Speaker 1: It's night with I'm telling you easy bonding.
Speaker 2: Radio, Sarry Well. I hope that you learned something from
Speaker 2: the last hour talking about offshore drilling wind turbines off
Speaker 2: the coast of New England. I think both of the
Speaker 2: representatives represented their points of view as best they could.
Speaker 2: Each were at different times little little concerned on some
Speaker 2: of the particulars. I just think it's interesting that environmentalists,
Speaker 2: it would seem to me, would want to be in
Speaker 2: concert with the fishing industry here for a whole lot
Speaker 2: of reasons. But hey, the politics behind all of this
Speaker 2: and the amount of money that's behind all of this,
Speaker 2: I got to tell you that it's immense. It's immense,
Speaker 2: and I don't really understand it as well as I should.
Speaker 2: And there were some questions that were an answer to
Speaker 2: my satisfaction. But I think both of the gentlemen represented
Speaker 2: their points of view as well as they could. Now
Speaker 2: I want to change topics and maybe get to something
Speaker 2: that some of you I was hoping that some of
Speaker 2: you would have been. I suspect you were interested in
Speaker 2: listening to the conversation which I wanted to make a conversation,
Speaker 2: And it wasn't a debate where you ask someone a
Speaker 2: question and the other person has a response directly. That's
Speaker 2: not the style we do here on Night Side. So
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed the hour and the fact that
Speaker 2: people didn't seem interested in engaging. Believe me, offshore turvines
Speaker 2: will have a tremendous impact on New England and maybe
Speaker 2: a positive or maybe a negative, but I think we
Speaker 2: should investigate and try to anticipate which it would be,
Speaker 2: and then support or oppose the projects accordingly. Anyway, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: I mean this is nine days away. The election is over.
Speaker 2: It was two weeks ago tonight that Donald Trump won
Speaker 2: a decisive victory, and as all of you know, I
Speaker 2: had asked and I had hoped that whoever was going
Speaker 2: to win, it would be a decisive victory. My worst
Speaker 2: fear was that people would still be fighting over who
Speaker 2: had won my Thanksgiving. Now, as it turns out, it'll
Speaker 2: be three weeks and two days when people gather, Families gather,
Speaker 2: and I would like to know how you would like
Speaker 2: to see Thanksgiving dinner proceed with your family. I know
Speaker 2: some of you will be traveling to be with other
Speaker 2: members of your family and relatives in far away or
Speaker 2: nearby places, and instead of having a family meal of
Speaker 2: just your immediate family, you'll probably somewhere with a larger
Speaker 2: group of family members and or friends, different folks obviously,
Speaker 2: and there will be the opportunity to talk about the
Speaker 2: future of the country, where we are headed as a country,
Speaker 2: how we came to choose one candidate one party over
Speaker 2: the other, and the potential for heated conversations exist. I
Speaker 2: don't think there should be heated conversations. I think we
Speaker 2: can have conversations around our family Thanksgiving dinner table in
Speaker 2: the same way that we have conversations here on Nightside.
Speaker 2: And I'd love to know how you plan to deal
Speaker 2: with it. I saw some interesting comments that were made
Speaker 2: which frankly bothered me, and I guess won't surprise you
Speaker 2: that it bothered me. This was a Yale School psychiatrist,
Speaker 2: Amanda Calhoun, who was talking on MSNBC about how she
Speaker 2: would treat or how family members should be treated. Rob.
Speaker 2: I just want to get right to it. Here. Play
Speaker 2: cut number eight A to start.
Speaker 3: Us off, Rob, But how do you interact with people
Speaker 3: who you know voted for this right? If you are
Speaker 3: an LGBTQ person and you know someone in your family
Speaker 3: voted essentially against your rights, or you're a woman knowing
Speaker 3: that you know this man was calling people the B word.
Speaker 3: Jade Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris the trash and
Speaker 3: said we're going to take out the trash. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.
Speaker 3: And if you then meet somebody and you know they
Speaker 3: voted for the people who called you trash, or if
Speaker 3: you're Puerto Rican, you know you know someone voted that way,
Speaker 3: do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them.
Speaker 3: We got the holidays coming up.
Speaker 2: This is a psychiatrist who's speaking. Her name is Amanda Calhoun.
Speaker 2: She's on MSNBC with Joy Reid and basically what she's
Speaker 2: saying which I don't understand, and again I think this
Speaker 2: is part of the problem that the Democratic Party had
Speaker 2: in the in the election. It sounds to me like
Speaker 2: she thinks that certain groups of people, whether they be
Speaker 2: Black women, white women, LGBTQ community, voted in mass All
Speaker 2: of the post election analysis that I have seen is
Speaker 2: that there were people of different backgrounds who voted differently,
Speaker 2: which is what you would have expected. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think that all people who happened to be I
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, German American all voted one way
Speaker 2: or the other. I don't think all people who happen
Speaker 2: to be African American black members of our country voted
Speaker 2: all way. Look, Donald Trump supposedly got more Black votes
Speaker 2: and more Hispanic votes than any Republican candidate in history.
Speaker 2: You can't accuse black people, and this woman happened to
Speaker 2: be black of people who disagreed with her, white or
Speaker 2: black for being racist because the choices were between a
Speaker 2: white male and a black female. And I don't think
Speaker 2: that that sort of polemic, that sort of conversation does
Speaker 2: any of us any good at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: And I think it's going to it's going to filter
Speaker 2: down through academia and through the media, and all of
Speaker 2: us on Thanksgiving Day will in effect strap on our
Speaker 2: uniforms and whomever we happen to support. Even if it's
Speaker 2: family members sitting across from you asking you to pass
Speaker 2: a piece of pumpkin pie, you're going to be tempted
Speaker 2: to throw it at someone because you think they might
Speaker 2: have voted differently. What that was wrong with us as
Speaker 2: a society. We live in a democracy which was celebrated
Speaker 2: through most of and will be celebrated immensely in the
Speaker 2: next few years, particularly as we approach the two hundred
Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Battle of
Speaker 2: Bunker Hill, and the Battles of Lexington and conquered, and
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
Speaker 2: Is it not possible for you to remain friends with
Speaker 2: someone who voted differently than you? And I'm really asking
Speaker 2: you on a one to one basis tonight, which I've
Speaker 2: never done before. I've approached this before, but I'm asking
Speaker 2: each of you to be willing to call and bear
Speaker 2: your soul if you have a family member, a relative,
Speaker 2: a neighbor, a friend who you come to realize voted
Speaker 2: differently than you voted for the Republican as opposed to
Speaker 2: the Democratic, or conversely voted for the Democrat is supposed
Speaker 2: to Republican. Are you going to take the advice of
Speaker 2: Yale Schools psychiatrist Amanda Calhoun again, This is one more
Speaker 2: of her soundbites with Joy Read and MSNBC cut number
Speaker 2: eight B. Please Rob So, I.
Speaker 4: Love that you asked this question because you know there
Speaker 4: is a push I think just a societal norm that
Speaker 4: if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to
Speaker 4: your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: If you are going into a situation where you have
Speaker 4: family members, where you have close friends who you know
Speaker 4: have voted in ways that are against you, like what
Speaker 4: you said, against your livelihood, and it's completely fine to
Speaker 4: not be around those people and to tell them why,
Speaker 4: you know, to say, I have a problem with the
Speaker 4: way that you voted because it went against my very
Speaker 4: livelihood and I'm not going to be around you this holiday.
Speaker 5: I need to take some space for me.
Speaker 2: That is psycho babel insanity. Psychle babel insanity. And I
Speaker 2: know from the network that this professor or doctor is
Speaker 2: appearing on MSNBC. I know from what perspective that is
Speaker 2: being offered. How how elitist is it for someone in
Speaker 2: your family or for you to say to someone in
Speaker 2: your family, I know how you voted, and because I
Speaker 2: now know how you voted, I want nothing to do
Speaker 2: with you. If you want to, if you want to
Speaker 2: define elitism, put this psychiat picture in the dictionary. So
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you if you are whoever
Speaker 2: you were for and if you're telling me that you
Speaker 2: cannot go to a family Thanksgiving dinner and at least
Speaker 2: treat your family members and your relatives and your friends
Speaker 2: and your neighbors respectfully. The election is over. It's over, okay,
Speaker 2: And whether Professor Amanda Calhoun likes it or not, apparently
Speaker 2: the candidate that she voted for for president did not
Speaker 2: get sufficient number of votes to become the president elect,
Speaker 2: and that that president elect will become president. As I
Speaker 2: said when Joe Biden was president, he's my president. I
Speaker 2: had that conversation many times with some of the people
Speaker 2: who were continuing to question the legitimacy of the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty election. This is a cancer within our society and
Speaker 2: it can be traced back. You know, this is not
Speaker 2: the first year. Twenty twenty wasn't the first year. Twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen wasn't the first year. It goes back a long way.
Speaker 2: It goes back a long way and is destructive. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to open it up, and I'm hoping to
Speaker 2: hear from people on both sides of the political spectrum,
Speaker 2: an acknowledgement, an acknowledgement that guess what, you know, each
Speaker 2: of us have a choice in a democracy That's what
Speaker 2: a democracy means. Each of us has a choice to make,
Speaker 2: and the elections over the time to criticize the new
Speaker 2: administration begins on January twentieth when they take office. You
Speaker 2: could criticize some of the cabinets elections, that's fine. But
Speaker 2: to say that you want to cut off relations and
Speaker 2: tell some family member that somehow they are not worthy
Speaker 2: of your time because they have a different political viewpoint?
Speaker 2: Is that? Where is that where this country's headed? Six
Speaker 2: one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Those lines are full.
Speaker 2: Six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Let's get
Speaker 2: at it. And I hope to hear from people on
Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle. Please don't disappoint me. And
Speaker 2: also I hope this. Remember this the only thing worse
Speaker 2: than a sore loser, And you can look up sore
Speaker 2: loser and there's Yale School psychiatrist Amanda Calhoun's picture. The
Speaker 2: only worse than a sore loser is a sore winner.
Speaker 2: Remember that back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Here, let's go, Let's go to Steve and Boston. Steve
Speaker 2: you're going to start us off tonight.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Hey, Dan, thanks to take my call.
Speaker 2: Welcome Steve. What's your thought on this?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 6: So I'm just gonna make three points and then I'll
Speaker 6: hang up and I'll listen. But first point, my wife
Speaker 6: is distraught about the election, and I say to her,
Speaker 6: if you have a friend that's Jewish, would you not
Speaker 6: sit down and have Thanksgiving with them? And she said, well,
Speaker 6: of course I would. And I said, well, what's the
Speaker 6: difference if somebody has different religious views, of different political views,
Speaker 6: why are we Why are we making such a fuss here?
Speaker 6: We can agree to disagree. A few years ago, and
Speaker 6: I'm not a fan, but Ellen DeGeneres said something. She
Speaker 6: went to a football game with George Bush, and all
Speaker 6: of Ellen's fans criticized her for that, and she said, hey,
Speaker 6: I'm friends with the guy. He's a good guy. We
Speaker 6: have different political views. Why can't I still be friends
Speaker 6: with him? And I thought that was pretty cool. My
Speaker 6: last point is the society that we have is because
Speaker 6: we give too many voice. Too many people on the
Speaker 6: far right the far left the voice. They are the minority.
Speaker 6: The people in the middle are the majority. But we
Speaker 6: give the people on the extremes too much of a voice.
Speaker 6: I'll hang up and listen from here. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, I just don't don't hang up for a second.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you I think those are three
Speaker 2: really interesting points, and hopefully some of our listeners will
Speaker 2: we hardy did I hang up? I think the points
Speaker 2: he made were pretty interesting. I was unfamiliar with the
Speaker 2: Ellen degenerous story, but that that does not surprise me.
Speaker 2: I think most of us are very accepting of different
Speaker 2: religious viewpoints that our friends might might hold. There was
Speaker 2: not a time, there was a time in this country
Speaker 2: where that was not necessarily true, okay, And I think
Speaker 2: we have as a country we have evolved out of that.
Speaker 2: And I think very few people that I know hold
Speaker 2: any antipathy towards people because of their religious viewpoints. I
Speaker 2: think there are so many religious viewpoints. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: someone explained to me that between an Episcopalian and a
Speaker 2: Presbyterian and a congregational incident whatever, that's it just is.
Speaker 2: It is an interesting point that Steve made. I wish
Speaker 2: he had had had stuck with us. The problem is
Speaker 2: that that sometimes sports the only thing that's analogous is
Speaker 2: sometimes sports fans engage in literally fisticuffs at games. Now
Speaker 2: generally there's a healthy portion of alcohol involved there. But
Speaker 2: at the top of the latter is this deep divide
Speaker 2: politically which the country has survived. I mean, we have
Speaker 2: survived Democratic and Republican presidents. We've survived presidents who you know,
Speaker 2: you couldn't if I mentioned the name, you know, James Garfield.
Speaker 2: There's not too many people who could tell me what
Speaker 2: year off the top of their head he was elected. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, James Buchanan, whatever, Millard Fillmore. I mean, did
Speaker 2: you survive presidents who you know, at times the country
Speaker 2: was growing and developing. You have, you know, great Democratic presidents.
Speaker 2: Franklin Roosevelt would be one that I think of immediately
Speaker 2: effective Democratic presidents. Bill Clinton may have had his his
Speaker 2: his problems, but I think he was an effective president,
Speaker 2: learned how to work with Republicans in Congress. Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 2: John Kennedy, I think they were effective presidents. Dwight eisenhowerd
Speaker 2: Harry Truman. And again, you know, Barack Obama deported three
Speaker 2: million people. Uh, you got to keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people Donald Trump hopes to deport,
Speaker 2: how many he will deport all of those if people
Speaker 2: just don't I think maybe part of is we really
Speaker 2: don't understand politics is too complicated. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well we're talking about it. I've tried to set it
Speaker 2: up as best I can as now up to you,
Speaker 2: folks six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty or
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I was
Speaker 2: going to ask Steve. He said that his wife was despondent.
Speaker 2: He and his wife may have voted the same way.
Speaker 2: I was hoping to ask him what they were doing
Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving and were they going to meet with relatives.
Speaker 2: I mean I kind of imagine as a family in America.
Speaker 2: I mean an extended family in America in which all
Speaker 2: voted one way or the other. The exit polls defy
Speaker 2: that theory. The exit polls defy what Professor Amanda Calhoun
Speaker 2: was spouting to Joy Read on MSNBC. Back on Nightside,
Speaker 2: here's the news. We'll pick it up right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the phones we go, Let's go toos.
Speaker 2: Up next, Joe and Walpole. Joe, you're next on Nightside. Welcome, Yes,
Speaker 2: Hi Dan, how you doing I'm going fine. The question
Speaker 2: is how are families going to do this Thanksgiving? I mean,
Speaker 2: I know there'll be someone to say, well, we do God,
Speaker 2: I have any political conversations. I think that's a cop out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think political conversations at family dinners are
Speaker 5: are a relatively natural thing. Listen, Dan, We're a highly
Speaker 5: political country, and and that and that can and and
Speaker 5: that can be very healthy. Some of the most bright
Speaker 5: ideas came from the founding fathers talking about political ideas
Speaker 5: in the bar room back during the revolution. So there
Speaker 5: shouldn't be anything wrong with families talking politics. But I
Speaker 5: think where the main problem comes from in our country
Speaker 5: is and this is a relatively new thing. I studied
Speaker 5: a lot of history in high school in college, and
Speaker 5: I think a lot of it comes from there's this
Speaker 5: fear mongering that's starting to happen, and I think it's
Speaker 5: started in the eighties about where the candidates in the
Speaker 5: media can make you believe that your brother, if they
Speaker 5: voted for Trump, hates everybody hates everybody that's not white,
Speaker 5: or if your sister voted for Kamala, she hates white men.
Speaker 5: And I think that's it's very strange and I think
Speaker 5: that's where that lady you were talking about. I think
Speaker 5: that's where she goes wrong. Oh you need a break
Speaker 5: from your family because of their political view. Well, if
Speaker 5: you don't spend time with your family, and all you
Speaker 5: can think in the back of your brain is all
Speaker 5: day voted for so and so, how are you gonna
Speaker 5: build your relationships. I went to California over the summer
Speaker 5: last year for a wedding, and my side of the
Speaker 5: family that lives here in Massachusetts, including myself, a lot
Speaker 5: of them are Republicans. But I went to my mother's
Speaker 5: side of the family, who are quite liberal. They're all Democrats.
Speaker 5: And you know, looking back on my cousin and I's relationship,
Speaker 5: we had some pretty bad back and forth on Facebook,
Speaker 5: and both sides are guilty. And you know what, I'm
Speaker 5: so embarrassed. And I said to him, Hey, let's put
Speaker 5: this aside. We're not going to agree on anything, but
Speaker 5: let's enjoy our time together as a family.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's one way to go about it. Obviously.
Speaker 2: The other way to go about it is say, hey, look,
Speaker 2: all points of view are welcome here. Do what we
Speaker 2: try to do. One nights, I give everybody a chance
Speaker 2: to talk about it. I mean, I can. Obviously, there
Speaker 2: was a lot of anger after the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2: We saw it played out in Washington, d C. Sadly,
Speaker 2: and there were, you know, allegations that that turned out
Speaker 2: not to be true, the election was stolen, et cetera.
Speaker 2: We just ran a very reasonable, rational, competent election. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's anyone running around right now saying that
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four presidential election was fixed. I think
Speaker 2: Democrats are admitting Trump won. There were a lot of
Speaker 2: Republicans that did not admit that Biden won in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Shame on them. And kudos to President Biden for meeting
Speaker 2: President Trump the other day and spending some time with him,
Speaker 2: even though the language that they both used during the
Speaker 2: campaign was above was beneath the office they that they
Speaker 2: both ones held correct.
Speaker 5: Correct, No, you hit it right on the head there.
Speaker 5: You know, we can all learn from the interaction between
Speaker 5: President Biden and President elect Trump. I mean, if them
Speaker 5: two guys can uh somehow forge an understanding, I think
Speaker 5: that the gen Z grand grandchild can form a path
Speaker 5: with their grandparents.
Speaker 2: Couldn't agree with it more very nice nicely said Joe,
Speaker 2: Thank you much.
Speaker 5: Appreciate your time, Thank you my call. Have a good night.
Speaker 2: You're more than welcome. Thank you for joining us. Ladies,
Speaker 2: don't let this one be dominated by the men. I
Speaker 2: want to hear women's voices on this. Whomever you voted for, whomever,
Speaker 2: and if you disagree with me, I mean, if you
Speaker 2: just contolerate the thought of being in the same room
Speaker 2: or in the same house with someone who's political viewpoints
Speaker 2: are different than yours, and and resulted in I guess, uh,
Speaker 2: each of you eliminating the value of your vote was
Speaker 2: was in effect compromised by the vote of something. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's what it is down deep. They think that somehow
Speaker 2: their vote is more important. I don't think so. I
Speaker 2: don't think so. Let me go to Rick in North Reading. Rick,
Speaker 2: you were next on nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 7: Hey, Hey Dan, how are you good?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, you're doing well great, Thanks thanks for asking. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I just want to talk a little bit about what
Speaker 7: happened over the weekend. I was actually gathering with my friends, right,
Speaker 7: and apparently we're talking about the conversa Kamala and uh,
Speaker 7: I don't actually remember who exactly that I voted for.
Speaker 7: But I did hear a lot of my friends there's
Speaker 7: super upset for trom winning election and all that, and.
Speaker 2: You don't waste you don't remember who you voted for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because we're wearing Massachusett, right because regardless, it's always
Speaker 7: going to be a Democrat.
Speaker 2: So oh, no questions about that. But I would think
Speaker 2: you still would remember who you vote. But that's okay.
Speaker 6: Maybe I do remember.
Speaker 7: I do remember I voted no to question two though,
Speaker 7: That's what I do remember.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that was important to you. Okay, fine, so
Speaker 2: so go ahead, continue to stro. I didn't mean to
Speaker 2: interrupt your go ahead?
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, right? Uh so I think they so a
Speaker 7: lot of my friends, I would say a majority of
Speaker 7: my friend there are Harris supporter, right And to me myself,
Speaker 7: I'm more like independent, I would say. And I do
Speaker 7: understand where they're coming from. And I do have a
Speaker 7: lot of other friends that are supporting Trumba, and I
Speaker 7: do understand where they're coming from. And I think in
Speaker 7: this country, even though what people may have different political
Speaker 7: point of view, but we can still be friends. It's
Speaker 7: just that when we're talking about instead of debating or
Speaker 7: being angry, we're just we're just chat about what's going
Speaker 7: to happen to our life. What are some of implications
Speaker 7: from that? And to me, I feel like what we
Speaker 7: really should do is to keep whatever we have in common,
Speaker 7: and we embrace that, and we just leave whatever we have,
Speaker 7: whatever the differences we have, to ourselves. That's how I feel, Yeah, myself,
Speaker 7: And go ahead.
Speaker 2: I said, I wish more people felt like like you felt.
Speaker 2: You said that you're an immigrant. What country did you
Speaker 2: come here from? If I could ask?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: From China? So what happened? Yeah? What happened in China
Speaker 7: is that you don't actually have a freedom to speech, right.
Speaker 7: You can't really.
Speaker 2: Unless you're a party member, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, and you basically you don't actually have your
Speaker 7: freedom to express whatever the politic or idea you have.
Speaker 7: And what I'm hoping for is that we don't turn
Speaker 7: the country I'm living in right now to the countries
Speaker 7: that I moved out of.
Speaker 2: How difficult was it for you to get out of China?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
Speaker 7: It wasn't hard for me though, because I came here
Speaker 7: as a college student, and I got a job after graduation,
Speaker 7: get a green card, and get married here and all that,
Speaker 7: it wasn't that hard. But right now, nowadays, it will
Speaker 7: be pretty hard for a lot of people to get
Speaker 7: her legally. It's really hard to get a visa.
Speaker 2: I haven't I haven't talked to many people who have
Speaker 2: gotten out of China. So I'm going to take advantage
Speaker 2: of the opportunity. I assume you have family. If you're
Speaker 2: recently out of college, I assume you still have family
Speaker 2: back in China.
Speaker 7: Now I'll be out of college for over ten years.
Speaker 2: Tell you, well, I considered that pretty recent wreck. To
Speaker 2: be honest with, It's okay. If I told you what
Speaker 2: year I got out of college, you'd be stunned. But
Speaker 2: I assume you must have family back in China. Parents,
Speaker 2: I do, Siblings.
Speaker 7: I do, I do, I do have a lot.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, are you able to go back for a
Speaker 2: visit or do you fear going back for a visit?
Speaker 2: You would have problems getting.
Speaker 7: Out, so so going back and visiting them it was
Speaker 7: totally fine. It's just that especially lazily from time to time.
Speaker 7: What happened was that sometimes when I was FaceTime my
Speaker 7: friends or my family member back in China, right and
Speaker 7: we're using a FaceTime and then a few days later,
Speaker 7: the local cops may just give them a suppresident of saying, hey,
Speaker 7: don't use FaceTime anymore, I can use whatever the Chinese
Speaker 7: social apps, So that that's what happened. But just going
Speaker 7: back there to them mostoryfying.
Speaker 2: Wow, boy, I kind of imagine the decisions that you
Speaker 2: had to make upon graduation, graduating from college. It had
Speaker 2: to be very, very difficult, and you above all realize
Speaker 2: what a great gift we have in this country. And
Speaker 2: as some perhaps said, if we lose this country to
Speaker 2: either the right or the left, where where will the
Speaker 2: people who are fall out of favor? Where will they go?
Speaker 2: You know? I mean there's there's people from all over
Speaker 2: the world who are coming here to escape countries like
Speaker 2: China and to escape you know, dictatorships, whether it's you know,
Speaker 2: in Latin America rather you know, in Cuba, or or
Speaker 2: or in Latin America or in other you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: there are people you can't even get out of North Korea.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's worse than China. Even so, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: I I hope you're on your path to citizenship.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am actually so good for you.
Speaker 7: Good for you well, yeah, and also just one more
Speaker 7: common before I hand out, because I really have to go.
Speaker 7: I think when I'm when I when I first came
Speaker 7: to the United States, I heard a lot about this
Speaker 7: mentality of no judgment, right, and so to me, the
Speaker 7: the no judgments really to try to well, I guess
Speaker 7: for me, it's rude to understand whatever the decision people
Speaker 7: make that I don't actually understand. If you make a
Speaker 7: decision that I actually don't understand, if you have a
Speaker 7: point of view that I really don't understand, I'll leave
Speaker 7: it to yourself because I believe you, as a grown,
Speaker 7: grown man or grown adult, you have your your room mentality, right,
Speaker 7: instead of just trying to argue that's what I'm thinking, Yeah, No.
Speaker 2: I think that's you know, I would and I don't
Speaker 2: understand someone's circumstances or that's why I asked you what
Speaker 2: it was like, because I don't get an opportunity to
Speaker 2: ask someone like you who have had the courage to
Speaker 2: stay here, uh and and and leave behind what you
Speaker 2: have known. That's a difficult that's a difficult decision for
Speaker 2: anyone to make. So I just want to stay welcome,
Speaker 2: and this is your first time call on my show.
Speaker 7: Uh no, that's for my second time.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you come buy more frequently, okay, Rick, that
Speaker 2: would be that would be great. Well, all right, did
Speaker 2: you get a round of applause the first time? Uh?
Speaker 7: I think I did.
Speaker 2: I think we give round of applause the first time calls.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that that you got to
Speaker 2: get round of applause and come on back many times.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you listening, and I really enjoyed the conversation.
Speaker 2: Thank you much.
Speaker 7: All right right, thank you, have a good one.
Speaker 2: Have a great night, Rick, congratulations. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's the type of call that that you can only
Speaker 2: do and talk radio. Meaning he's as honest as the
Speaker 2: day is long, and all of us should have been
Speaker 2: able to take a lesson there. Okay, I got some
Speaker 2: quiet lines here what they don't like. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to basically give the numbers real slowly here six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. The question is all of us, well most
Speaker 2: of us, hopefully all of us, but most of us
Speaker 2: will be at a family gathering. I mean, I know
Speaker 2: there will be some people who will still be alone. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: if there is someone who lives near you who's truly alone,
Speaker 2: make sure they're incorporated, bring them, bring them with you,
Speaker 2: or or invite them to wherever you're going, or if
Speaker 2: you're hosting someone, there should always be room for one more.
Speaker 2: We're all Americans and it doesn't matter. Feel free to
Speaker 2: follow that advice. But call give me a call. I'd
Speaker 2: love to know. Should politics be off the table on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: I think it's healthy for us to understand that, hey,
Speaker 2: you voted for someone different than me, but you still
Speaker 2: remember my family. We're still friends or we're neighbors, and
Speaker 2: those votes probably cancel each other out. So what doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It really doesn't matter, and you don't have to hold
Speaker 2: entity against people with whom you disagree politically. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten
Speaker 2: thirty Back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go gonna go to Mark, Mark, you were next
Speaker 2: on Nightside. Thanks you again, thanks.
Speaker 8: For taking my call. I voted for Kamala Harris for president,
Speaker 8: but I have a good friend, a neighbor who voted
Speaker 8: for Donald Trump, And from the beginning, I've taken the
Speaker 8: attitude that he was entitled to his opinion and that
Speaker 8: I was glad he was a voting period. Since the election,
Speaker 8: his out of town family have pretty much ostracized him,
Speaker 8: I mean, give him a real, real hard time for
Speaker 8: voting for Trump, and hinted broadly that since he lives
Speaker 8: pretty much entirely on disability benefits, that he shouldn't be
Speaker 8: allowed to vote at all, and might not. I mean,
Speaker 8: I thought we took care of that issue with the
Speaker 8: Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, you're right in the money on
Speaker 2: this one. And again, you're a Harris supporter. I know
Speaker 2: that you're very much a Democrat, and I think.
Speaker 8: Though you've heard my criticism of the Democratic Party establishment
Speaker 8: on the elite is a missue. The content evans for
Speaker 8: money and all that, and I think you can't hear me,
Speaker 8: but I was very sad to hear what my friend's
Speaker 8: family had done to him, or tried to do to him.
Speaker 2: Well, I agree with you, and I hope that you
Speaker 2: support your friend. And you know what, by being good
Speaker 2: to your friend, maybe he will realize that there's people
Speaker 2: on both sides of the equation, both sides of the isle,
Speaker 2: and your proof of that that are decent human beings.
Speaker 2: And I thank you for your call mark as always.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you, great call.
Speaker 2: Mark, great call Thank you so much. Jamie is in Worcester. Jamie,
Speaker 2: you're next on Nightsig go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Hey Dan, how are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine, Jamie, you go ahead. What's your thoughts
Speaker 2: on this issue we've tried to open up tonight.
Speaker 9: Well, I got a brother that actually worked for on
Speaker 9: on the on the side for Joe Biden. He was
Speaker 9: she was her. He was her which we call it
Speaker 9: planner because he does planning for hotels and stuff and
Speaker 9: restaurants and stuff. So he met the daughter somehow and
Speaker 9: they got a job and he became her itinerary planner.
Speaker 2: So he became I just want to make sure I
Speaker 2: follow this. He became the itinerary planner for Joe Biden's daughter.
Speaker 9: Well, she met Joe Biden's daughter and helped her with
Speaker 9: some promotion, and she introduced him to Joe Biden, and
Speaker 9: all of a sudden he became Joe Biden's like a
Speaker 9: itenerary planner. Like they went to the Olympics and he
Speaker 9: planned that and.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, fine, okay, yep, okay, And again, how is
Speaker 2: this person related to you? And know I missed that
Speaker 2: part of you. Oh he's my brother, your brother, Okay, great?
Speaker 2: Well good. So so he's he's had access to the
Speaker 2: White House. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 9: So the four years and Trump was in office, he
Speaker 9: was vicious to me and my father because you know,
Speaker 9: we were Trump supporters, and every day he was sending
Speaker 9: me messages on my phone saying this and that whatever.
Speaker 9: But anyways, so Trump won this election and me and
Speaker 9: my dad probably supported Trump even though he wanted us
Speaker 9: to support Harris, of course. Yeah, and so we're still
Speaker 9: Every Thanksgiving we go to Provincetown to visit him, and
Speaker 9: it's he has a house down there, and we all
Speaker 9: go down there. We spend a couple of days and stuff.
Speaker 9: So it's still on, which I was surprised. I was
Speaker 9: wondering if it was canceled. But it wasn't canceled. So
Speaker 9: we're going on. But I'm like, no, I don't think
Speaker 9: we're gonna bring up the topic of Trump, you know,
Speaker 9: like I'm just gonna keep quiet and hope he hasn't
Speaker 9: like sending any shop comments back at me about it.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, yeah, it kind of a difficult spot
Speaker 2: to be in because obviously you're a guest at your
Speaker 2: brother's place. I would hope you know, again, as I
Speaker 2: said before, you know, but if people are sore losers,
Speaker 2: that doesn't set a great example. You know. But and
Speaker 2: also you don't you don't want to be a bad winner.
Speaker 2: So if it does come up, big, be magnanimous, say
Speaker 2: something like, uh, well maybe Harris will get elected next time.
Speaker 2: That's probably not gonna happen. But you know, I.
Speaker 9: Go down, I go down to privatize because my father's
Speaker 9: he is, Oh, we can't drive down there, so I have.
Speaker 2: To tell yeah, oh no, take it. You know what,
Speaker 2: you don't know how many thanksgivings you're gonna have with
Speaker 2: your dad, and for that matter, you don't know how
Speaker 2: many thanksgivings you're gonna have with your brother, So enjoy
Speaker 2: the day. If if politics comes up, I'd be prepared
Speaker 2: and I'd say, look, you know, we were lucky, we won.
Speaker 2: Uh let's see what he can do and who knows. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 2: just you're.
Speaker 9: Gonna me like, you know, you voted, but Trump you
Speaker 9: didn't thing, and he's like trying gotta take me on it.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I'm gonna play dumb, like a just voted
Speaker 9: for what I thought was the best candy.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing. Yeah, that I exercised. I I
Speaker 2: believe that the democracy. I believe in democracy, and and
Speaker 2: I I don't have to tell anyone who I voted for.
Speaker 2: Remember there were the ads where they were encouraging women,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, the you know, you don't have
Speaker 2: to tell your husband who you vote for. As it
Speaker 2: turned out, I think it was fifty two percent of
Speaker 2: women voted for Donald Trump. So right, you know, keep
Speaker 2: some of those statistics in the back of your mind. Jamie,
Speaker 2: this is your first time calling.
Speaker 9: No, no, yeah, it's my first time.
Speaker 2: I've got all you on and flaws. Now what I
Speaker 2: want you is become a regular caller. Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 9: I listen to you every time I got to work.
Speaker 9: I work at a package store, so I get out
Speaker 9: late night and I have you you on my radio.
Speaker 2: Any night, any night. You could check us out on
Speaker 2: our podcast too, if some of the earlier hours you
Speaker 2: might miss. You can follow us on Facebook or follow
Speaker 2: me on Twitter. Or whatever you want. And there's a
Speaker 2: lot of great programming you're missing while you're working, so
Speaker 2: you can always listen to it the next day. Think
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I know that it's great, and I just
Speaker 9: enjoy your show. I found you on my phone on
Speaker 9: my radio because I get out at eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 9: I'm looking at for something on the radio and I
Speaker 9: just found you and I like you.
Speaker 2: So I like you too, Jamie. Have a great Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: and say give our best to your dad and your brother. Okay,
Speaker 2: that will really drive him crazy. Thanks man, tell too soon.
Speaker 2: We went a little Thanks Jamie went a little long there,
Speaker 2: but we'll be back. Feel free fill these phone lines up.
Speaker 2: Coming back on night Side