Speaker 1: It's nice.
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Speaker 3: I want to thank my guest last hour, a former Boston,
Speaker 3: New York and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles chief of police,
Speaker 3: but a remarkable law enforcement career heading departments in three
Speaker 3: major cities here in America. And now is someone who
Speaker 3: really understands what it's going to take for us to
Speaker 3: get our country back at some point where we strike
Speaker 3: that balance between again the rights of individuals.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: I'm a big advocate of personal privacy and all of that.
Speaker 3: At the same time, we cannot allow the security of
Speaker 3: the country to be sacrificed. I just think the big
Speaker 3: takeaway I had from that article was I did not
Speaker 3: realize that. And some of you are going to say,
Speaker 3: what you should have known it, but I will be
Speaker 3: big enough to admit that I did not realize that
Speaker 3: some of these smartphones don't even have a back door
Speaker 3: to access. And as they say in terms of the
Speaker 3: kid out in Butler, Pennsylvania, he's dead or it would
Speaker 3: seem to me that his privacy rights are over. Now
Speaker 3: I go my friends in the Aco. You would probably
Speaker 3: disagree with me on that, but I would love to
Speaker 3: know who he was in contact with. And these encrypted messages,
Speaker 3: why were they encrypted? Who was he talking to? And
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes literally you talk about an active war,
Speaker 3: it can be an active war if a country were
Speaker 3: to attempt to assassinate any of our political leaders of
Speaker 3: either party. So again I thought the best call of
Speaker 3: the last hour was Chris in Manchester, New Hampshire. And
Speaker 3: I am again, folks, when I have guests of his caliber,
Speaker 3: just try to keep on the topic. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you call up and ask him who he thought was
Speaker 3: going to win the World Series, that's not the topic.
Speaker 3: We were talking about a serious topic, and I was
Speaker 3: I tried to encourage everyone to focus on what his
Speaker 3: area of expertise is. Anyway, nuf set. It is the
Speaker 3: twentieth hour. Now we can kind of kick back and relax.
Speaker 4: What I want to talk about this hour is traffic etiquette.
Speaker 3: Before so if you would like to join the conversation
Speaker 3: and get on early six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. What I'm trying to find out is what
Speaker 3: is it about other drivers that bother you. I suspect
Speaker 3: each and every one of us think that we comport
Speaker 3: ourselves on the road perfectly, but there are a lot
Speaker 3: of drivers out there who we all see who don't
Speaker 3: comport themselves perfectly. And there are a lot of ways
Speaker 3: in which we've you know, we've seen it. I want
Speaker 3: to call it out. And this is a twenty eighth
Speaker 3: hour topic. We talked a couple of weeks ago about
Speaker 3: you know, traffic that we did an hour on distracted
Speaker 3: driving a week ago Friday night, and distract the driving.
Speaker 3: We know what that is. I'm talking about traffic etiquette.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the people who who menace other people.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the people who drive in the left
Speaker 3: hand lane and for some reason, you're going seventy five
Speaker 3: in a seventy mile an hour zone or a sixty
Speaker 3: five mile hour zone and someone behind you has to
Speaker 3: come up and flash their lights to push you over.
Speaker 4: Now again, if you're going.
Speaker 3: Forty five in a sixty that's a little bit of
Speaker 3: a different story. So your gripe about other drivers and
Speaker 3: what you would like to see other drivers stop doing.
Speaker 3: So that's that's traffic etiquette as I define it. We've
Speaker 3: had another interesting week here on Nightside. We cover a
Speaker 3: broad variety of topics, as I think you know, and
Speaker 3: I take some pride in that. So I liked him
Speaker 3: when I finished the week, just hit upon some of
Speaker 3: the items that we've talked about this week, particularly some
Speaker 3: of those that we talk about in the eight o'clock hours.
Speaker 3: So in the eight o'clock hour and Monday night, we
Speaker 3: talked with a group called Best Friends Animals. We talked
Speaker 3: with doctor Tricia Perricia about certain limits that I guess
Speaker 3: the social media needs to impose or at least control.
Speaker 3: Talk with Dan Shaughnessy about the performance of the New
Speaker 3: England Patriots new quarterback Drake May, which of course will
Speaker 3: be tested again this weekend. Talked about the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four Special Olympics New Hampshire golf tournament. We talked about
Speaker 3: the double holiday on Monday, the official holiday Columbus Day,
Speaker 3: and there are others who wanted to remove Columbus Day
Speaker 3: and Indigenous People's Day. We talked with state Representative Jeff
Speaker 3: Trucoll who said keep Columbus Day and add another holiday
Speaker 3: he suggested in August for Indigenous People's Day. We talked
Speaker 3: about Isaac Smith klwar about the Boston hotel strike. Wasn't
Speaker 3: the most forthcoming guests that I've ever had on the show,
Speaker 3: and I think he could have helped himself in his
Speaker 3: cause a little bit more off. He answered questions directly,
Speaker 3: but that's that was his decision, and a lot of
Speaker 3: times when you get people, they choose to avoid certain questions.
Speaker 3: Talked about Martha Raddits's disastrous interview with J. D. Vance
Speaker 3: over the activity which Bill Bratton just talked about of
Speaker 3: some of these Venezuelan gangs literally taking over.
Speaker 5: Apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and Martha, unfortunately was a
Speaker 5: friend and a good reporter, said well, it was only
Speaker 5: several apartment buildings, and Vance came back with a killer reaction,
Speaker 5: killer comment, which was, think about what you're.
Speaker 4: Saying, It's only several apartment buildings.
Speaker 3: On Tuesday night, we focused on the debate between Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 3: Senator Elizabeth Warren and a Republican challenger, John Deaton. We
Speaker 3: previewed the debate, we dealt with the debate, and we
Speaker 3: had call a reaction to the debate. On Wednesday night,
Speaker 3: we talked about I safety with a doctor whose name
Speaker 3: is chi he Kwan. Talked with doctor Ivan Messner Meisner
Speaker 3: about mental health at work.
Speaker 4: Greg Merset, CEO of a group called Busy Kid.
Speaker 3: Talked about the Consumer Price Index with him. Talk with
Speaker 3: Sandy Sternbach about She's a concierge matchmaker. Talk with state auditor.
Speaker 3: An hour with State Auditor Diana Desauglio about Question one
Speaker 3: on the ballot here in Massachusetts about she wants to
Speaker 3: audit the state legislature of the State House of Representatives
Speaker 3: and the State Senate. I support that totally. Talked about
Speaker 3: the UMass Amherst Pole which says forty one percent of
Speaker 3: our fellow citizens here in Massachusetts believe we as a
Speaker 3: state around the wrong track last night. Talked about the
Speaker 3: Lung Force Walk tomorrow in Hopkinton with Ashley Carrier. Talked
Speaker 3: with kimber Lee Samarra about cybersecurity, Joe gold about the
Speaker 3: Titanic artifact exhibit, which is going to be great down
Speaker 3: at the Castle the Boston in Boston Park Square the Castle,
Speaker 3: and then we talked with Scott Curser of The Boston
Speaker 3: Globe about twenty Things Still Made in Massachusetts. Talked last
Speaker 3: night with Dr Nassair Gummy about Question four, the legalization
Speaker 3: of psychedelics. He is very much opposed to that. Talk
Speaker 3: with Jeff Robbins about the IDF successful elimination of the
Speaker 3: head of hamas yah Yaha Sinoa, and talked last night
Speaker 3: at eleven about Vice President Harris's I thought less than
Speaker 3: successful interview with Fox News late yesterday afternoon and tonight
Speaker 3: we talked with doctor Lee Richardson about election and anxiety.
Speaker 3: Talked with Mark shield Rop about then the increasing number
Speaker 3: of deer strikes at this time when you're out in
Speaker 3: the major roads, be a little careful. A deer strike
Speaker 3: can do a lot of harm to you or your car.
Speaker 3: Talked also with Brian Thompson from ACI weather about this
Speaker 3: beautiful weekend coming up. Talk with doctor Kelly Bulkeley about
Speaker 3: He's a dream researcher, and last hour talk with Bill
Speaker 3: Bratton about security and election twenty twenty four. So some
Speaker 3: of the topics we talked about this week. We cover
Speaker 3: a lot of ground here on Nights side, and I'm
Speaker 3: always looking for new ideas and new thoughts. So now
Speaker 3: we're going to take quick break and we're going to
Speaker 3: come back and to talk about traffic etiquette. We are
Speaker 3: aggressive drivers in Massachusetts, there's no doubt about that, but
Speaker 3: traffic etiquette, and it can be bad etiquette if it's
Speaker 3: driving where people are too aggressive. Again, that person who
Speaker 3: pulls up behind you with the flat with the high
Speaker 3: beams on when you're out on Route one twenty eight
Speaker 3: or four ninety five or.
Speaker 4: Of the mass Turnpike.
Speaker 3: Or the person who is asleep when the light goes green,
Speaker 3: or they're talking on their phone, or they're distracted and
Speaker 3: they get through the light. When it turns yellow, you
Speaker 3: sit there for thirty seconds the light's green, nobody moves.
Speaker 3: It's very frustrating, so bad traffic etiquette. I'm sure many
Speaker 3: of you have different thoughts and ideas on that. The
Speaker 3: only lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. If you want to tell us a horror story,
Speaker 3: that's fine if you as they say, I think this
Speaker 3: bad traffic etiquette. People who are too aggressive, and people
Speaker 3: who frankly are driving and they're When I say they
Speaker 3: were asleep, I don't mean they're unconscious, but their mind
Speaker 3: just is not on what they're doing, so they're sitting
Speaker 3: in a traffic light, or as I've talked about before,
Speaker 3: the you're to traffic light summer and Route nine. It
Speaker 3: happens often and there's an ambulance coming behind you, and
Speaker 3: someone's life is perhaps in jeopardy and the ambulance is
Speaker 3: trying to get through traffic.
Speaker 4: And people freeze. They don't know where to go.
Speaker 3: You take a right, Maybe you've got to drive around
Speaker 3: the block a little bit, but maybe that will allow
Speaker 3: someone to get to the hospital on time to have
Speaker 3: their life saved.
Speaker 4: It could be you and that ambulance, or could be
Speaker 4: a relative. Anyway, we're taking a break.
Speaker 3: Only lines open six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 3: Now I'll get you to the same place as six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: four to ten thirty. Traffic etiquette, the good, the bad,
Speaker 3: and the ugly. Let's have at it, have a little
Speaker 3: bit of fun as we head toward the weekend. My
Speaker 3: name is Dan Rady, listening to the Nightside on WBZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's news radio ten thirty and AM Dial, and we
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Speaker 3: you're listening to us tonight anywhere. It's not a bad
Speaker 3: idea to have the app as well, because you can
Speaker 3: listen to us on the app at home. You can
Speaker 3: listen to us some on the radio at home, or
Speaker 3: the radio in the car, or the app in the car,
Speaker 3: whatever whatever way you can get us.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it. We'll be back on nights side right
Speaker 4: after this.
Speaker 3: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World,
Speaker 3: Nice News Radio. Let's go to the calls. Brent is
Speaker 3: up in Maine. Haven't heard from Brent in a while. Brent,
Speaker 3: welcome back to night said, how are you, sir?
Speaker 6: I am doing just great. There there are two little
Speaker 6: pet peeves that I have about people on the road.
Speaker 6: The minor one is when you're you're driving down a street,
Speaker 6: you don't know where you're going and looking for an address.
Speaker 6: You're looking for the number, and someone's getting offset because
Speaker 6: you know you're driving a little slow. You're slowing up
Speaker 6: to look at a house, and they're sitting on their horns.
Speaker 6: And then the other thing is that I've been on
Speaker 6: both sides of this where you're in a funeral procession.
Speaker 6: You're supposed to be able to go through the red light, yes,
Speaker 6: and someone is honking their horn at you. They're annoyed
Speaker 6: because you're going through the red light yep. And then
Speaker 6: I've been on the opposite side where I've been the
Speaker 6: one stopped at a green light to let funeral procession
Speaker 6: home and the guy behind me sitting on his horn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, those are the people who I would hope
Speaker 3: that they are simply oblivious, but not disrespect but not
Speaker 3: necessarily for disrespectful. I mean you anyone who's been in
Speaker 3: that situation. And if you live near a cemetery or
Speaker 3: if you drive near a cemetery, it's fairly frequent that
Speaker 3: there's a long funeral procession and people should be given
Speaker 3: the courtesy. And oftentimes there's there's police there that are
Speaker 3: that are directing traffic, and that's people still don't realize
Speaker 3: what's going on, which is to be amazing.
Speaker 4: Bread. Those are two good ones.
Speaker 3: I had not thought of those, but but you're absolutely right,
Speaker 3: because someday it'll be one of our family members in
Speaker 3: the funeral, or who knows, it might be us in
Speaker 3: the funeral, and you want your casket to get to
Speaker 3: the cemetery on time.
Speaker 6: And turns out on island, Well yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 6: As they spend my winters in Prince Edward Island. The
Speaker 6: protocol there is that both sides of the road stop
Speaker 6: for a funeral procession.
Speaker 4: Well that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3: Now why do you spend your winters in Prince Edward Island.
Speaker 3: Most people might spend a little bit of summertime up there,
Speaker 3: but by choice.
Speaker 4: I don't know. What do you have a place up there?
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 4: Do you summer in Maine?
Speaker 6: Is that what you do or what I have a
Speaker 6: house in Prince Edward Island and it's a very beautiful place.
Speaker 6: It's a little colder in the wintertime, a little well
Speaker 6: it's with climate change. It's not that much colder now,
Speaker 6: but it used to be a little colder in the wintertime.
Speaker 6: You get more snow in the wintertime. And I'm an
Speaker 6: avid cross country skiers.
Speaker 4: Good for you, Good for you?
Speaker 3: Can you can you listen to night Side up at
Speaker 3: Pei in the wintertime?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I can get Nightside in the winter time
Speaker 6: up there.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: Well, that's always good to know. We have a lot
Speaker 3: of Canadian callers. So next call if.
Speaker 4: How long are you up there? You up there?
Speaker 3: Like December, January, February or is it the shortest day?
Speaker 6: Well, because the family issues, I've been saying in New
Speaker 6: Hampshire the last cup, you know, last winter. In this
Speaker 6: winter I will stay in New Hampshire, but typically I'll
Speaker 6: go to THEI in the middle of November and return
Speaker 6: the end of April or very early part of May.
Speaker 3: Excellent excellent well bred. Either way, feel free to listen,
Speaker 3: whether it's from Maine, New Hampshire, or Pei. Thanks so
Speaker 3: much for your call tonight, two good ones.
Speaker 6: You're welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you much. Bye bye.
Speaker 3: Let's keep rolling here, Georgie and Bridgewater. George, traffic etiquette.
Speaker 3: What do you think are we polite or impolite?
Speaker 8: Well, we're in polite because you know, I lived in
Speaker 8: the Midwest for a year and they're the best drivers.
Speaker 8: And then I moved to California for ten years, and
Speaker 8: I brought my Massachusetts Tactics to California, the HP HP
Speaker 8: they're tough so well.
Speaker 4: Were pulled over for by by the chip. That's California.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you.
Speaker 8: I didn't want to go into it, but I'm glad
Speaker 8: you asked me that I came to a stop sign,
Speaker 8: a four way stop sign, and I stopped, of course,
Speaker 8: and I was moving like one half a mile an hour.
Speaker 4: Stop George, I know.
Speaker 7: No, I'm pretty sure I came to the police stop.
Speaker 9: But then you know, I had the roll out of
Speaker 9: a little.
Speaker 8: And and the guy pulled me over. Uh, and he
Speaker 8: gave me a warning, but that's you know, I learned
Speaker 8: that he better better not mess around here in California.
Speaker 9: I lived out there for ten years.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember when when I was
Speaker 3: in driving school and when you were in driving school
Speaker 3: back in the day, and you had to go to
Speaker 3: driving school so that you could get your license.
Speaker 4: A little earlier.
Speaker 3: And they used to tell us when when you come
Speaker 3: who stop sign, you got to feel the car stopping,
Speaker 3: you know, basically stop and then kind of sit back
Speaker 3: on its haunches. I don't know if yeah, they do that,
Speaker 3: but that was what you were told. So, yeah, those
Speaker 3: that California Highway.
Speaker 4: Patrol, Oh, that's tough there there, tough. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'll give it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you one.
Speaker 8: I'm I'm heading, you know, from Escondido, California, to San
Speaker 8: Diego about thirty five miles and the CHP pulled over
Speaker 8: about fifty cars that one. They were all traveling in
Speaker 8: the breakdown lane. He lined every single one of them up,
Speaker 8: uh and made them. I'm sure I kept going. I
Speaker 8: wasn't in the breakdown lane, and I'm sure he made
Speaker 8: he gave the ticket to every one of them. And
Speaker 8: the next day and the next week and the next
Speaker 8: month we never did see anyone driving in the breakdown
Speaker 8: lane against the same would you.
Speaker 3: Know drive every day?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, so.
Speaker 8: I got a good laugh either of that one.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's interesting because they think they're saving some time,
Speaker 3: but when they get when they get.
Speaker 4: Caught, well it's not only that one. Funny, Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: It costs you some money but also cost you a
Speaker 3: lot of time on that particular day. George, I I
Speaker 3: love those. Those those are good ones. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, hear. Absolutely. We were gonna go next. Rick
Speaker 3: is in Bill Rick, Rick, you were next on nice side.
Speaker 3: Tell us about your experience with traffic etiquette. I I
Speaker 3: think it's pretty poor generally. What do you say?
Speaker 1: First of all, I just want to say quickly, I
Speaker 1: hit a deer once and I shared a similar When
Speaker 1: I heard your story, it was similar to mine. It
Speaker 1: was just awful. It was so sad. But anyway, it's frightening.
Speaker 4: It's sad, but it's also frightening because it's like hitting
Speaker 4: a brick wall.
Speaker 1: Shirt is in and you know the copple came was
Speaker 1: an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in
Speaker 1: twenty years, and the first time I saw a gun
Speaker 1: go off right in front of me it was a
Speaker 1: mercy kill. And then there was a guy with a
Speaker 1: truck to grab the meat, and I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: well it's it shouldn't be wasted. But it was such
Speaker 1: a sad day. I said, I was sorry to it,
Speaker 1: and I patted it and I said, and it just
Speaker 1: it was just and it came out of nowhere. So
Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good way to segue into
Speaker 1: into etiquette on the road. This is an example of well,
Speaker 1: of course you should always pay attention when you're driving,
Speaker 1: but that there came out on nowhere. It just I
Speaker 1: could not have I couldn't have stopped it unless I
Speaker 1: was going like instead of twenty miles an hour that
Speaker 1: I was going to twenty five, I was going like ten.
Speaker 1: But then it would have ran out in front of
Speaker 1: it when I got to the point. I swear it
Speaker 1: was weird. But I think there are people seem to
Speaker 1: have not too much patience on the road anymore, and
Speaker 1: it's stiff. When the eighties, when I got my license,
Speaker 1: I know they've you know, we've people are people you
Speaker 1: know from hundreds and hundreds of years. We're going to
Speaker 1: be people. We're going to act as nice people and
Speaker 1: and not so nice people in patient people and patient people.
Speaker 1: But it's different now. I don't know if it's the technology.
Speaker 1: People don't want to wait at a restaurant. McDonald says
Speaker 1: the burg is ready once you once you ask for it.
Speaker 1: Practically people don't, not that I go to McDonald's much,
Speaker 1: but there's there's no time where people have to wait,
Speaker 1: other than maybe a restaurant. But it just seems to
Speaker 1: me that someone will blow past on the left or
Speaker 1: on the right when they shouldn't, and then then there's
Speaker 1: a traffic light and now you're in back of them.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a jerk. I'm not going to terrorize them,
Speaker 1: but it's it's so dumb when they act like that,
Speaker 1: and we can all be like that, but it's just
Speaker 1: so foolish. I just also that they.
Speaker 3: Were all sort of like running faster in the rat race.
Speaker 3: That we're not as happy as we used to be.
Speaker 3: I think that more demands and as people are working
Speaker 3: two jobs, everybody's trying to accomplish everything. I just think
Speaker 3: it's I think driving, you know, it's it's it's not
Speaker 3: a fun experience.
Speaker 1: I mean driving not anymore. I used to like it
Speaker 1: A long time ago. It was fun, it was exciting.
Speaker 1: I don't like to drive. I'll take back roads to
Speaker 1: get to my house in bil Rica because it's easier.
Speaker 1: My eyes aren't great, I admit it, but at nighttime,
Speaker 1: when there's a glare on the road, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: taking the back roads. Or just even when it's a
Speaker 1: fine night, I just don't want to deal because the
Speaker 1: road narrows and and and if someone's behind me, they
Speaker 1: want to blow past me on the left or the right,
Speaker 1: and it gets narrow and it's and I just don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with it. So I take I take
Speaker 1: a back road to get to my house, and that's
Speaker 1: the way I want to do it. I feel a
Speaker 1: lot better rather than going down three A and Burlington
Speaker 1: and to bill Rica. It just gets a little crazy.
Speaker 1: But that's my take, and I agree it's just not
Speaker 1: fun to drive.
Speaker 3: I think we all have concluded that we alone are
Speaker 3: the most important person on the road, and.
Speaker 4: That's probably a bad attitude to have.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, because I think you're going to
Speaker 3: end up in it's some sort of an unnecessary accident,
Speaker 3: or you're going to have somebody I tell my kids
Speaker 3: this in this day and age.
Speaker 4: You know, you get into it with somebody, they can
Speaker 4: put a gun at you, you know, going seventy.
Speaker 1: Again, and I'll just and I'll let you go after this.
Speaker 1: I caused an accident about fifteen years ago because I
Speaker 1: was trying to cut across get over in a lane
Speaker 1: and uh, and I wasn't paying attention. And if the
Speaker 1: girl that I hit in front of me was was
Speaker 1: seventy instead of twenty, she might have went into cardiac
Speaker 1: arrest even though I wasn't going that fast. But I
Speaker 1: was a complete idiot, a jerk, and I paid. I
Speaker 1: paid some serious dues on my insurance, and I told
Speaker 1: my little small compact car, and I deserved all of it.
Speaker 1: And I'm as lucky as anything that I just had
Speaker 1: to pay money and nothing bad happened. And it was
Speaker 1: just because I was I was, I was being foolish
Speaker 1: and just deciding I want to cut over here, and
Speaker 1: and it was it was bad, and I'm very lucky.
Speaker 1: I was speared that day.
Speaker 3: And well, you know something, I think you to admit
Speaker 3: your mistake. You're you're a big guy to do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's a lot of people say no matter what,
Speaker 3: Oh no, you know, that you slam into summer. You know,
Speaker 3: they stopped too quickly.
Speaker 1: Whatever, No, no, no, I I caused that. And another
Speaker 1: car was involved to it was a kind of a
Speaker 1: bump into it. He was not so bad, and they
Speaker 1: were nice. And I told the cop I caused it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and he said, well, these things happened. I
Speaker 1: didn't get written.
Speaker 3: Up, but it was almost miraculous, honest with the police
Speaker 3: officer probably helped you out a little bit on that.
Speaker 1: One's yeah, no, I got you. But but you gotta
Speaker 1: be kind and nice on the road. You got to
Speaker 1: be patient and you treat people the way you want
Speaker 1: to be treated on the road. And I would more
Speaker 1: of what was going on. I don't see as much
Speaker 1: of it, but hopefully people will both show a little
Speaker 1: bit more. They did after nine to eleven. Remember, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: remember that far.
Speaker 3: For a few days, for a couple of weeks, everybody,
Speaker 3: and then it reverted back to the old that's right.
Speaker 1: It was amazing for a couple of weeks, felt unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and then we reverted back exactly. Well, I'll let you
Speaker 1: go because you've got to get out of the calls.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, you.
Speaker 4: Too, it's going to be great weather. Thanks Rick.
Speaker 3: Six one seven, two, five, four to ten thirty is
Speaker 3: one line and six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 3: Nobody's going to wait a long time tonight. Trust me
Speaker 3: on that We'll get to as many of you as possible.
Speaker 3: Coming back on Nightside, we're talking about traffic etiquette here
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts and what can we do to I don't know,
Speaker 3: to make it easier on everybody. Maybe there's nothing we
Speaker 3: can do. Maybe the roads are two crowded. Maybe I
Speaker 3: don't know any answer, but I'm I'm hoping you can
Speaker 3: provide some guidance.
Speaker 4: Back on night after this, it's Night Side with.
Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 4: Back we go. We're talking about traffic etiquette. Let's see
Speaker 4: what Eileen has to say. Eileen, welcome next on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Hi, I seem to attract tailgators and are you a
Speaker 2: slow driver? I go, I check. I always check the
Speaker 2: speed limit on the side, and people seem to be
Speaker 2: very unhappy unless you go at least five or ten
Speaker 2: miles over the speed limit, which isn't safe on a
Speaker 2: lot of roads, especially you know in communities where you
Speaker 2: have signs on the on the side of the road,
Speaker 2: indicating their children living there. Well, I mean, I I
Speaker 2: certainly don't want to know.
Speaker 3: What's the worst thing that people have done to you?
Speaker 3: Because you're not going as fast as they want.
Speaker 2: They just pull right up on your tail and slash
Speaker 2: their lights. And I sometimes wonder if this is the
Speaker 2: if the the only athletic ability they've ever achieved is
Speaker 2: behind the wheel of a car. You know, I hear you.
Speaker 3: I hear you. Well, and what do you normally do?
Speaker 3: Do you get out of the way or do you
Speaker 3: just say, Hey, I'm on the road.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to keep going.
Speaker 2: I try to get out of the way. You know, Yes,
Speaker 2: I will actually pull over to the curb and stop
Speaker 2: if somebody is too close behind me, because it just
Speaker 2: isn't safe.
Speaker 3: No, it isn't safe, and it's a nerving too, and
Speaker 3: it can cause you to be distracted, and then you know,
Speaker 3: get you know, get into a situation where maybe someone
Speaker 3: steps in front of you. You you you're you're distracted,
Speaker 3: you hit someone and whatever, and then the jerk behind.
Speaker 4: You just just drives away, laughing. You don't want to that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know, I think that in your case, the discretion.
Speaker 4: Discretion is the better part.
Speaker 3: Of our Okay, yeah, thanks so much, great.
Speaker 2: Way, thanks thanks for doing this down. I think it's
Speaker 2: a good, good, good topic.
Speaker 4: Well, if we get good calls and it, we'll do
Speaker 4: it again, I promise.
Speaker 7: Okay, have a good connects.
Speaker 3: I'm going to John up and Lowell. John, you were
Speaker 3: next on Night Side Traffic Editor. Do you think I'm
Speaker 3: doing great yet?
Speaker 9: John Lowell just passed the speed a little bit. That
Speaker 9: brought it down to twenty five. The rear winds all
Speaker 9: over the place. Now my brother on the same I
Speaker 9: was with him on the same streets, been rear rended
Speaker 9: three times a different like. It goes up by market basket,
Speaker 9: the light change, so he stops the car behind him. Bang,
Speaker 9: Oh I'm sorry, but he's got the camera, so uh
Speaker 9: he could prove that the guy you know, smashed into him.
Speaker 4: So the camera point was if the camera pointing backwards.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's got one for the front in the back.
Speaker 4: Really, Oh that's pretty cool.
Speaker 9: Okay, So anyways we go, we go again, gotta go
Speaker 9: up the uh you know, one of the stores up
Speaker 9: on the hill. So now we're going on another set
Speaker 9: of lights, which was going up the hill. The light changes.
Speaker 9: My brother stops you gotta go twenty five miles an hour.
Speaker 9: That's crazy. They're gonna be rear rends all over the load,
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 3: So what you're saying is that that the twenty five hour,
Speaker 3: the twenty five miles an hour limit is unrealistic.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would drive faster than that, but like I said,
Speaker 9: I have a scan. I'm retiring all day long. People
Speaker 9: getting tickets when they first started, when they first started,
Speaker 9: they give you a break. They tell everybody at all
Speaker 9: it's they went and they changed all the signs of
Speaker 9: loll and made it twenty five miles a No one
Speaker 9: in their right mind goes twenty five miles an hour.
Speaker 9: That's what I would. So the third time he got
Speaker 9: it in the rear risk he keeps from getting this
Speaker 9: this all plastic in the back uh, he keeps from
Speaker 9: getting the backpack of his cop fixed, you know, And
Speaker 9: which is good. He goes he got it on camera
Speaker 9: and all that.
Speaker 1: And I'll so.
Speaker 3: Well give our best wishes to your brother. Tell him
Speaker 3: you you you represented him well tonight. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: there's a few other people a loll who agree with you.
Speaker 3: Thanks John, Thank you, talk to you later. All right,
Speaker 3: Let's keep rolling. Here kind of get one more in
Speaker 3: here before the break. Barry is in Newton, Barry, you
Speaker 3: were next on night Side again.
Speaker 10: Hey for Barry.
Speaker 4: How are you? Oh, Bookstore Barry.
Speaker 3: I owe you a visit and I'm going to be
Speaker 3: back in your neck of the woods sooner than I expected.
Speaker 10: So I know, I know you're busy with tomorrow the
Speaker 10: carnival there in Newton Center. You can get some fried dough.
Speaker 6: In the book show.
Speaker 4: I don't need the fridy doe. Trust me that nobody
Speaker 4: needs that. By the way, Bookstore Barry.
Speaker 3: Next week Friday night at ten o'clock, we'll do our
Speaker 3: annual visit with Ken Gloss at the Bradle book Shop.
Speaker 3: Oh sure you know Ken, So you want to call
Speaker 3: in on Friday night at ten o'clock.
Speaker 4: We have some good guests coming up next week. We're
Speaker 4: on Monday night we're going to.
Speaker 3: Talk with Sean Dahl at ten o'clock about space weather
Speaker 3: and how it is affecting our weather. And then on
Speaker 3: Tuesday night at nine o'clock we're going to talk with
Speaker 3: Kelly Cobb Lynn Year, who is a posed to the
Speaker 3: unionization of the uber.
Speaker 4: And Lyft drivers.
Speaker 3: We'll try to get someone on the other side of that,
Speaker 3: but books there are barrier I think you want to.
Speaker 4: Ken glossis Friday night at ten.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna beat it. Jan there's a funny thing I
Speaker 10: just thought of the man who's says the rear end
Speaker 10: accident with the driverless cars, that's a phenomenon on that
Speaker 10: it's happening, you know. I don't think we can handle that.
Speaker 10: There's two sets of driving styles, and driverless cars don't
Speaker 10: have it.
Speaker 3: They're very common by the Rivalless cars are very common
Speaker 3: in San Francisco. My daughter sent me a video of
Speaker 3: her if she was with her husband, and the husband
Speaker 3: took the video of them getting into a driverless car
Speaker 3: and it's all automated. You're sitting in the backseat and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the steering wheels starts to turn.
Speaker 10: I just think they need to program some aggression into
Speaker 10: those guys, because people will be very frustrated not to
Speaker 10: be able to you know, like when you call up
Speaker 10: her eyes and it's very frustrating.
Speaker 4: Yes, totally get it. I totally.
Speaker 10: Another story reminded me of with I drove a cab
Speaker 10: for thirty years in Boston before I did the bookstore.
Speaker 10: It so I could tell you a lot. But one
Speaker 10: day on West Newton Street, a policeman stopped me for
Speaker 10: going like a rolling rally through the stop sign. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and just very slow. And the lady policeman and she
Speaker 10: what they call buxhom or ubernest. She gleaned into the window,
Speaker 10: said I have to you have to feel the fullness.
Speaker 4: I swear to God, she said, you have to what
Speaker 4: she said.
Speaker 10: Feel the full feel the fullness, the fullness of what,
Speaker 10: the fullness of what? I don't know the stop Oh,
Speaker 10: I hope.
Speaker 3: So yeah, okay, but but if she was ruben ask
Speaker 3: you you could there could be a double entendre there.
Speaker 10: So yeah, but that wasn't what I called to say.
Speaker 10: I once once in uh Soul, South Korea, and in
Speaker 10: a hotel that overlooked a big, big intersection of like
Speaker 10: five ways, kind of like Union Square or something, and
Speaker 10: all the cars would come up to the light is
Speaker 10: that night, and when they came to the light, they
Speaker 10: would all turn their lights off, their headlights off, and
Speaker 10: the light turned green, they'd all turn the headlights back on.
Speaker 10: And I thought that was a good.
Speaker 3: Uh, why were they why were they doing that? Trying
Speaker 3: to conserve energy or something.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I think it was just being polite
Speaker 10: that some people wouldn't get the glare and they're, oh,
Speaker 10: I get it.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah that could be well, well that's the other thing.
Speaker 3: Too often times you're driving and somebody has their high
Speaker 3: beams on and they're they're oblivious and that you're being blinded.
Speaker 7: Depending upon you get older, you get the glare.
Speaker 8: Got it?
Speaker 10: And then one more quick story. Okay, I was driving
Speaker 10: up to Jamaica Way one day and I guess I
Speaker 10: had the music oy aloud, and I was a bit
Speaker 10: oblivious that there was someone behind me. I finally noticed
Speaker 10: flashing their lights and then apparently beeping the horn frantically.
Speaker 10: I came to a stop stop stop light, and the
Speaker 10: person came up, rolled down her window was a woman
Speaker 10: who was very upset, saying something about children's hospitals. So
Speaker 10: I explained how to get to tell I tried to
Speaker 10: tell her how to get there up here you think
Speaker 10: of right, no, no, you ruthless. I can't say the
Speaker 10: word be yeah, ruthless. She's screaming at me. Apparently I
Speaker 10: didn't notice she was trying to get around or something.
Speaker 10: You know, So people aren't always aware of what.
Speaker 3: You are trying trying to get around?
Speaker 4: You mean past you on the jamake away.
Speaker 10: I don't know, but she was very.
Speaker 4: Pass on.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you that road you want to be
Speaker 3: passing on my much because it's.
Speaker 4: I hear you, I hear you. Hey, very great call. Thanks,
Speaker 4: I will see I will see Barry at the bookstore.
Speaker 4: Trust me.
Speaker 10: Okay, thank you, Jan all right, have a great night.
Speaker 4: Thanks man, talk to you so good night. Take a break.
Speaker 3: Coming back on Night's I got a couple of open
Speaker 3: lines if you want at six, one, seven, two, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. We'll try to get everyone in, I promise.
Speaker 11: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 7: Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: We have full lines and the time is tight, so
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask everybody to please be kind. Let's
Speaker 3: hear your problem with traffic etiquette. Go ahead, Sandy, you're
Speaker 3: next on night Side.
Speaker 11: Well, I have a very funny experience. It really wasn't funny,
Speaker 11: but my I woke up one day and I was sick.
Speaker 11: I was teaching in Roxbury and my son was in
Speaker 11: my school and I didn't want him staying home all
Speaker 11: day with me, so I called him sick, and I
Speaker 11: said that I'm going to bring my son. Here was
Speaker 11: a teacher at the school who was a brother at
Speaker 11: Catholic Memorial, and to get there you have to pass
Speaker 11: my house pretty much, so I knew he would agree
Speaker 11: to take my son home. So I got my son off.
Speaker 11: I was on my way home and crashed from bang.
Speaker 11: I had a maximum so there was my father, but
Speaker 11: it really wasn't because the car at the corner blocked
Speaker 11: my sight around at any rate. So when the guy
Speaker 11: got out of his car, I realized that I knew him.
Speaker 11: He was a friend of mine, a judged in Misstrokesby
Speaker 11: and both book returned and said what are you doing here?
Speaker 11: And he said he had taste to hear, and I
Speaker 11: said I had drop my son off, but I was
Speaker 11: feeling really lousy and my car was practically it was
Speaker 11: the whole front end. So I said, look, you know me,
Speaker 11: I know you. I'm not going to run away. Let
Speaker 11: me get home, let me take care of my car,
Speaker 11: and I'll call you exchange papers. He says, fine, So
Speaker 11: we took uh oh, we parted ways, and this lady
Speaker 11: comes running out of her house in the enrollers in
Speaker 11: bathroom and she says stop right there, I'm a policewoman
Speaker 11: and you didn't exchange papers. And my friend looked at
Speaker 11: her and said, lady, i'm a judge and I know
Speaker 11: he don't.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, all's well, that ends well, Cindy,
Speaker 3: thank you. I'm just trying to get three more former right. Actually,
Speaker 3: thanks all right, let's keep it rolling here. I got
Speaker 3: to pick the pace up everybody. Jack on Cape Carjack,
Speaker 3: next on Nice.
Speaker 7: I go ahead, hey, Dan, problem is these high beams
Speaker 7: yes night. So you know, we have the old incandescent
Speaker 7: bulb type. We all know what we're talking about, and
Speaker 7: now we've got these I don't zeeon bulbs are blinding
Speaker 7: and I think it needs to be addressed.
Speaker 3: Well just by calling the show tonight. Maybe there's some
Speaker 3: legislators going to it out there. Jack, okay, I I
Speaker 3: agree with you. You can you can be blinded by
Speaker 3: by some of these super duper high beam mobs.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: There was a there was a young boy down here
Speaker 7: in mash Bee who was killed and the finding of
Speaker 7: the you know, the investigation was the other driver was
Speaker 7: blinded by the intensity the light and didn't see the boy.
Speaker 3: All right, that's a that's a good, a good comment
Speaker 3: and a good issue to raise. Jack, I got three more.
Speaker 3: I gotta try to get anybody in. You've raised You've
Speaker 3: raised a flag. Thank you very much, rung the bell.
Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it. But okay, let's go to Matt
Speaker 3: and Brighton. Matt, you gotta be quick for me. Man,
Speaker 3: I got two more.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Matt, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 12: Got in an accident way back on Black Ice, right
Speaker 12: and Waltham Street, skidded right along it. Nothing I could
Speaker 12: do and the sedan I was in got points on
Speaker 12: my record, multiple things. The officers said, not at fall.
Speaker 12: The other driver said no injuries or anything.
Speaker 7: Week later he.
Speaker 12: Said, injuries and the way people can play it up
Speaker 12: and the inability is harmful. That I'm feeling it twelve
Speaker 12: years later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I hear you, and that people are dishonest
Speaker 3: and they all of a sudden they develop a nick pain.
Speaker 4: A few days later. Couldn't agree with you more, Matt,
Speaker 4: Matt will talk you.
Speaker 2: Go to the zoo.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a call in the morning. Thank you much.
Speaker 7: Man, all right, thank you, thanks.
Speaker 4: Hevin, great, well, let's go going to get too in.
Speaker 4: I think we're be able to do with Tina on
Speaker 4: the Cape. Tina on Cape Card second call right after Jack.
Speaker 4: Tina gort ahead.
Speaker 13: So I just wanted Actually I was calling for the
Speaker 13: same reason the Jack said, it's the high beams.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I just wonder if I know there's limits on all
Speaker 13: kinds of stuff they check in cars. I wonder if
Speaker 13: there's a limit on lumens because the.
Speaker 4: High great questions and the new.
Speaker 13: Cars are just ridiculous, and I think people are getting lazy.
Speaker 13: They say the car is going to automatically change at
Speaker 13: your high beams, and I think we're lazy because we
Speaker 13: think the car is going to do it and they don't.
Speaker 13: It doesn't. That's just one of my points.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's a great point, and I think
Speaker 3: it's interesting that two of you on Cape Cod where
Speaker 3: the road lighting is not great, the high beams are
Speaker 3: even more difficult. Uh, Tina, I'm gonna get one more in.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate Have you called before?
Speaker 3: Is this your first call?
Speaker 6: No, I've called before.
Speaker 4: Do me favorite call more often. I love that. I'll
Speaker 4: give you much more time next time. Okay, Thanks, thanks.
Speaker 3: All right, good night, John and Brookline. Last call of
Speaker 3: the night. Going to wrap the hours I'm still tight
Speaker 3: on time.
Speaker 4: John, go ahead, Hi.
Speaker 7: John, I hope everything is well. I want to make
Speaker 7: it quick.
Speaker 3: Please don't stand in the left lane doing forty miles
Speaker 3: an hour in the highway.
Speaker 7: You know, left playing this for passing.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: I think that's a legitimate criticism.
Speaker 7: Yeah, left playing this for passing. People do fifty five
Speaker 7: and they're like, well that's the speed limit. Yes, but
Speaker 7: you need to stay in the right. Once you pass
Speaker 7: the car, you go to the right, lady.
Speaker 4: I'm with you that with John, I totally agree. Thank you,
Speaker 4: Thank you, John. It was a good point to end
Speaker 4: on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, hopefully a lot of lessons we'll learned tonight. My
Speaker 3: callers were excellent on this subject. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: It's been a great week on night Side, Rob Brooks,
Speaker 3: thanks very much. We've had a lot of work on Nightside.
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