Speaker 1: It's a nice size. I'm going Austin's News radio.
Speaker 2: We're talking stock market, we're talking tariffs. Okay, the latest
Speaker 2: info is that another shaky day on Wall Street. The
Speaker 2: market on a couple of rumors jumped up and then
Speaker 2: just as quickly plummeted back down. And at the end
Speaker 2: of the day the stock market was down, certainly, the
Speaker 2: Dow Jones was down. And we're talking to a variety
Speaker 2: of people about what they think is likely to happen,
Speaker 2: and no one knows for sure, but I can tell
Speaker 2: you that the Dow futures tomorrow actually look pretty good.
Speaker 2: They the market today was down nine twenty seven points.
Speaker 2: That wasn't good, but it's talking about grabbing some of
Speaker 2: that back tomorrow. And again we'll have to see what happened.
Speaker 2: So the whole idea here is for you to tell
Speaker 2: me what you think is going on, and we don't
Speaker 2: need predictions, but just love to know how confident are you.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Eileen in Waltham. I lean, you
Speaker 2: were next on Nightside first this hour, Go right.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Eileen, good evening, Dan, How are you excellent?
Speaker 2: What's your thought on all of this? Are you worried?
Speaker 3: You you co opted one of my big points.
Speaker 4: It was like I do.
Speaker 5: It was, don't we.
Speaker 3: Remember no toilet paper?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Remember that.
Speaker 3: But I have two articles i'd like to refer to
Speaker 3: if you don't mind, okay.
Speaker 6: One is from the Economic Policy Institute, January through two fourteen,
Speaker 6: after twenty years after, and let me just quote a
Speaker 6: little bit from that because it's incredibly interesting and I
Speaker 6: think important.
Speaker 7: After was the by what Dafter's birth was bipolisant tonceived
Speaker 7: by Ronald Reagan, negotiated by George and pushed through by
Speaker 7: Billy Well.
Speaker 3: It doesn't say Bill Clinton.
Speaker 6: An alliance with Congression, conngressional Republicans and corporate lobbies, no question.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Were You are absolutely correct, And let me just say no, no, no,
Speaker 2: let me let me just if I can make a
Speaker 2: quick comment and then I'll let you go. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna let you go. I'll let you finish. You're right.
Speaker 2: The point was that if that never would have been
Speaker 2: able to have been signed by Reagan or Bush, because
Speaker 2: the Democrats would have stood in opposition against it, because
Speaker 2: it was a Democratic president who was going to sign it,
Speaker 2: it got through. That's the irony, and I think that
Speaker 2: is where the Union said to themselves, Wait a second,
Speaker 2: we're being taken for granted, go right ahead, and.
Speaker 8: There's a claiming and is collaborate as promised that the
Speaker 8: deal would bring good painting American jobs, a rising trade
Speaker 8: surplus with Mexico, and a dramatic reduction and illegal immigration.
Speaker 3: Hu, does that need any commons?
Speaker 2: No, man, you hit a grand slam there, none of
Speaker 2: none of those predictions. None of those predictions are true.
Speaker 2: Are you by the way, in a headset or a speakerphone,
Speaker 2: you sound off mic?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a little bit on my I'm on my
Speaker 3: cell phone. Do you want me to get off the speaker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, get off the speaker, Rob, I'm sure told you.
Speaker 2: It's just that we want to hear what you say.
Speaker 2: So just talk right into your cell phone and we'll.
Speaker 9: Be about here.
Speaker 2: We go much better.
Speaker 3: That was interesting to me, And the reason I looked
Speaker 3: this up is because I had remembered Clinton claiming that
Speaker 3: it would reduce illegal immigration.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, they all make different claims, but you know, obviously,
Speaker 2: then it goes.
Speaker 3: On to talk about the following things as a transpecific
Speaker 3: and then a couple of other things that followed along
Speaker 3: with the same claims. All of which proved to be,
Speaker 3: let's say, not the best things for America.
Speaker 2: Well, also, look at what I mean, look at what
Speaker 2: our federal debt is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, go ahead, I'm sorry, no, but I'm
Speaker 3: saying the federal debt now is thirty seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: Do you know what it was when Bill Clinton left office?
Speaker 2: Just to put it in perspective for you, it was
Speaker 2: five trillion dollars. Do you know what it was when
Speaker 2: George Bush left office eight years later? It was ten
Speaker 2: trillion dollars? And when Barack Obama left office eight years
Speaker 2: after that, it was eighteen trillion dollars. And when Donald
Speaker 2: Trump left it was twenty two trillion dollars. And Joe
Speaker 2: Biden has has got it kicked up out of about
Speaker 2: thirty six trillion dollars.
Speaker 3: Sure, but it then goes on to talk about the
Speaker 3: World Trade Organization and the trad specific partnerships, all promoted
Speaker 3: by different presidents, and we lost probably all probably this
Speaker 3: said two twenty seven million. That was in two fourteen.
Speaker 3: It's probably twice that now.
Speaker 2: That the Transpacific Partnership was signed by Barack Obama. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in February of twenty sixteen, Okay, it was not ratified
Speaker 2: because of significant political opposition, but there's that effort, and
Speaker 2: it was finally withdrawn, thank god, in twenty seventeen when
Speaker 2: Trump was president.
Speaker 3: Right, and then it goes on to say to talk
Speaker 3: about how it depressed wages in the United States, et cetera,
Speaker 3: didn't help Mexico except the only people that better, and
Speaker 3: then goes on to say how it basically benefits the rich,
Speaker 3: the globalists.
Speaker 2: And now my.
Speaker 3: Question is where is Bernie And all of this.
Speaker 2: Has been pretty quiet.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeahn't it. I mean, he's supposed to
Speaker 3: be protecting everybody. I was from the capitalist and he
Speaker 3: and I'm a capitalist. Don't get me wrong. I have
Speaker 3: my own business. I'm a capitalist. But the other article
Speaker 3: I would like to refer you to when anybody can,
Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like it's related, but it could be
Speaker 3: very much. So it's called from coup, from cou to
Speaker 3: chaos by responsible Statesmanship, and it talks about the downfall
Speaker 3: of Haiti. And if anybody remembers that, clearly Clinton brought
Speaker 3: back in Aristide to be president. Then Aristide wanted to
Speaker 3: raise the minimum wage in Haiti, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden there was an orchestrated coup against aristide, in other words,
Speaker 3: raising them even though even though Clinton brought them back
Speaker 3: and it was going to be you know, they didn't
Speaker 3: success that he was going to raige the minimum wage
Speaker 3: for twenty three cents an hour in Haiti.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again, it's me.
Speaker 2: You're getting me a little off track here. You've given
Speaker 2: me a lot of great information, Eileen, which I appreciate,
Speaker 2: But Haiti is a kind of it's a sideshow and
Speaker 2: it's a different situation. There's tremendous corruption down in Haiti
Speaker 2: uh and lawlessness.
Speaker 3: The thing behind both of them is cheap labor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again it we'd have to spend an hour
Speaker 2: to talk about that to really understand it. But the
Speaker 2: other points you made we're all absolutely accurate and very
Speaker 2: much appreciated. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 9: Have a great evening you.
Speaker 2: Too, Aleen. Let me keep erolying. Go to dot in
Speaker 2: Medford Dot. How are you tonight? Hi tonight, Dan, I'm
Speaker 2: hanging in here. Doc.
Speaker 10: Well, anyway, as far as I'm concerned, I think Trump
Speaker 10: is doing a great job. I have complete faith in him.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 10: I do not have a pension. I live on my
Speaker 10: investments and they're very diversified. You have to be very diversified.
Speaker 10: And then you just sit back and practice a little mindfulness.
Speaker 10: Just practice mindfulness, you're not going to get upset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you done anything? I assume that watching the
Speaker 2: market go down the last week has No.
Speaker 10: I don't do it. No, I haven't done a thing,
Speaker 10: haven't made one change. Okay, yep, I am. I have
Speaker 10: complete faith in how he's handling this.
Speaker 2: So you believe that it's all going to be recoverable.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I definitely do.
Speaker 11: I don't know how long. Let me ask, do you
Speaker 11: look at it?
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm ninety, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: No, I know. Let me ask you a question. But
Speaker 2: let me I wish. I wish I was as sharp
Speaker 2: as you would be when I'm eighty. You're you're a
Speaker 2: sharp as attack. How when do you think your investments
Speaker 2: will get back to where they were a week ago?
Speaker 2: How long do you think it's two months?
Speaker 10: Figuring I'm hoping within six months.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a realistic viewpoint. That's a very realize.
Speaker 10: Things go up and down. But as long as you're diversified,
Speaker 10: and I mean I handled my own money, I don't
Speaker 10: have any financial advisor. I do my own thing, my
Speaker 10: own tack.
Speaker 11: I do my own taxes.
Speaker 10: Do you trade your own stocks, well, I do it
Speaker 10: through Manca Stanley, Yeah, I call them up.
Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Now do you have social Security too?
Speaker 12: I hope you know.
Speaker 10: I got My social was only fifteen hundred, and because
Speaker 10: I sold my condo, it's down to eight hundred. When
Speaker 10: you say property, you get punished because you get your
Speaker 10: Medicare is doubled and your social goes down. I couldn't
Speaker 10: believe it.
Speaker 2: You make how much? Did you sell your condo.
Speaker 10: For five point fifty?
Speaker 2: Good for you? Good for you?
Speaker 10: Five fifty and I bought it for eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's done. You know that's a nice little
Speaker 2: cap game. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 5: That was good.
Speaker 10: But I mean you get you get punished on the
Speaker 10: other hand, because they lower your social security because they
Speaker 10: take a double amount for Medicare.
Speaker 2: Why would they?
Speaker 10: I don't understand how well, Hey, I couldn't believe it,
Speaker 10: but I got it all written out in black and white.
Speaker 4: No, I understand it.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not a tax lawyer, but I don't
Speaker 2: understand your social security should be a function of how
Speaker 2: much money you earned over your lifetime and how much
Speaker 2: money you know, if you had twenty years, fifteen years,
Speaker 2: the longer you work, I believe that they determine your
Speaker 2: Social Security on You've got to have a minimum of
Speaker 2: forty quarters, which is ten years. Yeah, and they basically,
Speaker 2: I believe, do an average of your top thirty five years. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you work that long daughter or not.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, frankly, I worked for my husband. That
Speaker 10: was called unpaid labor. He had a business and I
Speaker 10: worked there, but I never got a check.
Speaker 2: Well, well, in that case, that's not eligible for Social Security.
Speaker 2: You might get your.
Speaker 10: Husband social through my husband.
Speaker 2: No, right, So you so what I'm saying is your
Speaker 2: Social Security is determined by his probably thirty five years
Speaker 2: right right, Okay, yeah, no, I understand. I understand. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're getting you're getting the survivor.
Speaker 10: Benefit, but I mean from fish.
Speaker 2: But I'll see why your survivor benefits should be reduced
Speaker 2: because you made a good investment.
Speaker 10: They were and I'm telling you, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 10: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I think you should call Liz Warren. I'm sure that
Speaker 2: you'd straighten out out for you.
Speaker 10: The last one I called the pocal hunt. Are you
Speaker 10: kidding me?
Speaker 12: Oh my god.
Speaker 10: She's been quiet the last few days, though, very quiet,
Speaker 10: very quiet.
Speaker 2: And always worries me when she's quiet.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, some of the despicable things these people
Speaker 10: are saying when they're protesting, they're despicable, how they're going
Speaker 10: to kill Trump and all this. I'll tell you you're
Speaker 10: gonna get firing squads ready for these.
Speaker 11: I'm curious.
Speaker 2: No, we don't need firing squads. Comb on.
Speaker 10: People make too many threats against your president. Yes, you
Speaker 10: do need strict punishment for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, firing squads for that. If someone if someone is
Speaker 2: stupid enough to make a threat, an actual threat. You know,
Speaker 2: it's one thing for someone to be out there with
Speaker 2: a sign that says, you know, Donald Trump, hands off.
Speaker 2: That's not a threat. But if they if there's a threat,
Speaker 2: that threat should be taken serly.
Speaker 10: What if for the third time they take another pot shot?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want them to take one shot never mind. No, no, okay,
Speaker 2: don I gotta let you run. Congratulations. You should be
Speaker 2: my real estate investor.
Speaker 10: I will take care.
Speaker 2: Thanks, good night, Thanks, good night, Okay, we'll keep rolling here.
Speaker 2: I got one line at six one seven, two, five
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. Write this other number down because this
Speaker 2: is a great line too, six one seven, nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. The market? Are you panicked? Are you worried?
Speaker 2: Are you confident? And what have you done in the
Speaker 2: last few days since beginning oh last Thursday morning, when
Speaker 2: the market took quite a dip and uh and again
Speaker 2: the futures tomorrow look a little better. But I'd love
Speaker 2: to know any financial advice from the wisdom of my audience.
Speaker 2: Give us a call. We got Porky down in Florida
Speaker 2: coming up, and I got Tim and Wooburn and we'll
Speaker 2: be back right after this on Nightside. And remember that
Speaker 2: other number because the other one is all full right
Speaker 2: now to get through six one seven, six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. Write it down. That's why
Speaker 2: I said it slowly. Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, back we go, let's go too. I'm Porky down
Speaker 2: in Florida. Hey, Porky, finally got you to call the show.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 12: I'm pretty good? Pretty well? Can long time lung time,
Speaker 12: longtime listener and first time caller.
Speaker 2: Got to get a round and applause and Porky there
Speaker 2: from our digital studio audience. They're giving you in the ovation.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Porky. What's going on?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 12: Not much, Dan, I don't have any access to grind.
Speaker 12: I'm retired. Uh unless Trump figures a way to artificially
Speaker 12: produce gold, I'm golden for the rest of my life.
Speaker 12: And I got the market at at seven percent. I
Speaker 12: believe in that that rule. I told my broke when
Speaker 12: it dips down below seven, so so I sold.
Speaker 2: So so you're you're what like just a plain old
Speaker 2: money market or something.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 12: I had individual stocks.
Speaker 2: But so what do you have to know?
Speaker 12: I fought, Oh, I have investments in securities, and and
Speaker 12: I have I have investments in gold, but I don't
Speaker 12: hold it physically. I have it from a firm. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 12: But but anyways, I have no access to grind. I
Speaker 12: I I lived. I live a comfortable life, and I'm
Speaker 12: out here on my retirement porch and my retirement rock
Speaker 12: and chair, and it's good.
Speaker 2: What did you do for living? What did you do
Speaker 2: for a living?
Speaker 12: I was a truck driver all my life, long haul
Speaker 12: I did both local and long haul. And I started
Speaker 12: out as the Teamsters. And we all know what. We
Speaker 12: all know what happened to the Teamsters, And.
Speaker 2: Well, when you started the Teamsters was was they were
Speaker 2: a reliable endorsement for the Democratic Party, right.
Speaker 12: Uh, the Teamsters endorsed Reagan. They switched over. I'm independent
Speaker 12: by the way, So they.
Speaker 2: Made they made the switch, and any food did they
Speaker 2: come back and support Clinton and Obama or no?
Speaker 12: Uh? I left the Teamsters, and you know then I
Speaker 12: then I went to work for a local government and
Speaker 12: I actually I actually got involved in union politics and
Speaker 12: I used to go down there to Danvers and for
Speaker 12: the convention.
Speaker 2: But okay, but you're living. You live in the life.
Speaker 2: Now you're the life of leisure, and you you worked hard.
Speaker 12: I was lucky. I was lucky. I was lucky in
Speaker 12: a lot of ways. My health and congratulations to your health,
Speaker 12: by the way. Uh, yeah, you would be a poster
Speaker 12: child for eugenics. And and God, God blessed that lady
Speaker 12: that called up that was not DoD Yeah, she was
Speaker 12: sharp as attack.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of people who who are fortunate,
Speaker 2: and then there are you know, friends of mine who
Speaker 2: get get stricken. And I've had a couple of friends
Speaker 2: recently diagnosed, well, actually more than a couple diagnosed with
Speaker 2: some one of those bad medical diagnoses. And and some
Speaker 2: of them are a lot younger than me. There's there's
Speaker 2: a big There was a big story in the Globe
Speaker 2: yesterday about a woman that I worked with at Channel
Speaker 2: four for many years, Alice Cook, great sports reporter. She
Speaker 2: was an olympian on the US Olympic team and has
Speaker 2: been hit by ALS lou Gerrig's disease. And that's if
Speaker 2: you get a chance to just google it, one of
Speaker 2: the nicest people I've ever worked with in the business.
Speaker 2: And uh, she's actually gonna run the marathon, uh while
Speaker 2: she has ALS. I mean, it's it's inspiring. It's an
Speaker 2: absolute inspiration too, to realize that people can can deal
Speaker 2: with those those diagnoses and and and still get up
Speaker 2: in the morning. She's she's an incredible person. So and
Speaker 2: there are others who you don't know, and you know,
Speaker 2: every day you get up, you got a good day.
Speaker 2: You know you've got a good day in Florida down there,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. How do you how do you stand
Speaker 2: the warm weather in the summer. You're a warm weather guy.
Speaker 12: We we Yeah, I'm a warm other guy. You know,
Speaker 12: I saw it thirty below forty below where I grew up,
Speaker 12: and you.
Speaker 2: Helped you grow up in Antarctica.
Speaker 12: Let's put it this way. I I well, I grew up.
Speaker 12: I lived farther north than then seventy of the Canadians
Speaker 12: up there in Caribou.
Speaker 2: Oh real, where what what? What do you need care?
Speaker 2: Caribou Maine?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, yeah. Well, you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: how many thirty and forty degree days you got. Maybe
Speaker 2: it gets a couple, but.
Speaker 12: I'm talking below zero. I'm talking below zero. You'd you'd
Speaker 12: you go out and try to find your car and
Speaker 12: you have to locate it by the aerial the antenna,
Speaker 12: stick it out of the snow. You had preheaters, you
Speaker 12: had preheaters on the propaying tanks because yeah, it wouldn't
Speaker 12: well it wouldn't. But yeah, I love I love Florida.
Speaker 12: It's hard to find potholes down here.
Speaker 9: Low.
Speaker 11: Yeah, how to get a pre cup of coffee?
Speaker 2: Well, in the east coast of the West.
Speaker 12: Coast, I'm on what they call a big bend area.
Speaker 2: Oh so you're you're a host.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, up underneath Alabama and all of that right
Speaker 2: the Gulf coast.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I've been a Florida resident for twenty years. I
Speaker 12: had my own truck for a while, so I move
Speaker 12: Move Incorporated down here.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 12: Good and and uh jesay the money I saved in
Speaker 12: taxes like my I paid for my Harley Davidson.
Speaker 2: All right, now you're talking that's ad six months. Well
Speaker 2: you're full time down there, that you're you're you're a
Speaker 2: good tax planner, porky. I hope to hear from you
Speaker 2: again and enjoyed the conversation. I'm up on my eleven
Speaker 2: thirty newscast here, so I got to scoot for now,
Speaker 2: but we'll talk again, okay, I.
Speaker 12: Hope all right. Uh, I'm glad the Red Sox have
Speaker 12: found their bats again.
Speaker 2: They didn't have their bats with them tonight. They lost
Speaker 2: tonight to the Blue Jays. That hey it was five
Speaker 2: to two.
Speaker 12: So yeah I saw that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, they'll be fine. That's they're a
Speaker 2: pretty good team. They've got a good lineup. And but
Speaker 2: you don't score, you know, eighteen runs every night in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. Uh, there's a lot of great pictures
Speaker 2: out there, and they ran into a pretty good picture
Speaker 2: tonight for the for the Blue Jays, Porky, I.
Speaker 12: Got a run, Yeah, got run soon.
Speaker 2: Call me back, thanks man, talk to you soon. One
Speaker 2: line at six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
Speaker 2: That just filled. But there is one line open at
Speaker 2: six one, seven, nine three one ten thirty. I'm enjoying
Speaker 2: the conversation. I hope you are as well. That's what
Speaker 2: Nightside is all about. It's like we call it North
Speaker 2: America's back porch. There were nights when we get really passionate,
Speaker 2: but that tonight's not one of them. I just want
Speaker 2: to know what you're thinking. Back on Nightside right after
Speaker 2: the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BEZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We're going back to
Speaker 2: the phone's going to go to Tim and Ruber and
Speaker 2: eight Tim, welcome back. How are you sure?
Speaker 13: I'm good?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'd like to get the stock market back
Speaker 2: to where it was, that's for sure.
Speaker 13: Anyhow, the reason I called right, if I can do it,
Speaker 13: I want to the topic you were talking about before
Speaker 13: about cars. I've had a Toyota, and I'm buying Americans
Speaker 13: from now on.
Speaker 2: Really you didn't like the Toyota, Well, I.
Speaker 13: Went for a a gas tank, a radiator. Now it
Speaker 13: needs struts.
Speaker 2: And any how old is that Toyota?
Speaker 13: It's twenty five years. I've had it three years. Twenty
Speaker 13: five years old. It's a two thousand.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you bought it used obviously?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right, and so did you? I mean, twenty five years
Speaker 2: is a long time for car. Did you buy that
Speaker 2: from a friend or you buy it from a dealer.
Speaker 13: I bought it some of my friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope you didn't charge you out?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 13: I six hundred bucks?
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, but then you probably put how much into it? Oh?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 13: Twelve hundreds?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: At ly? So I grew up, right, we had Chevy.
Speaker 13: I'm going back to Chevy's all right.
Speaker 2: Well, you know you gotta buy one new, We're gonna
Speaker 2: buy a used one.
Speaker 13: Used one. I don't have that kind of money, no,
Speaker 13: I one, I understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Hey, it takes these days thirty forty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars a lot of money to layout to that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of money. Yeah. Anyhow, you had a Vovo.
Speaker 2: I've had many Vovos. I started buying Vovos in the
Speaker 2: eighties because I thought it was the safest car. My
Speaker 2: wife was pregnant at the time and I wanted to
Speaker 2: have her in a very safe car. And Vovos were
Speaker 2: great cars. But I think that they now were owned
Speaker 2: by a Chinese company. I don't think they're as good
Speaker 2: as they used to be.
Speaker 13: Were they Swedish?
Speaker 2: Oh it was a Swedish company. Yeah, I believe that
Speaker 2: they're now owned by a Chinese company.
Speaker 13: Are you anything else? The cop of people who think.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that, but that was I was thinking.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about safety and oh I can't complained.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm gonna look real carefully because
Speaker 2: I think that if there's an American made car that's
Speaker 2: as good or better, I think just.
Speaker 13: As they're coming back to I think they're coming back
Speaker 13: American cars.
Speaker 2: Let's hope so, because that'll be good for all of us. Hey, Tim,
Speaker 2: I look forward to seeing you on the twenty seventh. Okay, man,
Speaker 2: look forward to it.
Speaker 13: I have my Night's Side T shirt on night now.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks Bell, I appreciate it. Thanks, you got it
Speaker 2: all I see you then I'll talk to you between
Speaker 2: now and that. I'm sure. Thanks, have a good one,
Speaker 2: Thank you, good night, Tim. We're gonna go next too.
Speaker 2: I got Peg up in New Hampshire checking in. Hey Peg, welcome.
Speaker 2: How are you tonight?
Speaker 11: Hi Dan, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 4: How are you do it?
Speaker 2: Great? Thanks for checking in. What's your thought in the
Speaker 2: stock market? I mean, it's been a tumultuous three days.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: So for three days?
Speaker 11: And I, you know, I work night, so I only
Speaker 11: catch the last hour and a half or so of
Speaker 11: the show, and I miss a lot. And what I've
Speaker 11: been catching is like I'm sitting at home or you know,
Speaker 11: just ending my day and saying, oh, I want to call,
Speaker 11: but I don't know anything about the stock market, and
Speaker 11: I really don't. I know, some basic stuff like crashing
Speaker 11: is one of them. But then I was thinking, yeah,
Speaker 11: that I understand. Yeah, but seriously, I've in the past
Speaker 11: three days and tonight I just said, it doesn't matter
Speaker 11: how dumb I made sound, because I don't understand the
Speaker 11: whole stock market thing. And I'm invested. I mean, I
Speaker 11: had my four oh one K and whatnot, and I'm
Speaker 11: very close to retirement. So I'm a little scared. But
Speaker 11: you know what I've thought about though, in the past
Speaker 11: couple of days and listening to your show and the
Speaker 11: news from the radio, I'm better off than I was
Speaker 11: with the previous administration. Just putting that out there, Yeah, well,
Speaker 11: I am more confident today even with what's going on
Speaker 11: than I was for the past four years.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think I feel I think that one
Speaker 2: of the things I think is that Trump has a vision. Now,
Speaker 2: whether or not that vision is a good vision or
Speaker 2: a bad vision, he at least is addressing issues. And
Speaker 2: I think he's a lot sharper mentally than Joe Biden was.
Speaker 2: And if that makes you more comfortable, I certainly can
Speaker 2: understand that some of the stuff that's coming out now,
Speaker 2: and this kind of goes back to a call I
Speaker 2: had in the first hour, some of the stuff is
Speaker 2: kind of scary in terms of, you know, who was
Speaker 2: in charge, I mean, who was running the show? If
Speaker 2: all these books that are coming out to be believed, I.
Speaker 11: Don't know, Well, there was a lot of gossip about that,
Speaker 11: you know anyway, But seriously, I mean, President Trump, He's
Speaker 11: already done a number of things that he said he
Speaker 11: was going to do. I have no problem with what
Speaker 11: he and Ewan Musker doing as far as signing these
Speaker 11: corrupt charities or whatever you want to call them, and
Speaker 11: not who is our tax money? I mean, my god,
Speaker 11: we can afford the tariffs when they get all that
Speaker 11: money back or they start paying on that money. Let
Speaker 11: me port it that way.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think if you if you look
Speaker 2: at Okay, he said he was going to close the border,
Speaker 2: I think the border's substantially tightened up. Does that mean
Speaker 2: no one's coming across the border? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think the border's too big, but I think that
Speaker 2: it's down substantially. He has gotten some bad guys out
Speaker 2: of the country. I know there's some controversy over one
Speaker 2: or two that that may have been deported incorrectly, and
Speaker 2: I think that the simple thing there is to admit
Speaker 2: you made a mistake, that somehow something a mistake was
Speaker 2: mad and bring that person back. But now I think
Speaker 2: they believe that that person who was deported actually should
Speaker 2: have been deported. So let's let it. Let it be
Speaker 2: played out in court. There was an order by a
Speaker 2: federal appeals court to that guy back in the country
Speaker 2: by eleven fifty nine tonight, and John Roberts, the US
Speaker 2: Supreme Court Chief Justice, stayed the federal Appeals Court order. So,
Speaker 2: you know, let's let's see how it works out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I think we're this amazing country and we truly are,
Speaker 11: and no matter what, we're going to bounce back. But
Speaker 11: I've got a lot of faith in this. This is
Speaker 11: a lot of change. And I don't know, I'm hearing
Speaker 11: some people just are I don't want to use the
Speaker 11: word ignorant, but I think that's the word. You know,
Speaker 11: they just don't want to listen to Hey, give it
Speaker 11: a try.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, like anything else. I mean, just you know,
Speaker 2: just as when the Biden people were saying, hey, let's
Speaker 2: give this a try, and the Republicans were pretty resistant
Speaker 2: to that. I can understand that people didn't vote for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump are not happy because he's actually attempting to
Speaker 2: follow through and what he said. He imposed some tariffs
Speaker 2: back in a twenty seventeen, so he's kind of replicating that.
Speaker 2: You know, I think we're divided country, and I think
Speaker 2: half the country likes what he's doing, and half the
Speaker 2: country is scared to death and everybody is worried about
Speaker 2: their their their own stockholding.
Speaker 11: So that's and you know, and I understand that, but
Speaker 11: I think that we should not panic because I think
Speaker 11: that adds to yeah, the panics.
Speaker 2: As I say, what as I say, when it's time
Speaker 2: to panic, I'm going to let you know peg okay.
Speaker 11: But just to add to this conversation, I think that
Speaker 11: I would like to hire dot and my own financial things.
Speaker 2: Yes, I she could open up an office at this point,
Speaker 2: real estate investments, stock picker. She's great.
Speaker 11: Oh, that one's amazing. And one other thing though that
Speaker 11: I just thought about you and the previous gentleman. We're
Speaker 11: talking about buying cars. In different cars. My my paid
Speaker 11: for Saturn died four years ago, which was right in
Speaker 11: the middle of COVID or right at the end of COVID,
Speaker 11: but it was when the quote the supply chain issues
Speaker 11: went and I had two mechanics. My first mechanic and
Speaker 11: I got a second opinion. Both said your car will
Speaker 11: not pass inspection. I had no choice and I had
Speaker 11: to get a car within like three weeks, and I
Speaker 11: paid probably if I'm looking at the cars now a
Speaker 11: little bit, I paid like six seven eight thousand dollars
Speaker 11: more than I would have if it was today because
Speaker 11: of the supply chain issues. It's kind of the same
Speaker 11: thing with the tariff. And I did buy a foreign
Speaker 11: car too, because I heard good things about it. And
Speaker 11: I don't know anything about cars either, you know, so
Speaker 11: just something to think about. I mean, I paid a
Speaker 11: lot more money I had the car. I had to
Speaker 11: do it because I needed the car. If I could
Speaker 11: have waited a year, it would have been better.
Speaker 2: But timing is everything, Peg, timing.
Speaker 11: Is everything, and Paris so it text your money a big.
Speaker 2: Deal, all right? Thanks Peg. I got a screwed here
Speaker 2: because I'm up at my break, so I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: you go. But thanks so much for calling. I was great,
Speaker 2: the great tear your voice.
Speaker 11: Thanks good night, Dan, Thank you, good night.
Speaker 2: Big Back on Nightside this one at six one seven
Speaker 2: four ten thirty one at six one seven, nine thirty
Speaker 2: Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on BZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: We're gonna run the table here. If you're on the line,
Speaker 2: We're gonna get you, I promise. Jamie is in Worcester.
Speaker 2: Jamie next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in, Jamie. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight? Good?
Speaker 13: I'm doing good.
Speaker 2: Dan how are you couldn't be better? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9: Well, I don't. I call from a perspective of someone
Speaker 9: who doesn't have any stock or investments.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 9: Basically I watched Fox News. I read them where I worked.
Speaker 9: I see the the tariff thing on the front page
Speaker 9: of the New York Post every time, yep. But when
Speaker 9: I go about my everyday life, I haven't seen it
Speaker 9: affect me in any way. I mean, everything seems the
Speaker 9: way it spends for a while, fair enough.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And then however, but however, if the tariffs hold
Speaker 14: for some period of time, even though you're not losing
Speaker 14: money in the stock market, prices are going to go up.
Speaker 9: Right, And I've been looking for that and it hasn't
Speaker 9: happened yet. You go to the market, eggs are higher, course,
Speaker 9: But well.
Speaker 2: Eggs are actually down, believe it or not from where
Speaker 2: they were right.
Speaker 9: No, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I gas price, gas prices are down. If you when
Speaker 2: was the last time you filled up your tank?
Speaker 9: Oh? No, I know, I found I got my gas
Speaker 9: Gover two sixty nine down at the gas station. The
Speaker 9: other day. I took my father, who's eighty, to Walmart
Speaker 9: on his usual Walmut run today and they had an
Speaker 9: each tea pag of eggs for six forty nine.
Speaker 2: Well they even brought me a little cheerer than that. Actually,
Speaker 2: I think that eggs are come down even some more.
Speaker 2: But my my palgary, you know, Victory Gas and on
Speaker 2: Route nine, just on the other side of one twenty eight,
Speaker 2: they were always a really great price, and they were
Speaker 2: down to like I think, to seventy two yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know that. I mean that's you know, well
Speaker 2: below three dollars a gallon, and it's going in the
Speaker 2: right direction. And you know, half half of that that
Speaker 2: costs or a big punt portion of your your gas
Speaker 2: your your gasoline cost is for state gas tax. You
Speaker 2: got to remember that. So yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: but but it could eventually, I mean, if this held
Speaker 2: on for two or three months, yeah, you could, we
Speaker 2: could see some prices going up.
Speaker 9: Well, I go to the market, I keep waiting to
Speaker 9: see like the things, and like I work at a
Speaker 9: package store and everybody keeps asking me, like, is the
Speaker 9: Heinegen gonna go up? Is is the Jamison gonna go up?
Speaker 9: And like I said, and right now, we haven't made
Speaker 9: any price changes. I'm like, no, I said.
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I said, tell him, tell him that that Dan Ray says,
Speaker 2: stick to cores light.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's why I drank too.
Speaker 2: I don't we're discriminating beer drinkers, you and me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I like my co trust me. A lot of
Speaker 9: panic amongst the customers. They come in, they go, is
Speaker 9: this going up yet? Know what? And I'm like, like
Speaker 9: trying to hoard Jameson like it's gonna go out of
Speaker 9: stock or something, you know, like it was relaxed. It
Speaker 9: isn't going up. We haven't asked my boss say this
Speaker 9: tariffing gonna affect anything goes well?
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I haven't so far distributors haven't raised the prices on me.
Speaker 3: So good.
Speaker 2: But let's let's hope they don't get it. Grace, OK, right,
Speaker 2: So what do you working in a pack? In a pack?
Speaker 2: He as we would say in Wooster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, back you whisper.
Speaker 9: It's owned by a family of a what.
Speaker 2: Oh oh Jamie, Jamie, we lost you there, Amy, Jamie,
Speaker 2: do me a favorite callback and we'll get you in here.
Speaker 2: Let me grab Glenn and Brighton. Jamie call us back
Speaker 2: and we'll we'll get you. I promise. I want to
Speaker 2: know the answer to that. I want to give a
Speaker 2: plug to the to the package store you work on. Okay,
Speaker 2: call us back, Jamie Glenn and Brighton Glenn, next one Knights,
Speaker 2: I go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and defense of doubt from Medford. Yes, the government
Speaker 4: take us was one hand. I mean give us was
Speaker 4: one hand and take us away with the other. Because
Speaker 4: I was punished in the way tiffanies. They accidentally gave
Speaker 4: me too much SSI, so for five years I couldn't
Speaker 4: get SSII. In fact, I was on the streets of
Speaker 4: Cleveland Circle begging in the winter of nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4: I've lost my SSI for five years because they messed up.
Speaker 4: So she said something about what they punished her on
Speaker 4: Social Security. I know her tastes different.
Speaker 2: I would think if the government makes a mistake on
Speaker 2: something like that, they need they need to eat it.
Speaker 2: Because if the government makes a mistake, Hey, Jamie, hold
Speaker 2: on Glenn. Jamie's listening. I want Jamie to call back
Speaker 2: here because I want to try to sneak him in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, somehow he cut himself off. No, that's that
Speaker 2: was unfeared the way you were treated there. Okay, simple
Speaker 2: as that, right, that's an un that's a you know,
Speaker 2: if they make a mistake. Now, if all of a
Speaker 2: sudden this then instead of you getting one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a month, they're sending you a check for you know,
Speaker 2: fifty five thousand dollars a month. I think at that
Speaker 2: point you might want.
Speaker 4: To check it.
Speaker 2: That's was your Yeah, but we're gonna yeah, well, Dots
Speaker 2: picked up some fans tonight. Let me tell you here
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 4: I hope she's here on the twenty seventh. That's not
Speaker 4: why I called.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't well, well, we'll see you on the
Speaker 2: twenty seventh.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh yeah, that's a complet complete.
Speaker 2: But yeah, by the way, if anybody's interests, we're doing
Speaker 2: a nightside brunch on Sunday, April twenty seventh at a
Speaker 2: restaurant in Westwood. The Winnaker Orchestra, the Winnaker Band will
Speaker 2: be there, Bill and Winnaker and some of the other
Speaker 2: members of the band. And it's at the restaurant, but
Speaker 2: you got to call and make a reservation and make
Speaker 2: it for for Dan Ray's group at the Niroli restaurant.
Speaker 2: Call me at the station if you want. You can
Speaker 2: get a I'll call you back. We want to get
Speaker 2: as many folks there as possible. We're gonna have quite
Speaker 2: a crowd, that's for sure. Glenn, let me run. I
Speaker 2: want to get Jamie back.
Speaker 4: No, but you never got me. I never got a
Speaker 4: chance to. I was gonna say I never cared about
Speaker 4: Wall Street because it started with du Quinton. That ask
Speaker 4: goes the president, he goes Wall Street. And I mean,
Speaker 4: if that's true, Biden was the best president we had.
Speaker 4: The Wall Street start market was good under Bud. I'm saying,
Speaker 4: I don't think you can connect one with the other.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough? All right, Glenn, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon, Okay, see in the twenty seven. Thanks Jamie,
Speaker 2: thank you for calling back. Jamie. What's the I want
Speaker 2: to make you the most famous liquor store in Worcester.
Speaker 2: Where can nights siders go and get get get whatever
Speaker 2: they need at your store? What's the name of it?
Speaker 9: Greendale Package Store? What's the Massachusetts perfect?
Speaker 2: Okay? Is there a section normally it's like in this
Speaker 2: section of that section. I want to tell.
Speaker 9: People McGovern's Greendale Package Store Perfect?
Speaker 2: All right? And asked for James.
Speaker 3: I called back.
Speaker 9: I want to give you a call, get your calls in.
Speaker 9: But I called back and they do you want to
Speaker 9: give me that plug?
Speaker 2: So no, I appreciate it. That that was I think
Speaker 2: a mistake on my end. Okay, that is not your fault.
Speaker 2: It was my fault.
Speaker 4: I thought you.
Speaker 2: Uh no, no, no, no. What happened was I had
Speaker 2: I had, I had my hand on my computer and
Speaker 2: I inadvertently hit it. It was my fault, not not Ribs.
Speaker 2: It was mine. Thanks Jamie. We'll talk soon, okay, ye, thanks,
Speaker 2: good night, Okay, real real quickly. I got less than
Speaker 2: two minutes. Tina, you've called later, Gonna get you and
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 11: Tina, I know, okay.
Speaker 5: I don't like the Travis. I don't think they're going
Speaker 5: to work. Remembering all the manufacturers started to leave this
Speaker 5: country and they moved overseas because of cheap labor. It
Speaker 5: it's gonna take a long time to get manufacturing back here.
Speaker 5: And what do you think American workers who are gonna
Speaker 5: work in that factory. Are they going to be trained,
Speaker 5: Are they gonna be skilled? And they're not gonna work
Speaker 5: for a pittance. They're gonna want a good wage.
Speaker 2: Of course they are. And that's the whole idea of it.
Speaker 2: Let's bring them back and get people back to work
Speaker 2: at good wages.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's gonna happen because it's gonna be
Speaker 5: too expensive, it's gonna take too long, and everybody is
Speaker 5: gonna lose in the stock market.
Speaker 2: Well, let's just throw up our hands and quit. No, no,
Speaker 2: no no. Let's see what happens. Okay, and if you're right,
Speaker 2: I want you to call me back. And if you're wrong,
Speaker 2: we'll all win. Everybody will win. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 2: I got a scoot, okay, thanks Tino. How much time
Speaker 2: I get left?
Speaker 4: Rob?
Speaker 2: One minute? Okay, we're down to one minute, which means
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give Gideon literally twenty seconds. Go ahead, Gideon.
Speaker 2: Well there goes Gideon. So we lost Gideon, which is
Speaker 2: no problem at all. I don't know why people call
Speaker 2: late and then when you give them twenty seconds. I
Speaker 2: guess they think that somehow we can make the hour longer. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I will thank Marita, I will think Rob. I will
Speaker 2: thank all of you who called even Gideon, uh, but
Speaker 2: most importantly those who called them one and actually added
Speaker 2: the conversation back tomorrow night, everybody we're gonna talk tomorrow
Speaker 2: night about twenty three and me and why people are
Speaker 2: concerned about that going bankrupt, amongst other things. All dogs,
Speaker 2: all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pal
Speaker 2: Charlie Ray is, who passed in February fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: That's where your pets are who past. They loved you
Speaker 2: and you love them, and I do believe you'll see
Speaker 2: them again. Hope'es he get tomorrow night on Night's side.
Speaker 2: Be here tomorrow night. I'll be here tomorrow to noon
Speaker 2: in the four thirty and I'll be on Facebook Night'side
Speaker 2: with Dan Ray in about two minutes. We'll see that
Speaker 2: everyone have a good Tuesday.