WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:06.080 It's nice Sime with Dan Ray on Z Boston Radio. 2 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:09.560 All right, them a little bit of fun here. Actually 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:13.320 it's fun, but it's also serious. If you live in Somerville, 4 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:18.239 they are charging people who have not shoveled their sidewalk. 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.879 They're finding people and according to one report I think 6 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.719 this is from Channel seven News, they have handed out 7 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.399 already eight hundred and ninety four tickets since November, the 8 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.079 vast majority of them obviously in the last few weeks. 9 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:38.960 Really frustrating, really frustrating in my opinion, And they actually 10 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:47.399 encourage a fellow residents to call and snitch on their neighbors. 11 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.479 My neighbor does at every sidewalk shovel call three to 12 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:54.200 one one. Let's keep rolling here if you'd like to 13 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.240 join the conversation. I think it's it's really un American 14 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.039 in my opinion. It's like, first, first of all, you 15 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.840 don't own the sidewalk. The city owns the sidewalk, or 16 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.560 the town owns the sidewalk in most communities says they 17 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:09.400 owned the sidewalk, they should take care of it. If 18 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.079 you're kind enough to shovel it, that's fine. But if 19 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.079 you're not able to shovel it if you're someone who's 20 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.319 a senior citizen, or someone the disability or someone who 21 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.280 is just frankly, you know, house bound. Are you going 22 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.480 to find that person? Angela Knewton Angelo, what's your thought 23 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:25.760 on this? 24 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.120 I agree with everything you say. Dan, I got quite 25 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.400 a bit of say, you know, do you remember you 26 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.079 ever remember the kids the sidewalk being shoveled when you 27 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:36.840 walk to school? 28 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.680 Uh? Yeah I did. Yeah. I think the sidewalks got shoveled. 29 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.000 Not always, but there were plenty of days when you 30 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.280 had to, you know, walk in the street to avoid 31 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.719 the snow. I mean, yeah, I don't think it was 32 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.519 I don't think it's ever been universal. What was your recollection? 33 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:55.560 Well, I had a big issue with this over the 34 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.239 city of Newton. I said, when I was a kid, 35 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:01.560 I never saw a city side walks shovels. I always 36 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.680 had a walk on the street. And I says, you know, 37 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.080 you want us to shovel the sidewalks to the sidewalk 38 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.520 belongs to you, guys, Well, if we have to shovel, 39 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:15.759 a should belong to walk. And I saw elderly people. Okay, 40 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.039 you're walking on the sidewalk and the people leave their 41 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.159 cars overhanging the sidewalk, and I said, you know, those 42 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:26.879 people had to turn around, walk all the way back 43 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.360 to the next driveway that was opening, and had to 44 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.360 walk out to the street. And then I says, we 45 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:34.960 pay enough tax in the city of Newton. What's the 46 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:36.680 city of Newton doing with all equipment? 47 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.960 Oh well, well, I happen to agree with you that 48 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.400 taxes are high in Newton. Is probably one of the 49 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.439 highest real estate taxes in any city in the country, 50 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.159 never mind Massachusetts. 51 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:50.800 Yeah. 52 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.280 And I said to him, I says, well, he says, well, 53 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:54.840 it's costing enough the money. And I said, you know 54 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.319 why it's costing you guys money. I'll tell you right 55 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.360 now why, Because I see it. The guys that using 56 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:05.360 the sidewalk flows, they're not They're they're careless. I always 57 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:09.360 see him going by. They're ripping up people's lawns. They're 58 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.039 not seeing on the sidewalk where they should be. Of course, 59 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.960 it is costing them money. And the and the sidewalks 60 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.759 all the tree roots lift in the sidewalk and the 61 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.520 expect people to walk on that. One ding, my sister 62 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.560 was walking on the city sidewalk and the tree rooms 63 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:26.039 step up the sidewalk, and she went for quick talk, 64 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.080 believe it, and we argued about the city about it, 65 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.800 and they never did anything about it. And he says, 66 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.800 you always jumping on us, and what about everybody else? 67 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.199 And you want us to shovel sidewalks, And how's anybody's 68 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.360 buzzle to walk a side down the sidewalk when somebody 69 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.039 keeps it back end or the cow out on the sidewalk. 70 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:47.000 No, I got your points, Angel, you made good points, 71 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.840 good arguments, and I appreciate you hearing from you as always. 72 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:54.159 And oh it's I don't know if you ever gotten 73 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.080 a ticket, but they're eight hundred and ninety four of 74 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.960 some of the residents who have been given a ticket 75 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.319 since November, and I think that's pretty unfair. I think 76 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:00.439 they look. 77 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.520 You know, thet's snow that we have four years ago, 78 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:05.840 remember us snow that we have four years Okay. I 79 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.240 was out two days straight, two days straight, and I 80 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.520 didn't come home until the third day, and I found 81 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.120 a ticket on my door. I had an argument with 82 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:16.319 the city. I said, you put a ticket on my 83 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.160 door and not three days I'll blow the snow, and 84 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.680 you guys expect me to shovel my walk. Oh, if 85 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.160 you don't do it twenty four hours, we're gonna find you. 86 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.120 I says, no, that's not right, that's not Oh. I 87 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:28.120 haven't been talked about this. 88 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:29.720 I bet you did. 89 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:30.240 I'll tell you. 90 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.519 I bet you did. Hey, Thanks, Angelo, appreciate you call. 91 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.600 We'll talk soon. Thanks, buddy, appreciate it. Good. 92 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:38.759 Okay, Dan, thank you my father. Good easy, bybye. 93 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.079 Get it off your chest. And that's that is what 94 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.800 you gotta do. Angelo. Let's go to John and Hanover. 95 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.720 John and Hanover you next time nights. I go right ahead, Hey, Dan, Oya, 96 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.600 I'm good, I'm good. What's your thought on this? 97 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:55.720 So do you remember a band called the Kingston Trio? 98 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.439 Of course they do. Yeah, everybody remembers the Kings, Charlie 99 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:00.319 and the nbtwo. 100 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.720 Right exactly what I just had an obscure reference. 101 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:03.959 Boy. 102 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:07.199 I chimed into the broadcast by about fifteen minutes ago 103 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.240 about the four or five collars back and the way 104 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.199 that he was griping and you were talking about how 105 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.759 to just see us as bank accounts. It just seemed 106 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.639 to really fit that song, even though it was written 107 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:16.560 what forty years ago. 108 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.839 More than that, I'll bet you it's more like sixty 109 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.120 years ago. I think that was circ in nineteen sixties 110 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.079 or so someone else there. We got plenty of music 111 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.800 officionados who will call me up and tell me exactly 112 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.040 what it was written. But I'm guessing sixty or sixty one. 113 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.240 I might even be able to find it as we're 114 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.680 talking here. But yeah, they look at us as ATMs. 115 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.680 That was one of my dad's favorites. I grew up 116 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:41.879 listening to that. 117 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:50.160 Yeah, they look at us citizens as as ATMs. I 118 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.000 you know, it's like, do you go to the store now. 119 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.319 I don't know if it's like this in handover, but 120 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.680 you got to pay five cents or die for a bag? 121 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:04.120 You buying groceries like that. 122 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.040 So both of my parents they just went to assisted living. 123 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.199 I inherited their house here. I still have my apartment 124 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.000 up in Medford, right on Boston Have, and they have 125 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:13.959 the same stuff going on up there with the bags 126 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.680 and then the sidewalks. As you guys were talking about, 127 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.079 there's no way their ADA compliant. I got a roommate 128 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:20.959 up there, and I walk his dog every now and then, 129 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.399 and if you're not watching your feet, you're gonna trip 130 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.839 it up on your face. And I have no mobility problems, 131 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.160 so I can't imagine trying to run a piece of 132 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.279 equipment over that to clear it or anything like that. 133 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.160 But having us by the way they charged the way. 134 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.439 I just checked you. 135 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.240 Sorry, hold on, I just checked this out. The MTA 136 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:43.240 song Charlie and the MTA was written in nineteen forty. 137 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.600 Nine, so my dad was a year old when they 138 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:45.959 wrote that. 139 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.360 Yeah, now when they made it popular, I don't know. 140 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.959 It appears in the Kingston Trio album in nineteen fifty nine, 141 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:56.920 so I was pretty close, they said in nineteen sixty. 142 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.279 But it was written by some people. Jacquelyn Stein and 143 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.480 best Best Hawes have no idea who they are in 144 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.839 nineteen forty nine. That's seventy five years ago. 145 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.600 So yeah, maybe his father liked it. I never met 146 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.319 the guy. He was drafted in a World War Two 147 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.639 at thirty eight years old. Believe that. Wow, well the 148 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:15.680 different guy. 149 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.680 Yeah, it was. It was a different time. So yeah, 150 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.120 I just think we got it as citizens. I mean, 151 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.199 you look at this, eight hundred and ninety four tickets 152 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.519 have been written. You live in a place like Somerville, 153 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:35.240 and you know, look, Somerville is not the the Eden 154 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.879 of the Northeast. It's not the Ruba of the Northeast. 155 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:39.920 I mean, it's a nice city, don't get me wrong, 156 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.879 but it's got its problems, and you would think that 157 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.040 they would have more things that they could worry about 158 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.800 than whether or not there's a few days in the 159 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:52.920 winter time when some people's sidewalks aren't shoveled properly. 160 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.519 Almost seems like a cash grab because the people in charge, 161 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:58.639 and some of them know that there's a good percentage 162 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.519 of those homes that are occupied by tough kids. Tough 163 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.079 kids and they're paying rent, so they're not going to 164 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.720 be shoveling sidewalks. They're going to expect property management to 165 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.160 take care of that. But property management will expect a 166 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.480 city to handle the sidewalks. So it does seem like 167 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:12.439 way well I know that, but. 168 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.279 I got to tell I mean, if if it's a 169 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.720 rental unit, uh and someone owns it and it's a 170 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.000 you know, a dormitory or a frat house, I think 171 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:25.199 that I'm not concerned about the person who owns that 172 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.160 rental unit. I'm concerned about the elderly couple that's holding 173 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.240 on and you know, they're living on a fixed income, 174 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.080 and maybe one of them is dealing with a medical condition, 175 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.399 maybe they both are, and they have to go out 176 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.720 and shovel a sidewalk I mean, or maybe pay kids 177 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.440 to do that for them. I mean, you know, it's 178 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:45.639 not like the old days with you know, most people 179 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.559 lived in a neighborhood and you knew the people on 180 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.639 the on the street who were elderly. Now you live 181 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.519 in a neighborhood, you don't even know who's on the street. 182 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.679 It's the whole country has changed, and it hasn't changed, 183 00:08:57.799 --> 00:08:59.759 in my opinion, for the better. In that in that 184 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.720 guard and the city looks at at all of these people, 185 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.279 as they say, people like you and me as atm 186 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.360 so they'll get you for this. They nickel and dime 187 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.720 you at this at the supermarket, and they they do 188 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:15.919 more than nickel and dimea when they hit you with 189 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.720 a hundred or a three hundred dollars fine for not 190 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:20.799 I mean, it's impossible that storm came in. There's been 191 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.320 a series of storms. It's not like you had four 192 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.919 inches of snow, nice light, fuff, fluffy snow and no, no, 193 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.759 it was ice and rain and freezing frozen, you know. 194 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.279 I mean, it's like the frozen tundra. I don't know, 195 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:38.240 that's just I just think that these people who who 196 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.840 who decide to make their career in government, the so 197 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.480 called public servants, that a lot of them, once they 198 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.519 get in there, they they never get blown out. You know. 199 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.559 People in the private sector lose their jobs all the time. 200 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.519 And we're seeing what's going on in Washington. We'll talk 201 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.480 about that maybe a little bit later on tonight. 202 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:02.440 Johnson got the town manag here. The property tax on 203 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.320 this house is more than I pay for the apartment 204 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.440 up in Medtrid. Just a tax, and you can't drink 205 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.879 the town water here, and they're charging us to use 206 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:13.320 the dump now, which has been free for thirty years, 207 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.519 while raising the property tax. And we just had an It's. 208 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:18.919 Another revenue stream, another revenue stream. 209 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.320 They get you, they get you tax department, the new 210 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:25.000 mall fifteen years a tax defertment. But they're taking away 211 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.960 services from the elderly and raising the property fact. 212 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.600 Oh yeah. I think Hanover is similar to other communities, 213 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.559 and they wonder why people are leaving Massachusetts by the droves. 214 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.080 Eventually, Great belt Web is running that town. He worked 215 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.519 on Beacon Hill for Francis Galvin for a while, their 216 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.759 budget is balanced. They're like the only town in the 217 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.720 Cell show that has no override vote. So he seems 218 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:50.200 like an impressive guy. They're lucky to have. 219 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:51.000 Him, whoever he is. 220 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:54.559 Yeah, I think that they voted against the MBTA Communities 221 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.360 Act also the standing Firm against that, which is something 222 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.559 that also I think the integrity of communities. They're trying 223 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.440 to take away local the rights for local zoning. They 224 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.519 want to impose on different communities, every community, you know, 225 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:14.120 obligations to build more multi family housing. And they're not 226 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.200 accusing the communities of being discriminatory. They're just saying, we 227 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.720 need more, we need a more of tax base, and 228 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.679 we need more properties. And of course the developers work 229 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.200 with the politicians. They contribute to the politicians campaigns, and 230 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.840 the politicians say, well, let's force these towns to accept 231 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:33.799 more developments, and the developers like that. It's Massachusetts is 232 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.440 a weird state, man. It's it's it's it's always been 233 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.519 a little weird and it's getting weirder. Thanks, John, appreciate it. 234 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:42.840 Thank you Thanks for calling. You've called before, this's your 235 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:43.519 first time calling. 236 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.480 No, I've called a couple of times. 237 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.080 Give me a favorite keep calling. I enjoyed the conversation. 238 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.320 Talk to you soon. Thank you. We will take a break. 239 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.120 I got a little bit of open lines here for 240 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.919 your six one seven, two, five four ten thirty. Also 241 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.919 six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I do 242 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.480 we will change to another topic, but I want to 243 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:04.720 give everybody a chance if you want to talk now 244 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.240 about what's going on in Somerville and maybe what's going 245 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:09.519 on in your community in terms of the obligation to 246 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:15.399 UH to shovel your sidewalk at risk of being fined 247 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.679 anywhere from one hundred and three hundred dollars and they've 248 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.440 fined eight hundred. They've written eight hundred and ninety four tickets. Boy, 249 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.000 there might there must be some guy in some of 250 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.759 it who's really proud about that. You know, I've written 251 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.679 eight hundred and ninety four tickets and I've I'm more 252 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.399 than kept my keep as a as a ticket writer 253 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.840 here in Somerville. I mean, is that what is that 254 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.480 what life in Massachusetts has come down to? I don't know. 255 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.679 I think that this past storm there should have been exception. 256 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.759 This is not your normal set of snowstorms. These were 257 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.240 little rapid snowstorms. You couldn't eavenly get out and shovel. 258 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.399 We'll be back on Night's side right after this. Feel 259 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.639 free to join the conversation. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, 260 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:56.279 thirty six, one seven nine. 261 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:00.600 Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Into World 262 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.840 Nightside Studios on w b Z the news radio. 263 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:06.720 Okay, back to the calls. We go going to go 264 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.759 to Mario in Wilmington. Mario and Wilmington. You were next 265 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.080 on Nightside, Mario, go right. 266 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.799 Ahead, Yes, I agree totally. What has happened in somer Old. 267 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.320 That is fine. A lot of these property owners don't 268 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.480 live there. They don't have any regard for their neighbors, 269 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.559 in the tenants themselves in avenue, regard for if you're 270 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.679 not shoveling, you need to get a fine. A lot 271 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:31.960 of times they're getting away with it because it's not 272 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.519 a lot of snow. This time there's been a lot 273 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.399 of snow, and out of the laziness of them not 274 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:41.039 doing it. Now they're getting banged up. Good. A lot 275 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.159 of people have to walk to and prompts kids going 276 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:47.559 to school, et cetera. You're not clearing your sidewalk, you 277 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:48.480 need to be fine. 278 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.639 Look, well, you know we can we get disagreed? Let 279 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.039 me ask you, is that the situation in Wilmington. 280 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.559 We're a different story real wide, and we're some and 281 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:10.200 we do our sidewalks. 282 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.919 Your I'm just curious, Mario, is your side is your 283 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.879 sidewalk shoveled? 284 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.960 Yes, my side shovel. 285 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.120 Let me ask you, Yeah, let me I just look. 286 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.799 You know what I'm trying to do is actually have 287 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.159 a conversation with you, Mary, So work with me, if 288 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:28.000 you would, how much how much sidewalk space? How much 289 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.320 sidewalk do you have in front of your house? 290 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:33.720 Why do you need to get technical about that? 291 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.480 I don't think it's technical. I'm asking you a question. 292 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.240 I'm just trying to trying to If you want to 293 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.360 make a speech, man, go ahead. I'll give you thirty 294 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.440 seconds to make a speech. Go ahead. 295 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.960 Green is happening. There are a lot of property owners 296 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.639 that don't care, don't do nothing, same thing with you. 297 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.159 Don't think their management is doing it and they're skipping it. 298 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:57.679 So fine, be any questions. 299 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.120 You get another fifteen seconds for your speech. Go ahead. 300 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:01.799 You got fifteen more seconds if you wanted. 301 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:04.759 He was the fifteen seconds per question. 302 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.879 Now you know what, Mario I'm not going to ask 303 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.000 you a question. You got five seconds left for your speech. 304 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:11.440 Go ahead. 305 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:14.960 I will agree that elderly should get speech. 306 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.240 Is over. Thanks very much, Mario. You know it's funny. 307 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.600 What I don't understand is people call a talk show 308 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.279 and he's angry, which is fine. I like angry callers. 309 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.799 Angry Mario, we have a speech. I was gonna ask 310 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:32.639 him how much sidewalk did he have? I asked him 311 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:38.720 they have the sidewalk requirement in Wilmington. No, because we're 312 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:43.080 different than Somerville. Really, anyway, let's see what Bernie in 313 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.559 New Hampshire has to say. Hey, Bernie, how are you tonight? 314 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.240 Hey, I'm well Dan, how are you good? 315 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.960 I'm sure we can have a conversation better than the 316 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.080 conversation I attempted to have with Mario. 317 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:59.080 Go ahead, Yeah, no, that was great. I grew up 318 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:03.159 in Mats moved up to New Hampshire maybe twenty five 319 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:05.720 years ago, but I grew up in that spot man, 320 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.320 Thank you, thank you. My wife grew up in Quincy, 321 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.279 so we were both city kids. 322 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:15.120 She was so sure. 323 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:15.960 I was not sure. 324 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:20.960 And you know, like you said, going to school and 325 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.639 people shoveled their sidewalks. If they didn't, you walked around it, 326 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.320 you dealt with it. But you know, I just want 327 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:29.919 to put this together with one blurb I heard earlier 328 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:34.000 on your station, and they said that they're gonna they 329 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.679 want to get the utility companies to lower the costs 330 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.559 of the utilities because it's kind of such a bad 331 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:43.639 winter to save people money and then they can raise 332 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.799 it in the summer. And now some of them saying, well, 333 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.840 we're going to tax you even more. Like, how come 334 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.360 the legislature is it saying, hey, let's take care of 335 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.240 these people. Let's not tax some more in a hard winter. 336 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.399 Well, because because the leggislature doesn't really care. I mean, 337 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.680 we have a you have a legislature in New Hampshire 338 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:10.839 that's pretty fairly balanced. Sometimes the Democrats have the legislature, 339 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:14.359 sometimes the Republicans, and it's also up there. I think 340 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.559 your members of the legislature, I think they've paid the 341 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.079 princely some of one hundred dollars a year to serve 342 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:23.880 as really to serve as members of the legislature. Here 343 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.720 in Massachusetts, you got a legislature with one hundred and 344 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:32.559 sixty members, one hundred and twenty or so are Democratic 345 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.720 or maybe more the majority of Republicans, And they hand 346 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.440 out the chairmanships of these committees which do not meet 347 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.720 particularly frequently. And these people are making six figures as 348 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.799 state reps here in Massachusetts, and for them it's a business, 349 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.599 and in order to keep the business going, they're not 350 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:59.480 interested in helping residents and communities and all these Somerville 351 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.000 they have their full time employees, Boston has their full 352 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.519 time employees. They look at people like you and me 353 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:10.039 as as I say ATMs, you know, just hit us 354 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.880 for money, whatever they can do if it snows and 355 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.720 they don't shovel this storm down here has been tough, 356 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.559 really tough. And any person who is older over the 357 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.720 age of forty five, they shouldn't be out trying to 358 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.920 shovel this snow because this is nasty ice. In case 359 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.039 encrusted snow, it's dangerous. But in Somerville they've handed out 360 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.400 eight hundred and seventy four tickets. Good for them, Good 361 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:40.359 for them they have They've shown beer citizens who's boss. 362 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:41.400 No. 363 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:46.079 And I understand that I work in mass I work 364 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.599 in mass I work between sixty and eighty hours a week, 365 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:55.319 and I get the privilege to pay Massachusetts taxes, you 366 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:57.960 know which is great for me or great for them? 367 00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:58.359 Man? 368 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:01.880 And h I go home and I go home. 369 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:02.519 I worked. 370 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:05.960 I worked very long hours and a lot of times 371 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.599 my wife will do the Uh my son's gone now, 372 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:12.279 as you well know, he's gone away and h whole 373 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.960 camp and my wife and I told her, do not 374 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.359 touch the driveways. We've been getting a white butty snow. 375 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:20.440 It's so cold, and I'll do it the next. 376 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:20.880 Morning and all. 377 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.319 But you know, I, like you said, when when when it? 378 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.000 When it's wet and heavy, I'm sixty four years old, 379 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.759 I do it. But you know what it's I can't 380 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:34.640 see these elderly people. And why are you finding like people? 381 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:36.559 You know a lot of these people have been in 382 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.359 Somerville all the way life and you're finding them instead 383 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.200 of helping them. Well, why not help them? 384 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:48.079 Well that's why people like you are leaving Massachusetts. It's 385 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:50.039 as simple as that. A lot of people can't afford 386 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:53.400 to leave, but they're leaving. Bernie is always great to 387 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:56.240 hear you. Please give our best to your son as 388 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:00.720 he completes, you know, his his basic training in the military, 389 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.519 and thank him for the service he's providing. And thank 390 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:05.960 you and your wife for producing such a fine young man. 391 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:07.079 And we'll talk again. 392 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:10.319 Okay, all right, thank you sir, have a good night. 393 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.559 YouTube Bernie, here comes the news at the bottom of 394 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.559 the hour. Like to continue on this, uh, if you 395 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:17.559 want to have a conversation, fine, if you you know, 396 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:21.079 Mario didn't seem to be inclined to a conversation, but 397 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:23.440 I gave him thirty seconds to make a speech. That's fine. 398 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:25.880 Feel free if you want to. If you want thirty 399 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.480 seconds to make a speech, you can call. If you 400 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.640 want to have a conversation, which I prefer six one, seven, two, five, 401 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.279