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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beech Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, we are back to the eleven o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside, and we're

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Speaker 2: dealing with issues that truly do affect people. If you

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Speaker 2: happen to live in Medford. There is a proposal which

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Speaker 2: we're talking about tonight, that trash pick up in Medford

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Speaker 2: at this moment, as we understand, it is scheduled to

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Speaker 2: go from a weekly pick up routine to a bi

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Speaker 2: monthly pickup routine, meaning instead of being picked up every week,

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Speaker 2: it would be picked up every other week. Obviously, people

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Speaker 2: in Medford are upset about that. I'd love to know

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Speaker 2: if you live in Medford how you feel, and if

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Speaker 2: you don't live in Medford, I'd love to know how

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Speaker 2: you would feel if indeed it would impact you. Let

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Speaker 2: me get back to David Chelmston. Dave, I held you over.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for doing that. If others want

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Speaker 2: this direction not only in Medford but in other communities? Possibly?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't get it. Uh One of the

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Speaker 2: primary things that government should do is provide for the

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Speaker 2: safety of its citizens. And the safety includes more than

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Speaker 2: fire and police. It also includes trash pickup, because without

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Speaker 2: trash pickup, you're going to have you're going to have

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Speaker 2: more rodent activity.

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Speaker 3: As you mentioned, Oh yeah, I mean Dan that that

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Speaker 3: just sounds totally unhygienic. If you think about what one

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Speaker 3: family can do for Thanksgiving, uh, you know, garbage production

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Speaker 3: and what that what your garbage output for a big

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Speaker 3: family at Thanksgiving might look like in the summer when

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Speaker 3: the bin is closed and the sun.

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Speaker 4: Is beating down.

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Speaker 3: And I thought during the break, what if the family

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Speaker 3: as a little baby. You know, babies have to do

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Speaker 3: what they do. And if you don't have a service,

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Speaker 3: you rely on trash pickup. It's just the fact of life.

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Speaker 3: But add to that height density, urban style living. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's the thing. And then as you go out to

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Speaker 3: wind storms. But if you don't have the monster barrel,

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Speaker 2: Well. The other thing too, that you have now maybe

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Speaker 2: not so much in Medford, but I suspect Medford has

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Speaker 2: their share as well. All of a sudden, we see

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Speaker 2: that because of a lot of the policies that have

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Speaker 2: in our communities. You know, I don't think what I

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Speaker 2: lived in Hyde Park in Readville many years ago, that

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Speaker 2: you ever heard about a coyote. Now every day you

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Speaker 2: hear about a coyote walking down the street, and worse

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Speaker 2: than that, you hear about bears being in communities. Nature

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Speaker 2: wants to retake what we now are comfortable. This is

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Speaker 2: where we live. I just don't understand. Again, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to be unfair to the mayor because they were

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Speaker 2: kind enough. Sometimes when you reach out to these politicians,

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Speaker 2: they don't even give you the courtesy of a response.

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Speaker 2: We did get the courtesy of her public relations communications

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Speaker 2: guy today, Mayor Brianna. I don't even know how to

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Speaker 2: her name, but that's the best I can do. So

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Speaker 2: I want to hear from people if this craziness in Medford.

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Speaker 2: I think it's nuts that they're even considering it, never

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Speaker 2: mind that they might actually implement it, but to have

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Speaker 2: this without consulting with their city council, or for that matter,

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Speaker 2: without putting under the ballot and having voters in Medford

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Speaker 2: should have had a vote on this in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like a waste treatment plan, very important

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Speaker 2: Well, we have found that out in Boston. Over the years,

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Speaker 2: the rat population in Boston has only increased no matter

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Speaker 2: what they do. And again we're going to talk to

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Speaker 2: some people from Boston as well. Dave, I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, talk to you soon, good night when we

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Speaker 2: get back. Speaking about Boston, Tom and allst that is

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Speaker 2: up next. If you'd like to join the conversation. How

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Speaker 2: would you react if a proposal like this was actually

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Speaker 2: considered seriously in your community. I'm assuming that everyone within

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Speaker 2: the sound of my voice, unless you live in a

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Speaker 2: be virtually anyone in favor of something this insane. Six one,

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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to be a little temperate in my

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to her after we talk to Tom,

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Speaker 2: and I got room for you, whether you're from Medford

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Speaker 2: am back after a few nights off. Feel free. Uh,

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Speaker 2: I won't bite your head off. I want to know

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Speaker 2: what you think, because it is outrageous to me. And

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Speaker 2: if it's not outrageous to you, and you think this

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Speaker 2: is a step in the right direction, feel free to

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Speaker 2: let us know. Coming back on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio.

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Speaker 2: Tom, I know Allston, you live there. There is a

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Speaker 2: rodent problem in Allston. What would your neigh would you

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Speaker 2: decided to go from a weekly well, we just lost

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Speaker 2: Oh we got him on this other one, Tom, I

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Speaker 2: got you here. I'm sorry you moved from one line

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Speaker 2: to the other. I don't know if you heard it.

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Speaker 2: I said, you live in Austin. I'm familiar with Allstin

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Speaker 2: And what would your neighbors in Austin say if somehow

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Speaker 2: the city of boss has said we got a great idea,

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Speaker 2: We're going to go from weekly trash pickup to every

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Speaker 4: How do you think that would flow your neighborhood, Dan,

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Speaker 4: They would say it's a very they would say it's

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Speaker 4: a very bad idea. And you know, unfortunately, in the

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Speaker 4: Allston neighborhood, the Austin Brighton neighborhood. We have the nickname

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Speaker 4: of being rat City because of how many rats we

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Speaker 4: have going in and out of our barrels. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with your previous call of more, Dave,

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Speaker 4: he hit the nail on the head. What if you

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Speaker 4: have young kids? My wife and I we have a

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Speaker 4: we have a young son, you know, he's about to

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Speaker 4: My sister lives below me and she has, you know,

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Speaker 4: and you know, all the wipes, I mean that takes

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Speaker 4: up half a bend every single week, you know. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: in the summertime, if you let this out there and

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Speaker 4: the heat and your barrels are overflowing, you're gonna you're

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Speaker 4: gonna have a rat problem. You're gonna put the burden

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Speaker 4: onto the residents to buy new trash receptacles. And if

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Speaker 4: stack the bags and you'll invite the rats and all

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Speaker 4: the road. And so it's a terrible idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, why do you think again, I just don't. As

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Speaker 2: we did invite the Mayor of Medford to come on tonight,

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Speaker 2: and they were kind enough to say she had a

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Speaker 2: always believe people tell me the truth. But you know,

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Speaker 2: where do these ideas come from? I mean, I assume

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Speaker 2: telling us how you view this. Who comes up with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know it might be a short term

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Speaker 4: six lowering the cost of the waste pickup, but you're

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Speaker 4: you're going to be paying for it on the other

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Speaker 4: end with the rodent mitigation. I mean, it's a it

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Speaker 4: is a serious problem. And once once the you know,

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Speaker 4: the rats get into your neighborhood or other rodents, they

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Speaker 4: know that they have a reliable food source. If they

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Speaker 4: know that the barrels are only being picked up once

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Speaker 4: sitting there, they're they're going to come in. And then

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Speaker 4: it's with the City of Boston. You know, the city

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Speaker 4: doesn't pay for our rodent mitigation on our private property.

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Speaker 4: That has to be done by the homeowner, and it's

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Speaker 4: going to put the burden on the citizens of Medford

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Speaker 4: to clean up this. This rodent message is going to

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Speaker 2: But but just one point I want to make in

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Speaker 2: that is that I have never heard about any community

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Speaker 2: lowering their real estate taxes by saying, you know, if

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Speaker 2: they said, Okay, we're going to uh cut in half

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Speaker 2: our trash pick up and we're also going to give

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Speaker 2: you a break on your property taxes, but that never happens.

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Speaker 4: I don't see it. I don't think we'll see that

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Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely not. Hey Tom, I appreciate your calling in.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening, and best of luck. You've

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Speaker 2: got to be a very busy household there between your

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Speaker 2: family and your sister's family, It's got to be a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun for you guys, so make the most

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Speaker 4: Enjoy I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, Thanks Tom, talking to you soon. Let me

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Speaker 2: go next to Angela, who's calling in from Medford. Hey Angela, welcome.

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Speaker 2: How are you tonight?

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Speaker 5: I am very good. How are you? Tom?

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Speaker 2: Dan? Tom was the last caller. I'm the guy that

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Speaker 2: runs the number.

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Speaker 5: I heard his name and I said it because it

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Speaker 2: How to promise? Uh, well, I'm doing fine. I think

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Speaker 2: I'm doing better than a lot of people in Medford.

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Speaker 2: What do you know about this?

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Speaker 5: Well, I have lived in Memphid since I was five,

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Speaker 5: and that's sixteen nine years, because I'm seventy four, okay,

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Speaker 5: and this is the worst mayor I've ever seen in method.

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Speaker 5: I've never voted for her, and I'm sorry that she

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Speaker 5: got in this last election. She is never available and

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Speaker 5: everything she does, along with the city council, they always

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Speaker 5: propose things, send it through, agree on it, approve it

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Speaker 5: without input from the residents of the city. They do

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Speaker 5: everything backwards.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't understand how do people like this? And

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Speaker 2: this may have been elected, I believe, and also re elected.

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Speaker 2: She's been there for a little while.

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Speaker 5: Well, there was controversy and not this past election, but

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Speaker 5: the last one, and we had a recount and we're

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Speaker 5: trying to get a recount now on both her and

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Speaker 5: the city councilors who got in. There's a lot of

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Speaker 5: things going on in effod that out right. I've been

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Speaker 5: here sixty nine years and I have been at city

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Speaker 5: Hall to meetings constantly the last three or four years

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Speaker 2: We did it, as you probably know, we did a

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Speaker 5: You were understand.

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Speaker 5: In terms of yes, you are totally I would lose.

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Speaker 2: You would lose everything that that Medford has represented over

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to put it out there that it's

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's sad. That's that's had to understand.

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Speaker 2: No understand, But but you gotta make sure on those

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Speaker 2: Overwhelming numbers. Oh yeah, so that nobody.

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Speaker 5: My neighbors and I went out and personally put over

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Speaker 2: No, I know, I know that you were very much

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Speaker 2: Catherine Clark. She's from Colorado. Iana Presley's from Chicago. Mayor

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Speaker 5: It's like, oh, I understand that, I understand and and

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Speaker 5: I used to like Catherine Clark, and I do know

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Speaker 5: like I said, I've been very involved since I was five,

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Speaker 5: I knew all the MEAs in fact missed when Mayor

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Speaker 5: mc glenn was the mayor his last year, he actually

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Speaker 2: I mean, she is never available, and well again, you

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Speaker 2: gotta you gotta figure out, Angela. You gotta figure out

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Speaker 2: got to get together. Angela. I hate to do this

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Speaker 2: to you. Have been a great caller as always. I

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Speaker 5: I know, I understand. I just want to say one thing.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna fight this. I know it's a done deal,

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Speaker 5: but we're still gonna fight it because this isn't right.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not opposed to taking all my trash and

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Speaker 4: That's my plan.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, make sure you do it under the cover

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Speaker 5: No, I'm not a shame. I know you speaking pan

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Speaker 2: So Angela, I know you were speaking. I'm trying to

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Speaker 5: We have to stop it. I'm sorry, we have to.

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Speaker 5: I'm just so proud.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep you out of jail. Angela. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying that I know you.

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Speaker 5: Definitely I won't go to chail.

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Speaker 6: I won't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna let you go because I can't get

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Speaker 2: Thanks for much.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying that there's a lot of us.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you can hear me at this point, Angela,

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Speaker 2: but I want to be very polite, and i'd like

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Speaker 2: Thanks good night. Uh it's one of those nights, folks.

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Speaker 2: glad Angela called. You can see how strongly she feels.

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Speaker 2: But the point is it's so difficult. It is difficult,

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Speaker 2: difficult because when you elect people, or when you choose

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're not there every two years or

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Speaker 2: important election is not the presidential election. That's an important election,

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Speaker 2: but the most important elections are your local elections. Your

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Speaker 2: the schools are, what are their values? Same way with

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Speaker 2: if you're listening in Medford tonight and you think this

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Speaker 2: from two weeks from every week to once every two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Make the case, tell me why if you are outraged,

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Speaker 2: as Angela clearly is, support her, give me your point

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Speaker 2: animals in your neck, in your community. Here's the eye

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Speaker 2: wide open lines. Feel free to join the conversation. Six one, seven, two, five,

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

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Speaker 2: We talked about the murder trial of Brian Walsh earlier tonight.

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Speaker 2: We're talking now about a plan in Medford to reduce

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Speaker 2: which I think is absolutely insane. We did invite the

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Speaker 4: Let me go.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we just lost Frank and Boston was holding on

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Speaker 2: and we lost Franks in Boston. So Frank, if you

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Speaker 2: I would love to get some of you to comment

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Speaker 2: an absolute insane idea. If if Medford is thinking about

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Speaker 2: us a call six one seven, two, five four ten

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Speaker 2: How are you tonight?

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Speaker 6: Great? How you doing there?

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Speaker 2: Well? I'm doing better I think than most people in

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Speaker 2: you have weekly trash pickup in Waltham, right?

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Speaker 2: And what what mean a response in Waltham if all

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there'd be some concern. We certainly have

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Speaker 6: a rat problem in Waltham. I'm sorry to say.

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Speaker 2: Hear that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we do? You know I did. I don't

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Speaker 6: really have a I forgot what the word is. I

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Speaker 2: It doesn't surprise me that that would happen at Portland

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Speaker 2: or go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Well, they're claiming. The claim is that it's a success.

437
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Speaker 6: They've increased composting and recycling, which they still do every week,

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Speaker 6: and they claim that their landsfill reduction has been a

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Speaker 6: forty percent decrease. So I mean, I think the claim

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Speaker 6: obviously is let's get the food off to the side

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Speaker 6: and get that taken up every week in the trash,

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Speaker 6: which hopefully doesn't attract rats and other critters. We can

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Speaker 6: do every two weeks to encourage people to do more composting. Again,

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Speaker 6: I'm not I have no idea how correct this is.

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Speaker 6: I just this online and presenting another space.

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Speaker 2: You've done some research for me here, which I appreciate.

447
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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised that Portland, Oregon, which is a very

448
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Speaker 2: progressive city, has decided, once they have control of the

449
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Speaker 2: mayor's office, that we're going to do it their way.

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Speaker 2: I know, you know I live in a community like Waltham.

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Speaker 2: I don't live in Waltham, but I'm sure yours is

452
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Speaker 2: the same. You're supposed to put your trash in for us,

453
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Speaker 2: it's a blue barrel, and you're supposed to put your

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Speaker 2: recyclables in a green Barrel. I'm a big believer in that.

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Speaker 2: I really am. When I see someone toss something out

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Speaker 2: of car window, whether it's a cigarette or you know,

457
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Speaker 2: a coke pink can or a PEPSI can, I want

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Speaker 2: to like pull the car over. That's how I feel

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Speaker 2: about that stuff. I feel that I'm as much of

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Speaker 2: an environmentalist as anyone. But when you start trying to

461
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Speaker 2: impose on people. If there were people in Portland who said, look,

462
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Speaker 2: I'm all with this, you know, pick my trash up

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Speaker 2: every other week, Well do it on a voluntary basis,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, I just think that the left,

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Speaker 2: the progressive left, nothing will be voluntary when they when

466
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Speaker 2: they get in power, they will impose their ideas. And

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Speaker 2: if you really want to lead by example, they lead

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Speaker 2: by example. Can you identify with what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: There, Ken, Well, I guess so. I mean, I can

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Speaker 6: definitely and I don't. Again, I don't have a strong

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Speaker 6: position on this, but I know when we first started

472
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Speaker 6: recycling forty years ago or so I think is when

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Speaker 6: I remember starting to do it, you know, there was

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Speaker 6: a lot of pushbacklet like nobody's going to separate their trash.

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Speaker 6: And now I think, like you you know, most people

476
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Speaker 6: are uncomfortable throwing away you know, if they threw away

477
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Speaker 6: their coke can in the regular trash and not in recycling.

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Speaker 6: So I'm not really sure. I wonder if the problem

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Speaker 6: because I I'm sorry to bring national politics into this,

480
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Speaker 6: but I thought what the Biden administration was worse at

481
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Speaker 6: than anything was messaging. And maybe that's the problem in Metfrige.

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Speaker 6: You know that they I was reading the mayor statement

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Speaker 6: on this too, and she said, you know, they got

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Speaker 6: some sort of grant for a couple hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 6: to do this and increase the composting. And she's saying, well,

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Speaker 6: you know, let everyone, let's you know, band together and

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Speaker 6: give it a chance, and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: I really don't let me ask you. You can educate me.

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Speaker 2: I don't really understand what they need by composting. I

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Speaker 2: know that there are some people who live in you know,

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Speaker 2: in a rural community. They will have somewhere in their

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Speaker 2: backyard where they will take, you know, far from the house,

493
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Speaker 2: they will take garbage and then they'll put you know,

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Speaker 2: potato peels and apple cores and things like that into

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Speaker 2: a compost pile. That's composting. Correct, Yes, I.

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Speaker 6: Mean it's basically just about all food waste.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but how do you do that in a

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Speaker 2: wallfam or in a Newton where or or in a

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Speaker 2: Medford where people live in much closer proximity. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you live in a rural area, I'm with you

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Speaker 2: on that. That's fine. Again, make it voluntary, But how

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Speaker 2: do you impose that on people who live on half

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Speaker 2: acre or quarter acre or eighth of an acre? Wats?

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Speaker 6: So I do have some familiarity with this, and I

505
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Speaker 6: know like my children, the one who lives in New

506
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Speaker 6: York City and the other in Manchester, are big composters.

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Speaker 6: And one piece of advice they share with me don't

508
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Speaker 6: put cheese in there, you know, because it'll attract like

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Speaker 6: mice and other credits.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what is your You said you have a

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Speaker 2: son or a daughter in New York City? Where do

512
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Speaker 2: they Where do they put their compost that they live in?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they have they have a yard. Uh,

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Speaker 6: and they have one of those containers that they put

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Speaker 6: out back and they can compost the food and it

517
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Speaker 6: really isn't a problem. I mean it is very self

518
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Speaker 6: contained and uh, there's no smell or anything.

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Speaker 2: What is the container underground?

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Speaker 6: Nope, No, it's above ground.

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Speaker 2: The reason I say that is when I was a child,

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Speaker 2: I can remember that garbage men used to walk through

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Speaker 2: the backyard and you headed underground container. They would open

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Speaker 2: the lid to the container, they would pull the trash

525
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Speaker 2: the trash can up and they would dump the trash

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Speaker 2: into like a cart or something. It was. Again, if

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Speaker 2: if it works, fine, But all I'm just saying is

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Speaker 2: when you told me it was Portland, Oregon, it reinforced

529
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Speaker 2: every stereotype that I hold about Portland, Oregon. If you

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Speaker 2: get my drift, by the.

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Speaker 6: Way, you may be totally right. I again, I dog

532
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Speaker 6: in the fight. That's what I keep saying. I don't

533
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Speaker 6: have a real dog in the fight.

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Speaker 2: Because but you provided information and I appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: What I can tell you also is.

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Speaker 2: Did we lose him there? Yeah, try to try to

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Speaker 2: get it. He's calling back on the other line. He's

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Speaker 2: on the other line there, Grab him on two. Go ahead,

539
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: put him up here. Rob, Let's go same guy. Ken,

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Speaker 2: we lost you there?

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Speaker 6: I'm back, Yeah, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know what happened. We're having all sorts of electronic problems.

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Speaker 2: Tonight with our live stream, and you're like the third

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Speaker 2: of four. Yeah, we've had a bunch of callers who

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Speaker 2: got cut off. Finish up that point. You were making

546
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Speaker 2: that point, and feel free to finish that one up.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So the other thing I can tell you in Walton,

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Speaker 6: so you can like in your kitchen, you put it

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Speaker 6: in a specialized you know, uh, it's like a small

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Speaker 6: bucket and it's got lining in it that's carbon or something.

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Speaker 6: I'm probably mucking this up, but it doesn't smell. And

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Speaker 6: then I know, like my neighbors who compost, you better.

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Speaker 2: Have a Darberg's disposal. Though that's much too electric for

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Speaker 2: the folks in Portland, I'm sure.

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Speaker 6: Right right, But but I know in Waltham too, and

558
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Speaker 6: it's private. In Waltham you can compost and then you

559
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Speaker 6: put your stuff out every week in a green bucket

560
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Speaker 6: and you know a private company'll come and pick it up.

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Speaker 6: So and so you have to pay for that, right

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Speaker 6: yeah in Waltham.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not always going to cost always going to cost. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm up on my break, buddy. Thank you for calling.

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Speaker 2: You provide it really important information. I appreciate you taking

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Speaker 2: the time, particularly on a slow Monday night here we

567
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Speaker 2: were up against the Patriots and Giantston and I think

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, everybody's become a Patriot fan, if

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Speaker 2: you get my drift. Not that not that they're front

570
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Speaker 2: runners at all, but but you know, you know, some

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Speaker 2: of those people, I'm sure at Jillette and I think

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Speaker 2: that we're disappointed when of me were Tom Brady or

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick was they haven't been particularly interested in the

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Speaker 2: Patriots for the last couple of years. But they're all

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Speaker 2: on board now that they're eleven and two or ten

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Speaker 2: and two or whatever the hell they are now, I

577
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Speaker 2: think it's a level two.

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Speaker 6: I can't thank you, Dan, and who would have thought

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Speaker 6: it would take the Celtics twenty games to have more

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Speaker 6: wins than the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, I think, whatever again, it's you know,

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Speaker 2: sports is important. I like sports, but I think the

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Speaker 2: issues we're talking about here are much more important to people.

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Speaker 2: Thanks can't talk soon?

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Speaker 6: Good ye all right?

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Speaker 2: I know some of you are having trouble getting through

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Speaker 2: tonight as I see calls come in and calls drop off.

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Speaker 2: I have one more section segment coming up. We are

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Speaker 2: talking about Medford going from weekly trash pickup to I

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Speaker 2: guess it's by weekly or by bi monthly, whichever that

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Speaker 2: is six one, seven, two ten thirty, six one seven ninety.

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Speaker 2: What would you do if all of a sudden you

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Speaker 2: were used to weekly trash pickup in your community and

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Speaker 2: the city or town managers, mayors, al themen, city councils, whatever,

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Speaker 2: decided that it was in the best interest of everyone

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Speaker 2: Uh to back off, and instead of being getting your

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Speaker 2: tress picked up every week, it would be picked up

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Speaker 2: just every two weeks. I would go nuts, And I'm

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Speaker 2: going nuts on these lines because I'm looking at people.

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Speaker 2: Maureen from Worcester just dropped off. We lost Frank from Boston.

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Speaker 2: We have in trouble rob Uh tonight electronically as well

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Speaker 2: as well as the streaming. You've rebooted it twice. Well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, folks, give us give us a shot here.

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Speaker 2: Love to see if I could get a few more

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Speaker 2: at the end of the show here. But people are

606
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Speaker 2: calling in. Rob puts them on hold and they're being disconnected.

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Speaker 2: We've had more calls tonight disconnected than I've ever seen before.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we have our our technical people working

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Speaker 2: on it, and hopefully by tomorrow night, it will be

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Speaker 2: totally resolved six one, seven, four ten thirty six one seven, nine,

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Speaker 2: three thirty Back on night set after.

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Speaker 1: This, It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, back to the cause, We're go going to go

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Speaker 2: to Maureene in Winchester. Maureen, what's the trash pickup situation

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Speaker 2: in Winchester?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, where's this world coming to?

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable? Remember what happens in Medford often happens in Winchester.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's the next story. You know, every place is

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Speaker 7: having a roadent problem, Boston, Winchester, Medford. So I'm hoping

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Speaker 7: that when this changes that all of our Norwegian rats

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Speaker 7: and mice will be going to Medford because you're right

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Speaker 7: beside each other.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, maybe this is really an effort by Medford

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Speaker 2: to take the pressure off you guys. I never thought

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Speaker 2: of it like that.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, I used to live in Medford, and I

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Speaker 7: still own property in Medford, and I understand that a

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Speaker 7: lot of people were really unhappy with the mayor, but

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Speaker 7: she ran or is running uncontested. And I went to

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Speaker 7: a board meeting virtually and a lot of elders were

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Speaker 7: very upset about the CPA tax coming in and they

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Speaker 7: couldn't afford all the increases. And I was watching that

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Speaker 7: on zoom and I literally saw some of the city

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Speaker 7: council members, while of them were younger, were on their

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Speaker 7: cell phones and actually seemed to be laughing at the

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Speaker 7: elders who lived all their life.

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Speaker 5: In Medford, and I thought that totally gets.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And so I'm just like wondering what's going on

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Speaker 7: with Medford. I wouldn't mind living there again in the future.

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Speaker 3: I really liked the.

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Speaker 7: Diversity and a lot of things that Medford has to offer.

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Speaker 7: And I think, like you were talking about the days

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Speaker 7: of McGlenn back, I've always heard how great that was.

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Speaker 7: And even in Winchester, I hear about how the compost

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Speaker 7: was put in the ground and the town would come

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Speaker 7: around and take out the compost. Right, And now I

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Speaker 7: see the squirrels fighting over a tomato and my neighbor's

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Speaker 7: compost their backyard.

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Speaker 2: Well you know again, you know, things have consequences. It's

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Speaker 2: as simple as that.

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Speaker 7: And it was.

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Speaker 2: Interesting when Ken called and talked about how they're doing

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Speaker 2: what they're doing in Portland. It doesn't surprise me. Portland

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Speaker 2: is a very radical city and it's no longer the

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Speaker 2: great city that it used to be in my opinion.

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Speaker 2: And well, we'll have to see what happened in Medford. Mauren.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time to call in tonight. We've

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Speaker 2: had a lot of problems with the phones tonight, and

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Speaker 2: anybody go through should get like an extra accommendation medal.

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Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, but I think there's going to be a

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Speaker 7: real problem that we're already having problems with rodents in

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Speaker 7: Medford and it's going to get worse. And I think

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Speaker 7: that they need responsible people in office, and I think

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Speaker 7: they need to have pay respect for long time taxpayers.

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Speaker 7: And I need to talk to your office because somebody

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Speaker 7: showing a green laser my eye while I was driving

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Speaker 7: on Grove Street in Medford two weeks ago tomorrow, so

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Speaker 7: I injured my eyes. So that's another saying going on

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Speaker 7: that we need to be aware of. But yeah, I'll

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Speaker 7: let you take some other calls, but.

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Speaker 2: You give Rob will give you my direct line, give

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Speaker 2: me a call the wrong and I'll call you back. Okay, Rob, Rob,

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Speaker 2: give Mareen my direct line. Thanks. Thanks, thank you, Maureen.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Don't hang up. John is in New York.

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Speaker 2: John you're gonna wrap the hour for us tonight. You

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Speaker 2: should be thankful you living in New York and not

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Speaker 2: in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: How are you?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I have an independent private sanitation guy that picks up

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Speaker 8: my garbage once a week.

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Speaker 2: And how much did they charge you?

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Speaker 8: It's causing me fifty bucks a months.

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Speaker 2: That's not bad. That's not bad because we pay huge

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Speaker 2: real estate taxes in Massachusetts and you don't have to

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Speaker 2: pay for your trash pickup. But now they're talking about

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Speaker 2: cutting it from once and once a week to once

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Speaker 2: every other week. And they're not gonna they're not gonna

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Speaker 2: give you. They're gonna save a few bucks, but they're

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Speaker 2: not gonna give it back to the taxpayers. That's what

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Speaker 2: goes on in Massachusetts. Fifty dollars is pretty reasonable, at

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Speaker 2: least by Massachusets standards.

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Speaker 8: Massachusetts is known as Taxachusetts. I guess you know about that.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we know about that. And guess what it

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Speaker 2: is an apt description of the comonwalth of Massachusetts. We

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Speaker 2: have an out goo problem. We have more people leaving

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts than staying than coming into Massachusetts. It's a state

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Speaker 2: that is going down the tubes, and it's going down

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Speaker 2: the tubes quickly, and we better turn it around. We're

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Speaker 2: a one party state and things are done here by Fiat,

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Speaker 2: not by democracy with a small d Okay, whatever the

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Speaker 2: people in charge one and impose, they impose, Rob, how'm

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Speaker 2: me doing in time here? Yeah? You know, just real quick.

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Speaker 8: Your technical problem is when you call on the nine

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Speaker 8: three one number you get it sounds electronic. It sounds

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Speaker 8: like you're talking to a fax machine. I told Rob

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Speaker 8: about it. And also your iHeart app with your program

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Speaker 8: wasn't available until about ten minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, John, I got ten seconds left. They got to

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Speaker 2: let you go. But please thank you for passing that on.

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Speaker 2: Apparently our seven eight one number has not been working

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Speaker 2: all night. Thank you. John talked soon. We will get

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Speaker 2: things squared away tomorrow. Crack team is working on it

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Speaker 2: right now. My name is Dan Ray. And there's always

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Speaker 2: all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's

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Speaker 2: why Pale Charlie Rays who passed fifteen years going forby.

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Speaker 2: That's why your pets are a past. They loved you

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Speaker 2: and you love them. You'll see them again see again

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night. Everybody stay dry in Massachusetts. Tomorrow I'll be

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Speaker 2: on Facebook and make a few comments in just a moment,