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Speaker 1: It's Nights with Dan Ray.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: We're talking tonight about a lack of decision that government

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Speaker 1: of Massachusetts has failed to make. On Friday night, I

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Speaker 1: talked about the crisis that is approaching here in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: which is a SNAP benefit crisis. They are about a

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Speaker 1: million people in Massachusetts who benefit from SNAP programs, which

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Speaker 1: provides it's called supplemental Nutrition Assistance program what used to

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Speaker 1: be called food stamps, So about a million people, most

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Speaker 1: of whom are either single moms, children, people with disabilities,

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Speaker 1: or senior citizens. And under the circumstances of the government shutdown,

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Speaker 1: those SNAP benefits are supposed to end this Saturday at

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Speaker 1: November first. The governor of Massachusetts has an easy option

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Speaker 1: to make sure no one in Massachusetts goes hungry beginning

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. We have an eight point eight billion dollar

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Speaker 1: rainy day fund, but for some reason, the governor has

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Speaker 1: refused to utilize that fund. Just to put it in

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Speaker 1: some context, we have a sixty two billion dollar budget,

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Speaker 1: so an eight point eight billion dollar rainy day fund.

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Speaker 1: It's called also stabilization, the Massachusetts Stabilization Fund. That is

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Speaker 1: about a fund that represents about twelve percent of the

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Speaker 1: state budget. It is a very healthy number, is what

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Speaker 1: I'm basically trying to say. That is for a rainy

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Speaker 1: day in case of an economic downturn. It used to

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Speaker 1: be around to billion dollars a year. Under Governor Baker,

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Speaker 1: it increased and now it's about close to nine billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: That money could be used. We could take care of

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Speaker 1: everyone here in Massachusetts who's in need of snap benefits

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Speaker 1: for the month of November with about two percent of

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Speaker 1: that rainy day fund. It's easy. It's easy, and then

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Speaker 1: we could have the federal government reimburse the Commalth of

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts for that money. But for some reason, Governor Healy

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Speaker 1: has decided that she's not going to access that rainy

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Speaker 1: day fund because she wants to blame Donald Trump. And

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Speaker 1: that's disingenuous and it's beneath the mar Healey that I

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Speaker 1: knew a few years ago. Let's go to the phones.

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Speaker 1: I want your reaction. We lost Amanda from Dorchester last hour. Amanda,

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Speaker 1: feel free to call back and we'll put you the

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Speaker 1: head of the line. I think you probably had us

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Speaker 1: on speakerphone and when you got disconnected, you got disconnected.

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Speaker 1: When you probably pressed the wrong button. Call back sixty

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Speaker 1: or six one seven, going first to Gloria and Salem. Gloria,

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Speaker 1: welcome you in next on nightside.

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Speaker 3: Go right ahead, Hi Dan, I just want to thank you.

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Speaker 3: I lost all hope. I don't think anything can happen,

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Speaker 3: but I want to thank you for bringing up the issue.

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Speaker 3: I'm a disabled senior. I can't go to food banks

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Speaker 3: because I have to be careful what I eat or

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Speaker 3: I'll end up in the hospital. But she's going to

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Speaker 3: cost a lot more. But everybody told me it'll work out,

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Speaker 3: it'll work out. As my despair and my anxiety grew

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Speaker 3: over the past week, well not the past week because

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Speaker 3: it's only Tuesday, but I've been waiting for it to

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Speaker 3: work out, and it's apparently not going to. Lawsuits are

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Speaker 3: not going to work.

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Speaker 1: Out lost lawsuits take weeks and months exactly in some cases.

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Speaker 1: And it's wonderful. It's wonderful political theater. We're going into court.

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Speaker 1: We're going to sue the administration. I gotta make this happen.

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Speaker 3: That's ames the finger pointing is just I had to

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Speaker 3: turn off the news today because I mean, I ended

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Speaker 3: up at the pharmacy getting some medication for for anxiety

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Speaker 3: because it was just I mean, I'm like you. I

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Speaker 3: I I don't have a cupboard full of food because

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Speaker 3: I have to be careful what I eat and I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna get really sick.

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Speaker 1: Well, I gotta, I gotta be honest with you. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a grocery store guy. I'm the person

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Speaker 1: in my family that goes shopping at the grocery store.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I do that is call me weird.

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Speaker 1: But if I have coal cuts in my refrigerator, I

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Speaker 1: don't want them there more than twenty four off. Y,

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Speaker 1: I sound a little weird.

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Speaker 3: No, I feel the way, all right.

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Speaker 1: And also if I watched the food in my refrigerat,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to drink sour milk. And so when

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Speaker 1: I go to the store, I look at the the

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Speaker 1: use by dates. And I'm a fairly serious, fairly serious person,

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Speaker 1: as you probably know. And this is something that is

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Speaker 1: so obvious. This is nothing. We might not be able

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Speaker 1: to be able to pay the military, which is unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: We might not be able to pay the air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 1: And I say, a park's on all your houses to

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Speaker 1: the politicians, okay, because they're getting paid some of them

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Speaker 1: have said, well, I'm not going to accept my money.

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Speaker 1: They're going to put the money in a bank account

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Speaker 1: or you know, they'll get their money. But when you

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Speaker 1: have a million people, and I've criticized some of these

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Speaker 1: programs because some waste there, Okay, but I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that nobody, no child, no no single mom,

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Speaker 1: no older person, no personal disabilities, goes hungry this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: And the money's there. We have eight point eight billion

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Speaker 1: dollars which is at the disposal of the governor. It's

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Speaker 1: her call to make I have no idea who her

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Speaker 1: staff is and who is advising her incorrectly here, and

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Speaker 1: we would probably get reimbursed by the federal government to

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Speaker 1: boot and even if we didn't, this would be a

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Speaker 1: legitimate use of the Rainy Day Fund.

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Speaker 3: So, Gloria, I thank you. You know, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, first of all.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to Gloria, you don't need to thank

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Speaker 1: me at all. I appreciate your acknowledgment. I very much appreciate.

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Speaker 1: I know you're a regular listener. I know you're a

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Speaker 1: regular caller. I really this is my responsibility. This is

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Speaker 1: my job. Okay. My job is to basically call out

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Speaker 1: the politicians where they're doing something stupid, and I've called

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Speaker 1: out Donald Trump for many things he's done stupid. This

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Speaker 1: is something that for some reason, for some reason, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, Governor Healy, who normally has pretty

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Speaker 1: good political instincts, is doing something stupid here by not

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Speaker 1: tapping into the Rainy Day Fund. She'll ead on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I know that she'll lead on Saturday and Sunday and

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Speaker 1: Monday as well. She should, but it's her responsibility. She

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Speaker 1: ran for governor, she's elected to be governor. She has

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Speaker 1: control of the Rainy Day Fund. Governor. If you're listening,

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Speaker 1: or anyone in your in your in your group who

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Speaker 1: has the courage to tell you do the right thing,

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Speaker 1: governor do with this.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, Dan. I'll let you go.

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Speaker 1: Gloria, thank you for calling, and please continue to call

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Speaker 1: this program.

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Speaker 3: I will thank you good night much.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I got Amanda coming back. Okay, Amanda, don't press

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Speaker 1: any bad button in your neck.

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Speaker 5: I here exactly right, Dan, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I agree with you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: I mean, isn't this what our money is for? I mean,

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Speaker 5: come on, now, I think she ought to be ashamed

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Speaker 5: of herself, but as well. After I hung off, I

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Speaker 5: sat here and I said, you know what I'm going

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Speaker 5: to do the mask. Do you know what it costs

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Speaker 5: per day to feed each person based upon the two

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Speaker 5: hundred million dollars over thirty days, six dollars and sixty

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Speaker 5: six cents is what it would cost.

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Speaker 1: Well even if they had to double a triple that

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Speaker 1: who cares, that's what but that's what the numbers say.

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Speaker 5: If you say, if it's a third, right, he said,

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Speaker 5: my k be great guy. I know him personally, know

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Speaker 5: him for years, solid man, and I was happy to

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Speaker 5: hear what he had to say and that he's actually

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Speaker 5: taking action and solving problems because this is just I

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Speaker 5: live in Dorchester. I live in a nice part of Orchester,

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Speaker 5: but when I go to the park, I mean I

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Speaker 5: think kids were hungry. And if there's anything we can

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Speaker 5: do right as human beings is to free our children,

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Speaker 5: our elderly and the people who can't who cannot go

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Speaker 5: to work because they're disabled. Yeah, we know there's a

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Speaker 5: lot of fraud in our welfare system, but this is

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Speaker 5: just taking it way too far.

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Speaker 6: In my opinion.

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Speaker 1: I want I want to say, look I don't want

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Speaker 1: I want the money to be available for people who

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Speaker 1: need it. If I find out that there's fraud, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be as hard nosed as anybody on fraud.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, don't take tax money from me,

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Speaker 1: put it in a rainy day fund and then not

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Speaker 1: use it to feed kids or single moms, or the

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Speaker 1: elderly or senior citizens.

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Speaker 5: And that's who's on it. Those are the people that

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Speaker 5: should be on it in the right. Yes, not thirty

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Speaker 5: year old able to bodied people. Right, And that's I

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Speaker 5: think it's a little bit of that. But at the

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Speaker 5: end of the day, the Congress, if they weren't going

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Speaker 5: to get caught said on Saturday night, they damn well

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Speaker 5: would open the government up.

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Speaker 6: Wouldn't say?

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely, and look the atrocious that you're it is

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Speaker 1: an atrocious situation. And the uh, you know my view,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to be honest with you, is that

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Speaker 1: I think the Republicans wanted to open the government up.

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Speaker 1: This just extend everything for seven weeks and start restart

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Speaker 1: the negotiations and good faith.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully everybody should be able to eat while they're deciding

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Speaker 5: what to do.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, that's that's a question that they get. Now

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Speaker 1: that's a question. There could be no disagreement on the.

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Speaker 5: Republics and when you're talking eight point eight billion dollars

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Speaker 5: and these six dollars and sixty six cents, and.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't care if it were there's a million.

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Speaker 1: There's a million people. I'll give you some statistics to

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Speaker 1: deal with there, and you probably know them better than

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Speaker 1: I could. Just like a great caller. There is we

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Speaker 1: have there are seven million people in Massachusetts, you know,

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Speaker 1: across the board. Uh, that's a round figure. A million

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Speaker 1: need some assistance with SNAP beneficiaries with these SNAP programs

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Speaker 1: from what not.

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Speaker 5: To qualify for this program?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 1: Do I understand? Yeah? Now do I think it's.

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Speaker 5: Like just a million random people that get it? It's

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Speaker 5: absolutely absolutely security.

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Speaker 1: We can agree that there might be some fraud here

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Speaker 1: and guess what you want to you want to take.

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Speaker 5: We'll take that, We'll eat that.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 1: No, what I'm what I'm saying is that is the

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Speaker 1: program should be run efficiently. People should prove who they are.

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you know what this

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Speaker 1: situation is because I want to be able to maximize

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Speaker 1: the money for the people. Really okay, but we know

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Speaker 1: that there is upwards a million people who on Saturday

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Speaker 1: are going to lose their staff benefits, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to sit there and do nothing about it while we

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Speaker 1: have eight point eight.

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Speaker 8: Maybe investment to count.

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Speaker 5: As you said, the market is roaring. We could have

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Speaker 5: paid them in thirty minutes of the market.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Amanda. I loved your call. I hope

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Speaker 1: you continue to call this program.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I need you and you're my favorite person listen

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Speaker 5: to on my way home from work, So thank you

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Speaker 5: for that.

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Speaker 1: Right Well, bye, were radio for your house so you

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Speaker 1: can listen to me even when you're at home.

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Speaker 5: I think I'm going to have to do that. Say

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Speaker 5: you have a great night.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you so much. Good night. Gotta gotta take

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Speaker 1: a very, Gotta take a very. This is a quick break.

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Speaker 1: I got Ken coming up, I got Chris, and I

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Speaker 1: Let me go to Kennon Waltham. Ken, welcome back. How

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Speaker 7: I am fine. I am not one hundred agreement with you.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans voted for the CR, I'm sure Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: They're voting to open the government. The Democrats are voting

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Speaker 1: I think that Senator Ran Paul is balancing off Fetterman's

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Speaker 7: So so it's all in my mind, it's all part

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Speaker 1: In my understanding, my understanding, Ken if I'm wrong, please

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Speaker 7: Oh I'm not sure I'm seeing mix, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we paid Argentina twenty billion dollars out of these treasury

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Speaker 1: So that was a judgment that was made by the administration,

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Speaker 7: So the reason I'm not zero present in agreement with

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Speaker 1: I think that in order to do that administratively, Ken,

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Speaker 1: but but what I'm saying is I don't want to

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Speaker 7: Can no, no, no, you know what, No, I you

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Speaker 1: I'm proud to sound that way right now.

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Speaker 7: By the way, just so you know, no, you bleeding

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Speaker 7: you know, I mean killed the USA CFPB, compardment of education, right,

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Speaker 7: all these things without congressional approval. Massachusetts is going to

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Speaker 1: If that's when you end up, That's when you end

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Speaker 1: you and I are going to have dinner on Saturday night. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know where I'm going to have dinner on Saturday night.

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Speaker 7: No, I said, I'm forty to safety present behind you.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I think I would just I don't.

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Speaker 7: the strategy. And again, how long can she wait and

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Speaker 1: we've had some great conversations, and I think this is

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Speaker 7: I will I will do that.

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Speaker 7: I will do that. I will, I will I will again.

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Speaker 7: I yeah, yeah, Now, let me just the last thing

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Speaker 7: You said many many times that, hey, if the Trump

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Speaker 7: You're correct, right, right, And so I just have no

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Speaker 7: it's hard to ever think they're they're going to do

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Speaker 7: And but I but I think I think you're making

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Speaker 7: a very convincing argument. I mean, the best way to

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Speaker 9: Get fed and then go after the federal government. And

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Speaker 9: I think you've convinced me of that, and that's good,

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Speaker 1: Well I appreciate that, I really do. And you know, again,

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Speaker 1: We have the money, and it's a small fraction. We

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Speaker 7: Well, I think we could work together, you bet you.

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Speaker 9: That's the difference.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, good night so much, one of my most

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Speaker 1: Let's keep rowling here, going down the Cape to see

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Speaker 4: I'm fine, Dan, I'm all in with your suggestion. This

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Speaker 4: five six days from now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, because I hadn't even thought of that, to

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Speaker 4: It's cruel to our fellow citizens, our neighbors who might

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Speaker 4: citizens thirty dollars a day per person for food, free

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Speaker 4: motels and maid service without and the loss of room

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Speaker 4: taxes that go along with that daily drop off of laundry.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well as well as inspectations.

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Speaker 1: Cab rise. It was this cab company down the Cape

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Speaker 1: that got six million dollars down the Cape. Cap company

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Speaker 1: I think it was out of Truro that had no

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Speaker 1: big contract for six million dollars. Now again, I want

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Speaker 1: to focus and I get the point you're making it

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Speaker 1: and it's a good point, but I really just want

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Speaker 1: to focus on what they're doing to one million people

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Speaker 1: who are dependent upon this state to have food in

447
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Speaker 1: their home, in their in their apartment or in their home.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's it's unconscionable in my.

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Speaker 4: Opinion, it's it's really cruel to the point of abusive.

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Speaker 5: UH.

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Speaker 4: And I would you know, support your access to the

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Speaker 4: Rainy Day Fund on the basis of course that it

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Speaker 4: will probably be reimbursable, uh, even if it isn't. What

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Speaker 4: isn't reimbursable is the the emotional distress that is being

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Speaker 4: suffered in the in the dietary restrictions that some people have,

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Speaker 4: and the loss of food or the thought of loss

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Speaker 4: of food for their family at a time of need.

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Speaker 4: And that's what that Rainy Day Fund, as you had

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Speaker 4: pointed out articulately, UH, is meant to provide for appreciate

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Speaker 4: and that pointing fingers doesn't put meals meals on the table.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure, Chris. And the reason that it's

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Speaker 1: great to hear from you is. I'm sure that you

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Speaker 1: have some idea what your lands are for the upcoming weekend,

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Speaker 1: where you'll have dinner on Saturday, whether you're going to

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Speaker 1: eat at home, you know, or go out with some

466
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Speaker 1: friends or whatever. But these people are sitting there now,

467
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Speaker 1: they're saying, look, there's no money coming from the federal government. Okay,

468
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Speaker 1: but there's eight point eight billion dollars here in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: which would more than solve the problem over two or

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Speaker 1: three years if we had to. I'm not suggesting we

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Speaker 1: do that, but on a short term, temporary basis. Because

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Speaker 1: this situation, I can predict, you know, like a weatherman,

473
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Speaker 1: I understand politics, that this is not going to go

474
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Speaker 1: past probably, I'm guessing November fifteenth or something like that.

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Speaker 1: They're precious building and they'll have to come to an

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Speaker 1: agreement here and the government will have to reopen. You've

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Speaker 1: got military members who aren't being paid. You've got air

478
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Speaker 1: traffic controllers who are calling in sick that slow downs

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Speaker 1: at airports. This will get this will get solved. Every

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Speaker 1: one of these governments shows you know they won't. You

481
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Speaker 1: ever been in a rainstorm, christ and someone says, oh,

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Speaker 1: you think the rain's going to stop? And the answer

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Speaker 1: is it always has, you know, and is the government

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Speaker 1: going to be back in business at that point? Always has.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't help a single mom, well, the person

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Speaker 1: with disabilities who doesn't know where their food for the

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Speaker 1: weekend is coming from. Go ahead, I interrupt you. I apologize.

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Speaker 4: I think it's simply immoral to allow this agony to

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Speaker 4: continue to those people that are in severe dire straits,

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Speaker 4: and that are citizens and formerly taxpayers, the unemployed who

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Speaker 4: were at one point employed in tax paying, the whole,

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Speaker 4: the whole gamut. I think it's simply immoral that we

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Speaker 4: don't throw them a life vest at this critical time.

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Speaker 4: And instead of pointing fingers at Democrats or Republicans or whatever,

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Speaker 4: I'm not taking an issue with anything other than pointing

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Speaker 4: fingers does not put food on the table. Said the anxiety,

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Speaker 4: all right, and I.

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Speaker 1: Says always we'll talk, so be well, be well, friend.

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Speaker 1: Next up, I'm going to move here a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Got John and fitchbroy Hey, John, you're next on nightside. Welcome.

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Speaker 8: I was mister Ray tonight. I don't want to say

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Speaker 8: what that other guy said. But the governor don't have

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Speaker 8: any money because she's still got a few up here

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Speaker 8: in limits that she's taken care of. And I got

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Speaker 8: to tell you another thing. You wants to be hanging

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Speaker 8: around with my aunts because they send me a store

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Speaker 8: every other day to make sure the need's fresh. Then

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Speaker 8: they asked me how long did you open this package?

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Speaker 8: I asked the woman that De moon was so she

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Speaker 8: looped and she said, oh, you come here.

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Speaker 4: Every other day.

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Speaker 8: I says yes, and I said the reason I'm calling tonight.

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Speaker 8: I was in De mo Was and he's too old.

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Speaker 8: The woman they got to be in their nineties, hit

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Speaker 8: buying catto. They must have bought probably twenty cans a piece,

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Speaker 8: and some milky bones. And I'm talking with the soccer

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Speaker 8: and he said, they come in there and.

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Speaker 2: They buy that.

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Speaker 8: He says it's two for a dollar or something. He said,

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Speaker 8: what do you think they're eating? Then the guy tells me,

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Speaker 8: you know, the milky bones ain't bad. It should soak

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Speaker 8: them in milk. And these older people are in there

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Speaker 8: buying that stuff. I was so I told my aunts

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Speaker 8: they couldn't believe it. And I come home, but they

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Speaker 8: fall asleep before we can get to talk with you.

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Speaker 8: Because last night you had the accountant on there and

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Speaker 8: they said, I should have called here, but they want

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Speaker 8: to call all the time. Anyway, I haven't called in

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Speaker 8: about five months.

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Speaker 1: Well, you come buy more often, say hello to your odds.

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Speaker 1: That's a horrible story to think that anyone in Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: would find themselves in that situation. And the women who

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Speaker 1: you're talking about in the store, they should be on

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Speaker 1: snap benefits if they're not, and someone should be out

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Speaker 1: from the government finding them and making sure they fill

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Speaker 1: out whatever paper work is necessary.

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Speaker 8: I asked the guy, and the guy says, she would.

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Speaker 7: They live in houses.

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Speaker 8: They think they live up at the wall as twists,

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Speaker 8: and they come in there, you know, every four or

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Speaker 8: five days. And I guess there's more of them. And

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Speaker 8: I haven't you know, I haven't seen them. But I

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Speaker 8: talked to the stockland. He says, yeah. He said, what

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Speaker 8: do you think they're doing with it? He says, you

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Speaker 8: soaked in milky bones. They taste like crack as I said, Well,

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Speaker 8: I haven't got to that point yet.

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Speaker 4: But no, no.

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Speaker 1: And God forbid that anybody anybody anywhere in America. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you hear in other countries people who were born into

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Speaker 1: abject poverty and places around the world. You've heard the

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Speaker 1: names Bangladeshi and Biafra and places like that, and you say,

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Speaker 1: there but for the grace, we are so lucky to

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Speaker 1: have been born in America no matter what our circumstances,

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Speaker 1: and we can right, You're right, Dan, we cannot allow

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Speaker 1: Americans or people who were here to suffer the indignity

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Speaker 1: that you described. And I'm sure what you're telling me

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Speaker 1: is the truth. By the way, I'm sure.

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Speaker 8: Well, my governor was here about a month ago because

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Speaker 8: they want to build them apartments on Main Street, and

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Speaker 8: she was on the radio and everything. She was up here,

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Speaker 8: she had her auntourage up here, and they want to

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Speaker 8: rebuild with cities, so they've been trying to rebuild Fitchburgh.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm just stunned that that mar Heely would

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Speaker 1: not have looked at this and said as opposed to

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Speaker 1: using this and exacerbating the situation and pointing fingers at

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. She could still point fingers at Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and say, look, we're going to make sure that in

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts no one goes hungry, and we will, we will

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Speaker 1: use our own rainy day funds and we're eventually going

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Speaker 1: to get reimbursed by your federal government. But look. I

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Speaker 1: talked about this on Friday, John. I talked about this

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Speaker 1: on Friday night, and today Mike Kinneely, who's a candidate

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Speaker 1: Republican candidate for governor, who leased an eleven point plan

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Speaker 1: in which I looked at and I said to him,

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Speaker 1: you listening to my show on Friday night? And he

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Speaker 1: said no, which is fine. I'm sure he came to

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Speaker 1: the same it's it's we're not talking about nuclear physics

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Speaker 1: here or quantum physics. This is a pretty simple solution

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's and it can be done.

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Speaker 8: I think the problem is that they never went out

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Speaker 8: to see the people on the streets. How some of

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Speaker 8: them are suffering and they're asking for money and they're

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Speaker 8: all over the police. Not everybody's got you know, a

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Speaker 8: silver spoon. Some people were born with wooden spoons. There's

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Speaker 8: slivers in it.

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Speaker 1: And some people don't even have don't even have teeth.

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Speaker 8: And you know they make they make always cross country,

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Speaker 8: uh Pats. And they got all the people with an

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Speaker 8: intense down there. You can't even walk the Pats in

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Speaker 8: were mister and Fitchburgh. When you get behind the old Grossman's.

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Speaker 8: They got a big tense city there and they can't

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Speaker 8: throw them out because it's private property.

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Speaker 1: All right, your you know, John, thank you? What you

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Speaker 1: should do? Okay? As a citizen journalist, that I would,

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Speaker 1: I would in a nice way. I'm not challenging you,

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Speaker 1: but I'm encouraging you that as a citizen journalist, you

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Speaker 1: have a newspaper up there, and I think there's a

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Speaker 1: newspaper in Athol as well.

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Speaker 8: It's a Pitchburgh Sentinel. And as an Aholes no no,

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Speaker 8: I'm a I'm not a no no, no.

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Speaker 1: No, but I'm saying you should call the Fitchburgh Sentinel

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Speaker 1: and try to talk to the editor and say, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: are you aware of the fact that there's this homeless

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Speaker 1: encampment and that they now are going to be facing

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Speaker 1: the winter. It's now late October early November coming around

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Speaker 1: the corner here. As a citizen journalist, you might be

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Speaker 1: able to encourage the Fitchburgh Sentinel to put that story

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Speaker 1: in the newspaper and then one of the TV stations

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Speaker 1: will pick it up. I'm an expert in journalism. I've

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Speaker 1: lived my life doing this. That's how it happens. When

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Speaker 1: you see a story on Channel four, Channel five about

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Speaker 1: you know, homeless homeless encampment in Fitchburg. They found that

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Speaker 1: story out from a local newspaper, and you could be

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Speaker 1: the conduit that could say to the editor of that newspaper, Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is a problem you should be highlighting and next

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Speaker 1: thing you know, you'll see it on channel four, channel five.

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Speaker 1: Trust me on that one.

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Speaker 8: Well, the mayor and the police know about it, and

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Speaker 8: they can't do anything because it's private property. That's fine,

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Speaker 8: that's the problem.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. But still it's a story for the Sentinel.

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Speaker 1: The Sentinel should do that story, is all I'm suggesting

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Speaker 1: to you. Please take my advice and call the editor

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Speaker 1: of the Sentinel. Every newspaper editor in the world loves

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Speaker 1: to get tips from local residents. He would appreciate a call.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what his name is, I have

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Speaker 1: no idea who he is. But if he's the editor

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Speaker 1: of a newspaper, that's the story that should be in

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Speaker 1: his newspaper. Thanks John, we'll talk again.

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Speaker 8: I thank you very much. I'm sorry to take up

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Speaker 8: all your time, not at all.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed the conversation. Thank you. We got two more

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Speaker 1: we're going to get to right after the break. Steve

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Speaker 1: and Addlborough Bob and Rainham and if you want to

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Speaker 1: give it a shot, the only lines open right now

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Speaker 1: are six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty. Will try.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee Steve and Bob will have their time, and

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Speaker 1: if you want to give it a shot, feel free

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Speaker 1: coming back on Nightside.

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Speaker 7: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's see we get everybody and let me

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Speaker 1: go next to Steven Addleborough. Steve, welcome back next on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on this conversation.

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Speaker 6: Oh, great conversation. I just got out of work and

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Speaker 6: I heard the topic and I said, I got to

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Speaker 6: chime in on this. Well, I agree with you, and

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Speaker 6: I agree with one of your previous callers. This whole

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Speaker 6: thing is absolutely terrible to and vindictive to put people through.

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Speaker 6: But I don't know what's more disappointing.

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Speaker 10: Here the fact that these politicians, the mayor, the governor

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Speaker 10: and all these other people are continuously pointing the finger

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Speaker 10: and trying to get the Orange man to be the

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Speaker 10: bad guy, and they're the ones that created the problems

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Speaker 10: that they're accusing the other side of instigating, and people

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Speaker 10: are actually believing it, And that's really distressing to me

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Speaker 10: and you know it, and they should pay people what

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Speaker 10: they need to survive. And the fact that their finger

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Speaker 10: pointing and chin wagging, they have no self awareness at all,

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Speaker 10: and they're just continuously projecting and blaming one person for

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Speaker 10: creating the mess that they created, and to me, it

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Speaker 10: just baffles all common sense or sanity. And I'll let

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Speaker 10: you go so I can let Bob have a call.

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Speaker 10: But thank you very much, Dan, and have a good night.

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Speaker 1: Steve. Thank you for participating, and I'll give you more

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Speaker 1: time next time. Thank you so much. Let me go

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Speaker 1: to Bob and Rain and Bob, you're next on nights.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get you in one more in if possible.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Bob.

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Speaker 2: They done. Dan, I'm sorry to follow up with the

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Speaker 2: last caller. Again, this is a political issue where again

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Speaker 2: Healey's blaming Trump. But you should be calling uh Warren

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Speaker 2: and Macky and tell them to vote to the continuing

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Speaker 2: Resolution at least. And again this is a this is

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Speaker 2: a what do you call it? Dereliction of duty of

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Speaker 2: Congress and Senate so that we have to continue to

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Speaker 2: have these government shutdowns. They're not me.

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Speaker 1: You meant to say dereliction of duty. I know what

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Speaker 1: you mean, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: They're not doing that. They're not doing their job. And uh.

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Speaker 2: And to further the point, there's no way and I'm

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Speaker 2: not I'm just going to speak for the state of Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: There is no way that a family.

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Speaker 7: Should be deprived of food.

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Speaker 2: And if somehow they made a deal with and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna stick with Market Basket or Shaws or stopping Shop.

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Speaker 2: No one can tell me that those people wouldn't work

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Speaker 2: out a deal that you know will pay you, you

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Speaker 2: know they set.

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Speaker 1: Up a deal with It could be done, Bob. The

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Speaker 1: appointment making is a good one. It could be done,

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Speaker 1: and it could be done simply, Bob. I want to

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Speaker 1: try to get one quick comment from Nicole and Lynn here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for calling, Thank you for your lerking tonight's side,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for weighing in on this tonight. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: my friend, thank you, Thank you. Nicole. I got about

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Speaker 1: a minute for you. What can you do with it?

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Speaker 11: Hi, Dan, I'm my first time caller.

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Speaker 1: First time calling. A little routup. Applause from our digital

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Speaker 1: studio audience. Go right ahead, Nicole, thanks to checking in.

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Speaker 11: I am one of the people that this is going

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Speaker 11: to affect drastically. I am currently not in a great position.

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Speaker 11: I'm homeless, and this is a huge problem that we're having.

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Speaker 11: I don't know why we can't do the rainy day

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Speaker 11: fun thing that you're talking about. It's there, it's easy

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Speaker 11: bringing up the topic.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry what I appreciate you bringing up.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I'm bringing it up for you

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Speaker 1: and it out for everybody else like you, and I

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Speaker 1: firmly believe in it, and I'm not gonna quit. I

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Speaker 1: promise I'll stick with this all right. Thank you. Nicole.

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Speaker 1: Please call a little earlier. I'd love to talk with

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Speaker 1: you and understand your circumstances and see if there's anything

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Speaker 1: we can do to get you some help. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you please keep listening. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 7: Hiiight.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's a that's a very powerful conversation in the program.

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Speaker 1: Shane Stokes, great job tonight, Great job to Marita, great

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Speaker 1: job to all the calls. We had an extraordinary group

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Speaker 1: of callers tonight and that made the show. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank everyone who listened, and please Governor Heally, if

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Speaker 1: you're listening, do the right thing, do the right thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll end us always, All dogs, all cats, all pets

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Speaker 1: go to heaven. That's my pal Charlie Rays, who passed

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago in February. That's why your pets are

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Speaker 1: who passed. They loved you and you love them. I

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Speaker 1: do believe you'll see them again. We'll see you again

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night on Nightside. I'm coming up on Nightside with

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Speaker 1: Dan Ray and Facebook in about two minut and it's

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Speaker 1: have a great Wednesday, everyone, stay dry,