Speaker 1: It's nice. I'm doing you Mazy Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a newsflash for William. One week from
Speaker 2: right now, Donald Trump will be the President of the
Speaker 2: United States. Yeah, one week from right now, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: will be at his inaugural ball. Joe Biden will be
Speaker 2: a former president, probably at home in Delaware. I have
Speaker 2: no idea what his plans are. By the way, we
Speaker 2: will be carrying Joe Biden's speech to the nation on
Speaker 2: Wednesday night at eight o'clock here on Nightside, and we,
Speaker 2: of course will have an opportunity or you'll have an
Speaker 2: opportunity to comment on what he said and how he
Speaker 2: said it after we listened to the speech. But the
Speaker 2: second administration, the forty seventh who was also the forty
Speaker 2: fifth President of the United States, will be the president
Speaker 2: of the United States one week from right now. So
Speaker 2: I thought that it might be a fun exercise tonight
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock to look forward a week and I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask you pretty simple question. Sometimes the simplest
Speaker 2: questions get the best response. And the question is in
Speaker 2: advance of the Trump presidency, which again we are now
Speaker 2: week from right now. Think back to last Monday. That's
Speaker 2: how that's how quick it's going to happen. The inaugural
Speaker 2: inauguration happens at noontime, and the executive order, the signing
Speaker 2: of a flood of executive orders, will happen sometime in
Speaker 2: the afternoon after the President reviews the inaugural parade or
Speaker 2: a porsche of the inaugural parade, and then there'll be
Speaker 2: the inaugural balls throughout the city. But that will be
Speaker 2: taking place right now, a week from right now. So
Speaker 2: my question is real simple, are you optimistic or are
Speaker 2: you pessimistic?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I suspect that most Trump supporters will be optimistic, and
Speaker 2: maybe some Harris voters will also be optimistic. I think
Speaker 2: that everybody, everyone should hope for the success of President Trump,
Speaker 2: just as I hope everyone hoped for the I suspect
Speaker 2: that at least when the administration started in January January
Speaker 2: twentieth of twenty twenty one, everyone would have supported or
Speaker 2: hoped for the success of Joe Biden because obviously a
Speaker 2: president than President Biden, because obviously as a country, we
Speaker 2: do well as a country or we do poorly as
Speaker 2: a country. Now there will be some Porsches of the
Speaker 2: country which will do better either by you know, occupation
Speaker 2: industry or whatever. But overall, I can't imagine that anybody
Speaker 2: in their right mind beginning next Monday are going to
Speaker 2: say that they hope that Donald Trump fails the country,
Speaker 2: because if he fails the country, then he fails all
Speaker 2: of us, the residents of the country, the citizens of
Speaker 2: the country. So I'm just going to open it up,
Speaker 2: give you an opportunity, give me a call. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. My
Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray. We we also have you missed
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Speaker 2: that's what makes the world go round. So whether you're
Speaker 2: a Trump supporter or a Harris supporter, or a supporter
Speaker 2: of a third party candidate, I'd love to know, are
Speaker 2: you optimistic or are you pessimistic? The Biden administration is
Speaker 2: in its final hours. It's final one hundred and well,
Speaker 2: it's less than one hundred and sixty eight hours, because
Speaker 2: there's one hundred and sixty eight hours in the week,
Speaker 2: and President Biden leaves office technically at noontime next Monday,
Speaker 2: so a week from tonight, Donald Trump's president. Are you
Speaker 2: optimistic or are you PESSI mystic and I'd love to
Speaker 2: know why. Simple question. And I'm hoping that this transition,
Speaker 2: which seems to have gone pretty smoothly, I hope it
Speaker 2: goes as smoothly next Monday morning as it has gone
Speaker 2: so far. President and Missus Trump will be greeted at
Speaker 2: the White House by President and Missus Biden. I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any doubt about that. I assume that the
Speaker 2: Bidens will take the ride with the Trumps up Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: Avenue to the Swearing Inn, and of course then Donald
Speaker 2: Trump delivers as inaugural a dress. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if Joe Biden will simply get him into the Capitol
Speaker 2: and then he will leave the Capitol head home to Delaware.
Speaker 2: I did watch I was in Washington for the inauguration
Speaker 2: of Jimmy Carter, and I was on the back side
Speaker 2: of the Capitol when Gerald Ford, then a former president,
Speaker 2: after the Carter address. I don't think Ford stuck around
Speaker 2: for it. I could be wrong, but I remember Ford
Speaker 2: just walked out and there was not great you know, applause.
Speaker 2: I mean it was, it was kind of a relatively
Speaker 2: quiet moment, and he left the capitol. Gerald fordickust have
Speaker 2: been a creature of the Capitol. So six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Are you optimistic? Are you pessimistic? Let me go to
Speaker 2: Joe and Belmont. Joe, you're gonna start us off this hour.
Speaker 2: Are you optimistic or pessimistic?
Speaker 4: Joe Dean time man. If he can't do it, no
Speaker 4: one can. Dan. I'm You're welcome. I'm optimistic, But I'm
Speaker 4: worried about one thing, Dan Uh. President Trump said, if
Speaker 4: Hamas doesn't return the hostages, it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: All held to be repay, to pay.
Speaker 2: And I think I think, yeah, he said, all hell
Speaker 2: will break loose.
Speaker 4: I think a greater war in the Middle East will
Speaker 4: turn out. And I'm worried.
Speaker 5: How about you I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not. As a matter of fact, I think ironically
Speaker 2: that there's a an intensive effort to secure some peace
Speaker 2: talks or a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. And I
Speaker 2: think President Biden and his advisors would like to see
Speaker 2: that ceasefire take place before noontime next Monday. And and
Speaker 2: I think that Donald Trump pretty wisely said to Hamas, Hey,
Speaker 2: you know, let's get released the hostages now. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's all going to happen or not, but
Speaker 2: my suspicion is that maybe circumstances will work in favor
Speaker 2: of the release of the hostages. Apparently there's they've found
Speaker 2: several of the hostages in recent days who are who
Speaker 2: have died or been killed. So I don't know that
Speaker 2: they were speculating there might be one hundred hostages to
Speaker 2: be released. I don't think there's one hundred hostages left alive.
Speaker 2: I also, Joe would say to remember when Jimmy Carter
Speaker 2: left the White House, Iran released the American hostages. They
Speaker 2: didn't want to deal with Ronald Reagan. And it could
Speaker 2: be that that a mass doesn't want to deal with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. We'll see. I hope they do. The right thing,
Speaker 2: and I hope that that there's some whether Joe Biden
Speaker 2: gets credit for it to Donald Trump gets credit for it.
Speaker 2: I hope those poor people get released them and been
Speaker 2: held hostage way too long.
Speaker 5: So can we trust a moss to keep a treaty
Speaker 5: or peace or whatever it is?
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think. I think if they're going
Speaker 2: to release the hostages, I'll trust him for a while.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the goal, get the hostages out
Speaker 2: of there. Uh. Now, if they don't release them and
Speaker 2: Donald Trump becomes president, I think that Trump will do something.
Speaker 2: Trump has sort of kind of drawn a line in
Speaker 2: the sand and said either release them or you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to pay. We'll see what back got you. Joe,
Speaker 2: Thank you much, appreciate your call. Great good good issues
Speaker 2: you raised. Thanks good night. That was a good thought
Speaker 2: by Joe. Yeah. I mean I think Donald Trump has
Speaker 2: uh he's issued the the threat. It's it's clearly a threat,
Speaker 2: the ultimatum, drawn the line in the sand. I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about that specifically, but I'm glad that Joe mentioned it.
Speaker 2: I'm talking more specifically about are you optimistic or are
Speaker 2: you pessimist? Six two ten thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Love to hear from you. Be back right
Speaker 2: after the break.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Night six Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the phone to go. I got
Speaker 2: some open lines, ladies and gentlemen. I want to know
Speaker 2: if you are optimistic or pessimistic? Uh again, a week
Speaker 2: from tonight, Donald Trump will be president of the United
Speaker 2: States for a second time. Let's go to Courtney in Midfield. Hey, Courtney,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Hello there?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 7: Very optimistic?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know I had a lot more Bunny in
Speaker 7: my pocket when he was president and feel to burn
Speaker 7: now was fighted in office.
Speaker 2: It's not a good feeling, that's for sure. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 7: It's not.
Speaker 2: I'm tired now as you look back, did you feel
Speaker 2: four years ago that Donald Trump, after the January sixth debacle,
Speaker 2: had a chance to regain the White House? Because I
Speaker 2: sure didn't.
Speaker 8: I wasn't.
Speaker 7: No, I was not convinced of that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was beyond the realm of possibility.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you, the American public has changed, and
Speaker 2: we saw it in November. I think we've seen it
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts in some ways, I am. I want to
Speaker 2: be optimistic. I always want to be optimistic when a
Speaker 2: new president comes in.
Speaker 7: I think you want to be optimistic.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm hoping to hear from some people tonight, maybe
Speaker 2: who didn't vote for Donald Trump, but still are optimistic
Speaker 2: and hope that he's successful. I guess there's two things
Speaker 2: you you well, I guess if you're optimistic, you should
Speaker 2: hope for the success of the country.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely. I was born in the Midwest, so I
Speaker 7: have Midwestern values living on the East coast, which makes
Speaker 7: me an.
Speaker 2: Oddity whereabouts in the Midwest.
Speaker 7: Minneapolis, Minnesota, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, Minneapolis is a filly, progressive town. Not It's Midwest,
Speaker 2: no doubt geographically, but I think politically it's it's closer
Speaker 2: to a coastal political community politically, if you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. It's been tough though. I had to keep my
Speaker 7: choice close to the vest, just because I didn't want
Speaker 7: to lose friends and didn't want to create you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one That's one of the things about the
Speaker 2: Trump years or the transition. I just feel that the
Speaker 2: politics has been so bitter. Oh, very and I hope
Speaker 2: we never go through this again. I mean I really
Speaker 2: don't because it was, you know, family against all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I tried to joke about it, and people wouldn't you
Speaker 2: know when when the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump thing,
Speaker 2: and I was saying in twenty sixteen and seventeen, you
Speaker 2: know where your Trump buttons, where your Hillary hats? But
Speaker 2: it became blood sports.
Speaker 3: Ruly.
Speaker 7: Well, I wasn't necessarily pro Trump, but I was definitely
Speaker 7: anti by an anti Harris. I was ready for change,
Speaker 7: ready for a new direction.
Speaker 2: A lot of people, a lot of people were, and
Speaker 2: it's been exhausting. It was really interesting. Did you watch
Speaker 2: the funeral at Jimmy Carter funeral the other day?
Speaker 7: I saw parts, Yes, Well, the thing.
Speaker 2: That I thought was most thought was most interesting was
Speaker 2: the relaxed conversation that pres. Former President Obama and President Trump, yeah,
Speaker 2: seemed to enjoy.
Speaker 7: Yes, Well that was that brings some hope.
Speaker 2: Well, meanwhile, meanwhile, you know, Vice President Harris sat there,
Speaker 2: She sat next to Joe Biden. I don't think they
Speaker 2: ever looked at each other.
Speaker 7: Oh that's very interesting.
Speaker 2: And and Joe Biden went back and sent a load
Speaker 2: of Bill Clinton, but he didn't go down and say
Speaker 2: hello to President Obama and George Bush. I guess it
Speaker 2: refused to shake hands with Donald Trump. I mean it
Speaker 2: was like, come on, people.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, what a shame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what I that's what I understand. And
Speaker 2: I saw a lot of them with my own eyes.
Speaker 2: I didn't see the refusal or whether or not. And
Speaker 2: I guess Pence and his wife didn't look at Trump
Speaker 2: and Millenia. It was interesting. I mean, the only person
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump seemed to react interact with, and he
Speaker 2: seemed to be very much at ease was Obama.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Oh, very high school.
Speaker 2: Oh god, absolutely, But isn't that what politics is kind
Speaker 2: of all about.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'm very optimistic, I'm very hopeful, and I
Speaker 7: wish the best for our country.
Speaker 2: How did you get back? How'd you get all the
Speaker 2: way from Minneapolis?
Speaker 5: I mean moved to.
Speaker 7: Sherburn I think I've told you. I know the Pilakeys,
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7: My father got a job in the middle of my
Speaker 7: high school years, so I moved out to the Dover
Speaker 7: Sherbert district and never left.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome, welcome. Sometime when I'm in midfield, though, I'll
Speaker 2: perhaps bump into you, be sure to say hello.
Speaker 7: Okay, very good thank you.
Speaker 2: Dan, thanks Court, and appreciate your call.
Speaker 9: Right goodness.
Speaker 2: I like that. Look, I got wide open lines here,
Speaker 2: and I know it's Monday night. I know that it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's a cold night out there. But if you're listening,
Speaker 2: feel free to join this conversation. This will happen. This
Speaker 2: has happened to me before, where all of a sudden
Speaker 2: the last five minutes, everybody wants to get last words.
Speaker 2: Simple question, real, simple question, and it's a timed question.
Speaker 2: I do this often on Night Side. A week from tonight,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden will be former president. Biden only be former
Speaker 2: president for about twelve eleven hours or so. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: will be the president of the United States. It's going
Speaker 2: to hit us, you know, next weekend. It'll all the
Speaker 2: stories are going to be about the change of administration.
Speaker 2: It happens. That's what happens. We had an election. Elections
Speaker 2: have consequences, as President Obama once famously said, And so
Speaker 2: the simple question I'm asking you tonight is irrespective of
Speaker 2: whom you voted for, whether you voted for Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: whether you voted for Vice President Harris or whether you've
Speaker 2: decided to sit it out. And there's some polls which
Speaker 2: are suggesting that a lot of people sat this one out,
Speaker 2: or a lot of Democrats sat it out. I just
Speaker 2: would love to know from you. Are you optimistic capessimistic?
Speaker 2: I'm very optimistic. I'm optimistic. I think that Trump has
Speaker 2: handled himself extremely well during the transition. He had his
Speaker 2: meeting with Joe Biden at the White House. President Biden
Speaker 2: was gracious and invited him, and they didn't have a
Speaker 2: big conversation in front of cameras, but that was done
Speaker 2: next Monday. I'm sure that at ten o'clock or so,
Speaker 2: President Trump will roll up to the White House accompanied
Speaker 2: by his wife. They will step out of the limousine
Speaker 2: and they will go in and they will have coffee
Speaker 2: or tea or whatever they have with the soon to
Speaker 2: be former president and his wife. I suspect their interactions
Speaker 2: are going to be warmer than the interactions between Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris and the First Gentleman and President and doctor Biden.
Speaker 2: I watched that now again I realize it's a funeral
Speaker 2: for Jimmy Carter, and no one's going to be out
Speaker 2: there backslapping. But it was it was uncomfortable to watch,
Speaker 2: and the only people who acted normally, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: were Donald Trump and Barack Obama. They you know, how
Speaker 2: often do two presidents get a chance to talk? Now, again,
Speaker 2: they had to wait. Everyone has to wait at a funeral.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. But they seemed to genuinely seem to
Speaker 2: enjoy one another. They they smiled, they nodded, they listened.
Speaker 2: It looked like these guys were friends. Hey, they're part
Speaker 2: of They're a member of an exclusive club. They both
Speaker 2: can say now they can say something that Joe Biden
Speaker 2: con that they both had been elected president. I mean
Speaker 2: a stage twice. So I want to know, are you
Speaker 2: optimistic or are you pessimistic? I hope you're optimistic, But
Speaker 2: if you are not, and you'd like to tell me why,
Speaker 2: you're welcome. That's what this program is intended to do,
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Speaker 2: just as Courtney did. You say what you want to say,
Speaker 2: and then someone else comes up and reacts to what
Speaker 2: you had to say. Simple as that. Back on Night's Side,
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Speaker 2: Go back to the phones we go. We get Dave
Speaker 2: don in San Antonio, Texas. Dave, you are next on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 2: Let's put Dave on hold. If he's not ready, we're
Speaker 2: gonna go to Tim and Michigan. You next on nightside.
Speaker 9: Hi, Tim, Okay.
Speaker 2: Let's put let's put Tim on hold. Fair enough, We'll
Speaker 2: move to Steven Attleboro, Steve third, third time, Sure, go
Speaker 2: right ahead, Steve.
Speaker 8: Great to hear from you. Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you as well.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Hey, looks to share some of my experiences.
Speaker 8: I'm extremely optimistic about what's to come in this country.
Speaker 8: But allow me to share with you my reasons for
Speaker 8: taking a sideline when it came to the actual election time.
Speaker 8: And it's not because I was disappointed with Trump or
Speaker 8: disappointed with Biden, but I to be honest with you,
Speaker 8: I was afraid. And why I was afraid was because
Speaker 8: the direction this country was going it and a lot
Speaker 8: of people may or may not share the same concerns
Speaker 8: and fears that I had. Was that if the things
Speaker 8: were heading in this country, where if you voted for
Speaker 8: the wrong party, because even though your vote is supposed
Speaker 8: to be confidential, they still get your address, you know
Speaker 8: who you are, your name, and if you vote for
Speaker 8: the wrong person, and let's say, hypothetically, and thank goodness
Speaker 8: he didn't, Joe Biden and his regime took over for
Speaker 8: another form years, I could be on some kind of
Speaker 8: a watch list or a black ball list.
Speaker 2: How do you let me ask, how do you figure?
Speaker 2: How do you figure that when you voted someone would
Speaker 2: know how you voted. I missed that part of the
Speaker 2: conversation I.
Speaker 8: Heard somewhere in this maybe tinfoil hat.
Speaker 6: Stuff, but.
Speaker 8: But you know, and and the thing is, you know,
Speaker 8: I've heard people, you know, who openly talk about, uh,
Speaker 8: their concerns about the Biden administration. And you know, I'm
Speaker 8: not going to mention any well, maybe like Max double
Speaker 8: what what.
Speaker 2: What I'm trying to What I'm trying to get at, Stephen,
Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you here is that if if
Speaker 2: you felt that concern and let us say, uh, I
Speaker 2: don't know you were, you know, put a Trump bumper
Speaker 2: strip on your car or something like that. I understand
Speaker 2: why you might say to me, G, my neighbors are
Speaker 2: going to know whatever. But I thought what you said
Speaker 2: was you were so you chose not to vote.
Speaker 8: Right, correct, because I was afraid because I've seen how
Speaker 8: certain things have become weaponized against people who they perceived
Speaker 8: to be a threats. And you know.
Speaker 2: That they were like nearly seventy seven million people that
Speaker 2: voted for Trump. I know, I know, and I just
Speaker 2: I just think that do you still have those fears
Speaker 2: or no?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, with the way things are in the
Speaker 8: country and how people have been targeted, and you know, damn,
Speaker 8: I got to tell you, honestly, I don't know how
Speaker 8: to think. I mean, I'm really the way the legal
Speaker 8: system and the justice system and the media and all
Speaker 8: kinds of other things for the past four plus years
Speaker 8: have been openly attacking people that the wrong way. I mean,
Speaker 8: I know it sounds.
Speaker 2: Crazy, well it does, it does. But but let me
Speaker 2: ask you that. Let me ask you the honest of
Speaker 2: God truth. I want you to give me a truth
Speaker 2: of answer. Has anything in the last four and a
Speaker 2: half years ever come up to you and threatened you
Speaker 2: or implied that that if you said something? Have you
Speaker 2: experienced anything that would justify I understand the fear, Okay,
Speaker 2: I have a fear of let's say, snakes, okay, And
Speaker 2: I don't want to be in the room with a
Speaker 2: snake hypothetically. But but I know that because I don't
Speaker 2: live in Arizona and I don't walk in the desert,
Speaker 2: I'm likely never going to run into a rattlesnake out here.
Speaker 2: You know, so I still fear snakes. But has anyone
Speaker 2: ever approached you, anyone ever tried to intimidate you? Or
Speaker 2: is this an imagination and you know, a fear that
Speaker 2: you have, but it's imaginary.
Speaker 8: Personally, No, to be honest with you in return, But people,
Speaker 8: other people I've seen that have openly expressed their support
Speaker 8: for Trump or you know, mentioned something that they consider
Speaker 8: negative about the I or the whole crazy gender thing
Speaker 8: or whatever. They've been black ball They've been threatened with
Speaker 8: their employments, and you know, it's just unfortunately that's the
Speaker 8: way it was, and now that's all about to change.
Speaker 8: And I'm extremely ecstatic about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, okay, fair enough. So I just feel that
Speaker 2: that My next question, and I don't think I have
Speaker 2: to ask this question, was did you ever seek any
Speaker 2: you know, any psychiatric help to because that's a horrible
Speaker 2: fear to live with, you know, as they say, I
Speaker 2: don't like snakes, to be really honest with you, Okay, I.
Speaker 8: Work in the correctional psychiatric division.
Speaker 2: So well then, all right, all right, steve yourself fine
Speaker 2: to me. So I share your optimism. Let's let's hope
Speaker 2: things work out for the best for everyone.
Speaker 8: Okay, stay amazing, Dan, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Steve, appreciate your call. Okay, now we have the
Speaker 2: two callers, Rob, who had some sort of a problem.
Speaker 2: I hope we're not getting pranked here. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Tim and Michigan. Tim, welcome, how.
Speaker 9: Are you hey.
Speaker 3: I'm doing quite well.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 3: I would say that the incoming president Trump, I am.
Speaker 3: I'm cautiously optimistic. I have reservations if he's going to
Speaker 3: conduct him If he's going to conduct himself through to form,
Speaker 3: and Donald Trump seems to be compelled to conduct himself,
Speaker 3: it's going to once again, it's going to kind of degenerate.
Speaker 3: If he takes the advice of Teddy Roosevelt and speaks
Speaker 3: soft and carries a large stick and occupies in fact
Speaker 3: the bully pulpit, then things could progress. But I think
Speaker 3: that Donald Trump is possibly incapable of taking, you know,
Speaker 3: sage advice as was offered up by Well.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right. I hope you're right, and that
Speaker 2: would be I would share one of those reservations. I
Speaker 2: hope that he learned. Now again, you know, his a
Speaker 2: lot of mistakes in the first term. He did do
Speaker 2: some good things, but he certainly did not act presidential
Speaker 2: in a number of circumstances, and I hope that he
Speaker 2: surrounded himself with some advisors that will be supportive but
Speaker 2: also will be corrective, meaning who will say, wait a second,
Speaker 2: you know you don't want to do that that sort
Speaker 2: of thing. I mean, I I think that that he,
Speaker 2: for example, could easily send a group of representatives to
Speaker 2: Panama and say, look, we want to have an we
Speaker 2: want to have a negotiation with you on Panama. You know,
Speaker 2: we built this Panama Canal. We're not going to commit
Speaker 2: and take it by military force, but we want to
Speaker 2: have an agreement with you which supersedes the agreement with
Speaker 2: the use that was signed with President Carter. You know,
Speaker 2: there are there are maligned forces out there in the world,
Speaker 2: and I want to we want to make sure that
Speaker 2: the Panama Canal stays free and we you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a way to approach that. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to buy or really seriously buy Greenland. But I
Speaker 2: got to tell you, if Denmark wanted to sell us
Speaker 2: Greenland and we wanted to take Greenland as some sort
Speaker 2: of a protected territory, we have are the terriori. That's
Speaker 2: not a bad thought of an idea. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I would certainly rather have of us control a
Speaker 2: place like the Panama Canal or have more of a
Speaker 2: say in the Panama Canal.
Speaker 3: Both of those issues have legs and they need to
Speaker 3: be very definitely negotiated in attended to. Those are not
Speaker 3: the things that I have an issue with President Trump
Speaker 3: concerning I do somehow I get the feeling consistently that
Speaker 3: he seemed to not be capable of gathering up the
Speaker 3: thought that he was the president and he doesn't need
Speaker 3: to go into all the unnecessary historyonics that he seems
Speaker 3: to fall victim to. He self victimizes himself well, and
Speaker 3: I don't know why he is the president exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. Your term of self victimization
Speaker 2: is powerful, But yeah, be the president, act like the president.
Speaker 2: Allow your minions to do whatever dirty work has to
Speaker 2: be done. I certainly hope that he is smart enough
Speaker 2: not to engage in in the equivalent of law fair
Speaker 2: and going after other people. I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting to see what Joe Biden does in the
Speaker 2: next you know, the next seven days. Does Biden pardon
Speaker 2: other members of his family. There's a reason. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so and.
Speaker 3: Again, fortunately I routinely found myself screaming at the TV.
Speaker 9: Done just be.
Speaker 3: The Darren President.
Speaker 2: I got it. I got it. Hey, Tim, I'm glad
Speaker 2: you got through. We missed you there initially. What was
Speaker 2: going on when we said hello to you five ten
Speaker 2: minutes ago. It's sounded like you had another I thought everything.
Speaker 2: Wanted to make sure everything was okay. It's not like
Speaker 2: someone was breaking into your house.
Speaker 3: It's the miracle of advanced electronic communication.
Speaker 2: All right, I understand exactly what you say. Thanks, Thanks Tim,
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon. Oka. You appreciate it. Back, great, good night, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to take quick break. David san Antonio's back,
Speaker 2: Dallas in Ohio is back. I got room for a
Speaker 2: couple of people here. Six one, seven, nine, three, one
Speaker 2: ten thirty, six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's finish strong here, Okay. I want to know you're
Speaker 2: optimistic or you're pessimistic. A week from tonight it's President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump once again. Right now, seven days from this
Speaker 2: very moment, he will be the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: God willing back on nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Dallas in Ohio. Dallas next on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Welcome Dallas.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how are you doing there, Dan? Happy New Year
Speaker 6: to you and your family.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you and yours as well, Dallas,
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 6: You appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Optimistic or pessimi stick as we approached the beginning of
Speaker 2: the Trump's second.
Speaker 6: Term, Well, actually, even though I didn't both for President Trump,
Speaker 6: I am at this point, I'm cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I tend to agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think that, uh, there's no reason to to root
Speaker 2: against him. Uh No, the election, the next election, he's
Speaker 2: not gonna He's never gonna stand for election again. The
Speaker 2: next election is four years away. Uh. And see how
Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting to see how he decides to
Speaker 2: conduct himself. I mean, uh, he's been fairly I I
Speaker 2: enjoyed watching him and President Obama's chat the other day
Speaker 2: waiting for the for the funeral for former President Carter.
Speaker 2: Did you get a chance to look at watch them
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 6: And yes I did. I watched. I watched the whole
Speaker 6: service last Thursday. Yeah, I was surprised when I saw
Speaker 6: the inter reaction between President Obama and the President you know, Trump.
Speaker 6: It kind of surprised me, and I thought, well, maybe
Speaker 6: this is this would be a turning point. Perhaps I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 2: Turning point, but it certainly look everybody else there. Now again,
Speaker 2: I realized, it's a funeral, but it's also the funeral
Speaker 2: for someone who lived to one hundred. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not someone dropped dead at thirty five. You could certainly,
Speaker 2: you know, take the time to uh, you know, be
Speaker 2: be solemn. But at the same time, I watched Bill
Speaker 2: and Hillary Clinton sat there. They looked ahead. President Biden
Speaker 2: and the first Lady never looked at it. Did you
Speaker 2: watch They never like even looked at the Harris Yeah, Trump,
Speaker 2: Trump and Obama looked like the kid at the kids
Speaker 2: at the back of the class who the teacher would
Speaker 2: have to say to now, quiet down in the back, boys,
Speaker 2: pay attention, okay.
Speaker 6: Right, right. But it was a relief to see that
Speaker 6: in a re answer, and I was kind of surprised.
Speaker 2: I was very pleased to see it. I was pleased
Speaker 2: to see it. I thought, look, if these two guys,
Speaker 2: who probably don't see the world the same way in
Speaker 2: any shape or form, can actually sit there and have
Speaker 2: a conversation and enjoy apparently some comments that each were making.
Speaker 2: I mean, one would listen and then smile. The other
Speaker 2: it was I wish everybody had a chance to see that.
Speaker 2: Maybe everybody did, and I something like that. I'm holding
Speaker 2: on to some hope here for Bell said, I'm glad that,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad you saw it the same way. Okay, Dan,
Speaker 2: how much snow did you guys get down there in Ohio?
Speaker 6: About in my area? We got about three and a
Speaker 6: half to four inches.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. You can handle that.
Speaker 6: No, not at all. But up up north in the
Speaker 6: snow belt area, you know, because of the Lake erie,
Speaker 6: the lake effect. Yeah, they got hit pretty hard, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, Dallas, keep keep in contact. I enjoy your calls.
Speaker 2: Thank you much. We can laugh like that.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's good, okay, Dan, good.
Speaker 2: Night, Dallas. Good night to you, sir. Let me go
Speaker 2: next Dave in San Antonio. We'll see now if Dave
Speaker 2: is ready. Davis called back, which we appreciate. Go ahead, Dave. Welcome.
Speaker 9: How you doing Dan?
Speaker 2: Good? I think optimistical? Pessimistic? You optimistic or pessimistic?
Speaker 9: Well, first, I hate to put a damper on your
Speaker 9: your interpretation of that conversation between Trump and Obama because
Speaker 9: Donald said he said it wasn't as friendly as your
Speaker 9: thought it was. Well, he says, I know it.
Speaker 2: Did you watch it? Did you happen to see it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a few gags going around on uh, on the
Speaker 2: internet where they sort of, you know, kind of say
Speaker 2: that they're lip reading. I don't think anyone's lip reading.
Speaker 2: It looks pretty friendly to me, Dave. I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know it to me too.
Speaker 9: But Donald said it to one of his one of
Speaker 9: his meetings. What friendly is your thought it was? He said,
Speaker 9: I don't looks friendly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but whatever, I'll still take I'll take my observation
Speaker 2: over over his his comment. Maybe someone said to him,
Speaker 2: you look like you're having too much fun. Guess what
Speaker 2: compared with the other people all look like stiff's Bush
Speaker 2: and his wife smiled. They never acknowledged other people to
Speaker 2: speak of. When when Vice President Harris sat there with
Speaker 2: you know who really looked upset was the first gentleman
Speaker 2: he looked. He just was very uncomfortable. Okay.
Speaker 9: I always remember Jimmy Carter because I got my career
Speaker 9: because of him. He promised those young guys that if
Speaker 9: we went to college and studied automotive engineering and he
Speaker 9: paid for our tuition. I did just that and got
Speaker 9: a career out of it.
Speaker 2: Good for you. We're good for you, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: I like Jimmy Carter too. I told I spoke the
Speaker 2: other night. I guess it was Thursday night for a
Speaker 2: better part of a couple of hours about people's memories
Speaker 2: of Jimmy Carter. And I had plenty of meetings with him,
Speaker 2: both before he was a candidate, while he was a candidate,
Speaker 2: while he was president, and after he was president. So
Speaker 2: so you, I assume you're optimistic about what uh.
Speaker 9: No, I've gotta I gotta see what hits first stand
Speaker 9: assumes the presidency. I want to see what the globalists
Speaker 9: are holding him back until he takes office.
Speaker 2: You always see glasses half empty, you it's I.
Speaker 9: I appreciate that. I think he may have a very
Speaker 9: tough road to hoe. Well, he assumes the office a
Speaker 9: lot tougher than we're looking at America right now. I
Speaker 9: think it's going to get a lot tougher, and I
Speaker 9: want you.
Speaker 2: To give me a callback as you always will, uh
Speaker 2: two or three months from now, and let's revisit this
Speaker 2: conversation because I think I think that I'm optimistic that
Speaker 2: he handles himself presidentially, and I'm optimist.
Speaker 9: I think he'll do that, but I think a lot
Speaker 9: tougher than we look at right now.
Speaker 2: I'm optimistic the other side gives him a chance. Dave,
Speaker 2: Thank you much, appreciate your call.
Speaker 9: Okay, And I gotta I gotta put I gotta put
Speaker 9: one thing out for Milania Trump. How did she do
Speaker 9: that with her son? Five languages, musical dage? How did
Speaker 9: she do it? How did she do it?
Speaker 2: If you find out, let me know.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Dave, talked to you soon. Let's go to Christine and Dadhim. Christine,
Speaker 2: you're gonna wrap the hour for us, Go right ahead. Christina,
Speaker 2: and you optimistic or pessimistic.
Speaker 10: I'm a little of both. I'm optimistic that he's going
Speaker 10: to turn the country around, but I'm also a little
Speaker 10: pessimistic that he's going to get upset about something and
Speaker 10: open his mouth and get in trouble again. I'm kind
Speaker 10: of nervous about that.
Speaker 2: Well, what did what did they say? The past is prologue,
Speaker 2: so maybe maybe you're right. I hope not. I hope
Speaker 2: that he conducts himself a little differently than he did
Speaker 2: two years ago or four years ago. And and I
Speaker 2: hope that the UH, the media allows him to start
Speaker 2: with a relatively clean slate. And let's let's see what happens.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I see that that net Yahoo and Jimas are Israel
Speaker 2: and Amas having some conversations. Maybe his threat UH is
Speaker 2: going to push Hamas in the right direction. Maybe they're
Speaker 2: going to release the hostages. Wouldn't that be a wonderful
Speaker 2: gift on.
Speaker 10: The hop I hope to God. And you know, we
Speaker 10: need somebody there that to be spying on all these
Speaker 10: terrorists to get kick them out of here.
Speaker 2: I think that that they're going to start with people
Speaker 2: who have engaged in criminal activity. And I would hope
Speaker 2: that nobody is going to defend the deportation of criminals,
Speaker 2: because we have enough criminals of our own here in America.
Speaker 2: We don't need to import any simple as that. All right, Christine,
Speaker 2: thanks for checking in. As always, I appreciate your loyalty
Speaker 2: to the program. Thank you much.
Speaker 10: You're awesome, Thank you all.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, thanks Christine, We're done for the night.
Speaker 2: So I want to thank Rob Brooks, I want to
Speaker 2: thank Marita, and I want to thank the callers who called.
Speaker 2: The callers who didn't call, I'm not as happy with those,
Speaker 2: but I want to thank all of you who called.
Speaker 2: We try to throw out a variety of topics. I can't.
Speaker 2: It's it's like a menu. You can't like everything on
Speaker 2: the menu, but maybe one or two of the items
Speaker 2: in the menu you like. So I want to thank
Speaker 2: everybody who did call tonight, and I'll be back tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: We will be carrying Joe Biden's speech live has addressed
Speaker 2: to the nation on Wednesday night, and you'll have a
Speaker 2: chance to respond to the President and his farewell address
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night. My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside.
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