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Speaker 1: It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you at

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Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio. Welcome in everyone. It is a Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night as we end the month of March. Boy, it's

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Speaker 1: been a long month with the weather and all of that,

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Speaker 1: have April, and April showers will bring mayflowers. We have

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Speaker 1: pass Over this Wednesday tomorrow, and Easter weekend upcoming. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot for us to be happy about, including

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Speaker 1: the end of what I think someone thinks of is

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Speaker 1: either this or November's that dreariest month of the year.

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Speaker 1: We have a good program tonight. We have a former

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire governor, Chris Snunu, who is now the president

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Airlines for America, joining us at nine o'clock,

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the TSA situation and the impact

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Speaker 1: that it had on the airlines. And there was a

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Speaker 1: comment made by a Delta Airlines ceo today, Ed Maston

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Speaker 1: with hours long security weight and basically said that the airline,

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Speaker 1: his airline, Delta, is now suspending travel perks for members

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Speaker 1: of Congress. As a result, they can sometimes jump the line,

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Speaker 1: but we're going to talk with Chris Sonuno about that.

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Speaker 1: Bastian says they can stand in line just like everyone else.

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Speaker 1: So I'm now become a big fan of Delta Airlines.

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Speaker 1: And then we're going to talk about an amazing documentary

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Speaker 1: that has been put together by doctor Michael gian is

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Speaker 1: pronounced like Ozzie Gee and the former manager of the

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Speaker 1: White Sox. He is a former Harvard physics instructor, Emmy

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Speaker 1: Award winning ABC News Science editor, and he basically is

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Speaker 1: talking about whether or not there's something out there, and

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Speaker 1: we're not talking about ET's. We're talking about someone or

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Speaker 1: in the galaxy in which we live in some form

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Speaker 1: of order. But first off, we're going to go to

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Speaker 1: our four guests this hour. Delighted to introduce Autumn Wine Traub,

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Speaker 1: who is the executive director of the App Drivers Union. Autumn,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 2: How are you receiving I'm great, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now tell us the App Drivers Union. I'm assuming that

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Speaker 1: is a union that represents Uber drivers and Lyft drivers.

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Speaker 1: Are those the are there other categories of drivers who

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Speaker 1: are your union represents.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. The app Drivers Union is a partnership

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Speaker 2: of thirty two b JFSIU and the Machinist Union. And

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Speaker 2: I'd like to start by giving a big hello and

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Speaker 2: shout out to all the uber and Lyft drivers that

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Speaker 2: are out there and possibly listening to the show right

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Speaker 2: now as a look, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have lots of drivers who are moving around

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Speaker 1: Uber and Lyft drivers, that is for that's for certain. Now,

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Speaker 1: you have just had a Polster conduct some sort of

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Speaker 1: a survey in which I believe three and four Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: voters are opposed to the operation of these driverless vehicles.

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Speaker 1: I think in San Francisco they're called Waimo, if I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken. Is that the big company that is doing

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Speaker 1: these driverless cars?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: Okay, have you ever had the experience of being in

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Speaker 1: a driverless car? I assume probably not.

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Speaker 2: I have not, but thank you for asking. It was heard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was in one of San Francisco a couple

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Speaker 1: tell us. I assume that you're publicizing the poll and

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Speaker 1: you're happy about it that at this point in Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: nearly well seventy five percent. I guess nearly seventy five

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Speaker 2: As of right now, thousands and thousands of Uber and

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Speaker 2: lift drivers in Massachusetts are about to win the union

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Speaker 2: around sixty five thousand Uber and lift drivers. We're organizing

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Speaker 2: and it's the first ever law in the country that

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Speaker 2: organizing for better pay, to stop unfair deactivations, and to

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Speaker 2: have a voice. And they're on the cusp of winning

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Speaker 2: a union being able to change things. And as this

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Speaker 2: thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers. But not only Uber

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Speaker 2: and all saying that we really can't afford for drivers to

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Speaker 1: Any studies I understand that in San Francisco they have been,

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Speaker 2: There's actually been a upsurge in events happening in places

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Speaker 2: shut down when Uber vehicles lost their electricity. The whole

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what voters are.

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Speaker 2: San frus They're back operating, but now they're holding hearings

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Speaker 2: and doing studies, and that's exactly what voters are calling

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Speaker 2: will be on drivers, on workers, and on our local economy,

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this question. I just play

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Speaker 1: second autumn, when Uber and Lyft appeared on the scene,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is exactly why drivers are calling

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Speaker 1: Who diminished the value of the taxi medallions, who came

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Speaker 1: in and disrupted the lives of the cab drivers in Boston.

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Speaker 1: If it wasn't the Uber and Lyft drivers. I'm just

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the difference is.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: I remember they came in here. There was a lot

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm an Uber customer. I use

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Speaker 1: Uber all the time, and I'll use a cab if

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Speaker 1: are not available. I just, you know, I understand that

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Speaker 1: you're going to fight for your for your for your members,

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Speaker 1: but your members kind of did this to cab drivers,

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong on that, please tell me why.

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually really wouldn't put it on working people.

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Speaker 2: I would put it on the corporations and the cab drivers.

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Speaker 1: And at the time, the cab drivers weren't working people.

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Speaker 2: Of course, they're working people. But the difference is that

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Speaker 2: right now the drivers are organizing and building power and

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Speaker 2: the market was saturated. And now you have drivers who

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Speaker 2: Many of them were taxi drivers and now bought into

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Speaker 2: And so now we're saying, you know what, we're going

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Speaker 2: We're going to build power, and we're going to have

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Speaker 2: a voice in this and with this, with this poll,

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Speaker 2: We need to study this, and well we need.

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Speaker 1: and big shout out to all the Uber and Lyft

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Speaker 2: You for having us and drivers check out www dot

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Speaker 2: app Drivers Union dot Org and thank you for having us.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, You're welcome. We get back. We're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about some good news for people who are adults

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Speaker 1: dealing with type two diabetes. The FDA has approved a

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Speaker 1: once weekly insolent injection for adults We're going to be

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Speaker 1: talking with doctor Richard Siegel, co director of the Diabetes

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Speaker 1: and Lipid Center at Tufts Medical Center. He's also an

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Speaker 1: and doctor ologist and doc grinologist at draconologist I should

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Speaker 1: say entracconologist at Tuffs Medicine, Weight and Wellness Center. We'll

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Speaker 1: get that right. Coming back on Nightside, It's Night Side

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Speaker 1: with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio. Joining us

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Speaker 1: is doctor Richards Eagle. He's an end of chronologist. I

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Speaker 4: You got it right? You got it right? Dan? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Too many volves in this, It's like I blanked on it.

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Speaker 1: You're also the co director of the Diabetes and Lipid

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Speaker 1: Center at Toughs Medical Center. Uh and as they say

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Speaker 1: you were, and the chronologist at Tuft's Medicine, Weight and

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Speaker 1: Wellness Center. Some good news here finally for FDA from

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Speaker 1: the FBI. FDA for yeah with type two diabetes, tell

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Speaker 4: So just thanks, thank first of all, thanks for having

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Speaker 4: I mean, type two diabetes is the most common type

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Speaker 4: mean there are forty million people estimated, so it's about

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Speaker 4: one in eight people in the US have type two diabetes.

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Speaker 4: A lot of them actually may not know it because

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you I got to have you back on.

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Speaker 1: When we get back, we want to talk with the

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Speaker 1: new mayor of Medford, Massachusetts. Excuse me, Medford, Newton. We're

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, everybody. I'm delighted to be joined

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Speaker 1: by the Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, the honorable Mark Laredo.

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Speaker 1: Mayor Laredo, welcome to.

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Speaker 4: Night Side, Damn, thank you for having me. Great to

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Speaker 1: So how's it going? This is uh, this is year

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Speaker 4: And I keep telling everyone this is the best job

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Speaker 1: Well, you had been a city councilor for some time,

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Speaker 4: And I served on the city council for fourteen years,

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Speaker 1: Wow. Well that's a lot of a lot of service time.

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Speaker 1: You won pretty easily, and you've been in office now

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Speaker 4: history in the background, and I think that adds tremendously

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Speaker 4: to our vitality. And while we do as thirteen villagers,

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Speaker 4: we are one community and we are working together as

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Speaker 4: one community.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that that's a fabulous attitude for you

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Speaker 1: to express, and you express it really well as the

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Speaker 1: mayor of Newton. As you know, I live in Newton,

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Speaker 1: and I'm delighted to see this, this dust up, this

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Speaker 1: contrac tomp, whatever you want to call it, put in

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Speaker 1: all of our rear view mirrors. And hopefully people will

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Speaker 1: enjoy the Memorial Day event. They'll enjoy the lines on

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Speaker 1: the street that they will identify with, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: they'll enjoy the festival on July fifteenth and nineteenth. I

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Speaker 1: know it's going to be a huge success this year,

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Speaker 1: not only for Atum, but for the city of Newton.

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Speaker 1: Let's I have one minute left, and and I would

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Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't just ask you generally. You

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Speaker 1: now in your I guess January February, March tomorrow will

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Speaker 1: be April. So you're well settled in at this point.

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Speaker 1: Everything doing pretty well in Newton. I know that there's

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Speaker 1: always questions and there's issues, but everything at this point

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Speaker 1: seems to be comfortable for you and for your administration.

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Speaker 4: You know. I've been out all over the community, meeting

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Speaker 4: with groups all over the city. I held a listening

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Speaker 4: tour throughout the city all eight wards, plus a virtual session,

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Speaker 4: because it's so important to listen to our residents. And

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you this. People may complain about something potholdering

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Speaker 4: and get fixed some other issue, But when you ask

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Speaker 4: them do you like living here? They say I love

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Speaker 4: living here. And when you ask them do you want

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Speaker 4: to move, they say absolutely not. And to me, that

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Speaker 4: says it all. Because this I'm perhaps a little biased,

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Speaker 4: but I happen to think this is the single best

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Speaker 4: community to live in in the entire Come well from Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I love the enthusiasm that you exude for those who

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Speaker 1: don't know. I called the mayor today and before I

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Speaker 1: could invite him on, and I think you said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to do it. So thank you for being accessible.

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Speaker 1: It's refreshing. And if there's ever anything that you want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, bring to the public's attention through through nightside.

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Speaker 1: The program emanates from your community. I do my program remotely,

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Speaker 1: so I invite you anytime to give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We'll have you on.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll do and happy to be on every time

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Speaker 4: I can be helpful. Thank you so much, Dan, thank

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Speaker 4: you very much.

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Speaker 1: The mayor of Newton, Mark Laredo, thanks so much, Mayor.

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Speaker 4: Take care.

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Speaker 1: When we get back, we're going to wrap the hour

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk with an economic strategist and

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Speaker 1: author why small businesses matter, particularly as the Iran situation

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Speaker 1: drives up some costs. The stock market had a big

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Speaker 1: day to day, which would mean that I guess the

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Speaker 1: cognizantai a feeling a little more comfortable about maybe when

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Speaker 1: and how this activity in Iran will conclude and what

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Speaker 1: benefit will be drawn from it. But we'll talk with

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Speaker 1: Dan Varoni he is again he's an economic strategist and author,

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Speaker 1: but his focus is on small businesses. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with Dan Varoni run after a couple of messages here

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Speaker 1: on Nightside, and then we will get at nine o'clock

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Speaker 1: with Chris Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire who

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Speaker 1: now serves in the position of President and CEO of

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Speaker 1: Airlines for America. And hopefully the problems with the TSA

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Speaker 1: are definitely going to be in the rearview mirror completely

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Speaker 1: within a matter of days. We're back on Nightside after this.

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Speaker 1: You're on Nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio. Okay, as we move into our fourth

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Speaker 1: guest here on a Tuesday night, it's the end of March.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like winter is really over. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to drink anything, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: with Dan Baroni. Dan is an economic strategist and author.

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Speaker 1: He's been with us before, and he's talking about obviously

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Speaker 1: what's going on halfway around the world and how it

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Speaker 1: is affecting small business here in this country. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: Dan Varoni. How are you tonight?

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Speaker 4: I'm sprilled to be back and I'm doing well, how

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Speaker 4: are you doing it?

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Speaker 1: Do it fine? So your focus tonight is small business

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Speaker 1: because it says why small business matters more. As AROUN

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Speaker 1: drives cost higher, all of us are going to be

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Speaker 1: affected by it. Why the focus on small business? I

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Speaker 1: think I know the answer, but I'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: it from you first.

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Speaker 3: So nine percent of the businesses in this country or

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Speaker 3: small businesses. With the economy and challenge and although the

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Speaker 3: economy is still growing at two to two and a

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Speaker 3: half percent, what we want to do is.

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Speaker 4: Get the economy moving.

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Speaker 3: At a faster rate, at a higher level about in

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Speaker 3: a way to do that is to unlease small business.

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Speaker 3: That's why I wrote this article.

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Speaker 1: Now we know that the stock market had I'm going

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Speaker 1: to just broaden it a little bit. Stock market had

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Speaker 1: a huge day to day. I don't understand why, but

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you do. The the indices were up I

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Speaker 1: think two to two and a half even one one

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Speaker 1: of them was up over three percent. The nastac what

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Speaker 1: happened today that caused the market to reverse course so dramatically.

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Speaker 3: The President indicated that the conflict in Iran could and

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Speaker 3: would be over in two to three weeks. That remember,

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Speaker 3: the stock market loves certainty. They'd been in a they've

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Speaker 3: been swimming in a sea of uncertainty, and he offered

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Speaker 3: a glimmer of certainty.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that that reassurance, assuming that it's true. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how the reassurance can be given not

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Speaker 1: knowing what might or might not happen. It's interesting that

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Speaker 1: that's your answer. I think that's the right answer. But

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. Do you think the fact that the market

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Speaker 1: had dropped so precipitously. It's kind of feeling a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the Liberation Day drop of a year ago

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Speaker 1: April second, when the market dropped when he announced the tariffs,

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Speaker 1: and then it turned itself around fairly quickly, with an

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Speaker 1: amount of maybe two or three weeks.

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Speaker 3: So I think this has a greater sense of intensity

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Speaker 3: around it. And of the rolls of oil comes from

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Speaker 3: the Straight of Hormuz, and although the US only gets

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Speaker 3: two percent of its oil from that part of the world.

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Speaker 3: The point is is that oil oil is priced globally,

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Speaker 3: and our prices, as you know and we all know

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Speaker 3: now our guests, many prices are up to four dollars

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Speaker 3: a gallon. Diesel prices are anywhere between five and a

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Speaker 3: half almost six dollars a gallon. Prices of goods are

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Speaker 3: going up fairly rapidly. And I think the President met

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Speaker 3: with his military team. I think they gave him again,

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Speaker 3: I'm just speculating they gave him a favorable report, and

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Speaker 3: he indicated that maybe it's time to bring this thing

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Speaker 3: to a close. And before I came on air with you, Dan,

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Speaker 3: I noted on X that the Press secretary and now

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Speaker 3: the President wants airtime to explain that the status of

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Speaker 3: the Ran war situation tomorrow night at nine pm. So

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Speaker 3: it sounds like he's looking to give an update and

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Speaker 3: give news one way or the other about the direction

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Speaker 3: of the situation.

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Speaker 1: Well that's breaking news, Dan, I appreciate that very much

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Speaker 1: because I had not heard that. I've been on the

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Speaker 1: air since eight o'clock and have been focused on the

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Speaker 1: show for about thirty minutes before that, or just you know,

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Speaker 1: making sure everything is in order. So let's get back

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Speaker 1: to small businesses. Now, small businesses, it's a wide spectrum

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Speaker 1: of businesses, everything from someone who owns a bowling alley

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Speaker 1: in Kansas to someone that owns a roadside fruits and

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Speaker 1: vegetables stand here in New England. What is the commonality

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Speaker 1: obviously the uncertainty and the price I guess of any

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Speaker 1: any form of transportation, whether it's diesel or gasoline, is

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Speaker 1: that the trimary driving factor that small.

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Speaker 3: At this point, I want to add in there are

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Speaker 3: small manufacturing companies as well, they toning in machinery shops

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Speaker 3: and so on. But the common denominator is that small

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Speaker 3: businesses have the same permitting and regulatory compliance requirements as

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Speaker 3: the big businesses. It's like these permitting and compliance requirements

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Speaker 3: are designed for the big businesses, but they're very expensive

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Speaker 3: and very cumbersome for the small businesses. They need to

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Speaker 3: be right sized, as it were. And if we right

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Speaker 3: size them and we give more of a green light

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Speaker 3: to these small businesses, they will move off the sidelines

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Speaker 3: far more quickly. Right now, they're waiting, watching and looking.

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Speaker 3: Some are moving off the sidelines. But if they got

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Speaker 3: a green light saying we're going to accelerate your permitting

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Speaker 3: timelines and we're going to simplify your compliance requirements, that

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Speaker 3: will get them off the sidelines and moving at a

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Speaker 3: fairly quick pace.

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Speaker 1: But regulatory reform is what you're talking about there is

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Speaker 1: different from the military activities in the Middle East.

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Speaker 3: I assume absolutely absolutely different, absolutely different. What I'm talking

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Speaker 3: about is is there can be environmental requirements.

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Speaker 1: Sure, I thought that, but you're making you're not making

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Speaker 1: a linkage. That's That's all I wanted to want people

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Speaker 1: to be confused. You're you're talking about a separate set

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Speaker 1: of circumstances which are inhibiting small businesses from from getting

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Speaker 1: as you the phrase you use, getting off the sideline

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Speaker 1: and getting in the game.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure that that I was

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Speaker 1: following that correctly. Coming back to to talk what we

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Speaker 1: were talking about, which is Iran, is it pretty much

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Speaker 1: wrapped up at the the gas pumps for small businesses,

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Speaker 1: like most people are feeling the problem, but their costs

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Speaker 1: are going to go up because of the transportation issue.

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Speaker 1: Everything that we buy, whether it's in a supermarket or

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Speaker 1: at a small mom and pop store, has been transported

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Speaker 1: at some point by truck.

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Speaker 3: Dan, You've got it. You've nailed it, because you know,

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Speaker 3: think of the UH think of diesel as as the

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Speaker 3: main artery that through the US economy. Everything is shipped

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Speaker 3: and there's a cost and a price to that, and

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Speaker 3: that has gone up significantly and small businesses are really

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Speaker 3: eating the higher cost sounds great.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, Dan, you explain it, you explain it well.

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Speaker 1: Is always great to have you back with us, and

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Speaker 1: we'll keep on top of this. And let's hope that

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Speaker 1: when the President speaks tomorrow night at nine o'clock, we

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Speaker 1: of course will carry it here on WBZ, but also

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Speaker 1: we hope that the news will be good news for

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Speaker 1: the country because that's what we want, irrespective of whoever's

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Speaker 1: in the White House. We want the American military troops

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Speaker 1: to remain safe and the mission to be accomplished. That's

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Speaker 1: those two messages would be so important for not only

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Speaker 1: small business, big business, but everyone in America in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Dan VARRONI appreciate it. How can folks

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Speaker 1: check you out and give us your website?

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Speaker 3: Sure, it's Danielbarny dot com and they can find my

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Speaker 3: book Rethinking on the Growth at Amazon dot com.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and Varni is v A r R O n

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Speaker 1: e y. Daniel v A R R O n e y.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan Varney, appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Dan.

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Speaker 4: Good night.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we get back on a talk with former

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire Governor Chris Snunu, who is now the CEO

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Speaker 1: of the President and CEO of Airlines for America, back

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Speaker 1: on nightside after the nine