Speaker 1: It's nice eyes.
Speaker 2: I'm going easy Boston News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, I want to finish up with distracted driving
Speaker 3: Bob from Glouces to Hell through the news. So before
Speaker 3: we go to the twentieth hour, we will just play
Speaker 3: a little overtime here at the ten o'clock hour. What
Speaker 3: you can do, Rob is put Bob's call into the
Speaker 3: ten o'clock hour. Let's go to Bob in Gloucester. I'm
Speaker 3: assuming it's distracted driving Bob, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was driving back to school. This is some
Speaker 4: fifty years ago, and I got a ticket on the
Speaker 4: highway and outside of Binghamton, and so I went back
Speaker 4: to college and dug up some information about highway safety
Speaker 4: and all this stuff. And so I went back to
Speaker 4: Barhamton for the court appearance, and I went looking for
Speaker 4: the courthouse and it turned out to be this guy's
Speaker 4: little trailer burgo whole trailer, and the judge lived in
Speaker 4: the trailer. So I was like, I was kind of
Speaker 4: spooking at night too. I said, I got any folk,
Speaker 4: come on in. So the big fluffy, overstuffed chair where
Speaker 4: I sat, and then a big over said sofa where
Speaker 4: he sat at the other end, and the cat sat
Speaker 4: next between us. So I started going on about highway
Speaker 4: safety and this and that and you know, and how
Speaker 4: much everything should cost. And he was very patient and
Speaker 4: then and then finally he said, well, I have a story.
Speaker 4: He says, when I was about your age, which would
Speaker 4: have been about twenty twenty five, he says, I was
Speaker 4: driving up outside and we had a good time in town,
Speaker 4: and and I don't know what happened, but I was
Speaker 4: so drunk. I went over at a kind of a
Speaker 4: ledge or whatever, and he ended up in a lake
Speaker 4: with the front of the car pointing straight up, in
Speaker 4: the back of the car was in the in the water.
Speaker 4: This is like a model key car.
Speaker 3: This is a judge.
Speaker 4: Now, this is a judge. Taught me the story. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I said, this is kind of a cool experience. And
Speaker 4: so so then I said, well, oh, he says, but
Speaker 4: you know, your story is a good story. But I
Speaker 4: don't see any thing in my jurisdiction that could let
Speaker 4: you out of this ticket with just doing that kind
Speaker 4: of the study and being a good guy and showing
Speaker 4: how much stuff costs and proposal and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's a good idea. But and then he says,
Speaker 4: let me give you an idea of what I'm looking for.
Speaker 4: He says, would you happen to have a headlight out
Speaker 4: on your car? So I said, well, no tail light though,
Speaker 4: I said, okay, well I'm going to let you plead
Speaker 4: guilty to a lesser charge. And it saved me a
Speaker 4: ton of points, you know, and U So I was happy,
Speaker 4: and I was ac static that I had this experience
Speaker 4: in the middle of almost in the middle of them.
Speaker 4: It was lovely, it was dark.
Speaker 3: What school were you there?
Speaker 4: Experience? So about to meet you on the radio, Dan,
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. You're a legend.
Speaker 3: What what sort of what sort of what school were
Speaker 3: you going to up there that you got? University of Buffalo?
Speaker 3: All right, all right, okay, that's great school.
Speaker 4: I still kind of hang out there a little bit.
Speaker 3: What you but you're calling from Gloucester. Well, Bob, this
Speaker 3: is your first time call. This is your first time called.
Speaker 3: Is this your first time these nights, it's amazing how
Speaker 3: many new first time calls we get. I really appreciated
Speaker 3: you taking the time to call, Bob. Thank you so much,
Speaker 3: and I look forward to your second call here on
Speaker 3: night side. Okay, thank you, thank you very much. All Right,
Speaker 3: now we're going to go to the twentieth hour. Okay,
Speaker 3: the clock has started on the twentieth hour, Rob, you
Speaker 3: can put him put Bob's story attached it to the
Speaker 3: to the eleven and this is now our twentieth hour,
Speaker 3: and I will just want to take a moment for
Speaker 3: those who do not know what the twentieth hour is.
Speaker 3: The end of the week. We always try to pick
Speaker 3: a topic which maybe make people think through the weekend. Okay,
Speaker 3: and I have a topic in mind. I'm going to
Speaker 3: get to that. But first, as always, I like to
Speaker 3: let you know what we've talked about this week. It's
Speaker 3: almost an opportunity for you to reflect on how much
Speaker 3: you've missed and how much you've heard here on Night Side.
Speaker 3: We started talking this week on Monday night at eight
Speaker 3: o'clock with Major General retired Robert dz about the situation
Speaker 3: of the Middle East. Talk with Jeff Bellows about blue
Speaker 3: bikes being free the next I think a few days,
Speaker 3: talk with Jason Rohner about Project Skydrop. He was the
Speaker 3: guy that put the beautiful for twenty six thousand dollars
Speaker 3: gold vays that someone found up in Irving, Massachusetts. Talk
Speaker 3: with Kevin Kadeima. I hope that's pronounced from Aki Weather
Speaker 3: about Hurricane Milton. Talked with Carrie White of Milton about
Speaker 3: the MBTA Community Act, which was heard by the SJAC
Speaker 3: on Monday, talk with Jason Greenberg the first anniversary of
Speaker 3: Tennis on October the seventh, he flew back. He had
Speaker 3: five members of a family who were impacted by October seventh,
Speaker 3: two of whom were killed, two of whom were held captive,
Speaker 3: two children who were released last late last year, and
Speaker 3: his cousin who was still being captive. And we talked
Speaker 3: to in the eleven o'clock hour about that as well.
Speaker 3: During Tuesday, we talked with Kelly Lynn Marquis about what
Speaker 3: dog shows can teach us. Talk with Sean Dahl about
Speaker 3: space weather northern lights. We saw some of those the
Speaker 3: last few nights. I guess I'd looked out last night.
Speaker 3: I couldn't see a thing. Talk with Massachusetts Fire Marshall
Speaker 3: John Davin about Fire Prevention Week, and talk with Adam
Speaker 3: O'Brien about the bankruptcy of FT six FTX. Remember Sam
Speaker 3: bankmin freed, the guy who's spend a lot of time
Speaker 3: in jail. Apparently some of the people who were defrauded,
Speaker 3: are actually going to get a good portion of their
Speaker 3: money back? Did an hour with Matt Hills about the
Speaker 3: MCAST and why the MCAST graduation requirement is a good thing.
Speaker 3: Question two. Talk with poster Dave Paleologus about the latest
Speaker 3: obviously that on Tuesday night we were four weeks from
Speaker 3: the big election twenty twenty four Wednesday night. Talked about
Speaker 3: Breast Cancer Awareness Month with doctor Harold Bernstein. Talk with
Speaker 3: Alberto Vassalo about the president and CEO of El Munda Boston.
Speaker 3: Talked about the passing of the Great Louis Tiant, a
Speaker 3: good friend of mine as well, a really good guy.
Speaker 3: Talk with Matt Belk of ACI Weather about not of
Speaker 3: fact you weather with the National Welfare National Weather Center
Speaker 3: down in Norton about Hurricane Milton, which was hitting at
Speaker 3: that very moment. Talk with Nicole Puso about a b
Speaker 3: free clothing drive for folks who have disabilities. And talk
Speaker 3: with nine o'clock hour Kelly Doner, she's a Republican candidate
Speaker 3: for state Senate down on the South coast about this
Speaker 3: EBT card abuse. We did an hour of a tribute
Speaker 3: to Louis till on to ten and at eleven, we
Speaker 3: talked with We talked about a controversial interview which should
Speaker 3: not have been controversial, which a CBS Morning Guy Tony
Speaker 3: de Cooppolo. I thought to Coppel did a really good job.
Speaker 3: We talked. You can listen to any of these, by
Speaker 3: the way, this weekend, just go to Nightside in Demand.
Speaker 3: And then last night talked with Chad Finn of The
Speaker 3: Boston Globe about a new Celtics book nineteen forty six
Speaker 3: to president. Talk with John Lenihan, President and CEO of
Speaker 3: Zoo New England. You can donate your cell phone your
Speaker 3: use cell phones that actually help the planet. Talk with
Speaker 3: doctor Roger Korb Coorb about Sober October. Roger Koub excuse me,
Speaker 3: talk to George Koob, I'm reading it incorrectly here. Talk
Speaker 3: with George Coop about Sober October. And talk with doctor
Speaker 3: Helen McKibben about World Mental Health Day. Talked last night
Speaker 3: with Steve Clark at the Mass Restaurant Association about question
Speaker 3: five they reposed to that question. You can listen to
Speaker 3: that over the weekend as well. You can listen at
Speaker 3: any of these hours on Nightside on demand dot com.
Speaker 3: Talk with Linda Ugelo about glossophobia, which is a fear
Speaker 3: of public speaking. And we talked about the political fight
Speaker 3: over the hurricane relief efforts in Florida and elsewhere, not
Speaker 3: only in Florida primarily, but elsewhere as well. Then tonight
Speaker 3: we talked with Dianne Bear of the Boston Globe about
Speaker 3: a bagelfest in New York with An Hadley about that
Speaker 3: one hundred innings baseball game that will start tomorrow at
Speaker 3: nine o'clock at adams Field and Quincy. If you're interested,
Speaker 3: talk with Kelly Bulkeley about dream analysis. We will have
Speaker 3: doctor Kelly Bulkeley on at some point so you can
Speaker 3: talk with him as well. Talk with Lieutenant Rndy Sutton
Speaker 3: about scams that are now going on for taking advantage
Speaker 3: of people getting them to contribute money to help hurricane victims.
Speaker 3: And guess what, if you're going to make a contribution,
Speaker 3: make it to a charity that you're familiar with, whether
Speaker 3: it's the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Samaritans Purse.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of great organizations out there. Nine
Speaker 3: o'clock hours tonight, we talked about getting cell phones out
Speaker 3: of kids hands while they were in school. We had
Speaker 3: a great, great conversation with an eleven year old Rosie
Speaker 3: from Everett. Her mom called in really interesting young lady,
Speaker 3: and we talked last hour about distract the driving. When
Speaker 3: we come back, I'm going to talk about an interesting
Speaker 3: experience I had this afternoon. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 3: you where, but I am going to tell you the story.
Speaker 3: And I want to know how many of you identify
Speaker 3: with how I felt at the end of the story,
Speaker 3: or how the person I dealt with at the end
Speaker 3: of the story. I want to get right back to this,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to break up the train of thought.
Speaker 3: But this is one that I hope will light up
Speaker 3: the phone lines because I feel really strongly about it.
Speaker 3: This is not a traditional twentieth hour story. This is
Speaker 3: a story that I thought, said to me, people are
Speaker 3: giving up, Americans are giving up. That's the question I have.
Speaker 3: And my question to you is are you giving up?
Speaker 3: I'll tell the story and then I'll ask you to
Speaker 3: apply the story to your life. I hope no one
Speaker 3: in this audience is giving up, as this woman seemed
Speaker 3: to suggest to me today she was. I'll explain it
Speaker 3: coming back on night Side.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night side studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you remember the movie Animal House when John
Speaker 3: Belush she was rallying the members of Animal House and
Speaker 3: he talked about giving up, and he toured them and
Speaker 3: he said, did we give up when the Germans bombed
Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor? Now he was not correct historically, obviously. However, however,
Speaker 3: he raised a question of when do we give up
Speaker 3: as a country. So today I met a woman who
Speaker 3: I thought was giving up, and I'm going to tell
Speaker 3: you the story. I'll tell it to you quickly, and
Speaker 3: I want to hear if you have the same reaction
Speaker 3: to it. I'm in a supermarket this afternoon. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to tell you the name of the supermarket.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. They're all the same. They all are
Speaker 3: getting rid of the lines with cashiers because they want
Speaker 3: to have us go to all these machines and they
Speaker 3: I guess this is probably some venture capital or equity
Speaker 3: company that comes in and organizes efficiency. So anyway, there's
Speaker 3: only two lines open, and very reluctantly, which I never do,
Speaker 3: I do very rarely. I needed to get back here
Speaker 3: to do the four thirty, to do something at four
Speaker 3: thirty I reluctantly went through the checkout do it yourself
Speaker 3: checkout line, which is frustrating. Okay, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I think I'm taking someone's job away. So a woman,
Speaker 3: maybe my age are a little younger, but certainly someone
Speaker 3: who should have known better, came over and said, you know,
Speaker 3: how do you like the machine? The system? I said,
Speaker 3: I think it's horrible. He said, it's taking jobs away
Speaker 3: from people. So her reaction was, well, you know, what
Speaker 3: are we supposed to do? I said, well, I said,
Speaker 3: I'm only amusing it because they only have two. What
Speaker 3: they do is they force you. They force you because
Speaker 3: they are not enough clerks or cashier lines where you
Speaker 3: can actually go through and have a conversation with someone.
Speaker 3: You got to go and use the machines that are there,
Speaker 3: which again saves them money and you're doing their work.
Speaker 3: So the conversation continued, and I said, you're going to
Speaker 3: make me a customer of another supermarket. Oh, why would
Speaker 3: you do that? They're all the same, I said, Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're all the same, but I'm
Speaker 3: not happy with this one, I said. And I'm not happy.
Speaker 3: It's a story that I go to regularly I'm not
Speaker 3: happy with your app. She had the same attitude. She
Speaker 3: said to me, well, their app is just as bad
Speaker 3: as our app. This is like a representative of the store.
Speaker 3: And I'm saying, well, that's really not a way to
Speaker 3: sell me on the store. I mean, I may go
Speaker 3: try the other store, because I know that your app stinks,
Speaker 3: and I don't like the idea of being forced to
Speaker 3: check out my own items here in the supermarket. But
Speaker 3: I'm not going to stand in line for thirty minutes
Speaker 3: when you should have three or four lines open. So finally,
Speaker 3: she said to me, well, what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 3: She says, it's inevitable, And this is the line that
Speaker 3: killed me. She said, Europe's doing it. They're doing it
Speaker 3: all over the world. We can't resist. And I thought
Speaker 3: to myself, what a pathetic approach to I said, how
Speaker 3: long you worked here? She hadn't worked there that long.
Speaker 3: Her spirit was broken, probably in about less than a year.
Speaker 3: She's probably not listening tonight. I'm not going to mention
Speaker 3: the store. I'm not going to mend her name, mentioned
Speaker 3: her name. I'm not going to do that. I don't
Speaker 3: ever do. But I felt really sorry for her because
Speaker 3: I thought, your spirit is broken. Your spirit is broken.
Speaker 3: You have a job, you work for this company, and
Speaker 3: as opposed to agreeing with a customer and saying, you
Speaker 3: know what, I actually agree with you. But it's my
Speaker 3: job and I'm going to try to do as good
Speaker 3: a job as I can. No, the spirit was broken.
Speaker 3: So here's the question. Is your spirit broken? Are you
Speaker 3: giving up? I don't know in what context? Are you
Speaker 3: giving up because your job is horrible? Is your giving up?
Speaker 3: Are you giving up? And you're not going to vote
Speaker 3: in the election because it doesn't make a difference. But
Speaker 3: if you've given up, if you were with John Belushi
Speaker 3: an animal house, of course not. We never give up.
Speaker 3: We're Americans. We should lead the world. We don't have
Speaker 3: to follow the world. And I just had that instinct
Speaker 3: today talking to this poor bedraggled woman working in a
Speaker 3: supermarket on a Friday afternoon, and all she could say
Speaker 3: is it's useless. We're gonna have to follow the The
Speaker 3: whole world is doing this, meaning the whole world is
Speaker 3: going to automation. It may or may not be true.
Speaker 3: It may or may not be true, but I think
Speaker 3: that there is a way for us to fight. It
Speaker 3: is a way for us to be Americans first, last
Speaker 3: and always. Whatever the world's in trouble, they call on us.
Speaker 3: They don't give up. We don't. We don't give up.
Speaker 3: So that's what I want to talk about. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty, triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty. I
Speaker 3: want to know, amongst my leg my nightside listeners, have
Speaker 3: you given up or are you willing to fight for
Speaker 3: what you believe in, whether it's having cashiers at your
Speaker 3: local supermarket and not seeing their jobs liquidated by some
Speaker 3: private equity company that has come in and bought the company.
Speaker 3: We've all seen it happen, all of us. You know,
Speaker 3: when we started working, many of us of my vintage
Speaker 3: thirty or twenty five or forty years ago, there was
Speaker 3: a human resources in your building, and if you had
Speaker 3: a problem with your insurance, if you had a problem
Speaker 3: of any sort, you went to the human resources office. Now,
Speaker 3: just about every company in America there's one human resource
Speaker 3: person for however many companies, and they live halfway across
Speaker 3: the country. I'm not given up. I'm not happy about it,
Speaker 3: but I'm telling you right now we have to turn
Speaker 3: this around in America. It's as simple as that. If
Speaker 3: we're going to roll over and be played dead like
Speaker 3: the rest of the world, who is going to save
Speaker 3: the rest of the world when the time comes to
Speaker 3: save the rest of the world. Who was going to
Speaker 3: save our lifestyle? Who was going to pass on our
Speaker 3: lifestyle to our kids? We cannot give up? Remember the
Speaker 3: words of Belushi. Did we give up? With the Germans? Bomb?
Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor a little off historically, but I loved the
Speaker 3: spirit of Animal House. Buck in Gloucester.
Speaker 4: Hi, Buck, how are you hey?
Speaker 5: Dan?
Speaker 6: I'm super And that was an incredible line in Animal House,
Speaker 6: wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: And yeah, buddy, listen when you read what you have
Speaker 6: for the whole program, it's unbelievable. And I tell you
Speaker 6: you're in a league of your own. There's nobody in
Speaker 6: the nation that does what you do as wonderful as
Speaker 6: you do. We're lucky to have you based in Boston
Speaker 6: and this area.
Speaker 3: Way too kind Buck, but I appreciate.
Speaker 6: It's not hyperbole, Pale, But yeah, no, I've not given
Speaker 6: up in any way. And we're the same age about
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And d.
Speaker 6: But you know what, I'll share this though, the most
Speaker 6: riveting I think I've ever heard. It was it Bob Goldberg.
Speaker 6: It was his last name, Goldberg, who his relatives were killed.
Speaker 3: In Jason Goldberg. Yes, Jason, thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. It's Jason. Yeah. And that was probably in
Speaker 6: all the years I've gotten to listen to you, that
Speaker 6: was probably the most riveting I can ever ever remember.
Speaker 6: And if you, if could I just say that Christmas
Speaker 6: is seventy seven, my sister and my.
Speaker 3: By the way, we were both mistaken. It's Jason Greenberg.
Speaker 3: I apologize Greenberg. I have a friend, I have a
Speaker 3: couple of friends whose last name of Goldberg, but no,
Speaker 3: it's Jason Greenberg. And in Boston he had five relatives
Speaker 3: who were impacted by October seventh in Israel, two of
Speaker 3: whom who were killed, an eighty year old grandmother, her
Speaker 3: twelve year old granddaughter, two children taken captive who were
Speaker 3: ultimately released, but their dad is still in captivity, his cousin,
Speaker 3: and that's why he's going back, and he went back
Speaker 3: on Thursday yesterday.
Speaker 6: I would like to share very briefly why this touches
Speaker 6: me a little bit more than most Americans. Happened to
Speaker 6: be Christian, but I went to the Holy Land's Christmas
Speaker 6: of seventy seven, my sister and my two parents. Okay,
Speaker 6: I was living in New York. They were coming from
Speaker 6: a native of Maryland. But when I was there, we
Speaker 6: were with a group and we went to this one
Speaker 6: location to have lunch. And I saw guys playing basketball.
Speaker 6: And I played in college, you know. I said to
Speaker 6: my mother, I said, I'm gonna go. I don't want much,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go play basketball. And I played pickup. I
Speaker 6: played pickup basketball these guys, like it was in New
Speaker 6: York City where I was living at the time, right
Speaker 6: and uh. And then there was groups of soldiers wherever
Speaker 6: you were, you know, going and uh, I.
Speaker 3: Said, soldiers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, uh huh yeah. And when I got off,
Speaker 6: when we landed at Tel Aviv, right yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 6: Well there was a soldier with a machine gun. I mean,
Speaker 6: you don't see that in America back then. Okay, So
Speaker 6: I said to my sister Deborah, said, Deborah, I want
Speaker 6: to take a picture with them. So I said, can
Speaker 6: I take a picture with you guys? And just like
Speaker 6: you're indicating, I thought they might we're on duty. We're
Speaker 6: on duty.
Speaker 7: No way.
Speaker 6: I went to they said, yeah, come here, I'm six five.
Speaker 6: They put their arms around you and everything. It was
Speaker 6: just great. So yeah, yeah they did and and and
Speaker 6: what it did is they know that I was an
Speaker 6: American and they had this bond with America. They know it.
Speaker 6: And then and then the last thing, we were in
Speaker 6: a hotel, Okay, and there was a party going on
Speaker 6: and we politely well, you know, I just looked in.
Speaker 6: I was politely watching, Hey, wait for us to come
Speaker 6: on in, come on in and dance. And I went in.
Speaker 6: I was dancing with these fantastic people, beautiful women, them
Speaker 6: twenty seven years old. But you see, this is this
Speaker 6: is why with the love that I got from being
Speaker 6: in Israel, Okay, that's why I could picture myself being
Speaker 6: at that party. If I happened to be there, I
Speaker 6: would be so welcomed to dance and and enjoy myself.
Speaker 6: I could have been mowed down like all of those people.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't, Yeah, I don't feel that. It's
Speaker 6: it distracted from me. I had identified more because of that.
Speaker 6: Now my sister, God bless hers, he's passed on still
Speaker 6: my parents, so that trip was more beneficial or more
Speaker 6: pressure than ever, you know what I mean. And and
Speaker 6: I really love our Yeah, I really love our Jewish brethren.
Speaker 6: And there's every Friday a friend of mine in New
Speaker 6: Jersey's he's pretty devout, you know, as a Jew, and
Speaker 6: we always give a messagebat shaloon. Okay, every every Sunday
Speaker 6: we met him work and we've done that all not
Speaker 6: that every Sunday, every Sabbath of their Friday, you know.
Speaker 6: But thanks for letting me share that. But and I
Speaker 6: appreciate it. And and Dan, you do such a dog
Speaker 6: one good job. No one should ever take you for granted. Okay,
Speaker 6: and you keep up the great work.
Speaker 3: All right, good night, but have a great weekend. And
Speaker 3: again kapoor to our Jewish listeners. Again, we can't give up.
Speaker 3: We can't give up. We have too much. We can't
Speaker 3: give up. And I felt so sorry for the woman
Speaker 3: who I spoke with today because her spirit had been sapped.
Speaker 3: It was like, she says, what use? She says, the
Speaker 3: whole world is now going in this direction. She's absolutely correct,
Speaker 3: But we have to we have to stand strong and
Speaker 3: do it whatever way we want in America, because as
Speaker 3: I say, if we give up, who will the world
Speaker 3: called call on the next time that there's a dictator?
Speaker 3: Who wants to roll over countries were the world's last
Speaker 3: best hope. And I just felt today in talking to
Speaker 3: this woman, I said, I hope that whatever Malise she
Speaker 3: has been infected by, and whether she's been beaten down
Speaker 3: from other jobs, but just to think that, well, the
Speaker 3: rest of the world is doing and so we have
Speaker 3: no choice. We always have a choice. Back on night Side,
Speaker 3: here comes the news at the bottom of the art.
Speaker 3: Let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 2: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
Speaker 2: news radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, back to the phones we go. Let me go
Speaker 3: to Nick in Boston.
Speaker 5: Nicky, how you doing good? I just want the good.
Speaker 5: I just want to first day, I agree with Buck
Speaker 5: do you. I love everything you guys do. I think
Speaker 5: you do a great job. But yeah, no, as far
Speaker 5: as the uh you know, self checkouts and and and
Speaker 5: all the other automation, uh, I think I think everybody's
Speaker 5: blind to the bigger picture and uh, you know, just
Speaker 5: it just puts money in and the bigger guy's pockets,
Speaker 5: and you know, eventually everybody's nobody's gonna have a job
Speaker 5: and be able to support their families, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I just think that it is it's
Speaker 3: sad to see. And I was really sad. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: talking to this woman today, I just thought to myself,
Speaker 3: do you she gave up? She's given up. She's just
Speaker 3: waiting for the company to tell her that, you know,
Speaker 3: she no longer is needed. That they they're putting more
Speaker 3: you know, you know, house self service machines so that
Speaker 3: none of the customers will will ever deal with a
Speaker 3: clerk or someone of the cash writers are get.
Speaker 5: Right right, and she's given out, and she's probably thinking, well,
Speaker 5: you know, I have a job. It's like, okay, well
Speaker 5: you do now, I mean for about five ten years
Speaker 5: in the future, I mean, and then what are you
Speaker 5: gonna do?
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: We need these jobs, you know, you know, it's just
Speaker 5: people gonna need need a way to support their families.
Speaker 5: And you know, I don't think AI. Yes, it's convenient
Speaker 5: at times, but it really does nobody better than you know,
Speaker 5: the big guys, the big companies, the corporations, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, we can't roll over as a country.
Speaker 3: I mean we have to find that. You know, if
Speaker 3: if every supermarket is saying to themselves, we're going to
Speaker 3: put in self service machines and again, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are things that make sense. I can
Speaker 3: remember when they took the toll boots out of the
Speaker 3: Massachusetts Turnpike. Okay, okay, you didn't need to stand in
Speaker 3: line while people were getting change for their fifty cent toll.
Speaker 3: But look, why not give the customers a choice if
Speaker 3: the customers want to go through the traditional line, have
Speaker 3: enough line so the customers are comminated. Don't give up yet,
Speaker 3: and right, well, I'm.
Speaker 5: Glad, and you're right, and you're right. They do force you.
Speaker 5: They force you. It's busy, and they only got two
Speaker 5: cashiers open. You know, there's a line of ten people,
Speaker 5: and then the self check. Because I'm with you, I
Speaker 5: refuse to use them unless you know, I mean, there's
Speaker 5: times you go in these stores and there's no cash heres.
Speaker 5: It's crazy to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've gone into recently to a CBS and there's
Speaker 3: no cashier, and then they'll be you'll see, you'll see
Speaker 3: an employee and you'll say the cash is done for
Speaker 3: the day. I wanted to use the automatic machine. No,
Speaker 3: I don't want to use the automatic machine. I'd like
Speaker 3: to be cashed out and then somewhat reluctantly. They'll come
Speaker 3: over and they'll say, you have a CVS card. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: that's some problems. They're laying people off. This is all
Speaker 3: These are the tonight Boeing ten ten percent of their
Speaker 3: workforce laid off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's sad.
Speaker 6: It's sad.
Speaker 5: Well, we got to keep fighting and fight by getting
Speaker 5: by getting the message out.
Speaker 6: I'm hoping that Rob.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that Rob can find the John Belushi cut
Speaker 3: about the German's bomb bombing Pearl Harbor. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you can do that, Rob, but if you can
Speaker 3: find that, I think we need that to to get
Speaker 3: everyone's spirits back in back in order.
Speaker 8: Here, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: All right, Nick, thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, my friend. Never give up. We won't quit.
Speaker 3: I won't quit. Good night, keep on keep going here.
Speaker 3: Let me see where we're gonna go next to Joe
Speaker 3: and Lynn. Joe, I hope you never give up.
Speaker 7: No, I have mixed feelings, but let me tell you
Speaker 7: a good thing. First, Market Basket, the head of the
Speaker 7: Market Basket called me up after I had I lost
Speaker 7: my toilet paper. I forgot to get it out of
Speaker 7: the you know the thing. When they were helping me,
Speaker 7: one of their managers came and brought it to me.
Speaker 7: And that's unusual. And I said, I got to call
Speaker 7: this guy and thank him.
Speaker 3: I successful. Every time I've been to market Basket, I
Speaker 3: don't see any of those stupid self check out machines.
Speaker 7: No, I mean they do. They do have a few
Speaker 7: problems then, like some people can't speak English. And mister
Speaker 7: Dumoise thanked me and he said, if you ever have
Speaker 7: any problem, you just write us or call us. And
Speaker 7: I'm going to make a few suggestions because they have
Speaker 7: an ATM now in one of the banks with a
Speaker 7: telephone if you don't have an earphone, and I'm going
Speaker 7: to suggest that because market Basket ATM has an earphone,
Speaker 7: they don't charge you for taking money out. And that's
Speaker 7: a compliment. I'm going to thank him, but more a
Speaker 7: wonderful story. I hate these self services.
Speaker 3: I know there.
Speaker 7: I went into a CBS to get batteries. There was
Speaker 7: only one person in there. I can't believe it. It used
Speaker 7: to be full and McDonald's was the same way. There's
Speaker 7: a McDonald's in Boston. They have the robots now. It's horrible. Dan,
Speaker 7: I just wanted to let you know, thank you very.
Speaker 3: Much, Joe. We can't quit. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 7: Okay, I know, but voting it's another thing. I have mixes.
Speaker 7: But all right, I'll let you go. Thanks, thank you,
Speaker 7: have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon. Okay, thanks, Joe, appreciate it. Let me
Speaker 3: get Laurie in here. We can't quit, Laurie. We cannot quit.
Speaker 9: No, we can't.
Speaker 10: And so part of me thinks that everything that's all
Speaker 10: hot and magic goes around comes around. The are going
Speaker 10: to suffer with this stuff.
Speaker 5: And I don't like.
Speaker 10: I don't like abusing the people who have been there
Speaker 10: and done there and done work for all these years
Speaker 10: to some stupid machine, which really, if you use those
Speaker 10: those automatic machines, there's always somebody that has to just
Speaker 10: sit there and baby sit them. Every way, why not exactly.
Speaker 3: But what they're doing is that they have one person
Speaker 3: who's babysitting for all of these people, and going through
Speaker 3: the machine sometimes is not as fast as waiting.
Speaker 5: In the line would be.
Speaker 3: Everybody would be happy. You don't have market basket out
Speaker 3: in Idaho, but we have.
Speaker 10: But I miss it.
Speaker 6: I do miss it.
Speaker 3: Oh my God, and guess what this staying true to
Speaker 3: the values and they will be rewarded in the long run.
Speaker 8: By yes, that's my point.
Speaker 10: I think everything kind of comes around. And I'm just
Speaker 10: gonna say really quickly, your Rosy hour was amazing. Unfortunately
Speaker 10: I was attached to the stove and I couldn't call.
Speaker 10: But you know, you're missing one big component of that
Speaker 10: hour or that interview was not just her and her mom,
Speaker 10: but you.
Speaker 6: So there you go, Laura.
Speaker 3: I so appreciate it. I was. I was amazed because
Speaker 3: I've had parents, you know, put children on the phone before,
Speaker 3: and oftentimes it's like very quiet and monosyllabic answers. She
Speaker 3: was just the opposite. She was so confusing. And I'd
Speaker 3: like to take that interview, that that phone call and
Speaker 3: just say this is the best of my show. I've
Speaker 3: been doing it right.
Speaker 10: Lea, and that interview, at that phone call, that that
Speaker 10: phone call, that interview wouldn't have happened with what you
Speaker 10: put out there.
Speaker 6: And so you get a big kudos for that.
Speaker 3: For you. You're the best. You're the best. Keep your
Speaker 3: eyes open for your mailbox. Okay, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 5: Good night, Laurie.
Speaker 3: All right, let me get one more in here before
Speaker 3: we got to go to break, and then we will
Speaker 3: go to break, I promise, Eileen, Eileen, go right ahead
Speaker 3: your next on night side.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 11: Well Hi, I also like Market Basket, but closer to
Speaker 11: where I live is Trader Joe's and they have no
Speaker 11: self checkout on The employees there are so super friendly.
Speaker 11: I've never, you know, been in a store where people
Speaker 11: were more helpful and help helped you find what you're
Speaker 11: looking for. And they saved my life today because they
Speaker 11: give out free samples of food and I forgot to
Speaker 11: eat lunch, so the free sample helped me very much.
Speaker 3: Well again, look at the advertising that you just gave them.
Speaker 3: I have not named the store that I'm that I'm
Speaker 3: so disappointed in today, Okay, because they're all the same.
Speaker 3: Right there is even my my Roach Brothers, which I
Speaker 3: like a lot. They have set up some of these
Speaker 3: automatic check out machines. Uh and for the person who
Speaker 3: has one item, okay, that's fine, but but they always
Speaker 3: you always have lines that move pretty quickly. They basically
Speaker 3: are trying to teach us how to how to be
Speaker 3: good little consumers. And I don't want anybody trying to
Speaker 3: teach me how to be good little anything? Okay, will Well.
Speaker 2: Trader Joe's.
Speaker 11: I love that store. Trader Joe's, that's my store. They're
Speaker 11: cheaper than the other supermarkets. I don't know how they
Speaker 11: do it. They give out free samples and their their friendly.
Speaker 3: I have been to Traded Joe's occasionally, but I will
Speaker 3: make a point of it to go there more because
Speaker 3: of your phone call. So therefore the free samples they
Speaker 3: gave that they gave you today for lunch got them
Speaker 3: a lot of good publicity, that's for sure, Eileen. I
Speaker 3: will talk to you over the weekend. Thank you so much. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: thanks Dan, coming back on Nightside very quick break here,
Speaker 3: I promise, and then we'll wrap it up. Uh six two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. The only line open right now actually a
Speaker 3: six one seven. Fill those up and we'll be all
Speaker 3: set with coming back on night Side.
Speaker 12: War's over Man Weirmer dropped the big one?
Speaker 3: What over? You say over? Nothing is over until winter
Speaker 3: Side it is? Was it over? Win? The German's bomb proner?
Speaker 13: Hell No German Briganity's rolling now back to Dan ray
Speaker 13: line from the Window World night Side Studios on w
Speaker 13: b Z news radio.
Speaker 3: By the way, baseball, it'll be the Dodgers versus the Mets,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if it's gonna be the Yankees. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll be the Yankees, but against the you in the Guardians,
Speaker 3: I should say, oh, the Tigers. So we have some
Speaker 3: old school baseball coming up as we hit towards the
Speaker 3: World Series. All right, let's keep rolling here. I got
Speaker 3: two lines open if you want to sneak in six seven?
Speaker 3: Are we giving up as a society? Are we giving
Speaker 3: up as Americans? Are we saying it doesn't matter? It
Speaker 3: always matters? It always matters. Glenn, you were next on
Speaker 3: nice that Glenn, want to get you in two more
Speaker 3: in goo? Right?
Speaker 8: Hey, yeah, I think we're giving up. I'm trying, so
Speaker 8: I think that's what's wrong. Now the one here I'm
Speaker 8: wanting to die on. I was telling rob Is to
Speaker 8: get a human being to come to the telephone. I
Speaker 8: love it like today. I won't say what it was.
Speaker 8: I called a consumer group that helps find people. I
Speaker 8: must have went through you want to talk about voicemail? Hell, Finally,
Speaker 8: I was almost in tears. I finally heard my favorite words,
Speaker 8: hold on while we'll represent, while we bring and I'm.
Speaker 7: Like, thank you God, that's all I wanted.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm like, you know, I was.
Speaker 14: I was on the other day on a trying to
Speaker 14: get some some help, and I dialed and and said,
Speaker 14: you know, through the whole thing, and it could punch
Speaker 14: it this punch, that punch that finally said, your call
Speaker 14: is very important to us.
Speaker 3: You are there to be uh your way, your call
Speaker 3: the number one, meaning you're you're going to be next.
Speaker 3: I was off for thirty minutes. I was still called
Speaker 3: number one. I just got off.
Speaker 8: I know. That's what I went through today.
Speaker 3: And your call is very please, your call is very well,
Speaker 3: it copy that important.
Speaker 8: To you if you know what it is exactly. Thank
Speaker 8: you you read my mail.
Speaker 3: Gotta gotta keep. We cannot give up, man. It's a
Speaker 3: simple as I felt so badly for this this I.
Speaker 8: Like the guy that who's the gun. He said, I
Speaker 8: want you to go to the window and you mad
Speaker 8: as hell, and I'm not taking this anymore now.
Speaker 3: That's we could have had that one. I just thought
Speaker 3: that tonight John Belushi and Animal House was was the
Speaker 3: was the way I felt today, is that we're not
Speaker 3: giving up with the Germans. Bomb Pearl Harbor. He's on
Speaker 3: a roll.
Speaker 8: That funny Germany.
Speaker 3: Thanks thanks to have a great weekend. Okay talk so
Speaker 3: yeah you too, thanks man. All right, let me keep rolling.
Speaker 3: He I got some open lines. Come on, it's finish strong.
Speaker 3: Going to go to Janet in High Park.
Speaker 8: Janet welcome, How are you fine?
Speaker 1: How are you? Damn? First time carler another?
Speaker 3: First time?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 3: I love it when you first call.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. One last Saturday, I went to
Speaker 1: my my regular store. There was not one cash here there.
Speaker 1: They closed the customer service. I was in. I was
Speaker 1: the tenth person in line on the automatic. There was
Speaker 1: one of I was on one side, people on the other,
Speaker 1: and I had three things. It came to one hundred
Speaker 1: and five dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I finally went to a guy at the produce
Speaker 1: and I said, you need to get somebody over here
Speaker 1: with three things. I didn't spend one hundred and five dollars.
Speaker 1: He said, well you, uh yeah items. You must have
Speaker 1: tripled the doubleware. Well, there's nobody here to help us.
Speaker 1: This is my first time doing this and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be my last. So you need to get somebody over
Speaker 1: here to help us. Okay, we're all screaming, screaming and
Speaker 1: hollowing to get somebody here. Why are you customer service closed?
Speaker 1: Where are the cashiers? Can you tell me where they are?
Speaker 6: Or?
Speaker 3: I love your spirit, Janet, I love your spirit.
Speaker 1: Nobody, he said, Well, nobody's schedule them in. Well that's
Speaker 1: not my problem. Okay, that's not my problem. This is
Speaker 1: a big, big corporation store. What is the problem with
Speaker 1: the store. Every time I come in here, there's always
Speaker 1: something wrong?
Speaker 3: You know what. Let me ask you, Janet, you've showed
Speaker 3: such passion. What store was this?
Speaker 1: I'd rather not say.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm the struth from my house, all right.
Speaker 3: I get it, I get it, I get it. No,
Speaker 3: I do, Jenne, And I love your call. That's your first.
Speaker 1: Call, you know, Dan, I'm not giving up, but I
Speaker 1: am not going back to that store. Okay. If you
Speaker 1: can't have people to commendate customers, then nobody needs to
Speaker 1: come here. That's the way I look at it. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 3: Totally, Janet. I got to run because I got two more.
Speaker 3: But do me a favor. I want you. I want
Speaker 3: to hear your next call as soon as possible, and
Speaker 3: I want you to.
Speaker 1: Oh you will, Dan, you will, but I will not
Speaker 1: put the I listen to you every night. I said,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, do I have to call it because
Speaker 1: I am not going back to that store. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the prices are. I am another store not
Speaker 1: far that I can go to.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, thank you, thank you. I got
Speaker 3: to get you more in I'm going to run.
Speaker 1: I'm the next weekend and be safe.
Speaker 3: You too, Right back at you. All right, let's keep
Speaker 3: going here, James, and Boss, you gotta be real quick
Speaker 3: for me. James, go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Dan, this is Shim Griffin, an old friend of yours.
Speaker 9: I want to thank you for a woman's extra you
Speaker 9: right about traded, Joe said. Joe's open a great place
Speaker 9: on five hundred and fourth Street. It's fantastic, a coffee square, fantastic.
Speaker 9: And I want to thank you for doctor Frankie. I
Speaker 9: went to his office. He talked to me. He asked
Speaker 9: me to bring the X rays to Stoneham. He can't
Speaker 9: do anything for me, but I'm deep gratitude to you
Speaker 9: for everything. You want to say, Go ahead.
Speaker 3: He'll always try to help you. He's a great doctors.
Speaker 9: A great man. He gave me some good advice, but
Speaker 9: he kind he said he can't health. The outhrighters saw
Speaker 9: the neuropathy. I'm eighty four and I'm not giving up.
Speaker 9: I know you were for a long time, and I
Speaker 9: don't call her the show much. And I'm going to
Speaker 9: end this by saying I want Trump for four more
Speaker 9: years and Jay thank events for eighth after that.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think a lot of people feel that way. Hey, James,
Speaker 3: we'll talk again.
Speaker 9: Call more awesome, please, just God, it's gonna happen. And
Speaker 9: if you give me a call sometime, you have my number,
Speaker 9: all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks James, I will you have mine as well. We'll
Speaker 3: talk soon, Thanks James. Let's last call it the week
Speaker 3: goes to John up and the North Shore. John, I'm
Speaker 3: not so much time I get left, but we got
Speaker 3: to be quick.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, so that's good. Prince of all, Dan, I'm
Speaker 12: humbled to be on your show. You're a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 12: radio host. And thanks for you know, tackling these hardcore subjects.
Speaker 12: The lats of ten callers seem to be about a
Speaker 12: microcosm of the subject that you brought up originally. Yes,
Speaker 12: interpersonal skills are awesome. And it's always great to hear
Speaker 12: wonderful stories about good interpersonal skills. And yes, certainly keep
Speaker 12: a business local, and that's certainly what builds the cyberca
Speaker 12: this country. If I understand your question correctly, it was
Speaker 12: the overall economy until our people can't give it economy.
Speaker 3: John, is this your first time calling?
Speaker 6: Yes it is.
Speaker 3: Well. First of all, thank you. First, I'm flat out
Speaker 3: of time, but you gotta call more often. And I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to your second call.
Speaker 12: Okay, Oh oh, gotta get a word in Andre.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I'm flat out of time, John, I got ten
Speaker 3: seconds left in the show. It's midnight. Okay, we'll talk
Speaker 3: next week. And uh thanks Jean, gotta go. Folks. You
Speaker 3: gotta understand the clock stops for no one. All dog
Speaker 3: thank you, Rob, thank you, Marina. All dogs, all cats,
Speaker 3: all pets go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rais
Speaker 3: who passed fourteen years going February, that's why all your
Speaker 3: pets are our past. They love you, you love them.
Speaker 3: We'll see again on Monday night of a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Everyone go Patriots,