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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray WBZ, Boston's radio.

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Speaker 2: For those of you who are just joining us, We

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Speaker 2: just spent an hour with Boston City council Ed Flynn

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Speaker 2: talking about a real issue in the part of Boston

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Speaker 2: that is called Chinatown. It is an area down and

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Speaker 2: now the Theater District used to be the combat Zone.

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Speaker 2: At Flen mentioned when his dad became mayor in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four. I was elected in eighty three, there were

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Speaker 2: forty four we'll call them emporium of interpretive dance strip

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Speaker 2: joints in the combat Zone and it was a wild place. Now,

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Speaker 2: it had been very wild in the nineteen seventies. And

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Speaker 2: actually there was a real tragedy where a young Harvard

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Speaker 2: football player on the Saturday evening after Harvard had played Yale,

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Speaker 2: a group of the players apparently went to the combat

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Speaker 2: Zone and an individual named Andy Andrew Popolo was stabbed

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Speaker 2: to death. And that was really the beginning of the

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Speaker 2: demise of the combat Zone. People realized it was not

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Speaker 2: quite the body but innocent place. There was drug dealing,

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Speaker 2: and obviously there was violence, maybe not necessarily inside the clubs,

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Speaker 2: but that was what was going on outside the clubs. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: there are now two strip clubs in what was the

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Speaker 2: combat zone but it's now the Theater District. One of

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Speaker 2: them wants to move.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: The two of them are on a side street called

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Speaker 2: the Green Street, which is off the Beaten Path, and

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Speaker 2: one of them, Centerfolds, wants to move to Stuart Street,

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Speaker 2: the old Jacob Wirth restaurant on Stewart Street, which would

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Speaker 2: be a great location. And We've had an interesting hour,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to continue the conversation, and I'd love

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Speaker 2: to hear from as many of you as possible because

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Speaker 2: Ed Flynn is trying to make sure that his constituents

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Speaker 2: in China Town he represents Chinatown, amongst other other communities,

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Speaker 2: are respected and are treated respectfully. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 2: he feels that the uh this, this relocation can be stopped,

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Speaker 2: but what he wants to do is set up some

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Speaker 2: protocols and procedures so that this will not open the

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Speaker 2: floodcads for a return to more of this so called

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Speaker 2: adult entertainment within what is now the Theater District but

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Speaker 2: was the combat zone. I hope most of you have

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Speaker 2: followed that part of the conversation. We will flesh it

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Speaker 2: out with callers. The only lines open right now if

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Speaker 2: you'd like to get through six point seven nine thirty

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Speaker 2: Our right little lines are full, and let us go

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Speaker 2: to them right now. Going to go to Bob down

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Speaker 2: in the Cape. Bob on Cape Cod Bob, appreciate you

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Speaker 2: holding through the news. Thank you for your patience. You

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Speaker 2: are on the Earbob.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

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Speaker 6: I want to make two comments. First, I remember the

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Speaker 6: combat zone, as you know, when I was in college

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Speaker 6: in the seventies, so you know, frankly I didn't know

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Speaker 6: there's two other clubs in the area. But you know,

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Speaker 6: it's kind of disingenuous to call it the combat zone

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Speaker 6: or even the thought of rebirthing what was the combat zone,

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Speaker 6: which was lots of clubs and lots of street walkers.

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Speaker 6: The second thing is I liked the idea of mister Flynn,

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Speaker 6: you know, creating you know, an architecture that you could

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Speaker 6: have more community input. The question, if he was still on,

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Speaker 6: was you know, what's the bounds of that community input.

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Speaker 6: For example, let's say an Italian restaurant wanted to move

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Speaker 6: into China down. That's certainly a lot more digestible, no

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Speaker 6: pun intended, right, but it's different than the sort of

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Speaker 6: the trend of the kinds of things that are in

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Speaker 6: that area and throughout the DA district in general. Right

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Speaker 6: with with this initiative that he has allow existing businesses

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Speaker 6: and residents, is uh to uh discriminate against someone who

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Speaker 6: has opened up an Italian restaurant?

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Speaker 2: No, No, I don't think so, because I can tell

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Speaker 2: you that I have been in the Stuart Street area,

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Speaker 2: which you know this the combat zone. There was a

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Speaker 2: guessing nation. I called it like an adult entertainment district.

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Speaker 2: But it has it has boundaries, and there are there

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Speaker 2: are other restaurants except more than just Chinese restaurants, and

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Speaker 2: they would I don't think uh that that a group

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Speaker 2: of well you know.

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Speaker 6: You you can pick you can pick the exception, right,

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Speaker 6: but you get my point.

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Speaker 3: No, I do understand your point.

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Speaker 2: But but what he's saying, I think what I think

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Speaker 2: what he's saying is that to the families of Chinatown.

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Speaker 3: This is their neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: This is where they live, this is where their kids

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Speaker 2: go to school in the early years, this is where

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Speaker 2: multi generational families live, and maybe many of them moved

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Speaker 2: And he just wants to make sure that the people

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's just that my concern is, really,

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Speaker 6: is there overage or is there some bounds and to

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Speaker 6: what he's proposing, and having not read the document, I

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Speaker 6: don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, no, you asked the right questions and there

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Speaker 2: are concerns. But again with I think most of us,

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Speaker 2: if we thought that there was going to be a

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Speaker 2: strip club opening in our neighborhoods, most of us would

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Speaker 2: probably be a little concerned about the clientele that that

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Speaker 2: would draw late night clientele.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying.

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Speaker 2: That that it necessarily would would lead to criminal activity,

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Speaker 2: but certainly there was a lot of criminal activity going

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Speaker 6: Oh sure, you know, you're one hundred percent right, but

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Speaker 6: let me let me let me give you an example.

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Speaker 6: I know there's a little bit out of context, but

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Speaker 6: you know, the town of Foulmouth, we must have I

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Speaker 6: don't know, ten dunkin donuts. There are a lot of

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Speaker 6: people that would like to say, hey, we should have

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Speaker 6: more community input that let's mix up a few less

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Speaker 6: banks and a few less dunkin Donuts and let's let's

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Speaker 6: encourage other mom and pops or other types of entities

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Speaker 6: to come into you know, that kind.

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Speaker 5: Of a zone.

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Speaker 6: Right, And so I get, I get the community planning

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Speaker 6: is good. It's just make sure it's not too discriminatory, right, Yeah, no.

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Speaker 3: No one wants it to be discriminatory.

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Speaker 2: But and again, you have, for example, up north of

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Speaker 2: well you have some very well known emporium of interpretive dance,

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Speaker 2: and that's a lot more acceptable there when it's not

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Speaker 2: within you know, a couple one hundred feet of of

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Speaker 6: That's you know, see, that's the judgment I can't make.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know they were there. I didn't know the

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Speaker 6: maybe I'd have same concern that some of the residents

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You could always have that if people want to open

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Speaker 2: or a waste treatment plant, you're always going to have

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Speaker 2: people who are going to say, why why did we

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Speaker 2: have to have it, and people will always argue, well,

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Speaker 2: that's a nimby reaction, not in my backyard.

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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of this stuff that you don't

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Speaker 3: want in your backyard. I mean, you know you're in

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Speaker 3: your neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Not necessary metaphorically in your backyard. Look, I appreciate Bob

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Speaker 2: the call. I assume you're in Falmouth. I hope you have.

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Speaker 6: A great I'm I work in Boston. I'm on my

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Speaker 6: way home to the Cape. But thanks to taking my

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Speaker 6: call and have a good night.

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Speaker 2: Well you, thank you very much for calling, and thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening to Night'side. We're here Monday through Friday night

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Speaker 2: from eight and midnight. We'll get you home safe and sound.

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Speaker 6: Okay, sure, mast Thank you sir, take.

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Speaker 3: It easy, a great night.

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

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Speaker 2: if you want to get in. We're talking about what

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Speaker 2: some in Boston's Chinatown district are concerned about in former

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Speaker 2: city or I shouldn't say current city councilor uh who's

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Speaker 2: standing for re election tomorrow ed Flynn is out speaking

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Speaker 2: spoke with us last hour. I thought really eloquently to

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Speaker 2: defend the rights of the residents of what was once

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Speaker 2: more by people as the theater district, that they have

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Speaker 2: a right to express how their community evolves and whether

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Speaker 2: it evolves back words to where they were more strip joints,

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Speaker 2: probably the restaurants, or whether it moves forward and maybe

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Speaker 2: even changes from the point of view of the community

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Speaker 2: for the better. Cynthia from Boston joins us. Got Martin

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Speaker 2: in the South, then I got some open lines here,

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Speaker 2: so jump on board. The question is really simple. It's

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Speaker 2: easy to say, oh, it doesn't affect you were me

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Speaker 2: because we don't live in that part of Boston. But

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Speaker 2: it does. It does because if that's I thought. The

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Speaker 2: silliest argument was made in the Global article by someone

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Speaker 2: I forget who it was, saying that we need more

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Speaker 2: emporium of interpretive dance or emporia of interpretive dance to

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Speaker 2: to help bring big conventions to Boston. You know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I would hope people are not coming to Boston to

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Speaker 2: to see in Boston, whether it's great restaurants, sporting goods,

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Speaker 2: the sporting events, theaters, whatever, or historically his history as

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Speaker 2: opposed to coming in and spending what few hours conventioneers

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Speaker 2: might have UH in a dark, dank uh emporium of

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Speaker 2: interpretive dance. We'll be back, but maybe maybe I'm being unrealistic.

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Speaker 2: Six one seven, two five four, ten thirty. If you're

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Speaker 2: in Chinatown, love to hear from it for sure. Six

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

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the quality of life in Boston's Chinatown

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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 7: Is Cynthia Can I speak?

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Speaker 8: Can I speak?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Cynthia, Yes, I'm about to introduce welcome.

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Speaker 8: I was like, can I stay to the long commercial break?

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Speaker 8: I think it's funny everybody's talking about China Town and

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Speaker 8: I'm the only Chinese person. I can't get a word

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Speaker 8: an edge white that I also grew up in the

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Speaker 8: combat zone, and I'm also a writer I write about

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Speaker 8: I write a blog site called Hudson Street Chronicles. It's

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Speaker 8: about the displacement of one hundred Chinese and Syrian families

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Speaker 8: because of the Highway. The first I call that the

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Speaker 8: very first gentrification the highway. So people can get home

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Speaker 8: faster from bits downtown jobs to the suburban homes. And

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Speaker 8: I was displaced. I was thirteen. There's no real housing.

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Speaker 8: My mother didn't speak English. My uncle happened to own

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Speaker 8: a house, a grief revival building designed by Childs Bulfinch.

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Speaker 8: But it was in the middle of the combat zone.

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Speaker 8: Is on Knap Street if you're familiar, and Nap Street

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Speaker 8: is between Beech Street and Nieland Street. It's smack in

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Speaker 8: the middle of combat zone.

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Speaker 2: Boston City Council or Flynn reference Knapp Street earlier this evening.

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Speaker 2: So obviously, I assume you as a community activist. I

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Speaker 2: assume that if you're a writer and you have are

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Speaker 2: so steeped in the history, you must be a.

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Speaker 3: Community action child.

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Speaker 8: I was a child, I am a teacher. I am

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Speaker 8: a writer. I just finished my I finished documentary subject

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Speaker 8: for a Breakwater Studio documentary. They just came out October seventeenth,

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Speaker 8: had its world premier called Love Chinatown. It's a it's

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Speaker 8: a letter to the world about who we are and

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 8: Well, it happened that a lot of the strip joints

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Speaker 10: I'm not saying this.

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Speaker 8: To be an ethnic but it was owned by an

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Speaker 2: Link in theo who was a student at Harvard.

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Speaker 7: No, no, I'm not linking him.

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Speaker 8: I'm just saying you mentioned it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I think what I'd like to

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Speaker 8: It may begin, it may begin a trend that it's

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Speaker 8: okay to put what they used to call the adult

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Speaker 8: They decided to move it. I have found the paperwork

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Speaker 8: A thirteen year old girl had to walk walk around

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Speaker 8: That was the center of the garment district as well historically,

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Speaker 2: But what I'm trying to do here, I'm trying to

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Speaker 8: In the combat zone in nineteen In the nineteen seventies.

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Speaker 3: There were forty four strip joints. Now, yeah, only.

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Speaker 2: Two strip joints, which sure, which I'm sure you perceive

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Speaker 8: And I know it's worth.

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Speaker 3: You know what, why don't you just go ahead?

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to listen to you because I think

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Speaker 2: don't you just make whatever check I got? I got

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Speaker 2: So let me just turn the microphone over to you.

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Speaker 2: You go right ahead, Cynthia.

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Speaker 8: I'm all ears, Okay, I think I think that well.

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Speaker 8: I think that it's funny as I listened to the

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Speaker 8: worried about discriminatory against him opening an Italian restaurant. Chinatown's formed.

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Speaker 8: That's so funny that somebody's worried about Chinatown being discriminatory.

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Speaker 8: China Town was formed out of discrimination, okay, And we

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Speaker 8: don't like any trends with children. There's a school up

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Speaker 8: the street and jessio Quin's the school children walk through

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Speaker 8: the area. I lived in that area when I was thirteen, okay,

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Speaker 8: very familiar with combat zone activity, strip joints, prostitutes, street walkers,

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Speaker 8: and once something like that is allowed, what they call

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Speaker 8: the adult entertainment district, those recoins and called the combat zone. Okay, please,

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Speaker 8: cause everywhere all lit up on Washington Street, Okay. I

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Speaker 8: My concern is that I'm always concerned about children, because

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Speaker 10: I had to learn how to walk.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Cynthia, thank you for your eloquence. I do

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Speaker 2: so much for you for your call. A great night,

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Speaker 2: no doubt. But when she went off to talk about

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Speaker 3: Now here comes the news.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you some conversationalists for the balance of this

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

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair to Chinatown. Whether or not

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Speaker 2: Centerfolds has the right to move into a better location.

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Speaker 2: That may be simply a legal issue, but they certainly

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Speaker 1: You're on Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Back to the phones, you go. Let me go to

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Speaker 2: Martin near the South End. Martin, appreciate you. Call you

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Speaker 11: Sir, hi Am Martin Cher. I'm calling from the south In.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: I opposed the Compact Zone expanding their Boston Chinatown because

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Speaker 11: there's two schools there, they Quincy Elementary School and the

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Speaker 3: I think that's a legitimate concern.

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Speaker 2: Now, what this club would say is again I did

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Speaker 2: not with us tonight, but I think what they would

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Speaker 2: say is that this is not an expansion. It's simply

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Speaker 2: a relocation for them to a better location. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: that that doesn't persuade you, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: But what would you say to them now.

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Speaker 2: They're saying we're all they would say, we're already here.

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Speaker 2: We just want to move from the Green Street to

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Speaker 2: to a better location with the old Jacob Wartz restaurant

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Speaker 11: I don't want them to open.

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Speaker 2: I oppose Okay, but but and again I understand that

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Speaker 3: But is there a specific you mentioned?

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Speaker 2: It's it's bad for the neighborhood, any other argument that

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Speaker 3: I just want to give you an opportunity to express.

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Speaker 2: You say, no, okay, well, thank you then, thank you

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Speaker 2: for taking the time to call sir, appreciate it very.

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Speaker 11: Much, thank you, having good night, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let me go next to George, one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite callers in reading.

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Speaker 3: Hey, George, GEO not George.

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Speaker 7: Geo otherwise known as Geo. It's a pleasure. Now I

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Speaker 7: have some details, so please don't stop me on number

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Speaker 7: four because I can go all the way to number eight.

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Speaker 7: First of all, Stuart Street is near the Common, so

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Speaker 7: this is the worst possible idea. Now a good idea

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Speaker 7: you may or may not know. On Route sixteen in Chelsea,

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Speaker 7: the remodeled Mystic Mall, which had an expanded the biggest

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Speaker 7: from a hospital complex in Chelsea with Mass General and

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Speaker 7: other hospitals and research facilities. But in the last twenty

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Speaker 7: are within two miles of the airport. In a five

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Speaker 7: this club would like to entertain is people flying in.

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Speaker 7: Not only is it two miles from the airport, it's

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Speaker 7: two miles from the undeveloped former racetracks. Not only is

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Speaker 2: You're trying to suggest, do you know just why? I

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Speaker 2: understand where you're taking us here again interesting geography. What

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Speaker 2: you're saying is there are better locations for this type

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Speaker 2: think what you're.

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Speaker 7: Saying, yes, by a factor of like one hundred to one.

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Speaker 7: You know, I did a lot of traveling throughout this country,

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Speaker 7: and we celebrated by going to nightclubs in New York

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Speaker 7: steak in Kansas City and they would cut your tie

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Speaker 7: So there's all kinds of experiences that people want to have.

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Speaker 9: If you want to understand that, Yeah, yeah, high rollers

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Speaker 9: don't want to come to Stuart Street when they can

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Speaker 9: get off the plane in eight minutes, they can pick

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Speaker 7: They're using their cell phone in a luxury room and

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Speaker 7: tipping somebody. And the fact that that that redevelopment of

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Speaker 7: all those hotels happens in a neighborhood of red brick warehouses.

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Speaker 7: There are no people on the street at night. There

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Speaker 7: is no possibility I'm.

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Speaker 3: Gonna do GEO.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping that someone from the Centerfolds Club, the management

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Speaker 2: of Centifolds club is listening, and maybe they will jump

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Speaker 2: upon your idea, your suggestion, and this will be a

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Speaker 7: The Wind Casino is a short cab right of about

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Speaker 7: six minutes. That's why the hotels are there. Because the

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Speaker 7: Wind Casino is up the Mystic River two or three miles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I understand that. I understand that.

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Speaker 7: And again just let me let me show out another thing,

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Speaker 7: because the Wind Casino is built on a former chemical

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Speaker 7: plant which made agent orange. But however, from the Wind

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Speaker 7: Casino you could take a shuttle boat down to the hotels,

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Speaker 7: and the shuttle boat could take you as well to

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Speaker 3: Good to know.

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Speaker 2: Good, So again I want to get back to the

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Speaker 2: topic at hand. You know your geography, geo, you have youth.

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Speaker 7: One final thing to my father. My father was a

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Speaker 7: Chinatown in the nineteen sixties had their own government in

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Speaker 7: order to cut up the streets and put in payphones

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Speaker 7: and not have them destroyed at night by people who

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Speaker 7: either didn't like the neighborhood or didn't like payphones. But

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Speaker 7: the payphones my father wanted them because the people in

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Speaker 7: Chinatown did not have telephones. They had to walk to

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Speaker 3: OK.

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Speaker 2: Good history, a geo, great history. But I've got other calls.

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Speaker 2: I got to jump to this. I think was one

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Speaker 2: of our most productive conversations.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 7: Ed ed ed Flynn has offered something after the horses

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Speaker 7: have left the barn an amendment after this, uh, this

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Speaker 7: abomination happens no one.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: I wish you would call that and maybe tomorrow you

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Speaker 2: could call his office and help him out.

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Speaker 7: One night I ran back from the tech attorney to

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Speaker 7: he said, what you brought back from the.

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Speaker 4: From the uh uh A patent office today, I'm not

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Speaker 4: going to have time to deal with Tommy is going

441
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Speaker 4: to take that over the police department. UH stuff in cruises,

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Speaker 4: facial recognition uh. And he said, I need to pay

443
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Speaker 4: more attention to my family.

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Speaker 2: I again, you're with your breath and with the knowledge

445
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Speaker 2: is breathtaking. And I really appreciate you as a caller.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much to you. Have a great night. Okay,

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Speaker 2: moving right along, gonna go to Raymond in Boston. Hi, Raymond, welcome,

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Speaker 2: you're next night's side.

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Speaker 5: Hey how are you? Maybe? Uh, you know, I don't

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Speaker 5: live in terna Time, but I I uh, I've been

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Speaker 5: to the Chinatown since since the seventy and I know

452
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Speaker 5: how hot we did to get the Combats away from Chinatown. Yeah,

453
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Speaker 5: and and at this time Chinatown is it's not like

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Speaker 5: they used to be tern of time used to be,

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Speaker 5: you know, because of the the cleanness, the the parking

456
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 5: and you know, all the all the all the different

457
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Speaker 5: sture have a different like a variety of business. So

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Speaker 5: Chinatown getting like it's more is more, you know, more

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Speaker 5: Chinese people move away from from Chinatown to like Quincy

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Speaker 5: to modern you know, some sub suburban not sure which

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Speaker 5: is which.

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Speaker 2: Normal you know, groups when they arrive here, they have

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Speaker 2: tended to sort of stick together, just like the Irish

464
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: were in South Boston and the Italians are in the

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Speaker 2: North End. And over time they uh, they got better

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Speaker 2: jobs and moved to.

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Speaker 3: Places that had more room. I think everybody wants the same.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the themes of my show Raymond,

469
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Speaker 2: and that is that I think everybody, irrespective of their backgrounds,

470
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Speaker 2: wants the same thing. They want their children to live

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Speaker 2: in better circumstances than they lived, and they want to

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Speaker 2: have a home where their family can can feel safe

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00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 2: and sound and maybe a little bit of a backyard

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Speaker 2: where the kids can play. I think I think we're

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00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 2: all similar. I think we're all more similar than we

476
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 2: are just similar.

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Speaker 5: What I'm saying is Tanhan is still a ton of

478
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 5: time people like like like me. You know, I don't

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00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 5: live in Chinatown, but I always you know, I go

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00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 5: to you at least twice a week to do shopping,

481
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Speaker 5: to hang out with my friend. And they is like that.

482
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Speaker 5: And I'm sure for people a lot of Chinese family

483
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Speaker 5: like me, a lot of Chinese people like me, they

484
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Speaker 5: want to go to Chinatown and hang around and and

485
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Speaker 5: and get associate. But the thing is, like, I mean,

486
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Speaker 5: I remember I get involved with the UH the neon

487
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 5: light against the neon light, and I was saying I

488
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 5: was at the meeting against the UH, the marijuana and

489
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Speaker 5: things like that. Yeah, now now we are talking about

490
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Speaker 5: even worse. I mean, Comebackstone, coming back.

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Speaker 3: This is by the way.

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Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, to be honest with you,

493
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to come back.

494
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 3: I think that that I don't know me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that Ed Flynn is basically trying to say, Okay, uh,

496
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: this is a an alarm bell. The fact that UH,

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Speaker 2: this particular location wants to leave La Grain Street, which

498
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: is a kind of a little side street uh in

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Speaker 2: in in that in that neighborhood, and wants to move

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Speaker 2: out uh into the Jacob Wortz Restaurant, which in a

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00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 2: much more prominent location. He wants to make sure that

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Speaker 2: doesn't set a precedent and that all of a sudden, uh,

503
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 2: there'll be other UH clubs of this type trying to relocate.

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00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's where he sees the

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00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: battle needs to be fought. In my opinion, we're about you.

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00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 2: You were out of uh. Do you still live in Boston?

507
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: Are you outside of Boston?

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Speaker 3: Raymond?

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Speaker 5: Oh, outside of Boston. I'm Firmingham right now.

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Speaker 3: In Firmingham, okay, So where you live or that where

511
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 3: you're passing through?

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Speaker 5: No, No, I live I live in Birmingham.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, And I'm sure there are a lot of

514
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Speaker 2: people who once lived in Chinatown.

515
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: Who have.

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00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 2: Who have moved to various various suburbs and locations.

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Speaker 5: You know, because I belong to a communities social club

518
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 5: which is right and Turnata, and we have some we

519
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 5: have some leasing property, you know. For for some like immigrants,

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00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 5: especially people who who who have worked in the in

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00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 5: the nearby restaurant, they don't want to take too much

522
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 5: time they travel from Yeah, I know Quincy and Modern

523
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 5: is a nice time. But but a lot of restaurant

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00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 5: people they go to Chinatown and get together and then

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00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 5: they uh, they take a car pool or something to

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Speaker 5: to a different restaurants at different times, and and and

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Speaker 5: there's no there's not a great idea to have something

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00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 5: like so negative thing in Chinatown for for at least

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Speaker 5: you know, like oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Think if you listen to us to our hour and

531
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Speaker 2: a half on this tonight, you would you would understand

532
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: that that's pretty much the tone of most people who

533
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Speaker 2: are who are listening and calling in Raymond. Thank you

534
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: very much for for taking the time to call. Have

535
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: you called my show before? Is this your first time calling?

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00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: It's my first one.

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00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: Please get do need to call and continue to listen

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00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: and tell your friends. Thank you so much for joining me.

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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 3: Thank you, Raymond. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break.

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00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: I can still handle a couple more calls on this

541
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 2: topic if you would like to. We'll change topics at eleven.

542
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: But the question here is has Chinatown and the people

543
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 2: who live in Chinatown have they really gotten the short

544
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: end of the stick for the last fifty or so years,

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00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: and they are concerned, as his council of Flynn, that

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 2: this seemingly benign move of this club centerfolds from the

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00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: Grain Street to Stuart Street might not be as benign

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00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 2: as it looks. So rather ed Flynn is. He's not

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00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: promising that he can stop this move, but what he's

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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 2: saying is that he can stop this from initiating much

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00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: more similar activity in the Chinatown neighborhood. And I think

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00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 2: that is good representation. And it's him thinking ahead and

553
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: not being unrealistic, not over promising and under delivery.

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00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: Uh.

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00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: If you want to get a final word in before

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00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: the eleven o'clock news, here's some line six one seven,

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00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: two five four ten thirty or six one seven nine

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Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. And I guess there's not a

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00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: person out there tonight that I can that. I can

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00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 2: imagine who would say they would welcome this type of

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00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: venue in their community. If you disagree, and you would,

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00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: I'd love to know why. Back on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: After this, it's night Side with Dan Ray on w

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 3: All right, let me go to Sandy in Hampton. I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure if that's Hampton Beach, Hampton, New Hampshire. Where

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Speaker 3: about Sandy is.

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00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 10: With Hampton Hampton, Hampton Beach, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Hampton Beach.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Rob didn't put up their beach, so I was guessing,

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00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: welcome to Nightside, Sandy, How are you okay?

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Speaker 10: So I have two points. First, with Geo what Geo

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Speaker 10: had said. I don't think Centerfolds would go for that

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Speaker 10: because they're looking for an increase in foot traffic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: Geo has a lot of information, and sometimes that information

577
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: is right on the money, and sometimes it's a little

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00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: I would characterize it as extraneous, and I don't think

579
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: we're at the point where Centerfolds is likely going to

580
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Speaker 2: jump on that. But maybe if they do, GEO can

581
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 2: call back and.

582
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 3: And claim that he played the idea.

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00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: Now, I think Centerfold has an existing clientele and they

584
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: probably are looking to expand and move from a little

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00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: side street with Grain Street to Stewart Street, which is

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're familiar with Stewart Street, but

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00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: it's right across from a Tought medical center and it's

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00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 2: a it's a prime location, you know. I mean, I'm

589
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Speaker 2: sure that there would be all sorts of fights over

590
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Speaker 2: how much electronic advertising were allowed and all of that.

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00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: I think people are just concerned and rightfully so that

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Speaker 2: that's going to change the you know, the the atmosphere

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00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: in that community in the wrong direction after so many

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00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: years of these these locations leaving. But yeah, I agree

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Speaker 2: with you. I think that they're very happy with where

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00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: they are.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, But my point as for the combat. So I

598
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 10: used to go there when I was a kid, and

599
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 10: you never went there alone. You always had to go

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Speaker 10: with the friends. If we went to go visit, we

601
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 10: had friends in the area, and you had to be

602
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 10: real careful because of a young girl. Pimp should try

603
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 10: to pick you up that you you would sit down.

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00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 10: Your friend goes to the bathroom and somebody's swooping real

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Speaker 10: sweet and try to get you to go away with them.

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you what so you're saying that

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Speaker 2: you as a as a young girl. When you say

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Speaker 2: young girl, you're talking like fourteen or fifteen or what

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Speaker 2: age are.

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Speaker 10: You talking about, Yeah, thirteen, fourteen year all yeah.

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00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: Okay, and you would go into Boston, into the combat zone,

612
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 2: and you would go into some of these dens of

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00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: iniquity and observe Oh no, no, no.

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Speaker 10: We would be like we'd go into a restaurant.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I thought for a moment you were going

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Speaker 3: in there.

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00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,479
Speaker 7: Okay, Oh no, no, I was.

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Speaker 2: Worried about you, Sandy, Okay, you can't.

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Speaker 10: You can go in in that area today and it

620
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 10: feels relaxed, you feel sank, Yes, but.

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Speaker 3: It feels as a very different time, very different vibe.

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00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 10: Then you couldn't you couldn't sit down alone because the

623
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Speaker 10: pimp would swip sweet swoop in as a young kid,

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Speaker 10: try to pick you up.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they would. That was yeah.

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Speaker 2: And there were some girls who would who would succumb

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00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 2: to those entreaties and find themselves in some very difficult circumstances. Sandy,

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Speaker 2: I want to get one more in before the break.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for thanks for helping us wrap the hour. The

630
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: two hours here a really interesting perspective of a young girl.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Sandy, Thanks great down and go to Susan and

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Speaker 3: mald and Susan you and next you're going to wrap

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Speaker 3: the hour.

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Speaker 12: Go right ahead, Susan, Hi, thanks for taking my call.

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00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 12: I just want to echo the sentiment of the prior caller.

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Speaker 12: I also remember going into Chinatown in the nineties and

637
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 12: seeing after a certain hour you would see like prostitutes

638
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 12: on the street and sort of like John's like lurking around.

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00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 12: And it definitely has changed a lot since those days.

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Speaker 2: Would you want to go Let me ask you, would

641
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: you go in to observe that or did you go

642
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: in not realizing that was what was part of the scene,

643
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 2: And and you'd say, hey, I'm not coming back, Well,

644
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 2: what what drew you in?

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Speaker 12: Well, my family is Chinese, so growing up that was

646
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Speaker 12: really if you wanted to eat like authentic Chinese food

647
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 12: and get threes and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: So we're we're going in there for the legitimate reasons.

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00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 2: And then you found out that there was some peripheral

650
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 2: activity which was pretty dangerous.

651
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 12: Yeah, an family that lived there, that lived there too,

652
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 12: that had to sort of like navigate through that in

653
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 12: the evenings, and it wasn't It wasn't pleasant. So I

654
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 12: just want to reiterate sort of the sentiment of other

655
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 12: callers too, that where the centerfold is now is very

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00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 12: different than the jacob Worth location. Yes, that location is

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00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 12: super prominent. It's on the main road. It's right down

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Speaker 12: the street with an eyeshot of two schools. There's a

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Speaker 12: bunch of childcare centers over there as well, versus like

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Speaker 12: right now, I'm like grund just sort of tucked out.

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Speaker 8: Of the way.

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Speaker 12: It's not close to like childcare centers. Like you wouldn't

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Speaker 12: really necessarily know it's there because it's on a side street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have.

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Speaker 2: Been several people that have made that comment, and I

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Speaker 2: think that's the most important comment, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: as well as just the quality of the neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Sandy Susan Rather, I wish you had called early, but

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Speaker 3: I'm flat out of time, so I got to let

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Speaker 3: you run. Okay, thanks so much for coming. Have you

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Speaker 3: called before? Is this your first time?

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Speaker 12: I called once? Probably many years ago.

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Speaker 3: Well, come on back more often. Don't be a stranger. Okay,

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Speaker 3: thanks for joining us tonight.

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Speaker 12: Thank you, every good evening.

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Speaker 3: You too, have a great night. Good night. Okay, we'll

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Speaker 3: take a break.

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Speaker 2: Coming back, I want to talk on the other side

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Speaker 2: about the sixty minutes interview last night with President Trump

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Speaker 2: and with Nora o'donald. It was good TV. It was

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Speaker 2: a good interview and Donald Trump gave as good as

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Speaker 2: he got. And we'll play some of the tape and

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Speaker 2: also get your reaction to it. Coming back on nights side,