WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:09.039 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:14.519 Welcome the next Vice President of the United States, Jim. 3 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:19.320 Wall being introduced by the current Vice President of the 4 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.800 United States, Kamala Harris. Good evening. I am Ben Parker, 5 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:24.800 and I'm filling in for Dan Ray. Let's do a 6 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:27.960 quick background check here before we get started, because some 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:30.559 may not be aware of what I normally do here 8 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.000 at w BZ, which is news in the afternoon from 9 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.600 two until six o'clock. You can hear me every weekday 10 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.679 afternoon here on WBZ. I occasionally fill in for Dan 11 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.520 Ray on night Side, another four hour shift. Thank you 12 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.280 very much, and I have actually filled in on the 13 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:47.520 radio for the person that I am about to introduce 14 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:50.799 as my first guest tonight. I am kind of calling 15 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.479 this this first hour, by the way, in case you're interested, 16 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.159 the Ben Parker Rolodex Hour, because a couple of special 17 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.840 guests are joining me who are inlight Rolodex by chance, 18 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:05.239 and the first one comes to us via New York State, Albany, 19 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:09.640 New York. In fact, however, you will recognize this person 20 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:13.400 not only from radio in Boston, but also television in Boston. 21 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:17.560 He's written a book. He is a world renowned celebrity. 22 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.640 Not right, it made that part up, but you do 23 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.519 know who he is, Doug Goudi, otherwise known to some 24 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.319 Bostonians as VB. Good evening, Sir. 25 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.400 Benjamin Parker, how are you, my friend? 26 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.680 I am very well, and of course a Massachusetts native 27 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.640 you are, and you've shuffled off to well, not Buffalo, 28 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:38.159 but halfway there, I guess, as you are doing mornings 29 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.159 on wg Y, which I can say because it's also 30 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.719 an iHeartRadio station, of which we are one as well, 31 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.159 and you do a lot of political commentary there, and 32 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.120 that's part of the reason that I wanted to get 33 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.239 you on tonight. But first of all, I want to 34 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.760 kind of give you a chance to throw out your 35 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.000 good will wishes to the Bostonians who perhaps miss you 36 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:59.480 on the radio and television here. 37 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.319 Well, first of all, three letter radio stations are where 38 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.879 it's at, as you a WBZ no. So we're doing 39 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.759 WGY out of here, New York's first radio station, by 40 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:14.199 the way, and we both celebrated our hundredth in the 41 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.560 same year as you well recall, so a couple of 42 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:20.960 legacy stations. That's number one, Number two I can't tell you, Parker, 43 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.400 how many times somebody says to me or I get 44 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.159 an email or a text or something that says, hey, 45 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:30.599 I love hearing you do my pillow on WBZ. 46 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.800 Everybody's listening to BZ all over and everybody's. 47 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.479 Talking about it. So yes, indeed, get your MyPillow products 48 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.639 and a great sale going on right now. But I 49 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.120 love being on BZ with that because it's great to 50 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:43.719 stay connected to the old home town. 51 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.759 Yeah, that's where people that's where people hear you on WBZ. 52 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.800 What a great connection you have with the with the masses, 53 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:52.360 so to speak, as they later. 54 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.199 I don't want to get you sidetracked here, Parker, in 55 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:58.879 any way to give you an outsiders observation of Massachusetts. 56 00:02:58.919 --> 00:02:59.879 Of course you can. 57 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.240 So I was there over the weekend my son had 58 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.319 a hockey tournament, and a little south of the city, 59 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.159 we were down and mostly in Rockland, a little bit 60 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:13.919 in Dedham. But I was amazed at not one, not two, 61 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.319 but three different overpasses on two separate highways. Did I 62 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.879 see people standing over on the bridge like from Stem 63 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.319 to Stern on the overpass with free Karen Reid signs 64 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.919 and from a new Yorker's perspective. I've been reading, I've 65 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.879 been following the case a little bit. I understand it 66 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.800 was national whatever, but I guess I didn't really understand 67 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.479 just how big and how passionate people are about it 68 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.879 there until I was there last weekend with the thing 69 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.800 not even going on. And I've never seen that before, 70 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:49.159 where people are up over overpasses with free whoever it is. 71 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.280 We got a bunch of national cases here in New 72 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.000 York sivin since i've I've never seen anything like that. 73 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:55.960 Maybe the people in New York on is good at 74 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:57.439 making signs. Did you ever think about that? 75 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:04.680 I don't think that. Whatever it is, I was like, wow, 76 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.360 look at how what I know. People are dug in 77 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.759 and they're on whatever side they're on there and whatever. 78 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.319 That's cool. But I've never seen people holding signs up 79 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.639 while there wasn't a trial going on. 80 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:16.199 Yeah there is. 81 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.360 People are out on like a ninety five degree dead 82 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.480 sun Saturday, sweating their butts off making sure that the 83 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:24.319 message got out. 84 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.000 There is a court hearing on Friday in this particular case. 85 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.480 And by the way, there's a couple of things about that. Well, one, 86 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.079 there was a mistrial as everyone knows, and they're going 87 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:35.680 to see if they're going to throw out the case 88 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:37.360 or not throw out the case. The probably not anyway, 89 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.480 so they'll go to trial again. So this will be 90 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.240 going on and on and on. Here's the one thing 91 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.199 that I find funny about the free Karen Read people 92 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.079 is she is free right now. And I always kind 93 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.759 of say, you know, maybe that's the wrong verbage right 94 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.360 now because she's not locked up. You know, when you 95 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.800 say free somebody, they're usually locked up. She's not because 96 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.160 she's awaiting another trial. But anyway, glad, that's what you 97 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:58.800 picked up on when you came to Massachusetts. 98 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.560 That's fantastic. 99 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:01.959 I've never seen it before. 100 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.720 Ever, you may never see it again. Let's get to 101 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:07.879 what we did have you on for tonight. Outside of 102 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:12.000 the fact that you're a wonderful human being, I know 103 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:14.399 you do a lot of the political talk when you 104 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.920 do the morning show, and clearly the big political talk today, 105 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:22.160 tomorrow and going forward will be that Kamala Harris has 106 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:24.560 now picked her running mate. There was a lot of 107 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.720 speculation who it might be or it wouldn't be, and 108 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.560 today Tim Walls, which, by the way, if you're a 109 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.399 conservative organization I've got the great headline. 110 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.279 For you tomorrow, right, I'm waiting. 111 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:37.279 Yeah, Okay, here you go. 112 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:42.360 Democrats putting up walls not bad, you see, That's right, 113 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:43.920 that's good, right. I mean, that's that's what you would 114 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.279 use if you wanted to make the dem sound back anyway. 115 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.160 I digress. A lot of people don't know a lot 116 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:49.560 about him. 117 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:50.959 In fact, there's a recent poll I'll guess to that 118 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.199 number in a few minutes where where most people don't 119 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.480 know who this guy is Minnesota's Governor's not exactly unless 120 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.439 you're Jesse Ventura doesn't usually get a lot of play 121 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.399 in the media. Should we know more about this guy? 122 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.160 And what do we know? And what a you sensing 123 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.519 by who Kamala picked? 124 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.360 Huh? All right, let's go through it one by one. 125 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.680 I mean, first of all, a pretty safe pick, pretty 126 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.279 don't want to ruffle too many feathers pick. I mean, 127 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.040 Shapiro was going to be the governor Pennsylvania, was gonna 128 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.879 be the one that said, Wow, she's gonna be a 129 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.079 little bolder here, She's gonna take a leadership position. She's 130 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.000 gonna say no, this is who I want, and I'm 131 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.959 staying firm. She didn't do that, and then they threw 132 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:34.519 him the bone today, Hey will you introduce us? Like, 133 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.600 oh wow, that's great. Nothing like getting the runner up 134 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.600 and having to introduce the person who's got the gig 135 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.879 you wanted. But he had to do that in Philly. 136 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.920 The interesting thing about that, and I think it's much 137 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.600 more interesting who wasn't pick than who was right now. 138 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.319 But they quickly got a story out, or there is 139 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:54.720 a story out. Whether they got it out or not, 140 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.319 I don't know, but that the story goes that she 141 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.839 didn't pick Shapiro because they thought that Shapiro was a 142 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:05.839 little too ambitious and he might try to outshine her. 143 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.519 And I thought, well, that's funny, because first of all, 144 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:13.480 she just was part of a thing to push the 145 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.240 guy that was ahead of her out so that she 146 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:21.319 could get the nomination. That's number one, number two. It's 147 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.360 an interesting story, except that there's another story out there 148 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.480 that says they didn't pick him because he's Jewish and 149 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:31.279 they had to play to the very very far left, 150 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:36.120 pro Palestinian anti israel As Van Jones on CNN Today said, 151 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.079 the very dark side, anti Semitic growing side of the 152 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.399 Democratic Party, and it does look like That's what they did. 153 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.360 Everybody on the inside told anybody who would listen that 154 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.759 Shapiro was the right choice, and they went with Walls. 155 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.160 The guy is in a state that they don't have 156 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.839 to worry about at all. When Pennsylvania's won, they very 157 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.399 much have to worry about. So it's a little bit 158 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:01.360 curious that way, but it safe. I mean, he's not 159 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.560 He's not gonna get them into too much trouble. Is 160 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.360 he very liberal? Of course he is. Was he, you know, 161 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:13.279 very placating and very left during the riots in Minneapolis? 162 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.199 Of course he was. Did he put tampon's in high 163 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:19.519 school boys' bathrooms? You read that a thousand times already 164 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.199 since he got the nomination. I don't think that bothers 165 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.240 the base of the Democratic Party, though, so I think 166 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.600 there is a general rule happy with it. And again 167 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:29.959 the bar is so low because all they keep thinking 168 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.279 is we couldn't win with Biden Marris. At least theris 169 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:33.759 Walls gives us a chance, yea. 170 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:35.759 And he probably does give them a chance. And we'll 171 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.240 have to see how it plays out. And obviously the 172 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.960 Trump and Van's campaign's already going after the pair. I 173 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.000 want to play this we're gonna go to a break shortly. 174 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.000 Vb At Doug Goudy joins us this evening to talk 175 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:50.639 about the pick of Tim Walls as Kamala Harris's vice 176 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.519 presidential running bay. But this is Walls. He's from Minnesota, 177 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.720 or he lives in Minnesota. Now he came from Nebraska. 178 00:08:57.799 --> 00:08:58.320 But here he is. 179 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.120 This is CUTT number sixty, and he is talking about 180 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.200 basically where he came from. 181 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:04.960 Cut sixteen. 182 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:10.320 Minnesota's strength comes from our values, our commitment to working together, 183 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.240 to seeing past our differences, to always being willing to 184 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.879 lend a helping hand. Those are the same values I 185 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.279 learned on the family farm and tried to instill in 186 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.480 my students. I took it to Congress and of the 187 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.320 state capitol, and now Vice President Harris and I are 188 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.279 running to take those very values to the White House. 189 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.600 By the way, is anything more American than working on 190 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.360 the farm. I was working on the farm. I mean, 191 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.519 he came from a farm. He was a high school 192 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.039 of coach and a teacher, and served in the military, 193 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:43.279 which of course God bless him. 194 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.639 So it's just kind. 195 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.320 Of weird right out. I get my values from working 196 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.320 on the farm. Just kind of strange, isn't it. 197 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.000 I mean, yeah, pretty soon he's going to have a 198 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.519 sicker Minnesota accent than he already does. He's going to 199 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.120 do that Fargo thing, you bet you and all that. 200 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.120 But listen, he had the camouflage hat on during the 201 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.080 alleged call from Kamala. You saw that story they put 202 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.519 out to that he didn't answer the first time she 203 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.799 called this morning because it said no caller, no caller 204 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.159 ID so he didn't know who it was, so he 205 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:19.960 didn't answer it. Mmm. Sure, but he's just that folksy 206 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.200 and just that regular that gosh darn it, I'm not 207 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.080 going to answer that call because I don't know who 208 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.679 it is. So she had to call a second time. Sure, 209 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.159 and then he answered it for some reason, even though 210 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.279 it said the same thing, which is kind of weird. 211 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.919 Right, didn't say no caller idea and it's say potential 212 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.320 spam because maybe you know that that would scare somebody. 213 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.879 Right. Let me tell you. If the stories about Kamala 214 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.240 are true and the reason why her staff quit the 215 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.919 record pass because they don't like her, she wouldn't have 216 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.360 called a third time. Shapiro would have got that call. 217 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.720 By the way, there was I think it was political 218 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.519 who had the story they said, And when you talk 219 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.639 about Shapiro, and obviously I've heard all the things that 220 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.519 you've already mentioned, but that he said, I don't want 221 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.519 to do this, he didn't want to be the vice 222 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:06.919 president because of whatever the pressure, or he wanted to 223 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.399 stay in Pennsylvania I think was actually the story. So 224 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.000 that actually sounds like the best of all of them. 225 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.840 He's too excitable, he's Jewish, I mean, wanting to stay 226 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.360 in his home state and do some good there. 227 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.080 I mean, I almost you almost want to pat him 228 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:19.399 on the back. 229 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:23.480 If that's the truth, it would kind of run counter 230 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:26.080 to the fact that the mayor of Philadelphia accidentally put 231 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.759 out that congratulations video a week ago because they set 232 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:33.639 it to run but put the wrong date in. Always 233 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.200 nice when that happened, But somebody told them it was 234 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.080 going to be him, And my guess is it probably 235 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.759 was going to be him at that time, and so 236 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.759 that happened. So if he really didn't want it, that 237 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.519 seems your heart game pretty late, because he was lobbying 238 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.799 right up unto the end for it went. He was 239 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.519 with her on Sunday, So like, when did he decide 240 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.000 he didn't want to do it because there was no 241 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:55.320 indication of that before. 242 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.600 And of course it was the celebration tonight. The rally 243 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:02.000 was in a Penncyila, and so that was where everybody 244 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.320 was thinking too that you know, if she's doing this 245 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.639 event in Pennsylvania, if she's going to Pennsylvania, if she's 246 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.399 gonna hang out in Pennsylvania, it's got to be someone 247 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.039 from Pennsylvania. And then well, maybe she just didn't want 248 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:12.200 to go to Minnesota for a rally. 249 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.000 That's possible. 250 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.720 I remember Amy Klobashar doing her launch for president in 251 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.080 twenty twenty in Minnesota. Remember it was a driving blizzard 252 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.879 in the snow was gathering on her coat and she 253 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.519 looked like Jack Nicholson at the end of the shining. 254 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.960 To use a dated reference, it was so cold and 255 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.360 so ridiculous. That's probably put those off for like fifty years. 256 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:35.639 Now. 257 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.000 Let's not run the risk. Forget it. It could be 258 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:38.639 snowing there. 259 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:42.279 Uh VB otherwise known as Doug Gotti's joining us here. 260 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:44.919 He is hosting a morning show in Albany, New York 261 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:48.639 at WGY, another three call letter radio station, and we'll 262 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.720 continue with him talk about Kamala Harris's pick for vice 263 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.600 president today, Tim Walls from Minnesota. We got an action 264 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.559 packed night tonight, not that it's not usually action packed 265 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.679 on night's side, but we'll continue along. End of course, 266 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:01.480 we'll always take phone calls from you as well if 267 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.159 we want to sneak a few in here, So don't 268 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.360 forget to pick up that telephone and dial. Well, you 269 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.559 can just sit back and relax and listen to the show. 270 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.679 Six one, seven, four, ten, thirty is always the way 271 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.240 to join the conversation. It's Ben Parker in for Dan 272 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.360 Ray on nightsott on WZ. 273 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.399 Now Bent to Dan Ray live from the Window World 274 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:25.159 Light Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 275 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.039 I know a little something about that commitment to people. 276 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.960 I was born in West Point, Nebraska. I lived in Butte, 277 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.600 a small town of four hundred where community was a 278 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.759 way alive. Growing up, I spent the summers working on 279 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.120 the family farm. 280 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.759 There's Tim Wallas. He's the pick fify Kamala Harris to 281 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.679 be her running mate as the vice presidential candidate for 282 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:52.240 the Democrats. They held a rally today in Philadelphia. Getting 283 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:55.799 a little bit excited, I gotta say and and VB. 284 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.480 Doug Gouty is with us. You probably know his name 285 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.240 from Boston Television and he works out of Albany in 286 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.960 New York. Now also for an iheard radio station. I 287 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.120 gotta say, because he's from Minnesota and obviously there's there's 288 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.480 people there. Is it safe to say this may be 289 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.600 the biggest audience he's ever spoken in front of that 290 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:13.279 one time. 291 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.159 Probably yeah, and something like coming close to it anyway, Yeah, 292 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.600 he seems, by the way, has a long history of 293 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:25.559 people on the ticket but not actually get to the 294 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.519 finish line. So you go all the way back to Humphrey, 295 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.519 but they've got a number. It's kind of like Massachusetts, 296 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.399 like how many times are you gonna go back to 297 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.399 this well and not have it pay off for you? 298 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.960 But they've got it. They Minnesota and Massachusetts very similar. 299 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:42.759 If you remember all the way back in the Reagan election, 300 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.759 Massachusetts was hanging in until the very end of eighty 301 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.240 four and then finally went Reagan. Minnesota didn't have dung 302 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.879 in there for Mondale, but those two states have a 303 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.080 very similar political history when you look at it. 304 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:54.720 I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I don't know a 305 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:56.480 ton about Tim Wallas. I mean I knew who he 306 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.480 was before he got picked, and I know I mean 307 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.080 a little bit about him, but I'm a historian of 308 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:02.919 Kim Wall, so we'll learn a lot about him. The 309 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:07.279 one thing I noticed in the rally today, and I 310 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.000 don't know if this is him or him trying to 311 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:14.200 be very excited. He had that the bubblehead thing going on. 312 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:16.360 He was Bumpa's head up and down quite a bit, 313 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.279 and he seemed very as he should be. He's been 314 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:21.480 picked to me with the vice president, right, but he 315 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.320 seemed very excited. He was doing an awful lot of 316 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.720 clap and smile and laughing, and he laughed at times 317 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.000 when I didn't think it necessarily required it. 318 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.240 Tim and Kamala got that in common, don't they. 319 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.480 Yeah, nervous laughter. Maybe, I don't know. I was that 320 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.120 was one of the things that I noticed. And of 321 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.919 course you don't always know what someone's thinking when you're 322 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:41.559 seeing that, but that was That was kind of what 323 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.159 I thought, and I said, boy, he's really excited to 324 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.879 be up on that stage, which he should be. 325 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.480 None of us know that much about him, but we 326 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:51.519 have already heard. Oh, he was a high school teacher. 327 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:53.759 He was a football coach, looks like a guy who 328 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.240 probably ran a pep rally or two and stays mister 329 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.879 positive through the halls. How are we doing, Timmy, we're 330 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.720 going to get that grade in his class? You know 331 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:02.679 that kind of stuff when you bump into the guys. 332 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.759 So he gives off that vibe. The question is did 333 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.559 people grow tired of that very quickly? But apparently when 334 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.279 he shakes hands with you, he goes, here's five good 335 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.440 ones for you. Like and see a little of that 336 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.679 goes a long way for me. If that guy's with 337 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:17.600 me in the office, I'm like, oh, he's in there 338 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.240 getting coffee. I think I'll wait because I can only 339 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.320 do the If I was any better, they'd be two 340 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.320 of me. I can only do so much of that. 341 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:24.720 That's me. 342 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:26.960 I don't know how that plays nationally. 343 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:27.879 Well, we'll see. 344 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:29.879 And of course politicians are known for when they go 345 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.679 out of the stump right saying the same things over 346 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.279 and over again anyway, so we'll see if Tim Walls 347 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.360 tells the same dad jokes over and over again when 348 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.960 he's son, he's out there on the stump, listen before 349 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.039 we let you go, and I appreciate you joining me. 350 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:43.840 We have a couple of people who I think want 351 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.159 to say hello to you, because they probably don't want 352 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:47.960 to say hello to me. So let's take a couple 353 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.360 quick phone calls. Here, We've got Bill and Dan versus. Bill, 354 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.440 Welcome to the Night's side. 355 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.360 How are you good? 356 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.559 Good? I do know a little bit about well during 357 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.759 the COVID deal. So I mean, you look at it, 358 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:02.320 the guy. You want to say, the deep blue state, 359 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.359 but there are some congressional districts. There's a few Republicans, 360 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.200 particularly up north because it's changed over time. They have 361 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.680 a lot of natural resources, the Iron Range up there, 362 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.039 which Trump let him do some mining, but again Biden 363 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:18.720 shut him down. Waltz is also in favor of that, 364 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.759 so he's decimated part of his state. They hold on 365 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.799 the power because they adventure Palitan area in the Twin Cities, 366 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.720 like a lot of blue states. But the two big 367 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.640 things that it was probably a test for the guy 368 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.640 was COVID, and to me, I think he failed and 369 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:39.000 he was super locked down and destroyed a lot of businesses, 370 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.160 and like a lot of deep blue run states, he 371 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.759 was one of those real followers, Troupe believes. And the 372 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.079 other one was the riots. I mean he did nothing 373 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.880 for a week. And basically, I mean a lot of 374 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.960 small to medium businesses and decent people got burned out. 375 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.039 They did nothing about it. I didn't see a lot 376 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:01.240 of guys go to jail, So I don't know. I mean, 377 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.319 it's fairful with the country stone to think that the 378 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.240 country is going to go for that ticket. At least 379 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.039 it's scary times, you know, now, well, I mean. 380 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:12.359 And you mentioned, you know, the things he did in 381 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.359 Minnesota during it after the COVID pandemic. But he won 382 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.960 reelection in twenty twenty two, which was smacked out in 383 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.599 the middle pretty much by about eight points over a doctor, 384 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.319 a physician, and a vaccine skeptic. 385 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:25.839 So I don't know. 386 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.359 Maybe the people in Minnesota clearly like him enough to 387 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:29.720 elect them and then elect them again. 388 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.000 Well yeah, and that's fine, I mean that you look 389 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.720 at it. I don't think it worked out too. 390 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:35.759 And this is. 391 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.880 Another thing that's happening too. If you look at the 392 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.920 census of the overall in COVID sped this up, and 393 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.599 of course with the boomers retiring, that also throws it 394 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.359 in there. But the bluer areas are just getting bluwer. 395 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.720 You know, people are segregating themselves. The ready areas are 396 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:55.200 getting red of so you know it's hard to find 397 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:58.240 these purple estates or down the middle. So you know, 398 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.759 you got some people that think that great. But I mean, 399 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.240 if you if you're looking at it from you know, 400 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.000 I'm a pro. You know, rise in timeh lifts all boats. 401 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:07.240