Speaker 1: It's night side with Dan Ray WBZ Constance Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, we have seen in the last few weeks, actually
Speaker 2: in the last few days, boycotts of Tesla products resolve
Speaker 2: a result in attacks on Tesla dealerships, on EVY charging stations,
Speaker 2: on the private Teslas owned by individuals. We've seen tire slashed,
Speaker 2: We've seen property defaced. We've seen a lot of this.
Speaker 2: In Deta, Massachusetts, three Tesla vehicles earlier this month were
Speaker 2: vandalized with all four wheels in each vehicle. Damage to
Speaker 2: others to face with spray pay. On the other side
Speaker 2: of the country for Tesla cyber trucks damaged at a
Speaker 2: fire in Seattle. The origin of the fire is unclear
Speaker 2: but under investigation. At least seven shots fired at a
Speaker 2: Tesla dealership in Oregon, damaged to three cars in the
Speaker 2: store windows. In March in Lyttleton, Massachusetts, seven Tesla charging
Speaker 2: stations heavy damage in fires that appeared to be intentionally set.
Speaker 2: In Baltimore, graffiti was found that a Tesla dealership in
Speaker 2: Owings Mills, Maryland, which said no must go alongside would
Speaker 2: appeared to be a swatsticker. We can go back. In February,
Speaker 2: all across the country, all across the country, and we
Speaker 2: have seen molotov cocktails thrown at Tesla vehicles. This is
Speaker 2: a disquieting trend. Now all of that is directed towards
Speaker 2: I assume Elon Musk and his doge activity. But did
Speaker 2: you ever think that the guy that you know basically
Speaker 2: was a hero of the left for a long time,
Speaker 2: uh now would become public enemy number one? Obviously circumstances
Speaker 2: have changed. I get that, I understand that, But by
Speaker 2: what right do individuals have, under the cover of darkness
Speaker 2: to go destroy other people's property because it happens to
Speaker 2: be from a dealership or a product that people now
Speaker 2: feel disdained for. In Brookline, Massachusetts, there was some guy
Speaker 2: riding around on a bicycle, and again I don't have
Speaker 2: the specifics in front of me, but he was putting
Speaker 2: stickers on people's cars and he claimed that that was
Speaker 2: his free speech, so in effect, he could deface someone
Speaker 2: else's car. So we see that. Let's go back to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty when there were riots across this country, arson
Speaker 2: murder all as a result of the George Floyd murder
Speaker 2: and reaction to it. We had all the stuff that
Speaker 2: went on during twenty twenty when Donald Trump was still president,
Speaker 2: the takeover of buildings, the attacks on federal buildings in Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 2: the safety zone or the sanctuary zone in Seattle, Washington,
Speaker 2: where literally police didn't go. There was a mayor out
Speaker 2: there who said it was going to be this summer
Speaker 2: of love. Was anything but the summer of love. And then,
Speaker 2: of course in January of twenty twenty one, we had
Speaker 2: the riot at the Capitol in which police officers were beaten,
Speaker 2: people destroyed and smashed windows. So we have this this
Speaker 2: this this level of violence against property, whether it's public
Speaker 2: property or private property, UH, which is pretty appalling. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it appalls you as much as
Speaker 2: it does me. But I'd like to talk about this,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to talk about the idea of boycotts.
Speaker 2: I know that there are some some companies around the
Speaker 2: country that are cutting back on their d DEI initiatives,
Speaker 2: and there are calls for boycotts. UH. And most of
Speaker 2: the boycotts, which are perfectly legal, by the way, and
Speaker 2: and no one is injured, property is not injured, stores
Speaker 2: are not vandalized, UH, and the boycotts are pretty ineffective.
Speaker 2: I'd play big companies like Walmart UH and Target UH.
Speaker 2: They'll continue on. None of them going to go out
Speaker 2: of business because of a small group of people, many
Speaker 2: of them probably never shopped at their store in the
Speaker 2: first place, are pledging that they will never again darken
Speaker 2: the doorways of these major corporations. The one boycott that
Speaker 2: I think was effective was the boycott of bud Light.
Speaker 2: I don't have the numbers on me, but I think
Speaker 2: that Budweiser took a pretty big hit when a lot
Speaker 2: of people felt that it was going in a direction,
Speaker 2: a marketing direction which was sort of non traditional. It
Speaker 2: has come back thanks to a lot of bud Light
Speaker 2: commercials this football season with Peyton Manning and others to
Speaker 2: sort of bring people back to where the product is.
Speaker 2: I don't think that the antipathy towards bud Light, which
Speaker 2: might have existed briefly for a year or so, I
Speaker 2: think a lot of that has faded away. And I
Speaker 2: see that you know, more restaurants find but you know,
Speaker 2: find bud Light available. So I just would like to
Speaker 2: throw it out there and get a sense from some
Speaker 2: of you as to what do you make of this.
Speaker 2: There just seems to be that when Donald Trump was
Speaker 2: elected okay, back in.
Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen, there were all of these demonstrations, even on
Speaker 3: the day of his inauguration, which were pretty significant, and
Speaker 3: it continued for quite a while.
Speaker 2: Conversely, conversely, when Donald Trump was elected last November, it
Speaker 2: almost seemed as if the left, in my opinion, and
Speaker 2: I could be wrong here, but in my opinion, the
Speaker 2: left sort of said, hey, you know, we got to
Speaker 2: deal with it now. I would love to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Have you ever engaged in a boycott? Have you ever
Speaker 2: said to yours and none of you are going to
Speaker 2: tell me you've done anything violent? I hope, okay, but
Speaker 2: I'd love to when you see you know, have you
Speaker 2: have you ever said to yourself, Well, there's a product
Speaker 2: I really don't like, or I don't like the policy
Speaker 2: that's that's involved with that product, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: I'm going to say I'm not buying the product. There
Speaker 2: are products that I have chosen not to buy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the reason that I have chosen not to buy
Speaker 2: products is I think the product is too expensive that
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, now again, I'm still buy eggs. Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to buy eggs, but I've noticed that there
Speaker 2: certain products that seem to have taken advantage of the
Speaker 2: years of COVID and the supply chain problem. So I
Speaker 2: just want to open up the phone lines and if
Speaker 2: you were, if you were someone who now disdains Tesla,
Speaker 2: I'd love to know why. Please explain it to me.
Speaker 2: And if there's anyone out there who has ever engaged
Speaker 2: in physical damage or public or private property, whether you
Speaker 2: were a J six rioter or you're somebody who has
Speaker 2: done something to a Tesla vehicle, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: that both of you are dead wrong, even though obviously
Speaker 2: a different view of the world. But if there is
Speaker 2: a product that you have said to yourself for some reason,
Speaker 2: politically or otherwise, I'm not going to buy that product
Speaker 2: and I'm going to join a boycott, I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear about that as well. So I know this is
Speaker 2: not a topic that we have talked about before, but
Speaker 2: I would love to hear your stories in your thoughts
Speaker 2: and what should be done to individuals. I think that
Speaker 2: if somebody damages the private property or them or government property.
Speaker 2: I mean there were a lot of J six people
Speaker 2: who ended up in prison until they were pardoned by
Speaker 2: the president, which I think in some cases were big mistakes.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there were people who were overcharged,
Speaker 2: and I think there were people who should have stayed
Speaker 2: in jail longer. But I'm not necessarily looking to go
Speaker 2: down that road. What should we do if somehow people
Speaker 2: who have firebombed EV charging stations or have defaced the
Speaker 2: personal vehicle of another, of a neighbor, or just of
Speaker 2: someone who they see in a parking lot. They don't
Speaker 2: have to know the person who's the driver, but what penalty.
Speaker 2: I think they should be hit with a real penalty,
Speaker 2: not only in terms of restoring the vehicle to what
Speaker 2: it was like, but I also still think they should
Speaker 2: do some time, okay, because I think that if we
Speaker 2: don't send that message, we're going to see more what
Speaker 2: I would call tit for tats. You know, the people
Speaker 2: on the far right will go after symbols of the
Speaker 2: far left, and conversely, the people on the far left
Speaker 2: will go after what they perceive as symbols of the right,
Speaker 2: and that takes us down a road which I think
Speaker 2: is a very dangerous road in our country. And that
Speaker 2: is what my concern is. I hope you share that concern.
Speaker 2: If you don't, that's okay. Call either way, Tesla has
Speaker 2: probably been damaged more not by the by the damages
Speaker 2: that have been done. But if you look just at
Speaker 2: the Tesla stock in the last well two or three months,
Speaker 2: it's now down. It was down again today by seven points.
Speaker 2: It's down to around two hundred and forty dollars a share.
Speaker 2: There was a point in time just about a year
Speaker 2: ago when it was nearly twice that it was for
Speaker 2: twenty eight a share. So if you invested in Tesla
Speaker 2: at its height a year ago, or even if you
Speaker 2: were invested in Tesla at the end of January, Tesla
Speaker 2: at the end of January or January thirty first was
Speaker 2: four oh four oh six. Uh, it is now down
Speaker 2: from there nearly fifty percent. It's down to two forty.
Speaker 2: So a lot of damage in the market, and a
Speaker 2: lot of that damage or some of that damage has
Speaker 2: occurred in the last week or so. So let's let's
Speaker 2: let's talk about it. Six one, seven, two, five, four
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Speaker 2: The News radio. I'm just looking at Anheuser Busch. Back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, it was up at fifty three
Speaker 2: dollars a year, actually a little higher than that. And
Speaker 2: as recently as twenty twenty three, when I think all
Speaker 2: of this started, it was sixty one. It was over
Speaker 2: sixty dollars a year, and then it dropped and it's
Speaker 2: down business down as low as forty, but has come back,
Speaker 2: but has not come back to where it was. And
Speaker 2: there's a whole lot of interesting stories about it, one
Speaker 2: of which talked about how that but like dropped in
Speaker 2: consumption not only in Republican counties but also in Democratic counties.
Speaker 2: So that is a boycott that no violence, to the
Speaker 2: best of my knowledge, but it had a tremendous impact.
Speaker 2: Let's get the phone. It's gonna start it off. First
Speaker 2: off tonight on this topic, Rick in North Reading Boycott's
Speaker 2: Rick ever engaged in one or supported one? How are
Speaker 2: you tonight?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 6: Thanks for asking. I don't think I'm gonna boycott Tesesla.
Speaker 6: I do owner Tessla at this point. I bought a
Speaker 6: few years ago before you know, went crazy. Uh, But
Speaker 6: just as a rational consumer, I wouldn't necessarily boycott uh
Speaker 6: Tesla for for for the reason of you know, know, mass
Speaker 6: being involved in all the political stuff. But I wouldn't
Speaker 6: buy another Tesla just being another just being also based
Speaker 6: on my rational economic decision, I just wouldn't buy another Tessla.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how long? How Let's let me ask you this, Rick,
Speaker 2: how long.
Speaker 6: Have you owned a Tesla uh for I bothered Tesla?
Speaker 6: I believe somehow around November of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've had it for two and a half
Speaker 2: years roughly. Have you liked the car or are you
Speaker 2: disappointed in the car?
Speaker 6: I would say it's a driver's car. It's driver's car,
Speaker 6: and it drives better than any other vehicle that I
Speaker 6: used to own in the past. In terms of the electricity.
Speaker 6: I do have a home carder, so it is not
Speaker 6: bothering me. I also took my first road trips with
Speaker 6: that Tesla to Canada and round trip, and it was
Speaker 6: driving pretty well in terms of productivity itself. I love
Speaker 6: the car. I think so far it's still the best
Speaker 6: electric actric vehicle in the US market.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me ask you this. Do you have
Speaker 2: strong feelings towards Elon Musk one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Just I don't want to know your politics, But are
Speaker 2: you impacted by by the controversy that's surrounding him now?
Speaker 6: I would say I would say I am pretty surprised
Speaker 6: in terms of uh he's I would say, there's definitely
Speaker 6: a huge shift right in terms of the image he
Speaker 6: is projecting from from the image that he used to project.
Speaker 6: And I am very surprised because in the in the past,
Speaker 6: my like the image he at least the image he
Speaker 6: he gave me is as some called he's the iron
Speaker 6: Man of the He is all into science, engineering, pushing
Speaker 6: the boundary of human kind.
Speaker 2: So, so what I'm trying to get at Rick, what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get at is are you disappointed in him?
Speaker 2: And is your disappointment in him so great that that
Speaker 2: is affecting your judgment as to what will be your
Speaker 2: next car or whether you would buy another car, or
Speaker 2: is it more that the Tesla. You've been there, done that,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna step up to a Lamborghini or something
Speaker 2: like that. What's what? What's what's your motivation here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good question. I would say, I am disappointed,
Speaker 6: but I am not disappointed at the same time, I
Speaker 6: am disappointed, not necessarily as a potential auto automobile buyer,
Speaker 6: but but as an investor because right because of all
Speaker 6: his behaviors, the Wall Street has been dunking the Tesla
Speaker 6: stocks and even though I don't own individual stocks, but
Speaker 6: I have all the index fonds. Uh yeah, that's dragging
Speaker 6: down the performance of the index as well. So I
Speaker 6: am very disappointed, but I wouldn't necessarily, uh, let's say,
Speaker 6: getting disappointed for for the kind of person that he's being,
Speaker 6: and that's going to impact my decision find a product.
Speaker 6: And also, as a matter of fact, I'm an immigrant
Speaker 6: from China, and somehow similarly, around ten years ago, a
Speaker 6: similar incident happened in China back then where China and
Speaker 6: Japan had a very intense political attention around that time,
Speaker 6: and there was a huge yeah, and there was a
Speaker 6: huge protest all over in a lot of major cities,
Speaker 6: and there are certain people back then they started to
Speaker 6: damage all the Japanese vehicles they saw on the street,
Speaker 6: and eventually someone started to attack the drivers of those
Speaker 6: Japanese vehicles and one of them, I believe one of
Speaker 6: them was really like badly injured and really almost died.
Speaker 2: And you know that there has been a long history
Speaker 2: of animosity between Yeah, China and Japan, including in World
Speaker 2: War Two. They lined up on the opposite side of
Speaker 2: World War Two. Look, Rick, I appreciated. What's your next
Speaker 2: car going to be? Tell me, just tell me that
Speaker 2: real quickly. What's your next car gonna be?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I will say. If I'm gonna buy my next car,
Speaker 6: I am probably gonna look for a Toyota. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 6: maybe a Pria.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, fair enough, Okay, you're gonna kind of kick
Speaker 2: it down a little bit. What did you pay for
Speaker 2: the Tesla when you bought it?
Speaker 6: If I could ask roughly, oh, yeah, that was a yeah.
Speaker 6: That that hurt me because I fought a Tesla as
Speaker 6: the highest price. I think how much I was paying
Speaker 6: for Dominique.
Speaker 2: And okay, okay, well what is it?
Speaker 6: Unfortunately?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And also unfortunately back then we didn't have the tax
Speaker 6: credit for the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. And so what what's the Tesla
Speaker 2: going to cost today? If someone's out in the market
Speaker 2: for Tesla?
Speaker 6: Uh somewhere along like.
Speaker 2: That's getting reasonable? Hey, Rick, have you ever called me before?
Speaker 2: This is your first time.
Speaker 6: I called you. I think this is a third time.
Speaker 2: Well, Rick, you keep listening to keep calling combined more frequently.
Speaker 2: You're an interesting call, and thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, have a great night.
Speaker 2: Good night. Here comes the news at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the ear. We'll be back one line at six pnet seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Have you ever engaged in a boycott? Have
Speaker 2: you ever set to yourself for political purposes? You know,
Speaker 2: there's going to be some people out there who who
Speaker 2: still don't drink bud Light because the Budweiser has not
Speaker 2: come back. There's no there was no damage in not
Speaker 2: drinking bud Light. That's a political decision that I think
Speaker 2: is a very legitimate decision to get people make. Trashing
Speaker 2: a Tesla car or a Tesla dealership that's a very
Speaker 2: different story, or or being a J six rioter and
Speaker 2: and fighting police officers, or mashy windows at the Cape
Speaker 2: at the Capitol, very different from a boycotting bud Like
Speaker 2: back on Nightside.
Speaker 3: After this, It's night Side with.
Speaker 1: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nicole, let's keep going here. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go to Robert Medford Robbia next to night Side. Ever
Speaker 2: been involved in a boycott of any kind Rob.
Speaker 4: Hey, I happen to be in the middle of a boycott.
Speaker 2: Right now, sir, what are your boycott?
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you. I started trimming the budget at
Speaker 4: the beginning of the year, and I called Cable to
Speaker 4: find out how much I was spending, and I wanted
Speaker 4: to dwindle it down a little bit. And I'll tell
Speaker 4: you just how much I missed Walter Kronkite and and
Speaker 4: I tell you you're in his league, because there's very
Speaker 4: little reporting that is not malicious. It seemed to me
Speaker 4: I got irritated listening to the news. I would listen
Speaker 4: to the news, I would listen and to one station,
Speaker 4: I would listen to another station, and it all seemed
Speaker 4: they were not giving me news. I want to hear information.
Speaker 4: I want to make up my own mind. I don't
Speaker 4: want to hear what I should be thinking and what
Speaker 4: their opinion is. So when I got the information, they said, well,
Speaker 4: let's see what we can get rid of here. Well,
Speaker 4: you listen to this news station this long, and you
Speaker 4: listen to that news station that long. And I was
Speaker 4: horrified to find out they had a record of every
Speaker 4: news station I listened to and the duration that I
Speaker 4: listened to it.
Speaker 2: Who this was the.
Speaker 4: Cable network. They were trying to help me trim my bill.
Speaker 4: And there's a record of everything I watched and how
Speaker 4: long I watch it. And I said, this is this
Speaker 4: is nineteen eighty four. I said, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: So I decided that's a huge that's a huge invasion
Speaker 2: of privacy.
Speaker 4: Well, it's happened into all of us. When they could
Speaker 4: tell me what TV shows I watch and how long
Speaker 4: I watch them for, I found out, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get rid of this. I canceled all the
Speaker 4: cable I saving myself two hundred and seventy eight dollars
Speaker 4: a month. I got back to like when I grew up,
Speaker 4: we had channels like four, five, seven, you know, and
Speaker 4: fifty six and and I gone, I've gone back to
Speaker 4: the antenna. I have. I have an antenna at my house.
Speaker 4: I'm saving over two hundred and fifty bucks a month
Speaker 4: from cable cable network. That's they're all going out of business.
Speaker 4: Everybody's following, nobody's nobody's watching cable TV news anymore. It's
Speaker 4: all fake and and and it's irritating it.
Speaker 2: Just remember this WBZ is free of charge. We're over
Speaker 2: their radio. And I appreciate the fact that you like
Speaker 2: this show. And I will never try to tell you
Speaker 2: what to think. I only want you to think. And
Speaker 2: you obviously a guy who does thing, so you're my
Speaker 2: perfect listener to be honest with.
Speaker 4: You, Well, you're my perfect show host. God bless the
Speaker 4: back courtch of America. We get to say what we
Speaker 4: want to say and we don't get censored, and God
Speaker 4: bless America. And I think they're doing the right thing.
Speaker 4: All these people that are against trimming the fat. I
Speaker 4: think maybe it's some of their fat that's going to
Speaker 4: get trimmed, and there they're out to stop it.
Speaker 2: I think you may be right. Hey, Rob, I love
Speaker 2: this call. Please let's keep in touch.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, sir, And maybe I'll save some money. I'll
Speaker 4: go on a trip with you. Now, I'm not wasting
Speaker 4: it on cable. I can't afford to go on one
Speaker 4: of these river cruisers instead of something.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I can start you off. You can.
Speaker 2: You can join us. On Sunday, April twenty seventh, We're
Speaker 2: doing a brunch down in Westwood at a restaurant for
Speaker 2: nightside listeners called Naroli. If you if you call me
Speaker 2: at the station, Rob will give you the number. And
Speaker 2: if you call me at the station, I'll be more
Speaker 2: than happy to call you back and give you all
Speaker 2: the information.
Speaker 4: I would love to go, you know, and I think
Speaker 4: you'd love to meet my little dog Rockie.
Speaker 2: In the station, but I'll certainly meet him outside. Do
Speaker 2: me a favorite. Rob will give my my pal Rob
Speaker 2: Brooks will give you my direct number, and let's let's
Speaker 2: have a conversation. I'll give you a call. Uh, you
Speaker 2: give me a call, and I'll call you back and
Speaker 2: we'll I'll give you all the information. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4: Guaranteed to make me a laugh at least once. Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, you don't hang up. Let's keep going. You're
Speaker 2: going to go to Gail and situate Gail. I haven't
Speaker 2: talked to you in a dog's age. How you doing.
Speaker 8: I'm fine.
Speaker 6: I'm fine.
Speaker 8: I think we get a full moon tonight or maybe
Speaker 8: storrow night. But I'm doing good.
Speaker 7: Dan.
Speaker 8: I heard your show and I said, okay, this is interesting.
Speaker 4: I like to call in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I've everyone occurs. I think at two forty
Speaker 2: five this morning, the weather guy says that we got
Speaker 2: to look into the east for the full moon, so
Speaker 2: if you're awake at that time, that's where it is.
Speaker 8: Okay, I've never been part of a boycott. And to
Speaker 8: answer your question, these people or individuals that are trashing
Speaker 8: and damaging these Teslas, I'm not a Tesla fan. I
Speaker 8: would never buy one, but these people who are damaging them,
Speaker 8: they need to be prosecuted. And listen, you know, folks,
Speaker 8: cameras are everywhere, so hopefully these people damaging these cars
Speaker 8: are or even a Tesla dealership, they hopefully camera security
Speaker 8: cameras are on they're getting cars, so they should be prosecuted.
Speaker 2: Well, I totally agree with you on that, because if
Speaker 2: they're not prosecuted, that then is going to send a
Speaker 2: message to other people that they have a right to
Speaker 2: to do what they want to do and they have
Speaker 2: a right to damage, if not Tesla vehicles, other vehicles
Speaker 2: or other or other storefronts. It could get. You know,
Speaker 2: we're not too far from become in uh to engaging
Speaker 2: in anarchy here in this because that's what they're doing
Speaker 2: in the dark of night and destroy some neighbor's car,
Speaker 2: or to face some neighbor's car because they disagree, they
Speaker 2: don't like uh Musk. What's what that's what's about.
Speaker 8: It's about it's aiming towards it's aiming at Elon Musk.
Speaker 8: It has to do with him being secretary of oh
Speaker 8: gods what his secretary is? Trump hired him. Yeah, because
Speaker 8: you named off all the different Elon I'm sorry, not Elon,
Speaker 8: all the different Tesla places and Tesla cars in different
Speaker 8: states and and cities that are being damaged. And it's
Speaker 8: it's a it's a pattern. It's all aimed at Elon Musk.
Speaker 8: I would never buy a Tesla either too expensive, expensive
Speaker 8: to buy, expensive to fix. But it's it's obviously aimed
Speaker 8: at Elon Musk. But regardless of who is running the
Speaker 8: company Teslas that these individual individuals have to be prosecuted
Speaker 8: because it's a crime.
Speaker 2: I'd never buy a Tesla only because I wouldn't know
Speaker 2: how to drive it. It's like I just like a
Speaker 2: card that you turn on with a key and there's
Speaker 2: a steering wheel and an AM radio. That's all I need. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he and some heat in the winter time at some
Speaker 2: AC in the summertime, and I'm all set. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: great to hear your voice. I'm totally with you. These
Speaker 2: folks have got to pay a price, and not just
Speaker 2: you know, a year's probation. The courts have to turn
Speaker 2: around and say, you know what, you did something really
Speaker 2: that's inappropriate and unacceptable in our society, and we don't
Speaker 2: care if it's your first time. That's a huge step.
Speaker 2: This is not like you have a kid who's been
Speaker 2: been caught with you know, a six pack of beer
Speaker 2: when he's sixteen years old, with him and his buddies,
Speaker 2: you give them a break. You don't give somebody who
Speaker 2: smashes someone's call are or or tires. Simple as that,
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 8: Hey, thanks, he again, a little, a little sign up
Speaker 8: before you let me go. I bought this magazine. It's
Speaker 8: all all about chocolate, and I know your chocolate. It's
Speaker 8: gonna chocolate cake on it. It's recipes for all things chocolate.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna mail it to you, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: That's I'll tell you what. Why don't you mail it
Speaker 2: to me? Uh?
Speaker 3: And uh?
Speaker 2: Care of what I can do is I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: Rob give you my home address, okay, if you'll keep
Speaker 2: it king us and you can you hang on there
Speaker 2: and during the break, I'll have Rob give you my
Speaker 2: home address. Yeah, you're a friend.
Speaker 8: You don't want to send it to you don't want
Speaker 8: me to send it to WBZ.
Speaker 2: No, because I will broadcast remotely. I mean there maybe
Speaker 2: what's oh, what's a year? Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah. So
Speaker 2: just hold on and during the break, Rob will come
Speaker 2: back to you and we'll give you my home address.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, all right to see that? Thanks Gaale, thank
Speaker 2: you so much. We will Rob, don't Rob, don't let
Speaker 2: Gayo go yet. Hold on for a second. I give
Speaker 2: it the address to take a break. No lines, we
Speaker 2: have full lines, so there are no lines available. We'll
Speaker 2: get to everybody and we may carry this into the
Speaker 2: next hour. I think it's an interesting conversation back on
Speaker 2: night Side right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna get everybody in, and if we don't,
Speaker 2: I promise you we will move into the next hour
Speaker 2: as well. Some of you have just called in. Let's
Speaker 2: go next to Tim. Tim, you were next to night SI.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, Tim, Hi darn, how are you doing great?
Speaker 2: Tim? Were going to see you, I think on the
Speaker 2: twenty the twenty seven of April.
Speaker 5: Right as a matter of fact, I made my reservations today.
Speaker 5: Me and my friend Donald are going excellent.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you you lucked out, because this is
Speaker 2: getting close to being sold out. I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about it probably right after the ten o'clock news and
Speaker 2: encourage people. Uh, we've had overwhelming response. I'm so glad
Speaker 2: that you got your reservation in and we'll see on
Speaker 2: the twenty seventh and that restaurant in Westwood.
Speaker 9: Neurolely any are anyhow, I can't wait to meet you anyhow.
Speaker 9: This thing with Tesla, right, is.
Speaker 5: Criminal malicious activity. These people should be prosecuted for doing
Speaker 5: these things.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's no question about that in my mind, no
Speaker 2: question about that. And they they should do some time.
Speaker 2: I mean, they really should, that's right, because this is
Speaker 2: a huge step. This is not somebody in an argument
Speaker 2: with their neighbor over I don't know, you know, throwing
Speaker 2: snow on the neighbor's sidewalk because they didn't shovel their
Speaker 2: sidewalk or something like that. This is doing substantial damage
Speaker 2: to a product. And you know, they they they got
Speaker 2: they should do some time. We'll see if anybody's ever
Speaker 2: prosecuted for any of these crimes and when they when
Speaker 2: they're throwing molotov cocktails and burned EV charging stations.
Speaker 9: I mean that is that's malicious damage.
Speaker 2: Big time and the dealerships. I mean, as Rob said,
Speaker 2: you you damage your car and somebody goes by advice
Speaker 2: it nothing Tesla to replace it, and Elon Musk benefits
Speaker 2: from it. It's nuts.
Speaker 9: It's it's what I think right things in this country,
Speaker 9: right with all this stuff, things are out of hand.
Speaker 2: They have gotten out of hand, and I think they're
Speaker 2: going to get worse before they get better. I hate
Speaker 2: to say that, but.
Speaker 9: I think that I think you're right. I agree, I
Speaker 9: think you're right.
Speaker 5: This isn't going to stop.
Speaker 2: With the stock market taking another big hit today, a
Speaker 2: lot of people starting to get worried, and well we'll
Speaker 2: maybe talk about that tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: So all right, please anyhow, looking forward to seeing you
Speaker 5: the twenty seventh. I can't wait to shake your hand.
Speaker 2: Right back at you, Tim, we'll finally have a chance
Speaker 2: to share a cup of coffee.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks buddy, Tom, you have a good night you Thanks.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Tim, appreciate it right back at you. All right,
Speaker 2: let's keep rolling here on a on a Thursday night.
Speaker 2: We've got a topic that I think people are interested in.
Speaker 2: Gonna go to Jay in Plymouth. Jay, you were next.
Speaker 5: Time night side Welcome, Hey Danny, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I hear you perfectly.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 2: That sounded anybody tonight? So far, go right ahead?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 7: Great.
Speaker 10: So first of all, I will not buy Goya Foods.
Speaker 10: I will not eat Chick fil A. I will not
Speaker 10: shop at hot I will not shop at Hobby Lobby.
Speaker 2: Okay and Gold. And I think I kind of figure
Speaker 2: out why. I think I figured out why here, go ahead?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 10: And I have been invited to go to Florida and
Speaker 10: stay with people for free, and I won't go and
Speaker 10: spend a diamond Florida. So those are a few of
Speaker 10: my boycotts. But at the meantime, I do, oh listen.
Speaker 10: Vandalizing property is a climb and it should be prosecuted
Speaker 10: based on whatever. The level of crime is not quite
Speaker 10: as serious as attacking the US House and attempting to
Speaker 10: kill police officers with flagpoles. But I would agree with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I and I think that that the
Speaker 2: people who were at that demonstration and engaged in violence.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it because I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2: I've said it on this program on several occasions. There
Speaker 2: never should have been a blanket pardon issued by President Trump.
Speaker 2: There were some people who who made the mistake of
Speaker 2: walking into the Capitol, and they were later identified and
Speaker 2: some of them actually were sentenced to prison. That's a
Speaker 2: whole different level of somebody who's smashing windows or hitting
Speaker 2: a police officer over the head of the flag pole
Speaker 2: or some other right.
Speaker 10: But but but the Lauren, not a president, decided they
Speaker 10: should all be pardoned and their their their crime should
Speaker 10: be dismissed.
Speaker 2: Now I know, I know that when you say go
Speaker 2: your foods. The president of Goya Foods, I believe is
Speaker 2: a big Trump supporter. Chick fil A, Oh yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: is a supporter of Trump by the way, I.
Speaker 10: They are, but they are. They were very much opposed
Speaker 10: to women's right to choose and opposed to such marriage.
Speaker 2: And I think that people have a right to do that.
Speaker 2: And I assume you would feel the same about people
Speaker 2: who decided that they were going to change and switch
Speaker 2: away and switch your get away from buying bud Light
Speaker 2: because they had some some questions or problems.
Speaker 10: No question, and you know what, I don't like bud light,
Speaker 10: but every time I went into a bar, which wasn't
Speaker 10: that often, I would order a bud Light even though
Speaker 10: I don't.
Speaker 7: Like bud light.
Speaker 2: What do you normally drink for beer?
Speaker 10: Well, I normally drink red wine. But if I'm having oysters,
Speaker 10: I will probably go to pap School Ribbon, which is
Speaker 10: to kind of yeppie type of inexpensive beer. But I'm
Speaker 10: not in that category anyway, Well it.
Speaker 2: Is, it is sort of now, But perhaps blue Ribbon
Speaker 2: was the beer that people were drinking fifty years ago,
Speaker 2: which was not yea. So it's made.
Speaker 10: We were both we were both allowed to drink fifty
Speaker 10: years ago, but sixty we were probably doing it too.
Speaker 10: But yeah, possibly in the meantime. In the meantime, look,
Speaker 10: I think that somebody who buys, who gives three hundred
Speaker 10: and fifty million dollar dollar is to help elect someone
Speaker 10: who probably well he is a convicted felon.
Speaker 7: That if he's not the.
Speaker 2: Only way, don't make Jay. That's the first mistake of
Speaker 2: he's not a convicted felon. He was convicted in a
Speaker 2: in a civil trial. He was found guilty in a
Speaker 2: civil trial, but no don't want to go down that
Speaker 2: rabbit hole.
Speaker 10: Isn't isn't rape?
Speaker 2: He was rape, wasn't convicted of rape?
Speaker 10: Yes, and he was go do go do he was.
Speaker 2: If he had been convicted of rape, he would have
Speaker 2: been in jail. Okay, Uh, I'm not going down that
Speaker 2: rabbit hole with you, but but we could, we could.
Speaker 2: We'll talk against some of the I want to get
Speaker 2: one more in here before the break is fins all.
Speaker 7: Jay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Your point of view is always welcome on this program.
Speaker 2: You know that. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 10: A gentleman than your Now we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna go next to Dennis. Gotta get Dennis in from Lowell. Dennis,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 7: How are you well? Thank you very much. I was
Speaker 7: calling for three reasons. First of all, as you know
Speaker 7: when you when are you going to get state audit?
Speaker 7: To Diane does Ugly on again.
Speaker 2: Well, we had her last week.
Speaker 7: Actually I know I called late.
Speaker 2: No, I know that. As a matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: remember seeing and I tried to get you in without success.
Speaker 2: We had Diane on a week ago. This Marx right,
Speaker 2: we will have her on again because she is absolutely
Speaker 2: right in this issue.
Speaker 7: Oh, I know she like I said she gave a show.
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong. But when I told her that,
Speaker 2: because I knew you knew her, she gave you a
Speaker 2: shout out as we were wrapping up.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no, I go way back with her too,
Speaker 7: when she first started you know, state reps and so forth.
Speaker 7: But any yeah, anyway, Uh. My second reason is it's
Speaker 7: very appropriate. You know you're talking about boycott because I'm
Speaker 7: reading on w b Z news today. You know, when
Speaker 7: I get on my radio, it talked about the residents
Speaker 7: of Medsid. I was celebrating a potential market basket in
Speaker 7: Medsid And of course you remember the boycott that the
Speaker 7: people did around the area in Massachusetts when the Demolis
Speaker 7: family are having their difficulties they were having.
Speaker 2: That that that that Fred Reside or whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it.
Speaker 7: The family.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that was that was a very effective boycott.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're tremendous and it just showed
Speaker 2: the loyalty of their customers. Absolutely.
Speaker 7: No, oh yeah, I'm with you totally.
Speaker 2: So what have you had a boy have you e
Speaker 2: a boycott at anything? Or no?
Speaker 7: Well, basically market basket because I mean they started in Lowell.
Speaker 7: I'm familiar with the Demola's family. You know, I go
Speaker 7: back with everybody decades. So in the third.
Speaker 2: You will see me occasionally in Walcam. Go ahead, I
Speaker 2: don't want to cut take your time here. Tell me
Speaker 2: what you said. You had three teams I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the third thing is appropriate with Saint Patrick's take.
Speaker 7: As you know, the term boycott comes from Ireland because
Speaker 7: during the eighteen seventies eighteen eighties it's against the you know,
Speaker 7: the Irish land. It was an Irish Land War and
Speaker 7: the Irish who were you know, renting the tenants had
Speaker 7: problems with this captain Charles Cunningham boycott, so they.
Speaker 2: Had a boy Now I learned something, Dennis.
Speaker 7: Here's the deal.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. Since you mentioned St Patrick's day, our
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Speaker 7: Okay, we're gonna get you a great.
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Speaker 2: But since you mentioned St. Patrick's Day first, uh, and
Speaker 2: you're bet a friend, you get it.
Speaker 7: You get the.
Speaker 2: First T shirt and I stay there. Rob will get
Speaker 2: that to me later on. We got to take a break.
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Speaker 2: the news at ten. We will stick with this. Angelo,
Speaker 2: Margie and Carl. You guys stay there. You will be
Speaker 2: first up. As a matter of fact, the batting order
Speaker 2: is Carl, Margie and then Angela coming back on night
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