Speaker 1: It's Nights with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Dan Watkins. We have reached the
Speaker 2: twelfth hour of the week. I'm off for the balance
Speaker 2: of the week. So for me, this is my last
Speaker 2: night for about ten days. I'll be back on the
Speaker 2: fourteenth of July, which is a Monday. I just want
Speaker 2: to make sure when the calendar changes, but to make sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: the fourteenth, Yeah, I'm going to be off tomorrow, Friday,
Speaker 2: and next week. I've actually had a fairly busy six months.
Speaker 2: We have knocked out about one hundred and twenty one
Speaker 2: shows since New Year's Night, and I was actually on
Speaker 2: New Year's Night. So what I want to do is finish.
Speaker 2: We are literally at the cusp of the Fourth of
Speaker 2: July weekend. This is the two hundred and forty ninth
Speaker 2: celebration of the Fourth of July here in America. Next
Speaker 2: year will be the big round number two fifty, and
Speaker 2: I just want to open up the lines and give
Speaker 2: you a chance. I know that the Fourth of July
Speaker 2: a lot of people think of it as picnics and barbecues,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people think about maybe having a
Speaker 2: couple of drinks whatever, go to a ballgame, all of
Speaker 2: which is good, all of which is great. But the
Speaker 2: meaning of the fourth of July is that two and
Speaker 2: forty nine years ago, a bunch of Americans who none
Speaker 2: of us knew personally, who have long since passed generations,
Speaker 2: before they rolled the dice, they gambled their their lives
Speaker 2: and their fortune and their future by breaking away from
Speaker 2: Britain and initiating the with what happened at Conquered Lexington
Speaker 2: in seventeen seventy five and Bunker Hill, which we've just celebrated,
Speaker 2: and then on the director that the Declaration of Independence
Speaker 2: and threw into the seventeen eighties until we finally were
Speaker 2: able to convince the Brits that we were indeed a
Speaker 2: nation of our own. We over the course of the
Speaker 2: year here on Night Side, we often deal with issues
Speaker 2: and we get people who disagree on topics and all
Speaker 2: of that, and I realized that that in the era
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, there are strong feelings in both directions,
Speaker 2: on both sides. However, this is the time of year,
Speaker 2: the one weekend I would hope that we can put
Speaker 2: our political positions aside and just say, hey, whether you're
Speaker 2: a conservative, Republican liberal Democrat ended end. I don't know
Speaker 2: even a socialist from New York City running for mayor,
Speaker 2: that we're all lucky to be here, that we live
Speaker 2: in the safest country in the world. We have crime. Sure, absolutely,
Speaker 2: has there been an attack, yeah, nine to eleven. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor before it, of though Hawaii was not a
Speaker 2: state at the time. So I'd like to hear from you,
Speaker 2: and what is it that you like best about America.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that there's a lot of things that you
Speaker 2: don't like, and whether you're a conservative or a liberal,
Speaker 2: there's plenty that you could cite for me what you
Speaker 2: don't like. But I think that all of us, really
Speaker 2: we're very lucky to be born here. Now, there may
Speaker 2: be other countries around the world that you'd prefer to
Speaker 2: live in, Okay, that's fine. You may want to tell
Speaker 2: me that there's a paradigm in Sweden and Norway one
Speaker 2: of the Baltic countries, so you'd rather live I don't
Speaker 2: know wherever Canada, Okay, But I don't see too many
Speaker 2: people leaving America. To be really honest with you, I
Speaker 2: know that every once in a while you'll have some
Speaker 2: ROSI o'donnald type who who. I don't know if they
Speaker 2: really leave for good, or if they leave for ulterior motives,
Speaker 2: or if they're looking for some publicity. Their careers are
Speaker 2: a little bit of a reach the twilight stage. I
Speaker 2: don't know. But what is it about America that you
Speaker 2: like best? And I'll bet you we will get a
Speaker 2: variety of points of view. For me, it is the
Speaker 2: judicial system that we have. And again, maybe as a lawyer,
Speaker 2: you would expect me to say that, but it is true.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is a judicial system where, in all honesty,
Speaker 2: we as a country made it as decision a long
Speaker 2: time ago that it's better to have one hundred guilty
Speaker 2: people go free than one innocent person be convicted. And
Speaker 2: we're not talking about the death pedal there. So I
Speaker 2: just want to open it up. I could talk all
Speaker 2: night about how lucky I feel to have been born
Speaker 2: in America. I have great memories of Fourth of July
Speaker 2: as a kid, I grew up in Reidville, as they think,
Speaker 2: all of you know at this point, which is a
Speaker 2: part of Boston, a part of Hyde Park, if you will.
Speaker 2: We always thought of ourselves as a separate section. And
Speaker 2: I can remember that on the fourth of July. The
Speaker 2: big kick was this is back in now in the
Speaker 2: late fifties, early sixties, the MDC, the Metropolitan District Commission.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, you could go up to Camp
Speaker 2: Megs and they would give you a Hoodsie cup a
Speaker 2: hoodsy cap if you remember those in a little wooden spoon.
Speaker 2: Maybe some of you remember them, maybe you don't. I
Speaker 2: just am going to open up the lines here. What
Speaker 2: is it you like best about this country? And do
Speaker 2: you consider yourself liking to be an American? Do you
Speaker 2: consider yourself liking to be born here? I know there
Speaker 2: are people who don't, but I'm hoping to hear from
Speaker 2: as many of my callers as possible. If you've called
Speaker 2: earlier this week, you always have a hall pass on
Speaker 2: the final hour of the week. This is not the
Speaker 2: twentieth hour, but it's the twelfth hour. It's a relatively
Speaker 2: shortened week for me. As I said, my good friend
Speaker 2: Morgan White will be here tomorrow night and Friday night.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Morgan White, and please treat Morgan well as
Speaker 2: you always do, and then I'll be back on March
Speaker 2: four or July fourteenth. March fourteenth, if only no the
Speaker 2: vacation will not be that long. On July fourteenth. Here
Speaker 2: are my numbers, and they're pretty easy. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I will be sorely disappointed if on a topic as
Speaker 2: simple as this, on the cusp of the fourth of
Speaker 2: July weekend, these lines do not explode and stay lit
Speaker 2: until midnight. Six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I hope
Speaker 2: when you tell me what you like best about America,
Speaker 2: I hope that you will need to identify yourself. So
Speaker 2: maybe people who have a different view of this country
Speaker 2: than you politically will be able to realize that there
Speaker 2: are good people on both sides of the political spectrum,
Speaker 2: and whether you again are a Republican conservative republican or
Speaker 2: just a conservative, or a liberal Democrat or died in
Speaker 2: the world democrat, whatever you want to call it, that
Speaker 2: there are people who disagree with you politically but fundamentally
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world and
Speaker 2: feel that they lucked out on the I guess I'll
Speaker 2: call it the birth lottery to have been born here
Speaker 2: and even at this time back on Nightside. The only
Speaker 2: lines open right now are six one seven, nine three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Let's light them all up. Let's light it.
Speaker 2: Light my lines up like a Christmas tree. Let's let
Speaker 2: him look like fireworks. Feel free to join this conversation
Speaker 2: back after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Folks. The the six months of a nine three, one
Speaker 2: ten thirty line is now two lines there are full,
Speaker 2: So Shana and Pete stay right there. A bunch of
Speaker 2: you had filled up the six one, seven, two, five
Speaker 2: four ten thirty line, and several of you dropped off.
Speaker 2: So if you've had a connectivity problem, call back and
Speaker 2: we will put you back in priority. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Joel and Natick. Joel, what do you like about America?
Speaker 3: Joel?
Speaker 4: The best part of living in the United States Dan
Speaker 4: is being able to listen to Dan Ray at nightside.
Speaker 4: Monday was Friday, eight pm to bednight.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure, thank you very much, my friend, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a lot of better things that this
Speaker 2: country has to offer. That's for sure. You're very kind, Joel,
Speaker 2: too kind, that's for sure. I wouldn't want to live
Speaker 2: anywhere else. What about you?
Speaker 4: You know, I bet stay in the United States. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's Yeah, you have the freedom to do anything you
Speaker 4: want while getting into trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, there's some guardrails, and most of
Speaker 2: us observe the guard rails, and and and things go along.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that all of us have complaints. We as
Speaker 2: Americans tend to be uh kind of complainers. We get
Speaker 2: a little cranky, we don't want to pay as much taxes.
Speaker 2: We're concerned that. You know, all of us have our
Speaker 2: pet peeves. You wouldn't be an American without a pet peeve.
Speaker 2: But it's important to let people know this weekend and
Speaker 2: tell people not only here on the on night side,
Speaker 2: but tell them everywhere that, hey, you're proud to be
Speaker 2: an American and for all of our flaws, we're still
Speaker 2: the best country in the world. I hope you agree
Speaker 2: with me that.
Speaker 4: Oh, definitely, definitely, Dan, Definitely.
Speaker 2: There are some other great countries out there, Okay, and
Speaker 2: there's some other real tough countries to live in, but
Speaker 2: nothing as good as far as I'm concerned as this country.
Speaker 2: And I've traveled a little bit, I've seen a pretty
Speaker 2: good part of the world. Never been to Asian, never
Speaker 2: been in Africa, never been to South America, spent a
Speaker 2: lot of time in different countries in Europe and European countries.
Speaker 2: They're wonderful, no question, but they can't talk the good
Speaker 2: old US of a.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, Dan, where are you going to find
Speaker 4: democracy like the United States?
Speaker 2: Israel?
Speaker 4: Besides US? Do aren't any others?
Speaker 2: Well? I mean you'll have other democracies Britain, But I
Speaker 2: think of Israel as a democracy that's under fire, and
Speaker 2: yet they've been able to survive seventy seven years since
Speaker 2: they're founding in nineteen forty eight. Yeah, that's there were
Speaker 2: fewer democracies in the world than people realize, and that
Speaker 2: that is scary. Joe, you have a great fourth of July,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for joining the conversation tonight. You're
Speaker 2: a great friend.
Speaker 4: Thanks Joel to have a big fucking right, Darren, take care.
Speaker 2: Thanks Pal, talk to you soon. Let me go next
Speaker 2: to Shana is in Milton. Hey, Shana, welcome, you're next
Speaker 2: to the nightside.
Speaker 5: Hey Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm great? Is this Shane or Shana?
Speaker 5: I'm confused Shana, Shana, no worries?
Speaker 2: Okay, great Shana? What what's best about living in the
Speaker 2: US For.
Speaker 5: Me, it's it's truly the land of opportunity. Is somebody
Speaker 5: who is a first generation American here in this country great,
Speaker 5: which I absolutely love.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, my mother moved over here from Ireland in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty six with forty one dollars in her pocket
Speaker 5: and a checked luggage bag, and you know turned it
Speaker 5: into being able to give me everything I have today.
Speaker 5: And you know you can't. There's no other place where
Speaker 5: you could be able to do that.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's great.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: So you're you were born here obviously, Yes, what do
Speaker 2: you do? What sort of work do you do?
Speaker 5: I just finished my master's degree in social work, so
Speaker 5: I'm working in the mental health world. And you know
Speaker 5: it's she came here and she got her nursing degree
Speaker 5: while while she had us, and you know it's nowhere else,
Speaker 5: exactly nowhere else you could do that.
Speaker 2: Well, when you put it in the terms of your
Speaker 2: mom comes here with forty one dollars in her pocket.
Speaker 2: Uh uh and is able to successfully navigate everything that
Speaker 2: she had to navigate. Wow, I'm glad I didn't have
Speaker 2: to have those obstacles. To be honest with you, and
Speaker 2: many How many siblings do you have?
Speaker 5: Myself and my sister, and.
Speaker 2: Your sister's doing well? Is also I.
Speaker 5: Hope yes, she's. She's hoping to get onto a police
Speaker 5: force soon, you know. And these opportunities you can't get
Speaker 5: them anywhere else, and there's nothing like it.
Speaker 2: SHANEA, thanks so much, Thanks so much. You're called what
Speaker 2: what county did your mom come from?
Speaker 5: I just got back from a couple of weeks stay
Speaker 5: in Ireland. We are from County Claire. We're from right
Speaker 5: outside of Kilkee, right on the west coast there.
Speaker 2: No, I know County Claire. I've been there. My four
Speaker 2: beers came from County Cork.
Speaker 5: Uh I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a little town called Mala m a l
Speaker 2: l o w or m a l a with with
Speaker 2: the with the Irish or the Gaelic spelling. Thanks Shanna.
Speaker 2: I so appreciate you calling. Have a great night, good night.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dan, you too, Bye bye, all right, thank
Speaker 5: you much.
Speaker 2: This is your first I should have asked you, is
Speaker 2: this your first time calling?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 2: Well, we got to give you a wrong so we
Speaker 2: like to welcome people here, so come on back soon.
Speaker 2: I'll look forward to you next call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I love the show. Thank you bye, thanks you by.
Speaker 2: We're going to go next. Yeut, let me go to
Speaker 2: Pete in South Carolina. Pete, welcome back. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm fine, my friend. What do I like best about
Speaker 3: this country? I love the history. I've lived and worked
Speaker 3: in Boston, as you know, I'm from Philly, and the
Speaker 3: history is fantastic. And the opportunities so that everybody can
Speaker 3: get if you'd want to take advantage of them, they're there, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're there, no question about it. And the other thing
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you, I've been listening to you
Speaker 3: for I don't know how many years you been on now,
Speaker 3: eighteen eighteen, Well it would be eighteen. I've got about seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be eighteen on October first. We'll start
Speaker 2: year nineteen on October first.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I got one other thing to tell you,
Speaker 3: because they know you want to get a lot.
Speaker 2: Of callers there, Sure, go ahead and take it down.
Speaker 3: This is important.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: On July eighth, you and I are going to turn
Speaker 3: one year older, So happy birthday. Because I won't be
Speaker 3: able to get hold of you.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, well you know what you could always get
Speaker 2: a hold of me. But happy birthday to you, Pete.
Speaker 2: I know that we do share that birthday and it's
Speaker 2: not the same year, but we're pretty close. We're pretty close.
Speaker 3: So one year.
Speaker 2: And no one has to know who's older or younger,
Speaker 2: as simple as that.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying a word my friend.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: I also like the fact that I like this kid
Speaker 3: who's playing for Boston Roman Anthony. Yeah, I really like him.
Speaker 3: Did he play for your son?
Speaker 2: No? He he was I think at Double A last
Speaker 2: year and okay, and he came up and he was
Speaker 2: on the fast track. He's he's the young good yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And they they almost swept the Red Legs, but they
Speaker 2: they were leading three nothing tonight and unfortunately one of
Speaker 2: the relievers gave up a grand Slam home run to
Speaker 2: I think eight hitter. So but they won. They won
Speaker 2: the series. I'm not sure they're going to the World
Speaker 2: Series this year, but there certainly are between between Anthony
Speaker 2: Christian Campbell, the kid that they sent down, uh and Meyer,
Speaker 2: the kid who's primarily playing third base. They have some
Speaker 2: young young guy there and some young people there. And
Speaker 2: I also very much like there was a pitcher named
Speaker 2: Dobbins who's won a bunch of games. Young guy and
Speaker 2: another guy named Fitz who they they got from the
Speaker 2: Yankees and he hasn't won his first game yet, but
Speaker 2: he's pitched really well. So I think this hope for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox going forwards, maybe.
Speaker 3: Not to see what happens. Maybe it'll be a Red
Speaker 3: Sox silly World series that.
Speaker 2: Would be fun. We'd have to have some out of
Speaker 2: a bet on that.
Speaker 3: You would thinks absolutely will have a bet.
Speaker 2: Thanks, p talk soon, Happy for you have a good one.
Speaker 3: He's safe on your vacation. Happy birthday and I'll talk
Speaker 3: to you later.
Speaker 2: Happy Birthday to you in turn. Thanks good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, triple eight nine ten thirty. Gonna go to
Speaker 2: my friend Joe in Boston. Joe, I know you're proud
Speaker 2: to be an American.
Speaker 5: I am Dan.
Speaker 6: This is one of the best charges I ever made,
Speaker 6: Like I tell people on the second best choice that
Speaker 6: I ever made.
Speaker 2: Your wife, absolutely exactly exactly, and I can not be
Speaker 2: more grateful.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is the country that gave me the
Speaker 6: opportunity and we just keep on doing it. And I'm
Speaker 6: thank God for Donald Trump because we were going on
Speaker 6: the wrong path and he brought us back.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, I know that you did. You feel
Speaker 2: strongly about that, and there's a point of personal privilege.
Speaker 2: I'll let you get that in. But I hope that
Speaker 2: I'll get people on both sides of the equation, the
Speaker 2: political equations.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, It's like being a results fan and a Yankish fan.
Speaker 6: We all can be friends at the end of the day, Yes,
Speaker 6: but not when it comes to it. In American number
Speaker 6: one for me in my book, because the opportunities that
Speaker 6: I have and this is the best country that there is,
Speaker 6: second to none. Absolutely, And I love you with all
Speaker 6: the best of you and your family Joe right with
Speaker 6: the grand kids around, which is.
Speaker 3: To me, dear to my heart.
Speaker 6: You know in sense when it comes to grandkids, how.
Speaker 2: Many do you have? Give me? We only have two?
Speaker 2: How many do you have?
Speaker 6: I got a big bolly, the one that you've seen before,
Speaker 6: but totally is.
Speaker 3: Five of them.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: So I can now be more grateful. I thank God
Speaker 6: every single day. In a whole bunch of times, I'm sudden.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm with you totally. I like you. We share
Speaker 2: a lot of similar feelings show and not at least
Speaker 2: of which is blessed to be here and blessed to
Speaker 2: have good families. Joe will talk to Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 6: I love you that, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, love you too, Joe, you know that. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: I'll talk soon. Come on.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got a couple of lines here now six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. Uh, and now the one that's wide
Speaker 2: open in six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I just want to hear from from my listeners. And
Speaker 2: if you're a first time caller, as SHANEA was, all
Speaker 2: the better. I have two older listen I shouldn't say older,
Speaker 2: but old friends listeners regular listeners lined up. So whether
Speaker 2: you're a regular listener, or you've been on this show
Speaker 2: one hundred times or you've never been on it before,
Speaker 2: light it up. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Coming
Speaker 2: right back on nights Side. And for those of you
Speaker 2: who dropped off, if you're in a bad city situation
Speaker 2: with a cell dropping off in a car, call back
Speaker 2: and we'll get you back to where you were in line. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks very much. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We're asking people to call in and tell us what
Speaker 2: they like about America. There's a lot to like about America.
Speaker 2: Let's next up, Eileen, I Lean welcome you and next
Speaker 2: on Nightside.
Speaker 7: Oh well, thank you well. I love America. And I
Speaker 7: was a child during the Second World War and I
Speaker 7: was so grateful that we didn't have war here. And
Speaker 7: I actually I spent uh good amount of time with
Speaker 7: one of my my aunt Irene in Cleveland, Ohio, and
Speaker 7: we had I had cousins who were uh from who
Speaker 7: lived in England and they were sent here and they
Speaker 7: lived with They lived with her too, So I got
Speaker 7: to know my English cousins very well. But in America,
Speaker 7: we have many opportunities, and I I feel very lucky
Speaker 7: for the education that I've been able to.
Speaker 3: Nowhere.
Speaker 2: Nowhere in the world, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: countries around the world have these caste systems, and that's
Speaker 2: they decide when you're in the seventh or sixth or
Speaker 2: seventh grade if your college bound are going to go
Speaker 2: in a different direction. Thank you so much, thank you
Speaker 2: for joining us tonight, as all was always lovely to
Speaker 2: hear your voice. And you have a great fourth of July.
Speaker 2: Are you going to be heading down to the water,
Speaker 2: I hope. Oh yeah, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, thanks dam Let's go.
Speaker 2: Next to Christina. Christina, you are next on night Side.
Speaker 2: What do you like about this country? Hi, Christina, I.
Speaker 9: Love this country so much. I'm very blessed. My my
Speaker 9: parents always taught me so much history, and I was
Speaker 9: very blessed my my you know, I had my my
Speaker 9: father was in the Air Force, my uncle was close God.
Speaker 9: And I have a nephew now serving in the Army.
Speaker 9: So I'm very blessed, like I have so much. You know,
Speaker 9: I'm so lucky to be here in America.
Speaker 2: You have the branch, you have the service branches covered
Speaker 2: in your family. That's a very very patreonic family.
Speaker 9: Yeah, my father and mother always is still so much
Speaker 9: history into us. They I like, you know, to be here,
Speaker 9: to be uh taught freedom and you know that we're
Speaker 9: lucky to be here. They always make sure.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the funny thing about it, Aileen, as
Speaker 2: as you know, is it's kind of a quirk of faith.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have no idea why I was born
Speaker 2: in America. Uh, I mean I kind of look at
Speaker 2: it like, there's X numbers of babies who are born
Speaker 2: around the world, and I think our population is six percent,
Speaker 2: so kind of added about a six percent shot could
Speaker 2: have been born in a whole bunch of different places.
Speaker 2: And uh I liked. I like where I landed, and
Speaker 2: uh I like Boston as well. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I did a lot of parts of the country I
Speaker 2: would have been comfortable with. But I like this city
Speaker 2: and I like I like I like the weather, I
Speaker 2: like the change of seasons. I know that there's other
Speaker 2: parts of the country where people live where uh you know,
Speaker 2: the weather's a nice seventy degrees most days, a few
Speaker 2: little cool days and some warmer days. But I'm I'm happy.
Speaker 2: I'm a happy camper, simplest, simple ast that about. The
Speaker 2: other thing is about drivers. That's we could do a little.
Speaker 2: We could all become better drivers, I think right, and
Speaker 2: it would be perfect. Thanks Thanks so much, Christina. Always
Speaker 2: great to hear your voice. Christine, thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Happy for it to July. I have a great vacation.
Speaker 2: I sure will. I'll be back. I'll be back on
Speaker 2: the fourteenth of July. Thanks Christine. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Matt Matt and Brighton. Matt, you were next on Nightside.
Speaker 2: What do you like best about America? Oh?
Speaker 10: Well, first off, man, I wish you and your family
Speaker 10: to come blessed fourth of July and Pennans Day.
Speaker 2: Right back at.
Speaker 10: Absolutely thank you. You know, I'm of the younger generation.
Speaker 10: America is something that I never want to take for granted.
Speaker 10: I am born here and it brings so much opportunity.
Speaker 10: There are issues and all that, but it brings so
Speaker 10: much opportunity, so much happiness. We're in a free, democratic society,
Speaker 10: and that's so important to grow up around and understand
Speaker 10: and the foundation of understanding that notion that I've been
Speaker 10: able to have the luxury of having that so many
Speaker 10: billions that people don't have. That's why I'm proud to
Speaker 10: be an American. I love this country.
Speaker 2: I kind of imagine what it would be like to
Speaker 2: live in some of these other countries, whether they're right
Speaker 2: wing dictatorships or communist countries, or where you can't even
Speaker 2: talk openly to your neighbor or your friend because you
Speaker 2: don't know if you live in Cuba, for example, or
Speaker 2: if you live in Venezuela. They will want to find
Speaker 2: out if you're a loyal citizen. And you know, here
Speaker 2: in America, with all of the controversy surrounding President Trump,
Speaker 2: thank god, we have the First Amendment and people can
Speaker 2: get out there in protest, and many of those people
Speaker 2: don't realize that they're very The very fact of their
Speaker 2: protest proves the strength of the country.
Speaker 10: You know, I agree, I agree, and it might not
Speaker 10: be protests I agree with, but we have the First
Speaker 10: Amendment give us a great right for free speech. And
Speaker 10: this is a great country. And everyone who fought for
Speaker 10: our safety, who fought overseas, my gratitude goes out to them,
Speaker 10: as to you. You gett your service, and it just
Speaker 10: is a great country. And I am thankful to be
Speaker 10: born here. And I don't take it for granted for
Speaker 10: a second.
Speaker 2: You bet you, Matt. I appreciate very a great a
Speaker 2: great call as always, Thanks Matt. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you much.
Speaker 2: So let me go to Christian up in Pbdy, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Christian, go right ahead, happy fourth of July week.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm right back at you. And that this is first
Speaker 2: of all, it's a great time of year. I remember
Speaker 2: as a kid school was out, you know, I thought
Speaker 2: that the summer would never end. And you know then
Speaker 2: then it was became labor day and you were back
Speaker 2: in school.
Speaker 11: Kind of a It's funny how when you get older,
Speaker 11: how fast time flies from season to season. But one
Speaker 11: thing that we enjoyed most about this country, it is
Speaker 11: the greatest generation that fought World War two. Yes, because
Speaker 11: we gave everything so we did not have to look
Speaker 11: over our shoulder. We could be whatever we had for
Speaker 11: purpose in life, to be educational, freedom, you know, be
Speaker 11: a good person, and not have to worry about the
Speaker 11: things that the countries have to worry about. It's just
Speaker 11: to me, it's I believe that our process, regardless of
Speaker 11: whatever is in charge, has a process that everybody their
Speaker 11: doors understaying it's it's beginnings. And somewhere in their arts
Speaker 11: they're like, I have my version, but yeah, there's no
Speaker 11: better place to be on earth.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also, by the way, as much as we
Speaker 2: want to criticize the founders of this country, they were
Speaker 2: pretty smart guys. Uh, and women and and and without
Speaker 2: their you know, their courage as well as their intellect.
Speaker 2: It was an amazing combination of courage and intellect. It's
Speaker 2: one thing to have people who are intellectual, but it's
Speaker 2: also a great gift to have people who will defend others.
Speaker 2: And you know, that's that's a part of America that
Speaker 2: I don't think is as appreciated as maybe most of us.
Speaker 2: It should realize that that those men, you know, Washington
Speaker 2: and Franklin, Adams and Jefferson and Monroe and Madison and
Speaker 2: and all of them, the leadership that happened to just
Speaker 2: be born at that particular point in time. Boy, we
Speaker 2: were lucky. We were lucky. We have they are few
Speaker 2: and far between today as far as as far as
Speaker 2: I'm concerned, you know, And I'm just I were so
Speaker 2: lucky when you think about it. No, we all complained,
Speaker 2: we all have difficult days, and but to live here,
Speaker 2: where else would you prefer? I mean, there's nowhere else
Speaker 2: from me. And I got to tell you, when I
Speaker 2: feel it the most is when I'm coming home, particularly
Speaker 2: if I'm coming home from overseas. And I realized, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was in Italy last summer. It was great, it
Speaker 2: was fun. I was in Ireland a couple of years
Speaker 2: before that. It was great, it was fun. I was
Speaker 2: all over Europe on a couple of boat cruises. Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary,
Speaker 2: name it. I was there, but it's when you come
Speaker 2: home to them. You just use a feeling. You can't
Speaker 2: describe it, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 11: I'm on the same page as you. It's just to
Speaker 11: me when I look at what we have, it's you
Speaker 11: can be whatever you want.
Speaker 12: You can be free.
Speaker 11: To be yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were there were people who there are
Speaker 2: people who will actively deny that, but it's an undeniable
Speaker 2: fact because there's so many people that you can be
Speaker 2: born in poverty and you can end up a billionaire.
Speaker 2: You can be born as a millionaire and you can
Speaker 2: end up in poverty too. By the way, there are
Speaker 2: those who go up and those who go down. Hey, Christian,
Speaker 2: I loved you call man. Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Taking the time to be happy fourth too, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: All Right. I got a couple more lines that are open,
Speaker 2: and they're wide open right now. Six one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty one line at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Take a very quick break coming right now
Speaker 2: on night Side.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the fourth of July and are you
Speaker 2: proud to be an American? Is there somewhere else in
Speaker 2: the world you'd like to live? I can't think of
Speaker 2: anywhere left to know what you think. Next up, Laurie, Laurie,
Speaker 2: how are you today? Big day in Idaho?
Speaker 8: Huh yeah, yep. That was a really interesting hearing.
Speaker 2: What made it interesting? I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 2: watch it. He will. Guy had a weird demeanor, didn't he.
Speaker 8: The judge or Colberg?
Speaker 3: Colberg, okay, well, day one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a weirdo. He's well he was being told
Speaker 8: exactly what to say and don't screw it up. And
Speaker 8: you can see he at the laptop in front of him,
Speaker 8: and she was showing him everything he needed to see
Speaker 8: you pretty much?
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When they asked him me, did you do this? Yes?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 8: Are you guilty of premeditated human being?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 8: The guy had a million quite the judge and a
Speaker 8: million questions. He went in and around to satisfy himself
Speaker 8: that he wasn't being coercid, this is what he really
Speaker 8: meant to do, and all sort of stuff. But the
Speaker 8: judge opened with what we were kind of talking about
Speaker 8: the other night a little bit, Yeah, sort of with
Speaker 8: very strong words to the folks who had been inundating
Speaker 8: his office with phone calls and letters. Did you hear that?
Speaker 2: Oh? I did?
Speaker 8: Yeah, And then he said I passed them off to
Speaker 8: the security or to the law enforcement, whichever was necessary.
Speaker 2: Well, but I also thought that he's a little tone
Speaker 2: deaf there. Okay, if you can't take the heat, judge,
Speaker 2: why don't you step off the bench and let someone
Speaker 2: else take this. Yeah, it's a big case. People have
Speaker 2: a right now.
Speaker 8: Dis impressed with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, Yeah, he's the most important guy
Speaker 2: in the room and he's not going to be influenced
Speaker 2: by anybody. And I just got I have no idea
Speaker 2: anything about his background, but I suspect if I looked
Speaker 2: at his background pretty closely, I wouldn't like it very much.
Speaker 8: Now, I wasn't really that impressed with the state that
Speaker 8: prusp either either, But yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was odd.
Speaker 8: But now we wait till the twenty third. So anyway,
Speaker 8: I love my country. I'm proud to be American. I
Speaker 8: love the flag, and I could echo everything else that
Speaker 8: the veil says, but one of the things I absolutely
Speaker 8: love is that from seventeen seventy six, till today, we've
Speaker 8: had only one government with some tweaks here and there,
Speaker 8: which is pretty cool, very cool. Fundamental government, fund fundamental,
Speaker 8: and we celebrate the heck out of it every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. I it's frustrating because it's so easy when
Speaker 2: something goes wrong that everybody wants to pick apart. It's
Speaker 2: almost like a family. No family is perfect. I've never
Speaker 2: known a perfect family, and I guess there's never a
Speaker 2: perfect country. Maybe maybe North Korea is a perfect country.
Speaker 2: If you want to make sure that you can't say anything,
Speaker 2: you've got to be perfectly quiet, and you have to
Speaker 2: be perfectly submissive, and you have to perfectly you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they'd last about two days there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh really. Yeah, you have to wear the
Speaker 2: same type clothes, you have to salute the emperor and
Speaker 2: all of that. There's none of that here, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: We haven't changed governments. We haven't had coops or anything
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, right, although some people will think that
Speaker 2: there were those who were little concerned. Anyway, Hey, Laurie
Speaker 2: is always thank you so much. We'll talk again, Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, good night, love her calls. Okay, next up,
Speaker 2: Jim rather Tim excuse me, Tim and Winthrop. Tim, next nights,
Speaker 2: I go ahead.
Speaker 1: I can just got two things to say. Sure, I reflect.
Speaker 1: The other gentleman said, God blessed Donald Trump and our president,
Speaker 1: and he's going to hell of a job. And the
Speaker 1: other thing to say is more important. Benjamin Franklin once
Speaker 1: said that freedom is a great thing. You can keep it.
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 2: No, I understand that, but but that's not neither of
Speaker 2: those the issues tonight, Tim, The issue is are you're
Speaker 2: proud of the country.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the country.
Speaker 2: Was irrespective of who the president is.
Speaker 1: I wasn't too proud last year, right.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is it's it's it's easy to
Speaker 2: be proud of America if the president is like you
Speaker 2: voted for. It's more difficult to be proud of America
Speaker 2: when you're on the losing end. That's all I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say. And I was hoping to get more people.
Speaker 2: You know, I expect the Trump people would be pretty
Speaker 2: happy right now.
Speaker 1: Make America be happy.
Speaker 2: But I want it. But but I want to hear
Speaker 2: from people on both.
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan's still my Favorite's.
Speaker 2: All right, right?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Thanks Tim, appreciate your call very much. I have a
Speaker 2: great night. Good night. Let me go. Okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to go to Daryl in New Brunswick. Daryl, you can
Speaker 2: tell me you're proud of Canada as well, or you
Speaker 2: can tell me you're proud of America, whichever you like.
Speaker 13: Daryl, I'm proud of both because my grandfather's mother was
Speaker 13: from northern Michigan. All right, we're talking, but that goes
Speaker 13: back to the whole point. Is you mentioned being overseas
Speaker 13: Italy and Europe and whatnot, and even when you're in Africa,
Speaker 13: different places of the world, Caribbean. The best thing about
Speaker 13: coming home. I grew up on the Ontario Michigan border, say,
Speaker 13: ten football fields away from the US. And the nice
Speaker 13: thing is we could actually go to the US with
Speaker 13: a driver's license, but we can actually coming back from overseas,
Speaker 13: we could go to a drive through or the burger
Speaker 13: joint with the old hot rod. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: How that relates to what we're talking about tonight. So
Speaker 2: you can drive over and get a burger in America
Speaker 2: and drive back, right, is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 13: Well, we grew up about forty five minutes from Detroit.
Speaker 13: So dearborn Michigan actually has the big, biggest hot rod
Speaker 13: run every year.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's a good thing to be proud of,
Speaker 2: even even if you are technically live on the other
Speaker 2: side of the demarcation line.
Speaker 13: But at the same time, we grew up on the river,
Speaker 13: Saint Clair River, and we get fireworks on the first
Speaker 13: and the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: Now you're talking, Now you're talking. That's a good thing too, Daryl.
Speaker 2: I got a two or three other folks. They got
Speaker 2: to sneak in here. Great to hear your voice. Happy
Speaker 2: fourth of July. I know you don't celebrate it up there,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna have a Fourth of July, just like
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a third and the fifth of July.
Speaker 13: Okay, Hey, we're gonna have one of those days every
Speaker 13: year until that stops.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks, Daryl. I appreciate it. All right, We're gonna
Speaker 2: go down real quick. Jim, I got you in. You
Speaker 2: called late. Are you proud to be in America?
Speaker 12: Dan? Yes, I am. I just want to say it's
Speaker 12: not Thanksgiving, okay, it's fourth of July. It's about telling
Speaker 12: you and I'm not saying everybody should be a rebel
Speaker 12: every day, but you should have that rebel spirit in
Speaker 12: you that you just don't necessarily don't drink the kool aid.
Speaker 12: All right, taking that call?
Speaker 2: Thanks by, Thanks, Thanks Jim. And I know you're a rebel.
Speaker 2: You've proven it to me. Darlene in Watertown, Hi, Darlene,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm too it great? We got to be quick for
Speaker 2: because we're getting out of time. Here go ahead, darling.
Speaker 7: Oh I'm the land on the last one.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's one behind you. Go ahead.
Speaker 14: Happy birthday America. Yes, I am so proud to be
Speaker 14: in American I have enph you going into the Navy
Speaker 14: real soon, and I couldn't be more proud. But I'm
Speaker 14: calling to say Dan, have a great vacation.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Have you called before? Is this
Speaker 2: your first time calling?
Speaker 14: Oh? I have called before, But Dan, I just wish
Speaker 14: you have the best vacation. And that's what America is
Speaker 14: all about.
Speaker 2: It is everybody needs a vacation. Thanks so much, Call
Speaker 2: more often. Okay. I love you, I love your spirit,
Speaker 2: I love your voice. Thanks. Have a great one. By
Speaker 2: all right, what did we get down to one?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 2: Okay? Here we go Flabberto in Rhode Island, Fliberto, I
Speaker 2: got about twenty seconds for you. You've called late, but
Speaker 2: donad you're here, Coren ahead. I'm welcome, all.
Speaker 15: Right, Dan, great, great, thank you so much. Sure I'm
Speaker 15: probed to be an American, neprowise American and excellent history
Speaker 15: history and uh well everything in the patunity is everything
Speaker 15: that's that's with the Country Office.
Speaker 3: I believe it.
Speaker 2: Flaberto, you're a man of your word. Happy fourth to July.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 15: Thank you for the same to you, and a happy
Speaker 15: birthday for next.
Speaker 14: Week with you.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks buddy, Okay, all right, we're done for
Speaker 2: the night and I'm done for the week. Morgan White's
Speaker 2: here tomorrow and Friday night. Treating well, Shane and Rob.
Speaker 2: Great job, Marita, great job. As always. I will end
Speaker 2: as always, all dogs, all cats, all pets go to him.
Speaker 2: That's why Pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago
Speaker 2: in February, that's where your pets are who passed. They
Speaker 2: loved and you love that and I do believe you'll
Speaker 2: see them again. Have a great fourth of July, every one.
Speaker 2: I'll see you on the fourteenth, Dan Ray for night's
Speaker 2: side stakehold