Speaker 1: It's nice eyes.
Speaker 2: I'm going you razy Boston's News Radio. One of the
Speaker 2: things that I would like to suggest to people is
Speaker 2: this if if you feel your energy supply charges are
Speaker 2: too high, here's the website here in Massachusetts where you
Speaker 2: can compare what you're paying. All you have to do
Speaker 2: is go to your energy bill. Okay, whether it's again,
Speaker 2: whatever the company is, whether it's National Grid and or
Speaker 2: ever Source or unitool, you go to this website. I'll
Speaker 2: be going to the website tomorrow, so therefore I want
Speaker 2: you to also have this opportunity. It's all one word
Speaker 2: mass energy rates, so it's m A S S E
Speaker 2: N E R G Y rates r A t ees,
Speaker 2: dot com slash Massachusetts hyphen Electricity hyphen suppliers, rob if
Speaker 2: you can write that down in case people miss it,
Speaker 2: Mass Energy rates, dot com slash Massachusetts Hyphen Electricity hyphen suppliers.
Speaker 2: At that point, you will be asked to select your utility.
Speaker 2: Your choices are pretty easy. National Grid, ever Source, UNITIL.
Speaker 2: Now this is for electricity, So in my instance, I
Speaker 2: just selected my supplier. It's one of three choices. Okay.
Speaker 2: Then it says select account type. It's real simple. Residential
Speaker 2: commercial or large commercial. So I'm residential. Then you're asked
Speaker 2: to put in your zip code. It's as simple as
Speaker 2: putting in your zip code five letters. Then it says
Speaker 2: compare electricity rates. You will be brought to a point
Speaker 2: where you can select the rates that you feel are
Speaker 2: most reasonable for you. Okay. There's a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: suppliers Direct Energy, Clearview Energy, Constellation Energy, Direct Energy, Discount Power.
Speaker 2: Now all of them are different rates, different times. Twelve
Speaker 2: month fixed rate, eighteen month fixed rate, six month fix rate.
Speaker 2: Some have no cancelation fees, some have a cancelation fee.
Speaker 2: I will probably tomorrow go and sign up for it
Speaker 2: looks to me like maybe a nine month fixed rate
Speaker 2: get me through the year twelve point nine to nine
Speaker 2: cents per kilowatt hour. Okay, I'm currently because they just
Speaker 2: raised my rate the company that I was with, apparently
Speaker 2: my contract went out. I'm going to cut my rate
Speaker 2: in half, so please take advantage of this tomorrow. Go
Speaker 2: to mass Energy rates dot com slash compare hyphen mass
Speaker 2: hyphen Electricity hyphen rates. There are those in power on
Speaker 2: Beacon Hill who want to take this option away from you. Okay,
Speaker 2: and we will talk about that at some point as well.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to continue. I'd love to talk about
Speaker 2: this for the balance of the program. I think it's
Speaker 2: a really important issue. It's a local issue here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: but it also plays in other states around the country
Speaker 2: because rates are going up in other states around the country.
Speaker 2: Let's go next to Chris down in the Cape. Chris,
Speaker 2: I appreciate your patience holding through the news. You're next
Speaker 2: on Nightside, Chris.
Speaker 3: Are you ready, yeady?
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, I've just introduced You're welcome to Nightside. What's
Speaker 2: your point you're on here? Go ahead? Hello you there, Rob, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm here. Chris. Put him on hold and I'll come
Speaker 2: back to him. Let me go to Deborah in Marlborough. Deborah,
Speaker 2: you are next on Nightside. Go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Hi again. I'm so glad that you're talking about this,
Speaker 4: and I know everybody else is in the same situation
Speaker 4: as me. But I got a monthly electric bill actually
Speaker 4: for a thousand dollars, and you know what, I live
Speaker 4: in a little mobile home. Can you imagine the highest
Speaker 4: I've ever paid for my electricity during the wintertime was
Speaker 4: around five five fifty And I got a bill for
Speaker 4: one thousand dollars in the second the last month, the
Speaker 4: same thing. And I just hope that something can be done.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to tell you this bozo, that's the governor.
Speaker 4: I didn't vote for her, and I'm not voting for
Speaker 4: her the next time. And I hope she's gone.
Speaker 2: Well she wants to run for president?
Speaker 4: Oh, I know she does.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: Can you see that?
Speaker 2: Really anything is possible in America exactly.
Speaker 4: And then the other thing I'm thinking is it's going
Speaker 4: to be at the point where I mean, I live
Speaker 4: by myself here in a small mobile home. That's what
Speaker 4: I get for my electric bill. And I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 4: I'm going to actually I'll probably wind up being homeless.
Speaker 4: And if that happens, I'm sitting outside her her her
Speaker 4: mansion and with a sign. Really okay, I cannot even
Speaker 4: believe it.
Speaker 2: Let me encourage you to do this. While you were
Speaker 2: on hold, I gave this play this website. Are you
Speaker 2: going to you? O?
Speaker 4: Yes, I got it, And I'm definitely gonna do that.
Speaker 2: Great, okay, Because what you can do is, and there
Speaker 2: are some of these rates. What you should do is
Speaker 2: look on your bill and where Bill says, let me.
Speaker 2: Let me direct you to where you where you want
Speaker 2: to look. Where you look on your bill? Who's who's
Speaker 2: your electrical suppliers? That ever source?
Speaker 4: National Grid? Oh no, it's National Grid.
Speaker 2: Well, at some point there you should see that there's
Speaker 2: a generation service charge okay, which is your in effect,
Speaker 2: your supplier charge. And I tell you how many killowat
Speaker 2: hours you used for that, you know, the last month, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: and it'll say however many killer what hours? Then it
Speaker 2: will say kW H for killowat hours times, and then
Speaker 2: it'll tell you what you're paying per killowat hour. Okay,
Speaker 2: my generation service charge for my electric bill. It's not
Speaker 2: National Grid, another supplier more than doubled okay. And I
Speaker 2: think what happened was I was asleep at the switch, okay.
Speaker 2: And and I think that that when this supplier, when
Speaker 2: my contract ended, I was with this company called Smart
Speaker 2: Energy out of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. I will be calling him
Speaker 2: in the morning, okay. So yeah, oh yeah, And I
Speaker 2: think what you should do is you go to the website,
Speaker 2: find out what you're paying. Do you know offhand what
Speaker 2: you're paying for kill a one hour? Or no?
Speaker 4: You probably I have to bill but I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you could find it. It will simply say
Speaker 2: you're you're how many killow hours you use? Uh? And
Speaker 2: you can find that because they have to give you
Speaker 2: your monthly killer what use and others hopefully are listening
Speaker 2: to me as well. So you you look at the
Speaker 2: number of KILLO one hours. Then you find where it
Speaker 2: says generation service charge, and that will tell you what
Speaker 2: you pay. It will say times point some number. And
Speaker 2: then you go on this website and you find a
Speaker 2: better rate, simple as that, and you can you know,
Speaker 2: you can pick your supplier. They're going to try to
Speaker 2: take this choice away from us. Up there on be
Speaker 2: con okay, and and do me a favor. Let me know.
Speaker 2: Rob will give you my direct line, give me a
Speaker 2: call tomorrow, and if you need any help navigating the system,
Speaker 2: I'll call you and help you.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You stay right there. Rob will give you my direct line. Uh.
Speaker 2: And if you're running into problems either way, I want
Speaker 2: you to call me and let me know how you
Speaker 2: how you make out, Okay, thanks Debbie up. Rob will
Speaker 2: take care of you. Here we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be talking with Chris and Cape cod he's gonna be
Speaker 2: second this hour. The only line that is open right
Speaker 2: now is six one seven. Look, we can use this
Speaker 2: program to help each other. That's what we're doing tonight.
Speaker 2: And if you are, if you're at a computer, just
Speaker 2: go to the website mass Energy rates dot com slash
Speaker 2: compare hyphen mass hyphen Electricity hyphen rates, Grab your electric bill,
Speaker 2: look at it. You'll see. I'll be making my phone
Speaker 2: call tomorrow. I was asleep at the switch. That's my fault.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna get it corrected tomorrow. Back on Nightside
Speaker 2: right after this. Now back to Dan ray line from
Speaker 2: the Window World.
Speaker 1: Night Side Studios on WBZ the news radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones. Let's give it Chris another shot. Here,
Speaker 2: another bite at the apple. Chrissy, you're there, Yes, I
Speaker 2: am hi. I have no idea what happening before? What
Speaker 2: were you away from the phone per chance for now?
Speaker 3: No? No, I have a home problem that it's sort
Speaker 3: of irrelevant, but I did get back to it and
Speaker 3: here I am God. I can't thank you enough for
Speaker 3: this public service. I'm like you. I have a bunch
Speaker 3: of electric bills from different properties that I have and
Speaker 3: for the first time earlier this week. I actually scrutinized
Speaker 3: because I was kind of shocking odd by the amount,
Speaker 3: and I started looking at the items that are surcharged of.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's seven or ten. I don't
Speaker 3: have the bills in front of me, but I was
Speaker 3: shot by and I said, I think you'd be doing
Speaker 3: beyond the public service you're doing tonight by illuminating this.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what can I just jump in for a second.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I apologize for interrupting, but thank
Speaker 2: you for the kind comments. I do this because I
Speaker 2: believe in it. Okay, I'm in a position where I
Speaker 2: have a radio station that supports me. I have a
Speaker 2: microphone and people can listen or they can choose not
Speaker 2: to listen. But I want them to listen. And if
Speaker 2: I can help people tonight, let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: We complain about gas prices. Gasoline prices, we all we
Speaker 2: drive by gas stations, we see what the price is,
Speaker 2: we decide we buy gas, we don't. We go to
Speaker 2: the store and we complain about egg prices and we
Speaker 2: either buy them or we don't. But the price is there.
Speaker 2: You look at one of these bills that you get
Speaker 2: and the real important information is buried in the bill.
Speaker 2: There's so much crap here on the bill the average
Speaker 2: person cod read it.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, that happened. I happened for the first time
Speaker 3: this week scrutinized one of those and I said, this
Speaker 3: is hieroglyphics. Uh, and it's a sham. And I think
Speaker 3: in furtherance of the public service that you do for us,
Speaker 3: you should have the one or all of the commissioners
Speaker 3: be examined and cross examined by you as to each
Speaker 3: in one of these each and every one of these
Speaker 3: items to be substantiated. I also looking into this for
Speaker 3: the first time ever, because I just routinely, you know,
Speaker 3: reflexively pay these bills as most people do. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: And I worry about the you know, the people that
Speaker 3: aren't as well off as the rest of us may be,
Speaker 3: that they just do the same thing as I do.
Speaker 3: But they're getting just hosed. I tell you, in the vernaculus.
Speaker 2: You're so right, and they're getting screwed, is what they're getting.
Speaker 2: That's what that's what's going on. But you're right, And
Speaker 2: the problem is that you have older people whose visions
Speaker 2: has failed is failed a little bit. You have people
Speaker 2: who are busy, They're just trying to live their life.
Speaker 2: You know, I just think about gas station. We complain
Speaker 2: about gas, but you drive into a gas station there
Speaker 2: for five minutes, you pay ten dollars or twenty dollars,
Speaker 2: or you fill your tank and you're all set. It's easy. Supermarkets, yeah,
Speaker 2: I complain about supermarkets like everything. You know, the prices
Speaker 2: are too high. But guess what, I got a choice.
Speaker 2: Do I want to buy those Oreo cookies for five
Speaker 2: forty nine? No way. I love Oreo cookies, but I'm
Speaker 2: not going to buy them until they come down in price.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. Do I need those Peppers Farm,
Speaker 2: you know triple chocolate chip dark chocolate cookies that I
Speaker 2: love for five ninety nine? No way, no way. But
Speaker 2: when when you try to read these bills it is hieroglyphics,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: And when you think about it, which I did. That
Speaker 3: happened to be coincidentally with my review of this first
Speaker 3: time ever. Maybe I was thinking who appoints these commissioners?
Speaker 3: And I saw it either an article in the Globe
Speaker 3: or the Herald that said the governor appoints. Well, that's
Speaker 3: not according to my information. It is the secretary of
Speaker 3: the Executive Office of the Energy and Environmental Affairs affairs
Speaker 3: emphasis added, what affair are they having? Most of those
Speaker 3: of the three, at least two out of three, have
Speaker 3: no connection to Massachusetts. They're copt baggers and don't have
Speaker 3: any idea about the struggles of the people. That I
Speaker 3: learned today, fifty percent of our population, if they had
Speaker 3: a one thousand dollars unexpected bill, like a repair your
Speaker 3: car bill, they wouldn't be able to pay it. Come on,
Speaker 3: I think you need to have I mean, you don't
Speaker 3: need to do anything better. I'm just suggesting that, in
Speaker 3: furtherance of this topic, that you have one, two, three,
Speaker 3: or all of them, or if not, the governor or,
Speaker 3: in particular the appointing authority, which I understand it to be,
Speaker 3: which was incorrect correctly reported not once but twice in
Speaker 3: our local mainstream newspapers of Massachusetts. They referred to it
Speaker 3: as the governor to the appointing authority. I've learned, and
Speaker 3: I may irong, but it's the Executive Office of Energy
Speaker 3: and Environmental Affairs, and the governor has a veto over that.
Speaker 3: In other words, you're right, the governor has it read
Speaker 3: it to you.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right. The department is overseen by the
Speaker 2: three member Commonwealth Utilities Commission, appointed by the Secretary of
Speaker 2: the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, with approval
Speaker 2: by the Governor. Right the secret the Secretary designates one
Speaker 2: of the commissioners as chair. Below you can learn about
Speaker 2: our commission. So the chair is a guy named James
Speaker 2: Jamie van Nostrend Okay. He was an adjunct professor at
Speaker 2: Pace University in White Plains, New York. He received his
Speaker 2: environmental law degree at Pace University, jd from the University
Speaker 2: of Iowa College of Law, and a master's degree in
Speaker 2: economics from Sunny at Albany, an undergraduate degree in economics
Speaker 2: from the University of Northern Iowa. So this guy is Iowa.
Speaker 2: In New York. Commissioner Cecil Fraser. She received the Bachelor's
Speaker 2: of Arts degree in political science from Fordham University and
Speaker 2: her j d from Rutgers University School of Law in Camden.
Speaker 2: So she's from New Jersey. She was appointed by a
Speaker 2: Governor Baker's office okay, and then the last one Stacy
Speaker 2: Ruben Commissioner. She at least went to her law degree
Speaker 2: is from Northeastern University at a public health degree from
Speaker 2: HUFFS and a Master of Policy from Vermont Law School
Speaker 2: undergraduate degree from New York University. So they none of
Speaker 2: them are pure Massachusetts residents, none of the three, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Stacy Rubin is the one that is closest.
Speaker 2: But I gotta tell you, you know that the Secretary
Speaker 2: of Environmental Affairs is not in point pointing her cousin
Speaker 2: Ernie to a position like that. This is all with
Speaker 2: the approval of the governor. So the buck, as Harry
Speaker 2: Truman said, the buck stops at the big desk, simple
Speaker 2: as that. All right. I love the call, Chris, please
Speaker 2: keep calling Knights. I tell your friends about Nightside as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll do. Thank you, Chris, appreciate you. Dan, good night.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to I'm gonna get Paul in Plymouth.
Speaker 2: In Paul, you were next on Nightside. Welcome Dan.
Speaker 6: Hey, listen, you know, as far as these bills go,
Speaker 6: when they generate electricity at Apollo Plant, it's tied in
Speaker 6: on this parallel grid, so they're talking about delivery and transmission.
Speaker 6: It's the same thing. And i'd like to know, uh, well,
Speaker 6: you already you just said it. I mean, these people
Speaker 6: have absolutely no qualification in electrical engineering or an electrician
Speaker 6: anything like that. Any electrical engineer electrician knows uh that
Speaker 6: these these are just trumped up charges and the duplicity.
Speaker 2: Well, for the for the most part. The three who
Speaker 2: were on and I'm a lawyer, okay, but I don't
Speaker 2: understand the stuff. One guy has his jd from the
Speaker 2: University of Iowa Law School. Uh Uh, he also worked
Speaker 2: at the West Virginia University School of Law. The second
Speaker 2: one has the j D. She's a lawyer from Rutgers
Speaker 2: University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. Uh. And
Speaker 2: the third one has a law degree from Northeastern University
Speaker 2: School of Law. Okay, can of them have any expertise
Speaker 2: in this? These are three people who never should have
Speaker 2: been appointed, one by Baker, two by by the current governor.
Speaker 2: Governor heally.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: They have no background in electrical or an electricity period,
Speaker 6: and they're the ones that are making the I'm sure they're,
Speaker 6: you know, very smart people and proficient in their field,
Speaker 6: but why are they making the decisions on about electricity
Speaker 6: when they have no background in electricity?
Speaker 2: Well, Paul, Paul, you and I are smart people. Okay,
Speaker 2: but let's assume Bob Kraft called you and said, hey, Paul,
Speaker 2: I want you to be the coach of the Patriots
Speaker 2: and Dan is going to be your defensive coordinator. How
Speaker 2: do you think we do, Paul?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I don't hope we'd make it
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. No, But I'm not joking when
Speaker 2: I say that, the fact of the matter is that
Speaker 2: these are political point is this this group of three
Speaker 2: when the governor said, you know, we want the editor
Speaker 2: companies to give something back, they they ordered them to
Speaker 2: give back five percent five percent, and the energy company said,
Speaker 2: we'll give back ten percent. So these knuckleheads, as as
Speaker 2: the Great Tom Andino would say, these knuckleheads, they should
Speaker 2: have said you got to give back twenty percent. But no,
Speaker 2: it's like you're making it too easy on us. Commissioners.
Speaker 2: We gotta make we got to give back ten percent
Speaker 2: to at least make it look good. And and this right, that's.
Speaker 3: Why I did to hire you know, and uh, well,
Speaker 3: let's say.
Speaker 2: The government that's in competence, that that is absolute incompetence.
Speaker 2: You're the commissioners, you're asking for five percent and the
Speaker 2: people that you're regulating saying no, we'll do you better.
Speaker 2: We'll give you ten percent. Governor Healy should should ask
Speaker 2: for the letters of resignations of those three people tomorrow.
Speaker 6: She won't, I agree, she won't. Get some engineers and
Speaker 6: electricians on that.
Speaker 3: That's what they need.
Speaker 2: I'm with you this, this is this is a scandal. Okay.
Speaker 2: It is a scandal, and the governor needs to step
Speaker 2: up to it. This is the sort of thing that
Speaker 2: if she wants to run for president, this is gonna
Speaker 2: come back. This is like what Boston Harbor was to
Speaker 2: Mike Dukakis. This is the sort of thing that the
Speaker 2: Republicans would do if if she ever became the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 2: And I'm not betting a lot of money on that.
Speaker 2: All Right, I gotta run, Paul, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your calling.
Speaker 6: Okay again, but thanks you very much.
Speaker 3: Good night.
Speaker 2: Don't talk to you soon, good night, okay. Six one seven, two,
Speaker 2: five four ten thirty six one seven nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. By the way, I have a big announcement
Speaker 2: to make later on tonight, so I'm not gonna make
Speaker 2: it on the air. I'll make it on the air tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but I do a show on I shouldn't say a show.
Speaker 2: We do what's called night side postgame on Facebook. If
Speaker 2: you're listening tonight and you're near a computer at midnight,
Speaker 2: go to your Facebook page and find Nights with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be making an announcement in advance of
Speaker 2: an announcement tomorrow night, but I want my most loyal listeners,
Speaker 2: who are people who who check in with me after
Speaker 2: the show on Facebook, to get a little bit of
Speaker 2: a head start on this. The only line open right now,
Speaker 2: we got one line six, one, seven thirty. All of
Speaker 2: a sudden, this topic has taken off. I am so
Speaker 2: delighted that people are interested in this because, guess what,
Speaker 2: They're picking your pockets back on night side. And by
Speaker 2: the way, the government is what's doing who is allowing
Speaker 2: them to pick your pockets back on nightside? After this,
Speaker 2: you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 2: news radio. Yesterday, Governor Healy had a news conference about
Speaker 2: these bills. When I say these bills, I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about these legislative bills. These these bills from energy companies.
Speaker 2: This is the governor are cut thirty five cut thirty five, Rob.
Speaker 8: And costs in other ways. All Right, every single day,
Speaker 8: I want you to know that this team, this administration
Speaker 8: and I as Governor am laser focused on lowering costs
Speaker 8: for people around Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: And one of the biggest budgetbusters.
Speaker 8: That we've seen lately is what people saw on gas bills,
Speaker 8: electric bills, heating bills the last couple of months.
Speaker 2: Laser focused. You weren't laser focused, Governor in October when
Speaker 2: your DPU commissioners were granting increases. You know, maybe laser
Speaker 2: focused now because you know people are upset. Where was you?
Speaker 2: Where was your team? Governor? Didn't they know that these things?
Speaker 2: I mean, the average person doesn't attend DPU meetings, Governor,
Speaker 2: These would be the questions that I would ask the governor,
Speaker 2: But I don't think the governor has any interest in
Speaker 2: coming on the show on this topic. And again, all
Speaker 2: sorts of promises here, Okay, here's one. The question is
Speaker 2: this is what the governor said. This is cut forty,
Speaker 2: Rob going to talk about all the steps she's going
Speaker 2: to take. Cut forty.
Speaker 4: We estimate that these steps, taken together, will save Massachusetts
Speaker 4: residents five point eight billion dollars over the next five years, almost.
Speaker 8: Six billion dollars.
Speaker 4: We're going to save money back.
Speaker 8: To you over the next five years.
Speaker 2: Now, the people who are clapping there, for the most part,
Speaker 2: were members of the governor's staff, state employees. I mean,
Speaker 2: do you believe that. I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, you're not going to save it
Speaker 2: with this group of DPU commissioners. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to Miller in Lawrence, Lawrence Miller,
Speaker 2: Let's do me a favorite Rob, put them on hold,
Speaker 2: and we'll never called the radio station before. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: good too. Let's go to Joe in Boston. Joe, you're
Speaker 2: next on nightside. Go right ahead, Joe.
Speaker 8: Good evening.
Speaker 2: Then, my brother, Joe, how are you. This is not
Speaker 2: a happy topic we're talking about tonight.
Speaker 8: No, it's not hard imaginally looking at some of the notes.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember about twenty seventeen eighteen,
Speaker 8: Kelly Baker had a guy on one of those environmental
Speaker 8: boards that he was caught on a hot mic saying
Speaker 8: that he was going, we just got to try to
Speaker 8: make a hurt for the people, to make them aware
Speaker 8: that they have to save energy there was up in
Speaker 8: New Hampshire and the guy had to pull it back
Speaker 8: and he ended up getting fired after that. Yeah, that
Speaker 8: was one of those people. Yeah, those are the people
Speaker 8: that we have on the on the part of the
Speaker 8: public utilities. Who are these people? I mean, you don't
Speaker 8: have any electricion in debt. You don't have anybody who
Speaker 8: has been run in a power plant that can put
Speaker 8: things forward for us. I got fifty bucks that are
Speaker 8: going to go have dinner this week. Do you think
Speaker 8: that I can't afford to have dinner this week with
Speaker 8: fifty bucks?
Speaker 2: Maybe at McDonald's.
Speaker 8: Not even that's insulting then, I mean what they are
Speaker 8: doing is I mean, and I feel so so bareful
Speaker 8: people on fixed income? Yeah, I mean then by bill
Speaker 8: from six plus with two one thousand dollars, I mean,
Speaker 8: come on, I mean, thank god, I'm able to you know,
Speaker 8: with my family, I'm able to handle that. But it's
Speaker 8: just ridiculous and how somebody in a fixed income can't
Speaker 8: handle that. And the DPU who appointing these people, one
Speaker 8: of them was by Charlie Baker, you know, the two.
Speaker 8: But this healing what what by healing? What are they getting?
Speaker 8: I mean they are giving money. I want to know
Speaker 8: the contribution from the utility companies to the candidates, because
Speaker 8: that's how that is done. Oh and they went, oh,
Speaker 8: we're going to take off, you know, the bills from
Speaker 8: from the next two months, and didn't just give them
Speaker 8: to you in the middle of the summer. They were
Speaker 8: not supposed to be their first starters. I mean, it's
Speaker 8: just it's like borrowing.
Speaker 2: It's like borrowing money. It's like borrowing. It's like borrowing
Speaker 2: money from from a bookie. You gotta pay it back
Speaker 2: and you gotta pay a little interest. It's the same thing.
Speaker 8: To eliminate. They have to eliminate all those lobbyists because
Speaker 8: that's what they do with That's the same thing that
Speaker 8: they do with the insurance. My insurances been going up
Speaker 8: to the room and guess what, I have an excellent
Speaker 8: driving record and nothing has changed, nothing has changed whatsoever. However,
Speaker 8: they raise the insurance off. Why what's the reason for.
Speaker 8: It's just insane. They need a dolge over here, a
Speaker 8: local dolge. I mean, I will call it a double d.
Speaker 8: If they can allow that you have disacled actually to
Speaker 8: get into these things, I mean those it might be
Speaker 8: payful now but it's probably one of the greatest inventions
Speaker 8: because you can dig in and find out where the
Speaker 8: waste is in government, because it's so much waste in government.
Speaker 8: And if they can establish that from the federal level
Speaker 8: and just strick down and bring it down to the
Speaker 8: local government levels, from the governor to the unity, every
Speaker 8: single level to a leaminate way. If you're gonna leave
Speaker 8: meate ways, we'll be a fine I'm with.
Speaker 2: You totally, Joe, Joe, Well said, my friend Well said, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's up. It's up to the people now to sort
Speaker 2: of start to stand up and say, hey, we've taken
Speaker 2: enough here and we can't take it anymore. This is
Speaker 2: this is this is stuff, tough stuff.
Speaker 8: Joe, all right, thank you, man. I appreciate you, my brother.
Speaker 8: You have a lovely evening. I love you and your family.
Speaker 2: Love love your family and you as well. Thank you, Joe,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Thank you very much. Look, hey, let me
Speaker 2: get going here. I'm gonna go back and see if
Speaker 2: we get Miller and Lawrence here. Let's give Miller and
Speaker 2: Lawrence a second shot. Miller, you got a second life here,
Speaker 2: go ahead. Miller.
Speaker 7: All right, Buddy, Danny, sorry about that. Dan. So I'll
Speaker 7: never say up to watch the miners thing, but I
Speaker 7: did because heally was on last week on television.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes Myers, right, yep.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, I had a thirteen minute spot. Spent eleven
Speaker 7: minutes talking about her a professional basketball career of two
Speaker 7: years in Austria.
Speaker 2: Very important, very very important. To watch out the language. Heah,
Speaker 2: we got to bleep that. Remember we're on Family Radio.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, all right, dad? Uh damn. So in closing,
Speaker 7: she says people should no, New England was a great state.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's called the region. But wow, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize that. Now if Donald if Donald Trump had
Speaker 2: said that, if Donald Trump, do you think that the
Speaker 2: networks would have been all over him or yeah?
Speaker 7: Who it was? It was a nice representation of the
Speaker 7: state at all.
Speaker 2: Well, we are the aristocracy of the elect right, they're
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. All right, Mella, have you called before? I know?
Speaker 2: Is this your first time I had?
Speaker 1: I had?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to have type of time.
Speaker 2: All right. Well I was a little I thought you're okay,
Speaker 2: what I got you. I didn't think you'd hear me.
Speaker 2: That's why we put you on old Thanks for thanks
Speaker 2: for sticking with us call talk again. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: good night. Again, we're trying to help people tonight cut
Speaker 2: their utility bills legally. We'll explain one more time on
Speaker 2: the other side. And again, as they say, I do
Speaker 2: have a special announcement tonight. If you normally listen on
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Speaker 2: have a Facebook account, and you'll be able to find
Speaker 2: Nightside Postgame and I'll be there at about twelve oh two.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after this. If you'd
Speaker 2: like to join the conversation. I get a couple more
Speaker 2: calls in six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty Back on Nightside after this. Now back to
Speaker 2: Dan Ray live from the Window World night Side Studios
Speaker 2: on WBZ News Radio. All right, let's get back to
Speaker 2: our calls. We're going to wrap the This has been
Speaker 2: an interesting evening and I do appreciate all the calls tonight.
Speaker 2: This has been it's been fun and I again am
Speaker 2: happy to try try to help you out a little
Speaker 2: bit here. It's as simple as that. We're just trying
Speaker 2: to work together. We got everybody. Let's keep rolling here.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Joe Inn in Waltham. Joe In
Speaker 2: next on nice that we'll get you in under the
Speaker 2: wire here, joe In, go right.
Speaker 5: Ahead, thank you. Dan. Yeah. I pay my daughter's electric bill,
Speaker 5: and I've been paying it for like eight years. You know,
Speaker 5: it's always like one hundred maybe one hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: in the summer. In November, National Grid was having difficulty
Speaker 5: with their billing department, and I tried to pay her
Speaker 5: bill and they kept saying, we're having difficulties, so we
Speaker 5: can you know, can't do it now. All through December,
Speaker 5: same thing. Finally I called December twenty six and it
Speaker 5: said she had a credit of four hundred and fifteen dollars,
Speaker 5: So I said, wonderful. You know, that's great. He changed
Speaker 5: her meter in early December. In February she didn't get
Speaker 5: any bills at all. In February she got nine bills
Speaker 5: all at the same time, nine bills.
Speaker 2: And separate bills, yeah, separate.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For how many months.
Speaker 5: It went way back to like May. I don't know,
Speaker 5: you know that.
Speaker 2: Joe Inn, that's an issue that involves your daughter and you,
Speaker 2: and you know that doesn't have application. And what we're
Speaker 2: really talking about tonight. We're talking about tonight the level
Speaker 2: of money that people are asking be paid in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and I think lack of oversight by the government in
Speaker 2: the final Sleep at the Switch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the final bill said nineteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess if it was nine bills. You divide
Speaker 2: it and it's like two hundred dollars a month. I
Speaker 2: don't know, Joe inn I.
Speaker 5: Well, no one bill said zero, you know, but I
Speaker 5: called them and they said, well that's what it is.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just not very helpful, that's for sure. No, Joe
Speaker 2: inn I'm trying to get you know, the news between
Speaker 2: macro and micro yours is a micro problem. It needs
Speaker 2: a microscope to figure it out, and it probably is
Speaker 2: not doesn't have great application to most of my audience.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the mike, the macro problem that the
Speaker 2: DPU commissioners here in Massachusetts, we're asleep at the switch.
Speaker 2: The governor needs to ask for their resignation.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, Well, you know, they want the climate
Speaker 5: change thing, she said. I heard her say there was
Speaker 5: eighty dollars per bill going towards climate stuff.
Speaker 2: At least at least thanks Joanne, I got to run.
Speaker 2: I got a bunch. Okay, you got to get to
Speaker 2: Thank you much. Talk to you soon. Fill in Boston, Phil,
Speaker 2: next on Nice, I go ahead, Phil, Hi, don't.
Speaker 7: I gotta be quick?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: You hit all you should be a p and you're
Speaker 9: hitting all all the right keys. I just I got
Speaker 9: my National Group bill sitting outside here, walk right by it.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid to open her now. The bottom line is
Speaker 9: you hit on all the right keys. And you said
Speaker 9: people have other things loriable they can't figure out.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to kill?
Speaker 9: What is that make a sound like they do in you?
Speaker 9: A favor? Good to kill? What I had? A guy
Speaker 9: combined now on the door and said, well he wanted me.
Speaker 9: I signed a car like an idiot. I signed a
Speaker 9: contract to get the well the fransaity where I signed that? Well,
Speaker 9: what did I just done? There'll be the finest kid.
Speaker 9: He was in and around, and then I try to
Speaker 9: call the number for the company. I was here for
Speaker 9: longer than I was taught, finding it only you. I
Speaker 9: was talking like twelve fourteen hours, funny at the Bulas phone.
Speaker 9: Oh we got the things as all we are recording
Speaker 9: I couldn't get I'm telling you. It's something's got to
Speaker 9: be done. It's crazy, it's like torture. It's unbelievable. I'm sorry,
Speaker 9: I'm rambling. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. First first and first of all,
Speaker 2: I hear your frustration. Your frustration is justified. And I
Speaker 2: don't care who you vote for, but when we elect
Speaker 2: someone to the state House, they need to put a
Speaker 2: team in place. I don't expect Mare Healy to be
Speaker 2: sitting at very DPU hearing and she has to have
Speaker 2: a Secretary of Energy who follows some That was a
Speaker 2: big meeting and they gave they gave a big fat
Speaker 2: with kiss the DPU condisioners. They're the problem, and the.
Speaker 9: Government money the lottery and they're gonna make him going
Speaker 9: to fire off for a ticket next week. You can't
Speaker 9: make the stuff up. How abatters some money?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe I shouldn't regulize. I think what happens is
Speaker 2: you legalize betting everywhere and everybody can bet on everything, all.
Speaker 9: Becoming addicts between them. Anyway, sorry about that guy.
Speaker 2: Guys Phil, you have a great one. Good night, you
Speaker 2: deserve it. Thanks. Say say if you can bet like
Speaker 2: on Laftyan soccer Max matchups, maybe that does detract a
Speaker 2: little bit from the very successful Massachusetts lottery. Jeff is
Speaker 2: in Whitman. Jeff, you were next on Nightside. Welcome, Hey Dan.
Speaker 10: I mean I've done the audit of like all my
Speaker 10: different services, and a lot of them. I've got rid
Speaker 10: of AT and T. I'm almost ready to get rid
Speaker 10: of Comcast or Internet and looking for better services. So
Speaker 10: for my electric bill, I signed up with Arbor and
Speaker 10: they'll negotiate short term contracts for you on who has
Speaker 10: the least uh the lowest rate. So and that's worked
Speaker 10: out for me and I don't have to sit there
Speaker 10: for hours going okay, is a clear sky is at?
Speaker 10: This company is a fat company?
Speaker 2: So I say, just so I understand it. There's a
Speaker 2: company that you use that negotiates your rates. What is
Speaker 2: that company?
Speaker 10: It's called Arbor, like a grape arbor?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And did they automatically set it up for you each time?
Speaker 2: So they they charge? Do they charge you for that
Speaker 2: service or do.
Speaker 10: They get a piece of the auction They somewhere get
Speaker 10: a piece of the action.
Speaker 2: Okay, So is Arbor energy dot com?
Speaker 10: I'm not sure the exact weber dress, but yeah, that's them.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, yeah.
Speaker 2: I'll find them and I'll report to the audience tomorrow night.
Speaker 10: Sounds good, sir, appreciate Jeff.
Speaker 2: Thank you much, a great How much time we got, Roub.
Speaker 2: What do we got? Okay, Jim, gonna stick you in
Speaker 2: here real quickly at the end. Got about a minute
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jim, I don't need him in I got
Speaker 1: ten seconds. All right. This is a very simple idea.
Speaker 1: Two words. Headband flash light. I mean, typically I would
Speaker 1: only recommend it for people who are desperate, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're desperate, So headband flashlight. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is if you're living in an apartment, make sure
Speaker 1: that the apartment building isn't running something off of your
Speaker 1: electric I live in an apartment one time there running
Speaker 1: the laundry room off of my electric thing. So those
Speaker 1: are to thanks. Get your next call, thanks dan By,
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 2: Great night, Jim. Okay, thanks all right. Jim always comes
Speaker 2: up with likes to sneak in late and come up
Speaker 2: with something that says that's interesting. Okay. So I want
Speaker 2: to thank everyone to call it tonight through a bunch
Speaker 2: of first time callers, which I appreciate a whole lot.
Speaker 2: I want to thank We had a great conversation with
Speaker 2: David Urban, CNN contributor. He happens to be a Trump supporter.
Speaker 2: He's sort of the one of the two House Conservatives
Speaker 2: at CNN. He also now serves on the board of
Speaker 2: directors the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate.
Speaker 2: It was a great hour. If you get a chance
Speaker 2: you if you missed it, you want to listen to
Speaker 2: that tomorrow, robill get it all posted on Nightside on demand.
Speaker 2: We did two hours in the Massachusetts energy bills and
Speaker 2: who's to blame? I think I placed it very squarely
Speaker 2: at the feet of the Department of Public Utilities commissioners,
Speaker 2: three people and the governor, in my opinion, should be
Speaker 2: asking for their resignation or firing them tomorrow because they
Speaker 2: did not do the job last fall. Anyway, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make an announcement tonight at Nightside at our Facebook page.
Speaker 2: So if you're on Facebook, go to Dan Ray Nightside
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Speaker 2: think all of you it's not a bad announcement, it's
Speaker 2: a good announcement and we'll have a I will also
Speaker 2: follow up on that announcement on the ed tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2: Have a great Wednesday. Everyone had a fun show tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's do it again tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about long COVID, long covet Tomorrow night at nine
Speaker 2: o'clock