WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:01.280 It's nice eyes. 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:05.440 I'm going easy Boston News Radio. 3 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:09.160 All right, I want to finish up with distracted driving 4 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.279 Bob from Glouces to Hell through the news. So before 5 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:14.560 we go to the twentieth hour, we will just play 6 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:17.280 a little overtime here at the ten o'clock hour. What 7 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:19.519 you can do, Rob is put Bob's call into the 8 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.199 ten o'clock hour. Let's go to Bob in Gloucester. I'm 9 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:24.280 assuming it's distracted driving Bob, right. 10 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:30.640 Yes, I was driving back to school. This is some 11 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:35.880 fifty years ago, and I got a ticket on the 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:42.200 highway and outside of Binghamton, and so I went back 13 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.200 to college and dug up some information about highway safety 14 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:49.759 and all this stuff. And so I went back to 15 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:53.280 Barhamton for the court appearance, and I went looking for 16 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.079 the courthouse and it turned out to be this guy's 17 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:01.399 little trailer burgo whole trailer, and the judge lived in 18 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.040 the trailer. So I was like, I was kind of 19 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.760 spooking at night too. I said, I got any folk, 20 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:12.760 come on in. So the big fluffy, overstuffed chair where 21 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.560 I sat, and then a big over said sofa where 22 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.439 he sat at the other end, and the cat sat 23 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.959 next between us. So I started going on about highway 24 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.680 safety and this and that and you know, and how 25 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.239 much everything should cost. And he was very patient and 26 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:40.280 then and then finally he said, well, I have a story. 27 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.560 He says, when I was about your age, which would 28 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.280 have been about twenty twenty five, he says, I was 29 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.480 driving up outside and we had a good time in town, 30 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.840 and and I don't know what happened, but I was 31 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:58.079 so drunk. I went over at a kind of a 32 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.599 ledge or whatever, and he ended up in a lake 33 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.000 with the front of the car pointing straight up, in 34 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.519 the back of the car was in the in the water. 35 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.080 This is like a model key car. 36 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:09.400 This is a judge. 37 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.039 Now, this is a judge. Taught me the story. Yeah, 38 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:18.479 I said, this is kind of a cool experience. And 39 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.759 so so then I said, well, oh, he says, but 40 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.400 you know, your story is a good story. But I 41 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.000 don't see any thing in my jurisdiction that could let 42 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.879 you out of this ticket with just doing that kind 43 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.159 of the study and being a good guy and showing 44 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.919 how much stuff costs and proposal and all that stuff. 45 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:42.159 So that's a good idea. But and then he says, 46 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.360 let me give you an idea of what I'm looking for. 47 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.280 He says, would you happen to have a headlight out 48 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.240 on your car? So I said, well, no tail light though, 49 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.840 I said, okay, well I'm going to let you plead 50 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.960 guilty to a lesser charge. And it saved me a 51 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.360 ton of points, you know, and U So I was happy, 52 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:09.360 and I was ac static that I had this experience 53 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.000 in the middle of almost in the middle of them. 54 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.039 It was lovely, it was dark. 55 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:14.520 What school were you there? 56 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.840 Experience? So about to meet you on the radio, Dan, 57 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:20.960 It's unbelievable. You're a legend. 58 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.000 What what sort of what sort of what school were 59 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:29.159 you going to up there that you got? University of Buffalo? 60 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.719 All right, all right, okay, that's great school. 61 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:34.680 I still kind of hang out there a little bit. 62 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.039 What you but you're calling from Gloucester. Well, Bob, this 63 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.759 is your first time call. This is your first time called. 64 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:48.520 Is this your first time these nights, it's amazing how 65 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.560 many new first time calls we get. I really appreciated 66 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.039 you taking the time to call, Bob. Thank you so much, 67 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.719 and I look forward to your second call here on 68 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:02.719 night side. Okay, thank you, thank you very much. All Right, 69 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.719 now we're going to go to the twentieth hour. Okay, 70 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.800 the clock has started on the twentieth hour, Rob, you 71 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:11.520 can put him put Bob's story attached it to the 72 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.639 to the eleven and this is now our twentieth hour, 73 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:17.759 and I will just want to take a moment for 74 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.839 those who do not know what the twentieth hour is. 75 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.040 The end of the week. We always try to pick 76 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.800 a topic which maybe make people think through the weekend. Okay, 77 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:28.240 and I have a topic in mind. I'm going to 78 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:31.040 get to that. But first, as always, I like to 79 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.600 let you know what we've talked about this week. It's 80 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.720 almost an opportunity for you to reflect on how much 81 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.439 you've missed and how much you've heard here on Night Side. 82 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.600 We started talking this week on Monday night at eight 83 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.439 o'clock with Major General retired Robert dz about the situation 84 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.920 of the Middle East. Talk with Jeff Bellows about blue 85 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.720 bikes being free the next I think a few days, 86 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.079 talk with Jason Rohner about Project Skydrop. He was the 87 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.800 guy that put the beautiful for twenty six thousand dollars 88 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.439 gold vays that someone found up in Irving, Massachusetts. Talk 89 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:10.879 with Kevin Kadeima. I hope that's pronounced from Aki Weather 90 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:16.000 about Hurricane Milton. Talked with Carrie White of Milton about 91 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.199 the MBTA Community Act, which was heard by the SJAC 92 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.279 on Monday, talk with Jason Greenberg the first anniversary of 93 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:27.720 Tennis on October the seventh, he flew back. He had 94 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.199 five members of a family who were impacted by October seventh, 95 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.959 two of whom were killed, two of whom were held captive, 96 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:38.439 two children who were released last late last year, and 97 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.639 his cousin who was still being captive. And we talked 98 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.560 to in the eleven o'clock hour about that as well. 99 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.480 During Tuesday, we talked with Kelly Lynn Marquis about what 100 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.639 dog shows can teach us. Talk with Sean Dahl about 101 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.800 space weather northern lights. We saw some of those the 102 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.160 last few nights. I guess I'd looked out last night. 103 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.879 I couldn't see a thing. Talk with Massachusetts Fire Marshall 104 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.600 John Davin about Fire Prevention Week, and talk with Adam 105 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.759 O'Brien about the bankruptcy of FT six FTX. Remember Sam 106 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.160 bankmin freed, the guy who's spend a lot of time 107 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.800 in jail. Apparently some of the people who were defrauded, 108 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.759 are actually going to get a good portion of their 109 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.720 money back? Did an hour with Matt Hills about the 110 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.319 MCAST and why the MCAST graduation requirement is a good thing. 111 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.199 Question two. Talk with poster Dave Paleologus about the latest 112 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.240 obviously that on Tuesday night we were four weeks from 113 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:35.800 the big election twenty twenty four Wednesday night. Talked about 114 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:40.560 Breast Cancer Awareness Month with doctor Harold Bernstein. Talk with 115 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.000 Alberto Vassalo about the president and CEO of El Munda Boston. 116 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.000 Talked about the passing of the Great Louis Tiant, a 117 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.000 good friend of mine as well, a really good guy. 118 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.319 Talk with Matt Belk of ACI Weather about not of 119 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.839 fact you weather with the National Welfare National Weather Center 120 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.240 down in Norton about Hurricane Milton, which was hitting at 121 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.040 that very moment. Talk with Nicole Puso about a b 122 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.040 free clothing drive for folks who have disabilities. And talk 123 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.959 with nine o'clock hour Kelly Doner, she's a Republican candidate 124 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.399 for state Senate down on the South coast about this 125 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.600 EBT card abuse. We did an hour of a tribute 126 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.439 to Louis till on to ten and at eleven, we 127 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:26.199 talked with We talked about a controversial interview which should 128 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.360 not have been controversial, which a CBS Morning Guy Tony 129 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:33.120 de Cooppolo. I thought to Coppel did a really good job. 130 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:35.360 We talked. You can listen to any of these, by 131 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.079 the way, this weekend, just go to Nightside in Demand. 132 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.519 And then last night talked with Chad Finn of The 133 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.319 Boston Globe about a new Celtics book nineteen forty six 134 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.480 to president. Talk with John Lenihan, President and CEO of 135 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.839 Zoo New England. You can donate your cell phone your 136 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.920 use cell phones that actually help the planet. Talk with 137 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:58.480 doctor Roger Korb Coorb about Sober October. Roger Koub excuse me, 138 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.720 talk to George Koob, I'm reading it incorrectly here. Talk 139 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.639 with George Coop about Sober October. And talk with doctor 140 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.120 Helen McKibben about World Mental Health Day. Talked last night 141 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.120 with Steve Clark at the Mass Restaurant Association about question 142 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:15.639 five they reposed to that question. You can listen to 143 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.439 that over the weekend as well. You can listen at 144 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.240 any of these hours on Nightside on demand dot com. 145 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.600 Talk with Linda Ugelo about glossophobia, which is a fear 146 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.759 of public speaking. And we talked about the political fight 147 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.959 over the hurricane relief efforts in Florida and elsewhere, not 148 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.159 only in Florida primarily, but elsewhere as well. Then tonight 149 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.039 we talked with Dianne Bear of the Boston Globe about 150 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.759 a bagelfest in New York with An Hadley about that 151 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.799 one hundred innings baseball game that will start tomorrow at 152 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:47.480 nine o'clock at adams Field and Quincy. If you're interested, 153 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:52.159 talk with Kelly Bulkeley about dream analysis. We will have 154 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.759 doctor Kelly Bulkeley on at some point so you can 155 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.559 talk with him as well. Talk with Lieutenant Rndy Sutton 156 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.000 about scams that are now going on for taking advantage 157 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:09.200 of people getting them to contribute money to help hurricane victims. 158 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.039 And guess what, if you're going to make a contribution, 159 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.720 make it to a charity that you're familiar with, whether 160 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:19.120 it's the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Samaritans Purse. 161 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:23.440 There are a lot of great organizations out there. Nine 162 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:26.039 o'clock hours tonight, we talked about getting cell phones out 163 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.200 of kids hands while they were in school. We had 164 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.879 a great, great conversation with an eleven year old Rosie 165 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:37.320 from Everett. Her mom called in really interesting young lady, 166 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:40.600 and we talked last hour about distract the driving. When 167 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:45.480 we come back, I'm going to talk about an interesting 168 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.159 experience I had this afternoon. I'm not going to tell 169 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.440 you where, but I am going to tell you the story. 170 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.240 And I want to know how many of you identify 171 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.559 with how I felt at the end of the story, 172 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.279 or how the person I dealt with at the end 173 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.799 of the story. I want to get right back to this, 174 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.039 so I don't want to break up the train of thought. 175 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.919 But this is one that I hope will light up 176 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.559 the phone lines because I feel really strongly about it. 177 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.519 This is not a traditional twentieth hour story. This is 178 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:20.559 a story that I thought, said to me, people are 179 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:26.039 giving up, Americans are giving up. That's the question I have. 180 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.039 And my question to you is are you giving up? 181 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.720 I'll tell the story and then I'll ask you to 182 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.799 apply the story to your life. I hope no one 183 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.879 in this audience is giving up, as this woman seemed 184 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.080 to suggest to me today she was. I'll explain it 185 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.360 coming back on night Side. 186 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:47.600 Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World 187 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:52.840 night side studios. I'm WBZ News Radio. 188 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:59.519 Okay, do you remember the movie Animal House when John 189 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:04.240 Belush she was rallying the members of Animal House and 190 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.320 he talked about giving up, and he toured them and 191 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.200 he said, did we give up when the Germans bombed 192 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:18.159 Pearl Harbor? Now he was not correct historically, obviously. However, however, 193 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.080 he raised a question of when do we give up 194 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.039 as a country. So today I met a woman who 195 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.039 I thought was giving up, and I'm going to tell 196 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:29.919 you the story. I'll tell it to you quickly, and 197 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.320 I want to hear if you have the same reaction 198 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.679 to it. I'm in a supermarket this afternoon. Okay, I'm 199 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:38.120 not going to tell you the name of the supermarket. 200 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.600 It doesn't matter. They're all the same. They all are 201 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:45.320 getting rid of the lines with cashiers because they want 202 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:47.639 to have us go to all these machines and they 203 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.720 I guess this is probably some venture capital or equity 204 00:11:53.480 --> 00:12:01.000 company that comes in and organizes efficiency. So anyway, there's 205 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.159 only two lines open, and very reluctantly, which I never do, 206 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.759 I do very rarely. I needed to get back here 207 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.200 to do the four thirty, to do something at four 208 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:17.399 thirty I reluctantly went through the checkout do it yourself 209 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.919 checkout line, which is frustrating. Okay, I don't like it. 210 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:24.559 I think I'm taking someone's job away. So a woman, 211 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.799 maybe my age are a little younger, but certainly someone 212 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.000 who should have known better, came over and said, you know, 213 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.799 how do you like the machine? The system? I said, 214 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.279 I think it's horrible. He said, it's taking jobs away 215 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.399 from people. So her reaction was, well, you know, what 216 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.320 are we supposed to do? I said, well, I said, 217 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.600 I'm only amusing it because they only have two. What 218 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:49.159 they do is they force you. They force you because 219 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:52.159 they are not enough clerks or cashier lines where you 220 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.679 can actually go through and have a conversation with someone. 221 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:59.720 You got to go and use the machines that are there, 222 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.279 which again saves them money and you're doing their work. 223 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.200 So the conversation continued, and I said, you're going to 224 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.360 make me a customer of another supermarket. Oh, why would 225 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.159 you do that? They're all the same, I said, Well, 226 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.240 I don't know if they're all the same, but I'm 227 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:19.159 not happy with this one, I said. And I'm not happy. 228 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.440 It's a story that I go to regularly I'm not 229 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.720 happy with your app. She had the same attitude. She 230 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.960 said to me, well, their app is just as bad 231 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.120 as our app. This is like a representative of the store. 232 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.559 And I'm saying, well, that's really not a way to 233 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.200 sell me on the store. I mean, I may go 234 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.840 try the other store, because I know that your app stinks, 235 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.240 and I don't like the idea of being forced to 236 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.440 check out my own items here in the supermarket. But 237 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.919 I'm not going to stand in line for thirty minutes 238 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.240 when you should have three or four lines open. So finally, 239 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.840 she said to me, well, what are we supposed to do? 240 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.919 She says, it's inevitable, And this is the line that 241 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:02.200 killed me. She said, Europe's doing it. They're doing it 242 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:07.759 all over the world. We can't resist. And I thought 243 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.360 to myself, what a pathetic approach to I said, how 244 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.759 long you worked here? She hadn't worked there that long. 245 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.279 Her spirit was broken, probably in about less than a year. 246 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.399 She's probably not listening tonight. I'm not going to mention 247 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.480 the store. I'm not going to mend her name, mentioned 248 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.240 her name. I'm not going to do that. I don't 249 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.759 ever do. But I felt really sorry for her because 250 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:30.559 I thought, your spirit is broken. Your spirit is broken. 251 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.799 You have a job, you work for this company, and 252 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.840 as opposed to agreeing with a customer and saying, you 253 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.200 know what, I actually agree with you. But it's my 254 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:41.759 job and I'm going to try to do as good 255 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.519 a job as I can. No, the spirit was broken. 256 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.759 So here's the question. Is your spirit broken? Are you 257 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:55.200 giving up? I don't know in what context? Are you 258 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.600 giving up because your job is horrible? Is your giving up? 259 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.519 Are you giving up? And you're not going to vote 260 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.080 in the election because it doesn't make a difference. But 261 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.559 if you've given up, if you were with John Belushi 262 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.559 an animal house, of course not. We never give up. 263 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.840 We're Americans. We should lead the world. We don't have 264 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.360 to follow the world. And I just had that instinct 265 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:23.480 today talking to this poor bedraggled woman working in a 266 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.600 supermarket on a Friday afternoon, and all she could say 267 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:32.159 is it's useless. We're gonna have to follow the The 268 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.120 whole world is doing this, meaning the whole world is 269 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.440 going to automation. It may or may not be true. 270 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.919 It may or may not be true, but I think 271 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:43.879 that there is a way for us to fight. It 272 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.360 is a way for us to be Americans first, last 273 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.360 and always. Whatever the world's in trouble, they call on us. 274 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.240 They don't give up. We don't. We don't give up. 275 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.919 So that's what I want to talk about. Six one, seven, two, five, four, 276 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.159 ten thirty, triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty. I 277 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.519 want to know, amongst my leg my nightside listeners, have 278 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.840 you given up or are you willing to fight for 279 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.639 what you believe in, whether it's having cashiers at your 280 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:17.720 local supermarket and not seeing their jobs liquidated by some 281 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.279 private equity company that has come in and bought the company. 282 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.720 We've all seen it happen, all of us. You know, 283 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:28.720 when we started working, many of us of my vintage 284 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.919 thirty or twenty five or forty years ago, there was 285 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.759 a human resources in your building, and if you had 286 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.120 a problem with your insurance, if you had a problem 287 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.639 of any sort, you went to the human resources office. Now, 288 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.639 just about every company in America there's one human resource 289 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.480 person for however many companies, and they live halfway across 290 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:52.960 the country. I'm not given up. I'm not happy about it, 291 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:55.919 but I'm telling you right now we have to turn 292 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.399 this around in America. It's as simple as that. If 293 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.679 we're going to roll over and be played dead like 294 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.599 the rest of the world, who is going to save 295 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.039 the rest of the world when the time comes to 296 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.359 save the rest of the world. Who was going to 297 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:13.599 save our lifestyle? Who was going to pass on our 298 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:18.240 lifestyle to our kids? We cannot give up? Remember the 299 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.279 words of Belushi. Did we give up? With the Germans? Bomb? 300 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:25.000 Pearl Harbor a little off historically, but I loved the 301 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:29.240 spirit of Animal House. Buck in Gloucester. 302 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.559 Hi, Buck, how are you hey? 303 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:32.319 Dan? 304 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.839 I'm super And that was an incredible line in Animal House, 305 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:36.599 wasn't it. 306 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:36.880 Yes? 307 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.880 And yeah, buddy, listen when you read what you have 308 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.839 for the whole program, it's unbelievable. And I tell you 309 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.720 you're in a league of your own. There's nobody in 310 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:51.480 the nation that does what you do as wonderful as 311 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.799 you do. We're lucky to have you based in Boston 312 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:55.119 and this area. 313 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.759 Way too kind Buck, but I appreciate. 314 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:03.559 It's not hyperbole, Pale, But yeah, no, I've not given 315 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.079 up in any way. And we're the same age about 316 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:07.039 you know what I mean. 317 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.319 And d. 318 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:17.680 But you know what, I'll share this though, the most 319 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.079 riveting I think I've ever heard. It was it Bob Goldberg. 320 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:26.000 It was his last name, Goldberg, who his relatives were killed. 321 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.240 In Jason Goldberg. Yes, Jason, thank you. 322 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.119 I'm sorry. It's Jason. Yeah. And that was probably in 323 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.720 all the years I've gotten to listen to you, that 324 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:40.400 was probably the most riveting I can ever ever remember. 325 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.480 And if you, if could I just say that Christmas 326 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.319 is seventy seven, my sister and my. 327 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.160 By the way, we were both mistaken. It's Jason Greenberg. 328 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:56.319 I apologize Greenberg. I have a friend, I have a 329 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:58.279 couple of friends whose last name of Goldberg, but no, 330 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:03.079 it's Jason Greenberg. And in Boston he had five relatives 331 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.119 who were impacted by October seventh in Israel, two of 332 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.880 whom who were killed, an eighty year old grandmother, her 333 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:16.279 twelve year old granddaughter, two children taken captive who were 334 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:20.359 ultimately released, but their dad is still in captivity, his cousin, 335 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:22.319 and that's why he's going back, and he went back 336 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:23.519 on Thursday yesterday. 337 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.640 I would like to share very briefly why this touches 338 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.960 me a little bit more than most Americans. Happened to 339 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.119 be Christian, but I went to the Holy Land's Christmas 340 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.000 of seventy seven, my sister and my two parents. Okay, 341 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.160 I was living in New York. They were coming from 342 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:43.359 a native of Maryland. But when I was there, we 343 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:45.880 were with a group and we went to this one 344 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.319 location to have lunch. And I saw guys playing basketball. 345 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.519 And I played in college, you know. I said to 346 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.559 my mother, I said, I'm gonna go. I don't want much, 347 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.400 I'm gonna go play basketball. And I played pickup. I 348 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.119 played pickup basketball these guys, like it was in New 349 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.200 York City where I was living at the time, right 350 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:06.680 and uh. And then there was groups of soldiers wherever 351 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.599 you were, you know, going and uh, I. 352 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:11.720 Said, soldiers. 353 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.960 Yeah, yeah, uh huh yeah. And when I got off, 354 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:21.720 when we landed at Tel Aviv, right yeah, I mean yeah, 355 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:26.359 Well there was a soldier with a machine gun. I mean, 356 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.920 you don't see that in America back then. Okay, So 357 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.359 I said to my sister Deborah, said, Deborah, I want 358 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:33.799 to take a picture with them. So I said, can 359 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.319 I take a picture with you guys? And just like 360 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:39.160 you're indicating, I thought they might we're on duty. We're 361 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:39.640 on duty. 362 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.160 No way. 363 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.079 I went to they said, yeah, come here, I'm six five. 364 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.480 They put their arms around you and everything. It was 365 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:52.480 just great. So yeah, yeah they did and and and 366 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:54.559 what it did is they know that I was an 367 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.599 American and they had this bond with America. They know it. 368 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.119 And then and then the last thing, we were in 369 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.680 a hotel, Okay, and there was a party going on 370 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.599 and we politely well, you know, I just looked in. 371 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:10.559 I was politely watching, Hey, wait for us to come 372 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.880 on in, come on in and dance. And I went in. 373 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:17.039 I was dancing with these fantastic people, beautiful women, them 374 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:21.599 twenty seven years old. But you see, this is this 375 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.160 is why with the love that I got from being 376 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:31.319 in Israel, Okay, that's why I could picture myself being 377 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.160 at that party. If I happened to be there, I 378 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:39.119 would be so welcomed to dance and and enjoy myself. 379 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:42.440 I could have been mowed down like all of those people. 380 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:47.319 You know, I don't, Yeah, I don't feel that. It's 381 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:53.039 it distracted from me. I had identified more because of that. 382 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.039 Now my sister, God bless hers, he's passed on still 383 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.160 my parents, so that trip was more beneficial or more 384 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.200 pressure than ever, you know what I mean. And and 385 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:07.000 I really love our Yeah, I really love our Jewish brethren. 386 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.440 And there's every Friday a friend of mine in New 387 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.759 Jersey's he's pretty devout, you know, as a Jew, and 388 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:20.240 we always give a messagebat shaloon. Okay, every every Sunday 389 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:23.200 we met him work and we've done that all not 390 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:26.119 that every Sunday, every Sabbath of their Friday, you know. 391 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.200 But thanks for letting me share that. But and I 392 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:34.720 appreciate it. And and Dan, you do such a dog 393 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:38.559 one good job. No one should ever take you for granted. Okay, 394 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:47.480 and you keep up the great work. 395 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.599 All right, good night, but have a great weekend. And 396 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:58.319 again kapoor to our Jewish listeners. Again, we can't give up. 397 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:02.240 We can't give up. We have too much. We can't 398 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:04.960 give up. And I felt so sorry for the woman 399 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:08.480 who I spoke with today because her spirit had been sapped. 400 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:12.160 It was like, she says, what use? She says, the 401 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:16.200