Speaker 1: It's a nice size.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: All right. We are asking a very simple question, how
Speaker 1: is your economy means? How is your lifestyle impacted by
Speaker 1: all of this politics? Doesn't necessarily have to tell me
Speaker 1: who you're gonna vote for. I'm not looking for that information.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at you better off now than you
Speaker 1: were at whatever reference point you want to make, whether
Speaker 1: it was ten years ago. You We've heard pretty much
Speaker 1: people saying that things are not good. I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from you. And we're just gonna keep rolling. You're
Speaker 1: going to go next to Warren and fall river. Warren,
Speaker 1: you were next to a nightstand. How's your economy doing, Warren?
Speaker 3: Hey, Dan, Yeah, my economy is not good. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm coming home from work right now, and it's just
Speaker 3: it just amazes me how the you know, inflation has
Speaker 3: eaten up you know, anything that I can save and
Speaker 3: I mean to try to get ahead nearly impossible. You know,
Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't gone on vacation in five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So so the last vacation was before COVID obviously.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was before COVID.
Speaker 4: It was there was a.
Speaker 3: Trip up, there was a weekend up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that I think COVID has
Speaker 1: had a tremendous impact, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. But it's just the fact that
Speaker 3: I think, you know, with government, I think we have
Speaker 3: to simplify. I think we have to go with a
Speaker 3: new approach and just we have to simplify and reduce
Speaker 3: down what federal government you know, should take care of,
Speaker 3: you know, defense of the country, you know, the then states,
Speaker 3: you know, and just and you know, in other things
Speaker 3: in the economy, it should it should be pretty basic
Speaker 3: and leave everything else to the stakes, you know, and
Speaker 3: and trying to simplify what they do too, because we
Speaker 3: pay for a lot of unnecessary stuff, and you know,
Speaker 3: like every every household has a budget and money. We
Speaker 3: have so much money coming in. We have so much
Speaker 3: money coming in and and and what what do households do.
Speaker 3: They have to decide, you know, what what gets paid,
Speaker 3: what what doesn't you know, you know, what what they
Speaker 3: can do with the money. You know, Oh, we have
Speaker 3: to set a steak, We're gonna have to have hot
Speaker 3: dogs for two weeks, you know, type of type type
Speaker 3: of things. And government should learn from that and It's
Speaker 3: just something. I mean, it drives me crazy that, you know,
Speaker 3: like all these you know, these people blame corporations this
Speaker 3: and that, they don't understand business. They don't understand business
Speaker 3: because the corporations are getting slammed by the you know,
Speaker 3: the black you know, the the you know, the supply
Speaker 3: line issues and all stuff like that, and the cost
Speaker 3: of everything being wick and high too. I mean, like
Speaker 3: I worked for CBS Health and in the print department,
Speaker 3: and a skin of paper, you know, a pallet of
Speaker 3: paper might cost twenty five thousand dollars. A palette of paper,
Speaker 3: a palette of paper, which is you know, it could
Speaker 3: be it could be it could be twenty thousand sheets
Speaker 3: of paper. And it's that it all depends, it all
Speaker 3: depends on the gloss level.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know what do you think whatever a
Speaker 1: corporation pays for something, they're going to try to make.
Speaker 3: A profit on it, exactly. And they don't understand that
Speaker 3: you have overhead, you have the cost of the machines,
Speaker 3: you have maintenance, you have you know, you have the
Speaker 3: you know, the paying of payroll, you have all this
Speaker 3: stuff and they're getting squeezed just like us. Yeah, you've
Speaker 3: got You've got a couple that are greedy that, you know,
Speaker 3: give corporations a bad name. But for the most part,
Speaker 3: corporations are just like everyone in everyone's household. They're trying
Speaker 3: to do, you know, do do the best of the
Speaker 3: with their budget as they can. And I think we
Speaker 3: just we need to simplify. I think we have to
Speaker 3: take a hard book at government what gets spent, and
Speaker 3: we have to cut out a lot of the lot
Speaker 3: of the nonsense stuff. And that's the only way, that's
Speaker 3: the only way that we do that the you know,
Speaker 3: money can get back.
Speaker 4: To the people.
Speaker 1: That might be a formula physics. That's one good, good call.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay, thank you, Dan,
Speaker 1: a good one. Only lines open right now. Six one.
Speaker 1: It's a simple question. And I want to hear from
Speaker 1: as many women as possible on this as well, because
Speaker 1: I think they probably are many times better accountants in
Speaker 1: terms of their money than men. But I want to
Speaker 1: hear from both. Six one, seven, nine, three. Real simple question.
Speaker 1: How is your economy? Take the comments that jer Own
Speaker 1: Powell makes, the President makes the economist on TV. Makes
Speaker 1: you know your economy better than everyone anyone else? Is
Speaker 1: it good, batter, indifferent or better yet? It is it good,
Speaker 1: bad or ugly? Simple as that. How's your economy? Back
Speaker 1: on night Side right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 5: Night Side Studios on WBZ the news Radio.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Bill and danvers. Bill, I'll be interested
Speaker 1: in how you your economy is. I know a little
Speaker 1: bit about what you do.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Yeah, well, I mean, am I better off
Speaker 6: than I was four years ago?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 6: The only thing that has helped me is, of course
Speaker 6: I pay attention. And I was well aware of the
Speaker 6: policies from day one from me and I knew it
Speaker 6: was going to end well when he signed the secut
Speaker 6: award is and going after a lot of the drilling
Speaker 6: and our energy, and we're going to rely on other people.
Speaker 6: And that hasn't worked out so well. So that also
Speaker 6: aided with the inflation. And I got to tell you
Speaker 6: the afternoon business is well. Customer accounts a down. Customer
Speaker 6: account's been down over sixteen months. But the big thing
Speaker 6: I think in the afternoon, I don't know if you
Speaker 6: saw a survey was briefly out maybe a week or
Speaker 6: so ago. I know you're away, but I think they
Speaker 6: said almost forty percent of people in New England had
Speaker 6: a side gig. So I think if you get out
Speaker 6: of your regular jobs, say at the nine to five,
Speaker 6: and in the old days you had to pick up
Speaker 6: some of the mall or it was an anniversary something
Speaker 6: with the wife where you were going to go and
Speaker 6: get your watch fixed, okay and do something, you don't
Speaker 6: get that business now because people are going to go
Speaker 6: and do door dash okay, they're doing Uber okay, and
Speaker 6: they're doing a side gig. So that affects that business.
Speaker 6: So the weekend, which was sixty percent of your business,
Speaker 6: there's now seventy percent. So everything is condensed.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting way to look at it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I find that and I talk to my
Speaker 6: customers and now I am doing this.
Speaker 3: Now I'm doing.
Speaker 6: That people, and I don't seem like I used to.
Speaker 6: And a guy come over to be with the family.
Speaker 6: He goes, listen, we're down the market basket and fuel
Speaker 6: and I hear that from a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Did I go to market basket?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But my way to go to market basket? Yeah.
Speaker 6: So they basically there's the family. And I was in
Speaker 6: a few weeks ago and there was a woman's here
Speaker 6: three nice looking young girls, the family, and it was
Speaker 6: six hundred and seven dollars at the register.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the family.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, So I mean, and I think if you
Speaker 6: added up from from January twenty four or when it
Speaker 6: when he cuts one in, when it was about what
Speaker 6: one point nine percent inflation one point set whatever the
Speaker 6: number one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when it when he was one, When when it
Speaker 1: was inflation when Joe Biden became president was one point
Speaker 1: four percent?
Speaker 6: Yeah, wy, one point four. So and if you added
Speaker 6: up when it was you've even take the government numbers,
Speaker 6: you're probably lost because every year now they claiming victory
Speaker 6: because it's two point nine, but they take out the
Speaker 6: food and energy, which is the big story. So if
Speaker 6: you added up, I mean basically you've lost thirty percent
Speaker 6: of your money. So in the last three and a
Speaker 6: half years, if you're not making thirty cents more on
Speaker 6: the dollar, you're behind. And that best maybe people get
Speaker 6: four percent a year maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well if that if that, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: wages have have really slowed down obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I mean I've mitigated things. I just did a
Speaker 6: three year extension on the lease. I almost didn't do it.
Speaker 6: I didn't do five. I did three. There's some big
Speaker 6: projects underway. They're going to be opening in the next
Speaker 6: sixty seventy days. I'm sure that'll help. But if we
Speaker 6: had a growing, more healthy economy, it would really help.
Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens. You know, I've been opened
Speaker 6: sixteen years. You know, I wanted to make at least
Speaker 6: twenty a little over that. You know, I'm kind of
Speaker 6: in the middle of the road, Dan, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you let one foot in, one foot out,
Speaker 1: and you kind of afford to take both set out.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, and then with the car and you know
Speaker 6: when and early on we had a big boost because
Speaker 6: Massachusetts they love the shutdown, so everyone went over the
Speaker 6: border and they had all the extra money so when
Speaker 6: they printed the money, which I also helped drive up
Speaker 6: this inflation. Okay, I didn't have any help, so I mean,
Speaker 6: I worked like a wild man. And why it was good.
Speaker 6: I overpaid a lot of stuff and I was closer
Speaker 6: than the mortgage, so I paid it off. So at
Speaker 6: least I don't have a mortgage. I don't have a
Speaker 6: cop payment, so you know, I and.
Speaker 1: I I'm married.
Speaker 6: Yep, too big, but I don't have child support. So
Speaker 6: but I mean people that do you know, they're getting
Speaker 6: in their mid fifties and they have all the friends
Speaker 6: of mine. I'll tell you, man, it's uh, you know.
Speaker 6: And listening to the calls tonight, I don't have too
Speaker 6: many people really thrilled and happy about this. And some
Speaker 6: of the calls to hot break and there. I got
Speaker 6: to tell you listening to that guy in the cop
Speaker 6: yeah you know so I've.
Speaker 1: Talked with him before and it's tough. It's absolutely tough. Yeah, Bill,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I thank you. Good. Good perspective as
Speaker 1: from a small business from a guy who's a small
Speaker 1: business guy. Thanks Bill.
Speaker 6: Thanks then, hen good.
Speaker 1: To bet you good night. Six one, six one seven
Speaker 1: nine thirty. Simple question, how's your economy? Michael and Antilborough. Michael,
Speaker 1: how's your economy going doing right now?
Speaker 8: My economy, I'm not bad.
Speaker 7: I'm a little more cautious. I wanted to echo exactly
Speaker 7: what Bill said, and I'm going to go back to
Speaker 7: Glenn also. But I think what's happened is the thing
Speaker 7: about no one wants to work. It's the side gigs.
Speaker 7: It's like it's your own company, Uber Door Gas, the
Speaker 7: restaurant's likely doing incredible because of those I think, because
Speaker 7: that was all added stuff that they didn't have before. However,
Speaker 7: I think it's twenty percent. You got to get the
Speaker 7: door gass or something like that. But there's a dooming glow.
Speaker 7: Not me. I'm not a doom and gloom guy. There's
Speaker 7: this thing that's still hanging, a black cloud. I think
Speaker 7: that's still hanging because of COVID. My buddy and I.
Speaker 3: Used to go movies.
Speaker 7: I mean, I couldn't stand that it was only stupid
Speaker 7: Wonder Woman, all that stupid stuff. But we went, you know,
Speaker 7: to have a good time. And you know, we've been
Speaker 7: friends for life. And he's actually sick. He's going to
Speaker 7: be going in for an operation. But I asked him,
Speaker 7: if you want to go.
Speaker 3: We're not doing that anymore.
Speaker 8: We're just not doing it.
Speaker 7: There's no there's no I'm not even driving around with
Speaker 7: the coffee.
Speaker 2: Can right.
Speaker 7: Actually I am, but sometimes I'm packing in the pocket.
Speaker 7: A lot of them scared I'm gonna get a hijacked,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 8: But anyway, keep.
Speaker 1: The doors locked, Keep the doors locked. That's all you
Speaker 1: gotta do.
Speaker 7: The cop pulled up for me. The police officer when
Speaker 7: I was on the phone with you, and uh yeah,
Speaker 7: but anyway, he probably knew you anyway, But I wanted
Speaker 7: to echo something that Glenn said. The woman who calls
Speaker 7: at the top of the hour, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 7: she has got to get a job. Somebody must have
Speaker 7: not I mean, got to get a job like that,
Speaker 7: some executive or somebody doesn't even must have heard her speaking.
Speaker 7: I will guarantee you they're gonna try and find her
Speaker 7: to calling you. She was incredible.
Speaker 1: Well that's great. I mean, if any potential employers are
Speaker 1: out there and they want to give us a call,
Speaker 1: we can always then put out a call back to
Speaker 1: the listeners and say, hey, if you want to talk
Speaker 1: to this company whatever. I love to put people good
Speaker 1: people together. Couldn't agree with you more. Michael, Thank you much.
Speaker 1: Talk to you about that great night. Let's go next again.
Speaker 1: We're moving a little bit quick more quickly here Gary's
Speaker 1: and Moiburg Gary next on Nightside Good Things.
Speaker 8: I want to throw Jeff robin Zala every time he's
Speaker 8: on it is awesome. I don't agree with him being
Speaker 8: a Democrat and so forth. But we're here to talk
Speaker 8: about the economy, which is my favorite subject matter. I
Speaker 8: think we should have a national revolution about something. You
Speaker 8: might giggle and chuckle like Amala Harris right now, which
Speaker 8: is terrible when she does that. But why don't we
Speaker 8: all just revolt on not having cable in our house
Speaker 8: and let's make it a national crisis. Let's go back
Speaker 8: to the hillbilly days, watch regular TV. We listened to
Speaker 8: the radio Dann Ray, and we talked to each other
Speaker 8: and played tads in the house and let it go
Speaker 8: on until But the table companies are like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: we lost a billion billions of dollars. We gotta get
Speaker 8: the prices done a great well.
Speaker 1: Well that's it. If everybody keeps writing that check every month,
Speaker 1: why would they want to bring prices down?
Speaker 8: Right now? As far as working and so forth, I
Speaker 8: told you before, I'm single guy at sixty one. I
Speaker 8: lived at somebody's cellar for the last five years. Love it.
Speaker 8: So I don't have any problems. I have a job
Speaker 8: that's that car up blank black. But I do want
Speaker 8: to give people on the tip of advice about getting
Speaker 8: a job. This is what happened to me back when
Speaker 8: I was twenty six sex years old, no, forty years old.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry I called uh. I don't tell you exactly
Speaker 8: the company, but it was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I
Speaker 8: was on the phone for about four hours with forty
Speaker 8: different companies. Say hey, my name is Gary, single guy,
Speaker 8: no kids, no bad habits. Is stat looking for a
Speaker 8: part time job? One point black. I did that Monday,
Speaker 8: Wednesday and Friday. And I was a pest. Pest pest
Speaker 8: that five responses and the last one hired me. And
Speaker 8: and if you keep leaving messages, the people say, man,
Speaker 8: that guy wants a job back.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the point. That's the point. If you if
Speaker 1: you keep pushing, you're going to be okay. And you
Speaker 1: can't get discouraged when three people, three companies say no,
Speaker 1: you got to find a fourth one. I love your enthusiasm, Gary,
Speaker 1: That's what That's what people need to learn from that conversation.
Speaker 8: Also, going to the store, diet coke is my drug
Speaker 8: of choice. I see to lead a bottle of soda.
Speaker 8: I'm I'm a guzzler. I see it at two dollars
Speaker 8: and two dollars and fifty cents. It's enough to drive
Speaker 8: me crazy. It intimidates me where I don't even buy it.
Speaker 8: I go to McDonald's lot there for a dollar forty
Speaker 8: for refills. I sit there and vegetate like an old man,
Speaker 8: have a bunch of drinks and enjoy myself. As far
Speaker 8: as economy wise, how do people go to fast food
Speaker 8: McDonald's in this one and that one? Because I go
Speaker 8: to these places, right, but I don't eat their food
Speaker 8: anymore because it sucksssive. And you know it's so popular,
Speaker 8: as you know, Dan, when you go to McDonald's and
Speaker 8: you see kids paying with a credit card. I never
Speaker 8: paid for a credit card when I was a kid
Speaker 8: to do.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't have credit cards. Do you know what
Speaker 1: a credit card was?
Speaker 8: But that's right.
Speaker 1: That allows a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 1: get into trouble because it's so easy to put it
Speaker 1: on the plastic as opposed to reach it in your
Speaker 1: pocket and pulling out the pictures of dead presidents.
Speaker 8: And I'll leave you with this final thought. Okay, way
Speaker 8: back when when I was ten to twelve years old,
Speaker 8: we had Purity Supreme and Sale in the Hampshire combination
Speaker 8: of the Massachusets.
Speaker 1: Line Purity Supreme. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh, I just thought of something that's very important, and
Speaker 8: I'm going to tell you in a second, and my
Speaker 8: father would say, here, go to the store, go get
Speaker 8: a half gallon of ice cream. And a half gallon
Speaker 8: of ice cream. Then was most popular was called post
Speaker 8: this ice cream.
Speaker 1: Okay, how much?
Speaker 8: Oh it was two dollars gallon? Way back when you
Speaker 8: remember Hostess cupcake?
Speaker 1: No, I do not you a new Hampshire brand. I don't.
Speaker 1: I remember Briars, remember Brigham's Friendlies. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that I'm familiar with. I'm not I'm not bending Jerry's
Speaker 1: very expensive Hagen Das Guy or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you, I very appreciated. Well, hold on, hold,
Speaker 8: I got one more. Nineteen eighty four, the anniversary was
Speaker 8: just celebrated.
Speaker 7: You know what it was, right, nineteen eighty four, eighty four.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Reagan being renominated.
Speaker 8: The Riots of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that's one I don't want to celebrate, I know.
Speaker 8: And do you know why that happened, by the way, too,
Speaker 8: I have no idea. Well, combinations of Spanish and the
Speaker 8: white people were really getting upset with each other because
Speaker 8: they thought the Spanish people were taking a lot of
Speaker 8: factory jobs.
Speaker 1: Because I don't want to, I don't want to open
Speaker 1: up that can worms tonight, particularly in the anniversary Garrea. Okay,
Speaker 1: and wake up in the morning and find out that
Speaker 1: some conversation of my show reignited those riots. I thank you, buddy,
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. That's a great one. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me get one more in before the break. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to Rick Is in Philadelphia. Rick, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 9: Dan?
Speaker 2: How you doing? I want to talk about things the
Speaker 2: economy of ALCO's like for the senior citizen. Now I
Speaker 2: live here in Philadelphia. The city runs the water department
Speaker 2: and the gas gas company.
Speaker 3: It's very high.
Speaker 2: My car payments have gone on not my car face,
Speaker 2: but my car insurance has doubled from six hundred to
Speaker 2: twelve hundred. And it's mandatory here in Pennsylvania that you
Speaker 2: have car insurance. So I think since the pandemic came in,
Speaker 2: as the prices of just deteriorate and gotten higher.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I don't know if there's a relation. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is your first time calling my show. I don't
Speaker 1: remember a Rick from Philadelphia or have you called her?
Speaker 2: No, I've called you several years ago. You know, you
Speaker 2: know I'm good.
Speaker 3: It's starting to starting to get.
Speaker 2: The winter time because it's OBD is coming nice and
Speaker 2: clearer in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: That's a that's honor.
Speaker 2: So the summertime is going to end pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, Rick, and I hope you
Speaker 1: come back more frequently. So, yeah, price is going up.
Speaker 1: We're similar to Pennsylvania. We have mandatory car insurance. I
Speaker 1: think you can buy a bond here in Massachusetts, but
Speaker 1: nobody does that. Car insurance twelve hundred dollars. What type
Speaker 1: of car do you drive?
Speaker 2: Well, I drive an eighteen year old car, twenty five
Speaker 2: hundred accident. It's good, it's over one hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing. I've been drive pretty good. I
Speaker 2: mean it's a foreign car and it was made pretty well.
Speaker 2: But I mean it's just a lot for just the
Speaker 2: basic mandatory. You know, I don't have a I don't
Speaker 2: have the collision insurance where they would pay to fix
Speaker 2: the car. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well if I hit the guess that's probably pretty
Speaker 1: close to what you pay in Massachusetts for the for
Speaker 1: the for the the minimum to put it of the road.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, unfortunately, and another thing in the grocery store, the
Speaker 2: cheapest thing is like a condent. It's ketchem and mustard.
Speaker 3: It really up eye, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, it depends where you go. If you go to
Speaker 1: market basket up here, they have a lot of sales
Speaker 1: on those sorts of items you'll get, you know, not
Speaker 1: a huge size bottle of ketchup, but you can get
Speaker 1: some ketchup at that market basket for a couple of bucks.
Speaker 1: I mean if they market baskets are very interesting. Chain
Speaker 1: up here, I don't know if I don't think you
Speaker 1: would have it down there, but.
Speaker 2: It's a fact we don't have it down here now.
Speaker 1: Family own chain and they it's it's pretty it's pretty
Speaker 1: bare bones, not a lot of fancy stuff. They sell
Speaker 1: just about anything. Uh, but there's a lot of items
Speaker 1: that you can save on.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Well, tan to As long as the government keeps printing
Speaker 2: money like it only continues twenty four hour basis, I mean,
Speaker 2: inflation is going to get worse. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Trump or come out, I don't know if they can
Speaker 2: really do anything about it. It's so it's so out there,
Speaker 2: you know, Well.
Speaker 1: If they don't do something out of it about it,
Speaker 1: eventually all our dollars will will be worthless because that's
Speaker 1: what happens is they'll have to devalue the dollar if
Speaker 1: they can't, if they can't catch up with this federal debt.
Speaker 1: We're thirty five trillion in debt right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I think what's the percentage of the federal budget,
Speaker 1: but it's a significant percentage of the federal budget is
Speaker 1: paying just to cover the interest on our on our
Speaker 1: national debt, which is which is disgraceful in my opinion. Rick,
Speaker 1: great to hear your voice. Come on back more often.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2: I love your showing now that the battle the win
Speaker 2: is going to come in soon is going to be
Speaker 2: nice and clear to hear you on the A I don't.
Speaker 1: Know if you're good on the internet, but you can
Speaker 1: pull down the iHeart app and you can hear us
Speaker 1: any night you on. I have people all over the
Speaker 1: world who listen to us who are not relying on
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Speaker 1: as that. You can just plug in W busy news
Speaker 1: radio or a night's that with Dan Ray and on
Speaker 1: the app you got as clear as a bell. Okay,
Speaker 1: dank you rec appreciate it. Go Philly, take it easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a pretty good baseball team that may be
Speaker 1: the best team in baseball right now.
Speaker 4: I know they lately.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know not every team goes into a
Speaker 1: little bit of a little bit of a slump. But
Speaker 1: they got some really good players down there. Uh. You
Speaker 1: got a couple of left handed have hitters, including Harper,
Speaker 1: who anybody would like.
Speaker 2: Well, they're very demanding. They keep selling out down there,
Speaker 2: so the people are demanding. Did they go to the
Speaker 2: World Series. I don't know if they'll do that, but
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, Rick, talk to you soon. I've been
Speaker 1: in that ballpark, Citizens Bank Ballpark, six one seven. Well, no,
Speaker 1: now that line's full, so the only lines that are
Speaker 1: open are six one seven, nine thirty. My question is
Speaker 1: real simple. How is your economy? How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Is one way to look at it. Give us a
Speaker 1: call back on nights Side. After this.
Speaker 2: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: All right, a couple of callers dropped off. A couple
Speaker 1: of callers jumped on. That's fine, they weren't Paci. Let's
Speaker 1: go Tim in Boston. Tim next on Nightside, Thanks for
Speaker 1: checking in.
Speaker 5: Tim, Hey, Dan, I'm going to give you two things.
Speaker 5: What do you want my vacation plans? First of my economy,
Speaker 5: I'd like to know how's your economy? Terrible?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 5: First of all, the price of my house insurance doubled.
Speaker 5: Second of all, the groceries have almost doubled, and the
Speaker 5: heat and oil has doubled two and a half times,
Speaker 5: like I called before, And I just can't understand these people.
Speaker 5: That one's complaining about the grocery store. Then I heard
Speaker 5: this nutcase on another radio station call up. It was
Speaker 5: a Democrat, a big Harris person, and the gentleman asked him,
Speaker 5: how's your economy? And he goes, what do you think
Speaker 5: of grocery store? He goes, My wife and I went
Speaker 5: in the store, well back to the pocket lot, and
Speaker 5: we were crying that we didn't pay our fair share.
Speaker 5: We both got like ninety bucks out ran into the
Speaker 5: store and gave it to the manager and we felt better.
Speaker 5: And the guy called him on the other talk mask.
Speaker 5: I said, you're an idiot, goodbye.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, well that's great. That was a moment in radio.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed that. By the way, oil prices
Speaker 1: right now are kind of hanging around eighty dollars a barrel.
Speaker 1: There's no reason that your oil price is your home heating.
Speaker 1: It should be two and a half times a Well,
Speaker 1: you know it's going to go up a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't go up that much. I would be
Speaker 1: looking for a different oil dealer if I were you,
Speaker 1: I would bet you do you do? What have you
Speaker 1: done any comparative price shopping?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, they're all the same around it. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're holding they know what's going to happen. But the
Speaker 5: grocery prices that really nailed me. But I get around
Speaker 5: it by I have a lot of pasta hit lots
Speaker 5: of it, and I buy the you know the sauce
Speaker 5: the rag well, I don't want to give a name,
Speaker 5: but you know the the sauce that's good. Every night,
Speaker 5: every other night, I cook up enough for two days
Speaker 5: and I put it in a refrigerator. It's free practically,
Speaker 5: it's already been there for a long time, and then
Speaker 5: I heat it up the next night. I get a big, nice,
Speaker 5: good meal out of it.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's good, that's good thinking. That's taking ahead.
Speaker 1: That's you's opposed to running out and and ordering takeout. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm taking my vacation. I've been saving up, you know,
Speaker 5: I go all over the place. I've been in Arizona,
Speaker 5: La San Diego every year. But I've been getting these
Speaker 5: called blond Boy points from Marriott. You've heard of those, right.
Speaker 1: Not really, but that's okay. I get the idea.
Speaker 5: It's like Ali Miles, Yeah, okay, I have a hotel.
Speaker 5: I'm going to San Antonio for five nights, and I'm
Speaker 5: just asking you real quick. I'm not going to take
Speaker 5: a long time. What do you think the price I
Speaker 5: paid altogether for five nights in the hotel in San
Speaker 5: Antonio would be.
Speaker 1: With or without points? With the points, well, I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know how valuable the points are. I would
Speaker 1: assume that in a decent hotel in San Antonio and Texas,
Speaker 1: you're probably paying one sixty.
Speaker 5: One okay with the point Okay, Okay, that's the regular price.
Speaker 5: You're right now, I'm saying with the blond Boy points,
Speaker 5: I have the it's five hundred dollars for five nights,
Speaker 5: five thirteen.
Speaker 1: In fact, ok there's one hundred dollars a night.
Speaker 5: Yep, right, And but but they give you a vouchers.
Speaker 5: I have eight vouchers they're going to give me. It's
Speaker 5: two meals a day. So there's a Denny's. They're pretty
Speaker 5: good places, not bad, but they're right across the street
Speaker 5: and San Antonio. So I get two meals guaranteed right
Speaker 5: there for the whole time.
Speaker 1: That's gay. It sounds like a great trip. Let us
Speaker 1: know what. How you do you on that trip? Okay?
Speaker 5: The Alamo and I'm going to the Riverwalker?
Speaker 1: Sounds good, sounds good. Well, the river Walk should be free,
Speaker 1: but the Alamo is gonna cost you.
Speaker 5: Not too much.
Speaker 1: Good, it's not expensive there, okay, right, have a great
Speaker 1: trip when we when we be away.
Speaker 5: I'm going Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. It's cheap
Speaker 5: and fly that way good, and I'm coming back next
Speaker 5: Friday night.
Speaker 1: Let us know how the trip is. I've never been
Speaker 1: to the Alamo, never scene until.
Speaker 5: Is there too? The world's fear they had there. It's
Speaker 5: still attack good. There's a lot to see that all right, all.
Speaker 1: Right, thanks Tim, talk soon, have a great night. Let
Speaker 1: me go next to the diaper Lady Donna in Deerfield. Donna,
Speaker 1: how are we doing out there tonight?
Speaker 9: Oh Dan, I'm a new in at Wegmans right now,
Speaker 9: hang out, Wayne, when to move on, But I'm waiting
Speaker 9: to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Are you actually in a Wegman's
Speaker 1: parking lot?
Speaker 9: Yes? And hill?
Speaker 1: Oh I know. Oh yeah, that's a tough parking lot,
Speaker 1: by the way, I mean it's during the daytime. It's
Speaker 1: it's a tough parking lot.
Speaker 9: No, you have to do the evening. That's my My
Speaker 9: prime time is now.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, now where are you? I know that
Speaker 1: parking lot? What do you parked in front of you?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: I'm just by the parking garage, like right, like if
Speaker 9: I get out, I walk right into the store.
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha. Okay, so you're in the garage. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, no, But like the economy, when you talk
Speaker 9: about the economy, I'm I'm coming like all this stuff,
Speaker 9: like like the I'm seeing my customer slack off. I
Speaker 9: never lived through inflation, so I didn't increase my prices
Speaker 9: when I should have, you know, and and and then
Speaker 9: it's just like I'm a landlord, so that's not like evil,
Speaker 9: but they don't want you to raise the rents, but
Speaker 9: the cost of maintaining and like people saying about their
Speaker 9: insurances and stuff. I mean, everything costs more to maintain
Speaker 9: into and to have this stuff. It's like to sell
Speaker 9: it and cut your losses and take the profits and
Speaker 9: run and let someone else charge increases in rent to
Speaker 9: my poor little tenants. Or do I suck it up
Speaker 9: and be the humanitarian?
Speaker 8: And I am no.
Speaker 1: I think you got to be true to yourself and
Speaker 1: you got to look at say what what is my investment?
Speaker 1: What should my return on investment be? What my ro
Speaker 1: o iv You can't you can't, you know, break even?
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta make you gotta make a little prod.
Speaker 9: Dad gave me the house, but don't look at poor family,
Speaker 9: my apartment of the house, my landlord house. My dad
Speaker 9: gave me and he gave it to me as my retirement.
Speaker 1: Don't know when I get that both station. No, but
Speaker 1: don't look at it like that and look at it
Speaker 1: at the point of view. How many how many tenants
Speaker 1: do you have?
Speaker 9: Four four fo.
Speaker 1: You've had had inflation for the last year of four percent.
Speaker 1: You know, I think you gotta Unfortunately, I think you
Speaker 1: get to raise the prices because if if you've got
Speaker 1: a problem in one of those units, and you got
Speaker 1: to hire a plumber.
Speaker 9: Oh oh, we already had a toilet backed up, and
Speaker 9: the people were the newer they're idiots, and then they
Speaker 9: it wasn't it was paper or something. And then she
Speaker 9: snapping at me, and I'm like, and I need to
Speaker 9: go and start a new customer out here. And she
Speaker 9: ruined my night that night with no with the stupidity
Speaker 9: shy so but it's okay, I'm seasoned professional.
Speaker 1: So your diaper business is you basically uh use reusable
Speaker 1: you know, you basically launder reusable diapers. I get that, Yes,
Speaker 1: but your business is hurting now. People are well.
Speaker 9: It's not I would say the pandemic concept. You know
Speaker 9: that when that happened, the replacements like you need to
Speaker 9: start so many customers per month to maintain a base
Speaker 9: that might make you more profit margins.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, obviously your base changes because every you know,
Speaker 1: two or three years, when some some single, when some
Speaker 1: family has one child, you lose them to live another child.
Speaker 1: I get that, you know.
Speaker 9: No, we were talking like just in the past few
Speaker 9: months and then well then we'll we'll get them back.
Speaker 9: But I've already lost twenty percent of my customers since
Speaker 9: the beginning of this year.
Speaker 1: That's a big hit. That's a big hit. You got
Speaker 1: to raise those red prices for your tenants.
Speaker 9: No, I'm counting the days. I'm sixty four and a half, Dan,
Speaker 9: I'm counting. I'm trying to figure out where to land
Speaker 9: in terms of retirement.
Speaker 1: You've got to go to a financial planner, find out
Speaker 1: how much cash and how much money you have in
Speaker 1: the bank, and they then can say to you, Okay,
Speaker 1: you should, you should have this in order to live.
Speaker 1: But maybe you have enough now, maybe you don't. You
Speaker 1: got to go to a financial planner and figure that out.
Speaker 9: I'm okay with like the other guy. Not that I
Speaker 9: want to live in my car, but I with all
Speaker 9: the time I ride around and I see the home
Speaker 9: the working homeless living in their cars in the Lexington
Speaker 9: Rest area is unbelievable to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can't of imagine what.
Speaker 8: That, but it's real.
Speaker 7: It's so real.
Speaker 9: And I'm a landlord. But I know that I am
Speaker 9: a reasonable landlord. And my nephew told me the other
Speaker 9: day to sell my house because I'll get seven hundred
Speaker 9: and fifty thousand dollars for it. I said, yes, I
Speaker 9: sell my house for seven hundred and fifty. I know
Speaker 9: exactly who in our town will come and buy it.
Speaker 9: I only charged no more than eleven hundred dollars for
Speaker 9: nine hundred square feet per month with he included. And
Speaker 9: then someone else is going to come in and charge
Speaker 9: two thousand dollars a month for the same apartment, and
Speaker 9: that puts a lot of people out of having an apartment.
Speaker 1: No, I hear you in that. I hear you in that.
Speaker 1: Don a great to hear your voice. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: in a while. Keep in touch, please, okay, I want to.
Speaker 9: I'm in your time frame. I look for you all
Speaker 9: the time. Okay, eight to midnight, eight to midnight.
Speaker 10: I know what I know.
Speaker 9: It all just depends on my time frame.
Speaker 1: Time frames match. It's a beautiful thing. Thanks to har
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 9: That's what cosmic energy is all about.
Speaker 1: You got it? Be good? Be good? Okay, thanks touch
Speaker 1: you soon have a quick break. We're going to finish
Speaker 1: up with Matt cg and Gambridge and Steven new Hampshire
Speaker 1: coming back after this. Now back to Dan Ray live
Speaker 1: from the Window World night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's try to get everybody in real quickly gonna go
Speaker 1: to Matt and Florida. Matt, how is your economy doing
Speaker 1: down there for you?
Speaker 10: Oh, it's fantastic and I got a great life. I
Speaker 10: want to give all the advice that I was given
Speaker 10: ten years ago by all the boomer audience. How about
Speaker 10: all of you just work a little harder. Why don't
Speaker 10: you get a second job, Why don't you go uber?
Speaker 10: Why don't you sell you one of.
Speaker 6: Your two houses?
Speaker 10: Oh, I'm dead serious. It's unbelievable. So my generation is
Speaker 10: lazy because we can't afford million dollar houses, but you
Speaker 10: guys can't afford pickles or a soda, and now the
Speaker 10: world's ending. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Dan, you know I love you.
Speaker 10: I had to get it in though, because it's ironic.
Speaker 10: It's just hilarious. Maybe now, maybe now every all of
Speaker 10: us can come together and realize these politicians are scamming
Speaker 10: all of us. Instead of us fighting against each other,
Speaker 10: we need to come together and fix the country.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dan, Thanks, Thanks Matt.
Speaker 1: You get it all in and less than a minute.
Speaker 1: CG and Cambridge, CG. I haven't heard from you in
Speaker 1: a while. Where have you been.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've been busy and right now I have a
Speaker 4: bad cold, but I hope you can hear me clearly.
Speaker 1: And here you find you sound great. You got a
Speaker 1: great radio voice, right now, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I worked until I was seventy three, and that's the
Speaker 4: way I was able to hedge my bed on all
Speaker 4: this inflation and so on. But I worked two jobs
Speaker 4: for thirty four years, and my wife worked part time.
Speaker 4: Both kids went to college. We picked up the tab
Speaker 4: on everything. And on top of that, they were smart
Speaker 4: enough to continue their education. They got their master's degree.
Speaker 4: So they're finding good. We don't have to help them
Speaker 4: with anything. We might need some help from them in
Speaker 4: the future. But just the electric bills shocked me this month.
Speaker 4: In the last two years, it's doubled. My electric bills
Speaker 4: has doubled. And I've even had companies come in and
Speaker 4: look at the house and they said, geez, youre doing
Speaker 4: about everything you have to do. You might need some
Speaker 4: more insulation, more insulation. Well, okay, but putting in more insulation,
Speaker 4: I think the cost was something like thirty five hundred.
Speaker 4: They said, i'mbout need to do that right yet. But
Speaker 4: I think in most cases, I'm now eighty and I
Speaker 4: don't work anymore. I am now fully retired, and I
Speaker 4: just do all my own maintenance work as much maintenance
Speaker 4: work that I can do.
Speaker 7: A guy named the.
Speaker 4: Lawn everything and couldn't live in Cambridge anymore. I am
Speaker 4: out of out of Cambridge, but I still say I'm
Speaker 4: from Cambridge when I call you a show. But I'm
Speaker 4: out of Cambridge. And some of the things that have
Speaker 4: happened in the time i'm in now are worse than Cambridge.
Speaker 4: Super liberals in the town i'm in, I mean super liberals.
Speaker 4: When they vote to spend money, they all get up
Speaker 4: and chair.
Speaker 3: We got it, we got it. We're gonna spend more
Speaker 3: money on this and that and everything.
Speaker 4: Else, which means my taxes have gone up oh oh,
Speaker 4: probably not as much as double, but close to double
Speaker 4: in all these years. I'm saying, when are they going
Speaker 4: to stop? And I think the last guy had the
Speaker 4: right point. We have to get together and stop the
Speaker 4: argument aments ourselves and force the politicians to do the
Speaker 4: right thing. We have to vote them out if they're
Speaker 4: not doing the right thing. And you can't just go Democrat,
Speaker 4: Republican or independence. It's got to be the person, the individual,
Speaker 4: absolutely in that office.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, no question, no question.
Speaker 4: This crasher on the hospitals. I think there should be
Speaker 4: a few people in jail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. So.
Speaker 4: I'm retired, but I still do all my own maintenance work.
Speaker 4: I clean the house outside. Everything is outside. My wife
Speaker 4: takes care of everything inside. I mowed the lawn and
Speaker 4: I cut the hedges. I wash the house. I have
Speaker 4: a power washer.
Speaker 1: Keep exercising, that's good.
Speaker 4: And I have two lawnmowers. Want to do all around
Speaker 4: the edge of the property because it's a little kurvy
Speaker 4: and bumpy, and I sit down right on one more
Speaker 4: to do the rest of the place. So that I've
Speaker 4: got a patent going so that I can do so
Speaker 4: much work each week, and my workday probably two or
Speaker 4: three days a week, I do four. I was working
Speaker 4: around the outside of the house and that keeps my
Speaker 4: legs moving, and that keeps me moving. But lots of
Speaker 4: my relatives have moved to Florida and they're extremely happy
Speaker 4: down there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Matt's pretty happy in Florida too. CG. I
Speaker 1: got to get one more in. Come on back more often,
Speaker 1: will you. I love your call.
Speaker 3: Thank you for talking.
Speaker 1: Have a great night. Steve in New Hampshire, Steve we
Speaker 1: got less than a minutefore you go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Hey Dan, Hey Steve.
Speaker 11: Glad to see you back from Italy. I'm glad you
Speaker 11: had a good trip we did.
Speaker 1: It was hot, it was hot, but it was fun.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 11: I know, and there's a lot of history there. I'm
Speaker 11: very well aware of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I just want to say, you know, I am sixty nine.
Speaker 11: I turned sixty nine to live twenty seconds after your birthday.
Speaker 11: I am homeless. I'm sleeping in my Toyota Corolla. I'm
Speaker 11: not going to stay where, but it's near a health club.
Speaker 11: And I had to sell my house because I broke
Speaker 11: my hip two years ago and I walked around for
Speaker 11: a whole year on a broken hip, bone against bone,
Speaker 11: you could hear it. Finally got the operation done last year,
Speaker 11: and then this year, far more serious. I stepped on
Speaker 11: a nail and I got a blood infection. MRSA and
Speaker 11: I was at Hotelier in Burlington, the Lakey Clinic down there,
Speaker 11: great great people. They gave me three days to live
Speaker 11: in April. They said, if you don't get this taken
Speaker 11: care of right now, you're going to be dead on Friday.
Speaker 11: And that was a Tuesday afternoon. So they got rid
Speaker 11: of the blood infection. Then I had to go through,
Speaker 11: you know, additional infusions to get rid of the infect.
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