Speaker 1: It's nice eyes.
Speaker 2: Dan Ray for the Untellings, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, we are talking about your family Thanksgiving dinner. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that all of you have some group of
Speaker 1: people that you will spend part of Thanksgiving with, And
Speaker 1: in most cases it's going to be family members. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're family members who you're not especially close to, but
Speaker 1: they're family members. Involves cousins and involves in laws, and
Speaker 1: you may see them just a handful of times a year.
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you, it's an important day. And
Speaker 1: of course it gets complicated because people have strong feelings
Speaker 1: about the election that has just passed. It's not as
Speaker 1: bad as I thought it was going to be. It
Speaker 1: really wasn't. I mean, I was afraid that we would
Speaker 1: have a really close election with electoral votes would be
Speaker 1: you know, two seven three to I don't know two
Speaker 1: sixty five or whatever that would be. And I was thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, can you imagine. But it wasn't that close. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter at this point. I think everybody
Speaker 1: has well they haven't accepted, but they certainly understand that
Speaker 1: there's nothing much that can be done to challenge the
Speaker 1: results of a decisive election. So my question is how
Speaker 1: are you going to handle it? I you know, in
Speaker 1: years past people have said, well, you just don't talk politics.
Speaker 1: Don't talk politics the elephant in the room. You know,
Speaker 1: what are you going to talk about the red Sox?
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could, but that's not going
Speaker 1: to be particularly uplifting. Talk about the patriots, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I mean, talk about Drake May and say
Speaker 1: hey we've got a quarterback of the future, but emphasis
Speaker 1: is on future. Talk about the Bruins. How they doing?
Speaker 1: You talk about the celfic. Sure, but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that it will come up. It will
Speaker 1: come up. How are you going to handle it? I'm
Speaker 1: suggesting you handle it politely and you say either you say, gee,
Speaker 1: I got to be honest with you. I prefer not
Speaker 1: to say who I voted for, which is your right,
Speaker 1: you're progative. Or you could say I voted for Harris
Speaker 1: or I voted for Trump. Who have you voted for?
Speaker 1: I voted for the libertaire whomever, And people need to
Speaker 1: respect you for that. What whether you vote a Democrat
Speaker 1: or Republican. The people in the room might disagree with you,
Speaker 1: but they have to respect you, and I think this
Speaker 1: would be really a place to get that conversation started.
Speaker 1: Now we'll continue, let's keep going here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to Florence, Florence. How will you celebrate Thanksgiving? And
Speaker 1: what do you think do you think politics will come up?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, all, yeah, we don't talk politics
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's one way to approach it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talk about a myth of all different things, okay,
Speaker 3: and we never talk politics.
Speaker 1: Well, then you're lucky. How big a gathering does your
Speaker 1: family generally have?
Speaker 3: Ten to fourteen?
Speaker 1: Ten to fourteen, that's pretty regular normal size. Are these
Speaker 1: Are you the host this year? Or does it rotate
Speaker 1: or what?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: My son?
Speaker 1: Oh good?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, And I just wanted to say I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people out there are ridiculous to
Speaker 3: let their political feelings interfere with their relationship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are biological relationships. You can pick your friends,
Speaker 1: but you can't pick your relatives.
Speaker 3: Right, And I seem to be hearing that over the years,
Speaker 3: you know, especially this year, it gets you know, from
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 1: In general, and I think I think it could it
Speaker 1: could have been worse this year, for in my opinion.
Speaker 3: A total catastrophe, but it didn't quite get that far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but yeah, so I may think it's boring,
Speaker 3: but it isn't. It's good to stay away from politics.
Speaker 3: My father told me years ago when I was a teenager,
Speaker 3: that we don't talk politics or religion. And I'm not
Speaker 3: sure you've you've heard that.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I think everyone has heard that. And
Speaker 1: I think the the religion is even worse than the politics,
Speaker 1: because you're you're you're diving deep into somebody's you know,
Speaker 1: belief system and their soul, and uh, you know, at
Speaker 1: least politics people can share. People change politics all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, someone will say, well, I voted for Biden,
Speaker 1: but now I'm going to above for Trump, or or
Speaker 1: I voted for Trump the first time, but I'm not
Speaker 1: voting for the second time. People change politics all the time.
Speaker 1: Very rarely do people change religions. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that religions sort of get instilled in you when you
Speaker 1: were in young People might become atheists or agnostics and
Speaker 1: realize they don't have a religious belief. But very rarely
Speaker 1: do you all of a sudden find out that someone
Speaker 1: went from being this to that so I think it's
Speaker 1: a good I think it's a solid plan that you
Speaker 1: and your family have. But you know, if it does
Speaker 1: come up, hey, whoever you voted for it, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to ask you. I could care less. You're my
Speaker 1: friend either way, and I think that you should treat
Speaker 1: your other family members as well. Thanks. Thanks so much, Florence.
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon. Thanks. If I don't talk to you,
Speaker 1: haven't that great Thanksgiving? Okay?
Speaker 3: You just saying thank you?
Speaker 1: I will thank you. I will. All right, We'll take
Speaker 1: a quick break here six one seven one line six
Speaker 1: one seven, two five, four, ten thirty coming right back
Speaker 1: on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on w b Z the news radio.
Speaker 1: Back we go. Let's go to Suzanne. Suzanne, you were
Speaker 1: up late tonight. What's going on?
Speaker 4: So say?
Speaker 5: I love l Dan, Thanks for taking like all. I
Speaker 5: have much to be thankful for this ice skiving. I
Speaker 5: will have here in my apartment, a car, the light
Speaker 5: nun and my friend Meredith Sylvaine who is singing turkey
Speaker 5: pot pies. I have all good fowers and it's fit
Speaker 5: Ray so will be lovely if it does that, and
Speaker 5: we will Paula takes off the menu.
Speaker 1: Susanne, that's what we're talking about. Love. I'm delighted.
Speaker 5: How I hear a certain age, but either rire sad
Speaker 5: the catboy be able to get out off the dead
Speaker 5: without breaking your help.
Speaker 1: Well that's good news too, Susanne. Thanks very much for
Speaker 1: the call. As always, I appreciate all the information. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Let me come next to Eileen and
Speaker 1: how I Leen? How are you?
Speaker 6: Oh? Well, I'm fine and I am just uh. I
Speaker 6: wanted to say that, Well, the last few years, I
Speaker 6: have a son who I've gone to the to what's
Speaker 6: called the National Day of Mourning down in Plymouth, and uh,
Speaker 6: that's because of the dispute over the pilgrim's treatment of
Speaker 6: Native Americans. Yes, and last yeah, last year I went
Speaker 6: with my son and the whole demonstration involved Palestinian protesters.
Speaker 6: What was that about? Is that was that the problems
Speaker 6: in Israel?
Speaker 1: I guess absolutely?
Speaker 6: All right, Well, this year I'm just glad that I'm
Speaker 6: not going to be alone on Thanksgiving and.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try something to be thankful for. Obviously
Speaker 1: there will be people, sadly who will be alone. There'll
Speaker 1: be there are people who have serious mental health issues
Speaker 1: who by by choice, decide to live outside, you know,
Speaker 1: every day of the year, and they may be alone
Speaker 1: as well. But I was encouraging people that if you
Speaker 1: had a neighbor who was alone, incorporate them into what
Speaker 1: you're doing, even if you just invite them over to
Speaker 1: have a drink or come over and and have have
Speaker 1: the meal, you know, the Thanksgiving meal that's that would be.
Speaker 1: And you know whether and who cares what their politics are,
Speaker 1: who cares what their religion is. They're a human being
Speaker 1: and they're an American. They should not be alone.
Speaker 6: So right, well, I'm I'm very grateful that. Well, my
Speaker 6: son is in school, so he's got a lot of
Speaker 6: homework to do, and I haven't heard anything from him
Speaker 6: about Thanksgiving or either.
Speaker 5: Of my.
Speaker 6: None of my three sons.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that they they're going to get around
Speaker 1: to it. It's still still got nine days, I lean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll have a good time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and most of all, it's going to try to
Speaker 6: keep my big mouth shut.
Speaker 1: All right, All right, that's not bad advice either, But
Speaker 1: don't hesitate to tell people what you think if if
Speaker 1: you're so inclined. I'm not telling people what to do.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't be don't be ashamed. And you
Speaker 1: don't have to say who you voted for. And you
Speaker 1: you you can. You can choose to say who you
Speaker 1: voted for. It's your choice, it's your prerogative. We still
Speaker 1: live in a free country. Don't let anyone take that
Speaker 1: away from you. And don't be right. Don't don't let
Speaker 1: anybody try to embarrass you or put you on the spot.
Speaker 1: Simple as that. Stand your ground exactly. Yeah, good night,
Speaker 1: you for calling. Good night. Let me go to war
Speaker 1: and Warren you're next time. Next, I go ahead, Warren.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dan As you know, like I'm in media just
Speaker 7: like me, just like you're just different. You know where
Speaker 7: I ran my music pages and all stuff like that. Sure,
Speaker 7: I've lost I've lost, you know, friends on both sides
Speaker 7: of the aisle, you know, from being you know, from
Speaker 7: being really extremists, you know, and like you know these people,
Speaker 7: and I think it all comes down to you, you know,
Speaker 7: like if you're going to be pompous and you're going
Speaker 7: to be like you know, stick your finger at them
Speaker 7: and wave your finger and it'say, oh yeah, my guy one,
Speaker 7: and all stuff like that. You know, yeah, then maybe
Speaker 7: you know, you know, maybe don't go to Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 7: if you're going to do that, you know, because that's antagonizing.
Speaker 7: If you know, people antagonized. I mean maybe just you know,
Speaker 7: don't be you know, and antagonistic during the meal. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you can get me. I don't. I think I think
Speaker 7: politics is inevitable, you know, I think you know, you
Speaker 7: talk about the economy and how expensive things are, and
Speaker 7: you know you talk about education, I mean, politics, encumfadences,
Speaker 7: so so many things. And yeah, they really can't avoid
Speaker 7: it at the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at the same time, everybody could could could
Speaker 1: keep calm. Uh, they don't have a decent conversation, and
Speaker 1: and whether no one should laud it over and the
Speaker 1: Trump people should not be lauding high we want the
Speaker 1: Harris people should be uh, you know, confident enough to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we we didn't win, but we had we thought we
Speaker 1: had the better candidate or what if you can you can.
Speaker 7: Handle it in a you can handle it, you can
Speaker 7: handle it respectfully with with calm. Debates can agree with
Speaker 7: you more could agree And I mean like like like
Speaker 7: my gathering is going to be like ten people and
Speaker 7: four of them are are liberals, and six of us
Speaker 7: are conservatives. So I'm just afraid that my brother in
Speaker 7: law is going to be like one of those boisterous people.
Speaker 7: And you know, say you got to you know, making
Speaker 7: the other, you know, making the four liberals feel bad.
Speaker 1: You know, you take them, take them ahead of time
Speaker 1: and just say, hey, look, you know, the only thing
Speaker 1: worse than a sore loser is a is a sore
Speaker 1: winner or a bad.
Speaker 8: Winner exactly exactly fixed and uh.
Speaker 1: And and feel you know, put yourself in their position.
Speaker 1: How would you feel if if you're your person get lost.
Speaker 1: That's all have a little a little empathy and we'll
Speaker 1: all get through the day. But I think again, the idea,
Speaker 1: you know, if you walk into home, well there's gonna
Speaker 1: be no politics here. You know, we're gonna we're.
Speaker 7: Gonna dig out again. I think, I think, I think
Speaker 7: you can't avoid it because it because it didn't involved
Speaker 7: pretty much everything everything that that we have to deal
Speaker 7: with in life. So it's like, that's why that's why
Speaker 7: elections are important. You know.
Speaker 1: Sounds good one. I'm with you. I appreciate it, Thank
Speaker 1: you much.
Speaker 7: Talk soon, okay, okay, I'll talk Happy.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving If I don't talk to you. I'm sure I will,
Speaker 1: but yeah, thank let's keep rolling. He're gonna get at
Speaker 1: least one more in before the break. Gonna go to
Speaker 1: Alan Saugus l welcome next time. I say, I'll go right.
Speaker 9: Ahead, Dan. I agree with that gentleman, that politics is
Speaker 9: really pervasive at our whole society. It deals with how
Speaker 9: how society runs there and it is hard, but I
Speaker 9: am I've been told no politics, and I'll abide by that.
Speaker 9: But it's hard when the media has called one side Hitler, racist, rapist, misogynist.
Speaker 9: It's hard to come back from that where they just
Speaker 9: they just dumped on Trump so much. You know that
Speaker 9: some of these people that are against him find it
Speaker 9: hard to accept us that supported Trump. You know, it
Speaker 9: seems to be way one sided. We might not have
Speaker 9: liked Harris, thought she was vapid, an empty suit or something,
Speaker 9: but then it went on to you know, some of
Speaker 9: this stuff was crazy how they threw it at Trump.
Speaker 9: But anyways, I have a brother that we've fought a
Speaker 9: lot about politics back and forth, and I just saw
Speaker 9: him today and I have no trouble when I see
Speaker 9: him in person. When you're in a car, you could
Speaker 9: give the finger and yell at someone, but you wouldn't
Speaker 9: do that face to face. And when you're texting, you know,
Speaker 9: it's so distant in a way, but it's not what
Speaker 9: you would do in person. And I think the thing
Speaker 9: you should talk about at Thanksgiving is the memories of
Speaker 9: your loved ones, all the fun and child. Yeah, you
Speaker 9: don't get to choose your friends, so but these are
Speaker 9: the people who have the most memories in those first
Speaker 9: twelve to fourteen years of your life, the formative years,
Speaker 9: and that's what's fun to reminisce about about the people
Speaker 9: who passed on how funny things happened. I think that's
Speaker 9: the thing we did one day at a little impromptu
Speaker 9: birthday party for a little five year old one day,
Speaker 9: and we were all there telling stories that we didn't
Speaker 9: know about things that we did, different things that happened
Speaker 9: in our lives, and you know, trying out for a
Speaker 9: hockey team and fallen down and different funny stories just
Speaker 9: organically that And you don't have to talk about you.
Speaker 9: You're not going to talk about your mortgage, you know,
Speaker 9: so while you're not going to talk about God, you
Speaker 9: have your own beliefs that you've over your adult years,
Speaker 9: you have managed and made your decisions. But you know,
Speaker 9: I sometimes come on as a town cryer, trying to
Speaker 9: show them, don't you see this, don't you see that?
Speaker 9: And it doesn't work because they're adults, and they'll they'll
Speaker 9: take from the table of the media and establishment that
Speaker 9: they want. And if they decide to accept the lies
Speaker 9: that I think are lies about someone, that I just
Speaker 9: feel bad. I almost feel bad, like you know that
Speaker 9: you know where TDS is right, Trump Trump's arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 9: I actually feel a little bad for some of these
Speaker 9: people that they can't look at it with a sober
Speaker 9: mind and realize they've been they've been hoodwinked a little bit,
Speaker 9: you know, and bought into it too much.
Speaker 8: So I have to just tell, you know, maybe they'll
Speaker 8: come around.
Speaker 1: I just you know, just approach it with the attitude
Speaker 1: of hey, it's yeah, how many more thanksgivings do you
Speaker 1: have with those people? I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 1: old or young the group is, but you know, a
Speaker 1: year from now, it could be that the same group
Speaker 1: doesn't gather. So I mean, just enjoy it, you know,
Speaker 1: and enjoy it for the day it is. And I
Speaker 1: don't think you have to bear your soul, and I
Speaker 1: certainly you know, you know, you can talk about how
Speaker 1: it turned out, and you can talk about, hey, there's
Speaker 1: some positives. I mean, four years ago we were still
Speaker 1: battling over the votes and all that. Thank goodness that
Speaker 1: is that's not happening this time. So we had an
Speaker 1: election which was more decisive. You know, they the people
Speaker 1: who you agree with, you know, don't rub it in
Speaker 1: people's faces. And the people who disagree with you, you know,
Speaker 1: they should not be looking down at you that somehow
Speaker 1: they're smarter because they didn't vote for Trump. That's quick thing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the most precious thing we have is time. Like
Speaker 9: you said, who's going to be here next year? And
Speaker 9: that's why I think talking about the past is fun.
Speaker 9: It's a reminiscent time and you can folks us on that,
Speaker 9: like about her, Remember they did this, when we did that,
Speaker 9: and that has nothing to do with you know, the
Speaker 9: here and now survival of you.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, if you want to do that,
Speaker 1: if everyone wants to do that, that's fine. Look remember
Speaker 1: at some point they'll be talking about you. Remember Alf
Speaker 1: from Saugust, Oh, he used to make just make phone
Speaker 1: calls to those crazy talk shows. I mean, all right,
Speaker 1: well go to Dan right back at You're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to you soon, all right. You got a couple of
Speaker 1: open lines one at six one, seven, two four, ten thirty,
Speaker 1: and I got a couple at six one, seven, nine three,
Speaker 1: ten thirty. What I'm trying to do is basically give
Speaker 1: you a strategy how to deal with whatever you're going
Speaker 1: to deal with on Thanksgiving. Don't let it ruin the day.
Speaker 1: I mean, the last thing you want is somebody to
Speaker 1: throw a scene at a Thanksgiving dinner and either criticize,
Speaker 1: attack with such vituperation that it becomes uncomfortable. And one
Speaker 1: of the ways you can defend against that is laugh
Speaker 1: at people. Laugh at them. Say the election's over. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, we can talk about, you know, what mistakes
Speaker 1: were made, but it's over. It's like the World Series
Speaker 1: is over. The Dodgers beat the Yankees. You could be
Speaker 1: the biggest Yankee fan in the world. You can't change
Speaker 1: the results of the twenty twenty four World Series. The
Speaker 1: other side can't change the results. Again, you know, don't
Speaker 1: rub it in their face, don't don't allow people to
Speaker 1: dictate to you, or conversely, you know, the Harris supporters.
Speaker 1: You know, she ran under difficult circumstances. I think take
Speaker 1: some consolation in that, and that there's always next year
Speaker 1: in sports, and there's always four years down the line.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump made it hard on himself by doing
Speaker 1: some of the crazy stuff he did in January twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. And I still think it's amazing that we
Speaker 1: have a historical event in America that did not happen
Speaker 1: in the twentieth century. One time before it happened that
Speaker 1: a president was elected to a second term non consecutively,
Speaker 1: and Grover Cleveland was the president that had that happened.
Speaker 1: That's the only other time. I mean, it's a long time.
Speaker 1: We've been a country, quote a quarter of a millennium,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years. This is only the second
Speaker 1: time you witnessed it. Whether you're just repelled by it
Speaker 1: or or you delight in it, we all experienced a
Speaker 1: historical event. Let's hope. Let's hope that we can look
Speaker 1: back a year from now and say, hey, no, he
Speaker 1: did some good things, he did some goofy things, but
Speaker 1: he's going to be president unless something extraordinary intervenes. Beginning
Speaker 1: on January twentieth, so having said that, I would like
Speaker 1: to continue to talk about this until midnight. And because
Speaker 1: maybe if you want to talk about any other subject,
Speaker 1: if you want to throw a subject the idea at me,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a incorporate, will incorporate a little open
Speaker 1: lines here. I'm trying to basically help you get through Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I'm not a psychiatrist, but I'm a better psychiatrist, in
Speaker 1: my opinion than the psychiatrist that we had quoted who
Speaker 1: was on MSNBC, who essentially took the position takes the
Speaker 1: position that somehow, some way she's superior to people. Let's
Speaker 1: let's play one one bite out here so people know
Speaker 1: what kicked what got me going on this? This is
Speaker 1: this has cut eight C rob eight C.
Speaker 10: And I actually talked to you know, adults as well
Speaker 10: as parents for children. I mean, I think, you know,
Speaker 10: I don't think that you should force children. I don't
Speaker 10: think you should have forced adults to be around people
Speaker 10: just because they're your family. I think there is a
Speaker 10: level you know, need to establish boundaries. And if you
Speaker 10: feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether
Speaker 10: they're your family or not, I think you should very
Speaker 10: much be entitled to do so, and I think it
Speaker 10: may be essential for your mental health.
Speaker 1: This is a psychiatrist from Yale who obviously is upset
Speaker 1: with the result of the election on MSNBC talking to
Speaker 1: Joy Reid that that's what they're teaching at Yale. Right there,
Speaker 1: no wonder, we're in trouble as a country. Back on nights,
Speaker 1: I get some open lines. Give us a call back.
Speaker 2: Right after this, you're on Night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 2: on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Let's go to lauro In. Lynn Laurel, welcome back. How
Speaker 1: are you sir?
Speaker 11: Oh yes, sir, long time no here. Thank you for
Speaker 11: loving me join your show. I wish happiness for all
Speaker 11: of your listeners, Glenn and Brighton and Aliston and Maine
Speaker 11: to the name a few. Thank you so much for
Speaker 11: allowing me to join you on this conversation. So excuse
Speaker 11: me if I get a little emotional this year Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11: If you all you and your listeners and keep me
Speaker 11: and your thoughts and prayers, because I just lost my
Speaker 11: mom forty nine years old, had her for forty nine years.
Speaker 11: Two years ago. She got diagnosed. Last year, she got
Speaker 11: diagnosed with dementia. We saw symptoms like years a couple
Speaker 11: of years before we didn't really pay attention to it.
Speaker 11: So it's going to be myself, my twin sister, and
Speaker 11: my dad. Maybe a few nephews, but I think it's
Speaker 11: mostly going to be myself, my dad, and my twin sister.
Speaker 11: Is going to be hot for us. We just lost
Speaker 11: mom in September. Again, if you can just leave us
Speaker 11: and your dawson prayers.
Speaker 4: We had a bad year. Uh.
Speaker 11: Two of our cats died in March. My mom's cat
Speaker 11: was one of them, and my twin sister and son's
Speaker 11: cat was another one. Both of them were sick for
Speaker 11: about two weeks and they became violently ill, stopped eating,
Speaker 11: stopped drinking, and they both died the same day, hours apart.
Speaker 1: So sometimes things work out pretty weird that way. Huh.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe there is a they're they're together
Speaker 1: with your mom and who knows, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's very possible. Okay.
Speaker 11: I lost my job too back in April. I think
Speaker 11: that was God's will saying, hey, spend more time with mom.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: Sad to say, but that's just we just had a terrible,
Speaker 11: terrible year. I used to work in the media, like
Speaker 11: you myself. You know, I used to work in radio.
Speaker 11: I missed it terribly. Trying to get back into radio,
Speaker 11: if not, maybe get into the healthcare because I have
Speaker 11: experience in both, like office work, so I'm trying to
Speaker 11: get either or.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what did what did you do in radio? Laura?
Speaker 1: What did you? Laura? What did you do in radio?
Speaker 11: I was a producer, just like your producer doesn't work
Speaker 11: producing radio shows for your competitor in Brighton. I don't
Speaker 11: want to say the name I also used to I
Speaker 11: started out actually a kiss on the way back in
Speaker 11: the late nineties, actually mid nineties. I used to work
Speaker 11: with JJ Wright and McMahon, all the old school persons
Speaker 11: I used.
Speaker 1: To work with. Yeah that's a great resume.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, just trying to get back into the game.
Speaker 4: But it's hard.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm not giving up. You know, something's bound happened.
Speaker 11: But you know, just right now, I'm having, like the
Speaker 11: last couple of nights, I've been having a dream working
Speaker 11: the radio. So hopefully that will you know, hopefully that's
Speaker 11: telling me something. But you know, because a good thing
Speaker 11: is our still alive. You know, that's a good thing.
Speaker 11: But if you can ask your listeners your regular listeners
Speaker 11: who might know me, who might remember me. I used
Speaker 11: to call like about a year or two ago. We'll
Speaker 11: just keep me in your career.
Speaker 1: Consider it done, laurrow and hopefully there's a better year
Speaker 1: around the corner.
Speaker 11: Okay, most definitely. Wis should you happiness as well?
Speaker 1: Right back at you. Thanks Laura, to talk to you soon,
Speaker 1: you too, Mine call again. Let's go to Ken in Waltham,
Speaker 1: Ken you were next on nice side.
Speaker 12: Welcome, Thank you Dan, good evening.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I was thinking just one thing that, you know, I
Speaker 12: think feelings are so raw after this election, in particular,
Speaker 12: that if people don't normally talk about politics and Thanksgiving
Speaker 12: and they're just not sure if they want to, you know,
Speaker 12: bring something up or not that you know, I think
Speaker 12: there there'd be no penalty in waiting a year maybe
Speaker 12: maybe starting a political conversation that Thanksgiving might work better,
Speaker 12: uh for them on an on an off election cycle
Speaker 12: year of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I unders said that. But but do you
Speaker 1: do you fear or do you have apprehensions that you
Speaker 1: know you'll be hitting there and someone's going to bring
Speaker 1: a subject up?
Speaker 12: None at all, not at all. I I yeah, the
Speaker 12: Thanksgiving I go to now it'll it's very it's in
Speaker 12: my laws and it's a very big family and everybody's
Speaker 12: pretty much on the same side politically, and I don't
Speaker 12: think it will come up at all. Actually, I mean
Speaker 12: there's a lot of just because there'll always be there'll
Speaker 12: be new family members to talk about. There have been
Speaker 12: new babies born and and people we've lost, and it's
Speaker 12: it's kind of that kind of uh sensation. But my
Speaker 12: own family when I when we used to have Thanksgiving, yeah,
Speaker 12: there were all these political discussions, and I think if
Speaker 12: we always you know, try to be accurate with our
Speaker 12: information and not be personal, we were able to have
Speaker 12: productive conversations. And Dan, I think you epitomize that, and
Speaker 12: I think you said a great example.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it, and I'm just saying that maybe
Speaker 1: if it does come up, maybe you can use this
Speaker 1: show to diffuse it a little bit and say, hey,
Speaker 1: come on, we're here. Let's you know, if you voted
Speaker 1: for for Trump, uh, you know, take take your win
Speaker 1: and uh and be gracious you know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: love when you watch a sporting event and at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, the smart guy is going to say, man,
Speaker 1: we just were able to win and we beat a
Speaker 1: great team. They're so talented, but we were able to
Speaker 1: pull it out. And someone's gracious. You get the guy
Speaker 1: who says, you know, we're number one. They stn't you know.
Speaker 1: I mean what you're all almost taking away from your
Speaker 1: own credit. You want to build up your opponent and say, hey,
Speaker 1: they ran a good race and and somehow we're able
Speaker 1: to win. So you can be gracious, uh in victory
Speaker 1: and magnanimous and defeat, you can always say hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know, look look back, look back at the presidential elections.
Speaker 1: You got uh. You know, President Biden was a Democrat,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a Republican before him, President Obamba. It
Speaker 1: swings back and forth if you if you study history.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, don't let it ruin the day,
Speaker 1: I guess is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 12: No, I'm with you. So I I maybe about six
Speaker 12: years ago I wrote a letter to you know, the
Speaker 12: editor of Time magazine, and I said, you know, instead
Speaker 12: a Person of the Year, how about a couple of
Speaker 12: the Year. And I nominated Kelly and Conway and George Conway,
Speaker 12: and I said that if they can get along. So
Speaker 12: this is.
Speaker 1: Remember before that before for them. You had James Carville
Speaker 1: and Mary Mattlin.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, and there's there's probably more than a
Speaker 13: few marriages, you know, within your your realm of knowledge
Speaker 13: and with mine.
Speaker 1: And you have people who are on opposite sides. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that they can't respect each other and
Speaker 1: actually love one another despite that difference. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have you know, I think there's there's families that that
Speaker 1: have Red Sox fans and Yeake fans. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's so it's just natural and and have some they
Speaker 1: have some fun with it, I think, And and don't
Speaker 1: don't look. It's what's done is done. If if if
Speaker 1: Trump has learned from his past mistakes and he does well,
Speaker 1: we will all benefit. If he doesn't, the Republican Party
Speaker 1: will suffer defeats in twenty uh twenty six and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. And that's the way it works in America.
Speaker 1: So you'll handle it. Don't worry. You're gonna be okay, Ken,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 12: I'm fine. I'm I'm just making with it. I guess
Speaker 12: you know, if I had to say one word, I'd say,
Speaker 12: think empathy. Right, people are on both sides are really
Speaker 12: really sensitive right now, and yeah, they know they I
Speaker 12: think we're okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. You
Speaker 1: had a final thought, go ahead?
Speaker 8: No, No, that was it.
Speaker 12: I it was I think empathy. They're they're very very rough, yeah,
Speaker 12: very very raw feelings, and.
Speaker 1: No one, no one ever loses if everyone's empathetic, if
Speaker 1: you can kind of put yourself in the other person's
Speaker 1: shoes and okay, you know, if you're a Trumpster, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll you lost big in twenty twenty and you know,
Speaker 1: or you lost clothes to twenty and you won, so
Speaker 1: you you you you you should be you know happy.
Speaker 1: If you're Harris, you can look back and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I get Delta a bad set of cards here. You know,
Speaker 1: if President Biden had a year ago said hey, I'm
Speaker 1: not up to go a second term, there would have
Speaker 1: been a legitimate Democratic primary nomination, and maybe she would
Speaker 1: have won, maybe someone else would have won, but she
Speaker 1: would have been battle tested and maybe you'll kind of
Speaker 1: get thrown in as she did. I you could. You
Speaker 1: could look at this so many ways. You could be
Speaker 1: empathetic in it.
Speaker 2: Right, but it's not over.
Speaker 12: That's I think my point.
Speaker 13: Yes, it's never people are worried, right, people are, but
Speaker 13: it's not it's not my recommendation.
Speaker 12: I was just you know, if you do bring it up,
Speaker 12: if topics are brought up, that's great. And if not,
Speaker 12: you know, and you're you don't know which way to go,
Speaker 12: you want to wait a year. I think that's fine too,
Speaker 12: and then everybody should listen to Night's Side because I think.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on all three of those points. Thanks again,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you fair enough. Doctor. Soon we'll take a
Speaker 1: quick break. I got Paula, Dave, and Eugene coming up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to them all, that's for sure. If
Speaker 1: you want to try six one seven, two ten thirty
Speaker 1: or six one seven, nine three ten thirty, go ahead,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee Paula, Dave, and Eugene I'll give it
Speaker 1: a shot. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get everybody in here. We have just enough
Speaker 1: time for everyone quickly. Eugene is next. Eugene is in
Speaker 1: the Philippines. Eugene, I understand you guys have had a
Speaker 1: lot of rain out there. We have had none but
Speaker 1: you've got big problems with flooding. Are you doing? Okay?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 4: Better of fact, from mid September to a few days ago,
Speaker 4: eight typhoons.
Speaker 1: Except for bad luck, you'd have no luck. That's tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I'd like to mention real quick, if you don't
Speaker 4: mind your collared Laurel, if he's still listening, he is
Speaker 4: on our prayer list, because prayer does make a difference.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he is still listening, and I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he does as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, what but now my question is when you're sending
Speaker 4: me that traditional Thanksgiving Day food.
Speaker 1: We're going to fly the turkeys over russ Do you
Speaker 1: do the traditional food or no?
Speaker 4: Well I do personally, but the country no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how difficult is it to secure a turkey
Speaker 1: in the Philippines. I assume it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not difficult. You can get them. But similar to
Speaker 4: the people, rather small.
Speaker 1: Really really did they breath turkeys there? I mean I
Speaker 1: assume they must, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the northern part of in the Aurora province,
Speaker 4: they do. A large turkey here would be maybe ten pounds.
Speaker 1: Well that's yeah, that's that's enough for a family four
Speaker 1: don't you think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, the first year I came here, I prepared
Speaker 4: a traditional US Thanksgiving Day for the people that I knew,
Speaker 4: and as a matter of fact, that I was a
Speaker 4: decent cook. I cooked two of them to make sure,
Speaker 4: and the only thing left after was the bones.
Speaker 1: All right, that's that means you're good cook. Well, look,
Speaker 1: you're in our thoughts in prayers, and I know that
Speaker 1: you will keep all of the nice side listeners in
Speaker 1: your thoughts in press as well. Eugene, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Hey Wed, thank you God breath.
Speaker 1: Dan, all right, right back at you, Thanks you.
Speaker 9: Ge.
Speaker 1: All right, we had dropped one call off, but we
Speaker 1: have David san Anton to wrap it up for us. Dave,
Speaker 1: you were next on Nightsiger, Right ahead.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dan, your remark to that one fellow saying that
Speaker 8: unless it's an extreme circumstances, Donald Trump's going to take
Speaker 8: the presidency. I'm sure you think that extreme circumstances is
Speaker 8: the threat of nuclear war right now between US and Russia.
Speaker 8: And I advise all these people in the market to
Speaker 8: be thankful for this Thanksgiving day out fight get along
Speaker 8: because it may be our last. I don't what it's
Speaker 8: really Biden's supposed to be ordering again, but Biden has
Speaker 8: it's those deep state people, those globalists, they're the Defense Department.
Speaker 8: They're sending them over those missiles and telling them to
Speaker 8: shoot him at Russia. Russia shot him down, luckily. Luckily
Speaker 8: who shot him down?
Speaker 1: Well, I heard tonight. Correct me if I'm wrong. I
Speaker 1: heard that there were I'm not sure if they said
Speaker 1: six or eight, but two of them were intercepted.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and uh and uh putents have been on the air.
Speaker 8: I listened to him on the air saying We're going
Speaker 8: to hit you with nuclear warheads, not Ukraine if they
Speaker 8: shoot the manats.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, earlier. I don't know if you were listening
Speaker 1: earlier this week, Actually, I think it was last night.
Speaker 1: I raised the possibility, uh, and it was a hopeful
Speaker 1: possibility that maybe President Biden and former President Trump had
Speaker 1: agreed to sort of a good cop bad cop strategy,
Speaker 1: and that maybe maybe Biden was going to make some
Speaker 1: of these missiles available. I have no idea how many
Speaker 1: missiles are available. I think that part of the reasons
Speaker 1: we didn't make them available before because we were concerned
Speaker 1: about reducing our own stock by by too great an amount.
Speaker 1: But the idea was whether or not this might give
Speaker 1: President Trump a little extra opportunity to say to putin Look,
Speaker 1: we can, we can deactivate those missiles, but we want
Speaker 1: you to to back off. You know, the typical good cop,
Speaker 1: bad cop strategy. You above all know exactly what I
Speaker 1: mean when I say that I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't understand. And I'll give you the
Speaker 1: final word here. I could not understand why, with two
Speaker 1: months left in his administration, Biden would do something that
Speaker 1: he has hesitated to do now for nearly three years.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't. I don't understand it either, Dare. I
Speaker 8: can't add any more to it. I just I'm just praying.
Speaker 8: I'm just praying.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, if you were listening last night, I talked about
Speaker 1: Archduke Ferdinand in the start of World War One, which
Speaker 1: I've heard that Okay, good enough. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to remind people of that. It's as simple as
Speaker 1: it's as simple as that. Well, Dave, Yeah, let's we'll
Speaker 1: pray for Eugene out there in the Philippines and uh, everybody.
Speaker 8: Lost his mom, pray for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Laura, Laura, uh, regular caller. Thanks Dave, we'll talk again, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you very much to you by next week. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks all right. So that kind of wraps it tonight,
Speaker 1: simple as that. I we tried to deal with a
Speaker 1: couple of subjects. The one that surprised me, uh that
Speaker 1: we we had a good conversation with Dustin Delano of
Speaker 1: the New England Fisherman's Stewardship Association and Grant Provost with
Speaker 1: the New England uh, the New Englanders for Offshore Win Coalition.
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