Speaker 1: It's with Dan Ray on Boston News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, our number three coming up here at nightside,
Speaker 2: and we're talking about really two subjects. There are two
Speaker 2: huge news stories today nationally. One is tonight President Biden's
Speaker 2: farewell addressed to the nation. So the speech, which was
Speaker 2: about nineteen minutes in length, was not especially remarkable. I
Speaker 2: don't think there was some line in the space in
Speaker 2: the speech that will be remembered forever, such as Dwight
Speaker 2: Eisenhower's reference to the military industrial complex. It was a summation.
Speaker 2: It was basically Joe Biden telling the world what a
Speaker 2: great job he thought that he had done. So you
Speaker 2: can comment on not only the speech, but you can
Speaker 2: comment on his entire administration, which I think would be
Speaker 2: more interesting, and whether you feel that it was overall
Speaker 2: successful or not give them a grade. And then the
Speaker 2: developments in the Middle East. That dawn is about getting
Speaker 2: close to a new day in Israel, and there is
Speaker 2: a new day in the Middle East if this ceasefire holds,
Speaker 2: if the hostages are released Palestinian prisoners are also exchanged.
Speaker 2: Israel has done a remarkable job. I mean, when you
Speaker 2: think about where Israel was approximately what sixteen months ago.
Speaker 2: They were flat on their back. They were flat on
Speaker 2: their back, and they have come back and done a
Speaker 2: remarkable job. And again it's good that our administrations backed Antnye,
Speaker 2: although I think we could have backed him more strongly
Speaker 2: in my opinion. But nonetheless, I think Israel has come
Speaker 2: out the other end of this very dark tunnel to
Speaker 2: what would be hopefully years of peace and quietude in
Speaker 2: the Middle East. They have destroyed the leadership of Hespola,
Speaker 2: they have destroyed the leadership of Hamas. They have done
Speaker 2: incredible work which I think also they contributed to the
Speaker 2: downfall of a sad Let's let's talk about either or
Speaker 2: both of those topics. Up next on Nightside. Let me
Speaker 2: go to Mark and Cambridge. Mark, you were next on nightside.
Speaker 3: Welcome, how you knowing?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine tonight, How are you, sir?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 2: We can still say that because it's still January.
Speaker 5: Go right ahead, Mark, January.
Speaker 3: I just want to make this short and simple. Okay,
Speaker 3: I voted for Trump, you know, but we're gonna get
Speaker 3: to the speech of Joe Biden. I think it was,
Speaker 3: like I said, it wasn't well crafted. It was just
Speaker 3: someone wrote a speech, you know, yep.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 3: You I mean while I was in office, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of things happened on his watch.
Speaker 3: And oh, with the new administration coming in Monday, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like like can say, it's time to move forward,
Speaker 3: you know, Oh it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's yeah, yeah, I mean, look, it's time
Speaker 2: to turn the page. Okay. Trump was elected in November.
Speaker 2: He's had an opportunity to put his cabinet proposals in
Speaker 2: front of the Senate. I guess Marco Rubio was well
Speaker 2: received today. I think Pam Bondy will be the next
Speaker 2: attorney general. I even think that Hegseath, who for a
Speaker 2: long time looked like he was on shaky grounds as
Speaker 2: the next Defense secretary, looks to me like he'll he'll
Speaker 2: make it. And I think the political atmospherics in the
Speaker 2: country have changed in the last year and a half
Speaker 2: or so. Maybe some of it has to do with
Speaker 2: the assassination attempts last summer. I don't know. Maybe people
Speaker 2: just said, hey, it's time for change. But this is
Speaker 2: where we are, and I'm anxious to see what sort
Speaker 2: of a job Donald Trump's going to be able to
Speaker 2: do second time around. It's not often people get a
Speaker 2: second chance at being president after they've lost.
Speaker 3: Right, exactly yeah, exactly right. So it leaves me to this.
Speaker 3: This is for Joe Bidens. La la la la, good bye.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right, feel free to join
Speaker 2: the conversation here. I thought that the speech tonight was
Speaker 2: probably the speech that Joe Biden wanted to give. It
Speaker 2: was a pretty straightforward litany of what he felt were
Speaker 2: his successes. I got open lines here, which makes me
Speaker 2: always uncomfortable. No guests, you're my guests. This is two
Speaker 2: big stories. Joe Biden's farewell. It was only nineteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I didn't I thought it would go twenty but nineteen
Speaker 2: is about right.
Speaker 6: And and.
Speaker 2: Of course Israel I think that tonight, Benjamin not in.
Speaker 2: Yahoo's policies have proven to be the right ones. The
Speaker 2: last few months, Israel has come literally come off the
Speaker 2: canvas and fought its way back six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty one line at six one seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Bernie's in New Hampshire, Bernie, next one
Speaker 2: night'sat How are you, Bernie?
Speaker 7: I'm fine? How are you tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Does a Bernie in Vermont? Now we
Speaker 2: got a Bernie in New Hampshire. Go ahead, Bernie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my son just went off the basic train in
Speaker 7: last week. We brought him up to Maps and Alton.
Speaker 7: He signed an army range and contract. He's eighteen years old.
Speaker 7: So I'm very happy with the new president of the
Speaker 7: United States, and I think it's going to bode well
Speaker 7: for him, not just my opinion, but especially like with
Speaker 7: the stuff going on in the Middle East. So I
Speaker 7: think it's having a strong president. It's going to bode
Speaker 7: well for a son that you know, he's a three
Speaker 7: sport athlete, captain of all the teams, and he did
Speaker 7: very well. He took college courses in high school and
Speaker 7: he chose to be an army ranger and focus mother
Speaker 7: was hot, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she'll be proud of him. Look, first of all,
Speaker 2: congratulations on having raised a son. I want to say
Speaker 2: a couple of things to you. One, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I think that the military will feel more respected under
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Rightfully or wrongfully, I think that they will
Speaker 2: feel more respected as a whole. And I also think
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump, he's not an isolationist, but I don't
Speaker 2: think that we will see as when he was president
Speaker 2: the military adventures. He used special forces to take out
Speaker 2: the bad guys, but there weren't huge deployments under his presidency.
Speaker 2: And he actually had initiated not that the war withdrawal
Speaker 2: from Afghanistan went according to plan, but he had initiated that.
Speaker 2: And I just I think your son is joining the
Speaker 2: Army Rangers at a good point in time, is what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say to you, in a good way.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that your son will will rise to whatever
Speaker 2: occasion he faces, as the Army Rangers always do. When
Speaker 2: when was the departure day? Was it actually today, Bernie?
Speaker 3: It was last Tuesday, Last Tuesday. Yeah, my wife was
Speaker 3: from home Sunday.
Speaker 7: He got to call her and she's been crying ever since.
Speaker 2: Well that's how much he loves him' And you love
Speaker 2: you know, you love him in a different way. You
Speaker 2: you see him off and you see the start of
Speaker 2: his life. I mean, he I'm sure is going to
Speaker 2: be a great success, uh in the military and going
Speaker 2: in as an Army Ranger. They're the best of the best.
Speaker 7: So yeah, very honorable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you should be very proud of having raised
Speaker 2: the sun like that. And UH, do me a favor
Speaker 2: if you if you talk to him, and I know
Speaker 2: the telephone calls in the first few weeks of basic
Speaker 2: training tend to be few and far between, tell him
Speaker 2: you call my program and tell him that I just
Speaker 2: wanted on behalf of everyone who listens to this broadcast.
Speaker 2: We want to thank him for taking on this, this
Speaker 2: duty and this obligation. I mean that from the bottom
Speaker 2: of my heart. Thank you, Bertie. Yes you have you?
Speaker 2: Have you ever called before? Is this your first time?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 7: First time?
Speaker 2: Well, we want to give you a round of applause.
Speaker 2: But in addition, I want to give a separate rob
Speaker 2: round of applause for your son. What's your son's first name? Bernie, Frankie, Frankie. Please,
Speaker 2: when you talk to Frankie, tell him thank you for
Speaker 2: all of us. Okay, And I truly truly mean that.
Speaker 2: I spent a little bit of time in the military.
Speaker 2: Nothing as adventuresome as the Army Rangers. Trust me on that,
Speaker 2: and uh, I salute him and I stand in admiration
Speaker 2: of him and of his parents. Thank you, Bernie. I
Speaker 2: really appreciate you taking the time to call call more
Speaker 2: off than you.
Speaker 7: Thank have a good night, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, Happy New Year to you, and keep us posted
Speaker 2: on your son's progress. Thank you, so I will, I
Speaker 2: will all right give you a wife a hug for
Speaker 2: us as well.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeahthing's gonna.
Speaker 2: Everything's going to be okay, Everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bernie, talk to you soon. Thank good night boy.
Speaker 2: What a what an honor to talk to that dad.
Speaker 2: It's amazing the people who UH call this program on
Speaker 2: any given night for the first time, Bernie's call, Miller's
Speaker 2: call from Lawrence, or last hour. I enjoy callers. I
Speaker 2: think you know that by now, so feel free to
Speaker 2: become one six one seven, two four ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine ten thirty if you want to add
Speaker 2: your note of congratulations. I think a lot of young
Speaker 2: men and women are going to decide that the military
Speaker 2: is a career, uh or, if not a career, a
Speaker 2: commitment for some period of time. I think we'll see
Speaker 2: recruiting taking an upward trend. In my opinion, I could
Speaker 2: be wrong. I don't think so. Back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan way Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: nights Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back, We're going to go to the Empire State. Carl
Speaker 2: is in New York Carl, Welcome to knightside. How are you, sir?
Speaker 6: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 6: I give Biden's speech. I give Biden's speeches. See it's
Speaker 6: kind of was kind of generic. But they can't give
Speaker 6: him to anything too major to say that he's not
Speaker 6: going to mess it up anyway.
Speaker 2: So well, it was interesting. If it had Bill Clinton,
Speaker 2: it probably would have gone for a couple of hours.
Speaker 2: But I figured twenty minutes and he did nineteen, and
Speaker 2: that's about where I think it should have been.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was fine that just him talking about the
Speaker 6: Supreme Court and putting limits on it. Hey, it's worked
Speaker 6: for two hundred and fifty years. Why master if anything putball.
Speaker 2: On the Yes, it seemed a little disingenuous. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know that he doesn't like that, but he never
Speaker 2: talked about putting present, putting any limits on Congress. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're going to put court, why not
Speaker 2: have term limits on Congress? I mean, you gotta like
Speaker 2: I just it would have been nice if the speech
Speaker 2: was truly devoid of politics, but I don't think he's
Speaker 2: capable of that.
Speaker 6: I think I'm talking about him talking about you know,
Speaker 6: people paying their fair share, you know, the rich and
Speaker 6: the elite in this country already paid forty percent of
Speaker 6: the tax anyway, well.
Speaker 2: At least because when you think about the federal income
Speaker 2: taxes around thirty seven percent, if you live in a
Speaker 2: state like New York, where you live, you got a
Speaker 2: pretty significant state tax. And if you happen to work
Speaker 2: in New York City, there's a city tax, and now
Speaker 2: you're going to have congestion pricing in New York. Foregnia
Speaker 2: is the same way California. Thirteen percent state income tax
Speaker 2: in California. Here in Massachusetts, we just passed a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago the millionaires tax, so that for forever
Speaker 2: the taxes state tax in Massachusetts was five percent. And
Speaker 2: now for anyone making over million dollars, first million dollars,
Speaker 2: five percent. Anything beyond that, if you happen to, you know,
Speaker 2: be very fortunate and play for the Red Sox or
Speaker 2: or the Celtics or the Patriots, you're gonna pay nine
Speaker 2: percent in state income tax. That's a big deal. That's
Speaker 2: a big job on top of a federal income tax.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I love when they use the term
Speaker 2: fear share. What the heck does fair share mean? It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything in my mind, it might mean a
Speaker 2: flat income tax of fifteen percent across the board.
Speaker 6: Someone else might say, to go out and you get
Speaker 6: an education, and you get a good job, and you
Speaker 6: happen to make money, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 6: somebody else doesn't. Why why are you gonna pay more?
Speaker 6: You know what I mean? You did your work, you
Speaker 6: did what you're closed to do.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the progressive loved Zuckerberg, they loved Bezos,
Speaker 2: they loved all of the tech billionaires, until all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the tech billionaires said, well, no, the Washington
Speaker 2: Post is not going to make an endorsement this year,
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, Mark Zuckerberg's paying a million
Speaker 2: dollars to h for the Trump inaugural. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the progressives are feeling really bitter. What it's their former heroes.
Speaker 6: Well, they know, they just know if they're not going
Speaker 6: to do the right thing, Trump's going to get on
Speaker 6: about it. I don't see any of the censorship with TikTok.
Speaker 6: I think it's part of you know, people get on
Speaker 6: there and say what they want to say, and it's
Speaker 6: you know, I mean, it's like the Internet used to be.
Speaker 6: You probably remember at the very beginning. It was the wild,
Speaker 6: wild wets out here.
Speaker 2: It still is, I mean, it still is. And guess
Speaker 2: what it used to be. The people. What people forget
Speaker 2: is that remember when you're in high school, not that
Speaker 2: you're in high school at this time, but and you
Speaker 2: learned about the yellow journalism of the late eighteen hundreds
Speaker 2: when you know, and then they used to be in
Speaker 2: New York City what a dozen newspapers and they were
Speaker 2: squirrel us and we used we used to have the
Speaker 2: internet is now what used to be the Inquirer at
Speaker 2: the supermarket all of that stuff.
Speaker 6: I think you don't need the censorship. Just do your research,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. There's legitimate so he's on
Speaker 6: there to get your to get your information from and
Speaker 6: you know, take everything with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe a couple of grains of salt.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to believe that, you want
Speaker 2: to write a book that the Martians have landed, write
Speaker 2: the book. Okay, see what good luck. That's what freedom's
Speaker 2: all about. Absolutely, you have the freedom in this country
Speaker 2: to be a jerk. If you want, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I'm listening to you tonight on my gig super radio.
Speaker 6: Usually I get you online, but it's coming in pretty
Speaker 6: well tonight.
Speaker 2: Whereabouts of New York? Are you in the city or upstate?
Speaker 6: No, I'm on near Albany.
Speaker 2: Sure, we got a lot of listeners in New York State.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're only You're only one hundred and eighty miles away.
Speaker 6: Because I usually listen to you from nine to twelve,
Speaker 6: and then i'll go after After twelve, I go to
Speaker 6: WLW to the Trucking Network at night till like one
Speaker 6: or two in the morning.
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with the truck What is the Trucking Network?
Speaker 2: Is that a radio station or is that a trucking station?
Speaker 6: No, it's a show. They call it the Trucking Network.
Speaker 6: They have a lot of truck drivers calling because WLW
Speaker 6: is kind of like you are where. They cover so
Speaker 6: many states. Yeah, they give the they give the weather
Speaker 6: forecast for like all the major highways in the United States.
Speaker 6: They do.
Speaker 2: Where is LW. I assume if it's w LW with
Speaker 2: a W, it's supposed to be east of the Mississippi River.
Speaker 2: We're based in Boston, you know, we think of ourselves
Speaker 2: more as New England.
Speaker 6: But where they based us Cincinnati?
Speaker 2: Perfect? What a perfect spot to be. I mean, you
Speaker 2: were in the good old.
Speaker 6: I get w j R out of Detroit in that
Speaker 6: night a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I used to when I was a kid, a
Speaker 2: long time ago. I used to listen to baseball games.
Speaker 2: I would listen to the Orioles games. I used to
Speaker 2: listen to the Yankee games on w CBS.
Speaker 6: I don't know, m Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and uh, every once in a while you
Speaker 2: could pick up a Phillies game here and there, an
Speaker 2: Indian game. And back in those days, we had a
Speaker 2: big old radio in the back porch. It was an
Speaker 2: antique or it was a really old radio and if
Speaker 2: you just got that dial exactly where it was, that
Speaker 2: introduced me to radio. I think that's how I got
Speaker 2: hooked on radio as a kid.
Speaker 6: Yeah. My dad had a big old Zeni Transoceanic big
Speaker 6: two radio that we played with when we were kids,
Speaker 6: and we could DX across the country or and it
Speaker 6: had like nine bands a short wave in it. So
Speaker 6: we were listening to you know, NRD out of Japan
Speaker 6: and Radio Mas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always I wish I had learned more about radio,
Speaker 2: in the internals of radio and all of that. The
Speaker 2: thing that I liked was listening to baseball games. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if you happen to be a Yankee
Speaker 2: fan or not, but the Yankees used to have a
Speaker 2: broadcaster named Red Barber Do you remember him?
Speaker 6: Name sounds familiar.
Speaker 2: Well, Mel Allen was the Yankees broadcaster, and Red Barber
Speaker 2: Gran had been a broadcaster for the for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and with the Yankees, and barbera had a tendency to
Speaker 2: tell stories during the game. So it would go something
Speaker 2: like this. You know, h' say you know Elston Howard
Speaker 2: at the play and you know two and two on Ellie?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember that story, and tell some story.
Speaker 2: And the next thing it's say, uh, Marie takes a
Speaker 2: ball outside, Well what happened to Howard? You know? That's
Speaker 2: like and then at some point, you know, Howard leads
Speaker 2: off second. Now you figured he well he maybe got
Speaker 2: a double, maybe he stole second base, but if it
Speaker 2: would just go all of a sudden, he hit off
Speaker 2: hid And he was a great broadcaster, but he would
Speaker 2: go into a story and it was read Baba, and
Speaker 2: he had that kind of clipped of Southern accident. Read Baba,
Speaker 2: Yankee broadcaster. And I used to listen to him. But
Speaker 2: it was so frustrating because it was like, wait a second,
Speaker 2: hold on, you know, Elson Howard's what how come Roger Merris?
Speaker 2: Is it that.
Speaker 6: Shortwave? Shortwaves kind of died out. It's a lot of
Speaker 6: Christian stations, and there's a lot of Spanish stations for
Speaker 6: some readion or another right now on there BBC. The
Speaker 6: BBC shut down a lot of their their transmitters, and
Speaker 6: Mike Jamaica and in different parts around the world. You
Speaker 6: get it coming right out of a but a lot
Speaker 6: of I'm just telling you, I am thrilled of America.
Speaker 2: You know, Carl, you and may not know too much.
Speaker 2: I'm in my eighteenth year here. Next month we'll do
Speaker 2: our four thousandth show on WBZ Nightside.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: I never would have imagined as a little kid sitting
Speaker 2: in the back porch in Boston, we lived in the city,
Speaker 2: in the city, listening to radio when I was twelve
Speaker 2: or thirteen years old, and it expanded my view of
Speaker 2: the world. It was like, whoa, there's a big world
Speaker 2: out there. I never would have imagined that in WBZ
Speaker 2: is this iconic station here. And you may know or
Speaker 2: you may not know. But before I worked here in
Speaker 2: WBZ Radio. I was. I was a television reporter for
Speaker 2: thirty one years on WBZTV, so I've worked for really
Speaker 2: one employer my entire career. We were owned at different
Speaker 2: times by CBS by westy Ill was broadcast. Now we're
Speaker 2: owned by iHeart. But it's been a pretty cool way
Speaker 2: to live, to live my life, to be honest with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I listened to a lot of the Canadian stations
Speaker 6: with one called CHML, and they're like eleven hundred am,
Speaker 6: but they they play all the old radio shows I
Speaker 6: like our Miss Brooks and the Shadow and Yeah and
Speaker 6: things like that, and they come booming in at night
Speaker 6: if people are looking for something I listen't too.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent, Carl. I hope you continue to he I
Speaker 2: believe you've called before, correct, I recognize.
Speaker 6: Hey, yeah it's been it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2: But would do me a favorite, you know, check in
Speaker 2: more often than that. I may not be here a
Speaker 2: couple of years from now. You never know, Carl.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I can't have a good.
Speaker 2: Nay, Carl, appreciate it. Have a great one good night
Speaker 2: onlyline available six months seven. I'm enjoying myself tonight. I
Speaker 2: hope you are as well. Back on Night's side. After this.
Speaker 1: Night's side thought with Dan ray Undel bas Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the calls, we go. We're gonna go next
Speaker 2: to Jim in Kansas City, Missouri. Jim, you are next
Speaker 2: on nights. Welcome Jim, go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hey, thanks for taking my call. How are you
Speaker 5: doing great?
Speaker 2: Doing great? Had some interesting calls tonight. What's your take
Speaker 2: either on the president's farewell speech or on this remarkable
Speaker 2: achievement that Israel has been able to do against all odds.
Speaker 5: You know, I've heard most of your calls, and so
Speaker 5: I can't. I can't appine it. I can Can I
Speaker 5: go on both of them?
Speaker 2: Or sure? Go ahead? Yeah? Oh okay?
Speaker 5: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Uh have you ever heard that song by the Almond
Speaker 5: Brothers called Tied to the Whipping Post?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, okay, Well, probably very Uh it's a very well
Speaker 5: known song. And at this point in the Biden presidency,
Speaker 5: that's what I feel like. Every time I hear about
Speaker 5: what something he's done, I feel like I'm just tied up.
Speaker 5: He's laying into me and there's nothing I can do
Speaker 5: about it. So why in the world. I would want
Speaker 5: to turn on the TV and pay any attention. I
Speaker 5: just turn your head and bear it for as much
Speaker 5: longer as you possibly can without passing out. That's how
Speaker 5: I think of it, That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 5: And on the TikTok subject, it's not about what people
Speaker 5: are putting on there. It's about these phones collect every
Speaker 5: kind of every information you can imagine about you. All
Speaker 5: the clothing you wear, everything that's in your house, everything
Speaker 5: you say, your fingerprint, your face, your photos of your face,
Speaker 5: everything is on there, and these Chinese people have access
Speaker 5: to it, you know, I just I think so.
Speaker 2: But look, look, look my attitude is if you're dumb
Speaker 2: enough to participate in anything, I mean, if you're dumb
Speaker 2: enough to go online when you get one of these
Speaker 2: things downline that says you know, you've now won a
Speaker 2: million dollars please check here. Uh oh at this point, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't know.
Speaker 5: You don't understand. Even when somebody's near you, their phone
Speaker 5: is scanning your phone. There's if you're you're the devices
Speaker 5: all hook up to each other, So if somebody who
Speaker 5: has TikTok enabled is nearby you, they're scanning on your
Speaker 5: phone trying to get information on that that.
Speaker 2: I'm not aware of that. Jim. If you if you
Speaker 2: tell me that, I listen to me. If you tell
Speaker 2: me something, I will believe it. Okay, you're a smart guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing with you. I was not aware of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the problem. It's not I mean, that's kind
Speaker 5: of the big Okay, And so anyway, that's that's the
Speaker 5: problem with TikTok. But the thing is we need laws,
Speaker 5: privacy laws like in Germany, because even if they do,
Speaker 5: if they don't get it from TikTok, they could just
Speaker 5: pay for it. Believe me, you it's out there. You
Speaker 5: can if you pay the right amount of money, you
Speaker 5: can find out anything you want about people or what
Speaker 5: kind of every every device they have in their house,
Speaker 5: exactly where they live, the square footage, the floor plan, everything,
Speaker 5: everything is all out there. But you can't hide it.
Speaker 5: So and that that's the problem, you know.
Speaker 2: So So where does that lead you? What does what is? What?
Speaker 2: What's your conclusion?
Speaker 5: Well, I think the reason that they're doing it is
Speaker 5: so that China has to pay for the information. But
Speaker 5: I think the only solution to it is if you
Speaker 5: have privacy laws like they have in Germany, where they're
Speaker 5: not allowed to collect that information.
Speaker 2: Do you think so, you think that the German privacy
Speaker 2: laws will prevent China from collecting information if that China
Speaker 2: wants the information.
Speaker 5: No, but it'll it'll prevent the information from being collected
Speaker 5: by on Americans. And then if it's not collected, then
Speaker 5: it's not available. But as long as it's collected and
Speaker 5: they they sell it.
Speaker 2: If China, Jim, just listen to my question. If China
Speaker 2: is intent on collecting information on people, do you think
Speaker 2: that some statute, some law that gets passed in Germany
Speaker 2: or Sweden or America, China's going to say, well, we
Speaker 2: can't do that now because there's a Laura in America.
Speaker 5: We'll still try. They'll still try, They'll still try, but
Speaker 5: the so the software and hopefully the hardware won't allow it.
Speaker 2: That is why that I think both the Biden and
Speaker 2: the Trump administration wants TikTok to sell the ownership of
Speaker 2: the company to an American firm.
Speaker 5: I think that's what you know. I don't. I don't
Speaker 5: really think that's going to solve anything.
Speaker 2: But well, I'm not as smart about this as you are, Jim.
Speaker 2: So Therefore, I'm gonna stand down here. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: argue with you. I'm just Dan.
Speaker 5: The only reason, the only reason why I can't find
Speaker 5: out exactly where you live and what your cell phone
Speaker 5: number is because you have such a common last name.
Speaker 5: I know, names of your children, I know name your wife.
Speaker 5: I know. I mean, so you just you just look
Speaker 5: up the name and if there'll be a list of
Speaker 5: one hundred names, and then you just got to pick
Speaker 5: through them and you can find out everything you want
Speaker 5: to know.
Speaker 2: About my information. A lot of my information is on
Speaker 2: the Internet. And the reason it's on the Internet is
Speaker 2: I made a decision that in order to publicize my
Speaker 2: show and to reach out to people like you and others,
Speaker 2: that I put the information out there. I'm an open book.
Speaker 2: That's my choice. That's my choice.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Well I'm also saying the way.
Speaker 2: Very well known in Boston. I've been a TV reporter
Speaker 2: here for thirty one years. There's probably darn few people
Speaker 2: in Boston that I haven't met personally in all honesty, Jim.
Speaker 2: So that's that's part of living. I'm not a hermit,
Speaker 2: though I'm really not, and I try to keep all
Speaker 2: of my my, my information. That's that's personal. I don't
Speaker 2: put my passwords up. You know, if someone sends me
Speaker 2: an email and says we're going to give you a
Speaker 2: million dollars, all you have to do is click here
Speaker 2: and give us your bank account numbers so that we
Speaker 2: can deposit the million dollars. I've seen that before, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean when the princes from Nairobi contacted me and
Speaker 2: told me he had five million dollars. I passed on that.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm not the smartest guy in the world,
Speaker 2: but I passed on that one. That's for sure. Now
Speaker 2: I might have missed a lot of money there, but
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: Ay, but it's here's a new here's a new thing
Speaker 5: that I heard and I don't I don't know how
Speaker 5: two it is. But apparently unless you move, like when
Speaker 5: you put in a password into a device, like let's
Speaker 5: say you're unlocking your cell phone. Yeah, unless you unless
Speaker 5: you move the phone while you're putting in the code,
Speaker 5: AI can figure it out.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, in that case, then they have all.
Speaker 1: My passwords right right?
Speaker 2: Well, but about it, Jim, what should I do about it?
Speaker 2: Tell me?
Speaker 5: Tell me you got you got to you got to
Speaker 5: move the phone when you're putting in your code or
Speaker 5: whatever whatever device, whatever device it is.
Speaker 2: So I should be walking with my phone, okay, you.
Speaker 5: Know, either that or twisted around as you're putting in
Speaker 5: as you're putting in the passwords.
Speaker 2: Okay, where did you? Where'd you? Where'd you find out?
Speaker 2: What's your what's your source on that?
Speaker 5: If I could ask where did I hear? Believe I
Speaker 5: was listening to w g N. There's a there's a
Speaker 5: tech guy that calls in uh on in the afternoons. Yea,
Speaker 5: and they well, they asked him, they asked him, this
Speaker 5: is AI can help people figure out? Is AI going
Speaker 5: to know our passwords? And he said it will if
Speaker 5: you don't move your device as you're putting it in.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll try to find out as much as
Speaker 2: I can about that, Jim, I got to run. I'm
Speaker 2: pass my break. I'm gonna let you go. As always
Speaker 2: an interesting phone call, Thank you much, talk back on
Speaker 2: night side. Right after this one line at six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five four to ten thirty one line at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty, I'm starting to again say
Speaker 2: the subjects that are in play, and you can have
Speaker 2: other subjects, but the subjects of the day are are
Speaker 2: President Biden's farewell speech tonight and the incredible comeback by
Speaker 2: the government, by the State of Israel. They were flat
Speaker 2: on their back on October seventh, twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 2: they have come back with a vengeance. And I say
Speaker 2: congratulations to them, and congratulations to Benjamin Netanya who and
Speaker 2: I think he should be nominated Netanyao for the Nobel
Speaker 2: Peace Prize. We'll be back on night Side after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w b Z to News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's keep going here, got to pick the pace up
Speaker 2: a little bit. Linda and Nayman. Hey Linda, thanks for
Speaker 2: calling in. How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 9: Pretty well, pretty well, Thank you. I'd like to give
Speaker 9: a shout out to Frankine and her dad, his dad,
Speaker 9: the gentleman who's going into the Rangers.
Speaker 2: Army Rangers. Yep, you bet you. That's a that's a
Speaker 2: very nice thing for you to do.
Speaker 9: As you know, I did the DA office there. I
Speaker 9: was a gopher. I had some disability that I couldn't
Speaker 9: go out the ladder and and I couldn't go away
Speaker 9: to learn the computer. And but I you know, people say,
Speaker 9: how did you know I was a veteran. I said, one,
Speaker 9: your hair is white and two year about the age
Speaker 9: of someone that might have gone into Vietnam. And if
Speaker 9: that's the case, I said, I want to say welcome home.
Speaker 9: And they say thank you, and they get choked up,
Speaker 9: and I said, that's the first time someone has said
Speaker 9: something like that to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that is. That was the experience, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: But I think the attitude Joseph military has changed, and
Speaker 2: I think it's going to change even more with the
Speaker 2: return of President Trump because he uh, he will. He'll
Speaker 2: be a big booster of the military. And I hope
Speaker 2: that he does not send the military off on adventures overseas,
Speaker 2: unnecessary adventures overseas in my opinion.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, hope your opinion holds. Still hold hold with it,
Speaker 9: and that that trumps over listens. Listen to your radio
Speaker 9: station a little bit.
Speaker 2: Sometimes.
Speaker 9: I wanted to just stay a quick overview of the speech.
Speaker 9: I think he did a decent job.
Speaker 2: That's fine, he did.
Speaker 9: I think it did a nice overview of what ACCOMPLISHIH
Speaker 9: was obviously, as you had mentioned, skipped a couple of
Speaker 9: things which I wouldn't have known. But and why would
Speaker 9: he praise the up and coming next Trump.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have to praise him, But I think he
Speaker 2: could have acknowledged him. There was he just refer to
Speaker 2: the incoming administration.
Speaker 5: This.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with acknowledging someone, that's all. I mean.
Speaker 2: He's going to have to acknowledge him on the twentieth.
Speaker 2: Why not acknowledge him tonight? I don't know it just
Speaker 2: it seems petty to me, that's all petty.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, Well, thank you for that comment. All Right,
Speaker 9: you put me back to Rob because I had two
Speaker 9: ideas that could go for your show. I miss Friday Night.
Speaker 2: I'll put you on hold and Rob will talk to you. Thanks, Linda,
Speaker 2: appreciate the call. Don't hang up. Six one, seven, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Where we're gonna go next, gonna go to
Speaker 2: Gregory and Dorchester. Greg next time, night side. Welcome, Hi Dad,
Speaker 2: How are you? I'm doing fine? Mister Gregory? What's on
Speaker 2: your mind tonight?
Speaker 8: I have the same doual so sure I had. I
Speaker 8: was sick as it could be for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: Bad cough, I'll go cough and filim and everything else
Speaker 8: that it's thinking about you. We're going to try to
Speaker 8: call you. A couple of times I couldn't get through.
Speaker 8: The lights were busy after you coming back when you
Speaker 8: were thick.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I pretty much spent most of my Christmas
Speaker 2: in New Year's holiday a dealing with this, and I
Speaker 2: had no idea what it was. I had no idea
Speaker 2: how I got it. But it was nasty and I'm
Speaker 2: well rid of it. And I hope you're on the
Speaker 2: road to recovery too, Greg.
Speaker 8: Thank god, I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was listening to the guy was talking about his
Speaker 8: Chinese and talk and all that, and the conversation was
Speaker 8: about the speech of Biden, which I listened to it,
Speaker 8: and I'd be honest with you, I thought he did
Speaker 8: a decent job.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I think he just said she said, she said a
Speaker 2: decent job. I didn't think there was any memorable lines
Speaker 2: in the speech. I think I think he would he
Speaker 2: would have been well served if he had referred to
Speaker 2: you know, President Trump or president like Trump as opposed
Speaker 2: to the incoming administration.
Speaker 8: But I think you mentioned Trump.
Speaker 6: Nope, I thought he didn't.
Speaker 2: No, No, he referred to it his he wished, which
Speaker 2: is the incoming extreme administration a success? Yeah, lovely, But yeah,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have heard him to have said I wish
Speaker 2: the incoming administration of you know, president like Trump Trump
Speaker 2: to be successful, just as I've said.
Speaker 8: That, you know, much like you said, we're all Americans,
Speaker 8: and I mean when it comes down to there're sly
Speaker 8: one president and he's gone at a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, whether you voted for
Speaker 2: him or not, he's the president. And if he does
Speaker 2: a good job, that's good for the country. If he
Speaker 2: doesn't love the job, it's not good for the country.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I think, I really think the president Trump this
Speaker 8: time would be better president because you come in from
Speaker 8: the private sector, of right, I did myself and I
Speaker 8: went into politics and stuff like that. It's a different
Speaker 8: it's like day and night, you know what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, he's got a second he's got a second chance.
Speaker 2: Here only Grover Cleveland had a second chance after as
Speaker 2: being having been defeated by the people in twenty by
Speaker 2: the election in twenty twenty. Yes, what did they say, Greg,
Speaker 2: This is you never get a second chance to make
Speaker 2: a first impression. Yeah, which is which is an interesting
Speaker 2: way well, he made a first impression and the people
Speaker 2: didn't like it, and they're giving him a second chance.
Speaker 2: I hope he takes advantage of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but people will knock him a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: He'll be made. There'll be they'll find fault, you know.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But again, like anything else, just like a football
Speaker 2: coach or a or a hockey player, you do your job.
Speaker 2: Do your job, as Bill Belichick said, and and people
Speaker 2: there's always gonna be people going gonna be naysayers. But
Speaker 2: if you can get fifty five percent of the people
Speaker 2: say you're doing a good job, then you're in good shape. Gregory,
Speaker 2: Happy New Year.
Speaker 8: Happy Yeah, I had you take this up field, dahn Withe.
Speaker 8: I got bad news by Letts who out to Los Angeles.
Speaker 8: He was born in Clark, Ark City, Kevin Kelly, and
Speaker 8: he went to medical school in car City, and then
Speaker 8: he did this in Township in Sanaton, Texas. And he
Speaker 8: was the associated president and Associated Professor of medicine in
Speaker 8: n l A. And he lost his house and he
Speaker 8: has two his wife is just expecting their two little kids.
Speaker 8: And it's so sad. But there's so many other people
Speaker 8: the same and for the same thing.
Speaker 2: You know, well, at least he's alive. He's I'm sure
Speaker 2: if he's a cork man, he'll come back.
Speaker 8: He's such a lovely young young man, big tall, five
Speaker 8: five two or something like that. And down there he says.
Speaker 8: The only problem I have. He sai that they have
Speaker 8: a hard time with my cock. Accidental, I said, Mike,
Speaker 8: carry accident? Is that any better for.
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: Tell him we send him our best, and yeah, prayer for.
Speaker 8: Everybody they boat over there. You know, they talk about
Speaker 8: the climate in Massachusetts, and I'm telling you doubt I'll
Speaker 8: take it any of.
Speaker 2: You know me too, Me too, I'll take a blizzard,
Speaker 2: a couple of blizzards a year, maybe I heard.
Speaker 6: Can I remember you?
Speaker 8: And Joasassa, I remember you?
Speaker 2: Oh sure. He was the head of the public works department.
Speaker 2: I gotta let you run because I got to get
Speaker 2: one month, one more hour.
Speaker 8: Like that.
Speaker 2: Catch you happy, new Y. Let me go to ann
Speaker 2: and San Antonio and I'll hold you over if necessary,
Speaker 2: but I want to get you in for at least
Speaker 2: a minute and a half. So here, go right ahead
Speaker 2: in Hida.
Speaker 4: Nice to hear you boys, got well. We pray for
Speaker 4: the people in California and a big shout out and
Speaker 4: thank you for their service to Frankie and his family.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that nice? I hope that Bernie's listening, and I
Speaker 2: hope that that friend's mom is listening. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you're right. I believe there will be quite
Speaker 4: an uptick in recruitment in the with the military now
Speaker 4: that they're not bogged down with or they'll be less
Speaker 4: bogged down with social issues.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4: So can I say something about last night's alcohol and
Speaker 4: cancer situation?
Speaker 2: Sure? Well, let me do this. Let me hold you over, okay,
Speaker 2: because we only get thirty seconds left and I don't
Speaker 2: want to cram you in thirty seconds. So let me
Speaker 2: hold you over and we'll get you. We'll get you
Speaker 2: on the other side of the news. Just stay right
Speaker 2: there and you'll be first up on the other side. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks An, be right back, mat you hold on,
Speaker 2: You're going to be next, okay. And if you're not
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