1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everyone. Uh the candidates have departed. 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: I want to thank both Mike Kinneely and Brian Shortsley 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: for participating tonight in this conversation. And I'm now going 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: to take as many calls as we'd like to call 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 2: your thoughts. Were you persuaded, were you convinced? Let's let's uh, 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: let's just go to phones. We have, the lines are full. 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: The number, write it down A six or six one seven. 9 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: The Nightside team which includes Rob the show producer, and 10 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: Marita aka Lightning Uh. They we all work hard during 11 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 2: the week to try to put different shows on and 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: I would invite you if you've never listened to night 13 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: Side before, to listen to us. You can follow us 14 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: on Facebook, you can follow us on Twitter, on Instagram. 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: We do a pre game every day at four point 16 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: thirty on our Facebook page Night Sigh with Dan Ray 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: and I do a post game most nights at midnight. 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: I'm not sure I'm going to do a post game 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: tonight because I got a long ride home, but we'll see. 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: I might, I might. We're gonna go to the calls 21 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: and get as many people's reactions as possible. We will 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: start off with Ian and Drake it Rob, bring up, 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: I I got it here, Here we go, Hi and 24 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: welcome you first, first this salary. 25 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 3: Thank you for staying on and taking my call. 26 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: Well, and I'm on until midnight every night, five nights 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 2: a week, so we're always here for your dining or 28 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: dancing pleasure. 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: You go right ahead in well, do I have to 30 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 3: specifically name the candidates and say something about them? 31 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: Or if you know you don't have to do anything. 32 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: You could either get your You can either react to 33 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: generally what you heard. You can tell me if. 34 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: You about Okay, sorry, well this this you know, I'm 35 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 3: not happy about this, but it's it's nothing compared to 36 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 3: the UH to the what's going on in you know, 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 3: in the Middle East and and all of that. On 38 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 3: people's saying, you know, I don't like to see the 39 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: servicemen there. I wouldn't want boots on the ground and 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 3: all that. But then I saw this, This is something different. 41 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: The city of Lowell and now I'm sure they're aware 42 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 3: of Lowell. And there's a representative state representative. Her name 43 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 3: is Tara Hoong, and it seems that last year the 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: President Symphony if they came him with order and and 45 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 3: it sent some of his people whatever out all around 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 3: the US. They came to Lowell, they went to the 47 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 3: National Park Museum, you know there, it's the boot Cottons Museum, 48 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 3: and they had the the film about founding of the 49 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: museum and the people who you know, the mill girls 50 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: and all that. They had it removed and they and 51 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: the bus will world today criticize the removal of the 52 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 3: two films, Uh, two films that they have to take away, 53 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 3: and the films discuss the immigrants who would come to 54 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: make up the mill labor and how they were doing. 55 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: And how does that relate to uh, the conversation that 56 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: we've just had with two candidates running for. 57 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 3: Governors, because yeah, I was going to ask them, as Republicans, 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 3: do they approve of what the president is doing when 59 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 3: he does things like this, like when he goes to 60 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 3: the Smithsonian and takes away uh it's when he goes 61 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 3: to uh and replaces them with his own, you know, 62 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: his own photo or whatever. He puts his name ahead 63 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: of somebody Else's just one thing. 64 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: To answer your questions. And I think that they are 65 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: in all honesty there are probably bigger fish to fry. 66 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 2: I think that people in Massachusetts are worried about the 67 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: price they're paying at the pump. People, I think, all 68 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 2: worried about what's going on in the Middle East. There 69 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 2: are a lot of people who are very worried about 70 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: Iran ever gaining nuclear weapons, because they have always said 71 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 2: if they gained a nuclear weapon, they would use it 72 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: on the nation of Israel. Again, I think that I 73 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: don't want to tell you what questions to be concerned about. 74 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 2: But I've not seen the films that were removed. I 75 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: don't know of what you speak, and so therefore I 76 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: would be disingenuous if I tried to offer you an 77 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: opinion on that. 78 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 3: It was just the you know, the principle of the 79 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 3: thing that my grandparents and my great grandparents and many 80 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 3: other people from the area and elsewhere came, you know, 81 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: to work in the mills they gave you know, they 82 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: gave them my. 83 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,119 Speaker 2: Great my grandparents and my great grandparents and came here 84 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 2: from Ireland to the best you know, to what I 85 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: have been told within my family, uh, and that they 86 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: all came here legally. I don't think that either of 87 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 2: the candidates either Mike Kinneely or Brian Shortsleeve would be 88 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: critical of people your your ancestors or my ancestors who 89 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: came here legally and helped build the nation. I you 90 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: know again, I just I just think you're taking me 91 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 2: down a path that we could talk about some other night. 92 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: But tonight I was hoping that I could find out 93 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: from callegs like you if either of the candidates impressed you, 94 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: or or maybe maybe neither of them impressed you. 95 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 3: But they may not have debated each other as they say, 96 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: you know, but if they were at each other's through 97 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 3: the whole time, I mean. 98 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 2: I thought they were very polite. I wouldn't say that 99 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 2: they were at I've been in situations where people were 100 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: at each other's throats, and I think that they both 101 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 2: were really good natured. There was more smiles than scowls. 102 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 2: If you were in the studio, I think you would 103 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 2: have seen that. And I gotta let you go because 104 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 2: I'm moving on. Thank you so much, appreciate your call. 105 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: Feel free to call listen. 106 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 3: You know, how do you feel about it going all 107 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: over the country taking out things that yeah. 108 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: Okay, And I think I've tried to deal with that 109 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 2: as in as gentlemanly a fashion as I can. So 110 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 2: with your your kindness and your consideration, I'm just going 111 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: to move on. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Let 112 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 2: me go next too, because I want to get people 113 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 2: in here who are looking to comment on what they 114 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 2: heard or they didn't here tonight. Rowan in Newton Rowan. 115 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 2: I hope I'm pronouncing your first name? Is it Rowan or. 116 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 4: Rohan, Rohan, the lots of Rohan, the Rohan. 117 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's nice to know Rohan. Okay, go right ahead. 118 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 5: Rohan. 119 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 4: Well, mister, very long time listener, first time call it. 120 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: You know, Rohan is always amazing. I mean, you're going 121 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 2: to run as from my business studio audience, it's always 122 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: amazing to me what gets people to dial the phone 123 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: for the first time. So welcome. I hope this is 124 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 2: not your your I'll look forward to this conversation and 125 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: to our next conversation. Go right ahead. 126 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 4: I rarely call, but I do like the topics that 127 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 4: you handle, and late night entertainment being what it is, 128 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 4: it's I prefer to listen to. 129 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,679 Speaker 2: I do too. I prefer to do I prefer doing 130 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: the program to listening to late night entertainment. On television. 131 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 2: Well maybe a little blast there. 132 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know both the gentleman who showed up. 133 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 4: I don't know the gentleman who didn't show up, But 134 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 4: I thought the last. 135 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: Rowan I don't mean to, but was it in Woody 136 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 2: Allen who said that ninety percent of life is just 137 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: showing up? 138 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 4: Exactly? 139 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: Both Brian Schwartz Live and Mike and Ealy showed up. 140 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 2: So yeah, I gotta give them credit to that. 141 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 5: Ahead. 142 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, so so you took the words right out of 143 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 4: my mouth. I mean the lady who called at the end, 144 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 4: and of course she I thought she was a supporter 145 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 4: of mister Minot's. But you know, debating whether it's a 146 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 4: debate or a conversation, what was the point of that 147 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 4: that that was the part of the program that I 148 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 4: sort of disagreed with. You know, let let the people 149 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 4: who are there to make the issues and make the 150 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 4: points make their make their points, so the listeners or 151 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 4: the audience gets educated. And well, she may not. 152 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: Have liked what she heard. She may not have liked 153 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: what she heard, and she may have felt she wanted 154 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 2: a wayh in. And one of the things that I 155 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: will tell you about Nightside is I really try to 156 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: give everyone an opportunity to come and express their opinion. 157 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: And even when someone wants to call and talk about 158 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 2: films that I've never watched in loll some host Wood 159 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: would cut them off and move on. I like to 160 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 2: respect people, and that's what this show, I think, for 161 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 2: nineteen almost nineteen years, has tended to represent. And that's 162 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 2: what the people who work on this program produce. The 163 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 2: Lightning and Rob Brooks, I think they also buy into 164 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 2: that philosophy. 165 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 4: And you know, if you have the chance to do 166 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 4: this again with both of them, I'd highly encourage it, 167 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 4: only because the format, you know, with audience members asking questions, 168 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 4: it gives you a better sense of what you know 169 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 4: fellow citizens around the state. Yes, I have on their minds, 170 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 4: you know, and that that's what I like, rather than 171 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: us the moderators or you as the host, you know, 172 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 4: asking the questions. And I've always liked the format of 173 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 4: like the callers calling in or you know, members of 174 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 4: the audience and asking the questions. 175 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 2: Say that Rohan, do me a favor, and when you're 176 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 2: at the coffee shop tomorrow, tell your friends so much 177 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: you enjoyed tonight's show, and maybe we'll pick up a 178 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 2: few listeners on the way. We have a very significant audience, 179 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: not only in Massachusetts and New England, but around the country, 180 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: and we're always looking for more people to join Night 181 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 2: Side Nation. So thanks. 182 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 4: Last question for you, do you think you'll be doing 183 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 4: any programming from the republic State Republican Committee convention and Worcester. 184 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: I don't think I will, but that's always an open 185 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 2: question that management haired w BUS might decide my recollection. 186 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 2: It's only my recollection is those that event both the 187 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: Republican and the Democratic conventions are held on a Saturday, Uh, 188 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 2: and recover it as a news story. And I work 189 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday nights, and Rohan, I must tell you, 190 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 2: after twenty hours of conversation every week, I cherish I 191 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: cherish my quietude on Saturday and Sunday. 192 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 4: Right your local courts would need it too, anyway, it's 193 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 4: just the thought. 194 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 5: Uh. 195 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 4: You know, the long form much better than the short form. 196 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 2: We'll do plenty of long form between now and November. 197 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: I guarantee you that. Yeah, and I hope you for 198 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 2: me more often. 199 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 4: Thanks, yeah, well, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate 200 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 4: this and enjoyed the night imentally. 201 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: Thanks, and if you ever see me at Shaws or 202 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: somewhere around Newton, don't hesitate to call to say hello. 203 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 4: Okay, I will, Thanks, thank you, good night night. 204 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: You're gonna take quick break six one seven, two, four, 205 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven ninety. Come on right back 206 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 2: on Nightside. 207 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: You're on Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 208 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 2: We are talking about the first two hours of the 209 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 2: program tonight when we were joined by two of the 210 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 2: Republican candidates running for governor, Mike Kanneely and Brian short Sleeve. 211 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 2: Let's get back to and you can react to that, 212 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 2: to what you heard, maybe one of the candidates, Uh, 213 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: impressed you more than the other. Whatever you'd like to 214 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 2: talk about, as long as it relates to what we've 215 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: been doing this evening. Let's go next to Joe Is 216 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 2: in Boston. Joe, you were next on Nightside. 217 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 6: Welcome Hi Joe, Hi Dan, Thanks for taking my call. 218 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 5: Yeah. 219 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 6: I think you know, both of these guys seem pretty smart. 220 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 6: But that Mike Knneely, I think is the most qualified. 221 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 6: I heard that he worked in government. 222 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, and work. 223 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 2: He worked as a cabinet secretary under Governor Baker and 224 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 2: so they both but they both have experience and and 225 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 2: I thought they both did very well tonight, to be 226 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 2: honest with you, they were focused. They they answered questions, 227 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 2: which is the which is all you really can ask 228 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 2: of a candidate. 229 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. But I got to tell you I think, 230 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 6: you know, I think Mike Kenneely is my guy, you know, 231 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 6: right here in Boston, with the things we face, I'm 232 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 6: going with Mike Kennely. And I'm going to tell all 233 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 6: my family just go with Mike because I think he's 234 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 6: our guy. I the other guy just seems to be 235 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 6: a little slippery, talk a little quick, and he is 236 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 6: jumping on things. And you know, I think Mike Kennely 237 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 6: sounded really confident, and yeah, I like him. Man. I'm 238 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 6: going to tell my people you know that he's my guy. 239 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: Well, the one thing you got to make sure of 240 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 2: whoever you're going to vote for, is make sure that 241 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: you and your friends are registered to vote. And in 242 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 2: order to vote in the Republican primary, you have to 243 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: either be read to vote as a Republican or as 244 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 2: an unenrolled. 245 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 7: So if you don't worry about that, we don't worry 246 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 7: about that. We're all Republicans. We have no problem being 247 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 7: Republicans in Massachusetts. We are registered Republicans, and we are 248 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 7: going to bring this man over the finish line. I 249 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 7: think he's our guy, and I'm spreading the word right now. 250 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: Right, spread the word right on our show. Appreciate it, Joe, 251 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 2: appreciate your patience. 252 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 5: Thank you. 253 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 2: Feel free to join us any night. Love having it 254 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 2: as a new listenings. Dan, Thank you, Joe, have a 255 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 2: great night. Let me go next to Mike in Metro West. 256 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: Somewhere in Metro West. What town you in, Mike? 257 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 5: How are you in Marlborough? I'm good, good, How are you? So? 258 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 5: I've been first time caller, first of all. 259 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: First of all, we'll give you right and Claus from 260 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 2: our studio audience always thank you. Always like to get 261 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 2: new a first time call us, go right. 262 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 5: Ahead, And so I've been listening to the whole show tonight, 263 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 5: and I will be voting in the rep Publican primary 264 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 5: in the fall, as I have for decades. 265 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, that will actually technically technically will be early September, 266 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: so you know, the no fall isn't until the twenty first. 267 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 2: I'm not sure of the date, but I think it's 268 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: before the fall starts, but go ahead. 269 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 5: I think it is September first, but early September, right, 270 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 5: So I up until tonight, I was open minded, recognizing 271 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 5: that there's three, at least on paper, highly qualified candidates 272 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 5: to run for governor. 273 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: And. 274 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 5: I figured that I would stay in that mode until 275 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 5: at least the convention, if not a little more beyond that. 276 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 5: I'm not attending the convention. But to be honest with you, 277 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 5: I think that Mike Minogue disqualified himself tonight by not participating, 278 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 5: at least from my standpoint, maybe qualified. 279 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I was disappointed that all three weren't here. 280 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 2: I had a conversation with Mike Minogue was probably two 281 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 2: weeks ago. He was very polite, but he was really 282 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: quite adamant that he had said to me that he 283 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: did not you know. He was, I think, trying to 284 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 2: explain that he had decided that he did not want 285 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 2: to engage in debates. And I said, well, this is 286 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: not a debate, it's a conversation. It's I I love 287 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 2: to make the point that sometimes you don't get a 288 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 2: second chance to make a first impression, and I. 289 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 5: Tried absolutely so in terms of in terms of Brian 290 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 5: and Mike. I thought that they both did very well. 291 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 5: I handled you know, I liked what they had to say. 292 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 5: You know, they did have some differences of opinion at times, 293 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 5: which is to be expected in a forum like that, 294 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 5: and that was the whole purpose of it, you know, 295 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 5: to help inform the voters. I think they and I 296 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 5: think they both did a very good job. I had 297 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 5: act had a call. Unfortunately you couldn't get to me live. 298 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 5: But I'd like to ask the question because I'm hoping 299 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 5: that they will be listening to this and certainly to 300 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 5: bring it to the attention of voters in general. And 301 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 5: it has to do with the gas tax. And I 302 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 5: know that both candidates want to reduce state spending looking 303 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 5: for waste, as they should, and they both support reducing 304 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 5: the state income tax. But there are certain there's a 305 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 5: certain line item where the state is actually not collecting 306 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 5: money from certain people and they should be, and those 307 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 5: are the people who are driving electric vehicles. The politicians 308 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 5: are ringing their hands because they're claiming that, well, we're 309 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 5: losing gas tax money because we have more and more 310 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 5: people driving electric vehicles, right. 311 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 2: I've heard I've heard that said. Yes, the politicians basically 312 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: not only here, but in Washington voted programs which encourage 313 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 2: people to drive electric vehicles. People drive hybrid vehicles. They 314 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 2: it's it's part gasoline and part of electricity behind. 315 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 5: So I have an engineering background, and so I asked 316 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 5: myself how many what's what's the latest data for the 317 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 5: number of people driving evs in Massachusetts? And I believe 318 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 5: the number that I got was from twenty twenty four, 319 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 5: and the numbers on this particular website, and I don't 320 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 5: remember if it was blue Book or another website, you know, 321 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:44,239 Speaker 5: gave actual statistics. So I started making some assumptions. You know, 322 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 5: vehicles who were driving in our roads. The purpose of 323 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 5: the gas tax is to keep the roads repaired. That's correct, right, 324 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 5: and so and so the evs weigh something, they're they're 325 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 5: causing road wear and tear, but we're not collecting anything 326 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 5: from these people. 327 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 2: I missed if you said ev vehicles at this point. 328 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 5: Well, I don't have the statistic in front of me. 329 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 5: I did an analysis about a year ago. But the 330 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 5: bottom line is that based on twenty twenty four data, 331 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 5: with the number of evs registered in the state, and 332 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 5: making some assumptions about some people drive their vehicle more 333 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 5: than others will. And I thought, you know, there must 334 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 5: be some way of calculating, like an effective. 335 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: Gas Give me the bottom line, if. 336 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 5: You would, the bottom line is that Massachusetts, based on 337 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 5: my analysis, is losing ninety million dollars a year in 338 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 5: gas tax money that they would have collected from the 339 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 5: EV drivers if the EV drivers were driving you know, 340 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 5: internal combustion engines. And there's no attempt to recover that money. 341 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 5: So heally is trying to tax those of us who 342 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 5: are already paying a lot even more to make up 343 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 5: for the revenue that she's not able to collect. Now, 344 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 5: other states, some states are like Massachusetts where they don't 345 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 5: collect it and they're wringing their hands. Other states have 346 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 5: like an annual fee that EV drivers have to pay 347 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 5: several hundred dollars, and then there's other methodologies as well. 348 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 5: But I just wanted to bring this to the candidate's attention. 349 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 2: Well, I know that they're listening, to be honest with you, 350 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 2: because they told me they'd be listening. I'll also suggest 351 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 2: that if you could, I'll have Rob leave you when 352 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: you hang up my direct number, and if you can 353 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: get me some information on that. Obviously you're right. If 354 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,719 Speaker 2: you're driving an electric vehicle, you might not buying gas, 355 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 2: and you're not paying a tax on the electricity that 356 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: you're using. You basically are probably at some point going 357 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 2: to have to replace that battery and that will be 358 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 2: the expension incurse. So if you if you know of 359 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 2: a couple of states that have actually imposed a cost, 360 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 2: that would be a good conversation for us here. So 361 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 2: if you stay in the line and I'm at my 362 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 2: news point my news break, Rob will give you my 363 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 2: direct line, and when you come up with some information, 364 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 2: give me a call and we may do something on it. 365 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 5: Okay, for good you. 366 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 2: Hang on there. Rob will give you my direct line 367 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,479 Speaker 2: right here at WBZ and I'll be happy to hear 368 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: from you. In the meantime, we're going to keep our 369 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 2: conversation going. Right after the news break, I will have 370 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 2: one line. The only line that will be open once 371 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 2: Mike drops is six ones. Actually is a seven eighty one. No, 372 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 2: it's six, it's it's seven eight one uh nine three 373 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 2: one ten thirty, six one, seven, nine, three one, ten thirty. 374 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 2: We have too many numbers six one, seven, two, five 375 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 2: four ten thirty and six one, seven nine ten thirty. 376 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 2: That is the one line that is available right now, 377 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 2: six one, seven nine. I'm looking at too many names, 378 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: too many numbers. The phone lines are busy. Dial in 379 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 2: and we'll get you up as soon as possible. Coming 380 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 2: back on Night's Side. 381 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on wz Boston's 382 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: news radio. 383 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 2: Back to the call is, Let's go to Chris is 384 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Down to the Cape. 385 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 8: Chris, welcome, Hey, Thanks Dan, thanks for taking my call, 386 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 8: and thanks for putting this forum on. 387 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of work to put it together. 388 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 2: Wish we had had all three candidates, but I thought 389 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 2: the two who were here really acquitted themselves very nicely. 390 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 8: I agree, yeah, and I think I appreciate that both 391 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 8: of them said they will support the eventual nominee. I 392 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 8: think that's important for everyone to keep in mind. We 393 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 8: have to get more Healey out of office. 394 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 5: No matter what. 395 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 8: That being said, I do think Brian is the right 396 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 8: guy at the right time. He's got the right temperament, 397 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 8: the right experience, and you know the fact that I 398 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 8: live on the Cape. I like that he lives on 399 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 8: the Cape too. I feel like we get overlooked a 400 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 8: lot of times in Boston and having a Cape Caught 401 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 8: her in the corner office of something I'm looking forward to. 402 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 2: Well, I did not realize that that is where he 403 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: lived on the Cape. I I gotta check my notes here. 404 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 2: Is that Is that true? Do you know that for sure? 405 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 5: Yeah? 406 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 8: Yeah, he is a registered voter in Barnstable. Okay, how 407 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 8: long is he be a member of the RTC down 408 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 8: here as well? 409 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 2: How long has he been living on the Cape. 410 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 8: That's a good question. I don't know how long exactly. 411 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 8: I know he's been down here, you know, throughout his life, 412 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 8: but I don't know how long he's been a permanent, 413 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 8: you know, resident down here. 414 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 2: Interesting, I didn't know that. I've never seen where he 415 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: where he where he was registered to vote? But you 416 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 2: sound you're saying that with a great deal of certainty. 417 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 2: So that might help him amongst Cape Caught voters as 418 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: for sure? 419 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, Well, like I said, he is a member 420 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 8: of the Barnstable Republican Town Committee. 421 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: Oh well, that would be pretty strong evidence of that. 422 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 8: Okay. 423 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 2: Most of our governors tend to have have tended during 424 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 2: my lifetime at least to have come from somewhere within 425 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 2: the one twenty eight four ninety five area. Obviously, the 426 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: current governor. Governor Healy lives in Arlington. You know, Charlie 427 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 2: Baker was from Swampskip, de Val Patrick was from Milton, 428 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 2: and even if you go back, you know many years, 429 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: Eddie King was from Winthrop. Bill Weld was from Cambridge. 430 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 2: Trying to think who else I can John Volpi was 431 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: from Believe Volpie. I think he was from Winthrop as well, 432 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. So yeah, I mean it's interesting. 433 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 2: I think Saltonstall was Dover. Yeah, so this would this 434 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 2: would be an interesting change. The only western Massachusetts governor 435 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: was act the acting governor, who was Paul Salucci's uh oh, 436 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: James from mart Yeah, she was from from I think 437 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 2: North Adams and she was only governor for a little 438 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 2: white course. Mitt Romney was Belmont. So yeah, interesting geographic notation. 439 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 2: I will I will take note, appreciate it. Yeah, all right, 440 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 2: you got it. Thanks Chris, proud Cake, Carter, thanks so much. 441 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 2: Talk to you soon, night you too. Let's keep rolling here, 442 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: are going to go to Steve in Saugus, a little 443 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 2: closer to the uh to Beacon Hill. Steve you next time, Nightsiger, 444 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 2: right ahead. 445 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: Hey Dan, how are you doing today? 446 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Steve, thank you for calling in. We've 447 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: had a pretty good night here. I think both of 448 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 2: these candidates, Mike Kneely and Brian Shortsleeve a quitted themselves 449 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 2: very well tonight. 450 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 9: Well, I want to ask a couple of questions of 451 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 9: Brian when he was there, but maybe I get your 452 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 9: take on it. The first one is about his leadership 453 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 9: at the MBTA. I mean, he gave a giant two 454 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 9: hundred and fifty million dollar contract to a Chinese communist 455 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 9: company when he knew there was quality concerns. Now that 456 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 9: company's banned from any federal contracts for national security reasons. 457 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 9: And the second one I wanted to ask is he 458 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 9: talks to a big game about illegal immigration. That's definitely 459 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 9: a problem, probably one of the biggest problems we face 460 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 9: in the state and as a country. But he gave 461 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 9: nearly one hundred thousand dollars to Democrat politicians that support 462 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 9: open borders and make it mass to a sanctuary state. 463 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 9: So what's your take on that, Dan, Well. 464 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 2: He addressed that again, my take is not important. What 465 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 2: he said to that very question was that Donald Trump 466 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 2: also contributed pretty liberally to Democratic candidates when he was 467 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: simply a businessman in New York, and I guess Donald Trump's, 468 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 2: if you want to use the word excuse, was that 469 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 2: in order to do business you had to in a 470 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 2: certain area, whether it was New York or New England, 471 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 2: you'd have to support the candidates who were in officer 472 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 2: aspiring for office. And that's pretty much what he said. 473 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 2: He did not deny that he had contributed in the 474 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 2: past to Democratic candidates. 475 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 9: What about his leadership at the MBTA, he gave. 476 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: Like he responded to that too. He says that he's 477 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: very proud of the work that he did in the MBTA. 478 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 2: I don't know that it was it was he that 479 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,239 Speaker 2: gave the contract to the country. I believe that was 480 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 2: the I believe that was the Patrick administration. But I 481 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 2: stand to be corrected if you know more about it 482 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 2: than I do. 483 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 5: So I appreciate the feed, I appreciate the talk. Dan 484 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 5: doing a great job. Thanks for putting this together today. 485 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate your kind words. Thank you, sir. Let's 486 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 2: keep rolling him trying to get as many people in 487 00:27:53,560 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 2: as possible. Your reaction to the conversation tonight with not 488 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 2: only Mike Kinealy but also Brian shortsleeved They are two 489 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: of the three candidates running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. 490 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 2: There was one candidate who had been invited but chose 491 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 2: not to attend, which is his right. Let me go 492 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 2: next to Tom in Rochester, Massachusetts. Tom, you were next 493 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 2: on Nightsiger, right ahead, Hey. 494 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 10: Good evening, Dano. I got a kick out of you 495 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 10: giving me a round of applause for a first time 496 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 10: call it because the first time I listened to this space, 497 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 10: it's eight to twelve time slot at these kill cycles, 498 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 10: was Jerry Williams. Yeah, yeah, and would I was. I 499 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 10: was a young kid. Much nobody mind. None of my 500 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 10: contemporaries listened to him in those days, and I would 501 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 10: fall asleep and I'd wake up in the middle of 502 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 10: the night. Larry Glick would be on and he would 503 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 10: do he would do a round of applause. 504 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 2: But rather than digress, thank you by the way, just 505 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: you know my last caller last night. It's interesting you 506 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 2: mentioned that because there were still young people. And when 507 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 2: I say young people, I mean kids. You said that 508 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: you listened as a kid. My last caller last night 509 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: was a caller from New York who was a Boston native, 510 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 2: and he was telling us that he listens a lot 511 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: to night Side, and he said that his son. He 512 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 2: picked his son up last night, I think he was 513 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 2: said last night from basketball practice in New York, and 514 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 2: the twelve year old son said, Hey, let's turn the 515 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 2: radio on and listen to Dan Ray in Nightside in Boston. 516 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 2: So there are still twelve year old kids who are 517 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 2: listening to WBZ in the eight to twelve slot. 518 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 10: Well to call Larry Glick on with the show. So 519 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 10: I listened, and I have a hard time actually listening 520 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 10: to down Rochester. My reception is not that great. But 521 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 10: I listened as best and I listened to the comments 522 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 10: once second on hold I hear very clearly. And my question, 523 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 10: Dan was what one question and then one comment? The 524 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 10: first question is in Massachusetts, is the Republican primary process, 525 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 10: in other words, a convention requiring fifteen percent of the 526 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 10: elected delegates out of the Republican party, that's correct? That 527 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 10: is that a mirror image of the identical image of 528 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 10: the Democrat I believe it. 529 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 2: Is, Yes, sir, I believe it is, and I believe 530 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 2: that both parties has got nothing to do that's not 531 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: imposed by the government. I believe that that's adopted by 532 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 2: both parties at parties. Yeah, and the reason they do 533 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: that is the want they want to make sure they 534 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: don't fractionalize the vote. There was recently, matter of fact, 535 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,239 Speaker 2: earlier this week a voting Georgia to succeed a to 536 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 2: succeed a Georgia congresswoman who had resigned, and they were 537 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 2: to be ten Republican candidates, and there were like two. 538 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 2: It was sort of like an open primary. It's what 539 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 2: they call a jungle primary, and no one got fifty 540 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: percent of the vote. One candidate got forty two, the 541 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 2: other got like thirty nine, so they were two dominant candidates, 542 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: but all of the other Republican votes. It's clearly it 543 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 2: was Marjorie Taylor Green's district. It's probably a Republican district, 544 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: probably a district that will be represented. But by having 545 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 2: that many people in the primary ballot, and of course. 546 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,479 Speaker 10: This was not or a jungle primary or you know, 547 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 10: versus a rank choice, I mean, it gets kind of crazy, 548 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 10: but the rules are the rules. And if you're a 549 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 10: of enrolled at Massachusetts, I basically have no say. You 550 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 10: get to vote on September first on what the Republican 551 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 10: delegates to the state convention which were elected. You have 552 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 10: to be a Republican to elect them, right, Well, it's 553 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 10: a party candidate that that so in other words, you're 554 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 10: you can you can choose if there are two people 555 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 10: that make the fifteen percent on either party, you didn't 556 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 10: you have a choice in September first, as unenrolled or enrolled. 557 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 2: But also, if I could just make make a point, 558 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: you're you're absolutely correct on the money, totally in the money. However, 559 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 2: as an unenrolled voter, if either a Kanely or short 560 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 2: Sleeve or whomever, uh, you find to be a good candidate, 561 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 2: you can work for them they make you can make 562 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 2: cap I. 563 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 10: Can write them in. I can, I can write them in. Yeah, yeah, 564 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 10: But I mean if they don't, if they don't get 565 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 10: the fifteen I mean we remember the silver h remember 566 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 10: the silver Broker. I don't know if you call it broker. 567 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 10: It was kind of a muscled billy bulger muscled convention. 568 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: That's correct. 569 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 10: So it's an interesting process. But then this last point, Dan. 570 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 2: But I'm mistake, You correct me if I'm wrong. I 571 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 2: believe that Silber, who was running as an outsider, barely 572 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 2: got the fifteen percent, but then he won the Democratic nomination. 573 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 10: Oh yeah he did. He ran, he ran for government. 574 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 10: Bill Well beat him. But the point was that was 575 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 10: it Bill Well? Yeah? I think it was Bill Weld. 576 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 2: Was it was nineteen ninety nineteen. You're right, it's Bill Weld. 577 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 2: It was Weld Salucci that that beat John Silver and margin. 578 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 10: Great days and those are great days of mass She 579 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 10: was its politics. But you know it was interesting. He 580 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 10: wasn't going to get it. I think they had to 581 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 10: do a second ballot and Bulger kind of forced you. 582 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: She was my recollect h Bulger and Silver were very close. 583 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: There's no doubt, as they say, the rules of the rules. 584 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 10: Yeah, so then it's just a comment. Man. Let somebody 585 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 10: else want what I would have liked to have asked 586 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 10: either the candidates, particularly short Sleep because he was at 587 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 10: the tee and maybe I missed it. I would like 588 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 10: some candidate to address on either side, to address the 589 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 10: pension state pension liability, and my proposal. They talked about 590 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 10: reform for years. My proposal would be that for all 591 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 10: new state employees, including you know, whatever hacks the next 592 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 10: government against to a point, they get subject to the 593 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 10: same as the rest of us do as a cap 594 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 10: on your pension, just like Social Security does a cap 595 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 10: on your contribution. And because ultimately I'm going to watch 596 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,440 Speaker 10: this election for the results in selection from another state 597 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 10: because I can't. I can't afford it anymore. You know 598 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 10: what I'm saying. 599 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 2: I hear you, Tom, I love you. 600 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 8: Call. 601 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 2: Love the points you made, they were very substantive. 602 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 5: Call. 603 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. Let's keep rolling here, going to get 604 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 2: one or two more in before the eleven o'clock news, 605 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 2: which is approaching Linda in Northway. Linda, you were next 606 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 2: on Nightside. 607 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 3: Welcome Hi, Dan, Yeah, thank you for taking my call. 608 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 3: And I just love to listen to those two candidates. 609 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:15,720 Speaker 3: I thought they both did extremely well, and it's making 610 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 3: it difficult for me on who to choose. So I'm 611 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 3: not going to lean towards one right now. I'm just 612 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 3: going to wait and wait and go a little bit 613 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 3: further and I hope that you have a chance to 614 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 3: have them on again. 615 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 2: Well, we're going to try to make this is an 616 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,879 Speaker 2: important election year. Obviously it's what they call an off 617 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 2: presidential year. But uh, there's not going to be many 618 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 2: great congressional races. I think that most of the incumbent 619 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 2: Democratic members of Congress are pretty safe those who are 620 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 2: running for reelection, So if the action is on the 621 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 2: Republican side, we'll try to get some of those candidates 622 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 2: and we will try to let people know that there. 623 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 2: Massachusetts should should become, in my opinion, a state which 624 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 2: has good competition in both the Democratic and the Republican primaries, 625 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,959 Speaker 2: and it would make us a better state across the board. 626 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 3: I I one hundred percent agree, and we need to 627 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,240 Speaker 3: do something. We need to get rid of Mara Haley, 628 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 3: and I would love to see a Republican in there. 629 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 5: Yeah. 630 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 2: Well again, I've had Governor Heally on and Governor Healy 631 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:29,240 Speaker 2: has yes, it was actually I always treat her fairly 632 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 2: and she's more than welcome to come on, and I'm 633 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 2: sure we will have her on between now and the election. 634 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 2: So that's that's my job. My job is to try 635 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,319 Speaker 2: to give these candidates an opportunity to speak. Two of 636 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 2: them took advantage tonight, and I think they both really 637 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,320 Speaker 2: handled themselves well. They were they were substantive, they were direct, 638 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 2: and they were really I thought impressed by both of them. 639 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 3: I was too, thank you, thank you so much. 640 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice, Linda. We'll talk again. 641 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 3: Yes, Godless, I'm back at you. 642 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 2: Good night, six months, two, five, four, ten thirty, six, one, seven, nine, 643 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 2: ten thirty. We're moving along here. You're going to go 644 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 2: back to the Cape and a bunch of callers. And 645 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,320 Speaker 2: I should have mentioned to Tom in Rochester, I'm trouble 646 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 2: when I hear that the WBC signal is not strong 647 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,839 Speaker 2: down there, because we have our our towers in Hull. 648 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 2: And if you had a chance, Tom to call our 649 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,839 Speaker 2: management here at WBZ and let them know that it's 650 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 2: in our interest to make sure that signal is strong. 651 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 2: Let me go to Jerry down to the Cape. Jerry 652 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 2: on Cape Cod, Jerry next on Nightside. 653 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,839 Speaker 6: Welcome, Hey Dan, Thanks good to talk to you, Thanks 654 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 6: to taking my call. 655 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,720 Speaker 2: Welcome and you know, get your reactions this tonight. Go ahead. 656 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I got it like two or three points. 657 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 6: But I'll tell you real quick. You had a caller 658 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,479 Speaker 6: about two or three calls ago, this guy Chris from 659 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 6: the Cape. You know, this is what they do in 660 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,799 Speaker 6: the short Saves campaign. They continually try to push this 661 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,879 Speaker 6: guy as a Cape carter. 662 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:57,400 Speaker 5: He is not. 663 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 6: And at the beginning of your conversation tonight, Brian Shortsley 664 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 6: did say that he's from Belmont. So they continually, they 665 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 6: continually try to push this guy as a cape carter 666 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 6: and to all the people on the Cape, he is 667 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,359 Speaker 6: not a cape carter. He is what we call. 668 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 2: Well yeah, the fellow who called it. And again I 669 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,399 Speaker 2: was listening as intently as I could. Ill we did 670 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 2: pull some information on both of these candidates. I didn't 671 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 2: have any information on where Brian lived right now. I 672 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 2: know that there was information that Mike Kenealy talked about 673 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,359 Speaker 2: how he had grown up I think he said in 674 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 2: reading in Medford. Yes, and now he's living I believe 675 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 2: it is at Lexington. 676 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 6: He's in Lexington, yes, and they grew up in Medford. 677 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, he grew up in Medford. 678 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,759 Speaker 6: Hes Brian Shortsley and all them people, they continually try 679 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,879 Speaker 6: to push him as a cape carter. And in our 680 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,799 Speaker 6: local state committee, woman and man, they try to push 681 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,000 Speaker 6: him as a cape carter. But in the same seconds 682 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 6: they'll say, yes, he graduated from Belmont High and this 683 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 6: is what they do. 684 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,279 Speaker 2: And I hate to say, just because he grew up 685 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,399 Speaker 2: in graduated from Belmont High School. If Brian's out there 686 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 2: listening and he wants to call in and clarify this. 687 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 2: I know, I appreciate it. The fact that he grew 688 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 2: up in graduated from Belmont High School. He then went, 689 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 2: as you know, to Harvard and Harvard Business School, uh, 690 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 2: and spent military time overseas. I must tell you that 691 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 2: if he did say, did he say where he's living? Now? 692 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 2: The only article that I have on Brian. 693 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,400 Speaker 6: Well, go ahead, he did not say where he's living. 694 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,520 Speaker 5: To call it, Chris said where he's living. 695 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 2: Chris lived there too. Well, Chris said that he's on 696 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 2: the Republican Town Committee at Yeah, something like that. And 697 00:39:58,840 --> 00:39:59,360 Speaker 2: so I don't know. 698 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,280 Speaker 6: Did did he donate to Chris's campaign? He didn't donate 699 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 6: to any local campaigns. Mike Kneely did Well? 700 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 2: Again, I assume you're with Mike Kaneely and uh. And 701 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 2: and if Brian Shortsleeve is listening or someone can clarify that, 702 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 2: if that's an important issue, let's get it clarified. Okay. 703 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,400 Speaker 6: Well, the point is is like, don't don't try to 704 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 6: deceive voters where this guy lives. And that's what they're 705 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 6: trying to do. What does he say when he's in Belmont, 706 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 6: when he's on the Cape, everybody's calling him or these 707 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,439 Speaker 6: people at least these people are trying to deceive us 708 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 6: and tell us that he is a Cape caughter. He's not. 709 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 6: He's not, and it's it's just a campaign of deceit. 710 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 2: Again, I would hope that that we could. I'll try 711 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 2: to find out during the news. My suspicion is that 712 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 2: that you're you're correct on this, but but I'm not 713 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,840 Speaker 2: going to spend a lot of time worrying about it. 714 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 2: The next time that I have him, I will ask 715 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,480 Speaker 2: where where where do you vote from? Where's your residence? 716 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 2: Maybe just be honest, house in the Cape. I don't know, 717 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:01,959 Speaker 2: I really don't. 718 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,799 Speaker 6: He does have a house, and he has a house 719 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,959 Speaker 6: in Austinville, right down there where where it's a very 720 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 6: comfortable location and you can say things like this. 721 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,200 Speaker 2: Fair enough, all right, Jerry, appreciate your call. Thank you much. 722 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 2: We'll take a very quick break and we will be 723 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 2: back right after the eleven o'clock news. Here on nightside, 724 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,800 Speaker 2: the only line that is open. Is this going to 725 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 2: be an interesting gubernatorial primary in the other Republican side? 726 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,839 Speaker 2: Six seven is the only line open. Thank you, join us, 727 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 2: stay with us.