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Speaker 3: Finally, finally TSA agents, after forty days, have been paid.

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Speaker 3: Not only what the general public was put through by Congress,

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we we are. We are the highest priority

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Speaker 5: do that, Eric.

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Speaker 2: Eric, thank you for your call.

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Speaker 3: I hope I'm going to challenge every member everyone who's

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Speaker 2: You know for US House or representatives US.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I will say one thing. I worked on the

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Speaker 3: Well, you know again, it's it's a tribute to the

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Speaker 5: Well, they should be able to do the same thing

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Speaker 5: And it's the last it's the last active duty naval

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Speaker 3: A lot of politics involved in that as well. Eric,

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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Because it's the federal shutdowns which cause the paychecks to

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Speaker 3: All right, Next up, we have Paul from the Tasket. Paul,

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Speaker 7: Welcome to night Side, all right, Dan, I got a

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Speaker 3: Oh there's a lot of people who are, and that

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Speaker 3: Take that job, and you know what you're supposed to

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Speaker 7: You got it all right. So uh, not only the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I said that their staff people. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let them.

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Speaker 3: Take a little bit of heat at home, let them

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Speaker 7: Sure, absolutely, And you got to give that guy credit

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Speaker 3: And obviously, someone like you, who's a business owner, you

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Speaker 3: And it would make me vote for a congressman or

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Speaker 3: a potential congressman who would pledge to do this, or

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Speaker 3: a challenger who would pledge to do that, to do

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Speaker 3: this if they were elected. You got to come up

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Speaker 3: with a difference. When you're running against an incumbent, you

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Speaker 3: got to somehow paint that incumbent as out of touch,

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Speaker 3: old school or whatever it is. And this is the

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Speaker 3: perfect issue for any challenger. I don't care if they're

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Speaker 7: That's why I say, if a person who runs for office,

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Speaker 7: have you ever made payroll? Have you had a had

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Speaker 7: to make payroll? That makes a big difference because so

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Speaker 7: many these people they are in government that payroll doesn't count.

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Speaker 7: It gets budgeted and they don't worry about payroll. But

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Speaker 7: guys will work, they'll small businesses were going to make payroll.

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Speaker 7: And these people need term limits. Term limits are going.

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Speaker 5: To make a big difference.

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Speaker 2: Well they would make a big difference.

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Speaker 3: But you know what what every member of Congress who

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Speaker 3: have ever talked to about term limits, they said, well,

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Speaker 3: we have term limits if you're a member of the

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Speaker 3: House every two years because we stand for reelection and

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Speaker 3: the same way here in Massachusetts. People go to the

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Speaker 3: polls and there their instinct is, well, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: vote for a representative because I saw him at the

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Speaker 3: diner and he said hello to me and said to

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Speaker 3: say hi to the little woman at home, and he's

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Speaker 3: a good guy. People are people are knuckleheads. They they

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Speaker 3: they everything stays the same and they want to Wi's

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Speaker 3: because it's the same people there. They talk about this,

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Speaker 3: No King's rally over the weekend. Trump has been president

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Speaker 3: on what five years? Schumer's been there for what fifty years?

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Speaker 2: In Congress?

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Speaker 7: Polosi, it's like.

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Speaker 3: They basically the Democrats are very effective at putting issues

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Speaker 3: out to help them get elected and to stay elected.

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Speaker 3: They do a good job at that. Okay, they make

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Speaker 3: it sound like that the people on the other side

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Speaker 3: are just bad human beings and the and the This

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Speaker 3: is an issue. I don't care who takes advantage of

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Speaker 3: the issue. If you get some longtime Republican congressman in there,

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Speaker 3: make him a hurr, go on the record and say, look,

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Speaker 3: when this comes up, I'll file the legislation. I'll be

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Speaker 3: a sponsor. You know, let's let's make this happen. Okay,

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Speaker 3: really you all right, Paul, thanks very much. What type

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Speaker 3: of business do you have if you want to give

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Speaker 3: it a plug, I'd love.

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Speaker 2: To have you.

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Speaker 7: We're in a general construction business. We do, you know,

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Speaker 7: from side work to build their houses and the small

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Speaker 7: commercial buildings.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well again, I don't know there's gonna be many

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Speaker 3: people in my audience, but I always want to, you know,

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Speaker 3: give you an opportunity to plug your group if you'd

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Speaker 3: like to you can if you don't want to, that's

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Speaker 3: okay too.

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Speaker 7: That's right, I got too much work?

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Speaker 2: Good enough. Well, that's good.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy for you to Thanks, Thanks, Paul, I have

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Speaker 3: a great night. All right, let's keep rolling here. Let

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Speaker 3: me go to Rachel and Quincy. Rachel and get get

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Speaker 3: you in here before the commercial break next on Nightside.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, I hope all is well in happy Easter.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely agree with your pledge. However, I'd like to

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Speaker 4: just go a little further because I just think, first

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Speaker 4: of all, to me, it doesn't matter what seat anybody

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Speaker 4: employees right. To me, it's like why can't they be

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Speaker 4: exempt from and why and who is not wanting to

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Speaker 4: pay them? These people have worked for years or whatever.

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Speaker 4: They have no choice but to leave. They have families

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Speaker 4: to feed. And this is where I get confused. I'm

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Speaker 4: very very confused as to why they are being targeted

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Speaker 4: not to pay them when they should be paid. Simple,

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Speaker 4: It's just very simple.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't want to really take sides here, but

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Speaker 3: if anybody wants to disagree with me, fine with the

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Speaker 3: ice and Department of Homeland Security. The Democrats looked at

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Speaker 3: that as an issue that they can take advantage of.

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Speaker 3: And the behavior of the ICE personnel and in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: was way over the top. Obviously, two people were shot

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Speaker 3: and killed. Never should have happened. Those people should have

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Speaker 3: been arrested, they should have been dragged out of the car,

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Speaker 3: put in cups and taken away.

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Speaker 2: They should not have been shot and killed, and they were.

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Speaker 2: And so that.

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Speaker 3: Fired up the crowds out in Minnesota, which is understandable.

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Speaker 3: And so what the Democrats said, we want to stop

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Speaker 3: the funding of ICE in Homeland Security. Well, ICE in

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Speaker 3: Homeland Security, they said, you know, we're going to shut

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Speaker 3: down the entire Department of Homeland Security, which includes the TSAH,

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Speaker 3: the the actual on the line ICE officers and Homeland

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Speaker 3: Security personnel. Their their their jobs were funded. So they did.

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Speaker 3: They never lost a paycheck. However, the TSA lost their

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Speaker 3: paychecks for six weeks more seven right.

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Speaker 4: So, Dan, this is where I am really confused. Yep, okay,

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Speaker 4: So so you table what they don't agree with and

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Speaker 4: pay these people from the beginning. So why torture people

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Speaker 4: that are.

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Speaker 3: In Golden hard Because the Democrats thought that the Democrats

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Speaker 3: thought that by making travelers airline travelers inconvenienced, which of

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Speaker 3: course would also inconvenience the TSA people who weren't getting

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Speaker 3: their paychecks, that that would force the American flying public

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Speaker 3: to call up and say, all of the reforms that

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Speaker 3: you've been pushing for regarding ice body cameras and get

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Speaker 3: rid of the masks. That will force the administration to

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Speaker 3: basically give up on those reforms that the Democrats want

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Speaker 3: and capitulate.

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Speaker 2: And so the.

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Speaker 4: Republicans and that worked out, and that worked out well, right,

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Speaker 4: not really?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so they still they did, they did agree

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Speaker 3: to body cameras. Christy nome was was was lost her

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Speaker 3: job as the secretary in the cabin in the cabinet.

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Speaker 3: But it became as it's always a game. It's as simple.

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Speaker 3: It's a game. And the politicians don't how to play

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Speaker 3: the game. And they don't care.

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Speaker 4: No, and they don't care. And you know what, you

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Speaker 4: know what hurt them, you know, take it where it

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Speaker 4: hurts them. Oh, may I take some of your money

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Speaker 4: to pay somebody that I know and I don't.

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Speaker 8: I'm just saying I know what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying if you want, if you want

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Speaker 3: to inflict some discomfort, if you want to inflict and

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Speaker 3: this goes for the Republicans as well as the Democrats,

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Speaker 3: if you want to inflict pain and suffering, economic pain

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Speaker 3: and suffering on any federal worker, whether they are a

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Speaker 3: Homeland security person, whether or not they're a border officer,

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Speaker 3: whether they're a member of Immigration and Naturalization, whether they're

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Speaker 3: a TSA worker, who wherever they are when they're not

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Speaker 3: being paid, So too, Congress, the money for Congress will stop.

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Speaker 3: Make that a national campaign issue. And see how many

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Speaker 3: of these congressmen turn around and lose their office or

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Speaker 3: if they don't go along with this. Rachel, I got

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Speaker 3: you before the break, but I got a screwed here,

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Speaker 3: and I got a couple more callers they got to

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Speaker 3: get to before the ten o'clock hour of the ten

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Speaker 3: o'clock news. Thank you so much for joining us. As always,

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Speaker 3: you've helped me a lot.

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Speaker 4: Thank you a great Thank you, Dan, and happy to you,

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Speaker 4: Rob and your whole staff.

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Speaker 3: Right back to you and yours. Thanks Rachel, talk to

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Speaker 3: you soon, all right, be right back on night side.

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Speaker 3: We'll if you want to continue to talk about this

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Speaker 3: in the next hour. You got to light them up.

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Speaker 3: If not, we are going to change topics. But I

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Speaker 3: think this is an important topic and we will get

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Speaker 3: to the other topic, which deals with some military setbacks. Frankly,

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Speaker 3: that our young men and women and our military has

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Speaker 3: had the resilient and sy of the Iranian military forces

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Speaker 3: is something that is of some concern to me, and

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Speaker 3: I think we need to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: Coming back on Nightside.

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

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to the call. I was

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Speaker 3: going to go to Joe and Lin.

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Speaker 2: Joe, you were next on Nightsig Right ahead.

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Speaker 9: H Dan, this is a terrible thing that happened. I

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Speaker 9: know you won't agree with me on everything, but I

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Speaker 9: am thinking about not voting anymore. We should take the

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Speaker 9: congressman's pay and somehow forfeit their pay, put them in

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Speaker 9: the same position, because it just keeps happening over and over.

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Speaker 9: You know, one minute, we're going to do this. Now

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Speaker 9: we have.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to vote, which is really dumb, but

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Speaker 3: that's okay. And what is suggesting you do in the

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Speaker 3: in and you're going to take their pay? How are

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Speaker 3: you going to take their pay?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 9: Do you know how you close down the government. We

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Speaker 9: should and people don't get paid. They should make it

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Speaker 9: so that with this happens, they don't get paid. That's

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Speaker 9: what I'm trying to go That's what I'm saying, is that.

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Speaker 3: The only people that can do that. You and I

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Speaker 3: don't have the ability to do that directly. Joe and

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Speaker 3: Dan khn walk down to Washington and do that. However, However,

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Speaker 3: if we elect enough members of Congress who are willing

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Speaker 3: to do that, they can impose that on themselves. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Congress just votes themselves a two week recess. You can't

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Speaker 3: vote yourself a recess. I can vote myself a recess.

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Speaker 3: So you have to change the people who are in

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Speaker 3: Congress in order to have any sort of chance.

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Speaker 9: It's very hard to do, Dan with the DEA.

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Speaker 2: I know it is, but that's the only option you have.

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Speaker 3: It's like if I said to you, I want to

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Speaker 3: get a ticket to the Red Sox game, and I

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Speaker 3: want to sit in the front row of the Green

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Speaker 3: Monster seats. There's only so many seats there, and you

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Speaker 3: gotta be if you're gonna buy one, you're gonna buy

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Speaker 3: one that's available. Same way, unless you have members of

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Speaker 3: Congress or people who will who will run for office

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Speaker 3: and say I'm gonna run against this guy who's ada,

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Speaker 3: I'm a crowd, a Republican incumbent. I don't care how

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Speaker 3: long he's been there. I don't care how powerful he is.

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Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned. They need to vote that

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Speaker 3: their paychecks will, the paychecks of this staff will be

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Speaker 3: stopped when a government shutdown begins, a complete government shutdown

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Speaker 3: or a partial government.

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Speaker 9: Shut When this happens, you see how fast things will change.

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Speaker 9: Voting themselves a pay raise. Eye.

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Speaker 2: So that's why you've got to keep voting.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who your congressman is up in Lynn,

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Speaker 3: but if if you call that congress person's office and

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Speaker 3: you say to them, okay, how are you going to

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Speaker 3: vote on this, they don't give you a straight answer,

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Speaker 3: then you vote against them. You vote someone else in

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Speaker 3: the primary, and you vote against them in the final election.

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Speaker 9: It's a great creating. Yet it is a good senator.

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Speaker 9: I think Moulton's my congress he I don't like a

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Speaker 9: lot of things he does, but yeah, it's very depressing.

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Speaker 3: I just want tokay, all right, Joe, I got to

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Speaker 3: get one more in here.

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Speaker 2: Before the break.

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Speaker 9: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. I hope you do it. Ben

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Speaker 2: and Newton, Ben, you're next time nights. IM going to

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Speaker 2: wrap the hour for us, Go right ahead.

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Speaker 8: Ben, Sure. Yeah, it's a very interesting topic. Over the

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Speaker 8: weekend I heard an alternative idea that seemed to have

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Speaker 8: a lot what is it? Tell us what it is,

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Speaker 8: which is, yes, just simply privatize the TSA. Why do

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Speaker 8: we have it run by the government. What is easily

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Speaker 8: turned into a political football. Have it run by.

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Speaker 3: Well, it still has to be funded, whether it's part

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Speaker 3: of the government, And I'm not sure that the TSA

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Speaker 3: hasn't at some point been privatized, and there have been

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Speaker 3: conversations about it. But either way that the funding mechanism

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Speaker 3: is going to be the United States government when you

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Speaker 3: think about it, because they're providing a service to the

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Speaker 3: United States Government, helping them sepore the planes.

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Speaker 8: Sure, but have it run by airlines themselves. They are

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Speaker 8: the ones that stand the most to lose when something

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Speaker 8: goes on.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, now.

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Speaker 3: If you want to say that each airline will take

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Speaker 3: it on as a responsibility, fine, that's fine, but you're

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Speaker 3: going to probably have to get approval by Congress to

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Speaker 3: have that happen. I mean, they got you coming and

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Speaker 3: going here, Ben, is what I'm trying to say.

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Speaker 8: Sure, but at least in the future it wouldn't be

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Speaker 8: so prone to be That's good.

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Speaker 2: That's another good suggestion.

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Speaker 3: Again, what happens is, I think it's better to focus

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Speaker 3: on one one idea and whichever is the easiest to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: And I think the easiest to accomplish is to is

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Speaker 3: to make Congress put their feet to the fire and

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Speaker 3: make them make them vote. But anyway, that's thank you

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Speaker 3: for calling. It was an interesting perspective. Thank you. Sure,

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Speaker 3: here comes that you two sir. Here comes the ten

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Speaker 3: o'clock news. And right after that we were going to

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Speaker 3: talk about what's going on in Iran, and there's and

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Speaker 3: some I think disquieting developments will be back after the

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Speaker 3: tent