WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:01.199 It's a nice size. 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.839 I'm doing a Boston's news radio. 3 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:10.800 All right. We are asking a very simple question, how 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:16.239 is your economy means? How is your lifestyle impacted by 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:20.519 all of this politics? Doesn't necessarily have to tell me 6 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:22.679 who you're gonna vote for. I'm not looking for that information. 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.000 I'm just looking at you better off now than you 8 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:29.760 were at whatever reference point you want to make, whether 9 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.079 it was ten years ago. You We've heard pretty much 10 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:37.439 people saying that things are not good. I'd love to 11 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.560 hear from you. And we're just gonna keep rolling. You're 12 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.719 going to go next to Warren and fall river. Warren, 13 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.399 you were next to a nightstand. How's your economy doing, Warren? 14 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.880 Hey, Dan, Yeah, my economy is not good. I mean, 15 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.640 I'm coming home from work right now, and it's just 16 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:02.079 it just amazes me how the you know, inflation has 17 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:07.120 eaten up you know, anything that I can save and 18 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.879 I mean to try to get ahead nearly impossible. You know, 19 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.000 I haven't. I haven't gone on vacation in five years. 20 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:21.480 Yeah, So so the last vacation was before COVID obviously. 21 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:22.680 Oh yeah, it was before COVID. 22 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:23.719 It was there was a. 23 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.319 Trip up, there was a weekend up in New Hampshire. 24 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.120 Yeah, I mean I think that I think COVID has 25 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.280 had a tremendous impact, no doubt. 26 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.680 Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. But it's just the fact that 27 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:42.480 I think, you know, with government, I think we have 28 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.519 to simplify. I think we have to go with a 29 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:50.840 new approach and just we have to simplify and reduce 30 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.599 down what federal government you know, should take care of, 31 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.680 you know, defense of the country, you know, the then states, 32 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.879 you know, and just and you know, in other things 33 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.640 in the economy, it should it should be pretty basic 34 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:11.759 and leave everything else to the stakes, you know, and 35 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:17.240 and trying to simplify what they do too, because we 36 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.520 pay for a lot of unnecessary stuff, and you know, 37 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:28.960 like every every household has a budget and money. We 38 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.599 have so much money coming in. We have so much 39 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:35.240 money coming in and and and what what do households do. 40 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.039 They have to decide, you know, what what gets paid, 41 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.000 what what doesn't you know, you know, what what they 42 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.479 can do with the money. You know, Oh, we have 43 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.000 to set a steak, We're gonna have to have hot 44 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:51.120 dogs for two weeks, you know, type of type type 45 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.400 of things. And government should learn from that and It's 46 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:59.479 just something. I mean, it drives me crazy that, you know, 47 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.639 like all these you know, these people blame corporations this 48 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.560 and that, they don't understand business. They don't understand business 49 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:15.159 because the corporations are getting slammed by the you know, 50 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.919 the black you know, the the you know, the supply 51 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.319 line issues and all stuff like that, and the cost 52 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.960 of everything being wick and high too. I mean, like 53 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.479 I worked for CBS Health and in the print department, 54 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.360 and a skin of paper, you know, a pallet of 55 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:43.199 paper might cost twenty five thousand dollars. A palette of paper, 56 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.680 a palette of paper, which is you know, it could 57 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.120 be it could be it could be twenty thousand sheets 58 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:56.000 of paper. And it's that it all depends, it all 59 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:57.680 depends on the gloss level. 60 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.919 And yeah, you know what do you think whatever a 61 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.240 corporation pays for something, they're going to try to make. 62 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.759 A profit on it, exactly. And they don't understand that 63 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.879 you have overhead, you have the cost of the machines, 64 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.840 you have maintenance, you have you know, you have the 65 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.759 you know, the paying of payroll, you have all this 66 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:22.800 stuff and they're getting squeezed just like us. Yeah, you've 67 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.920 got You've got a couple that are greedy that, you know, 68 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.560 give corporations a bad name. But for the most part, 69 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:34.560 corporations are just like everyone in everyone's household. They're trying 70 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.759 to do, you know, do do the best of the 71 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.959 with their budget as they can. And I think we 72 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.600 just we need to simplify. I think we have to 73 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.920 take a hard book at government what gets spent, and 74 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.720 we have to cut out a lot of the lot 75 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.720 of the nonsense stuff. And that's the only way, that's 76 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.279 the only way that we do that the you know, 77 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:58.160 money can get back. 78 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:58.560 To the people. 79 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.319 That might be a formula physics. That's one good, good call. 80 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:03.600 Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay, thank you, Dan, 81 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.279 a good one. Only lines open right now. Six one. 82 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:09.879 It's a simple question. And I want to hear from 83 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.480 as many women as possible on this as well, because 84 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:19.480 I think they probably are many times better accountants in 85 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.920 terms of their money than men. But I want to 86 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.279 hear from both. Six one, seven, nine, three. Real simple question. 87 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.279 How is your economy? Take the comments that jer Own 88 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.480 Powell makes, the President makes the economist on TV. Makes 89 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.240 you know your economy better than everyone anyone else? Is 90 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.120 it good, batter, indifferent or better yet? It is it good, 91 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.560 bad or ugly? Simple as that. How's your economy? Back 92 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:46.800 on night Side right after this. 93 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.279 Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World. 94 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.240 Night Side Studios on WBZ the news Radio. 95 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.480 Let's go to Bill and danvers. Bill, I'll be interested 96 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.399 in how you your economy is. I know a little 97 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:02.199 bit about what you do. 98 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:04.839 Go ahead, Yeah, well, I mean, am I better off 99 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:05.959 than I was four years ago? 100 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:06.439 Now? 101 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.439 The only thing that has helped me is, of course 102 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.600 I pay attention. And I was well aware of the 103 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.279 policies from day one from me and I knew it 104 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.519 was going to end well when he signed the secut 105 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.879 award is and going after a lot of the drilling 106 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.800 and our energy, and we're going to rely on other people. 107 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.639 And that hasn't worked out so well. So that also 108 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.360 aided with the inflation. And I got to tell you 109 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:34.680 the afternoon business is well. Customer accounts a down. Customer 110 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.839 account's been down over sixteen months. But the big thing 111 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:41.399 I think in the afternoon, I don't know if you 112 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.720 saw a survey was briefly out maybe a week or 113 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.240 so ago. I know you're away, but I think they 114 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.600 said almost forty percent of people in New England had 115 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.560 a side gig. So I think if you get out 116 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:55.519 of your regular jobs, say at the nine to five, 117 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.639 and in the old days you had to pick up 118 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.439 some of the mall or it was an anniversary something 119 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:02.720 with the wife where you were going to go and 120 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.199 get your watch fixed, okay and do something, you don't 121 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.399 get that business now because people are going to go 122 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:12.399 and do door dash okay, they're doing Uber okay, and 123 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.560 they're doing a side gig. So that affects that business. 124 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.439 So the weekend, which was sixty percent of your business, 125 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.439 there's now seventy percent. So everything is condensed. 126 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.800 That's an interesting way to look at it. 127 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.240 Yeah. Yeah, I find that and I talk to my 128 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:30.720 customers and now I am doing this. 129 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:31.600 Now I'm doing. 130 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.600 That people, and I don't seem like I used to. 131 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:35.920 And a guy come over to be with the family. 132 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:38.120 He goes, listen, we're down the market basket and fuel 133 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:40.639 and I hear that from a lot of people. 134 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:42.399 Did I go to market basket? 135 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:43.639 Yeah? 136 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.480 But my way to go to market basket? Yeah. 137 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.600 So they basically there's the family. And I was in 138 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:51.720 a few weeks ago and there was a woman's here 139 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.959 three nice looking young girls, the family, and it was 140 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.759 six hundred and seven dollars at the register. 141 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.000 Yeah, for the family. 142 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.839 Okay, Yeah, So I mean, and I think if you 143 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.519 added up from from January twenty four or when it 144 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.439 when he cuts one in, when it was about what 145 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:14.920 one point nine percent inflation one point set whatever the 146 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:15.439 number one? 147 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:19.160 Yeah, when it when he was one, When when it 148 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:22.800 was inflation when Joe Biden became president was one point 149 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:23.439 four percent? 150 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.920 Yeah, wy, one point four. So and if you added 151 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.480 up when it was you've even take the government numbers, 152 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:33.120 you're probably lost because every year now they claiming victory 153 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.799 because it's two point nine, but they take out the 154 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:39.440 food and energy, which is the big story. So if 155 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.679 you added up, I mean basically you've lost thirty percent 156 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.039 of your money. So in the last three and a 157 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.320 half years, if you're not making thirty cents more on 158 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.000 the dollar, you're behind. And that best maybe people get 159 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.120 four percent a year maybe. 160 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.320 Yeah, yeah, well if that if that, yeah, you know, 161 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:59.759 wages have have really slowed down obviously. 162 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:00.559 Yeah. 163 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.559 So I mean I've mitigated things. I just did a 164 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.720 three year extension on the lease. I almost didn't do it. 165 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.600 I didn't do five. I did three. There's some big 166 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.559 projects underway. They're going to be opening in the next 167 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.919 sixty seventy days. I'm sure that'll help. But if we 168 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:18.440 had a growing, more healthy economy, it would really help. 169 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.799 So we'll see what happens. You know, I've been opened 170 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.240 sixteen years. You know, I wanted to make at least 171 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.159 twenty a little over that. You know, I'm kind of 172 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:28.440 in the middle of the road, Dan, you know what 173 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:28.799 I mean. 174 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:34.440 Yeah, yeah, you let one foot in, one foot out, 175 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:36.679 and you kind of afford to take both set out. 176 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:40.320 Yeah yeah, and then with the car and you know 177 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.240 when and early on we had a big boost because 178 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.240 Massachusetts they love the shutdown, so everyone went over the 179 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.320 border and they had all the extra money so when 180 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.279 they printed the money, which I also helped drive up 181 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.279 this inflation. Okay, I didn't have any help, so I mean, 182 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.679 I worked like a wild man. And why it was good. 183 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.720 I overpaid a lot of stuff and I was closer 184 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.960 than the mortgage, so I paid it off. So at 185 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.519 least I don't have a mortgage. I don't have a 186 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.919 cop payment, so you know, I and. 187 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:11.159 I I'm married. 188 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.440 Yep, too big, but I don't have child support. So 189 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:17.639 but I mean people that do you know, they're getting 190 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:19.759 in their mid fifties and they have all the friends 191 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.600 of mine. I'll tell you, man, it's uh, you know. 192 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:24.879 And listening to the calls tonight, I don't have too 193 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.279 many people really thrilled and happy about this. And some 194 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.000 of the calls to hot break and there. I got 195 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:31.840 to tell you listening to that guy in the cop 196 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.440 yeah you know so I've. 197 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.399 Talked with him before and it's tough. It's absolutely tough. Yeah, Bill, 198 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.600 I appreciate it. I thank you. Good. Good perspective as 199 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:43.759 from a small business from a guy who's a small 200 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.000 business guy. Thanks Bill. 201 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:46.320 Thanks then, hen good. 202 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.519 To bet you good night. Six one, six one seven 203 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.200 nine thirty. Simple question, how's your economy? Michael and Antilborough. Michael, 204 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.039 how's your economy going doing right now? 205 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.279 My economy, I'm not bad. 206 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.960 I'm a little more cautious. I wanted to echo exactly 207 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.240 what Bill said, and I'm going to go back to 208 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.200 Glenn also. But I think what's happened is the thing 209 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.840 about no one wants to work. It's the side gigs. 210 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:17.080 It's like it's your own company, Uber Door Gas, the 211 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:22.799 restaurant's likely doing incredible because of those I think, because 212 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:27.279 that was all added stuff that they didn't have before. However, 213 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.840 I think it's twenty percent. You got to get the 214 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:35.799 door gass or something like that. But there's a dooming glow. 215 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.080 Not me. I'm not a doom and gloom guy. There's 216 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.720 this thing that's still hanging, a black cloud. I think 217 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:47.120 that's still hanging because of COVID. My buddy and I. 218 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:48.200 Used to go movies. 219 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.720 I mean, I couldn't stand that it was only stupid 220 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:55.759 Wonder Woman, all that stupid stuff. But we went, you know, 221 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:57.960 to have a good time. And you know, we've been 222 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.320 friends for life. And he's actually sick. He's going to 223 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.759 be going in for an operation. But I asked him, 224 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.559 if you want to go. 225 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:06.919 We're not doing that anymore. 226 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:08.440 We're just not doing it. 227 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.320 There's no there's no I'm not even driving around with 228 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:13.360 the coffee. 229 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:15.200 Can right. 230 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.639 Actually I am, but sometimes I'm packing in the pocket. 231 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.679 A lot of them scared I'm gonna get a hijacked, 232 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:24.039 you know. 233 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:25.840 But anyway, keep. 234 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:27.919 The doors locked, Keep the doors locked. That's all you 235 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:28.360 gotta do. 236 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:32.000 The cop pulled up for me. The police officer when 237 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.240 I was on the phone with you, and uh yeah, 238 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.399 but anyway, he probably knew you anyway, But I wanted 239 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:43.000 to echo something that Glenn said. The woman who calls 240 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.039 at the top of the hour, I gotta tell you, 241 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.639 she has got to get a job. Somebody must have 242 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.600 not I mean, got to get a job like that, 243 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.600 some executive or somebody doesn't even must have heard her speaking. 244 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.759 I will guarantee you they're gonna try and find her 245 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.360 to calling you. She was incredible. 246 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.240 Well that's great. I mean, if any potential employers are 247 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.600 out there and they want to give us a call, 248 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.600 we can always then put out a call back to 249 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:15.360 the listeners and say, hey, if you want to talk 250 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.399 to this company whatever. I love to put people good 251 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:21.399 people together. Couldn't agree with you more. Michael, Thank you much. 252 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.320 Talk to you about that great night. Let's go next again. 253 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.759 We're moving a little bit quick more quickly here Gary's 254 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.799 and Moiburg Gary next on Nightside Good Things. 255 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.399 I want to throw Jeff robin Zala every time he's 256 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.720 on it is awesome. I don't agree with him being 257 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.159 a Democrat and so forth. But we're here to talk 258 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.039 about the economy, which is my favorite subject matter. I 259 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.799 think we should have a national revolution about something. You 260 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.200 might giggle and chuckle like Amala Harris right now, which 261 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:49.519 is terrible when she does that. But why don't we 262 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:54.279 all just revolt on not having cable in our house 263 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.200 and let's make it a national crisis. Let's go back 264 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:01.360 to the hillbilly days, watch regular TV. We listened to 265 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.200 the radio Dann Ray, and we talked to each other 266 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.159 and played tads in the house and let it go 267 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.679 on until But the table companies are like, oh my god, 268 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.240 we lost a billion billions of dollars. We gotta get 269 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.679 the prices done a great well. 270 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.440 Well that's it. If everybody keeps writing that check every month, 271 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.039 why would they want to bring prices down? 272 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.919 Right now? As far as working and so forth, I 273 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.519 told you before, I'm single guy at sixty one. I 274 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.000 lived at somebody's cellar for the last five years. Love it. 275 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:29.919 So I don't have any problems. I have a job 276 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.600 that's that car up blank black. But I do want 277 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.840 to give people on the tip of advice about getting 278 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.120 a job. This is what happened to me back when 279 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:40.440 I was twenty six sex years old, no, forty years old. 280 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:45.159 I'm sorry I called uh. I don't tell you exactly 281 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.720 the company, but it was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I 282 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:50.519 was on the phone for about four hours with forty 283 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.440 different companies. Say hey, my name is Gary, single guy, 284 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.279 no kids, no bad habits. Is stat looking for a 285 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.679 part time job? One point black. I did that Monday, 286 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.200 Wednesday and Friday. And I was a pest. Pest pest 287 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:07.120 that five responses and the last one hired me. And 288 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.039 and if you keep leaving messages, the people say, man, 289 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:11.360 that guy wants a job back. 290 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.360 Well, that's the point. That's the point. If you if 291 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.039 you keep pushing, you're going to be okay. And you 292 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.600 can't get discouraged when three people, three companies say no, 293 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.279 you got to find a fourth one. I love your enthusiasm, Gary, 294 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.799 That's what That's what people need to learn from that conversation. 295 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.000 Also, going to the store, diet coke is my drug 296 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.320 of choice. I see to lead a bottle of soda. 297 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.480 I'm I'm a guzzler. I see it at two dollars 298 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:40.720 and two dollars and fifty cents. It's enough to drive 299 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.759 me crazy. It intimidates me where I don't even buy it. 300 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.279 I go to McDonald's lot there for a dollar forty 301 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.919 for refills. I sit there and vegetate like an old man, 302 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.559 have a bunch of drinks and enjoy myself. As far 303 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.639 as economy wise, how do people go to fast food 304 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.840 McDonald's in this one and that one? Because I go 305 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.159 to these places, right, but I don't eat their food 306 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.080 anymore because it sucksssive. And you know it's so popular, 307 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.519 as you know, Dan, when you go to McDonald's and 308 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.440 you see kids paying with a credit card. I never 309 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.720 paid for a credit card when I was a kid 310 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:11.960 to do. 311 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:16.279 No, I didn't have credit cards. Do you know what 312 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:17.279 a credit card was? 313 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:19.600 But that's right. 314 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.120 That allows a lot of people, a lot of people 315 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.279 get into trouble because it's so easy to put it 316 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.279 on the plastic as opposed to reach it in your 317 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.840 pocket and pulling out the pictures of dead presidents. 318 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.320 And I'll leave you with this final thought. Okay, way 319 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:36.559 back when when I was ten to twelve years old, 320 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:40.519 we had Purity Supreme and Sale in the Hampshire combination 321 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.039 of the Massachusets. 322 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.440 Line Purity Supreme. Yeah. 323 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.840 Oh, I just thought of something that's very important, and 324 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:47.440 I'm going to tell you in a second, and my 325 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.559 father would say, here, go to the store, go get 326 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.559 a half gallon of ice cream. And a half gallon 327 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.399 of ice cream. Then was most popular was called post 328 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.440 this ice cream. 329 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:57.840 Okay, how much? 330 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.919 Oh it was two dollars gallon? Way back when you 331 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:04.440 remember Hostess cupcake? 332 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:09.039 No, I do not you a new Hampshire brand. I don't. 333 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:14.200 I remember Briars, remember Brigham's Friendlies. Those are the ones 334 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:17.599 that I'm familiar with. I'm not I'm not bending Jerry's 335 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.799 very expensive Hagen Das Guy or anything like that. 336 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.480 Okay, all right, thank you, I very appreciated. Well, hold on, hold, 337 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.960 I got one more. Nineteen eighty four, the anniversary was 338 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:28.720 just celebrated. 339 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:36.079 You know what it was, right, nineteen eighty four, eighty four. 340 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.759 I don't know. Reagan being renominated. 341 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.400 The Riots of Lawrence, Massachusetts. 342 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:47.240 Oh, okay, that's one I don't want to celebrate, I know. 343 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.160 And do you know why that happened, by the way, too, 344 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:53.200 I have no idea. Well, combinations of Spanish and the 345 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.240 white people were really getting upset with each other because 346 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:57.039 they thought the Spanish people were taking a lot of 347 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:57.759 factory jobs. 348 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:59.440 Because I don't want to, I don't want to open 349 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.519 up that can worms tonight, particularly in the anniversary Garrea. Okay, 350 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.039 and wake up in the morning and find out that 351 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.279 some conversation of my show reignited those riots. I thank you, buddy, 352 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.960 talk to you soon. That's a great one. Okay, let 353 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.920 me get one more in before the break. I'm going 354 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:18.200 to go to Rick Is in Philadelphia. Rick, Welcome to Nightside. 355 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:18.680 How are you? 356 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:19.400 Hello? 357 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:19.720 Dan? 358 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:21.960 How you doing? I want to talk about things the 359 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.079 economy of ALCO's like for the senior citizen. Now I 360 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:30.640 live here in Philadelphia. The city runs the water department 361 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:32.880 and the gas gas company. 362 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:34.079 It's very high. 363 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.279 My car payments have gone on not my car face, 364 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.599 but my car insurance has doubled from six hundred to 365 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:42.680 twelve hundred. And it's mandatory here in Pennsylvania that you 366 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:45.880 have car insurance. So I think since the pandemic came in, 367 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:50.000 as the prices of just deteriorate and gotten higher. 368 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.839 I think you're right. I don't know if there's a relation. Hey, 369 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:54.599 this is your first time calling my show. I don't 370 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.119 remember a Rick from Philadelphia or have you called her? 371 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.400 No, I've called you several years ago. You know, you 372 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:01.079 know I'm good. 373 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:02.839 It's starting to starting to get. 374 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.359 The winter time because it's OBD is coming nice and 375 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:06.519 clearer in Philadelphia. 376 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:07.799 That's a that's honor. 377 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.680 So the summertime is going to end pretty soon. 378 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:13.000 Well, thank you very much, Rick, and I hope you 379 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.680 come back more frequently. So, yeah, price is going up. 380 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.720 We're similar to Pennsylvania. We have mandatory car insurance. I 381 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.039 think you can buy a bond here in Massachusetts, but 382 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.079 nobody does that. Car insurance twelve hundred dollars. What type 383 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:26.839 of car do you drive? 384 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.000 Well, I drive an eighteen year old car, twenty five 385 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.720 hundred accident. It's good, it's over one hundred thousand miles. 386 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.079 It's a good thing. I've been drive pretty good. I 387 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.200 mean it's a foreign car and it was made pretty well. 388 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.599 But I mean it's just a lot for just the 389 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.039 basic mandatory. You know, I don't have a I don't 390 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:45.119 have the collision insurance where they would pay to fix 391 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:45.839 the car. You know. 392 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.519 Yeah, well if I hit the guess that's probably pretty 393 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:53.480 close to what you pay in Massachusetts for the for 394 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:57.079 the for the the minimum to put it of the road. 395 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:01.519 Unfortunately, unfortunately, and another thing in the grocery store, the 396 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.319 cheapest thing is like a condent. It's ketchem and mustard. 397 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:07.480 It really up eye, you know, I don't. 398 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:08.920 Know, it depends where you go. If you go to 399 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:11.599 market basket up here, they have a lot of sales 400 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.279 on those sorts of items you'll get, you know, not 401 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:18.960