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Speaker 2: I'm just blown away by that hour. I got to

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Speaker 2: tell you, normally I want callers. Very rarely do I

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Speaker 2: feel that the individual story of an individual of a

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Speaker 2: out amazing. I would love to hear from as many

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Speaker 2: I don't know how else to describe it, other than

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Speaker 2: So let's let's go to phone calls. If you listen

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Speaker 2: to that hour, and and and and just what else?

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Speaker 2: What else is there to say? But I want to

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Speaker 2: know if you have that reaction to it, headline Trump

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Speaker 2: backs off, Okay, cease fire. I mean, can you give

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Speaker 2: basically backs off. That's a pejorative terms. It's like the

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Speaker 2: or even to man up. Trump backs off, Okay, cease fire.

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Speaker 2: If he didn't back off, it would have been war

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Speaker 2: criminal strikes Boston Globe. Wake up, absolutely, wake up. You're

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Speaker 2: taking a great newspaper and you're running it into the ground.

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Speaker 2: You got the best sports page in the country, the

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Speaker 2: number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. If

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Speaker 2: you listen to that interview, I'd like to get your

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Speaker 2: one of the best interviews I've ever done, and I've

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Speaker 2: got nothing to do with me. It has everything to

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Speaker 2: do with the person who I interviewed, Nick Burg Just

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Speaker 2: amazing story, Shadows of Tehran. I'm not going to repeat

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Speaker 2: have a couple of lines at six one, seven, nine, three, one,

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Speaker 2: How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm fine, but I'll tell you that's one of the most.

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Speaker 4: Extraordinary interviews and stories that I've ever heard. And when

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Speaker 2: Well that I so appreciate that. I hope Nick is

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Speaker 2: listening tonight to think that you're you're born in Iran

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Speaker 2: and now you're living in a totally different country. Ah.

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Speaker 2: And you you're nineteen, and you're you have a reputation

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Speaker 2: where they're going to execute you. You have no choice

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Speaker 3: Just this has.

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Speaker 5: To be a movie.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling the book has to be made into a movie.

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Speaker 2: And I sorry for all the people who have heard this,

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Speaker 2: and for the for the belly acres and the complainers

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Speaker 2: Rosie O'Donnell's of the world or whatever who are looking

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Speaker 4: Again, our lives have been a piece of cake compared

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Speaker 2: Just extraordinary. And we didn't even scratch the surface. We

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Speaker 2: what should happen in Iran, that's exactly what should happen.

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Speaker 2: If we can somehow change that form of government, free

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, Nick gave me great hope though with his perspective

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Speaker 2: But I agree, and you look, the Russian people don't

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Speaker 2: My opinion, those people should be tried for treason at

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Speaker 2: and what potentially can go on. Bill. I love your calls.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for doing exactly what I hoped some of

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Speaker 3: Well, we're all going to hear that interview again on

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Speaker 3: They both need to re replay, but they will.

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Speaker 2: It was Paul English was Monday night at nine o'clock,

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Speaker 2: just extraordinary. Bill, Thank you so much, my friend. We'll

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Speaker 2: Radio Last Hour, I interviewed Nick Berg. His book is

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Speaker 2: called Shadows of Tehran. It is a novel, but it's

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Speaker 2: his life story of having been born in Iran in

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Speaker 2: in the nineteen seventies. The early seventies, he left, leaving

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Speaker 2: his wife and Nick and his younger sister, and Nick

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Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go. I'd love to hear

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Speaker 2: from as many of you as possible. Brenda in Winchester, Brenda,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for calling in tonight. I really

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Speaker 7: I am an r. This has been the best interview

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Speaker 7: that young man, what he's done, what he's been through,

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Speaker 7: It's it's just amazing to me. I am I am

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Speaker 7: like that in your program for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Well, Brenda, I'll take that away.

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Speaker 7: I really no.

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Speaker 2: I mean I listen to.

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Speaker 7: I never every single night, and I get bored with

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Speaker 7: the politics type thing. But this, really it helps us

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Speaker 2: Well, Brenda, I thank you very much. You're one of

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Speaker 7: And if you the story, I want to get that book.

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Speaker 7: I have to as well. I don't know whether you remember,

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Speaker 7: but I am losing my eyesight, so mostly I would

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Speaker 7: be listening to books, you know, on the tape, but

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Speaker 7: to hear him again. He is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, but I would be surprised. And

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Speaker 7: Oh, I can have my OT check it up, Bunny anyway,

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Speaker 2: Again shadows of Tron, Shadow.

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Speaker 2: Well we will get him on again.

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Speaker 7: Yes, that's an incredible So he's so down to earth,

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Speaker 7: he's so smart, and he's done such a sad at

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Speaker 2: He's teaching artificial intelligence. Unbelievable. I just think if I

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Speaker 7: You see, that's what a lot of people here don't understand.

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Speaker 7: They don't go through some of that that things, that

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Speaker 7: that that that man's been through. He thought for our country.

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Speaker 2: Yes, for eleven years and in indefficult circumstances and was wounded, Brenda.

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Speaker 2: I got to get to some other calls. But if

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Speaker 2: you need to get get me, stay in the line. Rob,

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Speaker 2: give you my direct line. I'll always call you back,

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Speaker 2: you know that. Uh, I'll try to find if there's

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Speaker 2: an audiobook, You'll stay there and Rob will give you

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Speaker 2: my direct number. I know you should have, but anytime. Okay,

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Speaker 2: San Antonio, Texas, and thank you for calling in your

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Speaker 8: Last loved it, loved it, absolutely loved it.

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Speaker 7: Amazing.

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Speaker 8: And he has quite a bird's eye view, doesn't he.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I just hope and pray that people

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he's even from certain media outlets.

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Speaker 2: He's never going to get that. Again. I've criticized Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: I think that, frankly, sometimes his language is over the top.

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Speaker 2: I think he can be oftentimes his own worst enemy.

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Speaker 5: Look at it's unbelievable. The courage and the and the

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Speaker 9: Dan.

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Speaker 10: I didn't hear enough of that interview, but I am

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Speaker 2: They paid the way for Donald.

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump.

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Speaker 5: This is this is Donald Trump.

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Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Danielle. You know the expression d end if

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Speaker 10: because no matter what Donald Trump does, they're gonna condemn it.

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Speaker 10: And it's you know, he doesn't have to bomb the plants.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a book. We've had the author of the

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Speaker 2: by Ray Gorum. Maybe I should have him back, but

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what you're talking about, John, And if

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Speaker 2: seventy seven days in September. It's it's a great book.

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Speaker 2: It was recommended to me by a very astute and

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Speaker 2: Well, I prefer to keep my conversations with people private,

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Speaker 10: I'm actually read positive Dan, and it is excellent, and

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Speaker 2: You're cold in the dark, and you have and you

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Speaker 2: face and the government of Iran continue to oppress the

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Speaker 2: people of Iran and threaten the people of the Middle

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Speaker 2: East and build nuclear weapons, then to see Donald Trump succeed.

435
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Speaker 2: And that's a pretty sick analysis.

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Speaker 10: Dan. Right there at the straight of Hormos, they had

437
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Speaker 10: a nuclear weapons. That's the key to the whole Western

438
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Speaker 10: civilization right there. They got the key. They can control Europe,

439
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 10: they can control Unize with the flow of oil. It's

440
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Speaker 10: right there, all right.

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Speaker 2: John, John, I appreciate it. I want you to listen

442
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Speaker 2: to the entire of that interview Nightside on demand dot com.

443
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 2: It's the ten o'clock interview and it'll be Rob will

444
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: have it posted probably by two three this morning, certainly

445
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Speaker 2: by time you get up in the morning.

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Speaker 10: Thank you, John, I'm definitely gonna thank you.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right. Let me get Linda in North Weymouth in

449
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Speaker 2: I've hit the wrong button here. Now what do I

450
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 2: gonna do? I got to go back here and hit

451
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Speaker 2: the right button. Linda, welcome you. You were next to Dan.

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Speaker 12: Are you there?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 10: I am.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me, Linda?

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Speaker 12: Go ahead, yes, yes I can.

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Speaker 5: I can.

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Speaker 12: Well that I'm speechless. I mean, I that that that

459
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Speaker 12: man Nick was just he was like a like a miracle,

460
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Speaker 12: you know, like the hands of God. I'm bringing him

461
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Speaker 12: out like that, I mean, it was, it was it

462
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Speaker 12: was just so hot, warming and uh and uh. And

463
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Speaker 12: to see the strength and the courage then and the

464
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Speaker 12: determination that he had and the struggles to succeed like

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Speaker 12: he did to succeed and.

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Speaker 2: Also just a persevere I mean, you're nineteen years old,

467
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Speaker 2: you're an American living in Tehran. You're also Iranian, You're

468
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Speaker 2: you have a dual citizenship, and now you have to

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Speaker 2: leave the country because there's a there's a warrant out

470
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Speaker 2: for you, or an execution warrant, however he described it.

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Speaker 2: And you to get out of the country, you got

472
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Speaker 2: to get to a foreign country that is that's different, Turkey.

473
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Speaker 2: You got to go to the US embassy and and

474
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Speaker 2: persuade them that you're a US citizen.

475
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Speaker 12: And they're going to look at you.

476
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Speaker 2: Like who the hell are you and what who brought

477
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Speaker 2: you here? And then when you come here, you you

478
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Speaker 2: basically joined the US Army. Uh, so you're not flipping

479
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Speaker 2: burgers at Wendy's right, and you you you rise to

480
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Speaker 2: the level of East seven. You are deployed to Bosnia.

481
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Speaker 2: You're deployed to to Saudi Arabia for desert storm, desert shield,

482
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Speaker 2: to see Lyonne. He talked about being in other other

483
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Speaker 2: countries and places that he couldn't even Mention gives eleven

484
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Speaker 2: years of his life, uh wounded wounded in Bosnia.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't and then to leave his mom and

486
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Speaker 12: his and his sister.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 12: Didn't just hear. I don't know because I had kind

489
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Speaker 12: of like at the very end, kind of like dose

490
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Speaker 12: don if I ever had time with with with that.

491
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Speaker 12: But did he ever did he ever say that he

492
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Speaker 12: was married or anything?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't. I didn't ask him that, to be

495
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Speaker 2: honest with you. And if we have him back on

496
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 2: we can get more and more to that. No, the

497
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: story was about his his escape from Iran. You know again,

498
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: his dad was an American CIA officer, inter married a

499
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Speaker 2: Iranian woman, and then in nineteen seventy five he just disappeared.

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Speaker 5: Family can signed him unbelievable.

501
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Speaker 2: And then he finally tracked his his you know, biological

502
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Speaker 2: father down to Las Vegas, which I'm sure was not easy.

503
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Speaker 2: And I guess he understood that the dad had to

504
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Speaker 2: leave and that he was more concern learned about the

505
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Speaker 2: safety of his family. Why he didn't just bring him

506
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Speaker 2: with him and bring him back to the States, godly knows,

507
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 2: you know, you know, no one knows what goes on

508
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Speaker 2: in a situation like that unless you're in the midst

509
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Speaker 2: of that situation. Maybe he did what he thought was

510
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Speaker 2: best for his family.

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Speaker 12: I don't know, thank you so much for having him

512
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 12: on And how did you come to find him?

513
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 2: Well, we get a lot of we get a lot

514
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 2: of UH book companies offering us different issues and different

515
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: different authors and and this is one that caught my

516
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: eye and I situations like that. I talked to my

517
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: reader and I said, what, you know, what are we

518
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: going to do? And I just thought that tonight, having

519
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 2: talked earlier with the professor from Boston College.

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Speaker 9: But it was easy.

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Speaker 2: You know, these are people who give us a perspective,

522
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Speaker 2: UH to what's going on in this country that we're

523
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: now word war with where to cease fire, which which

524
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: i'd love to see, UH if we if we can

525
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: accomplish diplomatically what the administration has set out. And I

526
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: guess they will meet on Saturday, Saturday afternoon in Islam Pakistan,

527
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be a face to

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Speaker 2: face between uh the Speaker of the House of of

529
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Speaker 2: their parliament to whatever you want to call it, and

530
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Speaker 2: Vice President Vance along with other negotiators including Jared Kushner.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's everything just tied tied in, and it was

532
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 12: it was just it's it's it's a wonderful show and

533
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 12: and thank you very much.

534
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: Well again. What made it the wonderful hour that it

535
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: was was Nick Berg. The book is Shallows of Tehran.

536
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 12: I am I am going to look for that book I.

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Speaker 2: Amazon dot com Shadows of Tehran by Nick Berg, b

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Speaker 2: e Erg. Thanks, thanks so much, Thanks.

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Speaker 12: Linda, Thank you, Dan, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, talk to you soon. Good. All right. I

542
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: got wide open lines here, which really disappoints me. If

543
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: you listened last hour, uh, I want to hear from you.

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00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: Six one seven, two, five four, ten thirty or six

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Speaker 2: one seven, nine three one ten thirty. We took no

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00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 2: phone calls last hour. I had no interest in taking

547
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: phone calls last hour because I wanted I wanted to

548
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: give this author the time. This is a novel, but

549
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: it's a novel about his life. It's an extort. If

550
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 2: you missed the hour, you need to go to Nightside

551
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: undemand dot com. Rob will post the ten o'clock. He'll

552
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 2: post as he posts every hour. We got about I

553
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: don't know ten minutes left six one seven, two five

554
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Speaker 2: four ten thirty, six one seven nine three one ten thirty.

555
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 2: Feel free to join the conversation here. I want to

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00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: know your reaction to me. It was the single most

557
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Speaker 2: inspirational hour of radio that I have done in nineteen years,

558
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 2: and I will put it up against and I've done

559
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: some great hours of radio. I'm I'm very happy to

560
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: say that. And I'm not I'm not someone who is braggadocius,

561
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: nor am I someone who is shy. But when I

562
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 2: hit an interview like Nick Berg and his story, I

563
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: want you to understand the significance. Please join the conversation

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Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,

565
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Speaker 2: nine three, one, ten thirty. We'll be back on nights

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Speaker 2: Side after this.

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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: We're finishing up tonight by talking about the guest last hour,

569
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Speaker 2: Nick Berg, his book Shadows of Tehran, just an an

570
00:34:53,360 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: extraordinary interview. Had nothing to do with me but the subject.

571
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: Nick Berg, a young man who fled around at the

572
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Speaker 2: age of nineteen and nineteen eighty seven and death execution

573
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 2: hanging over his head didn't give him much choice, got

574
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: to the United States somehow, some way, and was able

575
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: to join the military. Wounded in Bosnia, served roast of

576
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 2: the rank of e seven with anyone who's been in

577
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: the military and knows that's a very select NCO rank.

578
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 2: Let me go to Donna in Danvers. Donna, thank you

579
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Speaker 2: very much for calling back. How are you. I thought

580
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: we lost you there, Go ahead, Donna.

581
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Speaker 13: Oh I was nervous. I hung up.

582
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm pretty easy to deal with.

583
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Speaker 13: Mostly well, it was first off, was a great I'm

584
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Speaker 13: a longtime listener, by the way, I called in just

585
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 13: once some time ago when you had oh, Jimmy Tingle on.

586
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 13: That was that long ago a while. Sure, I hope

587
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 13: we've been a long while, but I've been a long

588
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 13: time listener. Yeah, it's it's good to hear people other

589
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 13: people talk and uh and both of the professor, you've

590
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 13: had him on before, and he's he's good to The

591
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 13: phrase that comes to my mind is like, it's kind

592
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 13: of like having your boots on the ground, so to speak.

593
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 13: We've been talking a lot about that in the military since,

594
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 13: but not not in the civil sense. And I think

595
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 13: if you don't know a lot of the history in

596
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 13: that area or just the globe actually everywhere, it's kind

597
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 13: of the same thing. War is terrible, No one wants

598
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 13: it and it's a terrible thing that that people are

599
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 13: just being mowed down in the streets, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's I mean, we're so lucky. We're so lucky to

601
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 2: have been born here.

602
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Speaker 13: Incredible.

603
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 2: It's so many people who who are born here and

604
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 2: they're they're just you know, uh, they have no desire

605
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: to contribute to the system. We're generous to people. This

606
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 2: guy came here with nothing.

607
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Speaker 11: Uh.

608
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 2: It made such an impact and I got.

609
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Speaker 13: It absolutely amazing. So it was, it was, it was.

610
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 13: It really inspired me to call. But then it's like

611
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 13: I was overwhelmed with everything that was going around in

612
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 13: my head. But like I said, a lot of it

613
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 13: is like you kind of forget the history. You finally

614
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 13: forget what's going on. I mean I listened to the

615
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 13: news and that sort of thing, so I know kind

616
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 13: of what's going on. But when you're at war and

617
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 13: and it affects so many of us and the people

618
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 13: over there, we can't appreciate it.

619
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Speaker 2: We're not there.

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Speaker 13: We don't we don't. We we're lucky, just like you said, so,

621
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Speaker 13: so I'm just like grateful. But it was it was inspiration.

622
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 13: He was an inspiration.

623
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you any if any American who feels there,

624
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 2: they're they're in trouble. They they if he could get

625
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 2: if he could get to where he got you unbelievable, Donna,

626
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: thank you so much for calling. Don't be a stranger.

627
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 2: You did great, come on back many times.

628
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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, thanks do have a good night.

629
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Speaker 4: Thank you.

630
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Speaker 13: Thank you for your guests that you do well.

631
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Speaker 9: Thank you.

632
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Speaker 13: Oh had I liked your questions. You really put the

633
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 13: questions out there and you got them answered. He was

634
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 13: good at answering and you were Yeah, that was great. Great,

635
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 13: it was.

636
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Speaker 2: It was a great hour. And we'll have him on again.

637
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 5: We'll have them on back and forth.

638
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 13: Okay, I know you gotta go. I'm watching the clock.

639
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: Almost get one more, one more person. You're going to

640
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 2: get in here.

641
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 13: Especially I'll be listening.

642
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: Thanks you soon. Let me go to my friend Nurse

643
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Speaker 2: Betty and Bedford. Nurse Betty, I haven't heard from me

644
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Speaker 2: in a while.

645
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Speaker 14: Everything okay, No, it is okay, Dan, I've been very sick.

646
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

647
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 14: I had open hot surgery from a dear friend of

648
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 14: yours who is no longer with us, Doctor Cloone.

649
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Speaker 2: Remember Larry Cone, the best.

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Speaker 14: Oh absolutely, Oh he saved my life. Dan Well, I

651
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 14: aneurysm and I've been laid up for a while.

652
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Speaker 2: Nurse Betty, I'm back and I just.

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Speaker 14: Want to say to you you should be very proud

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Speaker 14: of having that young man on. He was so informative,

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Speaker 14: he was awesome. Keep up the good work, Dan.

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Speaker 2: Nurse Betty, thank you so much. I love you.

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Speaker 14: You know that, and I miss you.

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Speaker 2: Well. I got your number. Rob will give you my

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Speaker 2: direct line. Rob give Nurse Betty my direct line. But

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Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta wrap it up for now, Nurse Betty,

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Speaker 2: and you stay strong. Thanks Nurse Betty, talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Betty's been a long time friend. We had a pretty

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Speaker 2: good show tonight. I hope you tell your friends about it.

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Speaker 2: I will I will do Facebook Night Side with Dan

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Speaker 2: Ray in a few minutes. I want to thank Rob,

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Speaker 2: who had a very busy night. I want to thank Marita,

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Speaker 2: and I want to thank all the callers, and I

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Speaker 2: want to thank Nick Berg and Professor Ali Bonowazizi of

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Speaker 2: Boston College. All dogs, all cats, all pets, they all

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Speaker 2: go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rays, who passed

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Speaker 2: sixteen years ago in February. That's why all your pets

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Speaker 2: are our past. They loved you, you love them. I

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Speaker 2: do believe you'll see them beginning. Have a great Thursday everybody.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully it's going to warm up. Thanks everyone,