Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you very much, Nicole, And
Speaker 2: of course we're going to be chatting about it before
Speaker 2: the debate and after the debate. Good evening, everyone, and
Speaker 2: welcome on into the October first, twenty twenty fourth edition
Speaker 2: of Nightside. My name is Dan Ray. I'm the host
Speaker 2: of the show. Normally I don't mention the date at
Speaker 2: the host when I introduced the show, but I am
Speaker 2: tonight because tonight marks the beginning of our eighteenth year
Speaker 2: here on WBZ in this legendary seat, the nighttime weeknight
Speaker 2: talk show host position sort of the equivalent in my
Speaker 2: mind of playing left field for the Red Sox Show.
Speaker 2: You had Ted Williams, you had Callya Streemsky, Jim Rice,
Speaker 2: Mike Greenwell, and well, it's sort of you know it.
Speaker 2: A lot of other guys have played their sets, but
Speaker 2: those were the people who sat there for a long time.
Speaker 2: Dad Williams, call you Swremsky, Jim Rice, and in this chair.
Speaker 2: There haven't been a lot of talk show hosts. I
Speaker 2: succeeded Paul Sullivan back in two thousand and seven. I
Speaker 2: was doing the show after Paul was diagnosed with a
Speaker 2: horrific form of cancer which took his life in September
Speaker 2: of two thousand and seven, and my news director at
Speaker 2: the time, Peter Casey, was WBZ still WBZ, but it
Speaker 2: was owned by CBS at the time, and Peter said,
Speaker 2: I want to name the show, and I said, you
Speaker 2: name it whatever you want. He named it Nightside with
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. I'm glad he said, Knightside with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: But I've been here now, done this show for seventeen years.
Speaker 2: I have made a lot of friends on this program,
Speaker 2: are people who I've interviewed, people who have called in.
Speaker 2: I've really been fortunate knowledge to do the show, but
Speaker 2: to have as many friendships come out of the show,
Speaker 2: the folks, the advertisers that have supported the program over
Speaker 2: the years. So with just that quick acknowledgment of the
Speaker 2: evening and this is the beginning of year eighteen, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to say thank you to the listeners. Thank
Speaker 2: you especially to the callers, because when you run a
Speaker 2: talk show, the currency of the talk show is talk
Speaker 2: people calling and expressing their opinions. And we've always tried
Speaker 2: to make this as welcoming a place as possible for
Speaker 2: all points of view. I don't like people who try
Speaker 2: to talk over me. That's uncomfortable for me. I try
Speaker 2: not to talk over people. I do try to get
Speaker 2: into a conversation, and a conversation. I think most of
Speaker 2: you understand that I'm pretty patient, so I hope that
Speaker 2: we'll continue. I don't know that I have seventeen years left,
Speaker 2: but we'll see, taking a year at a time. And
Speaker 2: I just again want to thank you for your loyalty.
Speaker 2: Please tell your friends about this program. We're in the
Speaker 2: midst of a presidential race, which frankly has the potential
Speaker 2: to be very corrosive depending upon the results of the election.
Speaker 2: I think that whichever candidate wins, either former President Trump
Speaker 2: or Vice President Harris, I am apprehensive that there will
Speaker 2: be a certain segment of that side of the isle
Speaker 2: that doesn't win. And not that they'll be violent, That's
Speaker 2: not what I'm concerned about, but they won't at least
Speaker 2: give whomever is elected president a chance. And I think
Speaker 2: we have had well several presidential elections in which that
Speaker 2: that's been problematic for this country. And tonight we're going
Speaker 2: to preview a very important part of any presidential election,
Speaker 2: and a particularly important part of this presidential election because
Speaker 2: there apparently will only be that one presidential debate between
Speaker 2: president former President Trump and Vice President Harris. And tonight
Speaker 2: we're going to listen to the vice presidential debate, which
Speaker 2: I think is going to be extremely important, extremely important
Speaker 2: this year, much more so than any other year, for
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. For a couple of reasons in
Speaker 2: both the candidates, and we talked about that last night.
Speaker 2: Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have some pretty high
Speaker 2: negatives and that is that's what the American people feel,
Speaker 2: so none of us can change that. But tonight we're
Speaker 2: going to be introduced to two vice presidential candidates, JD.
Speaker 2: Vance and Tim Walls. And we've had some impress each
Speaker 2: of us have impressions. Maybe you like some, maybe you
Speaker 2: don't like one. You like one, you don't like the other,
Speaker 2: you don't like either of them. I don't know. I'd
Speaker 2: like to know in this first hour what you're looking
Speaker 2: to hear from either Jdvan Senator Jdvans or Tim Walls,
Speaker 2: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. I'm going to open up the
Speaker 2: phone lines and when the debate is over at ten thirty,
Speaker 2: we'll have an opportunity for people to weigh in and
Speaker 2: tell me who they think prevailed in the debate. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's a draw, Maybe both of them will do really
Speaker 2: well and there'll be no big mistake, or maybe there's
Speaker 2: a faux pat I don't know. A lot of it
Speaker 2: is clearly subjective, subjective. That's the thing about debates. Unlike
Speaker 2: a sporting event. They're very much a sporting event, but
Speaker 2: unlike a real sporting event where they count the points
Speaker 2: on the score board, or the runs on the score board,
Speaker 2: or the number of goals, and you can come away
Speaker 2: from a sporting event and say, my team was better tonight,
Speaker 2: but they lost tonight. Whatever you think is important. So
Speaker 2: what I'm going to do is just do a quick
Speaker 2: little introduction, because some of you may not know much
Speaker 2: about either of these gentlemen. We will learn a lot
Speaker 2: about both of them. I think between now and election Day,
Speaker 2: November fifth, which is now five weeks from tonight, five
Speaker 2: weeks from right now, polls will have been closed in
Speaker 2: the East Coast. There will be states that will have
Speaker 2: been decided at this point, you know, the states Massachusetts
Speaker 2: will vote for Vice President Harris. I suspect that Florida
Speaker 2: will vote for Jdvince. Now the non battleground states and
Speaker 2: they will be called very quickly, but of course the
Speaker 2: focus will be in the east, on North Carolina and Georgia, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: in the midwest Michigan, Wisconsin, and then out west Nevada
Speaker 2: and Arizona. Now, I would love to see a more
Speaker 2: decisive election because I think we need a decisive election,
Speaker 2: but we may not get a decisive election, So I
Speaker 2: will pick a break. Thank you for allowing me to
Speaker 2: go on about the importance of tonight to the Night
Speaker 2: Side team and to myself. But I want to mouth
Speaker 2: now focus of the importance of this night to America.
Speaker 2: Can you listen to this debate between these two individuals
Speaker 2: who would be a heartbeat away one of them will
Speaker 2: be a heartbeat away from the office of the Presidency,
Speaker 2: And can you listen with an open mind. I know
Speaker 2: that you're going to bring you a point of view,
Speaker 2: but can you listen and can you say guess what
Speaker 2: I think. I'm surprised, pleasantly surprised. Maybe the Republican will
Speaker 2: better than I thought, or maybe the Democrat was better,
Speaker 2: or maybe they both were better than I thought. You
Speaker 2: don't have to conclude either one of them. You might
Speaker 2: conclude they both were horrible. We'll have to see how
Speaker 2: it plays out. I want to go into this with
Speaker 2: as open a mind as possible. When I listened to
Speaker 2: the debate between former President Trump and Vice President Harris,
Speaker 2: I called that debate immediately at ten forty five when
Speaker 2: we got the microphones back open here at WBZ. Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris won that debate without question in my mind. Now,
Speaker 2: not all of you agreed with me, but I guarantee
Speaker 2: you I will give you an honest assessment come ten thirty,
Speaker 2: and I hope you'll give me an honest assessment. But
Speaker 2: for now, I'm going to ask you to join me
Speaker 2: and tell me. Tell me what do you expect, what
Speaker 2: do you hope for. You can tell me that you
Speaker 2: hope one of them falls flat on their face, or
Speaker 2: you can tell me that we're going to be surprized
Speaker 2: and Tim Walls will come across much more likable than
Speaker 2: anyone can imagine, or JD. Vance will come across much
Speaker 2: more informed. I mean, one's a senator, current Center. The
Speaker 2: others are former congressman and mayor. We can get into
Speaker 2: their backgrounds in a moment, but we're going to take
Speaker 2: a break. Here are the numbers six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty, six seven, nine three one ten thirty,
Speaker 2: also triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty. We're about
Speaker 2: forty three minutes away from the moment in time that
Speaker 2: CBS will take over the broadcast. You do not have
Speaker 2: to leave this radio station. We will provide you every
Speaker 2: every word, every question, every answer. That's our job. Your
Speaker 2: job will be to listen and then participate. I'd love
Speaker 2: to have some of you tell me what you hope for,
Speaker 2: what you expect. If you're a first time caller, that's great.
Speaker 2: If you're a longtime caller and listener, that's great too.
Speaker 2: My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside. We are now
Speaker 2: officially in year eighteen. I hope you'll join us. I
Speaker 2: wonder who'll be the first caller in year eighteen. The
Speaker 2: lines are open.
Speaker 1: Dive away now back to Dan Ray live from the
Speaker 1: Window World to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're going to hear tonight a lot we're
Speaker 2: going to know an hour and a half from now,
Speaker 2: a lot about Tim Walls, and a lot about jd Vance.
Speaker 2: More than probably we know now Vance to keep it simple,
Speaker 2: is the United States Senator from Ohio. He was elected
Speaker 2: to the United States Senate in the election of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. So he's a relatively well, he's a junior senator.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. He's a Republican. He and
Speaker 2: his wife, we're married in twenty fourteen. They have three kids.
Speaker 2: He went to Ohio State University and Yale University Law School.
Speaker 2: He is written a book which turned into a very
Speaker 2: amazing movie, He'll Billy Elegy. The book was published in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen and was adapted into a film in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: He won his election in twenty two, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: defeating an incumbent Democrat. No me a Democratic nominee, not
Speaker 2: an incumbent. Tim Ryan and he he is, he's pretty
Speaker 2: has military service sir for four years in the US
Speaker 2: Marine Corps. Got to the rank of corporal. He was
Speaker 2: in Iraq. He received several awards Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal,
Speaker 2: Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. And he is a pretty
Speaker 2: smart guy. Tim Walls interesting forty first governor of Minnesota, Democrat, incumbent.
Speaker 2: He's been in politics for a long time in office.
Speaker 2: He was a member of the House of Representatives, first
Speaker 2: elected in January of two thousand, took office in January
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven. Served in the House for twelve years,
Speaker 2: and he became governor of the forty first governor of
Speaker 2: the state of Minnesota in twenty nineteen. He was born
Speaker 2: in Nebraska, West Point, Nebraska. He also served in the military.
Speaker 2: Joined the National Guard in high school. Was in the
Speaker 2: National Nebraska National Guard the Minnesota National Guard served from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one to two thousand and five. His rank
Speaker 2: was a command Sergeant major, so he was of a
Speaker 2: much higher rank than JD. Vance and he received several
Speaker 2: awards as well. Army Commendation Medal, Operation Enduring Freedom, Army
Speaker 2: Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War and Terrorism
Speaker 2: Service Medal. That's just the that's just scraping the surface.
Speaker 2: I want to know what you expect to hear out
Speaker 2: of these individuals. Waltz was a high school football coach
Speaker 2: at some point. He is a very effusive individual. You've
Speaker 2: seen him on the campaign trail. He has not answered
Speaker 2: many questions. Vance on the other side, on the other
Speaker 2: side of the coin, seems to be a pretty serious guy.
Speaker 2: Served as a it was, had a career in the
Speaker 2: high tech inter industry as a venture capitalist. He seems
Speaker 2: to be more serious. And he was born He actually
Speaker 2: was born James Donald Bowman his mom. He was adopted
Speaker 2: by his mother's third husband, and his name was changed
Speaker 2: to his last name, James David hammil And now he
Speaker 2: has the name j D. Vince. So of tough childhood
Speaker 2: growing up. Let's get to the phone calls and see
Speaker 2: what other people have to say. And the first caller
Speaker 2: in our eighteenth year is Stu from Cape Cod. Hi, Stu,
Speaker 2: how are you on?
Speaker 3: Kind?
Speaker 4: Not see Dan? Stu here?
Speaker 2: Well? Did it really? Well? You're the first caller of
Speaker 2: our eighteenth year on the radio, Stu? What are you
Speaker 2: looking for tonight? What do you expect?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not exactly sure that. Historically, the debating record
Speaker 5: has always proven to be the clear opening of our
Speaker 5: discovery of people's abilities.
Speaker 4: We go back.
Speaker 5: Nixon had his debate in the kitchen with Khrushchev. Then
Speaker 5: Nixon dropped the ball with lazy shave against Kennedy, and
Speaker 5: then really can't remember too many other debates amongst presidential candidates,
Speaker 5: but in the last debate with former President Trump and
Speaker 5: President Biden. I was extreme disappointed because of the lack
Speaker 5: of dignity that each displayed with calling each other a liar,
Speaker 5: and it just got into a gutter snipe and it
Speaker 5: sort of disappointed me. And in this situation, the lack
Speaker 5: of prestige for the office, to me is the one
Speaker 5: thing that I hope if they debate.
Speaker 4: Tonight, that they retain some sense.
Speaker 5: Of dignity because of the fact that it's always been
Speaker 5: trending toward a lack of class.
Speaker 4: And I think.
Speaker 2: I'll make one prediction. I will bet you that these
Speaker 2: two will shake hands before the debate. The president. And again,
Speaker 2: when you talk about the debate where there were all
Speaker 2: sorts of inductive going back, that was twenty twenty. When
Speaker 2: President Biden and former President Trump debated in late June,
Speaker 2: the mics were turned off and so there wasn't that possibility.
Speaker 2: And that was the night that President Biden had a
Speaker 2: horrible night that night and Donald Trump really behaved himself,
Speaker 2: maybe because the mics were turned off. And now Donald
Speaker 2: Trump had a bad night when he debated Vice President Harris.
Speaker 2: He couldn't control himself. So I suspect vance will be
Speaker 2: a much more disciplined debater than President Trump has ever been,
Speaker 2: So that'll be an interesting I think. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you agree with any of that, but that's what
Speaker 2: I'm looking for. I think Walls will be probably more
Speaker 2: effusive than Vance, and I think stylistically they're going to
Speaker 2: be different.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think that that's going to be necessarily
Speaker 4: too far off from the reality that we're about to see.
Speaker 5: I think what I'm expecting and I'm hoping, is that
Speaker 5: in this election, ultimately, regardless of who wins, that there's
Speaker 5: some type of dignity as far as it's similar to
Speaker 5: when the two teams shake hands at the end of
Speaker 5: the Stanley Cup. I mean, you expect some type of
Speaker 5: sportsmanship and class, and I hope one two of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree that. I hope the two of them
Speaker 2: shake hands before the debate, and I hope they shake
Speaker 2: hands after debate. It'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 4: Very good. Well, listen, it's always good talking with you
Speaker 4: and listening to you, and we'll certainly see you somewhere soon.
Speaker 2: Still, let me ask you where you're driving tonight. I
Speaker 2: know exactly who this is, but you're out and about
Speaker 2: here in New England. I assume somewhere I.
Speaker 5: Was given a talk to a young hockey team at
Speaker 5: Breakaway Ie Center, and then I'm headed back to the Cape.
Speaker 5: And whenever I have an opportunity to to speak with
Speaker 5: young people, I always try to take it because I
Speaker 5: can't give back in my community, but I can share
Speaker 5: what I have well.
Speaker 2: For those who don't know, this gentleman played not only
Speaker 2: hockey as a player. Do you mind if I identify
Speaker 2: you a little bit or no?
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Paul Stewart played at the University of Pennsylvania and played
Speaker 2: for the Quebec Nordiques UH and he was one of
Speaker 2: the toughest guys in the league. And then he went
Speaker 2: on to become a referee and refereed over a thousand games,
Speaker 2: if I'm not sure, if I'm not mistaken, and at
Speaker 2: the time also dealt with a battle of cancer, and
Speaker 2: he gives back tremendously, tremendously to the to the community.
Speaker 2: And the next time you're down the Cape, give me
Speaker 2: a call. We'll grab lunch.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to it, and I'll tell.
Speaker 4: You one interesting thing.
Speaker 5: I always appreciate you. I heard your your initial speech
Speaker 5: or you're talking about your eighteenth year. And I think
Speaker 5: everyone one who listens to WBZ and goes back to
Speaker 5: all of the great radio personalities that have been on
Speaker 5: the station, and BES has always been a fixture, even
Speaker 5: going back to Christmas.
Speaker 4: When they would have it at the Washington's.
Speaker 5: Crossing and Dave Maynard and so on. I just I
Speaker 5: just always think that you've kept the traditional live of
Speaker 5: giving dignity to.
Speaker 4: Both sides of the coin. And that's why I enjoy
Speaker 4: listening to you, because you know.
Speaker 5: Once you're out of school, you don't necessarily always have
Speaker 5: the opportunity to listen to people that actually have a
Speaker 5: handle on what's going on.
Speaker 2: Paul, as I always do, as we will say, but
Speaker 2: whatever you want again, I really I'm I'm going to
Speaker 2: be in your neck of the woods for a few
Speaker 2: more weeks. So give me a yellow grab lunch of
Speaker 2: breakfast some morning. Okay, I'm looking forward to it as well.
Speaker 5: You've got mine.
Speaker 3: Give me a call.
Speaker 5: I'm around all week.
Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, Good health to you right back there.
Speaker 2: I know a great guy, a tough hockey player, trust me,
Speaker 2: trust me, and a tough referee too, by the way,
Speaker 2: didn't take any guff from anyone, Okay, going to take
Speaker 2: a break bottom of the hour. We got Kathleen in
Speaker 2: New Jersey, Claire in Pennsylvania, and I got room for you.
Speaker 2: I got one at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, and I got a couple at six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. Light them up. I'll get
Speaker 2: you all in between now and nine o'clock. I want
Speaker 2: to know what you're looking for. I'm looking for a
Speaker 2: handshake between these two gentlemen before the debate and after
Speaker 2: the debate that to me, will make it a successful
Speaker 2: debate for both of them. I hope, I hope uh
Speaker 2: and they can do that because remember the vice president
Speaker 2: and the former president did shake before the debate on
Speaker 2: September tenth. They did not shake hands after the debate,
Speaker 2: which was disappointing. There. This is an important time. We
Speaker 2: saw what happened today in Israel with Iran. We have
Speaker 2: to stand together as as a nation. Join the conversation.
Speaker 2: Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go. Let's go to Kathleen
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Kathleen, welcome. I'm not sure I've had
Speaker 2: you on my show before, if I had.
Speaker 6: Hi dance, congratulations on eighteen years, and I have actually
Speaker 6: talked to you before. Normally I'm traveling on the Garden
Speaker 6: State Parkway and the Bass Pike going between my Massachusetts
Speaker 6: home and my New Jersey home.
Speaker 2: All right, so what do you tonight?
Speaker 6: I get to tonight, I get to listen to you,
Speaker 6: and I think what you're talking about is very important.
Speaker 6: So what I would like for the candidates to do
Speaker 6: is stop calling each other's names, treat each other with respect,
Speaker 6: and answer the.
Speaker 2: Questions pretty simple.
Speaker 6: During the They're just very simple band. Didn't we all
Speaker 6: learn that in high school? Right and during our debate classes?
Speaker 6: How to answer questions? Ye, So I think what's happened, unfortunately,
Speaker 6: is these debates now have turned into vitriol and name
Speaker 6: calling and no substance. So I would like to know
Speaker 6: more about what they're going to do to help us financially.
Speaker 6: I don't know about the rest of you, but every
Speaker 6: time I go to the grocery store now, the prices
Speaker 6: are outrageous.
Speaker 2: My electricity bills, grocery store shopper in my family, and
Speaker 2: you are right on the money. It's amazing. Everything has
Speaker 2: gone up, nothing has come down.
Speaker 6: Nothing correct. So and I keep hearing everyone say, well,
Speaker 6: they're doing, they're doing, they're doing, and I don't see
Speaker 6: that happening. And I'm tired of being told, well, if
Speaker 6: you vote for me, then they'll be changed and then
Speaker 6: I'll do well. I need to see more substance now,
Speaker 6: and quite frankly, between the two candidates, I'm not too
Speaker 6: pleased Dan. So I have to go into the polls
Speaker 6: and I've got to close my eyes and point because
Speaker 6: I don't like either of them. But we have to
Speaker 6: choose someone. And I get.
Speaker 2: Are you voting in Massachusetts or New Jersey Massachusetts?
Speaker 6: Because my legal home is still in Massachusetts. So I'll
Speaker 6: be voting in Massachusetts, and I'll be doing an absentee
Speaker 6: ballot or actually an early ballot. I think that I'll
Speaker 6: probably walk in and do it.
Speaker 2: Yes, But but the thing that's good about it going
Speaker 2: to vote because you and I know what the result
Speaker 2: will be in Massachusetts. Yeah, Republicans happened one Massachusetts since
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan carried this stage twice. Yes, for a long time,
Speaker 2: forty years. Uh, And I don't think that that street
Speaker 2: is going.
Speaker 6: To be broken this what's interesting is I go back
Speaker 6: to Massachusetts and I realized the majority of people from
Speaker 6: Massachusetts are Democratic. I come down to South Jersey, the
Speaker 6: majority of the people are Republican. So I get to
Speaker 6: see the two different party systems Dan and and and
Speaker 6: sometimes what happens with that is just like those you know,
Speaker 6: the way that they take over. And so I don't
Speaker 6: always see the best of both worlds. And sometimes I
Speaker 6: just want to stand in the middle and say, I
Speaker 6: don't know where the hop you know so well, you know.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about it is when you think about it,
Speaker 2: Actually about fifty percent of the voters in Massachusetts are
Speaker 2: registered as unenrolled, which means independent. Yeah, the Democrats have
Speaker 2: about thirty five or so six percent of the election
Speaker 2: about one third remain Democrat and the Republicans maybe have
Speaker 2: about twelve percent.
Speaker 6: So but yeah, in New Jersey they're not allowed to
Speaker 6: be unenrolled. You have to pick a party one way
Speaker 6: or the other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I.
Speaker 2: Think I think I don't like that because I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who feel the strange from
Speaker 2: both parties like I do. Greattimes, Kathleen, I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that you called, and I hope you'll call more often.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the conversation and I'm with you one thousand
Speaker 2: percent on everything that you said.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Dan very much, and congratulations on eighteen years.
Speaker 2: We just look, we got seventeen, and we got seventeen
Speaker 2: down and eighteen starts tonight. Thanks Kathleen.
Speaker 6: All right, take care Buck sooner, right.
Speaker 2: Good night, Let's keep rolling here. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Claire in Pennsylvania. So we're the Massachusetts. Call is Hi, Claire,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm fine, Dan, How are you tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. What's your What do you expect?
Speaker 2: What do you hope for tonight? By the way, I
Speaker 2: didn't mention this, but the moderators or the panelists nor
Speaker 2: O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan obviously CBS News veterans, and it's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting. The the ABC moderators Lindsey Davis
Speaker 2: and David Muir got roasted for the way they handled
Speaker 2: the last debate. I think the pressure is going to
Speaker 2: be on O'Donnell and Brennan as much as it's going
Speaker 2: to be on jd Vance and Tim walltz.
Speaker 7: Well. I just hope that they let the both candidates
Speaker 7: speak and don't interrupt them, and and uh, I hope that.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, I'm going to vote for Trump, and
Speaker 7: I don't like the way Trump acts, but I do
Speaker 7: like his policies. And I hope that mister Vance not
Speaker 7: only answers the questions. But I don't understand through this
Speaker 7: whole campaign, why why none of the Republicans point out
Speaker 7: Trump's accomplishments, because they I hear all the time that
Speaker 7: he mishandled the pandemic. Well, he had Operation Warp Speed
Speaker 7: to get the vaccine created, and he sat hospital ships
Speaker 7: to New York City and I won city in California.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure which one.
Speaker 2: Had some help in that regard, but yeah, New York,
Speaker 2: and I don't think New York ever took advantage. New
Speaker 2: York was where they put people into nursing homes.
Speaker 7: They didn't they didn't use the ships. And he also
Speaker 7: puts I don't know whether it was Central Park or
Speaker 7: where somewhere they hospital tents.
Speaker 2: It was Central Park, yes, it was.
Speaker 7: What And he got the Abraham record started in the
Speaker 7: Mid East or Middle East, and the Republicans don't ever
Speaker 7: talk about that. They they just want to fault Biden,
Speaker 7: which I I can find a lot to fault Biden about,
Speaker 7: but you should take credit for your own accomplishments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well he criticized President Trump for that.
Speaker 2: I mean he's debating Vice President Harris the other night.
Speaker 2: He became well prepared on September tenth, well prepared. She
Speaker 2: knew exactly what she wanted to say and how she
Speaker 2: wanted to say it. And all of a sudden, former
Speaker 2: President Trump was talking about people eating dogs in in
Speaker 2: a small time, you know, Springfield, Ohio. It's like, where
Speaker 2: did that come from?
Speaker 7: And yeah, I don't know. Like I said, Trump, Trump
Speaker 7: goes off, goes off the wall so much. But I
Speaker 7: just hope mister Bratz is a little better prepared and
Speaker 7: answers the questions.
Speaker 2: And well he's he's he's a lawyer by training. He's
Speaker 2: a pretty sharp guy. We'll have to see how he
Speaker 2: looks compared to Tim Waltz. I think Tim Waltz is
Speaker 2: is a is a is a Democrat who enjoys the
Speaker 2: political the politics of it all. I don't know that
Speaker 2: that Vance is a natural politician, but I think he'll
Speaker 2: he'll be pretty good in his feet. Don't go you
Speaker 2: don't get out of Yale Law school without learning how
Speaker 2: to how to how to dance, and I think he'll
Speaker 2: do pretty well in his feet. It'll be interesting. And
Speaker 2: now it might be that that Walls comes out to
Speaker 2: be a charming guy and and Vance comes out as
Speaker 2: being stiff as a board. We'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I want to be an open minded person here, and
Speaker 2: I will call the I will call the debate as
Speaker 2: cleanly as I can. Both O'Donnell and Brennan have the
Speaker 2: ability to, I guess, fact check this debate. I don't
Speaker 2: know how they're going to do it. Remember Mure and
Speaker 2: Davis and the ABC debate fact checked President Trump five times,
Speaker 2: never fact checked the vice president once. And one of
Speaker 2: the things that I think she should have been fact
Speaker 2: fact that.
Speaker 7: The moderators are not going to fact check the candidates.
Speaker 7: They have to fact check each other.
Speaker 2: I heard that differently because uh, the microphones are open. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll see. If you're right, then you've paid more attention
Speaker 2: to it than I have. We'll see.
Speaker 7: Okay, before I go, I don't want to take up
Speaker 7: any more of your time. But I've been listening to
Speaker 7: WBZS since I think the early seventies, when Larry Glick
Speaker 7: was on.
Speaker 2: A night yep, Larry Glick and Jerry Williams were the
Speaker 2: tandem at night. Yeah sure.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I work night chefts where I couldn't listen, and
Speaker 7: sometimes I'm not able to get it very well here
Speaker 7: on the radio. When I can, I listen to it
Speaker 7: and I enjoy it much.
Speaker 2: Do you have a computer or a tablet or anything
Speaker 2: like that, because you can.
Speaker 7: You can have an iPhone, and tonight I was listening
Speaker 7: to it on the iPhone to make sure what subjects
Speaker 7: you're talking about.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll you know, you can listen to it
Speaker 2: if you have a difficulty listening, to listen to the
Speaker 2: debate from nine to ten thirty and then come on
Speaker 2: back after ten thirty and listen to what people have
Speaker 2: to say. Okay, where about it? Whereabouts in PA? Are
Speaker 2: you located, Claire?
Speaker 7: Well, I live in a little bitty town called Herrickville.
Speaker 7: But you know where Scranton is?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, absolutely, scrat Wilf Spurrey. Yeah sure.
Speaker 7: I'm probably about sixty miles northwest of Scranton, getting up
Speaker 7: toward the New York State Boarder, about thirty miles from
Speaker 7: the New York State boarder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're up by Binghamton probably, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm about probably forty miles from Binghamton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know exactly where you are. Pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: Is this your first time or no? Have you called before?
Speaker 7: No, I've called two or three times before.
Speaker 2: Well, come on back more often because I want to,
Speaker 2: you know, get to know you guys a little bit better.
Speaker 2: I gotta make some more friends than year eighteen. Okay, thanks.
Speaker 7: When I get a chance. My wife's already impatient for
Speaker 7: me to get off the phone, so I better let
Speaker 7: you go.
Speaker 2: That's okay, I gotta go. I gotta read some commercials here.
Speaker 2: Thanks to talk to you soon. Have a good one,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you, Thanks very much. I appreciate We're
Speaker 2: gonna take a quick break. Charlie and Shirley will be next,
Speaker 2: and if you want to jump in here, tell me
Speaker 2: what you want to see. I want to see handshakes
Speaker 2: at the beginning, at the end, because I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any reason why these two candidates can't shake hands
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the debate and when it's over.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that U NFL quarterbacks shake hands
Speaker 2: at the end of a football game. They should be
Speaker 2: able to shake hands before and after the debate. Let's see,
Speaker 2: We'll see it's going to be I think an interesting night.
Speaker 2: We will be back on night side with a couple
Speaker 2: more phone calls at least, and then we'll get to
Speaker 2: the debate right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nights Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Charlie and Shirley, Massachusetts up on
Speaker 2: Route two. Hey, Charlie, welcome. How are you tonight, sir?
Speaker 3: Good Dan? How are you? I used to call you
Speaker 3: on Friday nights on my way home from bowling when
Speaker 3: I lived in little ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Remember that we haven't heard you.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Yes, it's been a while. Well, if you
Speaker 3: ever heard of James Calmer, who does all the investigations
Speaker 3: to work in the Congress congressman from Tennessee. Yep, yes,
Speaker 3: finding out about about campon Tim being related to the CCP. Yeah,
Speaker 3: absue to.
Speaker 2: Be a favorite favor. The nicknames don't work, okay, because
Speaker 2: let's it's it's Governor Waltz or Tim Waltz, whatever you want.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just we can get into issues. Want
Speaker 2: to want to keep it on a higher plane tonight
Speaker 2: as we go into this, and I'm hoping that they'll
Speaker 2: shake hands, they'll they'll have a good conversation, it'll be
Speaker 2: clear whatever your point of meaning, you or me, the
Speaker 2: person that you like, and that we can come out
Speaker 2: with a clear winner. And we can come out with
Speaker 2: a clear winner. And and I do know that he's
Speaker 2: had a lot of trips to China. That's what you
Speaker 2: want to talk about.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, yes, yes, Well, James Calmer actually just came
Speaker 3: out I think two days ago, and he has all
Speaker 3: the information on all the connections. He has the communist China,
Speaker 3: and he's got it all. He's got all the information.
Speaker 3: And it's like, I don't even think the guy should
Speaker 3: be allowed to run for vice president he's so connected
Speaker 3: to China.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that his argument would be, Hey, i'm
Speaker 2: a I'm a governor in Minnesota and I want to
Speaker 2: get over there, and I want to get our products
Speaker 2: exported to China and I want to import I want
Speaker 2: to get any governor. All these governors do these trips. Now,
Speaker 2: I will tell you that thirty seems to be a
Speaker 2: pretty big number of trips to one country.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, and his honeymoon Atman square there and.
Speaker 2: Square they're saying that that you know that he was
Speaker 2: not there at that time, you know of the Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm familiar with what you say, and I'd rather
Speaker 2: lead that for another night between now and the election.
Speaker 2: I want to basically take the high road tonight. Give
Speaker 2: them both a clear shot of the runway. Let them
Speaker 2: both try to to perform and do well. And as
Speaker 2: we would say in the Olympics, I hope they both
Speaker 2: can stick their landing. Okay, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I know what you're saying him, But can I also
Speaker 3: say his wife opening up the windows when they were
Speaker 3: burning his city down so that she loved the smell
Speaker 3: of the burning tire.
Speaker 4: Some of that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much of that, To be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I'm gonna let it go. Charlie. Thanks, good
Speaker 2: luck and bowling. We'll talk again. Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All Right, all right, so we're about to step aside
Speaker 2: for the CBS News vice presidential debate that you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear right here on WBZ. It's also streaming in the
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Speaker 2: us and we'll be back for your reaction to this
Speaker 2: debate right when it concludes at about ten thirty. Stay
Speaker 2: with us, folks,