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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Dan Watkins. As we head into our

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Speaker 2: nine o'clock hour, it will be our final hour of

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Speaker 2: conversation between you and me for this year. Tonight is

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Speaker 2: my last edition of Nightside, and I do think it's

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Speaker 2: the two hundred and twenty first edition of Nightside to

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Speaker 2: this year. I'll double check that for you later on.

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Speaker 2: If doesn't probably matter. All you need to know is

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Speaker 2: that after tonight, I'll be gone until January and there

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Speaker 2: will be I believe Bradley will be sitting in. So

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Speaker 2: what I wanted to do tonight in the nine o'clock hour,

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Speaker 2: and we only have an hour because we're going to

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Speaker 2: be going to the Nightside thirteenth Annual Charity Combine beginning

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Speaker 2: at ten o'clock. What I wanted to do this hour

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Speaker 2: is to just down give you an opportunity, need to

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Speaker 2: tell me what you think is were are continue to

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Speaker 2: be the most important stories of twenty twenty five. And

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Speaker 2: I've broken it down into three categories, and if you

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Speaker 2: want to create a different category, that's fine too. We're

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Speaker 2: going to be very laisse a fair with this local

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Speaker 2: Stories meaning new England stories, national stories, which would mean

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Speaker 2: anything that is outside of New England. It could encompass

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Speaker 2: New England obviously, and then international stories, which could touch

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Speaker 2: upon some other corner of the globe. Of course, every

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Speaker 2: international story will affect the United States. But I just

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Speaker 2: want to get a sense of what you feel are

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Speaker 2: that I think are important. I haven't rated them in

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Speaker 2: are clearly international stories. So I'm just interested in hearing

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Speaker 2: right to it. There's not much for me to say.

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Speaker 2: It's more important to hear from you than it is,

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Speaker 2: and that will be you will start the conversation. So

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Speaker 2: it's a little a little bit of a turn of

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Speaker 2: the table if you will. Six one, seven, two, five,

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Speaker 2: me start off with Alex Alex and Millis Alice. Alex,

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Speaker 2: welcome back, how are you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Dan?

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Speaker 4: How are you good evening, and I'm merry Christmas. Success

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Speaker 4: I get to tell you for the post, no.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you. And by the way, what we're

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Speaker 2: doing with this is you can give me your what

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Speaker 2: you consider to be the most important. Anyone else can

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Speaker 2: give me the most their most important local, national, and

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Speaker 2: or international. They can just give me one story and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: the most important story of the year for me was

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Speaker 2: this story. So what what's the most important couple of

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Speaker 2: stories that that captured get captured your attention this year.

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Speaker 4: I think there's quite a few, so I don't know

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Speaker 4: if I can just pick one.

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Speaker 2: But no, no, no, two or three, go ahead. I don't

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Speaker 2: it's like if we're playing pool here, you know, sing

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Speaker 4: According to all these stories, you know, like I live

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Speaker 4: a very sheltered life. But anyways, so, uh, i'd start

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Speaker 4: off with, I guess the death of the Pope. Uh,

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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, I did not.

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Speaker 2: I did not have the Sean Diddy Combs trial. So okay,

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Speaker 2: that was a big one. That would be a Uh,

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Speaker 2: I did have the I didn't have the Israeli strike

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Speaker 4: And also before I forget, I happened to be Greek Orthodox.

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Speaker 4: But the Greek allans are you are you serious?

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Speaker 2: I'd never knew that. Well, I've never mentioned that. You've

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Speaker 2: Orthodox Church. Alex, I hope you have a great new year.

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Speaker 4: Well, and I'm sticking to my regimen of exercising every day,

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Speaker 4: but I don't know, you know, for what reason, but

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Speaker 2: It's your health while you're doing it, that's your health.

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Speaker 2: You're a young man.

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Speaker 5: How old are you actually?

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Speaker 4: I just turned seventy, but people don't believe it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you don't sound seventy, that's for sure. And

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Speaker 2: it's never too late to get in better shape. It's

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Speaker 2: as simple as that. Alex Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, Dan, thank you, thank you much.

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Speaker 2: Who's up next? Sureife will be up next. We got

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Speaker 2: Patty and Wellesley, one of my favorite callers, Kathy and Quincy,

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure that there's some stories that are reporting

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Speaker 2: The only line is six one seven two five, four

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

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Speaker 2: We'll keep it rolling here. We're talking about the most important,

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Speaker 2: Sharif in Boston. Shariff, Welcome to Nightside. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 6: Hey, Dan, how you doing? That's my second time calling. Yes,

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Speaker 6: I listen to your show.

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Speaker 2: I saw you one night a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't get to you, and I apologize for that.

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Speaker 2: So thanks for thanks for coming back soon. What's what's

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Speaker 6: Well, it's actually my second time calling in ten years.

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Speaker 6: That's what I've been listen to your show for many years.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I got to get you to be

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Speaker 2: a more frequent caller. Okay, it's as simple as that.

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Speaker 2: Make that your New Year's resolution. So we're talking about

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Speaker 2: most of the important local, national, international stories. What do

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Speaker 6: No, I, first of all for starters to talk about

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Speaker 6: the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 2: That was at the top of my That was at

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Speaker 2: the top of my list. You and I think alike,

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Speaker 6: Go ahead, Well, my wife and I every day been

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Speaker 6: have better uh uh sports clinics, recreational programs, it seems like.

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Speaker 6: And in the fifties and sixties, mostly the Boston Celtics

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Speaker 6: one winning the championships, and then there there were fewer

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Speaker 6: I've been having this debate on social media as well,

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Speaker 6: so on such Terry.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll disagree with you a little bit.

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Speaker 2: In the NBA, Uh, you did have the Minneapolis Lakers,

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Speaker 2: You had the Cincinnati Royals with people like Jack Twyman

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Speaker 2: But you're right, the Celtics were dominant h throughout the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes I watched the old clips of the match

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you got, you got the pay you got.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots is a big story this year. Who knows

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Speaker 2: it might become a really big story in January and February.

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Speaker 6: Uh? The story that you mentioned yesterday on Joseph Lenz

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Speaker 2: You to stay. I will stay on that story into

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Speaker 2: the new year. Trust me on that sharif.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I I I can sympathize, empathized what took place.

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Speaker 6: if it if it's something that has to do with

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Speaker 2: No, I hear you. Transparency and yeah, transparency is very

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Speaker 2: very important. Unfortunately, a lot of these politicians talk a

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Speaker 2: good game until they get into office. I mean, one

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Speaker 2: of the stories that I think has been important this

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Speaker 2: year is the story of the state auditor who is

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Speaker 2: being frustrated. Seventy of the voters said let's allow her

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Speaker 2: Sure if great call, you got to be a more

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Speaker 2: regular caller on my show. Simple as that. Okay, tu

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Speaker 2: begs you, Rafe, I appreciate it. Happy New Year to you,

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Speaker 2: my friend. Have a good one. Thank you. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's keep rolling. You've got to go to Patty and Wellesley.

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Speaker 2: Oh my Patty is so good to hear you. Thank

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Speaker 2: my god, Don, how are you.

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Speaker 7: I can't believe I get to talk to you at

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Speaker 7: the end of the year. Happy Christmas to you and

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Speaker 7: your family.

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Speaker 2: I have Merry Christmas to you as well. Absolutely great

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Speaker 2: to hear your voice.

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Speaker 7: Oh my god, Don, you know, I'm just I'm speechless

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Speaker 7: because I when I heard that it was your last call,

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Speaker 7: Come on, no, it's thirty one years.

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Speaker 5: We're good, We're good.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm sure. I'm sure. And anyone

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Speaker 2: Okay, that'll be our That'll be our mutual New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 7: Or give me anywhere?

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Speaker 2: No, I know that, I know. Well, you're in Wellesley.

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Speaker 2: I really, I've met so many of my listeners in person.

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Speaker 2: Over the years, Patty, I've taken trips with people down

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Speaker 7: Okay, it'll be my biggest honor and pleasure and the

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Speaker 2: And I know you have a store in Wellesley, correct, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Patty, Merry Christmas. We will we'll meet in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, that's for sure, Okay, brad it we'll have

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

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Speaker 2: Okay, I do have some lines open at six one,

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Speaker 2: of this year that's passing quickly in your mind? How

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Speaker 2: are you, Kathy?

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Speaker 5: Goodn't yourself? Thank you for taking my call. I was,

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Speaker 5: I just got in. I was with the first call.

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Speaker 7: I was going to say, Pope Leo too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's okay, you keep going and it was a.

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Speaker 1: Great year for you too.

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Speaker 8: With Caroline Ruth.

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Speaker 7: Listen, Mary, Christmas and a happy healthy New Year to you,

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks, thanks so much, Kathy. That was a

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Speaker 7: Okay, my pleasure and have a great vacation.

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Speaker 2: And Merry Christmas to you, and happy New Year to

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Speaker 2: good night. Thank you. Neil in Watertown, Hey Neil, welcome back.

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Speaker 9: The trouble for the people of Sudan just just happened

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, thank you, my friend. We'll talk soon, okay, Okay, night,

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Speaker 5: Hi?

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Speaker 8: Dan, I'm fine. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Love to know what stories are at

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Speaker 8: his legacy. Probably the number one story I think is

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Speaker 8: measles outbreaks and the anti vaccine efforts of Robert Kennedy Junior,

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Speaker 8: who Trump had to have in his cabinet for some reason.

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Speaker 8: I guess he wanted to Kennedy, but the anti vaccine

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Speaker 8: issues that he by the way.

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Speaker 2: He does have more more than Kennedy. He has a

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Speaker 2: lot of doctors who I'm a vaccine guy. I have

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Speaker 2: my COVID shot, I have my flu shot. I'm a

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Speaker 2: vaccine guy. I'm somebody who, as you know, who strongly

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Speaker 2: believes people should be able to make their own decisions.

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Speaker 2: But there's a group of doctors that including Marty McCarey

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Speaker 2: out of Johns Hopkins, and there are others at significant

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Speaker 2: institutions who kind of are on the same page as Kennedy.

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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily understand that like you, but it's it's

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Speaker 2: kind of become the the Make America Healthy movement again,

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Speaker 2: the MAHA movement. I did not have that on my

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Speaker 2: list of top subjects. What else you got right?

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Speaker 8: Well, And just to add to it. The idea that

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Speaker 8: babies shouldn't have this big injection on the day they're

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Speaker 8: born because they're putting so much liquid into their bodies.

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Speaker 8: It's crazy. They can catch hepatitis beef from their mother

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Speaker 8: or from any caregiver, so that's why they were getting

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Speaker 8: vaccinated on day one. And the idea that the measles

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Speaker 8: months rubella was causing autism has been debunked decades ago.

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Speaker 8: And if they're researching that, they're not spending the money

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Speaker 8: to research the real causes. So I think that whole

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Speaker 8: attitude is bad.

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Speaker 2: The money I tend, I tend, I tend to agree

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Speaker 2: with you on a lot of that, probably more than

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Speaker 2: more than you realize. And again, I think it's a

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Speaker 2: whole different story when when there were a lot of

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Speaker 2: young women and also young men, including military members, who

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Speaker 2: did not want to get COVID shots. I got my

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Speaker 2: COVID shot. But I can see that I'm in a

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Speaker 2: different situation as a twenty eight year old woman who

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Speaker 2: might be in the military, who might be contemplating, you know,

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Speaker 2: having a child at some point, and the unknown scares them.

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Speaker 2: I believe that people should have the right but however,

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Speaker 2: when you start talking about the health of infants and

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Speaker 2: decisions being made by parents based upon faulty information, that

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Speaker 2: infant is put at great risk. And I think you

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Speaker 2: would agree.

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Speaker 8: With that, yes, And we have to remember the public

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Speaker 8: health also that we have to take actions that benefit

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Speaker 8: the public. And one of the few things that I

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Speaker 8: do appreciate that Donald Trump did was he got the

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Speaker 8: COVID vaccine out, but now he's walking away from it.

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Speaker 8: But a different issue, changing to a different issue is

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Speaker 8: during the debate against Biden, he talked about how Haitians

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Speaker 8: were eating people's pets and kind of got overlooked a

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Speaker 8: little bit because Maiden did such a bad job at

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Speaker 8: the debate. And now he's talking about Somali's and you know,

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Speaker 8: really saying horrible things about people from other countries. And

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Speaker 8: I just think of JD. Vance, whose kids are half

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Speaker 8: of Indian origin. To his wife, what if people were

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Speaker 8: talking about his kids in Ohio as eating pets rather

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Speaker 8: than people from Haiti. Doesn't he even realize that it's

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Speaker 8: really hypocritical to go along with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would draw, I would draw, yeah, I would

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Speaker 2: draw changes a couple of distinctions. And I want to

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Speaker 2: move on here and grab some other callers. Uh, the

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Speaker 2: idea of people eating the dogs is what was said

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Speaker 2: was was was one of those absolutely false, scurrilous rumors

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Speaker 2: on the internet, and for some reason President Trump, then

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Speaker 2: candidate Trump healthy had to throw that in freelancing. The

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Speaker 2: story with the Somali's in Minnesota is much different. There

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Speaker 2: is a serious federal investigation going on and there has

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Speaker 2: been a lot of fraud up there that revolves around

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Speaker 2: the Somali community. It does not involve every Somali who

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Speaker 2: is in Minnesota, but you're going to see a lot

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Speaker 2: of people go to jail up there in Minnesota. So

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Speaker 2: that's a whole different story in terms of serious, serious

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Speaker 2: criminal activity of a portion of that community. It's not

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Speaker 2: all the Somalis up there, but that is a story

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Speaker 2: that is a significant and substantive story in which a

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Speaker 2: lot of money which was intended to help poor people

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Speaker 2: was siphoned off. So just you know, make understand, I

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Speaker 2: have to call a little bit of a clarification on

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Speaker 2: that one. It's it's not at the same level as

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Speaker 2: they're eating dogs in Springfield, Ohio, which was just a

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Speaker 2: absurd at the time and still absurd. Hope you have

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Speaker 2: a great Christmas you too.

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Speaker 8: And yeah, I have no problem with going after anyone

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Speaker 8: who's doing fraud or causing problems. I just don't like

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Speaker 8: to generalize about all the Islamic based countries and Haiti

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Speaker 8: and everything else and say that they're all horrible and

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Speaker 8: that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: And you have a right. You have a right to

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Speaker 2: feel that way. Jane, thank you so much, and thanks

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Speaker 2: for calling the show, and thanks for being an active

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Speaker 2: participant throughout the year. Thanks, talk to you soon. Have

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Speaker 2: a great night, right, Merry Christmas in happy New Year.

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

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Speaker 2: seven nine three one ten thirty. I know some of

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Speaker 2: you out there, if you've never called the show before,

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Speaker 2: give us a call here. Tell us what you think

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Speaker 2: might be one of the more important stories. I have

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Speaker 2: a list of stories here which would take me ten

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Speaker 2: minutes to read. I kind of imagine some of these

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Speaker 2: stories have not been mentioned as important stories, local stories,

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Speaker 2: national stories, and international stories. I will go over them

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Speaker 2: in my in the my entire in the entirety of

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Speaker 2: my list, but I want to hear from you. Six

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Speaker 2: one seven, two, five four thirty six one seven, nine three,

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Speaker 2: one ten thirty. This is our last talk segment of

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Speaker 2: the year coming up back on Nightside after.

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Speaker 1: This, You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w

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Speaker 1: B Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the lines are filled up again. We've got to

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Speaker 2: go quickly. I'm going to ask everybody to be quick

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Speaker 2: on this one, and then I want to tell you

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Speaker 2: some of the things that were not mentioned. Florence and

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Speaker 2: grovelin Florence. Next on Nightside, give us a couple of important.

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Speaker 10: Stories in your mind, Dan, The number one story to

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Speaker 10: me and to you is the vocal on the little

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Speaker 10: boy hit by school.

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Speaker 2: But yep, Len's Joseph.

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Speaker 10: Yep, Yeah, we can after that. That little boy should

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Speaker 10: have been able to celebrate his christ share and enjoy himself.

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Speaker 10: And all the officials out there, somebody could have spoke

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Speaker 10: out and let public know what's going on and what's

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Speaker 10: being done. And everybody's staying quiet.

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Speaker 2: Well they may stay quiet, but I pled I pledge

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Speaker 2: to you, Florence, we will get after that in the

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Speaker 2: new year. Trust me on that. We're going to get

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Speaker 2: answers on that no matter what.

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Speaker 10: Ye Yeah, it's an absolute, Dan, absolute.

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Speaker 2: Okay, absolutely couldn't agree with you more. Florence, Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 2: Happy New year and we'll talk to you in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six.

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Speaker 10: Okay, Merry Christmas to your Dan.

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Speaker 2: Stay well YouTube you too, Thanks so much by mine.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to Gary and Danas Gary next on

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Speaker 2: Nightsiger right ahead, Hey.

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Speaker 5: Hey Ben Ben. Let me just want to shut a

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Speaker 5: little light on something. Yeah, story about fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 5: I lived in Revere, Mass. I used to go to

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Speaker 5: this core of mars It and buy groceries by Hamburger,

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Speaker 5: you know, make with my spaghetti sauce. And after eating

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Speaker 5: that that Hamburger, I used to get sick. I used

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Speaker 5: to burk strange ways and I didn't understand it. I

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Speaker 5: want to, I want to Shawls bought it of hamburg

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Speaker 5: a week later.

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Speaker 2: How does this? How does this work on what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about tonight?

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Speaker 5: Okay, because of what that about when you said about uh,

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Speaker 5: you know that information being false about people eating dogs.

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Speaker 5: Let me finish my story. I went to the health

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Speaker 5: department because I went there again and bought the meat.

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Speaker 5: Same thing happened, and I brought them a sample. Do

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Speaker 5: you know what they found? It was cat meat?

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Speaker 2: Oh well yes.

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Speaker 5: They fill, yes, and they what happened was the place

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Speaker 5: got raided. Don't know what happened. I know a month

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Speaker 5: later it was shut down or they packed up and

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Speaker 5: moved out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's that's there are people.

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Speaker 5: That eat cats and dogs and launches.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm.

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Speaker 5: I was getting I'm just trying to balance the scale.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, and a little descriptive. Thanks very much,

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, good night. Let me go to Daniel and Lester. Hi, Hi, Daniel,

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Speaker 2: I hope i'll pronounce your town correctly, Lester.

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Speaker 3: Mister, mister Dan, the last time I spoke to you,

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Speaker 3: I disappointed you because no, not not me, but the

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Speaker 3: last time my mom my, mom my, mommy's baby called you.

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Speaker 3: You know, disappointed you because he took too long. But

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Speaker 3: people you said you should be fast now. So I

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Speaker 3: just wanted to let you know that the most important

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Speaker 3: story is that when I disappointed you, you know, I

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Speaker 3: was climbing on the fence and you didn't throw me

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Speaker 3: in the water. You left me on the fence. So

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Speaker 3: I'm still here. That's if you told me in the water,

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to sim't do that.

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Speaker 2: Give us, give us a story or two because we're

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Speaker 2: running out of time. Daniel, I got you in here, Go.

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Speaker 3: Ahead, oh, well, I'm going to be quick, but I

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Speaker 3: but but now you know, I just don't say that

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Speaker 3: the poor little boy who who was hit by the school.

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Speaker 3: But I told you before I thought that. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's easy to mend the bus, Drigon, but we

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Speaker 3: should mend the city because where where Advincent the most?

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Speaker 3: Because the bus driver, the human being, can only podcast

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Speaker 3: on so many things on the same time.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, Daniel I'm flat out of time.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, Joseph Lens. Joseph is an important story.

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas and happy New Year. Will talk to you

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Six, Happy happy Hanukah.

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Speaker 2: Wansa happy, happy and happy Festivus as well, DANIELA, please nope, nope, nope, nope,

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Speaker 2: not at all. Okay, the the MBTA Communities Act, the

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Speaker 2: shooting at Brown and Brookline wasn't mentioned. The murder trials

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Speaker 2: of Brian Walsh, Karen Reid, mast and cast the the

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Speaker 2: the controversy over the Massachusetts Pike Plaza, Boston Mayer's Race,

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Speaker 2: the summer trash strike in so many communities, market Basket,

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Speaker 2: the Newton, the controversy about the Italian heritage, and no Niantum,

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Speaker 2: anti Semitism generally terris, the economy, betting scandals in baseball

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Speaker 2: and basketball. Support for Palestine surprised me. The assassination of

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel troops in US cities. The Auditor

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Speaker 2: of the Legislature, I mentioned DOGE, the Department of the

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Speaker 2: Government Efficiency, the DC plane crash that took so many

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Speaker 2: lives of New Englander's Ukraine, the Middle East. We mentioned

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Speaker 2: the Iranian nuclear strike, the future of NATO, and there

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Speaker 2: were a couple that were mentioned. There were lots we

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Speaker 2: left on the table, Folks. Here comes the two thirteenth

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Speaker 2: Annual Night Side Charity Combine coming up on the other side, Folks,

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Speaker 2: buckle up, you're going to meet some very interesting people.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us on Nightside. As we wrapped the year,