but Schumer has said that at this point he is
Speaker 2: prepared to break the filibuster and to make sure that
Speaker 2: the government continues. Earlier today, a Democratic Senator from Texas,
Speaker 2: John Cordon, said they'll cave who accused Democrats and hypocrisy
Speaker 2: for criticizing Musks federal layoffs while potentially forcing government workers
Speaker 2: out of a job with the shutdown. Now, in the past,
Speaker 2: the Democrats have always maneuvered the governor. The Republicans, i
Speaker 2: should say, to be in the position where they would
Speaker 2: be blamed for the shutdown. Well, Schumer is now saying
Speaker 2: that while the continuing Resolution bill and continuing the government
Speaker 2: funding through September thirtieth is very bad, Schumer is now
Speaker 2: saying the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America
Speaker 2: that are much much worse. So Schumer has decided now
Speaker 2: he needs to get enough Democrats to get to seventy.
Speaker 2: So how concerned are you about a government shutdown? It's
Speaker 2: still I mean, until the votes are cast, it's still possible.
Speaker 2: So I'd like to talk about that. And is that
Speaker 2: something that you understand. Apparently there would be only some
Speaker 2: aspects of the government that would be shut down, not everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Army would still be there, the military,
Speaker 2: but there would be offices closed. This is separate apart
Speaker 2: from what Elon Musk is doing. And if there's a
Speaker 2: government shutdown, that's going to royal the stock market even
Speaker 2: more if there is not, that might allow the stock
Speaker 2: market to come back a little bit. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot going on. Six seven two, five, four ten thirty,
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one, ten thirty. I would
Speaker 2: like to talk about your concerns about this. Obviously, things
Speaker 2: are in a state of a lot of confusion as
Speaker 2: to what's going on in Washington. Let's try to sort
Speaker 2: it out. Join the conversation. Are you worried we have
Speaker 2: the stock market as a background to a potential government
Speaker 2: shut down. The House has passed the continuing Resolution, so
Speaker 2: the work is done there. The House has gone home.
Speaker 2: They have left it in the Senate to deal with.
Speaker 2: The Senate only has fifty three Republicans. To break a filibuster,
Speaker 2: they need seven Democratic votes. I'm beginning to think they
Speaker 2: will get them because of what Schumer said late today.
Speaker 2: Back on Nightside, I got some lines at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty, and I got some lines at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine three, ten thirty. We'll be back more phone calls
Speaker 2: right after this on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones. We have our friend,
Speaker 2: one of our David's in San Francisco. Never show which
Speaker 2: David we're gonna get. David, you are next on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Well, this has got to be the smart one. I
Speaker 4: guess you're familiar with Elon Musk trying to cut off
Speaker 4: the telephone service for the Social Security.
Speaker 2: I know that they're looking to do some things. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's Elon Musk specifically, but what
Speaker 2: they're trying to do I believe. Well, why did you
Speaker 2: explain it? And then I'll try to comment on it?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Dave, Go ahead, David. I'll give you a chance.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Well, to give the listeners a little background, it's been
Speaker 4: almost one hundred and fifty years since the telephone was invented. Watson,
Speaker 4: come here quickly. I need you.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 4: Eighteen seventy six. You Dan used the telephone as a
Speaker 4: major part of your show. The telephone is hugely it
Speaker 4: is very efficient. Now Doge, the last letter E in
Speaker 4: Doge is efficiency.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: I would why would Doge call telephones to the Social
Speaker 4: Security Administration inefficient?
Speaker 2: At this point, David, believe it or not, I absolutely,
Speaker 2: I'm going to surprise you and tell you I agree
Speaker 2: with you. Here's the in my opinion, the problem and
Speaker 2: where we might have a disagreement. Uh, I am very frustrated,
Speaker 2: and I suspect you probably share my frustration because I
Speaker 2: oftentimes are calling some company, whether it's a newspaper, because
Speaker 2: my newspaper wasn't delivered last Monday. You've had those experiences,
Speaker 2: and most often you get someone overseas who is not
Speaker 2: fluent fluent in English. Okay, so that's what's called offshoring.
Speaker 2: You're familiar with.
Speaker 4: That, right, Okay, good's the problem? Man?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna respond, We're gonna have David,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a conversation, or one of us is
Speaker 2: gonna end up in the water. And I'm betting it's
Speaker 2: on you. Just listen to what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 2: because you're going to find me in more agreement with
Speaker 2: you than you realize. So I am appalled at the
Speaker 2: number of companies that do not allow us to talk
Speaker 2: to a human being. If I want to call the
Speaker 2: Boston Globe to tell them that my newspaper has not
Speaker 2: been delivered, I end up talking to someone in Tucson, Arizona,
Speaker 2: And the Globe at least has people in this country
Speaker 2: who I talk to. If I want to talk to
Speaker 2: an insurance company, I'm often dealing with someone in the Philippines.
Speaker 2: I'm dealing with people in the Dominican Republic who are
Speaker 2: wonderful people, David, But that defeats the purpose. Now, I
Speaker 2: think what I'm not going to defend Musk on this
Speaker 2: because I think it is a mistake. They are of
Speaker 2: the conclude of the belief that everybody is computer literate.
Speaker 2: Your computer literate. I'm computer literate, but on some things,
Speaker 2: I want to be able to talk to a human being.
Speaker 2: And I I think if they eliminate any telephone access,
Speaker 2: they are making a huge mistake. They If they cut
Speaker 2: down and make it a little more difficult for people
Speaker 2: to get to a person and encourage people who are
Speaker 2: computer literate to accomplish some simple tasks through a website,
Speaker 2: there might be some efficiency in that. But on a whole,
Speaker 2: on the issue as a whole, I'm in agreement with you.
Speaker 4: Well, Now, the one thing that I needed to correct
Speaker 4: you on is the Social Security does not out offshore
Speaker 4: our social security numbers to some foreign country. I didn't
Speaker 4: say they did.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that just for clarification. I said that
Speaker 2: some of the companies that I have dealt with. I
Speaker 2: deal with an insurance company, which I no longer deal
Speaker 2: with because I can't deal with them. I dealt yesterday
Speaker 2: with an electrical company that provides my electrical supply here
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. I changed my company yesterday from one to another.
Speaker 2: And yeah, no, Social Security does not. You're correct on that,
Speaker 2: but go ahead. I stopped. I wanted to. I think
Speaker 2: you were stunned that you and I are in some
Speaker 2: centual agreement here. There would be a mistake to eliminate
Speaker 2: phone access for people who do not have computers or
Speaker 2: people who are not comfortable on computers. I can accomplish
Speaker 2: much more on a phone conversation with someone than I
Speaker 2: can by trying to email them back and forth. Go
Speaker 2: right ahead, David, Well.
Speaker 4: The bigger picture is there are plenty of people out
Speaker 4: in the middle of the out in the prairies, let's say,
Speaker 4: who don't have great Internet service, they weren't trained on computers,
Speaker 4: they don't trust computers. And now that Elon has got
Speaker 4: our social Security numbers been in the Friday night five
Speaker 4: weeks ago is when Elon Musk sneaked into the Treasury
Speaker 4: and he's had our data forever or for.
Speaker 2: You're changing the conversation on me at this point.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to if somebody wanted to get in touch
Speaker 4: with Social Security, do they want to fool with a
Speaker 4: computer or do they want to deal with somebody a
Speaker 4: human over a telephone.
Speaker 2: A lot of people want.
Speaker 4: To trap us Elon Musk wants to talk us into
Speaker 4: one computer.
Speaker 2: That I'm having what I'm trying to say to you,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to agree with you that there
Speaker 2: are a lot of people at this point who might
Speaker 2: be I don't know how old you are, but who
Speaker 2: might be younger than you and me, who prefer to
Speaker 2: deal on the computer, and some people don't like to
Speaker 2: deal on the telephone. But there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people who would prefer the telephone. And I think both
Speaker 2: options should be available. That's the point that I'm agreeing
Speaker 2: with you on. I don't I think it should be
Speaker 2: completely telephone or completely computers. I prefer to see a
Speaker 2: telephone option for people who are more comfortable on telephones
Speaker 2: and a computer option for people on anything. But I
Speaker 2: don't want someone waiting for five hours to get through
Speaker 2: on the telephone. I want to make sure that there
Speaker 2: are enough people live people who can handle the level
Speaker 2: of phone calls, because over time, I think you would agree, David,
Speaker 2: that more and more people are going to default to
Speaker 2: computers and away from telephones, which I think is that's
Speaker 2: not me.
Speaker 5: I don't probably not you.
Speaker 4: I don't agree with you because I think that once
Speaker 4: Elon Musk got our Social Security numbers, they don't Most
Speaker 4: people don't want to use the computer to interact with
Speaker 4: the Social Security because they don't trust Elon Musk and
Speaker 4: the idea that we're being trapped into using computers that
Speaker 4: he now has control of. I find that horrible, and
Speaker 4: I consider Elon Musk a trader, and for Donald Trump
Speaker 4: to keep a trader on the books.
Speaker 2: Let's let's let's impiach him. How did that work out
Speaker 2: the first few times, David.
Speaker 4: Well, he got through the it got through the House.
Speaker 2: But the coward leader he got reelected because of people
Speaker 2: like you, David. David, Donald Trump. You are the greatest
Speaker 2: gift to Donald Trump that he has people listening to
Speaker 2: you tonight. They're saying I'm gonna vote for Trump again
Speaker 2: because they think your nuts, David. That's what they think.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Elon Musk? This whole is walking
Speaker 2: around with your with your social Security number. I protect
Speaker 2: my social Security number. I gotta have some faith that
Speaker 2: the government is going to protect my social Security number.
Speaker 2: Do you think Musk is saying to Trump, let's get
Speaker 2: David in San Francisco's SO Security number. You know, they say,
Speaker 2: if they're really after you, you're not paranoid, David. I got
Speaker 2: news for you. They're not really after you. I think your.
Speaker 3: Parent, dude.
Speaker 4: They've already admitted that Elon Musk has got our social
Speaker 4: security numbers.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure he's got your SO
Speaker 2: Security number, David, and I'm sure that he's now investigating you,
Speaker 2: that he's going deeply into your background. That's the only
Speaker 2: reason that Musk, in my opinion, has gotten into this situation.
Speaker 2: You know as well as I do, that the Tesla
Speaker 2: stock has plummeted in the last couple of weeks. It's
Speaker 2: gone from like four hundred to two sixty. But Elon
Speaker 2: Musk is prepared to lose billions of dollars as long
Speaker 2: as he can get David in San Francisco's Social Security number.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what he's going to do with it,
Speaker 2: but David. If I were you, I would worry. I
Speaker 2: would worry.
Speaker 4: Well, if you want to call me a fool, I
Speaker 4: would say.
Speaker 3: That I.
Speaker 2: Called you totally paranoid. Paranoid David would are you wearing
Speaker 2: your swim trunks? Rob David? I tried, I really tried. Tonight,
Speaker 2: we'll be back right after the newsnight.
Speaker 1: Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We will probably talk about the Karen Read trial tomorrow
Speaker 2: and night. I just heard Dan Watkins report and I'm
Speaker 2: looking here very quickly at it. It just cleared the
Speaker 2: wires here about forty minutes ago. The Boston Global article
Speaker 2: has lost her bid. Trying to see which judge it
Speaker 2: was that threw this out, I I haven't been able
Speaker 2: to read this US A veteran US District Court Judge F.
Speaker 2: Dennis Salor the fourth disagreed on both points. This quote
Speaker 2: sees no basic to clude the judge's decision to clear
Speaker 2: mistrial was incorrect her improper. I disagree with that decision.
Speaker 2: I disagree with the decisions of the State Supreme Court. Uh,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about that tomorrow night. But again, there
Speaker 2: are plenty of legal decisions that I disagree with in
Speaker 2: this country. He says, further Sailor Road, it would be
Speaker 2: an intrusion for federal court to direct the state court
Speaker 2: to conduct avoider of former jurors and would implicate substantial
Speaker 2: concerns of federalism and comedy. That's a stretch, judge. Okay,
Speaker 2: back to the call as we go. Uh, we got
Speaker 2: a lot going on tonight, Patrick in DC. Hey, Patrick,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I just couldn't resist, you know, since you were talking
Speaker 3: about my hometown once again and a government shutdown. And yes,
Speaker 3: I am concerned about it. And I'll tell you why
Speaker 3: I'm concerned about it, because it adds to the misery index.
Speaker 3: Remember the misery index.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, yes, that was what Ronald Reagan. That's what
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan talked about life under Jimmy Carter. High inflation.
Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, the misery index. Absolutely, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 3: This shows me is that the Senate thing that they
Speaker 3: like to be the Senate and they like to use
Speaker 3: their Senate speak, and they have their they could have
Speaker 3: their eyes on that Sunday talk shows, you know with
Speaker 3: the breasted chatterboxers. And if they go ahead and allow
Speaker 3: it to shut down. Now it's just going into the
Speaker 3: weekend midnight or Friday, you know, so they can, you know,
Speaker 3: get on their Sunday talk shows with the shutdown, when
Speaker 3: when they know they're going to open it back up
Speaker 3: come Monday or Tuesday. That's what concerns me that they're not.
Speaker 2: I don't worry about it. No, I'll tell you wouldn't
Speaker 2: worry about Here's why. Let me let me put your
Speaker 2: mind at ease. Believe it, believe it or not. This
Speaker 2: is the first time in many years that I can
Speaker 2: remember that there has been no congressional recess this late
Speaker 2: in the year, meaning they were sworn in in early January.
Speaker 2: They were there through the inauguration, they have been there
Speaker 2: through all the hair rings dealing with the cabinet selections.
Speaker 2: And the House went home yesterday, as I understand it,
Speaker 2: for the first time, uh since since early early January.
Speaker 2: The Senate now is left in Washington alone. The senators,
Speaker 2: they they will they all the all the bookers on
Speaker 2: the Sunday morning talk shows, the Sunday talk shows will
Speaker 2: have their pick of the litter because because there were
Speaker 2: no House members in town, they've all skidaddled. Okay, so
Speaker 2: all these Senate guys and gals can stick around. They
Speaker 2: can be on any show they want, Okay on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and I think that Schumer's comments tonight to NPR that
Speaker 2: he's going to vote UH to uh to end the filibuster.
Speaker 2: He's going to join the fifty three Republicans. Fetterman is
Speaker 2: already that will get the the requisite number of votes
Speaker 2: so that the philibuster will be broken, and that the
Speaker 2: Senate will vote tomorrow to approve the continuing Resolution that
Speaker 2: the House has already passed, and they'll have it on
Speaker 2: the President's desk tomorrow night. This is actually a win
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump because he was going to say if
Speaker 2: the government shut down, it's the Senate's fault and they
Speaker 2: did not want to take the heat.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that my vision is at ease, but
Speaker 3: it's kind of partially right because they're going to be
Speaker 3: sticking around and write the Sunday talk shows will have
Speaker 3: the pick of the letter. Because I'll tell.
Speaker 2: You this, if I'm wrong, I expect you to call
Speaker 2: me Monday and say, Dan, you misled me. I want
Speaker 2: you to put your head on your pillow tonight in
Speaker 2: Washington or near Washington, wherever your pillow is, and I
Speaker 2: want you to sleep soundly tonight. And I hope I
Speaker 2: hope that I hope that our friend David in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: We go coast to coast, we're by coastal here. I
Speaker 2: hope that my friend is out of the water and
Speaker 2: toweling off somewhere in San Francisco right now, because that
Speaker 2: was a cool thing for me to do, to put
Speaker 2: him into the water. I was actually trying to agree
Speaker 2: with him, and he wouldn't even allow me to agree
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 3: Hey, give me fifty thousand watts in nine minutes, you know, Hey,
Speaker 3: I could sell a lot.
Speaker 2: I understand that. I will tell you this though. We
Speaker 2: now found out tonight through David that the whole reason
Speaker 2: Elon Musk is doing this is so he can get
Speaker 2: David so security number. I never.
Speaker 3: They call it, they call it doge right d og.
Speaker 3: And you know how the.
Speaker 2: Department of you have to have an acronym to Department
Speaker 2: of Governmental Efficiency. And by the way, the points David
Speaker 2: made tonight I agreed with, and it befuddled him that
Speaker 2: we could agree on something.
Speaker 3: You're not going to win with San Francisco, my friend.
Speaker 3: You're not going to win with San Francisco. I always says, Doge,
Speaker 3: excuse me, this might go but there is the there
Speaker 3: is the element that though the sentamon the cinnamon hygiene procedure,
Speaker 3: and I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: You got to kill that one. Thank you, Patrick, God
Speaker 2: bless you say three hour fathers and two Hail Mary's
Speaker 2: and we'll talk again. Okay, thanks, thank you, have a
Speaker 2: great night. Where we're gonna go next. I got Mac
Speaker 2: in Florida. Matt, how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm doing great, doing great. Dan, flight's good, life's
Speaker 5: good for the working gack. You know, people have a
Speaker 5: job and pavia attaxes. It's great. It's a great time.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't I'm not going to beat
Speaker 2: up on David here, but did you understand that I
Speaker 2: was actually trying to agree with David tonight for the
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 5: I can. I mean, yeah, you were trying to help
Speaker 5: them out, but I mean cans billions of dollars. He
Speaker 5: doesn't care. He doesn't need anyone's money. Like, he's not
Speaker 5: worried about your money, my money. He's genuinely trying to
Speaker 5: stop waste. Like I don't know why, man, that's so
Speaker 5: complicated for people like, I know, I haven't a lot
Speaker 5: of liberal friends back in Massachusetts, and like they're angry
Speaker 5: at this guy for like saving money. It makes no sense.
Speaker 5: It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well, it makes a lot of sense. No, it makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense, Matt in this in my belief
Speaker 2: because a lot of these folks have kind of ridden
Speaker 2: the gravy train for years. I mean the amount of money.
Speaker 2: We're thirty seven trillion in the hole. I mean if
Speaker 2: you own thirty cent, if you owed thirty seven trillion
Speaker 2: to the bookies, you'd be sleeping with the fishes, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Oh my god. And it's it's so funny because my
Speaker 5: for for years, my friend would all he went for tough. Okay,
Speaker 5: for a year, he would make fun of me for
Speaker 5: working for corporations. He'd be like, oh, they can fire
Speaker 5: you anytime you want. The second Trump gets elected, he's
Speaker 5: freaking out. He's telling me, oh, he's gonna cut all
Speaker 5: the jobs at universities and research departments and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: And I go, oh, well, it's good now you feel
Speaker 5: some of that threat. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: people who work I mean working for universities different than
Speaker 5: working for the government, but not really, you know, I
Speaker 5: mean it is, but it isn't. And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's not. There's no such thing as as as a
Speaker 5: guarantee in life. And it's like these people finally realize,
Speaker 5: I mean, your time is up. Sorry, but that's how
Speaker 5: it works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again life has been good at universities, and
Speaker 2: the universities kind of messed up in the sense that
Speaker 2: and even today there's a if I can find this
Speaker 2: from from maybe I can't, uh look for there was
Speaker 2: a statement from about three hundred members of the Harvard
Speaker 2: faculty and and they're all upset about this guy being deported, uh,
Speaker 2: the guy that raised a lot of problems at Columbia
Speaker 2: who's not a US citizen. And they are jumping into
Speaker 2: the you know, into the line of fire defending this guy.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself, they've learned nothing. These very
Speaker 2: smart faculty people at Harvard. You know, there's there's this
Speaker 2: level of anti Semitism which.
Speaker 6: Just won't go away, won't go away, and they're going
Speaker 6: to try to elevate this guy to become I don't know,
Speaker 6: the next the next Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2: In our country or something like that.
Speaker 5: It's the amount of money they have. People don't even realize.
Speaker 5: It's like like they I mean, look at Harvard for example,
Speaker 5: they own half a cambridge. They don't they don't pay taxes.
Speaker 5: They have so many endowment they have billions and billions
Speaker 5: and endowment and it's like, how about you use some
Speaker 5: of that money, you know, divest some of it a
Speaker 5: little in like like the money's there, and Uh, it's
Speaker 5: just I mean, it's just nuts. People get just get
Speaker 5: so angry. It's like and the best part, I don't
Speaker 5: know if you realize Trump says they were saying tonight,
Speaker 5: if he cuts enough, he's his goal with this is
Speaker 5: to try to cut taxes for anyone who makes less
Speaker 5: than one hundred and fifty thousand. How have you followed
Speaker 5: up on this?
Speaker 2: Well, he's also he's also said no taxes on tips,
Speaker 2: no taxes on social security. Uh, if he's able to
Speaker 2: save some money.
Speaker 5: I can who's against and who's against getting rid of waste?
Speaker 5: It's outrageous, Like why would you be against that?
Speaker 2: Well, if you are on the gravy train, and by
Speaker 2: getting rid of waste, the gravy train was going to stop.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's I've read reports and I haven't been
Speaker 2: able to nail the reports down that there was a
Speaker 2: charity that Stay Abrams in Georgia was running which received
Speaker 2: two billion dollars from the Biden administration. That's a lot
Speaker 2: of money. I mean, you know, maybe somebody don't think
Speaker 2: that's not a lot of money. I want to know
Speaker 2: at first if it's true. There's so much stuff being
Speaker 2: thrown at us, it's difficult to figure out what is true.
Speaker 2: When Trump was talking the other night at the State
Speaker 2: of the Union or not the State of the Unity,
Speaker 2: the joint addressed to Congress, and he was talking about
Speaker 2: how all of these old people are on Social Security
Speaker 2: lists and all of that. You know, don't try to
Speaker 2: spin me that that means five thousand people over the
Speaker 2: age of one hundred and forty is still getting Social
Speaker 2: Security checks. I don't think that's the truth. I think
Speaker 2: that there was some sort of a coding error which
Speaker 2: showed the inefficiency at at Social Security and that needs
Speaker 2: to be tightened up. But so the Trump people should not.
Speaker 2: I've done stories. I've done shows that the Trump people
Speaker 2: are sometimes out over the keys, but sometimes they're right
Speaker 2: and they're reaching people like you, who are who never
Speaker 2: would have supported Donald Trump when I first got to
Speaker 2: know you. You're a Bernie Sanders guy, you know that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, I mean, he's not a bought
Speaker 5: and soul politician. And again, David, Elon Musk is a
Speaker 5: concern about you. He's got billions at all. He doesn't
Speaker 5: need your money.
Speaker 2: So I think David's concerned that Elon's gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: walk in the door somebody or something and send him
Speaker 2: to every education camp. That's that's what I think David's
Speaker 2: thinking out there. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to your show tomorrow about Karen Reid.
Speaker 5: You should do all four or four hours about Karen Reid.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to listen. Thanks Jim.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll do some of it tomorrow, that's for sure. Again,
Speaker 2: she's going to go back to trial. And I think
Speaker 2: that this is I think it is outrageous. I think,
Speaker 2: and again I'm not, I have no idea what happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I have not.
Speaker 5: We all know what happened. But that's okay, Well I don't,
Speaker 5: I don't. I'm not dying. You gotta say that. You
Speaker 5: got to say that.
Speaker 2: But no, go to say that I'm going to tell
Speaker 2: you the truth. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Because everyone knows what happened fair enough.
Speaker 2: Well I'm then I guess you've become a sky in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 5: No, you're not. You're very smart. You'll know, you'll know
Speaker 5: what happened.
Speaker 2: One la, good night. Take a quick break here. I
Speaker 2: got a couple of lines at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty and I got one at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine thirty. Fill him up. Let's finish strong. Coming back
Speaker 2: on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is the Harvard faculty group, the
Speaker 2: Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. It's a
Speaker 2: diverse and inclusive organization of over three hundred Harvard faculty
Speaker 2: and staff committed to Palestinian liberation. One of Hell that
Speaker 2: means a local chapter of thetional Faculty and Staff of
Speaker 2: Justice in Palestine. The arrest of Mahoun mah Mood Khalil
Speaker 2: for his peaceful advocacy against genocide and the cancelation of
Speaker 2: federal research funding GET Columbia and other universities across the
Speaker 2: country constitutes significant blows to academic freedom and American civil liberties. Uh,
Speaker 2: this guy didn't have a lot more than peaceful advocacy.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Dot in Medford. Dot has more brains
Speaker 2: than than some of these faculty members at Harvard. Hey, Dot,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 7: Hey? All I want to know is are you gonna
Speaker 7: let us know if David washes up on Alpatrez tonight?
Speaker 2: We have people in San Francisco trying to make sure
Speaker 2: that he gets out of the water safely and gets
Speaker 2: it gets gets into a location that Elon muskant get
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 7: Oh what a what a piece of work he is?
Speaker 2: He was just trying to I was simply trying to
Speaker 2: agree with you. Were I frustrated him tonight on that
Speaker 2: I don't think when you you know, DoD, Let me
Speaker 2: just say this, I don't know how good you are
Speaker 2: at a computer. But if you have a question about security, right,
Speaker 2: I don't think so, and I respect that. I want
Speaker 2: to have the option of if it's a complicated story,
Speaker 2: to speak to a human person at so security, and
Speaker 2: I want you to have that as well. He wouldn't
Speaker 2: He not wanted me? Yeah, he wanted to be convinced
Speaker 2: that whatever.
Speaker 7: Unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was listening to.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite callers I.
Speaker 7: Called about Tuma. But first I want to say how
Speaker 7: astatic I am at the finding on the Read trial today.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to disagree with you on that one.
Speaker 7: I know you are, I know you are, but I'm
Speaker 7: a static But I can't believe Shuma. I can't believe Schumer.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Schuman is doing the right thing. I
Speaker 2: think that Schuma has been positioned where if the Democrats
Speaker 2: don't allow a vote in the Senate, President Trump is
Speaker 2: going to say the Democrats were blocked the vote in
Speaker 2: the Senate, and that's forced to shut the government down. Right,
Speaker 2: So Schumer is doing the right thing politically.
Speaker 7: I think the right thing for Trump, but not for himself.
Speaker 2: Well, well, the alternative is, when you think about it,
Speaker 2: is if he stands and says, we will not give
Speaker 2: you the seven votes that you need to get a vote,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna We're gonna continue the filibuster. The government
Speaker 2: shut down, shuts down. President Trump can point at Schumann
Speaker 2: and say that's the guy that shut the government down.
Speaker 2: Normally it's the reverse. The Democrats appointing you. The Republicans
Speaker 2: say those are the guys that shut the government down,
Speaker 2: and the Republicans will run that play a couple of times,
Speaker 2: not to their benefit.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 7: Well, it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens
Speaker 7: with the vote Tomorrow's.
Speaker 2: Well, if Schumer says that he's going to vote along
Speaker 2: with Fetterman, uh, I think there'll be enough Democratic senators
Speaker 2: who are going to follow Schumer. But we'll see. Call
Speaker 2: me tomorrow, you know. Okay, all right, all right, thanks doc,
Speaker 2: good night, have a great night. Let me go to
Speaker 2: let me go next to I lean in a cambridge,
Speaker 2: I lean you next do nights. I welcome.
Speaker 8: Hi, Hi, Hi, I'm fine. I'm but on the possibility
Speaker 8: of government shutdown, I am I have to applaud uh
Speaker 8: Trump for going right to walk trying to clean up.
Speaker 8: Uh what's a lot of uh crazy stuff that's been
Speaker 8: going on, like social Security payments to people who've been
Speaker 8: dead for over one hundred years.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, well he's implied that, but they haven't shown
Speaker 2: me any evidence of that. And I think that that
Speaker 2: it's I think it's what they call a coding era.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced of that that people's names were not cleaned
Speaker 2: off the Social Security roles. My understanding, and I've had
Speaker 2: it confirmed a couple of ways that when someone passes away,
Speaker 2: I believe that there's an obligation on the funeral home
Speaker 2: to notify Social Security that that individual is no longer
Speaker 2: with us. So I don't think when the President in
Speaker 2: that speech to Congress was talking about, you know, thirty
Speaker 2: thousand people being listed on SO Security rolls over the
Speaker 2: one hundred the age of one hundred and twenty or whatever,
Speaker 2: he might be right. They might be on the rolls,
Speaker 2: but I think that they that they lost their birth
Speaker 2: dates or something and they put them all in having
Speaker 2: been born in eighteen seventy five or something. I think
Speaker 2: that we will find out that is this some fraud
Speaker 2: and Social Security? Yes, but nothing like the President has implied.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, I think what he's trying to do is
Speaker 8: to save us money.
Speaker 9: He's obviously.
Speaker 8: There are people who are getting paid and aren't doing
Speaker 8: any work.
Speaker 2: That's what you and I think that's I think that's true.
Speaker 2: They're trying to find out if people are they are
Speaker 2: they performing a service for the government. Let's find out.
Speaker 2: Let's give them a chance, know a lot of people
Speaker 2: have talked about it. No one has done anything about it.
Speaker 2: At least he's trying to do something about it.
Speaker 9: Well, I get it, Yeah, I got Okay, I hate
Speaker 9: to do this.
Speaker 2: I got one more call. Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 2: I want to give one person just a minute.
Speaker 9: Here, okay, Okay, we'll up.
Speaker 2: We can talk tomorrow night during the eleven everybody gets
Speaker 2: a haul passed tomorrow night at eleven. Okay, thanks, all.
Speaker 8: Right, I'll try.
Speaker 2: Okay, I might do an open line tomorrow night. Thanks that.
Speaker 2: We talk to you later. Okay. We have seen you
Speaker 2: in the twenties. Thanks Steven Rocked and Steve, I got
Speaker 2: about a minute for you. You go right ahead. You
Speaker 2: called late, but I'll get you and go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dan, I really appreciate it. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, I can hear your fine, I get about a minute.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, yep.
Speaker 9: I really appreciate it. Long time listener, first time Kaula.
Speaker 2: And all right, I.
Speaker 9: Appreciate what you're doing because you always tell us truth.
Speaker 4: Shoot from the hip.
Speaker 9: I love it, Dan, keep it up, and I think
Speaker 9: I think we're going in the right direction. Everyone has
Speaker 9: to have patients and uh, some of the stuff that's
Speaker 9: coming out is mind blowing. We all have to pay atention.
Speaker 2: No, it is, and I gotta tell you, I tell
Speaker 2: the truth. Is I see it. I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 2: one hundred percent wrong. I mean I am not. Look
Speaker 2: I make mistakes, but I'll give you my best, honest answer.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm trying to do. And all I want
Speaker 2: to know is we thank you, Thank you, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I appreciate right back at you, Steve. Call again. I
Speaker 2: look forward to your second call. Thanks for the first
Speaker 2: time call. I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Say good Dan, good.
Speaker 2: Night, have a great one. Good night. All right, We're
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