Speaker 1: It's nice und Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Before we get back to callers here, I just want
Speaker 2: to mention that tomorrow night, I'm going to have an
Speaker 2: extraordinary guest on at ten o'clock. And again, guests when
Speaker 2: we schedule I think all of you know that the
Speaker 2: rules of nightside if there is a breaking news story
Speaker 2: of some significance or international import we sometimes have to
Speaker 2: reschedule guests. We don't schedule a lot of guests in advance.
Speaker 2: We probably should schedule more. But this is a guest,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to tell you why he's extraordinary. I'm
Speaker 2: holding in my hand a book which is the authorized
Speaker 2: yet unauthorized biography of Alan Dershwitz. It's called Legal Gladiator,
Speaker 2: The Life of Alan Dershwitz. It's written by a man
Speaker 2: named Solomon Schmidt. We'll talk about this tomorrow night at
Speaker 2: great length. Dershowitz has had an amazing life. Obviously, at
Speaker 2: different times he was really scorned by people on the
Speaker 2: right and now he's scorned by many former friends on
Speaker 2: the left. He is a brilliant person, Alan Dershowitz, and
Speaker 2: this author has written a book that is it's an
Speaker 2: amazing work. He'll tell his story tomorrow night. The book
Speaker 2: itself is about three hundred and fifty pages long, so
Speaker 2: you can you can envision a you know, this is
Speaker 2: this is a this is a biography and Dershowitz, Professor
Speaker 2: Dershwitz complied and sat for many interviews, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about this the process of how this man came to
Speaker 2: write Dershowitz's biography. And again I call it an authorized
Speaker 2: unauthorized by oography or an unauthorized autograph authorized biography, meaning, Uh,
Speaker 2: all of the cooperation that Alan Derschwitz gave to Solomon
Speaker 2: Schmidt is extraordinary.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the amount of detail about Dershwitz's life is extraordinary.
Speaker 2: But here's the kicker. The book has about one hundred
Speaker 2: pages of footnotes, both you know, written footnotes, video footnotes, interviews,
Speaker 2: everything is here uh in this book. Uh. He's interviewed.
Speaker 2: The author has interviewed, amongst others, a Supreme Court Justice
Speaker 2: Stephen Fryar, Harvey Silverglad, who, of course all of us
Speaker 2: know interviewed and you know Allen family members, Jamie Rashkin Raskin,
Speaker 2: who is a Congressman from Maryland, Jared Kushner, the son
Speaker 2: in law of uh uh former President Trump O, J Simpson,
Speaker 2: I mean Mike Pompeo, Uh, Jeffrey Tubin, Donald Trump. Uh.
Speaker 2: This this writer dug deep, very deep, on and on
Speaker 2: and on, Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Huckabee, Joel Klein, Robert Shapiro,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, Harvey Silverglade, Elliot Spitzer, the former governor
Speaker 2: of New York, on and on and on. And what
Speaker 2: makes it all the more amazing is the author is
Speaker 2: twenty one years of age, and it's you're gonna You're
Speaker 2: gonna meet a very interesting person. He actually left college
Speaker 2: in order to write this book, and he will be
Speaker 2: with us tomorrow night at ten o'clock, at ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: Tonight at nine o'clock, I mentioned, and we sort of
Speaker 2: went off a bit of a tangent, but I think
Speaker 2: it's important. I mentioned that the state of American newspapers
Speaker 2: as epitomized by the Boston Globe. For those of you
Speaker 2: around the country who are unfamiliar with the Boston Globe,
Speaker 2: it is the newspaper of record in New England. There's
Speaker 2: no question about it. I'm a subscriber to the Boston Globe.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the story we just completed
Speaker 2: dealing with the Chinese marijuana plot farms up in Maine,
Speaker 2: some three hundred plot farms that are producing marijuana illegally
Speaker 2: with illegal pesticides, and a lot of people are buying
Speaker 2: pot on what would be the black market, because marijuana
Speaker 2: is legal in Maine. If you want to smoke, all
Speaker 2: you have to do is go to a marijuana store,
Speaker 2: whether it's for medicinal or recreational purposes. So so, I
Speaker 2: read the Globe very carefully every day, and there parts
Speaker 2: of the Globe that I feel differently about. But I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a proud subscriber of the Boston Globe. The sports page,
Speaker 2: I love, editorial page. Not so happy with the editorial page.
Speaker 2: But there's my friend Jeff Jacolby's who is on there.
Speaker 2: Scott Lehi, who I agree with sometimes disagree with other times,
Speaker 2: does a great job crime reporting. Shelley Murphy. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's a it's a I can't say it's
Speaker 2: a great American newspaper, but it's a good, solid American newspaper.
Speaker 2: But right now I'm beginning to wonder if the Globe
Speaker 2: has decided it is time to leave the stage. It
Speaker 2: is no longer printed as it was printed for many
Speaker 2: years in Boston. It's printed in taunting as I understand it,
Speaker 2: which I guess helps some areas of its circular hurts
Speaker 2: other areas. But two of the last three Sundays, there's
Speaker 2: no globe that I look forward to more than the
Speaker 2: Sunday Globe. And we talked about this at nine and
Speaker 2: I'd love to throw it out there again. And we
Speaker 2: also can talk about the other Globe story that I
Speaker 2: want to talk about today, which is the mcast the
Speaker 2: poor performance on MCAST scores. We'll get to that. But
Speaker 2: if you are a New Englander, probably at some point
Speaker 2: in your life, you look forward to the Sunday newspapers,
Speaker 2: and specifically the Globe in the Herald, but specifically the Globe.
Speaker 2: For me is a paper that I want to hold
Speaker 2: in my hand. Two of the last three Sundays, my
Speaker 2: Globe never was delivered. Now to me, that is a
Speaker 2: mortal sin in my opinion. Okay, because I've been a
Speaker 2: subscriber to the Globe for a long long time, a
Speaker 2: long long time, my money has supported the Globe. I
Speaker 2: have a lot of friends who work at the Globe.
Speaker 2: I know friends of mine say, well, how can you
Speaker 2: like the Globe. They're crazy left wing paper. You know,
Speaker 2: they're a liberal newspaper. They're a liberal newspaper. They have
Speaker 2: some columnists who are pretty far left. I'll give you that,
Speaker 2: But I like to know what different points of view are.
Speaker 2: Believe it at different at different times. But you can't
Speaker 2: figure out what the points of view are if the
Speaker 2: newspaper that you pay for is supposed to be delivered
Speaker 2: to your in my case of driveway, not a front
Speaker 2: door driveway, it's not delivered. And so that's happened to
Speaker 2: me two of the last three Sundays. And oh yeah,
Speaker 2: there was one Monday where I got didn't get a Globe.
Speaker 2: I got a local newspaper, which has of little value
Speaker 2: to me. I want my Globe, and I've been so frustrated.
Speaker 2: You call the Globe and you want to get your
Speaker 2: paper delivered to you, particularly on a Sunday. Now, if
Speaker 2: you miss a weekday newspaper, most people have to go
Speaker 2: to work. But when you miss your Sunday newspaper, which
Speaker 2: which I look at that as an opportunity to really
Speaker 2: sit an absorbing newspaper, to enjoy the newspaper, Sunday breakfast,
Speaker 2: whatever else you want to do that day. It kind
Speaker 2: of sets the tone for what Sunday is for me.
Speaker 2: It's a day of rest. So you have the Globe.
Speaker 2: You try to call them and talk to a human being,
Speaker 2: and they want to put you into this automated phone system.
Speaker 2: And sometimes occasionally you can buy by persisting and hitting
Speaker 2: operator or saying I want to speak to a human
Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes not often, but sometimes you get a human being.
Speaker 2: And the human being is an either Tucson, Arizona or Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2: They certainly not Bostonians, They're not New Englanders. I get it.
Speaker 2: Why the Globe does this. I guess the Globe used
Speaker 2: to outsource this to the Philippines that they got some
Speaker 2: heat from me and from others. Now they outsource it.
Speaker 2: And you say, well, look, can you give me the
Speaker 2: phone number of my carrier. I'd like to call my
Speaker 2: local carrier. Maybe I can go by and pick up
Speaker 2: my newspaper. They won't do that. They won't do that,
Speaker 2: And as they say, in my opinion, I think the
Speaker 2: Globe is basically giving up the ghost. Slowly but surely.
Speaker 2: The subscriptions are down. I get it. They're trying to
Speaker 2: survive somehow digitally. I don't think that's going to work
Speaker 2: for them any more than it's worked for a lot
Speaker 2: of newspapers and news magazines that have gone digital. They
Speaker 2: digest a slower death. So if you've had problems with deliveries,
Speaker 2: and if more importantly, if you've had problems trying to
Speaker 2: reach a human being, Okay, that's one of the big
Speaker 2: problems in this country right now. You cannot be a
Speaker 2: local newspaper and not have human beings who can talk
Speaker 2: to your customers. I'm a customer, I'm a subscriber. Ed
Speaker 2: from Worcester is back. We're going to start with him.
Speaker 2: We will talk about MCAST results, which in Massachusetts, after
Speaker 2: millions millions of dollars being poured into this during COVID
Speaker 2: federal money that came to Massachusetts grade three to three
Speaker 2: and eight eight eighth grade students meeting or exceeding expectations.
Speaker 2: That's the minimal. It is broken down sadly by race,
Speaker 2: but that's okay, that's what people do these days. So
Speaker 2: amongst Asian students, the competency rate from twenty nineteen was
Speaker 2: seventy two percent. That's now dropped ten percentage points to
Speaker 2: sixty two percent. Amongst white students, the competency was fifty
Speaker 2: nine percent that is now down forty seven percent, amongst
Speaker 2: Black students thirty three percent, now down to twenty four percent.
Speaker 2: And Hispanic students which apparently they didn't keep a record
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, if from twenty twenty one, is down
Speaker 2: from twenty six to twenty percent. So you see a
Speaker 2: real trend here, and that is that students in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: are not doing nearly as well on their MCAST tests
Speaker 2: as they once did. You know, there's going to be
Speaker 2: an issue which we're going to talk about many times
Speaker 2: between now November fifth, on whether or not they should
Speaker 2: keep the MCAST graduation requirement in Massachusetts. So if you
Speaker 2: want to talk about what's wrong with Massachusetts public schools,
Speaker 2: and oh yeah, there was one statistic in here that
Speaker 2: statewide rate of chronic absenteeism, which they define as missing
Speaker 2: eighteen days of school in a year, was about one
Speaker 2: in five last year. One in five. That's twenty percent
Speaker 2: of the students who theoretically are enrolled in Massachusetts public
Speaker 2: schools are consistently truant. We got big problems in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: We pride ourselves and we're not Alabama and we're not Mississippi,
Speaker 2: but we're going in that direction, with all due respect
Speaker 2: to Alabama and Mississippi. Take a quick break six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty one line there, and a couple of
Speaker 2: lines at six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's talk mcass. Let's talk about your problems with the
Speaker 2: Boston Globe. Whatever you want, we're coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me go to Edwin Worcester fir As. I
Speaker 2: promised Ed if he called back, he could amplify on
Speaker 2: what he was telling us. This is a rear repeat performance,
Speaker 2: But Ed, I think it's going to be worth it.
Speaker 2: What you want to say, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just commenting, you know what I called earlier.
Speaker 3: I think I was listening to you say that you
Speaker 3: think it's sort of a business decision that they've decided
Speaker 3: that their paper is going to close. That might be
Speaker 3: a little bit of it. I don't think that's most
Speaker 3: of it. I mean most of it is they don't
Speaker 3: really care what their customers or ordinary people think. It's
Speaker 3: it's published by and it's written by and it's written
Speaker 3: for people who see themselves as a ruling elite, and
Speaker 3: they look at all the rest of us like their
Speaker 3: servants or he lots. If you remember what a helot
Speaker 3: was from ancient Greece, Well, they were the slaves the
Speaker 3: spartan years to do all.
Speaker 2: The regular work. Yeah. But the bottom line here is
Speaker 2: that I think the Globe has made a decision that
Speaker 2: they don't care about their customers anymore. They're prepared to
Speaker 2: lose customers, particularly customers who rely on the printed version
Speaker 2: that they're trying to push everybody to digital. That's not
Speaker 2: going to work. Okay, it hasn't worked for a Newsweek magazine,
Speaker 2: which gave up the ghost in twenty ten. I can't
Speaker 2: think of any successful newspaper in America, can you that
Speaker 2: has made the transition from print to digital successfully?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, but I don't. I think it's that
Speaker 3: they never really cared about people other than the people
Speaker 3: they thought were like themselves. That's the way I see it,
Speaker 3: and now they don't feel anything to cover that.
Speaker 2: Again, I think that's a little bit of a broad
Speaker 2: I understand the point you're making, and it's a good one,
Speaker 2: but I don't think that the folks who make up
Speaker 2: the sports page feel that way. I don't think that
Speaker 2: every I know a lot of the people who work there.
Speaker 2: I've got a little bit of an advantage. A lot
Speaker 2: of the Beat reporters. They understood what's going on, and
Speaker 2: there was a point in time when when the Globe
Speaker 2: reported crime, and they're less crime oriented. Now they're doing
Speaker 2: like the Globe Summit and all these different events that
Speaker 2: they're doing to try to justify their existence. But they
Speaker 2: can't deliver their newspaper consistently on time. And you know,
Speaker 2: if the NBC Nightly News or the CBS Evening News
Speaker 2: or ABC News with David Muir, if every other night
Speaker 2: or every few nights when you went to turn on
Speaker 2: the ABC News, the NBC or the CBS the screen
Speaker 2: was black and they were technical difficulties, how long would
Speaker 2: it be before people would just leave that network and
Speaker 2: go somewhere else?
Speaker 3: What I think many most of them already have. The
Speaker 3: vast majority of them already have.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there have been a lot of people who
Speaker 2: have gone to this silos, whether they're watching Fox or
Speaker 2: watching MSNBC or CNN. And I'm not I don't think
Speaker 2: that's good for I don't think it's good for the
Speaker 2: country to all of us be Team Red or Team Blue.
Speaker 2: And I know I'm going off in a different little
Speaker 2: tangent here. I would like to think that there are
Speaker 2: people who I disagree with un issues, who nonetheless are
Speaker 2: really decent people. They just see the world a little
Speaker 2: differently than you would meet, as opposed to looking at
Speaker 2: them as if they're the enemy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I would say. I think the Boston
Speaker 3: Globe and the New York Times and the Washington Post
Speaker 3: are their own silos. Those are silos too, and I'm
Speaker 3: often surprised that people who read those things there are
Speaker 3: things they don't know anything. I'll often bring up the
Speaker 3: subject and the person has no idea what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I haven't even heard about it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like if every day you only eat steak
Speaker 2: for dinner, that is not a good diet. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just think that if your diet is only one
Speaker 2: point of view, and you want to sit in that
Speaker 2: silo and just have everything echo in your air and
Speaker 2: reverberate that, yeah, you're right, because whatever the issue is,
Speaker 2: you know what you're supposed to think. Where That's where
Speaker 2: I think we're going wrong in this country in.
Speaker 3: My opinion, Yeah, I think the people who used to
Speaker 3: be ninety decades ago sort of at the top of
Speaker 3: the society felt an obligation to the general population that
Speaker 3: I don't think their successors feel any longer.
Speaker 4: Sort of a please, I guess that's how I would
Speaker 4: say it.
Speaker 2: They used to call that no bless oblige. I think
Speaker 2: if I'm all right, Hey, Ed is always great call.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thanks for calling back. Okay, talk
Speaker 2: you soon. Let me get David New Hampshire. He wants
Speaker 2: to talk about the mcast.
Speaker 5: Hey Dave, welcome, Hey Dan Well.
Speaker 6: I wanted to extend an invitation to your listeners who
Speaker 6: are frustrated with the government schools in Massachusetts and frustrated
Speaker 6: with the government everything in Massachusetts. Come to New Hampshire.
Speaker 6: Move here. We have this thing called the Education Freedom Account.
Speaker 6: So you can take your money that would have gone
Speaker 6: to the government schools and put at least some of it.
Speaker 6: I'll give give you some of it back to put
Speaker 6: it into a private school. So there's you know, a
Speaker 6: trickle at least turning into an exodus eventually, I think
Speaker 6: of people leaving.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how much give it give me an example.
Speaker 2: Let's say that you have, just keep it simple, a
Speaker 2: child in the fourth grade, you're not happy with the
Speaker 2: public school. How much of your taxes or how much
Speaker 2: money can you divert to that private school? And I
Speaker 2: what is the process you get a deduction? Is that
Speaker 2: the way it works?
Speaker 6: That I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know a lot about the details. It's been
Speaker 7: a big deal here since twenty twelve, but I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know what the percentages are. I'm not super
Speaker 7: familiar with it. I don't have kids, so you know,
Speaker 7: I just know that you have the option of escaping
Speaker 7: the government school, and escaping you don't have to some
Speaker 7: of the taxes that you send to the government school
Speaker 7: you get back, well, you can use it.
Speaker 2: I assume the mechanism they would be deduction. You have,
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts the ability to continue to pay your taxes
Speaker 2: and mostly your real estate taxes and your state income taxes,
Speaker 2: which are the I think still the primary sources of
Speaker 2: revenue in Massachusetts. And you can send your kids to
Speaker 2: any school you want, but there's no break. So if
Speaker 2: you send your kids to a private school, you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to afford that you want to send
Speaker 2: your kids to a parochial school or a traditional Jewish
Speaker 2: high school or elementary school. You've got to afford it
Speaker 2: on your own. And of course, the people who can
Speaker 2: afford it are people who are at the top of
Speaker 2: the pay scale, if you will, the income on the
Speaker 2: income ladder. And the people who can't afford it are
Speaker 2: the people who need it the most. These are families
Speaker 2: of single moms or families that are just getting by.
Speaker 2: They have no money here in Massachusetts to spend on
Speaker 2: education other than what their children are consigned to, which
Speaker 2: is part of the problem.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, you could spend your entire life trying to
Speaker 6: change your school system, or you could just bote with
Speaker 6: your feet come here.
Speaker 2: Well I just did that. But a lot of people
Speaker 2: from Massachusetts seemed to head to New Hampshire because they
Speaker 2: were attracted by the low income tax rate and all
Speaker 2: of that, and yet they vote blue. You have four
Speaker 2: members of Congress, two Democratic senators, two Democratic members of
Speaker 2: the House of Representatives.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is probably a myth. And there was a
Speaker 6: Union Leader poll that indicated most Massachusetts movers were Republicans.
Speaker 6: And Jason Soren from the Free State Project and an
Speaker 6: ideological map of the Hampshire which shows our most libertarian
Speaker 6: areas tend to be near Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Well again, you know, I know you're my favorite New
Speaker 2: Hampshire libertarian. I don't want to get into at a
Speaker 2: discussion of libertarianism. All I can tell you is I
Speaker 2: know what the results are. Warren Rudman used to be
Speaker 2: the Senator from up there, Gordon Humphrey used to be
Speaker 2: the Senator from up there. Those folks have Judd Gregg
Speaker 2: was a long time, These were Republican senators for a
Speaker 2: long long time. John Sanunho had been the governor up there.
Speaker 2: A conservative Democrat like John Lynch would be elected, or
Speaker 2: a moderate Democrat like John Lynch would be elected. Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen in the governance
Speaker 2: race up there. Maybe Kelly a Art will survive, and
Speaker 2: certainly Chris Sinuno has done an amazing job for people
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. But you have you have two very liberal,
Speaker 2: traditional liberal Democrats in the Senate and two and you've
Speaker 2: had a variety of debt liberal Democrats and in the House.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if those people from Massachusetts are
Speaker 2: and are coming up to vote Republican. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that that makes that makes sense, but we'll see. Davis always.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your calls. You're a challenging caller, and you
Speaker 2: always try to kind of bring it around to the
Speaker 2: libertarian argument, and I'm not opposed to that. You're very
Speaker 2: welcome here anytime.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Thank you welcome.
Speaker 2: We will be back on nights side after the news break.
Speaker 2: I have wide open lines here, which of course always
Speaker 2: is terrifying, and I hope that I haven't confused you tonight,
Speaker 2: but I'll give you an opportunity. If you want to
Speaker 2: talk about what's going up over the Chinese platforms in Maine,
Speaker 2: feel free. If you want to tell me about your
Speaker 2: success or lack thereof, of getting your newspaper delivered to
Speaker 2: you and most specifically your Boston Globe, and how frustrating
Speaker 2: it is to not be able to even talk to
Speaker 2: a human being and we're going to put you in
Speaker 2: our automated system, Or if you want to talk about
Speaker 2: these disappointing m cast results here in Massachusetts, I'd be
Speaker 2: happy to talk to any of those with you. It's
Speaker 2: been kind of a pope wary sort of a night
Speaker 2: here on Nightside. We don't do it this way often.
Speaker 2: Pick your topic. We'll be back on night Side six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: four thirty, six, one seven, nine, three, ten thirty back
Speaker 2: right after this.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, so this is not college joys, but we'll
Speaker 2: give you kind of a wide opportunity of topics. Hi,
Speaker 2: Carol in Southborough, how are you well?
Speaker 4: I'm good and I'm calling because of the Boston Globe
Speaker 4: and you dissatisfaction as well as mine in terms of
Speaker 4: not receiving the Sunday paper.
Speaker 2: They're horrible.
Speaker 4: Well, but I have the resolve to it. I figured
Speaker 4: it out, so I get a human almost immediately when
Speaker 4: they call. When I call and I ask, and they
Speaker 4: ask for my phone number, I give them my cell number,
Speaker 4: even though I know that it's the house phone number
Speaker 4: they want. So when they say, when their automation says,
Speaker 4: well we can't locate that number, hold on, let me
Speaker 4: connect you to an agent. So within three minutes I
Speaker 4: have an agent trick. So yes, it is this.
Speaker 2: That's one of these folks who are out in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Who who has no idea. All I know is for
Speaker 4: the past five weeks. Three weeks, I have not received
Speaker 4: my Sunday paper.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's my here's my question, here's my here's
Speaker 2: my problem. This still charging you every month? I assume
Speaker 2: in a credit card.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, no, they're crediting my account.
Speaker 2: But they've told me.
Speaker 4: I know that they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the question. Do you exactly Well they tell me, yeah,
Speaker 2: they tell you that they credit your account. But I
Speaker 2: get hit every four weeks for the whatever it is,
Speaker 2: twenty eight dollars and eighty eight cents or whatever.
Speaker 4: So you get it all week, law, You get the
Speaker 4: paper all week?
Speaker 3: Law?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, seven days a week.
Speaker 4: Okay. Well, I get it only on Sundays.
Speaker 2: Okay, But what if I guarantee you, Carol, if you
Speaker 2: they the person who you talk to in Arizona's gonna say, well,
Speaker 2: we'll give you a credit. But if you look at
Speaker 2: your credit card, hope I'm wrong because with my credit card,
Speaker 2: every time they've told me they give me a credit,
Speaker 2: I still they I'm on a cycle where I get
Speaker 2: hit once every twenty eight days. It's just not like
Speaker 2: you get hit on the first day of the month.
Speaker 2: Let's say you get hit on the first day of
Speaker 2: the month. Then if that's the month, you get hit
Speaker 2: again on the twenty ninth day of the month. So
Speaker 2: you end up with thirteen charges per year. It isn't
Speaker 2: like a monthly bill where you have twenty eight dollars
Speaker 2: times twelve. It's because they're getting you thirteen times fifty
Speaker 2: two weeks of a year. They hit you and it
Speaker 2: never moves. So this line that they're crediting you, that
Speaker 2: is a phony line. You feel good about it. You say, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get credit for my Globe. You know
Speaker 2: you don't.
Speaker 4: I guarantee I will definitely be absolutely double checking. I
Speaker 4: only get it on Sunday and so, and I've been
Speaker 4: a Globe customer for decades and decades and decades, and
Speaker 4: every every couple of months they I get the traditional
Speaker 4: letter that they are sadly have to increase the paper
Speaker 4: by blah blah blahh. So I, oh, yeah, but that
Speaker 4: doesn't work with me. I immediately call up and I say,
Speaker 4: I'm not paying one more penny for the paper, so
Speaker 4: you can cancel it. And they said, but no, we
Speaker 4: need to keep you as a customer. And I said,
Speaker 4: the only way you're going to keep me as a
Speaker 4: customer for you is to maintain it at the nineteen
Speaker 4: dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 4: And so that's so I'm lying in bed listening to
Speaker 4: like I do every night and this and when you
Speaker 4: said I never can get a human, that's been my cry.
Speaker 4: So I try this this year, and I get a human.
Speaker 2: I thank thank you, thank you for the tip. I
Speaker 2: sometimes can get a human if I just keep pressing zero.
Speaker 2: But they come on and they say, welcome to our
Speaker 2: new automated phone system.
Speaker 4: Now no, I don't get that anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, Carol, good luck, good luck. Twenty dollars
Speaker 2: for four news for four Sunday newspapers. That's there. That's
Speaker 2: no bargain they're charging you.
Speaker 4: Fine, that's but but you know what, it's more than
Speaker 4: than the grocery stores. It's six fifty, so anyway.
Speaker 2: To put themselves out of bits.
Speaker 4: I love the sports page too. I love reading it
Speaker 4: every Sunday, and I get really pissed off and I
Speaker 4: don't have my globe.
Speaker 2: That's exactly the way I felt. You said it out.
Speaker 2: I will second that emotion. Thanks, Carol.
Speaker 4: Is this your first call to the show, Well, embarrassingly
Speaker 4: yes it is. But I listened to you every.
Speaker 2: Night, Carol. You know you now have have dipped your
Speaker 2: toe into the pool. The water's fine.
Speaker 4: You come back anytime, okay, Carol, Okay, thanks, good luck.
Speaker 2: I know south Boro very well. I have a friend
Speaker 2: of mine who's a Catholic priests out there, father Jim Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know him.
Speaker 2: At Saint Matthews. Yeah. He's a great guy, really good guy.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, not my not my religion.
Speaker 2: But that's no problem, not not at all. And you
Speaker 2: don't have to have a religion. But he's a friend.
Speaker 2: And I just thought it on the chance that we
Speaker 2: I always I said earlier tonight, I believe in that
Speaker 2: six degrees of separation that I always know someone that
Speaker 2: you know, and so I was just taking a shot
Speaker 2: at it. Okay, thanks Carol.
Speaker 4: It was a pleasure speaking to you. It really was
Speaker 4: right back, all right, Thank you, great night.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. Let me go next to Bill in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 2: Hey Bill, welcome back to Night's Side.
Speaker 10: How are you well, first time, first time calls tonight.
Speaker 10: I'm from Rochester, Navid and Newton. I moved to Chicago
Speaker 10: about forty years ago and I'm in bed now. I
Speaker 10: got a stroke and I'm kind of handicapped, but I
Speaker 10: did want to mention a couple of things, but not
Speaker 10: too much. You're there's a guy running for senator against
Speaker 10: Elizabeth Warren's on your TV. On your show there.
Speaker 2: John Dwton, John Deeton is his name.
Speaker 10: Yep, yeah, Hey, Elizabeth Warren. Uh, she's the only one,
Speaker 10: one of the few Democrats on TV that will fight
Speaker 10: Jamie Diamond and arrested these guys, and she knows the
Speaker 10: financial world and these guys will mess with her. So
Speaker 10: I love, I love Elizabeth Warren, and I you know,
Speaker 10: we need the Democratic senator because of fighting in the
Speaker 10: in the Midwest. He you got people on Ohio, you
Speaker 10: got people in uh in Tennessee, Kentucky, and then down
Speaker 10: there at Georgia, in Hell Obama, Uh, you know, Louisiana.
Speaker 10: All these guys is kind of thick with Democrats have Republicans,
Speaker 10: and it's pretty tough to get a good side of
Speaker 10: the story. So that's that's my main Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, by the by the way, just so you know,
Speaker 2: we have invited Elizabeth Warren on the show repeatedly over
Speaker 2: the years. She we invited her to have a debate
Speaker 2: with John Daton. She had no interest in that, you know,
Speaker 2: uh uh. I guess Oklahoma's Lost is Massachusetts game when
Speaker 2: you think about it, John, Bill, Hey, how often do
Speaker 2: you listen to the show.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll tell you this is my second night. I
Speaker 10: got all lex from somebody, and I got a leux
Speaker 10: to the machine and it works great.
Speaker 2: Excellently and it comes in pretty well. Right, you're on
Speaker 2: the internet.
Speaker 10: Then, and in bed handicapped in my own life, So
Speaker 10: I'll call you back all right.
Speaker 2: Bill, thanks very much for your call. A great night,
Speaker 2: good night. I think that's well anyway, Bill and I
Speaker 2: might disagree, but that's okay. It was a he was
Speaker 2: a real gentleman. We'll take a quick break here. I
Speaker 2: got some open lines six one, seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I may have confused many of you tonight, but you
Speaker 2: know we have more first time callers tonight than we
Speaker 2: have had in a while with uh and I love
Speaker 2: my traditional regular callers, but I also love those first
Speaker 2: time callers. We'll take a break. We can talk about
Speaker 2: your problems. Just getting us a newspaper to your door.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. In the nineteen thirties or forties,
Speaker 2: or the fifties of the sixties, it was no big deal.
Speaker 2: Now it seems to be more difficult. I'm quite upset
Speaker 2: with the Boston Globe. I've been a subscriber a long
Speaker 2: time and they have failed me on two of the
Speaker 2: last three Sundays. And I don't want to quit my subscription.
Speaker 2: Although they're testing my patients. They're testing my patients. This
Speaker 2: is a problem for me, and I think it's a
Speaker 2: problem for many other people. So feel free to join
Speaker 2: this conversation if you want to talk about the fact
Speaker 2: that students here in Massachusetts are not doing well in
Speaker 2: the MCAST tests. MCAST has helped Massachusetts, and if we don't,
Speaker 2: if we don't raise through our school system kids who
Speaker 2: are competent, it's going to hurt the Massachusetts economy. It's
Speaker 2: going to hurt all of us. There are implications here.
Speaker 2: Don't just just write it off and say, well, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter to me because my kids aren't affected. Your
Speaker 2: state is being affected. And they've poured billions of dollars,
Speaker 2: billions of dollars into education in Massachusetts, and what do
Speaker 2: we have to show for it. It's not the greatest
Speaker 2: school system in the country anymore. It is now going
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction, and I want to change it.
Speaker 2: I'd love to talk about it. If you don't believe me,
Speaker 2: read the Boston Globe today. If you're lucky enough to
Speaker 2: have it delivered to you, we'll be back at Nightside
Speaker 2: right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we're tied on time, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we have a bunch of folks who we're going to
Speaker 2: try to get to everybody quickly. We only have about
Speaker 2: seven minutes left and we've got full lines. Let's go
Speaker 2: to John. It's in North Carolina. John next on Nightside,
Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Hey, Dan Well, I just wanted to make the point
Speaker 8: about the economics of home delivery. Yes, if you go
Speaker 8: back to the nineteen sixties, just about every house in
Speaker 8: the neighborhood would get the paper.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 8: And now if it's let's say it's down to only
Speaker 8: ten percent, but the cost is the same to deliver
Speaker 8: to everybody as to ten percent more or less, because
Speaker 8: you've got to drive down the street and you throw
Speaker 8: the paper, and so you're basically spreading the same cost
Speaker 8: instead of spreading it over.
Speaker 2: No, No, your economics is flawless. But the issue is
Speaker 2: if the product is not being bought by enough people.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, if you have a baseball team and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, instead of getting twenty thousand people
Speaker 2: every night, you're getting fifteen hundred people every night. Something's wrong.
Speaker 2: Maybe you've got to market it better. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: that it is a dying institution and it's not even
Speaker 2: giving your most loyal subscribers the courtesy of a human
Speaker 2: being to talk with.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true, but I just don't see how they
Speaker 8: can keep doing it well economically.
Speaker 2: You're right, because there's a lot of papers around the
Speaker 2: country gone out of business. John, you got to call earlier.
Speaker 2: You're a great call to come on back earlier.
Speaker 8: Okay, Hey, Dan, good night, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: It's going to get to Eileen. I Leen, were tight
Speaker 2: on time. Thanks for calling in right ahead.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to thank you very much for your
Speaker 11: discussion of pot farms in Maine and else Yes, thank you.
Speaker 11: This is such an unhealthy substance. It should never have
Speaker 11: been legalized. When you've got hallucinations occurring from people who
Speaker 11: take this substance. This brain function should be taught in
Speaker 11: the third grade. If you get students went by the
Speaker 11: time they get to the seventh grade, they don't want
Speaker 11: to hear anything that any adult has to tell them.
Speaker 11: They know it all.
Speaker 10: You know, you know that that's.
Speaker 2: Such a great point, Eileen, and I couldn't agree with
Speaker 2: you more. And you know, on the ballot this fall
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about it, they want to
Speaker 2: legalize magic mushrooms. So it's not just the pot they're
Speaker 2: gonna deal with. And the pot up in Maine has
Speaker 2: all sorts of poisonous pesticides on it. Leen, I gotta
Speaker 2: keep rolling. I got a whole bunch of calls, thanks
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, thank you, Dan, Thanks by good night.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Tom in Rochester, Massachusetts. Tom next
Speaker 2: on nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 12: How about you, Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 12: Real quickly? So So Deeton won the primary handily down here,
Speaker 12: he advertised heavily in the local radio. Yeah, and then
Speaker 12: we just had a big, nice rally down this way
Speaker 12: in the South coast and man a poison Saturday, which
Speaker 12: is a competitive area again and no, but so quickly.
Speaker 12: My point was being not a not a deep sign.
Speaker 12: No no local organizations zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a problem. That's a problem. The Democrats
Speaker 2: are are a much more effective team. It's like the
Speaker 2: uh the Democrats.
Speaker 12: Well, no, there wasn't quite a There was a there's
Speaker 12: a tremendous republican local republican output of Trump rally. There
Speaker 12: were a local estate race. Uh, you know, a state
Speaker 12: rep race and so forth.
Speaker 2: We'll get get together. But was a no show. Find
Speaker 2: some friends and and get them, get them activated. Tom
Speaker 2: I got to get two more in. I'm gonna run. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you much, man. Talk call earlier will give you
Speaker 2: much more time, very quickly, John and Brookline, John, I
Speaker 2: meant to call you back today. I've talked to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Go right ahead, John, Yeah, I'll be very quick. Sixty
Speaker 5: five years ago, and I delivered the Globe. It wouldn't
Speaker 5: be on your drive where you get your doorstep.
Speaker 2: Yep. Absolutely not only that.
Speaker 5: The morning paper I delivered. In the afternoon paper I
Speaker 5: delivered on my bicycle, and you flicked it up front
Speaker 5: of the landing, and if it didn't make it, you
Speaker 5: heard about it the next day. Well, that those days
Speaker 5: are gone, gone.
Speaker 2: Gone, gone gone. I got to get one more, Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: and thanks.
Speaker 5: You needed a heavy man to carry it.
Speaker 2: All right, Man, talk to you soon, real quickly, Eric
Speaker 2: and Brookline. Eric got about fifteen seconds. Be where you
Speaker 2: go ahead, Eeric.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have almost the same story. And I used
Speaker 9: to deliver the Afternoon Globe, but I am a fan
Speaker 9: of the Globe. I don't know you, Dan. I got
Speaker 9: on the company car tonight and the guy who drove
Speaker 9: it before me had your radio station on. But I
Speaker 9: think the Boston Globe is.
Speaker 6: A good thing.
Speaker 9: It's too expensive, and the delivery it's not little kids
Speaker 9: on bicycles anymore, it's people in station wagons.
Speaker 2: Also, they also make people available to talk to customers
Speaker 2: when customers need to complain. That's the problem. That's the problem. Eric.
Speaker 2: I wish you had been with us, And thank you
Speaker 2: very much for whoever was in the car before you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Man, talk to you soon. Have a good one.
Speaker 2: All right. Done for the night, Rob Brooks, great job, Marie,
Speaker 2: a great job. Thanks to all the callers and all
Speaker 2: the listeners. Back tomorrow night. All dogs, all cats, all
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