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All right, it is thank you very much, Day Hawkins, and it is now eleven o eight on a very rainy night. By the way, just a little parenthetical comment as I I'd like to just mention that do you remember a few months ago we had no rain September, October, November, I mean very little, And in the last two or three days it has been nothing but rain. And today I'm listening during the show to the rain outside and it's coming down. I'm sure wherever you are as well,
so maya. My observation is that eventually it kind of all evens out. I'll be interested to see if we end up with a shortage of whatever our normal rain total is. The meteorologists will tell us that. But we had obviously the fires that brush fires that broke out in October and into November. I don't think we have any more brush fires in a while after this reign of the last few days. So thank God literally for
the rain, There's no doubt about that. Anyway, I want to talk to you about a subject that is near and dear to me, and it should be near and dear to you, And I also want to point out that at least one of our senators in Massachusetts, Ed Markey, has been actually in a leadership position on this. There's been an effort by some car makers to I'll try to simplify it as much as I can, to eliminate AM radios in their cars. Now. I don't know why.
Difficult for me to understand why. But on my car, which is I drive a very old car, it's about it's over ten years and it's a Volvo. I used to like Volvos because I felt they were safe cars. I do not have the same feeling. My next card will not be a Volvo, at least I don't think it will be. I'm looking at a couple of other makes. I want safety, and I want the bells and whistles that come with new cars. Uh. And I'm happy with the numbers of Vovos that I've had over the years.
But I think that Volvo has recently sold and I think that Volvo is is not the same product that it was the last time I bought I bought a Vovo. But putting that aside, there's an effort by some car manufacturers to eliminate AM radios in their cars. Now they're bringing more electronics into cars. You have now these big screen that you can watch if you if you're doing ways or Google Maps or something like that, which is great. Uh. And of course FM is a popular band. No one
said just think to eliminate FM. You can get some of these services that are out there which gives you satellite services on your car radio that costs money that is not free. But AM radio serves an important purpose, an important purpose to people in cars, are also an important purpose to people at home. For those of you who do not realize it. AM radio has a much stronger signal than FM radio. FM radio is high quality sound and someone argue it's a better sound than AM radio.
I don't believe that. But what is indisputable is that the F stations may have a thirty four maybe even a fifty mile reach, but not much more than that. We get outside of Boston and try to pick up radio stations, you know, Boston FM radio stations, and they're tough to get. Now a lot of them will have their affiliate down the Cape, or maybe their affiliate in
New Hampshire or whatever, but it's a different station. You're not listening when you listen to WBZ, you're listening to the same station, whether you're in New England or whether you're further down the coast in North Carolina, Virginia, out west West Virginia. We've had callers tonight from those states. Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida.
We've had again. I think everybody understands it. And AM radio, which of course was the original form of radio FM, didn't come along until sometime in the late sixties early seventies. AM has been around for over one hundred years. WBZ celebrated the one hundredth birthday in nineteen twenty one or other twenty twenty one. They won in the air in
nineteen twenty one and all rooms to the contrary. I was not working at the station at the time, but it's a great history of great tradition and part of the service that AM radio has always provided over the years is a big signal that reaches a lot of people, and in times of crisis, whether it's a blizzard here in New England or a hurricane, we can reach a lot of people simultaneously, or god forbid, if there was ever some sort of a military attack on the United States,
it's where people would go for their information. So at this point, there is an effort in Congress to basically say to car manufacturers, you need to have AM radio in all of your automobiles as an option. Uh, and leading the charge in the Senate, one of the leaders, if not the leader, is Senator Marqute from Massachusetts, and we have to I have to certainly thank Ed Markey
for his leadership here. I've tried to reach him in the last few days through a couple of his staff people, and I was hoping even having on having him on tonight, but that didn't work out. And so, Uh, this current Congress, it's a lame it's a lame duck session because many of these members of Congress are either retiring or they've been turned out of office. And right now across the board there are more and more House members joining as
co sponsors. And Inside Radio, which is one of the sort of the bibles of this industry, points out that right now they have more than enough that they had two hundred and seventy one supporters in the House to basically keep AM radio. The title of the bill is the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, so you have well above the number of members of the House and
in the US Senate. In the Senate version, and I'm quoting now from the inside Radio says the bill, as well as its Senate counterpart, have both passed out of committee in both chambers and are awaiting final votes. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana is among the co sponsors, but he has yet to bring the bill up for
a vote. The Senate version passed out of committee in July of twenty twenty three, that's over a year ago, but Majority Leader Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democratic of New York has yet to bring the bill to the floor for vote, despite sixty three Senators co sponsoring it, Schumer is not among the co sponsors of the legislation. Now, that could either mean the Schumer's opposed to it or
Schumer is agnostic towards it. Not likely, But if they do not get this passed and signed by President Biden, they go back to square one in the next congress. Now, this is pretty simple. It's pretty simple. There are a lot of people, a lot of people who rely on AM radio, not only here in New England, but around
the country. The biggest, most powerful radio stations in the country in terms of coverage, strength of signal or AM radio stations, and in a time of cri you want those stations available not only in people's homes, people's places of work, but also in their cars. So I'm going to open up the lines and give everyone an opportunity to tell me what they think about this piece of legislation. I know some will say, well, we shouldn't be dictating to automobiles what they should or should not have in
the cars. Well, got to tell you if they were going to eliminate windshields in cars, I think that the government has an interest in saying nope, nope, they're going to eliminate backup mirrors. A lot of the bells and whistles that now are in cars. If they're going to eliminate side mirrors, look, it's a product I'm talking about the automobile that virtually every family in America has one. And in case of any sort of a crisis, you want everybody to be able to have as many forms
of communication available to them as possible. That's my position, I hope it's yours. Feel free to join the conversation. One line at six one, seven, two, ten thirty, A couple of lines at six one seven nine three one ten thirty. And again if Senator Markey is listening, and he has listened to this show on occasion, he's actually called in a couple of times as a caller. I thank Congress Senator Marque. Senator Markey, they want to do he was a congressman for a long time. One thanks
Senator Market for his leadership on this issue. And let's get it done, because if they wait until this Congress adjourns, they are back at square one with the next Congress. Slight these lines up. If you like AM radio and you want to have it in your car, particularly a time of crisis, whether a natural disaster or a man made disaster, you want to urge your member of Congress to support this bill, the Am Radio for every Vehicle Act. There's a house built. There's a house version in the
Senate version. I can get into some of that if you want, but I prefer to hear from you back on Nightside right after this.
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
By the way, Robers sent me an article Ford you know an American automobile manufacturer had considered getting AM radios out of twenty twenty four models models that are obviously on sale now this article, which came out in May of twenty twenty three, Ford essentially said no, We've decided to keep AM radios. They will continue offering AM radios,
citing the need for emergency alerts. Exactly what I just have been talking about all twenty twenty four Ford and Lincoln models will Lincoln models will have AM radio, according to a tweet bye Ford CEO Jim Farley. While Ford planned to remove AM radios from the it's new vehicles, Farley said that plan was mixed due to the importance of AM's emergency alert system. Well good for Ford. Since AM radio was already discontinued on the F one Lightning
and Mustang mack E Macmarck E model. Ford plans to restore it fire and over the year software update. So good for Ford, good for Ford. The demise of AM radio was something other automakers such as Audi, BMW, Vovo and Tesler have already started to do, specifically on their electric vehicles. However, this led to backlash from lawmakers and many others who claim AM radio is vital because it's accessible, free,
and important for public safety. Just last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers this is talking about May of twenty twenty three, introduced important legislation to mandate that automakers offer AM radio in new cars. For a Reuter's report, Well, again, they're making progress, but we need to make sure we get this ball across the line because AM radios in cars very very important. Let's go to the phones. We're going to start off with someone who's very concerned about
civil defense issues. It's my friend Patrick down in the District of Columbia. Patrick, how are you tonight?
You better believe this subject caught my ear fast.
Buddy.
Well, I appreciate that. I know how committed you are and how concerned you are. And look, you got all of this stuff. Now. I'm sure you've been following this. The drones that are flying over New Jersey and Pennsylvania at night and the government says they have no idea what those are. Have you heard this story?
I haven't been following that one because I've been going door to door for people who need to organize themselves in communities where they would need to evacuate in the low lying watershed areas of the Chesapeake Bay. You know, to make sure that once again you know who your neighbors are and what they need, and you know people who are handicapped or you know children with special needs. You got to help those families and understand what an evacuation is and why you do it, and why am
I even here telling you to do it? Because we are not civil defense minded, and we used to be civil defense minded and we were very efficient. That is one of the things that has done. We were a very efficient country, very organized, and there is something within preparedness that puts it all together.
No, I agree with you. I mean, you have to think about what if? What if? And I know that there's a lot of companies out there trying to sell you twenty years of food. I look at that. I don't know what you think about those. I look at that as a bit of a scam. But the idea, why would would any of these vehicle want to take AM radio out of their cars in the first place.
I mean, you know, I have serious I have serious XM radio in my car because when I'm out and about it, I'd like to be able to listen to something other.
Than just music and local news. You know, I can. I can listen to local news on WBZ. Obviously I can listen to some music, but I want to have some other options. And one of the options that I always want to have is AM radio.
The fact that I can get in the car and I can hear what's going on in Boston, or hear what's going on in Pittsburgh, and hear what's going on maybe from Saint Louis if the Saint Louis Blues are playing, and or WBT coach.
Now coach now by Jim Montgomery, the Bruins coach that was fired and hired by the Blues, with I think a matter of forty eight hours, not maybe even less.
And you know, and then there's the radio station in Charlotte. It's it's it's important. If we were discussing things about local newspapers providing local news, well, am radio stations provide local news, and that is very important as let's bring that aspect in here. So released newspapers, local newspapers and local stories can can flourish and can develop, and it's the skills. It's our free society, it's our freedom of speech, which.
Makes us us you know.
So I don't think we should take away AM radio and be stupid and take it out of cars because we have so many cars as it could be stuck in traffic somewhere and they have to have a constant signal that's going to provide them with the information that they would need. That's just plain and simple. You know, you can have a lifesaving situation being a lifesaving situation like on the Pennsylvania Turnpike or anywhere in the country
and you need that constant source. That's it in a nutshell, Harriet.
Good agree, you more well, said my friend. Thank you Patrick. As always, let's keep in touch. Okay, all right, you got it, sir, got you soon. Have a great night. Next up Pat and Charles Patrick and Charlestown Patrick. Next on night Side.
Oh Ve Dan o, Hey, listen. The one thing that's come to mind for me on this is why in the world would Republicans ever allow for this to go forward?
And I have to tip my hat to add Markey on this because usually I'm on opposite sides of most issues with that guy, but I have to tip my hat on him for this one because I mean, if you think, especially over the last twenty or thirty years, before the advancement of at least Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, we had pretty much dominance one sided view and all media disciplines, from newspapers, television, internet platforms banning people. The
one exception to all of that was AM radio. You would get a diverse set of opinions and a diverse set of ideas, And it was almost like there's a strangleholder, a bottleback on on all major sources of American media, but for AM radio and proud voices like you and and back when the great Rush Limbaugh was alive, keeping debate alive, UH and and to prevent a complete monopoly of one one set of views. I just feel as though a diverse set of media is absolutely critical for democracy.
And so it just seems to me that those who want to support Republican radio report AM radio would be the Republicans. And how I mean, do you agree with that? Dan? Is there any any I understand?
I understand that generally generally UH many talk radio programs tend to UH in recent time criticized Democrats. But the beauty of AM radio is that there are sometimes broadcasters like the late Rush Limbaugh, who are on fifty five hundred stations, but that's few and far between. In most communities, whether it's a Boston or a Boise, Idaho, or Baltimore, Maryland or Montana, you have local voices. I'm a local voice.
I'm a Boston guy, and I have my takes. And sometimes you and I agree, sometimes we disagree, but you're right. You're right. Conservative talk radio helped maintain some balance during the Obama administration when President Obama was a very popular, you know president. It certainly came of age during the Bill Clinton years and maybe that was really when talk radio took off during the Bill Clinton years. But I got to tell you there is bipartisan supporting this, including
Senator Ed Markey. I don't think anyone has worked harder on this than Ed Markey. And I'll tell you why. I think Marky's worked hard on it. Ed Markey has
told me many times the story as a kid. You know, he was one couple of summers he were in this ice cream truck and there's a capitalist made a lot of money, you know, particularly at the time around the time of the Red Sox researchence in sixty seven and sixty eight, and he tells the story with glee, and he talks about meeting Dave Maynard from Channel from w b Z and how WBZ has been his favorite radio station.
And I know that that Senator Markey listens to sometimes the night side in the DC are because he's called in as a as a as a guest, or as a caller. Actually a couple of times he on this issue. You would think he would say, well, I'm not going to do anything for AM radio because AM radio has always been critical of my party. But it's the op it's the opposite, And I think that great. The Republicans need
to drive this. They have the majority in the House and they have enough support in the Senate to get this done before before this this this session of Congress. As Patrick. Yeah.
And it's so it's important for my liberal friends too, because I mean, you could see the pendulum swing back and maybe maybe uh poignant important liberal voices might find AM radio as a place.
Where they can get their message out there too. I just think it's important for democracy and I cannot imagine a time where I can't listen to Dan Ray sit in my car having a Kelly's Roast beef. I just can't imagine that, Dan, or how many people can't imagine listening to the Red Sox on the radio on AM radio during during a New England summer night. And it's it's part of it's part of America. I just I just can't imagine. I just can't imagine we are.
And I would like to see my phone lines light up on this top. I don't think there's going to be anyone who's going to call and say get rid of AM radio. But if people sit at home and don't take the opportunity to call, that's not a good thing because this could be taken away from us by car manufacturers. Corporate America, believe it or not, would be doing in AM radio. And you've got Ed Markey, who's a Senator from Massachusetts, one of the more liberal senators,
fighting to save AM radio. So politics make strange bedfellows, right, I guess that's the point of our conversation.
Patrick, Good for Ed, Good for Ed, Good job, Ed. Keep up the good work. We need more more more independent thinking like this, and let's keep AM radio. We need it.
Thanks day, sir, Patrick, Talk soon. Mary Christmas. If we don't talk again, okay before the twenty fifth. Okay, we'll keep rolling here. Just we have the linel lit up. Thank you very much, everybody. I'm going to try to move everybody a little bit more quickly. No one is waiting any more than ten minutes or so. I got to take a break. I'm going to get to Eileen and Kevin down in South Carolina. I got Linda, I got ron, I got Corin. We're going to get everybody in coming back on Nightside.
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Back to the phones without any further ado, going to go to Eileen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ileen, welcome, How are you hi?
I'm fine, but I am for the life of me, I can't understand why they want to remove AM radio. Is there some electronic reason? Is it more difficult to build in or something?
I think it was. I think the concern initially was with some of the EV vehicles. Now I don't know if the argument was let's let's create a problem or let's not address a problem. That there might have been some interference, but that seems to have gone away. According to this story that I'm looking at out of what's
called inside radio today. President Trump obviously said has not said whether he supports the bill, and his growing relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk has some believing it could sway his opinion. It would be a huge mistake if President Trump. That's why I think it's important to get it passed before this Congress gets out of session. Tesla is among the companies that has removed AM from the
dashboards of its electric vehicles. Now again, I think that they probably think that AM radio is a is a form of radio that older people listen to more than younger people. But I have plenty of younger callers in this show as well, Eileen. So you know, we just gotta look ed Markey, who has probably been criticized more in AM radio than most because most AM radio tends to be to the right of center. He's doing the right thing here for free speech and he should be commended for it.
Yeah.
Well, I am I'm older, and I remember I was in high school at Northfield, the Northfield School for Girls in the nineteen fifties, and we used to WBZ fades as you had as you drive west, and we didn't get it at Northfield. But if we stayed up late half midnight, which.
We weren't supposed to do.
We used to be really happy and we could get wb Z radio on our radio.
It has a lot to do with the setting of the sun, time of year and all of that. But the fact of the matter is if you're on the wrong side of a mountain, that's going to be difficult. We've heard in places Illinois. I've had calls from places like Iowa, so I know that. And these are people who are listening on the radio, not on the internet. So thank you for your support, Eileen. I hope all is going well with you. And if I don't chat with you, Merry Christmas.
Okay, thanks, thank you, all right, thanks Dan much.
All right, good night. Let me keep rolling. You're going to go to Kevin in South Carolina. Kevin, you're listening on the radio the internet tonight.
I listened on Alection because the static is too bad to get you on the AM down here. But you know, when we have an emergency like a hurricane or something and your power goes out and your internet goes out, all this great technology isn't worth a broken stick in the street. Your am radio that gets you through that says, Okay, the tides high, the rivers are backing up, these streets, need to evacuate. This is your evacuation route, it's your lifeline.
Most of your serious stuff, it's all recorded. Those people you think they're talking to you, but you know they recorded that three days ago and they're somewhere else. They're not telling you what's happening this very minute where you are. And that's what AM radio does.
Exactly exactly, and I'm telling you of that right now. The future of AM radio. AM radio will always exist, but accessibility, you know, to it could be severely restricted.
You know, your FM stations are mostly pre recorded. I keep hearing Rob's voice saying, the portions of this program could be pre recorded all over the country on stations I listen to, so you know those are also recorded too. But you want a live voice like yours. If you said tonight, gee, the the Williams Tunnel is flooded, so don't go that way, Okay, I know, yeah, yeah, I know, But you know if you didn't say that, I'd drive right into it and say, gee, how come it's flooded?
Yeah? Absolutely absolutely, and again thank you. I don't know how your members of Congress or how your senators are are feeling on this down there, but every vote counts, and get in touch with your your two senators from South Carolina and your members of Congress.
Okay, we'll call Nancy Mason the morning.
All right, I would be surprised if she's not supporting it. I would let us know, let us know. Thanks. Thanks.
It was seventy here today, by the way.
Uh yeah, I was warm today. I got up to about sixty year but it kept raining and it's still raining right now. But hopefully we'll we're gonna get to some normal. We've had some cold weather up here too, so winter is here, whether we like it or remembers.
You don't shovel rain here.
This is very true.
And I'm very merry Christmas.
Do you?
Thanks, Kevin, talk to you soon. Gotta go next to Linda and Waymouth, Linda, next on, Nice, I go ahead, Linda.
Hi, first off, Merry Christmas, and I do celebrate it. And I've been looking for a replacement car. I'm looking at SUVs and one of the first cars I hopped in it had all this technology way up there, and I said no before I really checked whether it had AMFV because I had bumped it out. But I've been listening through the days and you have that advertisement on to call to text on AM five to eight eight six. I wouldn't be surprised if I hear it later on tonight, okay,
And that's to let your representative know. And that's texts AM five two eight eighty six. So Rob or whoever was there can bring it up. But that's one thing that I'm going to be looking for as I find a replacement car. I'm not looking for electric, so it probably have a good, better, better, yeah, better chance of finding it. I do appreciate, even though I'm not driving the expressway, hearing it for those people who are driving it and what options they should have because of backups.
I appreciate the traffic.
I'm sorry, Cliff, I said, I'm with you totally, and thank you for your support on this, Linda. We really appreciate it.
So yeah, it's AM five two, got you in here before the break?
Go right ahead, Hi, Dan, I'll be quick earning Christmas by the way, in case I don't talk with you, but there were two. I mean, I use it that I need it every day driving on the map Pike, I have to tell you that there's an accent every day. So it's very helpful for me to knowing on hospital at work.
Yeah, sometimes more than.
One, sometime more than one exactly. And the other two things that I just wanted to chime in with is, you know, when we were driving to the War Trade Center, that's what we had. Going down the mass Pike heading to Fort Stewart Airbase, we had nothing else to give us the news that was rapidly changing. And the same way it was a Hurricane Katrina. That's what we had. And those are two of the There were no political sides one way or the other in those moments, and so that's that's right.
That's.
Test I get that that is very strong testimony. You never think that it's something like nine to eleven can happen. Again. I know that you're with one of those twenty four hour groups where you got to have a bag ready to go, and I thank you for that service, and I thank you for the call tonight, because I think people they forget we get, we get lazy, and as they say, I have you offered uttered some criticisms over
the years of my friend Ed Markey. He stole my friend, but on this issue he is, He's in the forefront of it. And so we got to get the New York the majority leader, New York Senator Chuck Schumer needs to take this loose and get it out of committee, get it on the floor, and get it over the House and get as a president Biden desk. Simple as that.
Okay, yeah, I will do what I can.
I appreciate it, Thank you very much. All right, six one, seven thirty. Those are the only lines they're open right now. No sense of downing the other six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Back on the night's side right after this.
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World night Sight Studios, Don Bzy News Radio.
All right, let's head to the to the rest of the call. It's going to go to Corinn in Bridgewater. Krinn, welcome back. How are you hi?
Dan?
Great?
Thank you so much for taking my call. I think I'm really yeah, I'm passionate about this, as your other callers are in yourself as well. I'm definitely with the caller from Cambridge. What's the point. Why why does someone just want to make the name for themselves like I understand cars grow with technology. We don't have a trax, we don't have CDs, we don't have cassetts mostly in cars anymore. I get that, But AM radio, what's to gain by not having that you have? There's only a
lose here. Am I missing something?
I don't think you and I don't. I don't think you are. As it turns out, it seems to be the group that has kind of headed this UH are the UH, the the automobile faction manufacturers from out of the country, And apparently this was really started by Audi and Vovo and Tesla, and I.
Don't know why.
I think a lot of them are into electric vehicles, and I think that they were concerned that the vehicles, the electrical systems in the vehicles might conflict with AM radio. I don't understand it, but that's what we're being told. So the problem is it is stalled, and if it doesn't get passed by time the new Congress is seated, which I believe is January third, they got to go back and start at square one. And that's not a
good sign. So at this time, the Republican Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and Chuck Schuman, the majority leader in the US Senate, the Democrat. They got to get their act together and get this passed by both both houses and on the desk of President Biden, because once January third passes, all the progress that it has been made is reversed and they go back to the starting line. That's the dirty little secret that I'm trying
to make people understand tonight. It has to be done now, in the next two or three weeks, or it won't get done.
Here're talking to a head addresser, Dan, I hear you, and I will be loud and proud about that, believe me, all right. I also I'm concerned. I'm concerned about it. Sounds like the majority wants to keep it. By the tone, it sounds like, so yeah, okay. So I'm confident in hearing that, and that makes me feel good because I'm the next, uh next fella coming in. I thought he
was very pro military and understands communications very deep. But I don't know if his new friend that doesn't want it in his cars are getting more of an air from him waiting to kind.
Of here, good luck with you and me trying to get his ear, that's for sure. And again Ed Markey has done a good job on this, and so I want to commend him for it, as simple as that. Hope to right.
I'm proud you. Let that be known.
That's it. Thank you, Dan for doing your job and getting this message out. I'll keep it up. Okay, thank you very.
Much, great, appreciate it very much. Thank you. All right, gotta get three in here, starting off with Jeff and Whitman. Jeff, you're next time Nightsager right ahead.
Hey Dan, I think the thing that's being lost is a lot of people like, what does it matter? We have these apps and stuff. The problem is you have dead zones with SOUL coverage. Take a look at Hanson. If I drive through Hanson, my calls drop and data is even worse. And that's the big issue.
Now.
On the other side, Marque's our rep. I know Steven Lynch's office says he's for it. The question is how do we escalate it higher? So in our area it sounds like everybody's for it.
First of all, I yeah, well, supposedly sixty three of the US senators. That's almost two thirds. All you need is a majority, and then two hundred and seventy one. I think it's the latest figure in the House. That's more than a majority. If you get two eighteen in the House, you can pass anything you want. So there's obviously bipartisan support, both democratic and liberal, both democratic and conservative and the Republican, I should say, or a liberal
and conservative. Let's get it done, because if we don't get it done by January third, everything that isn't done goes away. It's not like they say, well, we'll continue with and we'll get it done in late January. You they'll look at this, it'll be not done for another two years. So time is of the essence.
All right, begg you, sir, begg you, Jeff, talk.
To Merry Christmas. Let's go to satchi uh in, Saga satchi you next time nights. I want to get you and Jerry from New York and go ahead, Sachi hi Dan?
What do you call?
You know?
I like the station. Then I listened to a three hundred and sixty five days a year. But there's a question mark is do you remember the CBE radios?
Sure?
Okay, so back in the day is CEB radio was great and I had to light for licenses back in the late eighties to get a frequency. I think it's a question mark. Is technology is changing, they don't have enough frequency to have it.
I think I think they might be. I think they might be calling it bandwidth, but I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is that some of the electric vehicle manufacturers said they had a little bit of a problem in basically allowing an electric vehicle to accommodate an AM radio, and it can be done. Might cost him a few bucks to put in some additional wiring, but it's it's a convenience and that that is important. That's that's all.
And I just want to give you a really quick one minute story. I used to travel to Toronto, Canada, where you offer back in the day, is that I used to have a radar detector because of the feeding and for the police cause and when you pass the border, you cannot have the radar detector because it's interfered with the frequency in Toronto, Canada. So if you get caught, there's a big fine, like a thousand or two thousand dollars fine back in the days.
Yeah, well that's interesting, but that takes me away from what I want to talk about Tonight's at you I hope you understand that.
I just want to bring it up, that's all. And technology is changing. Probably they're going to come up with something better.
I don't think so, but I think I want to straight Thanks. I have a great night Jerry and New York. Jerry, You're next night said you're going to wrap the hour for ust go right ahead.
Thank you very much. Dan. I am very upset about this issue. I do not understand. I don't understand the reasoning for getting of AM radio in cars, and there.
Was no good reasoning, Jerry. There is no good reasoning for it. And the only reasoning that I have heard from some of the electric car manufacturers is that AM radio might cause some interference in electric vehicles. But all they have to do is work on that and fix it. It's as simple as that.
I definitely understand that, and I love your show. I've listened to it for years, and if it went if it went away because of this issue, I probably it's not as serious as being heartbroken, but it is because you hit all of the important things and I just am a devout listener. I live in Syracuse, my best childhood friend lives in Medway. I graduated from Medway and to do this year.
But I am now running out of time. Do me a favorite, call me earlier some night, and I'd love to know more about your friendship and your relationship with Medfield. Merry Christmas. Okay, thank you very much. We're done for the night. Rob Brooks, thank you very much, Mariita, thank you very much. Jerry. I didn't got you off there, Okay, I promise we will tell you as always that end the show. All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's from my pale Charlie Rays, who passed fourteen years
ago in February. That's all your pets are her past. They loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again. Please stay dry. I have a great Thursday. See you tomorrow, every one. I'm going to talk with an expert on serial killers tomorrow