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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray.

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

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Speaker 1: All right, good evening, everybody, welcome on in. It is

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night. We are halfway through the week. Well we'll

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Speaker 1: be halfway through the week really at ten o'clock. My

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Speaker 1: name's Dan Ray, host of Nightside, heard every Monday through

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Speaker 1: Friday night right here in WBZ, Boston's news radio from

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Speaker 1: eight until midnight. My partner in time is back in

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Speaker 1: the control room, Rob Brooks. He's the producer of the program.

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Speaker 1: Please be nice to Rob. He had a good week

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Speaker 1: off last week and he's kind of getting back into

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Speaker 1: the regular swing of things, doing a great job. As always.

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Speaker 1: We have four interesting guests coming up tonight. Going to

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Speaker 1: be talking with Josh Kraft. Also talk with a spokesperson

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Speaker 1: within Governor's Highway Safety Association. Some good news actually that

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Speaker 1: pedestrian fatalities are down across the country in the latest numbers.

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Speaker 1: And also President Trump has waived what's called the Jones

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Speaker 1: Act for sixty days. I think he could wave that

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Speaker 1: for a lot longer than that, but we'll explain that.

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Speaker 1: Ken Kent Strang, he's the managing director of Americans for Prosperity,

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Speaker 1: but first up this hour, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: lobster rolls. Yeah, lobster rolls. Cara Baskin, Boston Globe correspondent

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Speaker 1: joins us she has done all the hard work on

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Speaker 1: figuring out how much lobster rolls cost. Kar Welcome to NIGHTSID.

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Speaker 1: I would prefer a Baskin ice Cream Colne personally then,

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Speaker 1: And I know you don't run that company, but the

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Speaker 3: Any I could afford what I could afford all the

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Speaker 3: lobster rolls I could ever want.

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Speaker 1: Interest, No problem, no problem. I'm not a big lobster

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Speaker 1: roll guy. I can go an entire summer without a

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Speaker 1: lobster roll that. In fact, I could have given up

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Speaker 1: lobster rolls for lent. It'd be no skin up my back.

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Speaker 1: Why have they so popular?

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Speaker 3: Why are they so popular? That's a difficult question. I

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Speaker 3: think that they are iconic for two reasons. Right, they

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Speaker 3: represent summer. There's something ritualistic about biting into a lobster

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Speaker 3: role in the summertime. It feels like, all right, I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of relaxed and celebratory and there's sort of a

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Speaker 3: special occasion food lobster. As I reported, it's such a

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Speaker 3: luxury item right now, it feels like you're splurging a

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Speaker 3: little bit. So I don't know, there's a little bit

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Speaker 3: of that special occasion feel as well. But it's such

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Speaker 3: a New England food.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was born in Kara, I grew up here,

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Speaker 1: lived here virtually all of my life. But I got

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Speaker 1: to tell you, I've always looked at lobsters as these

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Speaker 1: creepy things that I just they don't look appetizing for me.

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Speaker 1: A bowl of clam child or something like that is great.

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Speaker 1: You know, some chicken on the grill in the summertime,

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Speaker 1: hot dogs, hamburgs whatever. That to me is what says

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Speaker 1: summer plus. When you look at the price in some places,

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Speaker 1: a lobster roll can be costing people anywhere from thirty

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Speaker 3: It is. And it's funny that you say, you know,

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Speaker 3: the lobster roll is kind of weirds you out and

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Speaker 3: you're not a fan of it. Because I was talking

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Speaker 3: to Roger Berkowit, the Legal Seafoods founder. You know, well,

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Speaker 3: you know Roger, he's fun and he has a new restaurant,

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Speaker 3: a a little shop at Logan Airport, like a quick

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Speaker 3: service new place, and we were talking about lobster rolls,

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Speaker 3: and he said he I mean, he's been around long

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Speaker 3: enough that he remembers when lobster was the food of

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Speaker 3: the underclass. You could get it super cheap. You could

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Speaker 3: felt like you. They didn't they didn't want them, they

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Speaker 3: thought they were kind of gross. And then somewhere along

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Speaker 3: the line, I don't know when they became this fifty

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Speaker 3: get them for twelve ninety nine at market Basket. You

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Speaker 3: can get a very well priced lobster role there. So

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Speaker 3: they're not fifty dollars across the board.

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Speaker 1: I get that. But first of all, they're they're ugly.

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Speaker 1: They're not cute. Okay, fine, so that's number one. Number two,

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Speaker 1: they're a pain in the neck to have to eat,

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Speaker 3: Well, your lobster role, hopefully not. Hopefully you don't need

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Speaker 3: a bib for that. Maybe if there's a lot of butter.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I mean I would argue a

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Speaker 1: A chicken when when there's when there's chicken breast on

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Speaker 1: the grill, they're really attractive to me. But the lobster

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Speaker 1: you got to use these these devices to crack the shell,

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Speaker 1: I mean that way I've got you air.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, in fairness, a lobster roll, you don't

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Speaker 3: need to break it apart. You don't have to fight

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Speaker 2: Food work for you.

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Speaker 1: That's the next question is on a lobster roll, I

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Speaker 1: assume you have to have chopped up celery and lettuce.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I think that's a terrible idea. No, No,

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Speaker 3: celery and I you know, and people also are of

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Speaker 3: two schools of thought. You're getting me animated now, because

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Speaker 3: people are in two schools of thought. Rate either the

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Speaker 3: mayonnaise or butter. I personally prefer mayonnaise, but some people

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Speaker 3: are really purists and they want butter. I think that

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Speaker 3: celery is kind of gross because you're crunching into something

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Speaker 3: that tastes like wet grass. I don't need that. I

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Speaker 3: just need my lobster and my mayo, maybe a little

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Speaker 1: Look, maybe if you're from New England and you're going

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Speaker 1: to have a tuna tuna fish sandwich, you better have

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Speaker 1: lettuce and celery chopped up to her.

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Speaker 3: And don't ever have dinner with me. We'll get into

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Speaker 3: a fight. It's funny, actually, I we did his peace

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Speaker 3: about this. It's the globe about food that people bring

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Speaker 3: to pot loft, I think, and we were talking about

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Speaker 3: tuna fish and people like put celery and all sorts

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Speaker 3: mix all sorts of things into it and no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: that's an unwanted s I can't know it funny how

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Speaker 1: About I feel sorry for those pool lobsters when you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's well, here's the thing too. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: part of the reason why they're so expensive is because

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Speaker 3: they've been in hiding because it's so cold. It's you know,

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Speaker 3: we had an abnormally cold, snowy.

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Speaker 4: Winter and so.

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Speaker 3: Right, and so you know, so that's part of the

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Speaker 3: reason they don't want to be They don't want to

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Speaker 1: My final comment on lobsters, okay, I'll have New England

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Speaker 1: long enough to though that back. I think was the

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Speaker 1: here and someone come up with a great idea. We'll

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Speaker 1: call them the lobsters. You know how you can hit

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Speaker 1: a lobs? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh, okay, that it didn't last.

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Speaker 3: I guess it didn't last. That doesn't really have a

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Speaker 1: Well, but if you look at some of the minor

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Speaker 1: league baseball teams.

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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, that have names.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's unbelievable what they named things things after

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Speaker 1: in different in different communities. Well, I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: if you order two lobster rolls, you can have mine,

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Speaker 1: simple as that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll take you up on that any day. Market

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Speaker 3: Basket twelve ninety nine. Although Row thirty four has a

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Speaker 3: very good lobster role as well, it's a mission market basket.

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Speaker 1: Though I know that prices is creeping up a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Now that are they Yeah they're not immune, I know,

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Speaker 3: but they do.

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Speaker 1: That's the story for another day. Carol really loved this conversation.

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Speaker 1: You are a great guest. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All Right, what is my article? When is the article

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Speaker 1: or has it already appeared? Because I never know what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, you know what, it was a front

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Speaker 3: page story. Can you believe everyone is so cheers about

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Speaker 3: last shirt last week? But it is it lives online forever.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, and it was a great It was a

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Speaker 1: great piece as well, Kra Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Kara.

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Speaker 1: About baskin Boston, Globe corresponded, No relation to the ice

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Speaker 1: cream chain. Unfortunately, we all have to work work for

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Speaker 1: a lifting. Nonetheless, thanks than when we got back and

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Speaker 1: to talk with Josh Kraft, former mayoral candidate here in

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Speaker 1: Boston last year around this time he was running for mayor.

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Speaker 1: Didn't turn out as the way he wanted. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: was not treated fairly as a matter of fact, Harold

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Speaker 1: Delighted to welcome Josh Kraft back to the nightside microphone. Josh,

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Speaker 1: it's been a few months since we've been on the

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Speaker 1: interesting things, which at some point we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: Today's Boston Herald which was titled if I'm Not Mistaken White.

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Speaker 1: It's about talking about White Stadium and talks about the

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Speaker 1: Craft Group. Back's Boston's three hundred and twenty five million

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Speaker 1: dollars White Stadium rebuilt after Josh Craft's Craft hammered Michelle

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Speaker 1: made the point to me this morning, which is a

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Speaker 1: pretty simple point. Josh Craft is not the Craft Group.

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Speaker 1: You are an individual. You have you changed your opinion

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Speaker 4: Dan, great to be on again, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: And look, as I've said many times, I love my

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Speaker 4: family do anything for him. That doesn't mean we agree

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Speaker 4: on everything White Stadium. In this case, we do not

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Speaker 4: agree on. My position has not changed on White Stadium.

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Speaker 4: I think it's not I think it's horrible for the

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Speaker 4: city of Boston, horrible for the residents that live around

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Speaker 4: Franklin Park. And it's just I'm all for public private partnerships,

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Speaker 4: but this is a bad public private partnership. And I

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Speaker 4: just I don't want to cut you off, just gonna

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Speaker 4: just rattle through here.

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Speaker 1: Well, one of the things I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: about is do you think those trees are ever coming back?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, look, Dan, I'm not the low axe, but

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Speaker 4: I'm going to speak for the Franklin Park trees. One

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Speaker 4: hundred and forty eight trees, all of many of them

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Speaker 4: one hundred years old or older, being taken down at

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Speaker 4: an Olmstead park that has been enjoyed by generations of families,

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Speaker 4: many black and brown families in the city. And just

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Speaker 4: the fact that you're taking down one hundred and forty

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Speaker 4: make sense to me. From an old Stead park, from

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Speaker 4: any park, does not make sense.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's not only from the park, but of course

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Speaker 1: For those who don't know all the party, Gaylor was

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Speaker 1: Well, people who are listening now know for certain that

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Speaker 4: And I know, ye Dan, Yeah that could Dan, that

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while, people say to me, the

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 5: How are you, sir, Hey, Dan, I'm great. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: A spokesperson with the Governor's Highway Safety Association. Is that

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Speaker 5: That, yeah, we represent this, we represent the state highway

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Speaker 1: Well, I was surprised to find out again according to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. Going out to take a walk

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Speaker 1: the fault of pedestrians.

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Speaker 5: We don't really break it down necessarily that way, because

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Speaker 5: you know it's i'd say to post simplay. I guess

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Speaker 5: we're not necessarily about blame. We're sort of trying to

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Speaker 5: figure out solutions. I want to stop though. Kudos first off,

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Speaker 5: kudos to you for being an attentive driver, for focusing

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Speaker 5: on the road and your surroundings. Oh my gosh, yes,

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Speaker 5: that's I can't imagine what would have happened if you

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Speaker 5: had been distracted looking at your own or something like that.

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Speaker 5: When when that had happened. So, I mean, that's why

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Speaker 5: we tell everyone again, not as much about blame. Just

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Speaker 5: encourage everyone, drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists. I've got two young kids

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Speaker 5: here that they're walking around in Washington, d C. And

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Speaker 5: we got you know, we got a lot of bad

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Speaker 5: drivers here too, So you know, whoever you are, I mean,

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Speaker 5: just I encourage everyone to focus on your surroundings. You

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Speaker 5: have in mind, you know, yeah, put put everything else

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Speaker 5: aside and focus on getting there safely.

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Speaker 1: Can You had bad drivers from all over the country,

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Speaker 1: between members of Congress and the Senate and staffers, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put you in any sort of

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Speaker 1: trouble here, But in Boston, most of our drivers are

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Speaker 1: Boston based. Yeah, there's something from out of town, but

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Speaker 1: you got you have a veritable panoply of license plates

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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. So let us come back to Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's some tips that that you folks share with drivers

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Speaker 1: and also with pedestrians. Obviously, people need to be aware

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Speaker 1: of their surroundings because it's almost like that plane that

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Speaker 1: crashed at Laguati or the other night and ran into

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Speaker 1: the fire truck. If someone had been a little more attentive,

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Speaker 1: maybe the fire truck would not have crossed. Maybe they

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Speaker 1: didn't see the plane. It just seems to me that

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Speaker 1: to take that extra second just to make sure that

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Speaker 1: person is not going to step off the sidewalk. I

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Speaker 1: get concerned when I see people walking. Now they have

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Speaker 1: the right to walk in the crosswalk, okay, they have

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Speaker 1: the right, but they never even look. And there are

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Speaker 1: people who are driving who aren't paying attention. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I always if I'm going through a crosswalk, even though

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Speaker 1: I have the right and the light is in my

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Speaker 1: I make it a point to kind of nod at

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Speaker 1: the person and give them a little thumbs up or

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Speaker 1: a little wave thank you very much. I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: saying thank you very much, not only for not hitting me,

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Speaker 1: put also for stopping for me and allowing me to

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Speaker 1: proceed through the crosswalk. I wish more people would do that,

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Speaker 1: and they just don't.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually do the same thing when I'm walking around,

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Speaker 5: and also as a driver, you know, thinking about this

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Speaker 5: from both sides, drivers can sort of motion to people

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Speaker 5: to cross, or if your windows down, especially as the

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Speaker 5: weather is starting to warm up a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 5: say hey to someone as there they're crossing in the crosswalk.

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Speaker 5: So completely agree with you on that, that that that

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Speaker 5: really goes both ways. I mean in terms of tips,

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Speaker 5: I mean, the tragedy in New York was just awful,

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Speaker 5: but I mean in terms of tips for drivers especially,

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Speaker 5: it's just be safe, don't you know. It's fairly basic,

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Speaker 5: but unfortunately too many people don't listen to this advice.

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Speaker 5: Don't speed follow the speed limit, don't don't drive drunk,

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Speaker 5: don't drive after you've done drugs. Put the cell phone

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Speaker 5: the way, you know, focus on your surroundings, same sorts

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Speaker 5: of things. For people walking, you know, you follow crosswalks,

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Speaker 5: you know, follow follow the traffic signals the same way.

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Speaker 5: Drivers need to follow red and green lights. Pedestrians should,

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Speaker 5: people walking around should should follow the crosswalk signals. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's fairly simple stuff. It's just tough for some people

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Speaker 5: to follow. And unfortunately, something as simple as a speeding driver,

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Speaker 5: which seems, you know, not that big a deal to

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Speaker 5: some people, and then a distracted pedestrian which happens all

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Speaker 5: the time, you combine those two things, and unfortunately that

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Speaker 5: can result in a serious injury or death, and that

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Speaker 5: that happens across all across this country way too often as.

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Speaker 1: A matter of fact. Find final point, if if it's

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Speaker 1: okay with you, Ken, is that the representative of the

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Speaker 1: I can't excuse me. Adam, the representative of the NTSB

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Speaker 1: National Transportation Safety Board, said that whenever something like that

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Speaker 1: has happened at Laguadia, it's a series of mistakes that

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Speaker 1: all happened to coincide. She emphasized that, yeah, yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a series of mistakes, and I think the same goes

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Speaker 1: with with what we're talking about tonight. Adam, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate having you on, and that's good news.

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Speaker 1: And when you get the numbers for the for the

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Speaker 1: second half of twenty twenty five, particularly if they're good,

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Speaker 1: we'd love to bring you back.

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Speaker 5: Okay, definitely, we're optimistic that they will be. And I

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Speaker 5: hope you stay safe both walking and driving out there.

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Speaker 1: Dan, right back at you, Adam Snyder, the spokesperson of

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Speaker 1: the Governor's Highway Safety Association. How can folks get some

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Speaker 1: more information that you guys must have. Everybody has a website,

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Speaker 1: so give us your website.

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Speaker 5: Yes, GHSA dot orget perfect.

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Speaker 1: For Governor's Highway Safety Association GHSA dot org. Thanks Adam.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk again Gray.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Dan. Take care when we come back to talk about

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Speaker 1: an act that probably none of us had ever heard of,

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Speaker 1: called the Jones Act, that has now been waived by

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Speaker 1: President Trump for sixty days. This I think was a

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Speaker 1: no brainer. We'll talk with Kent Strang, the managing director

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Speaker 1: for Americans for Prosperity right after the break. You're on

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Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on w Beaz, Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 1: Delighted to welcome to Night's side, Kent Strang. Mister Strang

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Speaker 1: is the managing director for Americans for Prosperity and Kent,

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Speaker 1: why don't you explain to us exactly what Americans for

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Speaker 1: Prosperity advocates.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's great to be with you, Dan, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for having me. Americans for Prosperity is a

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Speaker 2: nationwide grassroots organization that advocates for limited government and principles

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Speaker 2: and freedom and on economic issues. And the number of

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Speaker 2: is if we are state chapter based of thirty nine

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Speaker 2: permanent state chapters across the country.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the issue that we want to

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Speaker 1: talk about. I think I probably had heard of the

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Speaker 1: Jones Act, that I never would have known what it

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Speaker 1: was or for that matter, why it ever became law.

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Speaker 1: The President has waived the Jones Act for sixty day

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Speaker 1: days to free up the flow of oil to and

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Speaker 1: from US ports. Tell us what the acts the Jones

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Speaker 1: Act prohibits, Maybe a little legislative history as to how

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Speaker 1: whatever came to being, and then what is the President

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Speaker 1: accomplishing here by waving it for sixty days? And why

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Speaker 1: not wave it for a lot longer.

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Speaker 2: Well that sounds great. Well maybe hard to believe, but

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Speaker 2: it can cost more to move oil inside the United

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Speaker 2: States to get it from overseas. And why it's because

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Speaker 2: of a one hundred year old law called the Jones Act.

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Speaker 2: So here's the rule, or here's the law that to

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Speaker 2: move oil between US ports, it has to be moved

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Speaker 2: on ships that are built in the United States, owned

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Speaker 2: by Americans, and crewed by Americans. And so that might

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Speaker 2: sound patriotic, but not really. It's protectionism. And what it

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Speaker 2: does is it limits supply, It flows deliveries, and it

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Speaker 2: drives up costs for Americans at the pump and even

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Speaker 2: fertilizer costs on the farm. And as the United States

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Speaker 2: as a world leader in liquid natural gas or LNG,

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Speaker 2: it limits our ability to even ship LNG to places

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Speaker 2: like Puerto Rico or to Hawaii, places where we don't

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Speaker 2: have pipelines, and so it artificially increases the costs. And

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Speaker 2: so when we have conflicts in Iran or other places

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Speaker 2: where we have natural disasters, things like the Jones Actus

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Speaker 2: becomes temporarily paused. And so the question we should be

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Speaker 2: asking ourselves if is it pausing the Jones acts lowers prices. Now,

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Speaker 2: why are we keeping it at all in this relic

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Speaker 2: of one hundred years ago.

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Speaker 1: Well, obviously they were you know, protectionist influences in Congress.

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Speaker 1: I guess at that time. I don't know. I never

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Speaker 1: want to put people on the spot, But who was

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Speaker 1: the president that signed this in aquin as them into law.

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Speaker 2: You're putting me on this spot to think back one

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Speaker 2: hundred years of who was the president. But I believe

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Speaker 2: that it's happened after World War One, and it was

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Speaker 2: probably a maritime lobby to try to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we had a shipping and there was probably at the

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Speaker 2: time a really good idea for it. But as technology

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Speaker 2: advances and it becomes clear that our economy has changed

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Speaker 2: and it's much less expensive to build ships elsewhere than

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Speaker 2: it is in the United States, and to build infrastructure

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Speaker 2: different places. It's kind of an archaic law, and you know,

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Speaker 2: in times of natural emergencies and things, we want to

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Speaker 2: be able to have the resources we need here in

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Speaker 2: America rather than relying on kind of a one hundred

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Speaker 2: year old law that we just can't get what we need.

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Speaker 2: And so if we're moving oil from Texas to say Boston,

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Speaker 2: it's more expensive to do that than this to get

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Speaker 2: to get it from overseas, and so we should eliminate

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Speaker 2: this law. Congress has an opportunity to do it. It's

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Speaker 2: good that President Trump has put a sixty day suspension

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Speaker 2: on it gas prices as we deal with the conflict

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Speaker 2: in Iran.

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Speaker 1: So it was signed into law in nineteen twenty, which

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Speaker 1: I guess is going to mean that that must have

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Speaker 1: been Wilson.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing that found was about right. And we had

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Speaker 2: put Jones to act the waivers for Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita,

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Sandy, Harvey, IRV Fiona. There had been there have

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Speaker 2: been times where we paused the Jones Act, and so

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Speaker 2: we do this in times of crisis and natural disasters.

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Speaker 2: And it's time to just be done with it. And

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Speaker 2: Congress could eliminate it, and they probably should move forward

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Speaker 2: with that now.

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Speaker 1: It it was just funny here. It was signed into

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Speaker 1: law by Woodrow Wilson on June fifth. It was introduced

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Speaker 1: and therefore named for a great senator who has long forgotten,

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Speaker 1: someone named Wesley Jones, who was He served in the

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Speaker 1: US Senate representing the state of Washington. Shortly after Washington

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Speaker 1: the state of Washington became a state. Well, that's that's

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Speaker 1: good information. And it does show that sometimes after a while,

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Speaker 1: laws fall out of you know, would it be a

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Speaker 1: tremendous opposition do you think today if I don't know

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Speaker 1: some cent of a file the piece of legislation to

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Speaker 1: say this is an anachronism and it is time to

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Speaker 1: relegate it to the dustbin of history. Who knows what

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Speaker 1: these circumstances were post World War One when this act

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Speaker 1: would have been signed. Maybe there was a good reason

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Speaker 1: for it then, but maybe that reason no longer exists.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think so when I'm looked back at

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, and in the Northeast there's a bipartisan support.

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Speaker 2: Six governors in the Northeast from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire,

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Speaker 2: Rhode Island in Vermont sent at the time Secretary grand

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Speaker 2: Home a letter in twenty twenty two during the kind

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Speaker 2: of the start of the Russia Ukraine conflict, when prices

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Speaker 2: were rising, you know, urging there to be a whift

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Speaker 2: of the Shoones Act. And so this is bipartisan because

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Speaker 2: it impacts real Americans, and we talk to Americans every

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Speaker 2: single day at their doorstep and on the phone and

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Speaker 2: through polling, and they're certainly concerned about the cost of living,

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Speaker 2: and gas prices are certainly a big part of that

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Speaker 2: for families to put food on the table. When you

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Speaker 2: have higher gas prices and higher defel prices, that certainly

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Speaker 2: impacts the cost of food. Thirty percent of the fertilizer

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Speaker 2: goes through the strait of her moods that is shut

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Speaker 2: down right now. That's a big input cost in farming

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Speaker 2: to put food on our table. And so Americans that's

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Speaker 2: their top concern when we talk to them, is the

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Speaker 2: cost of living. And so I think this would have

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Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody's going to miss the Jones Act.

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Speaker 1: Not even Wesley Jones, who I'm sure is long gone.

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Speaker 1: Ye kid Strang, how can folks get more information about

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Speaker 1: Americans for a Prosperity. You must have a website. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that our conversation has prompted some interest that my

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Speaker 1: listeners might have been checking out your group, Americans for Prosperity.

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Speaker 1: What's the website?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely visit us an Americans for Prosperity dot org, or

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Speaker 2: visit us on any of our social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: Sounds great, Ken't strength, thanks very much, enjoyed it. I

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Speaker 1: just double checked it was indeed signed by Woodrow Wilson

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Speaker 1: on June fifth, nineteen twenty, about one hundred and five

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Speaker 1: years ago. Coming up, we'll celebrate. We'll celebrate the anniversary

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Speaker 1: this June fifth. We'll have a Jones Act party.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Ken, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Okay, thought actually one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: six years now, I think about it. Okay. We are

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Speaker 1: coming back right after the nine o'clock news and we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about some legislation. There's a push for

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Speaker 1: this at the state House tomorrow and we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk with Mark Haimowitz of the American Cancer Society. It's

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Speaker 1: going to discuss this legislation. This legislation which deals with

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Speaker 1: bio markers. Will explain it. It's been passed in about

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Speaker 1: twenty three other states, including some states that tend not

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Speaker 1: to be leaders in terms of medical reform. So we

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Speaker 1: will talk about this next hour, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: ask some questions and join the conversation back on nightside,