Speaker 1: It's I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Kyle. So we're going to wrap up
Speaker 2: our conversation about the Steward Hospital closings here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: But I give you my word, I will stay on
Speaker 2: that story. And for those of you who you know
Speaker 2: are going to try to hijack a story here at
Speaker 2: night Side, and I'm talking to Dave in San Antonio
Speaker 2: on this one respect my show, Dave. Okay, it's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. I try to be polite to people.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I try to be too polite to people to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. And you know, if you're on topic, fine, okay.
Speaker 2: And I'm very sympathetic to what your wife went through
Speaker 2: and I'm glad that you found a better place to
Speaker 2: live in Texas. But don't try to tell me that
Speaker 2: Michigan is more of a one party state or as
Speaker 2: much of a one party state is Massachusetts. It's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. And so you know, for those of
Speaker 2: you who don't understand what I was saying there, if
Speaker 2: you like how things are going in Massachusetts, then keep
Speaker 2: voting the way you've been voting. And there are a
Speaker 2: lot of people who do like the way things are
Speaker 2: going in Massachusetts who like the influx of more migrants,
Speaker 2: more newcomers, whatever. Don't call them I legal immigrants. But
Speaker 2: if you're concerned with that and you feel that maybe
Speaker 2: your representation in Washington, or perhaps your representation at the
Speaker 2: state House is not functioning your interest, then make sure
Speaker 2: you get out and vote. Make sure you get out
Speaker 2: and vote in primaries, make sure you get out and
Speaker 2: vote in general elections. Make sure your family and your
Speaker 2: friends get out and vote. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 2: If you don't vote, you really have no right to
Speaker 2: complain about the circumstances. And again, if you're very happy
Speaker 2: with the representation to getting make sure you get out
Speaker 2: and vote and give those individuals your support. Simple as that,
Speaker 2: simple as that. Okay, now I've been away for eight
Speaker 2: well ten or eleven days actually, but from abroad, we
Speaker 2: were in Rome in Italy, and Rome in Italy and
Speaker 2: the Maufei Coast, which is south of Rome. We talked
Speaker 2: about that during from nine to nine thirty and I
Speaker 2: kind of recapped what we were doing over there, and
Speaker 2: it was a great trip. I thank the folks from
Speaker 2: collect Travel. And I was not as thrilled with the
Speaker 2: size of the seats on what used to be Alatalions
Speaker 2: Now I guess it's Ati Airlines, which whatever. I followed
Speaker 2: the presidential election obviously, and it sounds to me. And
Speaker 2: this is my recap after having watched the Democrats open
Speaker 2: their convention in Chicago, and we'll talk about it next week.
Speaker 2: We'll carry the acceptance speech I would hope of the
Speaker 2: vice president who will be nominated by the party or
Speaker 2: has been nominated as their party. An incredible achievement by
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris, who won the Democratic nomination without spending
Speaker 2: a dollar of campaign funds, without campaigning anywhere for her nomination,
Speaker 2: and she has been again. Just I think it's a miracle.
Speaker 2: I think it's a miracle in our lifetimes. But I
Speaker 2: also noticed something which I thought was kind of interesting
Speaker 2: that Vice President Harris came out over the weekend in
Speaker 2: Las Vegas in support what well this This is the
Speaker 2: brief cut. Let's play cut ten first and I'm going
Speaker 2: to play the longer version. This is a Saturday again, Saturday,
Speaker 2: two days ago, the tenth of August. Speaking in Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris.
Speaker 3: Eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
Speaker 2: What a great idea. Now, let me play her SoundBite
Speaker 2: in its entirety, because I think that's important. I think
Speaker 2: it's a great idea that the Vice president seems to
Speaker 2: have come up with. So let's let's go to I
Speaker 2: wish that she had mentioned this to President Biden. He
Speaker 2: had She certainly had his ear for the last three
Speaker 2: and a half years. But it's better late than ever.
Speaker 2: Cut ten B. Vice President Harris talking about the reason
Speaker 2: that she wants to eliminate taxes on tips for waiters,
Speaker 2: wait staff, uh, hospitality workers, casino workers. You know, anyone
Speaker 2: who gets tips, they should not have to declare that.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a wonderful proposal. Uh. And and
Speaker 2: let's let's let's play the longer version of this. Cut
Speaker 2: This is cut ten B.
Speaker 3: And it is my promise to everyone here when I
Speaker 3: am president, we will continue our fight.
Speaker 4: For working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage.
Speaker 3: And eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.
Speaker 2: Now, well, that is a fabulous idea. You could hear
Speaker 2: the crowd respond to that idea. And my question is,
Speaker 2: how did she come up with that? I mean, it
Speaker 2: would seem to me that that's something that President Biden
Speaker 2: could have proposed in his State of the Union address
Speaker 2: last winter. I beli it was in February, or could
Speaker 2: have proposed that in is an artin of address in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, or in his State of the Union
Speaker 2: address in twenty twenty two. The Vice President I'm sure
Speaker 2: had his ear. How did she come up with that idea?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's it's a stroke of genius
Speaker 2: because first of all, people who are receiving tips, and
Speaker 2: again whether they're waiters or waitresses, they're not making a
Speaker 2: lot of money. I mean, I don't know what a
Speaker 2: waiter or a waitress does, but if you're a waiter
Speaker 2: or waitress, I'd love to hear from you if you
Speaker 2: think that's a good idea. I think it's a fabulous idea.
Speaker 2: And you know, I I just wish that the Vice
Speaker 2: president had proposed that idea three and half years ago.
Speaker 2: It's mystifying that as an idea as as as obvious
Speaker 2: as that and as beneficial as that to you know,
Speaker 2: people who are not making a million dollars a year,
Speaker 2: that that would have been an idea that that President
Speaker 2: Biden or or Vice President Harris would have put on
Speaker 2: the table earlier. But again, I guess that are late
Speaker 2: than never six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I think
Speaker 2: it's that sort of thinking outside the box that we
Speaker 2: need from more political leaders, and I think that innovative
Speaker 2: thinking outside the box is something that Vice President and
Speaker 2: Harris should be commended for. At the same time, I
Speaker 2: think that it would have been more effective if this
Speaker 2: idea had been floated or for that matter, look past by.
Speaker 2: Maybe the President could have signed. Well, I probably couldn't
Speaker 2: do an executive order, but a brilliant idea. Nonetheless, if
Speaker 2: you'd like to comment on this idea, and I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from you, I'm sure many of you follow
Speaker 2: this more closely in the last a few days. I
Speaker 2: followed it as well as I could over in Europe.
Speaker 2: But again, hats off to the Vice President. I just
Speaker 2: wish I wonder how she came up with that idea.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I guess if she was running in
Speaker 2: a campaign, she might have come up with that idea.
Speaker 2: But either way, it's better late than never. I would say,
Speaker 2: six months in two, five, four, ten thirty the only
Speaker 2: lines open back on nightside, Let's get this conversation going
Speaker 2: because novel ideas and leadership of what we need from
Speaker 2: our political leaders. Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. A.
Speaker 2: Right, So we're talking about the idea of removing the
Speaker 2: the burden of hospitality workers, people who receive tips, doorman
Speaker 2: and hotels, people who drive for Uber and in lift
Speaker 2: cab drivers. You know, look, they work hard for their money.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Joe and Belmont. I bet you Joe thinks it's a
Speaker 2: good idea too. Hey Joe, welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5: How are you good, Dan, welcome back. We missed you well.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Sure that Gary Tangway and Morgan
Speaker 2: White and Ben Parker did a great job. And it's
Speaker 2: always nice to have a change of pace, and it's
Speaker 2: nice for me to get a little vacation. Joe, I
Speaker 2: wish you could have been with us on the trip.
Speaker 2: We saw a lot of things over an eight or
Speaker 2: nine day period.
Speaker 5: I like Ben Parker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 5: And I agree with you about Kamala Harris that they
Speaker 5: should change they should raise the minimum wage because in
Speaker 5: Greater Boston people who are living with the appearance can't
Speaker 5: pay the rent, and if a person lives outside the appearance,
Speaker 5: they can't afford the rents. And a lot of people
Speaker 5: in their early twenties have to move out of the
Speaker 5: Greater Boston to north central western mass to pay there
Speaker 5: to get a better rent. Too much of their salary,
Speaker 5: too much of their money is going for rent, and
Speaker 5: they don't have money for entertainment.
Speaker 2: So you think that we need to raise the minimum wage?
Speaker 2: What's the minimum wage in Massachusets now? Fifteen dollars an hour?
Speaker 6: He is?
Speaker 5: And Dan, you know, in nineteen sixty three, when I
Speaker 5: was a bundle boy, I made a dollar ten in
Speaker 5: an hour, and that dollar ten bought more goods than
Speaker 5: fifteen dollars does today.
Speaker 2: Well, of course, that's that's an offshoot of inflation. What
Speaker 2: do you think the minimum wage should be in Massachusetts?
Speaker 5: Joe, I don't know, but I'm not an expert on that, Dan,
Speaker 5: But I think people should have, you know, money to
Speaker 5: go to a movie and to buy a book, and
Speaker 5: you know, to get a hamburger at McDonald's, things like that,
Speaker 5: you know, so they can afford things like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what do you think would be a Have
Speaker 2: you thought at all about what a fair like thirty
Speaker 2: dollars an hour? Would that be better?
Speaker 5: I don't know what the tax rate would be for
Speaker 5: the working man because of that, But I'm for people,
Speaker 5: you know, getting a decent salary. People kind of live
Speaker 5: on fifteen dollars. It needs to be twenty maybe twenty three?
Speaker 2: Okay, see, but why not reason like the forty or
Speaker 2: fifty an hour? You know, give people really something that
Speaker 2: they can put in their pocket.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but how much would the tax payer have to
Speaker 5: pay out of their paycheck for that?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you were to double my salary, I
Speaker 2: would be more than happy to pay more taxes.
Speaker 5: But well, would the rich people have to pay?
Speaker 2: Well, the rich people are always going to pay a lot.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is if I don't know how
Speaker 2: much you make in salary, but I'm diet, Dan, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Are you on a pension or on
Speaker 2: social security?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: Dan, the best job I ever had, I don't have
Speaker 5: a good work in history. The best job I ever
Speaker 5: had was working as a meal man for two and
Speaker 5: a half years.
Speaker 2: Good for you, okay, and no pension? So what are
Speaker 2: you living on? Joe.
Speaker 5: I'd rather not go into that, Dan, because it doesn't
Speaker 5: builds me up.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, all right, well don't. I don't want to
Speaker 2: get too personal, that's for sure. But Joe as always
Speaker 2: appreciate your call.
Speaker 5: Can I give you a twenty five second compliment?
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 5: I want to appreciate you for your stand for Israel,
Speaker 5: you're fighting anti anti Semitism, your positive attitude, and especially
Speaker 5: europe patriotism. Nobody does it better Dan.
Speaker 2: Joe, You're very kind. You're much too kind, but I
Speaker 2: appreciate the kind words Joe has always talked to you. Soon,
Speaker 2: my friend, God bless right back at you. Okay, let
Speaker 2: me keep rolling here. Let me see what Harrison in
Speaker 2: New York says. Harrison in New York, How are you, sir?
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm fine. I just ran across your program while
Speaker 9: I was wandering through the dial and I heard you.
Speaker 9: I remember listening to Bob Kennedy contact on wb Z.
Speaker 2: That's a few years ago.
Speaker 9: Yeah, close to sixty years ago. Maybe an adult then too.
Speaker 2: We welcome Welcome back with mister Harrison. Whereabouts are you
Speaker 2: in the big City? Are you upstairs?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 9: No, I'm I'm I'm in a. I'm sort of halfway
Speaker 9: between Albany and Utica. Northwest of Albany, east of Utica.
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with Albany. I think you got a great
Speaker 2: restaurant there is it called Is it called Zach's or Jacks.
Speaker 2: It's a big, big restaurant right right in the center
Speaker 2: of Albany, beautiful Mahogany restaurant with.
Speaker 9: Real that's an old restaurant.
Speaker 2: Helped me with was it Jacks or Zach's? I forget
Speaker 2: which I think.
Speaker 9: It was Jacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Also, I don't know because I don't get to Albany
Speaker 9: to okay, And I'm.
Speaker 2: Very familiar with Utica too. A buddy of mine who
Speaker 2: played with the Red Sox for many years, grew up
Speaker 2: in Utica.
Speaker 9: Do you know where Gloversville is?
Speaker 2: I bet you. My intuition tells me that's where you live.
Speaker 9: That's where I live.
Speaker 2: How about that? I got a pretty good intuition. So
Speaker 2: tell me, what do you think about this? This idea
Speaker 2: that the vice president has of.
Speaker 9: No tips, It's not her idea. Donald Trump proposed it
Speaker 9: a month ago in the very place, very Las Vegas
Speaker 9: where she proposed it.
Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering about that because I got this
Speaker 2: other SoundBite here which I hadn't listened too much. Uh,
Speaker 2: let me play this SoundBite because I think you might
Speaker 2: be right. Okay, this is sound by ten A Rob.
Speaker 2: Hold On, Harrison, here's ten A Rob. Go ahead. This
Speaker 2: is the first time I've said this.
Speaker 10: And for those hotel workers and people that get tips,
Speaker 10: you're gonna be very happy because when I get to off,
Speaker 10: we are going to not charge taxes on tips.
Speaker 11: People making tips. We're not going to do it. And
Speaker 11: we're going to do that right.
Speaker 10: Away, first thing in office, because it's been a point
Speaker 10: of contention for years and years and years, and you
Speaker 10: do a great job of service. You take care of people,
Speaker 10: and I think it's going to be something that really
Speaker 10: is deserved. More important, popular or unpopular. I do some
Speaker 10: unpopular things too. If it's right for the country, I
Speaker 10: do what's right. But so those people that have jobs
Speaker 10: in restaurants, whatever the job may be, a tipping job,
Speaker 10: we're not going after for taxes anymore.
Speaker 2: If this will be under you know, Harrison, You're I
Speaker 2: wish you you listened more because frankly, you you caught it.
Speaker 2: You nailed it, Harrison.
Speaker 9: Well, I will try to now are you on every
Speaker 9: weekday night when you're on.
Speaker 2: Eight to midnight on Nightside. I've only been here a
Speaker 2: scant seventeen years, so you've missed the first seventeen years.
Speaker 9: Of the program. Well, I wander the dials a lot,
Speaker 9: and your station comes in all day and all night.
Speaker 2: Well I appreciate that. Also. By the way, Harrison, I
Speaker 2: want you to know this is our I keep a
Speaker 2: record of these things. Tomorrow night it will be our
Speaker 2: four thousandth edition of Night Side.
Speaker 9: Oh is that nice?
Speaker 2: So tonight you you you've missed three ninety eight.
Speaker 9: I apologize for that. I also pick up your sister
Speaker 9: stations on six eighty and twelve hundred in this location,
Speaker 9: but not as well as I get you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you. WBZ is a big station,
Speaker 2: as you know. When I think about our sister stations,
Speaker 2: I think of KDKA and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 9: And I get them.
Speaker 2: Jay Z in Baltimore, KYW, those the old West House stations.
Speaker 9: Oh sure, a group w I remember I remember when
Speaker 9: your station used to say WBZ, WBZA, Boston and Springfield.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, that's true, Harrison. What do you do
Speaker 2: in New York? I'm interested you you sound like a
Speaker 2: pretty sharp guy here, and you've been listening to radio
Speaker 2: for a while. What sort of business or what sort
Speaker 2: of work have you done.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm a watchmaker by trade, but I'm quite a
Speaker 9: number of years retired. I'm older than Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there was a lot of folks older.
Speaker 2: But like, can I tell you something, and please, I
Speaker 2: don't want anyone to take this the wrong way. I
Speaker 2: wish you with the president because you sound like you're
Speaker 2: on top of your game and whatever your age and
Speaker 2: age is not important.
Speaker 9: It's it isn't your age, it's your ability. Yes, I
Speaker 9: don't know if I could physically handle the demands of
Speaker 9: the office. I have quite a bit of arthritis, not
Speaker 9: that that's an important thing, but you know, I know
Speaker 9: people that are over one hundred that are mentally at
Speaker 9: least is alert if I as I am, if not
Speaker 9: more alert. And I know people young a lot younger
Speaker 9: than I am that have sort of drifted out to
Speaker 9: you know, it's it's a sad thing that happens. You
Speaker 9: got in one of the ways that the body deterioration.
Speaker 9: There isn't a whole lot you can do about it.
Speaker 9: If you're stricken with it.
Speaker 2: Well, look, Harrison, I hope you become a regular caller.
Speaker 2: I've enjoyed this call. We're going to give you a
Speaker 2: round of applause that can give to all these to
Speaker 2: a first time caller.
Speaker 9: Why, I've enjoyed it too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is you can listen to some
Speaker 2: of our past broadcast. I don't know you. I will
Speaker 2: bet you. You're probably good on the internet. Just go
Speaker 2: to night now.
Speaker 9: No, Unfortunately, I've never gotten into any of that technology.
Speaker 9: I have a portable radio that I bought in nineteen
Speaker 9: sixty one that I listened to you.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great. But for those out there who are listening,
Speaker 2: we post all of our hours on our podcast in
Speaker 2: podcast form at Nightside on demand dot com, so you
Speaker 2: can go back and listen to many of our shows.
Speaker 2: We've done this for a long time, Harrison. I was
Speaker 2: a TV reporter up here for thirty one.
Speaker 9: Years and on channel what four, five seven four, Channel four. Well,
Speaker 9: once in a while I used to get WBZ Channel
Speaker 9: four from mere very snowy, but I could pick it up.
Speaker 2: Well. I got to tell you there, I was out
Speaker 2: there in many snowstorms as a TV reporter that might
Speaker 2: have been me only kidding, Holy kidd and I couldn't
Speaker 2: I couldn't resist. But as I say, I've been doing
Speaker 2: this now well going into year eighteen, and I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about making a career out of this broadcast thing. Harrison.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you've been in it a while. I was in
Speaker 9: broadcasting for a while too, I did.
Speaker 2: That, dude. Were you in management? Were you an advertiser?
Speaker 9: Well, I was a music director, program director and on
Speaker 9: air personality, and I played the music of my generation,
Speaker 9: the silent generation, the music before rock and roll.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, who was your favorite artist to play on
Speaker 2: the radio.
Speaker 9: I don't know that I had one that I singled out.
Speaker 9: I played anything from Guy Lombardo to Perry Como, Les
Speaker 9: Pole and Mary Ford, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, all of
Speaker 9: those people.
Speaker 2: Doris Day, There's no doubt about that, Harrison. I hope
Speaker 2: you become a regular listener and a regular caller. I
Speaker 2: really enjoyed this call.
Speaker 9: Well, I enjoyed it too, and I very much appreciate
Speaker 9: your taking the call.
Speaker 2: You bet you talk soon, all right. By the way,
Speaker 2: the Mets have an outfielder whose name is Harrison. Bader
Speaker 2: used to play with the Yankees, and he was a big,
Speaker 2: big hero a couple of years ago for the Yankees
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. And he's kind of been back to
Speaker 2: the miners and now he's back up with the Mets.
Speaker 9: So well, I haven't followed I haven't followed baseball for
Speaker 9: a number of years. I used to follow the Boston Braves.
Speaker 9: Then they went to Milwaukee, they did, and I followed
Speaker 9: them out there. Then once they went to Atlanta and
Speaker 9: the Dodgers went to Left Brooklyn, I gave up on baseball.
Speaker 2: I don't never give up on baseball. It is still
Speaker 2: it's still the greatest game. Okay.
Speaker 9: The thing that it was back in the day, your
Speaker 9: team was consistent. If you had a player on your team,
Speaker 9: he was loyal to your team. He stayed with your team,
Speaker 9: he did his whole career. You're now the talent players
Speaker 9: are traded all over. The team's move from here to
Speaker 9: there to there, and there's no sense of belonging to
Speaker 9: the team anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, that was because of a guy named Andy master
Speaker 2: Schmidt and also Kurt Flood. And that's good for the players.
Speaker 2: They they got their free agency. They used to have this, uh,
Speaker 2: this clause in their contract that they couldn't get out
Speaker 2: of this these clauses. And that's as I'm sure you
Speaker 2: you followed that, that legal wrangling, and it's good for
Speaker 2: the place.
Speaker 12: I remember it.
Speaker 9: I I don't know that I followed it, but I remember.
Speaker 2: The news coming at you. Hang in there, we'll talk again.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Take care.
Speaker 2: Welcome, here comes the news coming back on nights Side.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about So. I guess this was Donald Trump's idea,
Speaker 2: and it sounds to me like maybe maybe the vice
Speaker 2: president has parloined an idea. Is that fair? Everything's fair
Speaker 2: in love in politics?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Love war in politics? I guess before you can steal
Speaker 2: your opponent's ideas. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side Withst's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Here we go, let's go back to the call. It's
Speaker 2: gonna go to day. Excuse me, John in Provincetown, Hey John,
Speaker 2: welcome to Nightside. How are you, sir? Welcome?
Speaker 7: No, not bad.
Speaker 13: I'm actually not a stranger to nights that I live
Speaker 13: in well Fleet, but I happen to be in Provincetown.
Speaker 2: Well Fleet, Provincetown. Two beautiful parts of the Cape.
Speaker 13: Yep, yep, indeed, you know.
Speaker 2: By the way, a beautiful day today in New England.
Speaker 2: I was last week in uh in beautiful Italy, where
Speaker 2: the temperatures most days were close to or over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Today was the most refreshing day I've ever felt echnic
Speaker 2: in my life. Go right ahead, only.
Speaker 13: It was a beautiful day on the water. I had
Speaker 13: you had a charter out of my boat earlier, so
Speaker 13: got in right before the showers. So what do you anyway?
Speaker 2: I mean, is it okay for one of these presidential
Speaker 2: candidates to steal and I did from the other presidential candidate.
Speaker 13: But here's the thing. Your last caller brought this up,
Speaker 13: by the way, that was an excellent call.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, he was. I happened to read about this
Speaker 13: myself at breakfast and looking at Yahoo News on my
Speaker 13: tablet that there was a CBS report when Donald Trump
Speaker 13: suggested this, and the CBS report wasted no time in
Speaker 13: pointing out that quote unquote experts unquote stated that passage
Speaker 13: removing taxation from tips would cost the federal government X
Speaker 13: billion dollars in lost revenue. But when they covered the
Speaker 13: same outfit covered Kamala Harris suggestion of of of stopping
Speaker 13: I think I know exactly the same thing, and no
Speaker 13: mention was made as to what the cost it would
Speaker 13: be in terms of lost revenue. Now, I think it's
Speaker 13: an excellent idea, Don't get me wrong. And I'm I'm
Speaker 13: not a Trump supporter. I'm not a not a Harris
Speaker 13: supporter either, but I think no matter who it came from,
Speaker 13: it was excellent. It's just to me that betrays the
Speaker 13: inherent bias in our news media. People deny that it exists,
Speaker 13: but I think that's just one of many examples of
Speaker 13: of basically sort of lying by omission. And you know
Speaker 13: they mentioned the lost revenue when suggestion comes from a
Speaker 13: Republican now, but from the Democrat it's hailed as a
Speaker 13: brilliant thought.
Speaker 2: You know something, John, You're a great caller, Okay, a
Speaker 2: brilliant caller. And I did not hear the two CBS reports.
Speaker 2: But guess what, I'm not surprised. I am not surprised.
Speaker 2: I mean that the national news media has been bending
Speaker 2: over backwards. Do you know that the vice president, who
Speaker 2: I have said, and I've used the phrase that it
Speaker 2: is the first immaculate nomination in the history of this country,
Speaker 2: because when you think about it, it's almost miraculous. Didn't campaign,
Speaker 2: never got one single vote, spent no money, and by
Speaker 2: the way, after having failed miserably in twenty nineteen and
Speaker 2: twenty twenties, she was in and out of the race
Speaker 2: that year and was abysmal failure. But this is like
Speaker 2: a miracle, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 13: And the thing is too that you know, we all
Speaker 13: have heard and I find it troubling. You know, some
Speaker 13: of some of the rambling and incoherent statements that Donald
Speaker 13: Trump has made, as well as some of the outright falsehoods.
Speaker 13: But Kamala Harris has a long track record of some
Speaker 13: very puzzling public statements.
Speaker 2: You're kind to me some of those those statements puzzling,
Speaker 2: and like, I like people who are kind, because I
Speaker 2: consider myself to be kind. And I was waiting how
Speaker 2: long was going to take for someone to make the point,
Speaker 2: But you made it brilliantly that not only did they,
Speaker 2: you know, report it probably as a straight face, but
Speaker 2: reported it differently and in terms of putting it in context,
Speaker 2: and with Trump it was. But it's going to cost
Speaker 2: the government money at a time when we're running a
Speaker 2: big debt. Why would we want to do that. But
Speaker 2: when the vice president steals the idea, by the way,
Speaker 2: potentially never if she what she should have said was, look,
Speaker 2: I was the vice president for three and a half years.
Speaker 2: This thought never occurred to me. But guess what, I
Speaker 2: got to give my opponent credit, and I'm stealing the ideas.
Speaker 2: So no matter who you elect, whether it's him or me. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 5: And I.
Speaker 13: Don't know the way I feel about it. You know,
Speaker 13: I don't support either of these candidates. I think it's
Speaker 13: just another example of the lesser of two evils being evil.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's not helping, that's well said. I'm
Speaker 2: going to stay.
Speaker 13: But the fact is that one of these people is
Speaker 13: going to become our president, and whoever it is, is
Speaker 13: going to be my president, for better or for worse. Yeah,
Speaker 13: that's how I have to look at it.
Speaker 2: Well, I look at it the same way. And I
Speaker 2: will tell you that I haven't voted in the last
Speaker 2: two presidential elections. I've I've voted in you know, I've
Speaker 2: taken my ballot, voted in Senate races and all of that.
Speaker 2: But I think I'm going to have to cast a
Speaker 2: vote because I don't want to go three turn three
Speaker 2: elections without casting a vote.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't blame you. I've always in presidential elections
Speaker 13: for the last though I don't know twenty five years,
Speaker 13: i've I've voted libertarian. I'm a firm believer that one
Speaker 13: of the worst aspects of our political life is that
Speaker 13: we are stuck in this two party duopoly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem. The problem is that and a lot
Speaker 2: of libertarian friends of mine, I think that at some
Speaker 2: point you have to say, Okay, it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: rooting for a It's wonderful to have been a fan of,
Speaker 2: you know, some baseball team that never breaks five hundred
Speaker 2: because you're a loyal fan of that team, but at
Speaker 2: some point you'd like to see them win. If you
Speaker 2: get my drift, I know what you mean.
Speaker 13: But my feeling is, you know, I live in Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 13: You know the electoral votes are going to go to
Speaker 13: the Democrat. Yeah, But in the meantime, votes for a
Speaker 13: third party will help build that third party up over time,
Speaker 13: if you know such a thing as possible.
Speaker 2: And let's assume you built a third party that was
Speaker 2: legitimately equivalent with the Republican Party and the Democratic Party,
Speaker 2: who do you think would benefit most from that.
Speaker 13: The American public?
Speaker 2: Which political party would would? Do you think that that would? Well,
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm trying to say is that most Libertarians,
Speaker 2: have given a choice, would vote for a Republican if
Speaker 2: they were it was whittled down to one of two choices.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Republicans may not be perfect, but they
Speaker 2: are for the most part less inclined to use the
Speaker 2: cudgel of government to impose their will on the general public.
Speaker 13: Well, you know, I don't know about that. Ask the
Speaker 13: woman in North Carolina who's looking for an abortion.
Speaker 2: In North Carolina who's looking for an abortion might be
Speaker 2: able to take a ride up to Maryland. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, there's you know, there's a.
Speaker 13: Not if, not if some of these Republicans have their
Speaker 13: way and they want to put the kibosh on interstate
Speaker 13: travel for that purpose.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's true. And if that's if that is
Speaker 2: the issue that is the most compelling issue, then you've
Speaker 2: got to vote. You gotta you gotta vote Libertarian and
Speaker 2: maybe eventually Democrat. Some people it is the single issue
Speaker 2: that's most important. John, I hate to do this to you,
Speaker 2: but I got to run here. Because I'm past my
Speaker 2: break and I still got to get four or five
Speaker 2: calls in, So I'm gonna just good for now.
Speaker 13: Always great to talk to, talk one back more often.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, thanks, John, appreciate it. Let me jump in
Speaker 2: here real quickly. I don't want Bob to wait in main, Bob.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you in here before the break. Go ahead, Bob. Yeah, him,
Speaker 2: Oh that's a bad canser. Crop do me your favor.
Speaker 2: Put Bob and holdt explaining we're going to clean up
Speaker 2: his his connection. Let me go real quickly, Anthony in Quincy, Anthony,
Speaker 2: I'll get you in here before the break.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Anthony, Okay, I'll be quick.
Speaker 14: Donald Trump said that at the rally in Las Vegas
Speaker 14: June seventeenth, to all the service workers waitresses. He said
Speaker 14: it a few more times at his rally. I think
Speaker 14: Kamala should worry about all the illegal immigrants and do
Speaker 14: a job as the borders are instead of stealing Donald
Speaker 14: Trump's ideas. I appreciate you taking my time.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, Well, first, first of all, imitation, They
Speaker 2: say imitation is the highest form of flattery, so so
Speaker 2: maybe down deep, the vice president wanted to flatter for
Speaker 2: the former president. I don't know you. You nailed no no,
Speaker 2: wait sec now, Azarina, let's let's not be sexist.
Speaker 12: Dear anything you want.
Speaker 2: Dan, Hey, man, I love I love the call of Anthony,
Speaker 2: really really good. And you saved me a little bit
Speaker 2: on time. I owe you. Okay, thank you, thanks man,
Speaker 2: talk soon. Okay, we got Anthony, which is great. Uh, Bob,
Speaker 2: if you call back, we'll get you and we had
Speaker 2: we'll get your line cleaned up. We got Danielle, we
Speaker 2: get Lola, two of my favorite female callers coming up.
Speaker 2: We will get Bob on the other side, and maybe
Speaker 2: you six one seven.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nights Sin Studios i' WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Bob is called back, Bob, we got your line cleaned up.
Speaker 2: I think go.
Speaker 15: Ahead, Hey Dan. So it's a good topic. I've been
Speaker 15: thinking about it for years. However, you know, you look
Speaker 15: at you look at Vegas, and you look at how
Speaker 15: much money is generating through tips. It's it's it's no
Speaker 15: wonder they're picking Vegas for the topic. But a friend
Speaker 15: of mine one two hundred and fifty seven thousand, and
Speaker 15: the lady got a twenty two thousand dollars tip. I mean,
Speaker 15: so there's going to be a cap, you know, there
Speaker 15: will be, and so that's gonna be very disappointing.
Speaker 2: But dollars once in a lifetime. That's like someone hits
Speaker 2: the lottery, don't you think exactly?
Speaker 15: But it happens all day long in Vegas.
Speaker 2: You know, twenty two thousand dollar tips?
Speaker 12: Yeah, oh yeah, come on, absolutely, you got to look
Speaker 12: it up.
Speaker 15: You should have a topic on that.
Speaker 5: Someone.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we'll send me an article on it and
Speaker 2: we can do something with it. I would appreciate that,
Speaker 2: because every once in a while you here some story
Speaker 2: that I don't know, you know, Mark Wahlberg was out
Speaker 2: to dinner with his family and left a five thousand
Speaker 2: dollars tip, and it's like, oh my god, if you
Speaker 2: if you get me some stats on that, we'll do
Speaker 2: something on it. We might end up I might end
Speaker 2: up being a waiter in Vegas if that's the situation.
Speaker 15: Okay, well, a lot of my friends have actually thought
Speaker 15: of moving to Vegas to do that, just because get.
Speaker 2: Me some stats on it, get me a story on
Speaker 2: it about how frequently someone gets you know, tips over
Speaker 2: well five thousand dollars a thousand dollars. They don't have
Speaker 2: to be able to twenty two thousand dollars is an
Speaker 2: incredible sum of money.
Speaker 15: Really, yeah, well that's just an automatic tip. But this
Speaker 15: is not the real reason I called. The real reason
Speaker 15: I called is you have to look at what's going on. Okay,
Speaker 15: the rich are not getting their needs filled. Okay, they
Speaker 15: go to restaurants, there's nobody working. Nobody really wants to
Speaker 15: work in hospitality. Interesting anymore. It's all you think that.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is basically this has helped Okay, so you're
Speaker 2: saying this is not really helping the workers. It's really
Speaker 2: helping the rich people to get quick service.
Speaker 15: And about helping the people, it's about getting the ridge
Speaker 15: track got you?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I didn't. I didn't even realize the rich
Speaker 2: rough track, Bob I got to run. I think that's
Speaker 2: a really interesting take. I thank you, thank you for
Speaker 2: calling back. Talk to you. Bye bye. Danielle and Worcester.
Speaker 2: Danielle garright ahead.
Speaker 7: Well, actually I'm calling you from East Ham. I'm on
Speaker 7: my vacation, all right. My blood was boiling looking into
Speaker 7: some of these collars, so I just had to call in.
Speaker 7: And my mom actually called you when she was on
Speaker 7: the way home from here. Did you tell him you
Speaker 7: were my mother?
Speaker 9: She said, what do your mom call tonight?
Speaker 7: Marie from Middleborough?
Speaker 3: Remember she.
Speaker 2: Sounded very young.
Speaker 7: She because I'm trying to talk a hundred miles an
Speaker 7: how because I know them they have to go to
Speaker 7: break and I wanted to be able to say everything
Speaker 7: I have.
Speaker 9: All.
Speaker 7: She's so funny.
Speaker 2: That is fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 7: So I've been listening and I didn't want to.
Speaker 6: I wasn't gonna call on my vacation, but.
Speaker 7: I said, you know what, I thank god the Harrison
Speaker 7: because she spoke up about I mean, my I'm like,
Speaker 7: I can did I just catch Dan giving Tamila Harris
Speaker 7: the credit for there's no tips? I'm like, oh my,
Speaker 7: oh my god.
Speaker 2: I got to keep I got to keep people on
Speaker 2: their toes. Danielle, come on, oh my god.
Speaker 7: But I'm like, wait a minute. William's always asked questions
Speaker 7: that they already know the answers to. So did they
Speaker 7: already know that this is this is Trump's idea?
Speaker 2: Come on, we're buddies and you know me. Come on,
Speaker 2: I'm always trying to I'm trying to make.
Speaker 7: People think I well, I think you did that, but
Speaker 7: it's so, this is so Kamala and I airish. She's
Speaker 7: a poppet. She's a puppet. There are YouTube videos and
Speaker 7: photo montages that people have put together of phrases that
Speaker 7: they'll give her to say during a speech, and I'll
Speaker 7: show her three different locations, three different days, using the
Speaker 7: exact same tagline. I mean, it's well, the.
Speaker 2: Republicans got to get their act together because at this point,
Speaker 2: she's the she's the darling of the national media. Hasn't
Speaker 2: held she hasn't done an interview, She's she's this is
Speaker 2: a again, this is a miraculous event. It's the immaculate land.
Speaker 7: Though they waited to get Joe out until it was
Speaker 7: too late to have a primary and have other Democrats.
Speaker 7: And it was planned, this was all stage.
Speaker 2: And it was it was it was well orchestrated.
Speaker 9: It was well a tip thing really quick.
Speaker 7: Massachusetts is there. They are a lobbyists are going to
Speaker 7: spend millions of dollars to make you think that raising
Speaker 7: the minimum wage for servers is going to help, and
Speaker 7: that is false. We do not want minimum wage because
Speaker 7: these guys do make good money and the service is personal.
Speaker 7: There are servers out there that are horrible, and there
Speaker 7: are servers out there that belong doing what they're doing,
Speaker 7: and they're great. And if I want to pull one
Speaker 7: hundred dollar bill out of my pocket and give it
Speaker 7: to somebody for doing a great job for my family, whatever,
Speaker 7: I should be able to do that. And quite frankly,
Speaker 7: they should have to claim it. And you know what, none, No,
Speaker 7: let's be honest. The restaurants you disagree.
Speaker 2: With Trump money because you disagree with Trump.
Speaker 7: No, I agree, all right.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, daniel I got I got to give them
Speaker 2: a little bit of time, Okay.
Speaker 9: No tax, enjoy the vacation.
Speaker 2: You haven't talked to me in a long time. It's
Speaker 2: great to hear your voice.
Speaker 7: I know, vote No. One that number five Massachusetts and
Speaker 7: we'll talk about Danielle.
Speaker 2: Lowly in San Diego. Lollly, you gotta be quick for me.
Speaker 2: I am going to have a tough time, yeah, doing
Speaker 2: what you're asking me to do.
Speaker 9: But go ahead, okay.
Speaker 6: So the fast food rate, the fast food payscale is
Speaker 6: twenty bucks an hour in California. The minimum wage is
Speaker 6: sixteen dollars an hour as of January first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: In May the fourteen piece bucket meal at KFC in
Speaker 6: San Diego was forty three dollars and ninety nine cents.
Speaker 6: So you raised the minimum wage right so people can't
Speaker 6: afford it.
Speaker 8: Now, guess what all the restaurants one by one are closing.
Speaker 9: No job, well again, look at Cali.
Speaker 8: Look at Cali, and you know it's coming here.
Speaker 2: Kelly is our future. Let's talk before. How's your mom doing?
Speaker 9: She's good.
Speaker 8: I can leave now, she's good. So I sent you
Speaker 8: a message.
Speaker 2: I got the medals and I oh you were called.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I'll talk to.
Speaker 8: I retacked, I retext I know, yes, okay, to go, good.
Speaker 2: Night, okay. Uh, I hate to do this. Patrick, you
Speaker 2: really late. I can give you literally fifteen seconds.
Speaker 12: Thanks a lot, Dan, I hope you had a good
Speaker 12: timemun Vacation's good to have you back.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 12: The one thing I wanted to mention was the immaculate nomination. Yes,
Speaker 12: I think that the reason for it that no one's
Speaker 12: talking about is that they looked at the numbers and
Speaker 12: realized Biden was going to get his doors blown off,
Speaker 12: and that they'd rather have this sacrifessional lam. I'm at
Speaker 12: her doors.
Speaker 2: Blown Okay, all right, you got it in, but I
Speaker 2: gotta go. Okay, we'll talk soon. Call early you tend
Speaker 2: to call late. Rob. Thank you very much, Marita, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. Dan and the booth helping Rob, thank
Speaker 2: him very much. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
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Speaker 2: They loved you, You love them. I do believe you
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Speaker 2: good to be back