1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: It's night's time with Dan ray On going Boston's Neech 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Radio for good evening everyone. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 2: It is a February twenty fourth, as we are moving 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 2: quickly now towards the end of the shortest month in 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: the year of the year, twenty eight days in February. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: By this time next week we will be well into March. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: It turns on. It turns from February to March on 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 2: Saturday night Sunday morning, so we have four more days left, 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: four nights left. Tonight, Tomorrow night, Thursday and Friday night. 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: I will be here on each of those evenings, and 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: I hope you will be as well. Rob Brooks will 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: be here. In addition, as we wrap up the month 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: of February tonight, one of the major events of most 14 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: February's presidential States of the Union address occur. They've occurred, 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: I guess as early as January and as late as March, 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: and some years they weren't given at all. They're not 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: given in years that presidents deliver an inaugural adds address. 18 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: So this is the second State of the Union address 19 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: of this president's. So he well he actually last year 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: he gave a speech and it wasn't technically a State 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 2: of the Union address because they consider the inaugural address 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: the State of the Union address, and that was the 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: one where there are a bunch of the Democrats who 24 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 2: got up and including State Representative Green from Texas who 25 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 2: was gesturing to us the president with his cane. Tonight, 26 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to take a different tact, according 27 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: to the House Speaker, desurging Democrats who attend the speech 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: to sit and be respectful, strongly respectful, disagree, but not 29 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: in any way, shape or form, do anything that is disruptive. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: It will be a group of Democrats, including several from Massachusetts, 31 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 2: who have decided they will not attend the State of 32 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: the Union Address tonight. Amongst them the incumbent Senator, Junior 33 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 2: Senator Ed Markey, along with Aana Presley, Jim McGovern, congressmen 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: from the central Massachusetts the Worcester area, along with Lorie Trehan, 35 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: congresswoman from up on st of the New Hampshire border, 36 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 2: and House Minority with Catherine Carter. So we'll again see 37 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: who attends and who doesn't. The other aspect that is 38 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: always going to be interesting will be who are the 39 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: guests who will be acknowledged from the gallery and this year, 40 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: where will the men's the United States gold medal winning 41 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: Olympic hockey team, be seated. They met with the President 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: this afternoon. They're on a whirlwind tour. They had a 43 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: celebration in Miami last night, which some of you might 44 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 2: have seen today, and they were flown to Washington. They've 45 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: already met with the President in the Oval Office, and 46 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: I'm sure they will play a big role in his 47 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: speech tonight. So's I want to set the table for you. 48 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: I will also remind you, as of course I always 49 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: remind you, I should a little mistaken I haven't already acknowledged. 50 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: Rob Brooks is back in the control room now. We 51 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: do not have any guest this hour, so we're going 52 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: to open up the phone lines from eight o'clock until 53 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: nine o'clock and give you an opportunity to tell us 54 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: what you think the president should either celebrate or try 55 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 2: to fix. So, if you are a supporter of the 56 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 2: president and you want to tell us what issue you 57 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: think he should emphasize as his most successful issue, which 58 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: presidents tend to do during these State of the Union's 59 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: addresses or sotus, as the appear in inc in written form, 60 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: if you are a critic and want to tell us 61 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: what you think the president should address tonight to assuage 62 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 2: the apprehensions of American people and the American people and 63 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: the people who'll be voting in midterm elections, which is 64 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 2: what just about nine months away. When you think about it, 65 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: it's late February, so we're only talking March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, 66 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 2: and we will be in November in the midterm, and 67 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 2: that will mark the halfway point, the official halfway point 68 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: of President Trump's second and I suspect final term in office. 69 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: I've read the Constitution enough to understand that despite all 70 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 2: of the trolling that the President sometimes does, he's not 71 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: going to be running for a third term or even 72 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 2: trying to run for a third term and not. It's 73 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: it's just, as far as I'm concerned, out of the question. 74 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: And I think that even he has upon occasions acknowledg 75 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: in terms of the domestic policies that he's going to 76 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 2: talk about. I have a list, and I'd love you 77 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: to add to the list. He certainly is going to 78 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: talk about immigration. I'm suspecting he will do a shout 79 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: out to the men and women of ICE Homeland Security. 80 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: Certainly will talk about affordability. I don't think he has 81 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 2: any choice to talk about that. But he will talk 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 2: about inflation. He'll certainly talk about his inflation rates compared 83 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 2: to Joe Biden's, which were as high as nine percent 84 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: during Joe Biden's first and only term in the White House. 85 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 2: He'll talk about sanctuary states and cities, which of course 86 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 2: is a part of the immigration conversation. He'll talk about 87 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 2: crime reduction, particularly crime reduction in the District of Columbia. 88 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: He may, on the other side, talk about this disaster, 89 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 2: this water waste leak in the Potomac River, which is 90 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: a complete disaster. He is pointing, I'm sure at both 91 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 2: the governors who are Democrats now of Maryland and Virginia, 92 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: including the Virginia governor Abigail Spahanberger just elected governor of Virginia, 93 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 2: who will be presenting the Democrats' response tonight, or one 94 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: of the Democrats' responses. I'm sure he'll talk about his 95 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 2: big beautiful tax bill, so called, dealing with reductions in 96 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: social security taxes as well as a limitation on taxes 97 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: of tips. He'll have to talk about tariffs. I'm sure 98 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 2: it's something that he's not going to spend a lot 99 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: of time on. But the question will be will he 100 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 2: be critical of the Supreme Court justices who will be 101 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: sitting off to his his right front in probably the 102 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: front row of the seats reserved for them, and to 103 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 2: be interest they see how many of the justices show up. 104 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: I suspect most of them will as they normally will. 105 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: Will he talk about birthright citizenship, the next big decision 106 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 2: that the quote's going to deal with. He certainly will talk. 107 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: I think about a lot about id for people to 108 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 2: vote in federal elections, that is they called the so 109 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: called Save Act that we have talked about here on Nightside. 110 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: From foreign policy issues, I'm sure he's going to want 111 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 2: to talk about his eight piece deals, so called. He 112 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: probably is going to have to say something about Iran. 113 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to announce what his specific 114 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 2: plans are, but he certainly is going to mention that 115 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: I suspect, as well as the dissolution, if not the 116 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: destruction of hamas isis Hoodis and Hezbollah. He'll have to 117 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: talk somewhat about Greenland, which of course leads into NATO 118 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: I'm sure he will talk about the capture of the 119 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 2: former president of Venezuela Maduro, which of course will lead 120 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 2: into perhaps some comments about Cuba and what some have 121 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: called the don Roe doctrine. Date of the Monroe doctrine. 122 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: He'll have to talk about Ukraine and the frustration as 123 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: it enters. It's now what fifth year of war between 124 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia. Have to talk about in some form 125 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 2: or fashion, his relationship with Vladimir Putin, and if he 126 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 2: does that, he probably will talk about his upcoming trip 127 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: to China with pressure with President z and I suspect 128 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: there'll be a reference to the leader of India Prime 129 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 2: Minister Motive. Now, I would love to find out from you. Now, 130 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 2: I've kind of covered a lot of the waterfront there, 131 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: but I haven't covered every topic. I'd love to find 132 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: out from you. What would you like to hear him say? 133 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 2: Number One, Now, if you're a Democrat, he's not going 134 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: to say that he's resigning tonight, So let's be realistic. 135 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: What would you like him to say? What would be 136 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 2: if you were his speech writer, the most important, most 137 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 2: significant statement that he could make tonight. And if he 138 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 2: does say something that you predict that is kind of unpredictable. 139 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 2: I think we might have a prize in the busy 140 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 2: prize closet for you. We'll have to figure that one out. If, 141 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 2: on the other hand, you want to call and tell 142 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 2: me what you'd like him to say, anything short of 143 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 2: I intend to resign. He is there for the long run. 144 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: He's not resigning. He's not going to He's not going 145 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 2: to lie down. I think all of us understand that. 146 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: So with all of that said, as a bit of 147 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 2: a preview, you have my thoughts. I want your thoughts 148 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: once the President starts speaking, and my suspicion is that 149 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: he will probably go for an hour. Last year, if 150 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. In this similar speech, he did about 151 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: an hour and ten minutes. We'll see how much applause 152 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 2: is there. The presence of the hockey team, the USA 153 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 2: gold medal, gold medal winning hockey team and the room 154 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 2: is going to be significant. I'm sure there will be acknowledgement. 155 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 2: It will be interesting to see, and I suspect the 156 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 2: Democrats will stand in applaud. If they don't, that is 157 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 2: a huge mistake in my opinion. So yeah, that's what 158 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: we got. That's what we have here, So between now 159 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: and nine o'clock, it's you and me. There are no 160 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 2: guests scheduled. You're the guests. It's Dan Ray with Nightside, 161 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 2: your night Side. I'm Dan Ray. Six one seven, two, five, 162 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 2: four ten thirty six, one seven, nine three one ten thirty. 163 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: Would really like to see if there's someone out here 164 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 2: who can come up with maybe something that I haven't 165 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: thought of. I'm sure there are some subjects that I 166 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: haven't thought of, but something that would be significant. I'll 167 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: also ask you, what do you think the lead will 168 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: be tomorrow in the major newspapers around the country that 169 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 2: Trump did this and staked out a new position or 170 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 2: reinforced an old position, or will there be something in 171 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 2: the speech which will not land as well as it 172 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: should Uh, And that will be the conversation tomorrow in 173 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 2: the newspapers and on the morning talk show. So with that, 174 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 2: let's get to a break six one seven thirty six 175 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: one seven ninety will be a truncated program tonight, so 176 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 2: you got to get in the first hour. We then 177 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: will listen to the president UH the ABC News Live vamping. 178 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,599 Speaker 2: Do we get to the Democratic response by Governor Abigail 179 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: Spahanberger Span Burger, the newly elected governor of Virginia. And 180 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 2: then we'll come back at some point, I assume in 181 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 2: the ten o'clock hour, getting your reaction to the speech. 182 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: Did it live up to your expectations? Did it fall short? 183 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 2: Did it exceed your expectations. I'll ask you to give 184 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 2: them a grade on the speech, as I always do. Uh. 185 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 2: And again I'm looking for honest grades. Uh. And if 186 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 2: you want to identify yourself as a supporter and tell 187 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 2: me it was a C minus, well that's more important 188 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: than if you tell me you're a supporter and it 189 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 2: was an A plus. Similarly, if you are a critic 190 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 2: and you give him a B plus, that's more significant 191 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 2: than if you give them an F minus. I think 192 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 2: you understand. Let's have some fun in the first hour. 193 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 2: Light the lines up six one, seven, two, five, four 194 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty 195 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: Coming right back on night Side as my panel of 196 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 2: expert political analysts are assembling on the telephone lines. We'll 197 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 2: be back on nightside right after. 198 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: This night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you BZ 199 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio. 200 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 2: All right, I want to hear from you. Six one, seven, 201 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 2: two five four ten thirty six, one seven, nine, three, 202 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 2: one ten thirty. I don't care if you're Donald Trump's 203 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: biggest fan or his biggest critic. I want you to 204 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: put your political analysis hat on and tell me what 205 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: you think the president should do, will do, shouldn't do, 206 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: whatever you want. What would you like to see him 207 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: talk about tonight? If you're someone who is on the fence, 208 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 2: what does he need to emphasize to pull you over 209 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 2: to his side of the fence. If you're on the fence, 210 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 2: what does he emphasize that pushes you back on the 211 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 2: other side of the fence. Let's have a little fun 212 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 2: with this six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty 213 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. We talk 214 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 2: about this show as being North America's back porch. All 215 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 2: of us have been very upset in recent years that 216 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 2: Americans can't speak to each other without being upset with 217 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 2: each other. That's what this program is trying as best 218 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: as it can to change and to give people enough courage. 219 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 2: If you have enough courage to call the talk show 220 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 2: and express your point of view, then you probably have 221 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: the same amount of courage or more than enough courage 222 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 2: to talk to your friends and neighbors about politics. There's 223 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that. Let me go to Joe in Belmont. Joe, 224 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: you're going to start us off tonight. You never hesitate 225 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: to speak your mind. Tell me what you what you 226 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: expect the president to talk about tonight, and what would 227 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: you like to hear him say. 228 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 3: I would like to hear the President say that I 229 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 3: haven't done anything in Massachusetts about grocery prices in gasoline prices. 230 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 3: And as you know, I'm a trump Man. I voted 231 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 3: for him three times. I think he's doing a good 232 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 3: job being a good friend of Israel. And I want 233 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 3: to give him an a not an A plus, but 234 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 3: an A minus or a B plus. And I want 235 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: to know what you think of his his TARIFFSKI, because 236 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 3: I've heard the Republicans spend and the Democratic spin and 237 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 3: I don't know that much about economics, but I do 238 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 3: know what my grocery prices in gasoline prices are. 239 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, hold on, what do you what type of 240 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: gas do you buy? Do you buy regular gas or 241 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: are you a diesel guy? 242 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: Regular? 243 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: Regular? Okay? When was the last time you filled up 244 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 2: or the last time you went to the gas station 245 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 2: and put you know, ten bucks or twenty bucks in 246 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 2: your tank. 247 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: Gallon? 248 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 2: Okay, to ninety nine a gallon. You live in Delmart, right, right? Okay? 249 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: Are you somebody who looks for the lowest price in 250 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: your area or do you have a favorite gas station 251 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: that you've gone to for years. 252 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 3: I've gone to the same gas station for years because 253 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 3: it's easy to drive into and there's plenty of space 254 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 3: to get Okay. 255 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: That's reasonable, that's reasonable. Okay. Would you surprise? Would you 256 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: be surprised if I told you that this past weekend 257 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 2: on Sunday, I paid two dollars in sixty three cents 258 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 2: a gallon at a station in Wellesley on Route nine. 259 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: So how much has gas gone down for you within 260 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 3: the last year? So it's gone down less than a dollar? 261 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that it probably was three thirty 262 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 2: three thirty five around the time of the election. I 263 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 2: am I am not certain dead certain of that, but 264 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 2: it certainly has gone down. It is now blowth three dollars. 265 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 2: You weren't paying two ninety nine. What were you paying 266 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: eighteen months ago for gas? You weren't paying two ninety 267 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 2: nine at that Belmont station, Joe, Well, at. 268 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 3: One time I was paying three ninety five or for 269 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: something I can't remember exactly. 270 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 2: That's fine, but but we all were. All I'm just 271 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: saying is that gas prices are the one thing nationwide 272 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 2: that he can hang his hat on and say they've 273 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,239 Speaker 2: gone down. Now, grocery items there, you know, beef has 274 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: gone up. They break you can break it out in 275 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: different ways. Eggs were way up. Uh, there was some 276 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 2: a problem with the with the health of chickens, not 277 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 2: just you know, it wasn't it wasn't a disaster. But 278 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: the price of eggs went up. But there they have 279 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 2: come back down. They're they're coming in the right direction. 280 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 2: I think that if people vote on their pocketbook. Even 281 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 2: as much as the Democrats are talking about affordability, how 282 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 2: was affordability under Joe Biden in your opinion? 283 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: Well, gasoline? Uh, in grocery prices went sky high. 284 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 2: I rest my case, and Dan, I want to know. 285 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 3: What you have respective on tariffs, saw so I could 286 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 3: get both the Republican and Democratic spin. 287 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 2: Well, okay, I think that he was overly aggressive on tariffs. 288 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: I think that he tries to with him everything is 289 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 2: a deal is a negotiation, and it's like I think 290 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 2: that the tariffs did not have the adverse economic piece 291 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 2: impact that the economists we talked. We talked with Professor 292 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 2: Shaler a couple of nights ago last week on the 293 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 2: fact that there were a lot of people last April 294 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 2: when he unveiled the tariffs who were saying, whoa. The 295 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 2: stock Parker went down twenty percent last April, but it 296 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 2: has come back. I think that the that he actually 297 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 2: got a break from the Supreme Court. I'm going to 298 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 2: be probably a minority person here, that the Supreme Court 299 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 2: showed him in the decision how he could legally accomplish 300 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 2: what he says he wants to accomplish with tariffs, some 301 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: tariffs programs which he doesn't need congressional approval on. So look, 302 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 2: you'd like to think that the world was free, but 303 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 2: we've lost a lot of manufacturing overseas. And and he 304 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: when he when he posed those tariffs, he wasn't thinking 305 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 2: about you and me as guys in the Greater Boston. 306 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 2: He was thinking about the auto workers in the Upper 307 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: Midwest and and and steel plants. That's again, it's a 308 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 2: it's in truth, Joe, it's a very mixed bag. 309 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 3: God bless you did. It's always a pleasure. 310 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 2: Well, I hope I made it a little clearer. I 311 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 2: probably muddied the waters for you, but oh you didn't. 312 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 3: I always, I always enjoy hearing yours perspectives, even though 313 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 3: I might only agree sixty or eighty five. 314 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's good enough for me. That's about the 315 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 2: amount of time I agree with the percentage of things 316 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 2: that I agree with myself on. Thanks Joe, talk to 317 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: you later, good night, I bye bye. Here comes the 318 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the air. I got a 319 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 2: couple of lines at six one, seven, two, five, four, 320 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 2: ten thirty, got one at six one, seven, nine, three, 321 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,719 Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Coming up next is Marianne, followed by 322 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 2: Nick and got room for you. Come on, political analysts, 323 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 2: What would you like the president to say? What is 324 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: the most? Let me put it. What is the most 325 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 2: important issue to you? What is the most? Is it 326 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 2: foreign policy? Is it domestic? Is it your wallet? Is 327 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 2: it that he solves that he's that he stops the 328 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 2: fighting in Ukraine? Not that I think he can, but 329 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 2: he said he was going to join the conversation. Coming 330 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: back on night Side, It's. 331 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: Night Side with Boston's news Radio. 332 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: Well, Kaylen, let's get back to our call it's going 333 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 2: to go to Marianne Bridgewater. Marianne, welcome. How are you 334 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 2: tonight on nightside? 335 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 4: Hey Dan, how are you? 336 00:20:58,720 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 2: I'm doing great. 337 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you I really don't want to hear 338 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 4: the speech he's going to give tonight. I really don't 339 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 4: want to. 340 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 2: I voted for the guy. 341 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 4: Look at I'm not going to hide it. I voted 342 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 4: for him, and I don't have a problem with that. 343 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 4: Gas prices are a lot lower than before he was 344 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 4: in office, So I appreciate that. I drive a lot, and. 345 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 2: That's policy driven. I think that's you know, he talks 346 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 2: about drill, baby drill and uh and going back more 347 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 2: towards you. 348 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 4: So so here's my my issue, though, dude, is that 349 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 4: he is that sometimes he turns around and he takes 350 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 4: the protected waters away for whatever reason he wants. And 351 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 4: you know, I am not a really you know, I'm 352 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 4: not a die hat environmentalist. I recycle. I'm careful too, 353 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 4: you know, but I mean like, I'm not going to 354 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 4: go out there and pick it, you know. So I 355 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 4: don't approve of some of his things. Uh, you know, 356 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 4: I don't want him in Greenland. I don't want to 357 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 4: go into war and taking over Greenland, and I hear 358 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 4: that and I just want to just like, oh my god, 359 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 4: I turn off the radio. I can understand it. 360 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 2: I think that. I think that's crazy, although someone did 361 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 2: mention last night that it is. If you look at 362 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: a globe, it's a pretty critical land mass or or 363 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: ice cube, whatever you want to call it. 364 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 4: Listen, it's been critical for hundreds of thousands of years 365 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 4: because you know, I mean, especially with the way we 366 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 4: do wars nowadays. It's all electronic and computer driven and 367 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 4: AI driven and proximities and all that crap. Sorry about that, No. 368 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 2: No, no, but that, but I think that is his his 369 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: best argument. And I'll just play Devil's advocate for a 370 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 2: second here, No I will. I will, because if you 371 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: look at the globe, there is a path that missiles, 372 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 2: if missiles were ever fired, they would go over Greenland 373 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 2: and head this way. And the idea is they want 374 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 2: to be able to get some military installations up there 375 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 2: which would be able to take missiles out. Now, whether 376 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 2: that will ever get. 377 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 4: To I don't know, Okay, So what I would say is, 378 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 4: look at we have the capability to detect that missile, 379 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 4: and we have so many satellites that can be directed 380 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 4: to whatever way. And I'm not no sci fi freeko whatever, 381 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 4: but I you know, I read this and I say, okay, 382 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 4: we have a little sky neet going on here, you know, 383 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 4: and that's okay. You know, it is what it is. 384 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: Like. 385 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 4: We can shoot them down from the United States right 386 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 4: there at the little Pentagon or whatever. Push a button. 387 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 3: You know. 388 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 4: Do we really need Greenland? I don't think so. 389 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 2: I don't think we need No. Here's the thing. I 390 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 2: don't think we need Greenland either. But I think what 391 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 2: he is trying to do again, Look, I think if 392 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 2: you think about Donald Trump, he's in New York businessman, 393 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 2: that's where he comes. 394 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 4: Hey, look at he's smart. 395 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 2: And he's he will negotiate everything. I'm sure that if 396 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 2: he as a you know, I just think that to him, 397 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 2: he looks at life as a negotiation. That's what drove 398 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 2: his tariff policies. You want to have ten percent, we'll 399 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 2: hit you with fifteen. Uh and then it actually that. 400 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 4: But listen, I love that about him, and. 401 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 2: I think what he's doing with Greenland is he's he's 402 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 2: going to basically say, look, uh, in my opinion, we're 403 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 2: not going to invade Greenland. But I do think he's 404 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 2: going to say, we want to be able to have 405 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 2: more a bigger military footprint up there to protect not 406 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: only you, but more importantly US. I think that's I 407 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: think that's what. 408 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be great if he didn't do it so aggressively. 409 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 4: I mean, like there's ways he might be a great 410 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 4: negotiator and great plans. He has no task. I'm really 411 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 4: sad when he first ran about his orange skin and 412 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 4: I just recommended that he stop using that using you know, 413 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 4: I did, And then I got an email back saying, 414 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 4: you want to go to our Boston office and work 415 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 4: for a campaign? I said, absolutely not. You think I 416 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 4: work for the state democratics talk from that? Do you 417 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,479 Speaker 4: think I want to break through my window with a 418 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 4: Trump stick around my cat? 419 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: No? 420 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 4: Thank you, you know, but anyway, I do love your show. 421 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 4: I listen all the time. I don't call in all 422 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 4: the time, and I just want to say thank you 423 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 4: just for being you. 424 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 2: You know, well, I really appreciate that. Look, I have 425 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 2: fun with this. I get I get to talk to 426 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 2: a wide variety of people, more people than I could 427 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 2: ever talk to just walking the streets. I mean, I 428 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 2: get to talk to people from all over the country, 429 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 2: all different points of view. Some of them will greet me, 430 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: some of them disagree with me. Sometimes I just played 431 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: Devil's advocate for the fun of playing Devil's advocate. 432 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 4: And you told me straight up because I'm gonna say, 433 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 4: oh damn, don't disappoint me, you know, don't. But anyway, 434 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 4: I want you to have a wonderful evening. And you know, 435 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 4: for everybody out there, gas prices are definitely lowa because 436 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 4: it used to cost me about one hundred and eighty 437 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 4: bucks a week and a little tiny mos to mind you, 438 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 4: and now it cost me maybe ninety a week. So 439 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 4: I'm a happy woman. 440 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 2: Well, I think on gas prices. And also the good 441 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: thing about gas prices is everything that I buy in 442 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 2: the store at some point has been in the truck 443 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 2: before it gets to the store. Maybe maybe it's going 444 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 2: to fly in on an airplane from somewhere on the 445 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: other side of the world, but eventually it doesn't. That 446 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 2: airplane doesn't land in the parking lot at Costco or 447 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: Bradley's or market Basket. 448 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 4: I think people are forgetting too. Like you mentioned it briefly, 449 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 4: wages went up, costs of supplies have gone up. What 450 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 4: do you think people have to make a living and 451 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 4: a farmer, especially a farm or somebody especially like that 452 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 4: at the United States produces, I'm not talking stuff produced 453 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 4: in Mexico, our Canada. I'm talking about US produce. Some 454 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 4: of the non organic is as expensive as the organic. 455 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 4: So what do you think I do I buy organic? 456 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,719 Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean? Like when I hear 457 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: you give it a choice? Nine cents? Yeah, an organic? 458 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 4: Whatever I'm buying, and it's three hundred and sixty five 459 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 4: cents for non organic. I'm buying organic. 460 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,479 Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know it and sometimes I 461 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: want you to call me back and educate me. I 462 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 2: don't know if the organic thing is a scam or 463 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 2: if it really does make a difference. In other words, 464 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 2: if by it. 465 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 4: Does actually Listen. I am a woman that had a 466 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 4: son with stage four B cancer six months left to 467 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 4: live by three different hospitals, and he did get the 468 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 4: stem cells transplant cured him. And thank you for letting 469 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 4: me post letting people know about stem cells and the 470 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 4: need for donors. 471 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 2: That's important. 472 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,040 Speaker 4: It is, you know, it really really is. But I 473 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 4: can tell you this that as a nurse or when 474 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 4: a healthy lifestyle and healthy products come in, there's health 475 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 4: benefits there. 476 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 2: Okay, I just I just what all I'm asking you what. 477 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 2: My wife is a big organic, big push organic, and 478 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 2: I'm the guy who's saying, well, the price of this, 479 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: the price of that, and all of that. But anyway, 480 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 2: I got to do more studying on it, I guess 481 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 2: because uh, you've. 482 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 4: Convinced me, and you read Facebook. Listen. I tell my 483 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 4: kids this, don't listen to a Facebook's pushing. 484 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 2: I don't listen to I don't listen to Facebook. As 485 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: a matter of fact, if it's on Facebook, I'll probably 486 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 2: pushing against it. 487 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,959 Speaker 4: Go to the the Food and Drug Safety site and 488 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 4: and do you do that all the time? I do 489 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 4: the reports and in the world and and then you're 490 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 4: going to actually see who's truly organic, uno isn't. So 491 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 4: then I send off my little list to my friends 492 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 4: and put me on your mailing. 493 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 2: List, will you, because if you're going to do the research, 494 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 2: I'd appreciate benefiting from it. Marianne, I got to run 495 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 2: them up my break. I loved this phone call. You 496 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: got to call more often. Okay, you've provided a lot 497 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: of good information. Thanks Marianne. Not too soon. Good night. 498 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. One line 499 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 2: there six month, seven nine three, one ten thirty. Nick 500 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 2: in Salisbury is up next. Laura in New Hampshire is 501 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 2: in the on deck circle and you can maybe get 502 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 2: through if you're calling right now. Six one, seven, nine three, 503 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 2: one ten thirty. We got to cut it off at 504 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 2: eight at eight fifty eight ten. We'll listen to the President. 505 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 2: We'll listen to ABC reaction for about five minutes. Then 506 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,479 Speaker 2: we'll listen to the Democrat, the governor of Virginia, the 507 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 2: new governor of Virginia, who will give the Democratic response tonight. 508 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 2: It will be a big stage for Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, 509 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 2: former member of Congress, by the way, so I'm sure 510 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: chill handle it well. Back on Night Side after this. 511 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio. 512 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: We've got to go to Salisbury up in the New 513 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 2: Hampshire border. Nick is in Salisbury. Hey, Nick, Welcome next 514 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 2: on Nightside. 515 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 5: H good evening, Dan, thank you for taking my call. 516 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 2: Welcome. What are you looking for the President either to 517 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: say or not to say tonight, whichever you prefer. 518 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 5: Dan, I'll tell you what I think. My take is 519 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 5: going to be a little off the what the norm 520 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 5: would be. But I really don't care what he has 521 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 5: to say. I find the guy to be a despicable 522 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 5: human being. 523 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 2: Okay, now, don't be ambivalent, just let it all out. 524 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 5: Okay, No, you know, look, I'm a sixty one year 525 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 5: old man, started working when i was fourteen years old. 526 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 5: I really I've been through president since Nixon to Reagan 527 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 5: and the bushes. Not I wasn't fond of the bushes, 528 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 5: but this guy makes them look like princess. 529 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 2: Okay, give it to me. What is the biggest turn 530 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 2: off for you as a sixty one year old voter? 531 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 2: By the way, you're with most other posters. Washington Posts 532 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 2: did at Paul that gives thirty nine percent of the 533 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 2: people give him a positive rating, sixty percent give him 534 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 2: a negative rating. Give me the one moment that crystallizes 535 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 2: it for you, or give me something short and pithy 536 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 2: about what makes him in your mind to speak of 537 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 2: a man. 538 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 5: His behavior, type of behavior. 539 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 2: What to give me. I'm drilling. I'm going to make 540 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: you drill down here for a second. If doing a 541 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 2: poster doing. 542 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 5: It, fine, I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, I was 543 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 5: hesitant to whether I was going to continue my car. 544 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 5: But it's important enough to me sure to express my opinion, 545 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 5: and it's chip to see that. So I appreciate the opportunity. 546 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 5: But the way that this gentleman behaves is not fitting 547 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 5: of that of the US presidency or what I think 548 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 5: should be exemplary of the US presidency. 549 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 2: Is it his personal Let me ask you this if 550 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 2: I can, Nick, I'm just trying to. I'm sort of 551 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 2: doing a focus group with you here. Is it his 552 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 2: personal behavior or is it his demeanor as a political 553 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 2: leader when you talk about behavior. 554 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 5: Well, I think it's both, because I think the way 555 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 5: that he behaved in Davos is the sort of bullying behavior. 556 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 5: The United States is better than everyone else. Whether that's 557 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 5: true or not, I don't know. And I certainly love 558 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 5: my country, but I think that there's a better way 559 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 5: for a diplomat to express themselves throughout the world, if 560 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 5: that makes sense. 561 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: No, a diplomatic is not an aject that would readily 562 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 2: come to mind when you're talking about Tondle Trump. 563 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 5: No, that's true, then I think it misrepresents the country, 564 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 5: this country and it and it does not serve us. Well, 565 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 5: who was the. 566 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 2: Best diplomatic Who is the best diplomatic president in your lifetime? 567 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 5: Well, I I guess I would have to. You know, 568 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 5: I'm not an expert on this by any sub I'm 569 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 5: just asking you who present that William Jefferson Clinton was 570 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,479 Speaker 5: a person that knew how to speak to people. 571 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 3: He did, but he did have some he did. 572 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 2: Have some personal he did have some behavior problems. 573 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 5: Do you know absolutely? I don't just I don't disregard that, 574 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 5: but you know, Nick, I don't. 575 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 2: You've been a fascinating caller. I got three behind your 576 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 2: four behind you. Let to try to get them in 577 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 2: this your first time calling my show, Yes, sir, it 578 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 2: is well. First of all, thank you. I would give 579 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 2: you a round of applause. You're an excellent call and 580 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 2: I hope you'll continue to call the program because you 581 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 2: made me think. And there's no higher compliment I can 582 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 2: pay to a caller than to tell. 583 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that you made me feel like a 584 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,880 Speaker 5: decent human being tonight as any. 585 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 2: Decent human being. And don't let anyone tell you anything 586 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,279 Speaker 2: to the contrary. Let's talk again. Okay, Thanks Nick, Thank you, sir. 587 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 2: Thanks so great night. All right, everybody else has been 588 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 2: on short time. Here. Let me go to Laura in 589 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 2: New Him. So, Laura, what would you like to see 590 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 2: the president say or not say tonight? 591 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I am so proud of my president, 592 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,439 Speaker 6: and I let me tell you about myself. I take 593 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 6: care of Vietnam veterans, so thank you for doing that. 594 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 6: I love the fact that my president makes me feel 595 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:56,399 Speaker 6: safe and he protects our country. What I want him 596 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 6: to say tonight? And I don't agree. He's a few 597 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 6: of the Epstein survivors on there, but I think he 598 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 6: should have the immigrants who have been the families who 599 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,840 Speaker 6: have been chilled by immigrants, that should be the front 600 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 6: and center. 601 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 2: Don't be surprised if he doesn't do that. I don't 602 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 2: know if you were where. He had an event in 603 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 2: the White House yesterday with the group that are called 604 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 2: the Angel Moms, people who have lost women who have 605 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 2: lost a child. 606 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 4: I just. 607 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 6: My husband's in law enforcement and my husband has worked 608 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 6: the border US, so I have got a lot of insight. 609 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 6: I've seen it, I've heard it. I mean, these people 610 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:50,320 Speaker 6: are coming into our country, they're getting healthcare, they're getting money, 611 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 6: you know, And on the other flip side I have. 612 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 6: I see my husband working in sending them back. I mean, 613 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 6: this is a lot of tax payers money. Biden has 614 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 6: messed up our country the Democrats. I don't want to 615 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 6: put a label. I should not do that. But my 616 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 6: president that I voted for has been doing the right stuff. 617 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 2: All right, Well, look, you you're the strongest drump supporter 618 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 2: who has called. 619 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 4: I'm not going to change. 620 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 6: I feel safe. Well, is my family in this country? 621 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 2: Okay? Have you called before or is this your first 622 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 2: time calling. 623 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 4: I've tried to. 624 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 6: Call before, but I don't like to voice my opinion 625 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 6: because it's horrible how people feel about it. 626 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,399 Speaker 2: Well, you, well, first of all, you have every right 627 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 2: to voice your opinion on my show. I hope you 628 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 2: know that. I don't know if you've ever gotten through before, 629 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 2: but if this is your first time caller. 630 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 6: Hang up, because you know what, there's a lot of 631 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 6: haters out there, and you know, in my own family, you. 632 00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying, and that's what I'm trying to eliminate. 633 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get Americans to talk to each other. 634 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons why I need to hear 635 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 2: people like you and people like Nick all right. 636 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 6: I'm a Democrat registered, but believe me, I voted Trump 637 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 6: because this is he I grew up with the pledge 638 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 6: allegiance in the elementary schools, and this is I feel 639 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,800 Speaker 6: so strong that he's bringing us back. 640 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 2: Well, I happen on that point. Agree with you. I 641 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 2: think that should be restored in our in our elementary schools. 642 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 2: I got to get a couple more folks in here, Laura. 643 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 2: If I can't, please. 644 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,359 Speaker 4: Call again time I will about Thank you very much. 645 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 2: Deborah in Salem, Massachusetts. Deborah, you got to be a 646 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 2: little quick for me. You're late and I want to 647 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 2: get you in. Go ahead, Deborah, Sorry about that. 648 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 7: Thank you for taking my calls. 649 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 2: Dean, I'm doing what's what's your What would you like 650 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 2: to hear the President talk about tonight or say tonight, 651 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 2: either positive or negative, whichever you like. 652 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:10,320 Speaker 7: I'm hoping, if not this evening speech, in the future. 653 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 7: I have two domestic issues that I'm concerned about in 654 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,840 Speaker 7: the American public of listening. I'm concerned about food and 655 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 7: security for the people of the fifty States. I'm hoping 656 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,400 Speaker 7: that that can be addressed eventually. And my second concern 657 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 7: is health insurance for people based on their ability to pay. 658 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 7: I have health insurance. Everybody in America should have it. 659 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 7: And I'm also concerned. Do you read the newspapers all 660 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 7: the time, come to Carlo and talk quickly about Russia 661 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,560 Speaker 7: flying over there, Mike jets, even though the paper, the 662 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 7: newspapers careful to point out that it's international space. You 663 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,280 Speaker 7: know you're doing this several times. 664 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're they're active off of Alaska. That is 665 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 2: absolutely true, absolutely true. Uh and maybe, And. 666 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 7: I'm concerned that President Trump. I'm hoping that he will 667 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,440 Speaker 7: not be naive towards this because I. 668 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,360 Speaker 2: Right, Deborah, Deborah, I gotta I gotta get to a 669 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 2: hard break here, so I gotta run. Thank you for 670 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: your call. Let us talk again. Okay, thank you so 671 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 2: much to those in the line. I apologize. We have 672 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 2: to now take the ABC News coverage and we will 673 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 2: be back right after the President's speech of the Democratic response, 674 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 2: and please call back if you didn't get in. Thanks 675 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 2: for joining us.