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

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Al Griffith, that's for sure. Thanks

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Speaker 2: very much, jaw.

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Speaker 3: As we work our way through a Friday night end

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Speaker 2: How are you surviving with one one.

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Speaker 3: The shutdown, the government shutdown, and also what sort of

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Speaker 3: an impact is that having on you? But also how

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Speaker 3: are you surviving now that we've kind of got through

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Speaker 3: most of October. The president has been in office now

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Speaker 3: for about you know, nine months, almost exactly, and I'd

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Speaker 3: just like to know what's going on. But before we

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Speaker 3: get to that, gonna ask for a little help. In

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Speaker 3: the last few weeks, several of you have sent an

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Speaker 3: email to me indicating that they thought that the quality

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Speaker 3: of my audio was not as good as the quality

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Speaker 3: of the callers. So we've made some adjustments on the

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Speaker 3: equipment in consultation with some of our good technical people here.

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Speaker 3: And if you don't notice the difference between the audio

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Speaker 3: that you've been hearing me use for the last few weeks,

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Speaker 3: it seems as if it started and there was some

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Speaker 3: eagle eared listeners who suggested that we had to tweak

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Speaker 3: a couple of things. So we tweeked a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: And for those of you who were bothered by audio,

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Speaker 3: one person said, it sounded like I was underwater. I

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Speaker 3: have no way of knowing that. I don't think Rob

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Speaker 3: had a way of knowing that either. Now, some of

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Speaker 3: it could be your reception. It wasn't like we were

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Speaker 3: swamped with, you know, ten thousand emails. But if you

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Speaker 3: do notice in any way, shift, form, any way, shape

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Speaker 3: or form the audio, my audio specifically has gotten better

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Speaker 3: then it was for the last two or three weeks.

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Speaker 3: If it's the same, if you could just give Rob

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Speaker 3: a quick call and let him know. If you feel

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Speaker 3: you feel that it has either improved somewhat or has

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Speaker 3: gotten worse, let us know. You know, Rob sits in

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Speaker 3: the control room. He has to listen to a lot

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Speaker 3: of information. He has to listen to people who are

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Speaker 3: calling the show, he has to listen to what's going

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Speaker 2: So you know, the regular number will get in there.

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Speaker 3: Six month, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty would be

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Speaker 3: great if you would be so kind. That's number one.

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Speaker 3: Now here's what I want to talk about. I would

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Speaker 3: love to talk about. Has the shutdown the government shutdown,

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Speaker 3: which which I guess now is that it's twenty fourth day.

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Speaker 3: Today's the twenty fourth It started on October first. I

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Speaker 3: believe has it impacted you? And if it has impacted you,

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Speaker 3: what has been the impact. Obviously, if you are a

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Speaker 3: government employee and you're working without the benefit of a paycheck,

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Speaker 3: or if you've been furloughed, tell me your story. I

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Speaker 3: know that there's some concern that food stamp problems are

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Speaker 3: not sitting around hungry. That should not happen in America,

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Speaker 3: and it should not be politicized in America, in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: There was a CPI report released today. I was a

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Speaker 3: the consensus of the experts out there. God only knows

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Speaker 3: They were expecting a three point one percent inflation rate

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Speaker 3: market liked that. The stock market, and again, many of

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Speaker 2: The stock market.

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Speaker 3: But the Dow was up a full percentage point, the

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Speaker 3: thirty six states. And that is good news for all

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Speaker 3: of us. Because remember everything that you purchase, whether it's

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Speaker 3: So look, I'm not interested in talking numbers per se.

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Speaker 3: If you give Donald Trump a mark ten months into

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Speaker 3: It's it's tumultuous, But has that has that tumult impacted

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Speaker 3: at ten o'clock, I want to talk about is Donald

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Speaker 3: stuck with Donald Trump. He's done some very out of

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Speaker 3: If you think that they were, you know, tour guides

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Speaker 2: Take that point. But is he the Teflon precedent. Has he.

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Speaker 3: Developed a relationship not with the people who oppose him,

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about your experiences in the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: What have you bought?

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Speaker 3: Where's your sticker shock been in the last six months?

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Speaker 3: Where have you been pleasantly surprised? What did you What

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Speaker 3: what I've decided not to buy to be very honest

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Speaker 3: Boy So yeah again, today was interesting because obviously I was.

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Speaker 3: There's one by Alicia Wallace. America's inflation is back at

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Speaker 3: thousand for the first time after cooler than expected inflation report. Now,

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Speaker 3: just based upon those two headlines, the headline cooler than

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Speaker 3: is a bit misleading. Again, these are both CNN, both

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Speaker 3: Business CNN Business America's inflation is back at three percent. Okay,

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Speaker 3: last month it was two point nine percent. And that's

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Speaker 3: not a huge difference here. I can remember again when

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Speaker 3: you feel that, whoa, this is? This is much higher?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's always higher year to year.

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Speaker 3: Bob is in Rhode Island. Bob first, this hour on NIGHTSACER,

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Speaker 4: Hello, mister Ray, Hello Bob. Yeah. Well, if they don't

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Speaker 4: stop this government shutdown, I add that it's going to

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Speaker 4: be a real problem for health benefits for the poor

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Speaker 4: starting in November, and we'll see how the economy is

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Speaker 4: going to do in November.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the Republicans have been voting to reopen

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Speaker 2: Well they have some. John Fetterman has join.

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Speaker 4: I hope the Democrats stand the ground.

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Speaker 3: Oh so you you want people to have pain? Is

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Speaker 2: Right? You don't want to.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know I told you have the plank ready, Bob.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Bob.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir well, some are holding off on their paychecks,

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Speaker 6: Well, that's a disgrace. I mean, what are they What

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Speaker 2: Well, they are, they would argue.

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Speaker 3: The Republicans have tried. I think it's about eight or

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Speaker 3: I think it's cruel. The Democrats position essentially is we

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Speaker 3: You know, if let's say I'm holding you hostage at

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Speaker 6: They should be ashamed of themselves then, you know what

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going into effect next week. Here's my solution

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Speaker 3: for that. Okay, we have a rainy day fund in Massachusetts,

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Speaker 3: I know that the Democrats are saying, well, this is

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Speaker 3: But if you're going to blame the Republicans, let's use

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Speaker 6: I like that, Dan, I hope it would work.

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Speaker 3: When your friends talk to you about how cruel it is,

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Speaker 6: In my opinion, they them they get a raise something

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Speaker 3: Hey, Bob, look at this. You did a great job.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very very much. You're a great caller. You

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Dan, good night, good night, Bob.

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Speaker 3: All right, well a little bit, you know, it's funny

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Speaker 2: Bob and Cambridge we had a great conversation. That's what

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Speaker 3: When we get back, I got Bernie in New Hampshire,

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Speaker 5: No, we don't.

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Speaker 3: We have some funds here, and when the federal government

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Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. It's politics is not tough, folks.

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Speaker 3: If you're if you're a normal person, and I think

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Speaker 3: And that's why I want to hear from you. Six

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Speaker 3: We're talking about the impact of the government shutdown, which

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Speaker 2: I think that.

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Speaker 3: It's it's time for the politicians in Washington to get

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I've got a pretty good memory as of late September

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, if you are somebody who relies upon

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Speaker 3: rob Please play cut thirteen.

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Speaker 7: I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be,

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Speaker 3: One of the few leverage times we have. When you're

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Speaker 2: That's absurd.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Bernie in New Hipshire. Bernie, you were

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 5: Hey are we doing Dad?

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Speaker 2: I think we're doing okay.

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Speaker 3: You know, we have had a couple of conversations, one

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Dan, you have amazing patience with whacka doos.

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Speaker 5: I don't have possess that type of patience.

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Speaker 3: I just don't well to some extent that to some

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, absolutely. And the reason I called you know today

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Speaker 3: Congratulations, thank you, thank you, Dan appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: And you know, I grew up.

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Speaker 5: You know what modest means. I think, just reil the

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Speaker 5: for the seals at Shaws and we have a freezer

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Speaker 5: in the basement. We stock up on stuff and sure

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Speaker 5: and and you know, we get the right prices. And

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Speaker 5: my wife, like she goes like CVS and Walgreens and

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Speaker 5: gets all like, you know, well, we got like, I

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Speaker 5: don't know, fifty packs of toilet paper on the cellar.

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Speaker 5: But she's just like keeping ahead of things and so

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Speaker 5: we can spend less money on that.

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Speaker 3: I got to tell you, Bernie, I do the same thing,

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Speaker 3: same things. I always want to pack up staff. You know,

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Speaker 3: have extras of the stuff that you know you couldn't

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Speaker 3: need when they have a sale on them, because they do.

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Speaker 3: I was at Assurance this afternoon, yeah, yesterday, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I was doing the same thing.

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Speaker 3: And there will be some things that I will spend

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Speaker 3: because I like those things.

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Speaker 2: I will spend whatever I need to spend within reason.

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Speaker 3: I used to love pepperidge from Chocolate Chip cookies, but no,

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Speaker 3: I also knew that they were pretty heavy on calories.

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Speaker 3: But now they have raised the prices and they've kept

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Speaker 3: the prices up, and it's like they're they're they're They're

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Speaker 3: much more expensive than they were a few years ago.

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Speaker 3: So I don't buy It's chocolate chip cookies anymore.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I get it. I get it that I've

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Speaker 5: given up a lot of stuff and we just live

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Speaker 5: within our means. And when we do the best we can.

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Speaker 5: And you know, like the with the the sky hasn't

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Speaker 5: fallen in you know, like you said, I keep waiting,

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Speaker 5: it hasn't fallen. You know, my son a couple of

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Speaker 5: weeks ago, he was coming home and he was talking

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Speaker 5: about getting a truck, you know, and he's in the

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Speaker 5: military and they don't pay him. They pay him nothing.

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Speaker 5: But you know, he saves every penny, very fugal. My

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Speaker 5: son is very frugal. He saved that every penny. He says, Dad,

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Speaker 5: I got this money. I want to put a down payment.

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Speaker 5: I want to get a used truck real quick. He

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Speaker 5: wanted to get like a twenty nineteen Dodge Ram nice

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Speaker 5: truck forty thousand miles. So me and my wife says,

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Speaker 5: let us look. So we looked at a jailer up

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Speaker 5: here for a brand new one twenty twenty five, and

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Speaker 5: we went and talked to them. I put a down payment,

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Speaker 5: I says, it's your choice. I didn't even drive it,

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Speaker 5: he says, I said, nope. My son's coming home tooesday.

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Speaker 5: We went down here, him and I and it was

482
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Speaker 5: it was like fifty three. They got it down to

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Speaker 5: party three with a military discount. And all that, and

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Speaker 5: then me and my wife says, what we're gonna do

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Speaker 5: is we gave him ten thousand. We said we're going

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Speaker 5: to put ten thousand more to it to get his

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Speaker 5: down payment to make his pice lower on his loan.

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Speaker 5: And he got the loan down for a really good point.

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Speaker 5: And then he says, and now we're going to give

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Speaker 5: you one hundred dollars because this is a nineteen year

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Speaker 5: old kid who when he was eighteen decided that he

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Speaker 5: was going to sacrifice everything for his country. And he

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Speaker 5: loves his country and I love this country, and I

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Speaker 5: honor what he's doing. So we wanted to help him

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Speaker 5: he and he did did. If you've seen a look

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Speaker 5: on this nineteen year old boy's faith getting in that

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Speaker 5: dog pretty new guard through him was twiceless.

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Speaker 2: That's the best investment you ever made.

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Speaker 5: And oh my gosh, now we don't have to worry

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Speaker 5: about any maintenance. You know, it's new truck.

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Speaker 2: That's a great story.

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Speaker 3: But I will tell you this, and I and I

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Speaker 3: mean this, there is we have in Massachusetts. We have

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Speaker 3: a population of seven million people in Massachusetts. Approximately one

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Speaker 3: million of those people rely on what used to be

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Speaker 3: called food stamps SNAP, you know, the staff payments, and

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Speaker 3: those are supposed to stop next Saturday, November first. We

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Speaker 3: have in eight point eight billion dollar rainy day fund

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Speaker 3: in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we can contribute to it because I work in match.

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Speaker 5: When I heard that control of talking about a month

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Speaker 5: ago on your program, and that money is not supposed

513
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Speaker 5: to be held over like that, and I you have

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Speaker 5: you should just be like governor, just just one for governor.

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Speaker 2: I just did. I just did the math. Okay.

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Speaker 3: We could turn around, okay, and we could give to

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Speaker 3: a million pece people who rely on SNAP funding. We

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Speaker 3: could give each one of them eight hundred dollars literally literally. Now,

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Speaker 3: of course we're not going to because that would exhaust

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Speaker 3: the fund.

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Speaker 2: However, we could give those one million people.

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Speaker 3: One thousand dollars on November first and say, look, this

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Speaker 3: is going to have to and by the way, one

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Speaker 3: thousand to the mom, one thousand to each child, okay,

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Speaker 3: on the set, So some families would have three or

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Speaker 3: four thousand dollars that would probably carry them to the

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Speaker 3: end of the year if necessary. And if the SNAP

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Speaker 3: money comes back, you know, and the federal government replenishes

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Speaker 3: the SNAP money, we put that back in the Rainy

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Speaker 3: Day Fund. But that would give people a lot of

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Speaker 3: money in their pocket, not only to eat and to

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Speaker 3: take care of their kids, but also in anticipation of Christmas.

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Speaker 3: But you will not have that happen in Massachusetts because

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Speaker 3: the Democratic leaders ship is not going to want to

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Speaker 3: take pressure off the Republicans. That's what's going on. Captain

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Speaker 3: Clark insteaded exactly yesterday.

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Speaker 5: So that's absolutely, absolutely, it's not good political data for

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Speaker 5: Massachusetts to bail out the federal government.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, as I say, I I viewed bailing out people

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Speaker 3: who need the help of poor people. And I'm a conservative. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm a conservative, and and that's the solution of this problem.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if there's.

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Speaker 3: Any Democrat in Massachusetts who will say, hey, you know

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Speaker 3: that crazy talk show host, he actually came up with

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Speaker 3: it with a program and an idea that makes makes sense,

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Speaker 3: makes sense, Thank.

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Speaker 5: You, Dan. But I've taken up too much of your Okay,

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Speaker 5: spot pizza, Dan, don't forget down spot pizza in your

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Speaker 5: next that next second.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you can call it if you want, Okay, just

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Speaker 3: do it. Have a great one. Good night, congratulations son.

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Speaker 3: He's got a couple of great parents. The did not

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Speaker 3: fall far from the tree. We're gonna take a quick break.

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Speaker 3: Give me a call. I'd love to hear what you

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Speaker 3: think about my idea. It's it's staring me in the face.

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Speaker 3: We have eight point eight billion dollars, so we're gonna

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Speaker 3: let people starve in Massachusetts not feed their kids. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: It's got nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. It's

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Speaker 3: got everything to do with humanity. Make money available to

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Speaker 3: these individuals. Give them each one thousand dollars for every

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Speaker 3: one in the family. That's gonna feed them for at

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Speaker 3: least a couple of weeks, maybe an entire month. And

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Speaker 3: and let's see where we are then as we approach

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving in the holidays, here's the number six one, seven, two, five,

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Speaker 3: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.

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Speaker 3: This subject will be able to pour over into the

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Speaker 3: next hour. So don't feel you're late and you're not

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Speaker 3: gonna be able to get on. We will get you

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Speaker 3: on early next hour. And we're gonna also talk about

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Speaker 3: how come nothing sticking to Donald Trump, he is at

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Speaker 3: this point a teflon president in my opinion. I will

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Speaker 3: explain that concept, and then we'll talk about your favorite

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Speaker 3: pizza coming up right after the eleven the eleven o'clock news,

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Speaker 3: Coming back on nights Side, join the conversation. What is

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Speaker 3: the impact of the government shutdown on you? What do

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Speaker 3: you think about it? Maybe you're not impacted by it

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Speaker 3: at all? What is what's your grocery bill looking like?

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Speaker 3: What's gone up? What hasn't gone up? Might be the

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Speaker 3: better question? Back on Nightside after this, It's.

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

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Jane and ever. Jane,

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Speaker 3: you were next on Nightside. I appreciate you calling in your

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Speaker 3: thoughts on this suggestion that I have, or your thoughts

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Speaker 3: on how you're doing when you go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 8: Hi, Jane, So yeah, I find that quality is a problem.

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Speaker 8: They might have onions, but Pilcy and I don't want

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Speaker 8: to buy them. I wouldn't use them in my kitchen.

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Speaker 8: A lot of quality stuff.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what stores you're going to, but

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Speaker 3: i'd find a different store if well.

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Speaker 8: It's my regular store that everybody goes to to be honest,

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Speaker 8: But stuff like that, you know, the potatoes that just

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Speaker 8: look horrible. You can brush aside twenty of them and

595
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Speaker 8: are still terrible. That kind of thing I'm finding, and

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Speaker 8: I'm finding that in clothing stores too good clothing stores

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Speaker 8: but selling junk. So and the other thing is I

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Speaker 8: wanted to say, I think that with our elected officials

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Speaker 8: in Massachusetts from the top down, you know, you get

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Speaker 8: more with honey than you get with vinegar. So if

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Speaker 8: they keep slamming Trump, they're not going to get what

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Speaker 8: they're what they need. Well, we should realize that I.

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Speaker 2: Have anyone in our delegation. I think.

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Speaker 3: Vice President Vance mentioned today that of New England votes

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Speaker 3: a Republican, they'll get forty percent of the votes. But

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Speaker 3: at this point there's only one one or two members

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Speaker 3: in the entire delegation, Susan Collins, and there's a congressman.

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Speaker 2: From northern Maine.

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Speaker 3: We don't have anyone who can walk into the White

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Speaker 3: House as a Republican and you know, talk with the

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Speaker 3: President and say, hey, you know, I represent a lot

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Speaker 3: of people in Massachusetts and you're there president too. You know,

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Speaker 3: you're not just president of the people who voted for

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Speaker 3: you or in the states that you want. I think

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Speaker 3: that's what someone has to say to him.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, but I think that I think that our elected

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Speaker 9: officials in Massachusetts should try to be nicer to the

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Speaker 9: White House because if they keep slamming him, he's slamming back.

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Speaker 3: No. I understand that. No, I do understand that. But the.

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Speaker 8: Way the world works, his personality, they're doing the wrong thing.

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Speaker 5: Could be nice.

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Speaker 3: You've made your point now four times. I'm smart enough

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Speaker 3: to understand the point you made. Let me repeat it

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Speaker 3: for you in case you don't think I got it.

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Speaker 8: I understand it.

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Speaker 3: You think, yeah, I'm going to repeat it, so you're

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Speaker 3: certain I got it. You're saying to me that the

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Speaker 3: Democrats here in New England and Massachusetts should be nicer

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Speaker 3: to Donald Trump. Not gonna happen that way. Uh, it

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Speaker 3: just doesn't work that way. It's like they're they're two teams. Uh,

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Speaker 3: it's red and blue. It's as simple as that. They

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Speaker 3: certainly should go in and say, look, you know, we're

633
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Speaker 3: criticizing you, but we're criticizing you because we disagree with you.

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Speaker 3: We have people in our state and our region who

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Speaker 3: voted for you, and and appeal to them to his

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Speaker 3: better angels. If he's got a better angel. Geene I

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Speaker 3: got to run.

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Speaker 8: I understand, well, maybe they'll think about it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you've convinced him, and I appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Gene. Gotta go here, come to ten o'clock news.

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Speaker 2: Good night.

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Speaker 3: Didn't mean to cut her off there, but ten o'clock

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Speaker 3: news is here. I can't stop the ten o'clock news.

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Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. My name's Dan Ray. This

645
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Speaker 3: is Nightside. Is Donald Trump a teflon president? No matter

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Speaker 3: what he does, the Democrats aren't able to stick anything

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Speaker 3: on him. I think it's kind of interesting. We'll be

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Speaker 3: back right after the ten and we will change the

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Speaker 3: focus just a little