Speaker 1: It's a nice time with Dan Ray Ondulian Easy Boston's
Speaker 1: news Radio.
Speaker 2: Hid thanks a lot, one more hour to goo here
Speaker 2: on the Dan Rag Show. Gary Tangleig feeling it for
Speaker 2: Dan as you just heard. Been a great show so far,
Speaker 2: awesome Show'd like to thank all the guests. We're enjoining us,
Speaker 2: but we always finished strong here on WBZ as we
Speaker 2: bring in my friend from the West Coast, he is
Speaker 2: going to update us on the world. No pressure. Sam Metler,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show right here on WBZ. Sammy, First
Speaker 2: of all, how are you and how's the family?
Speaker 3: The family is good. But Gary, before we get to
Speaker 3: the information, I just got to thank you for giving
Speaker 3: me Dan Shaughnessy as my leading You know, why didn't
Speaker 3: you just have Bird or Brady or Exoom, Paul Revere.
Speaker 4: You know, I mean, Seannes is the last man standing.
Speaker 2: He is he is the last you go to the Globe,
Speaker 2: you get a shot in the article, Boom, you know,
Speaker 2: he's going to tell you like it is. He takes
Speaker 2: no prisoners. He's the last warrior out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, there's one thing I miss about Boston. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean we're fine here.
Speaker 2: It's in details because the problem is, well, this is
Speaker 2: what I want to get to with you here.
Speaker 4: We get a lot to cover. I want to get
Speaker 4: to the truth.
Speaker 3: Okaycacular failures, Yeah sure, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean you're on the ground, you're there. Is your
Speaker 2: house still standing?
Speaker 3: My house is still standing. And I you know, before
Speaker 3: I complain like a jerk right about how you know
Speaker 3: we've had to leave the house and how we had
Speaker 3: no power, and I mean like that, that just pales
Speaker 3: into in comparison to family that we have that lost
Speaker 3: everything and friends that we've had that have lost everything. Gary.
Speaker 3: Imagine if Wellesley burned to the ground, or a swamp
Speaker 3: scut or Sharon, you know, imagine if these places just burnt,
Speaker 3: you know, entire town just gone. And that's what happened here.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is it's it's unimaginable, the devastation, and
Speaker 3: it's just I mean, what we went through was like nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, anxiety right seeing smoke because we're in
Speaker 3: a canyon, right. La is separated. The city is split
Speaker 3: in two by the Santa Monica Mountains and there is
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Basin, which is where you know, downtown
Speaker 3: LA is in Hollywood and Beverly Hills and bel Air
Speaker 3: and Pacific Palisades, right. I mean, all of these areas
Speaker 3: are in you know, the city piece of La Then
Speaker 3: there's the valley, and that's you know, people hear about
Speaker 3: the San Fernando Valley, and it's where Burbank and where
Speaker 3: Universal City is and where Encino and Tarzanna and Calabasas
Speaker 3: and Wooden Hills are. And the most expensive and most
Speaker 3: desirable property in the Los Angeles area is within those
Speaker 3: foothills and canyons that separate the city from the valley.
Speaker 3: And it is where you see the only green in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. I mean, Gary, you've flown out here a
Speaker 3: bunch of times. It is it is flat, and it
Speaker 3: is brown, right. I mean, even when you fly over
Speaker 3: Boston you see green. Right. I mean there are trees
Speaker 3: everywhere here, not so only in the foothills and the
Speaker 3: canyons and the mountains, the Santa Monica Mountains. And of
Speaker 3: course that is the area that is dangerous and that's
Speaker 3: the area where the especially in a town like this.
Speaker 3: I've said it before. I always describe La as where
Speaker 3: the desert meets the ocean, right, right, And I mean
Speaker 3: it's it's very you know, if you think about all
Speaker 3: the old John Wayne movies right where it was chaparral
Speaker 3: and tumbleweed and desert and canyons. That's what La looked
Speaker 3: like before it was built up. And so this the
Speaker 3: only green here. By the way, Gerry palm trees are
Speaker 3: not indigenous to Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: They ship them in, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3: They ship them in. Then they grow them here. I
Speaker 3: mean they do grow them, but I mean they are
Speaker 3: not indigenous here. They can't survive. Well, they do survive here,
Speaker 3: but they would have here otherwise.
Speaker 2: Even well they can survive in Venice and Santa Monica.
Speaker 3: Well they survive. I mean I guess that they've you know,
Speaker 3: maybe have have have created a hybrid that works well here,
Speaker 3: but yeah, they I mean they would not grow here naturally, right, So,
Speaker 3: so Gary, the Palisades is the is the part of LA.
Speaker 3: It's like a suburb that is in the foothills where
Speaker 3: La really meets the beach, right it is. It is
Speaker 3: just north of Santa Monica and just south of Malibu,
Speaker 3: and it is I mean, nothing like this has ever
Speaker 3: happened before in an area that so populated here, you know,
Speaker 3: unless you're talking about you know, one hundred years ago
Speaker 3: or more that there was a bell Air fire. I
Speaker 3: think in the oh gosh, it might have been the sixties.
Speaker 3: But it's still nothing like this. You know, these things are,
Speaker 3: by the way, all of them, every single one of them,
Speaker 3: are caused by humans. Right. It's either a spark off
Speaker 3: of something, whether that be a mower or a leaf
Speaker 3: blower especially right, or some kind of machinery, or it
Speaker 3: is inadvertent folks making campfires. Maybe they're homeless, maybe they're
Speaker 3: camping and they don't know how dangerous it is. Or
Speaker 3: there's arson, and those are really the causes of the
Speaker 3: fires here and they haven't found out what it was,
Speaker 3: and they probably will, by the way, because they're excellent
Speaker 3: at investigating these things. But the yeah, it was a
Speaker 3: spectacular failure of government and of allocating funds to the
Speaker 3: correct resources. But listen, I mean, going to the inauguration
Speaker 3: of the President of Ghana is very important for the
Speaker 3: mayor of l A, you know, it is it's required
Speaker 3: attendance for the mayor of la to leave a city
Speaker 3: to go to an African inauguration, just before she is
Speaker 3: warned that there is a very dangerous fire condition happening.
Speaker 3: And plus Gary she promised when she was running that
Speaker 3: she would not travel out of the country. She's broken
Speaker 3: this promise four times.
Speaker 4: Why make the promise?
Speaker 3: Well, because this is what she did as a congress person, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a congresswoman. They travel all the
Speaker 3: time on these phony blogoney tricks right where they're treated
Speaker 3: like you know, kings and queens. And you know, somebody
Speaker 3: somebody just texts me, what about the wind that takes
Speaker 3: down electrical wires that's in the same company as as
Speaker 3: sparks off of a lawnmower. But yet that's another reason
Speaker 3: that's human made. Somebody's already you know, someone's already given
Speaker 3: me a hard time about the information they're getting from.
Speaker 4: That means you're doing your job real quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you feel comfortable giving an opinion
Speaker 2: on this, But do you have any idea or have
Speaker 2: you read or have you heard what percentage of chances
Speaker 2: this could be arson?
Speaker 3: You know, listen, it's what percentage? You know, it's a
Speaker 3: decent percent I mean like, but I mean.
Speaker 2: Because here here's some of the folklore we hear back east.
Speaker 2: You have environmentalists that want to make a point. People
Speaker 2: are demonstrating. I mean, is there anything to that or
Speaker 2: is that all just now?
Speaker 3: Gary? And I learned this early when uh, you know,
Speaker 3: doing uh programming on mental illness. Arson is a big
Speaker 3: feature in the mentally ill uh. And it is really
Speaker 3: about the this power and excitement of causing mayhem and
Speaker 3: uh something that is that is huge and bigger than
Speaker 3: than than one is and destruction and you know, very
Speaker 3: rarely will you get I mean, certainly an environmentalist who
Speaker 3: wants to kill all the animals. I mean that's silly.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean this was not a political I
Speaker 3: mean I highly doubt this was anything political. Right, was
Speaker 3: it someone who just goes you know, who's who's out
Speaker 3: of their mind? Maybe? Right? But but even that is
Speaker 3: less is less often, uh less, It happens much less
Speaker 3: often than someone who threw a cigarette down, Garrett. I
Speaker 3: mean someone in Griffith Park here was playing golf, threw
Speaker 3: a cigarette down, went to step on it and ignited
Speaker 3: the entire fairway and his leg and it was so precarious.
Speaker 3: And the issue here was, you know, and I know,
Speaker 3: don't politicize an event like this, can't you do? And
Speaker 3: both parties do it? Right? You know, when there is
Speaker 3: you know, when there's a mass shooting, Democrats come out
Speaker 3: and they say guns, and the Republicans say, how dare
Speaker 3: you make this political? Right? And now with this fires
Speaker 3: and you know, failures in government, then the Republicans say,
Speaker 3: you know, this is the failure and the Democrats say,
Speaker 3: how dare you to politicize? Both do it right? But
Speaker 3: I mean, it's so important that this stuff doesn't happen again.
Speaker 3: And there was enormous mismanagement from the water Commission. Here
Speaker 3: there's a woman who is making seven fifty grand a year, right,
Speaker 3: so you know, in the middle of fire season, as
Speaker 3: the reservoir in the Palisades empty, there were hydrants that
Speaker 3: were checked ahead of time. Now people said, oh, the
Speaker 3: pressure couldn't take it. The pressure couldn't take these hydrants
Speaker 3: were checked and were malfunctioning before the fires happened. There
Speaker 3: was I mean enormous there is. I mean talk about
Speaker 3: in cutting the cutting the budget. Now, seventeen million is
Speaker 3: not huge, huge money to cut from the budget, but
Speaker 3: guess what they needed more not less. I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you saw the footage of all of
Speaker 3: the fire vehicles, engines and planes and trucks that are
Speaker 3: simply grounded and stuck in a parking lot because they
Speaker 3: can't afford to repair them.
Speaker 4: Sammy hold, I thought we have to take a break.
Speaker 4: We're going to continue in this.
Speaker 2: Sam Metler is in California setting the scene in giving
Speaker 2: us the facts on the disasters fire. We'll be back
Speaker 2: after this on WBZ.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio, Gary.
Speaker 2: Tank Weave for dinner tonight and Sam Methlis a man
Speaker 2: on the ground in California, discussing the fire situation. So
Speaker 2: let's back up to what you were talking about, how
Speaker 2: you have how it's been inapt and what I don't
Speaker 2: understand is I look at fire. There's been so much
Speaker 2: publicity about fires on the West Coast, natural disasters and
Speaker 2: so forth, that I don't understand how the state of
Speaker 2: California could not treat the threat of fire on the
Speaker 2: same level as the threat of terrorism.
Speaker 3: Gary. It doesn't happen like clockwork, right. It's not like
Speaker 3: New England in the winter where you're prepared where because
Speaker 3: we know it's coming right right this they Gary putting
Speaker 3: money into fixing trucks and fire engines ain't sexy. It's
Speaker 3: not going to be on the news where frankly, the
Speaker 3: folks out here who are far too left are going
Speaker 3: to sit and mop their eyes because someone has been helped.
Speaker 3: And you know, Gary, I'm a moderate. I mean they're
Speaker 3: they're you know, both parties have crazies, right and the
Speaker 3: far left, the far left and the far right.
Speaker 4: That's why you're on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this, this, this city, and this state are far
Speaker 3: to one sided left right, and you need a balance, right.
Speaker 3: You need a bunch of you know, heard asses like
Speaker 3: Republicans who say no, we're not going to pay for that, right,
Speaker 3: and you need some Democrats saying, well, people are suffering
Speaker 3: and we got to pay for at least this. And
Speaker 3: both of them have to shut up and you know,
Speaker 3: get this thing going again, Gary, They have not, and
Speaker 3: this is you know, the incoming president didn't put it
Speaker 3: too well, but they have wasted water here for years.
Speaker 3: Guess what percentage all of the residential usage, residents use
Speaker 3: of water in this in this state? Right, what do
Speaker 3: you think? What do you think is the residential usage?
Speaker 3: What percentage of the total water usage residential? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got I would lower five lower, way lower?
Speaker 4: Wow, Well, give me the number. I didn't think it
Speaker 4: was out low.
Speaker 3: It's it's under five percent. Yes, And the going agriculture
Speaker 3: is enormous.
Speaker 4: Oh, I get that right. Irrigation, irrigation.
Speaker 3: You know how much water it takes to make an almond.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, I mean it really, And and and then
Speaker 3: there's the then there are the pet projects. You know,
Speaker 3: Trump talked about the smelt, right, the government was wasting
Speaker 3: I don't know how many millillions of gallons of water
Speaker 3: to try to save the smelt. And meanwhile they told
Speaker 3: everyone in Los Angeles to cut their water usage or
Speaker 3: they were going to tag them with attacks. We're using
Speaker 3: five percent, you know, and people are shaming some shaming
Speaker 3: each other for watering their lawn or flushing the toilet
Speaker 3: too many times or whatever it is. It's like, we
Speaker 3: cannot we can't make a dent in the water usage
Speaker 3: of California. Right, and all this time they were supposed
Speaker 3: to be making a reservoirs and collection for rain water.
Speaker 3: We had the biggest rains in I don't know how
Speaker 3: many years last year, right, not a drop was saved.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was it was something.
Speaker 4: So where does it stand right now?
Speaker 3: Sam? The fires where Okay, it is twenty hold on there,
Speaker 3: I have the number twenty seven percent contained. They really
Speaker 3: like to see it hitting thirty five percent contained for
Speaker 3: it to be really safeish. And that that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that there, you know, is still fire raging. Right. If
Speaker 3: they're sixty five percent that's uncontained, that just means that
Speaker 3: you know, they're embers and there's stuff and they you
Speaker 3: know it's not it's not out completely right. I have
Speaker 3: it got as close as three and a half miles
Speaker 3: are south and three and a half miles to our
Speaker 3: east right, and we just kept watching and watching and
Speaker 3: it has not moved any closer in the last four days.
Speaker 3: The biggest problem here is the news. Gary, New Englanders
Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to stand for it. I mean it is.
Speaker 3: It is horrendous the news here. First of all, the weather,
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, the weather bimbos, Holy cow,
Speaker 3: everyone is stacked like a brick. You know what and
Speaker 3: they're reading off a teleprompter. Is that none of them
Speaker 3: are meteorologists, you know, like Schwegler and Albert in the
Speaker 3: Hey days, right, so they do not report where the
Speaker 3: fire actually is.
Speaker 2: Well, we had Daniel noise On earlier who from NBC ten,
Speaker 2: who's meteorologists?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's like I want to know where the fire is.
Speaker 3: Where is it? Okay, if there's sixty five percent that's uncontained,
Speaker 3: where is it burning? You will not see the news.
Speaker 4: Well I listen. Los Angeles news has never been I mean.
Speaker 2: Basically, if you're too ugly to be in the movies
Speaker 2: or be an entertainment reporter, I mean you go down
Speaker 2: the list, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, that's that's the way it works in.
Speaker 2: L A with with TV news. But so is there
Speaker 2: a forecast? And when they feel this will be for
Speaker 2: lack of a better term, put out.
Speaker 3: Of course it's not. I mean they don't want to
Speaker 3: tell anyone anything.
Speaker 4: Well how would they? How would they know?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just going to go on for a month?
Speaker 3: I mean no, I mean the problem is when you say,
Speaker 3: is it going to go on for months? The conditions
Speaker 3: are here, right, the places that burned can't burn anymore, right,
Speaker 3: they're burned to the ground. However, you know, you get
Speaker 3: these folks that watch and the lights in the tragedy
Speaker 3: and the excitement, and yeah, I mean they listen, are
Speaker 3: Boston's own Brian White, Jojo White's son, a Newton South alum.
Speaker 3: He was part of a group that took down on
Speaker 3: arsonists with a blowtorch who was walking.
Speaker 4: Up in Yeah, I mean, my god, you can't even.
Speaker 3: And you know they've got footage and this guy is babbling,
Speaker 3: he's not making any sense. Wow. No, So it's I mean,
Speaker 3: there's no there's no evil conspiracy looking to burn down
Speaker 3: l A. Well do you else. It's like just like
Speaker 3: Jews don't control the weather, like Marjorie Taylor Green, things go.
Speaker 4: Well, we got to get to that. We'll good today.
Speaker 4: Coming up.
Speaker 2: As far as Hollywood being a business town, we know,
Speaker 2: what's a show business town?
Speaker 4: How long will that be disrupted?
Speaker 3: Its depends where you live. I mean I couldn't believe
Speaker 3: that I had meetings that were still going on.
Speaker 4: I can't in Gary that is still going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Garrett, I mean, I had a production
Speaker 3: company and they're lovely people, but like went on a
Speaker 3: zoom with me, like you know another day.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: That surprises me because I thought the whole thing was
Speaker 4: gonna shut down.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean I mean Susie works in Brentwood, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: she went into work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotta get it done. Got it as they say
Speaker 2: back here, Sam, got to make the donuts.
Speaker 4: Okay ye.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, the Week in Politics with Sam Medler
Speaker 2: and WBZ.
Speaker 1: Night Died Dan Ray on WBZ Bostin's news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome Back, wrapping up the Dan Dan Ray program Here
Speaker 2: on WBC Sam Medler joining us from the West Coast. Okay, Sam,
Speaker 2: have you been fought following the cabinet hearing this week?
Speaker 3: A little bit?
Speaker 4: See, I think I figured you'd be glued. I think
Speaker 4: he'd be I think he'd be all over it.
Speaker 3: Listen, heg Seth is out of his depth and he
Speaker 3: is no defense secretary. I think he's a very very
Speaker 3: poor choice. Versus Oh my goodness, Uh, she was a
Speaker 3: g in in Florida, BONDI. Uh, she is very very qualified,
Speaker 3: uh to be attorney general. So those are those two.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Marco Rubio is I think has the
Speaker 3: gravitas on the brain and uh yeah to be Secretary
Speaker 3: of State. I just the thing is, it's now because
Speaker 3: they hate Trump so much, right they and uh, it's
Speaker 3: just gonna be trying to make everybody look stupid, foolish.
Speaker 3: Used to be these these used to be rubber stamp scary, right,
Speaker 3: and then came uh, Bork, and then came Clarence Thomas
Speaker 3: and you know, and Kavanaugh, and it became just back
Speaker 3: and forth. Okay, you don't like our guy, we're gonna
Speaker 3: pummel your guy. And you know, most all of these
Speaker 3: people are plenty, plenty qualified, even if you don't like
Speaker 3: their politics. I would say that hag Seth is the one,
Speaker 3: the one outlier. I just I think he's.
Speaker 4: Kind of an important position.
Speaker 3: Yeah you think, I mean it. Listen, it's not Defense secretary.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, it's not secretary of State, right, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I can't imagine him telling a
Speaker 3: general what to do, right, I mean this guy, I mean,
Speaker 3: he doesn't have the military resume to be defense secretary.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to have the respect of the troops, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to know that they have your.
Speaker 3: Bad Actually you don't have to, by the way, you
Speaker 3: don't have to, but it would help. Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but I think that whether it's respect
Speaker 2: or fear or however you want to look at it,
Speaker 2: there needs to be some leadership there.
Speaker 3: Well. I think, by the way, I mean, I do
Speaker 3: think that the troops are pro Trumpers, and I do
Speaker 3: think that they will follow the lead of whomever he
Speaker 3: picks to be that I think.
Speaker 2: They will too. But I think they will. Do you
Speaker 2: think he'll go? Do you think he'll be endorsed? You
Speaker 2: think it'll happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think the Democrats have really much
Speaker 3: heft for cards to play here, right, I mean, I just,
Speaker 3: I just I don't think they do. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: it's tough. I mean, they were so severely beaten and
Speaker 3: now of course people try to tell you, well, they
Speaker 3: weren't really, and yes they were.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen that and that that was going to
Speaker 2: be My next point is while the Democrats in Washington
Speaker 2: can stamp their feet and scream and so forth. You know,
Speaker 2: I just think about I just whenever anybody's when Trump
Speaker 2: says something and you just shake your head and what
Speaker 2: what excuse me?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 2: Like I mean, the whole global warming thing? Whatever he says,
Speaker 2: there's no global warming, Like, look, there's something we know.
Speaker 4: We have to take care of them.
Speaker 3: Vib it.
Speaker 4: It's like anything else.
Speaker 2: It's not as it's probably not as bad as everyone
Speaker 2: says it is, but there's definitely something.
Speaker 3: There by the way, we missed out on cash. Betal
Speaker 3: West is a nut and I don't trust him, you know,
Speaker 3: at any kind of lawn in any law enforcement agency.
Speaker 3: But the other thing I say is, you say Trump
Speaker 3: will will say things that are terrible, and you scratch
Speaker 3: your head. But I gotta tell you looking at and
Speaker 3: the ceasefire is not a it's not a done deal.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you that Joe Biden and should
Speaker 3: not be taking credit for this.
Speaker 2: This deal, well, Sam, is similar to this. Can I
Speaker 2: make the comparison because I wondered about this too. I
Speaker 2: think you remember when the hostages were released after Carter.
Speaker 3: You're talking about Iran?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Iran.
Speaker 2: The hostages from Iran were released after Carter lost the presidency.
Speaker 2: As soon as Reagan was inaugurated, the hostages.
Speaker 4: Were on a plane. Is this a similar situation?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, But why do you think that is? I
Speaker 3: mean absolutely, I mean Trump Trump said if the hostages
Speaker 3: aren't released by the time I take off, as they
Speaker 3: will be hell to pay, right, And you know what
Speaker 3: I want someone like that? Well, I do want a present.
Speaker 3: I do want a president like that. I mean that,
Speaker 3: that to me is is vitally important. And there were
Speaker 3: there are people that really don't understand what's going on
Speaker 3: over there, right, But if they think that, you know,
Speaker 3: everyone in the Palestinian territories are these poor, nice people,
Speaker 3: you know who would love to just have a country. Uh.
Speaker 3: They've been offered that many many times and have said
Speaker 3: no because first and foremost, the Jews got to get
Speaker 3: out and Trump and by the way, Trump Trump put
Speaker 3: pressure on net and Yahoo as well, you know.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, I cut the poop we got.
Speaker 2: It's almost midnight, Sam, who cares?
Speaker 4: It's fine?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, And and that's you have to be able
Speaker 3: to do that. And I have to tell you Biden's
Speaker 3: foreign policy terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: Well you just look at the election and when they
Speaker 2: can say it wasn't bad, listen, how bad is it
Speaker 2: when you have a president.
Speaker 4: Who loses the election, loses, was president.
Speaker 2: For four years, loses, okay, comes back and runs against
Speaker 2: the guy or the party that beat him the first
Speaker 2: time and wins again.
Speaker 4: Think about that for a minute.
Speaker 3: Hasn't happened since Teddy Roosevelt? Okay? And I will tell
Speaker 3: you that whoever kept lying to everyone about his sharpness?
Speaker 3: And I mean and and and I mean that Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal. Yes, that Wall Street Journal article about all
Speaker 3: the people behind the scenes that just out now lied,
Speaker 3: plus the media who helped them do it. Chuck Todd
Speaker 3: said that two years ago, an important cabinet member whom
Speaker 3: he won't name, told me there's no way that Biden
Speaker 3: could run in twenty four. I mean he's he told,
Speaker 3: you know, Chuck Todd, you know, big political you know,
Speaker 3: a political journalist. And at the time he was the
Speaker 3: I think he was the head of whatever there.
Speaker 2: Well he was bureau. Yeah, well, Chuck Todd, Yes, he
Speaker 2: was head of the Washington Bureau. He was, he was
Speaker 2: the editor in chief. He was you know, he did
Speaker 2: meet depress until he was replaced.
Speaker 3: But yes, how he doesn't report that investigate it right, right?
Speaker 3: I mean that is just insane people gas lighting all
Speaker 3: of the and and and and Jean Pierre Gosh, what
Speaker 3: a certain name. I'm terrible. You know his and before him,
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, she's on MSNBC now Red Hair. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 3: the two the two spokesman for.
Speaker 4: Biden over, I know who you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely lied, lied, lied to the country.
Speaker 2: Well what happens, Sam, is we talked about this. The
Speaker 2: Democratic Party used to be the party of the common person, right,
Speaker 2: the blue collar laborer. But it became the party that
Speaker 2: has to pay Oprah to interview Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it became.
Speaker 4: That's what it became.
Speaker 2: People are like, screw that, even though the other guy's
Speaker 2: I relate to him more than I relate to her.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine Oprah charging I was shocked?
Speaker 2: I mean, is that just it's terrible. Number one, that
Speaker 2: they paid it. First of all, it's terrible that she
Speaker 2: just wouldn't do it as a service to her country
Speaker 2: or her political party, right, first of all, But that
Speaker 2: they would actually agree to pay it.
Speaker 3: Stupid. By the way, it was Jensaki and then Karine
Speaker 3: Jean Pierre and absolutely absolutely lied, absolutely lied, you know,
Speaker 3: and everyone laughed at and and and gas lit anyone
Speaker 3: that asked questions about his capacity. How dare you? How
Speaker 3: dare they could have been a primary? There could have
Speaker 3: been a democratic prime And that's disgusting. And the media
Speaker 3: helped it. And you know, all these people saying they
Speaker 3: didn't know are just kidding themselves. If they are indeed
Speaker 3: lying to themselves and not just lying to.
Speaker 2: Us, well, I think they just felt they had to
Speaker 2: keep Trump out, but it was too late. Oh, absolutely,
Speaker 2: it's just too late. They said, well, we got to
Speaker 2: keep Trump. Look, they messed up. He said he wasn't
Speaker 2: going to run for the second term. They never should
Speaker 2: have allowed him to run for the second term. They
Speaker 2: should have had somebody ready to go. I mean, and
Speaker 2: they blew it, you know, they blew it. They just absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean, so you know, by the way, Democrats got
Speaker 2: what they deserved.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's no question, there's no question. I mean, Gary,
Speaker 3: they've they've moved so far left as well, I mean
Speaker 3: the right, I mean so far out there as well,
Speaker 3: but I mean so far left that these you know,
Speaker 3: sort of these social projects right, which many of them
Speaker 3: are not. I mean, they say they believe in science,
Speaker 3: so many of these and I won't name them, but
Speaker 3: they're just not backed with any kind of good evidence.
Speaker 3: I mean, I will tell you that there is no
Speaker 3: long term evidence for the effectiveness of transition surgery for
Speaker 3: you know, a transgender person. No long term evidence.
Speaker 4: I don't understand long term evidence of what.
Speaker 3: Of it being effective, of it being psychologically effective.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, oh, okay, psychologically effective. Okay, I understand what
Speaker 2: you're saying. Right, Yeah, to hout their mental well being
Speaker 2: right correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah. I mean I know people who getting these
Speaker 3: things really quickly. It's scary and it's like you know,
Speaker 3: they just it's it's all and it's just not just
Speaker 3: about that right. It's about fighting for just silly things
Speaker 3: like pronouns or and it is silly by the way.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I don't know how you're if I
Speaker 3: happen to call you the wrong pronoun right, and I'm
Speaker 3: not doing it on purpose, but if I do that, right,
Speaker 3: that shouldn't shake you to your core right. And there's
Speaker 3: just a lot of handwringing about how we make everything equitable, right,
Speaker 3: equity instead of equality, and there's just a lot of
Speaker 3: bs that that again, no no evidence that it helps. Uh.
Speaker 3: And people were sick of it, I mean really sick
Speaker 3: of it. Parents telling teachers, don't you know, Like I
Speaker 3: don't want you to not tell me if my kid
Speaker 3: is dealing with something. You're going to keep that from
Speaker 3: a parent, right, I mean, these are all all the
Speaker 3: sort of like give your kid, Oh god, I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: I'm MSNBC. I don't remember her name. Who said your
Speaker 3: children don't belong to you? They belonged to the community.
Speaker 3: I mean that is you're that that is.
Speaker 4: Good. The community can pay for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's really I mean, really really nuts. Anyway,
Speaker 3: it was Grover Cleveland, not Teddy Roosevelt. I was you know,
Speaker 3: I was around the right.
Speaker 2: Well you were around that. It was around that. But
Speaker 2: you get you know, we used to hang out with
Speaker 2: both guys. You get a little confused. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: one more segment with Sam Medler, our freak, our friend
Speaker 2: from the West Coast, coming up next on WBZ.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on w b Z, the news.
Speaker 2: Radio by Sam Medler's with us our friend from West
Speaker 2: Coast here talking about Trump in politics. So Sam, what
Speaker 2: do you see in the next couple of years with
Speaker 2: his administration?
Speaker 3: Well, Gary, let me first say, I you know, I
Speaker 3: attacked the left, uh uh and the Democrats. But right now,
Speaker 3: let me just say abortion should be safe and legal.
Speaker 3: There you go. So the right is is just I
Speaker 3: think so off on that now. In the next couple
Speaker 3: of years, I think if Trump gets out of his
Speaker 3: own way in terms of his mouth, he might be effective.
Speaker 3: I don't like this is what I hate about Trump, right.
Speaker 3: I don't like the isolationism right right. I don't like
Speaker 3: the fact that he you know, you know, crafts on NATO.
Speaker 3: I mean, we need allies around the world, right and
Speaker 3: you know, bullying them, belittling them, threatening that you're gonna
Speaker 3: get out of NATO. I mean that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: really bugs me. So that that, you know, I don't like.
Speaker 3: I also hate tariffs because and that's not listen, he's
Speaker 3: no conservative. Tariffs are would raise the price of you know, everything.
Speaker 2: Oh, manufacturing, I mean, he wants to place twenty five
Speaker 2: percent tariffs on products coming from China. How many companies
Speaker 2: in America have plants in China?
Speaker 4: A lot?
Speaker 3: Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: But Sam, here's the thing I wonder about that, is
Speaker 2: that just political speak.
Speaker 4: Will it really happen?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Does he know that he he can say this and
Speaker 2: it sounds good with the constituents, but he knows that
Speaker 2: Congress will never let it happen.
Speaker 3: Oh? I think I think he might. You know, I
Speaker 3: think he has enough power that he would get enough
Speaker 3: Republicans and certainly Democrats, Uh might really like that to
Speaker 3: keep business in the country. And you know, screw the
Speaker 3: people that went overseas. You know, I just think that
Speaker 3: that leads to all kinds of you know, price, price
Speaker 3: is being raised, and that's what we don't need, of course, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, the prices are already crazy as they are,
Speaker 3: you know that. You know, they talk about the economy,
Speaker 3: and Biden kept talking about how great the economy was, right,
Speaker 3: and and it's true, Wall Street is doing terrific. The
Speaker 3: problem is most of the average folks in this country
Speaker 3: don't don't invest in Wall Street. All they know is
Speaker 3: they go to the market and holy cow, look at
Speaker 3: my look at my bill. Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's no doubt, there's no question.
Speaker 2: And that was a factor in the election because Biden
Speaker 2: could say, look at what the market's done, the economies
Speaker 2: have Yeah, it's still pretty expensive to live.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about it, Sammy.
Speaker 3: I have I think I think Trump. I think Trump
Speaker 3: will do well in foreign policy though, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: we had a pretty safe four years when he was president, right,
Speaker 3: And I don't like the guy, but you know, the
Speaker 3: foreign policy wasn't terrible.
Speaker 2: What do you think about the Hollywood committee he's putting
Speaker 2: together with what Sylvester still.
Speaker 4: Owe and to have films made in America.
Speaker 3: Listen, I like to you know, they call it runaway production,
Speaker 3: but really it's California's fault because of the tax they yes, yes,
Speaker 3: that's why people run away from California because they tax
Speaker 3: the hell out of you here, and people go to
Speaker 3: Australia or New Zealand and yeah, I mean yes, British Columbia. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's cheaper.
Speaker 2: Well, it's cheaper, Sam, it's always great to talk to you.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're safe. I'm glad, Susi's safe. I'm glad
Speaker 2: everybody's fine.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and my love to all the Tangways and
Speaker 3: all of my people, my brethren. Yes, in the hub.
Speaker 2: And you have followers now on WBZ Radio. As you
Speaker 2: were receiving texts, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well listen, Gary, my my, I have got a
Speaker 3: podcast coming out February eleventh.
Speaker 4: Let's promote that.
Speaker 3: Called famili Side Gary is an hour long podcast on
Speaker 3: a fatal family violence and we have every episode we
Speaker 3: have folks who have lost a family member to another
Speaker 3: family member.
Speaker 4: And it's scary how many episodes you were able to
Speaker 4: get forty eight cheese. When you told me that, I was.
Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, that's incredible And where can they
Speaker 2: get the pod.
Speaker 3: It's going to be on Spotify and Apple and iHeart
Speaker 3: won't be you know, getting it basically wherever you're listen
Speaker 3: to podcast.
Speaker 4: We like iHeart because that's where you can also listen
Speaker 4: to the show.
Speaker 3: Sure, Sammy Familicide dot Net, come and look and listen
Speaker 3: to a trailer.
Speaker 2: I look forward to it. Sam, Thanks buddy, talk soon,
Speaker 2: Thank care, Yeah, take care.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to thank Marita.
Speaker 2: Great job, Marita LaRosa putting the show together again. Rob
Speaker 2: Brooks on the other side of the window, I appreciate it. Dan,
Speaker 2: thanks for letting me hang out. We'll be back tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: We'll give it one more go and just kind of
Speaker 2: keep doing what we're doing, have some fun. Thanks for
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