Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, Madison, thank you very much. Folks. It is a
Speaker 2: Friday night, and believe me, this is gonna be a
Speaker 2: Friday night show because I have to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: and I'm still dealing with the post election hangover. I
Speaker 2: just I'm like in a hole in my life. Like
Speaker 2: I just, I don't. I'm the anti Dan Ray. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, I am the anti
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. And maybe that's why his hair is grayer
Speaker 2: than mine. I don't pay attention to the crap. If
Speaker 2: it's not positive, I don't care. I'm not. I am
Speaker 2: tuning out the crap. I really am, I swear to God.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, this guy's going, this guy's going
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Speaker 2: I am on them? You wouldn't believe it, like stink
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Speaker 2: be patient. You never let them get away with anything.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. How come this isn't covered?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: And a lot of the times it's because of a code.
Speaker 2: There was a missing code, they got a number wrong,
Speaker 2: and it's very frustrating. I understand that, and I can
Speaker 2: understand the frustration of people in this world, But what
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Speaker 2: a year, So how much does this guy make it?
Speaker 2: He's fifty years old, and to me it shot and
Speaker 2: killed on the way to a stockholders meeting.
Speaker 3: I can't believe he didn't have security.
Speaker 2: So this is the type of stuff where like I
Speaker 2: just got I can't. I can't. I can't deal with it.
Speaker 2: That's why I did sports for all those years. I
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to do news at one point, and
Speaker 2: I don't think my stomach could have handled it. I
Speaker 2: could not have handled it. I don't know how all
Speaker 2: these people do it, like you know, uh, CNN and
Speaker 2: MSNBC and Fox, And how do you do that crap
Speaker 2: and not have an ulcer? I don't know how Dan
Speaker 2: does it. God bless him, God bless him, because I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I can't do it. I just
Speaker 2: and I know you're supposed to stay informed, and I
Speaker 2: get that, and I try to. I do. I try to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, turn on busy busy radio, you know, in
Speaker 2: the morning, or listen to Madison here or you know,
Speaker 2: and you just kind of get a taste of what's
Speaker 2: going on. And then I go, I'm out.
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta go.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't. I can't deal. I can't deal
Speaker 2: with it. I have to go watch stupid videos on
Speaker 2: Instagram that make me laugh. So that's why, folks, on
Speaker 2: tonight's program, it is going to be extremely dumbed down.
Speaker 2: Well with one exception, we are going to get serious
Speaker 2: coming up. But you know, just think of me as
Speaker 2: good Time Gary, all right, if I fill in, just
Speaker 2: know good Time Gary is here. Okay, here's in this
Speaker 2: country that we're you know, in debt up to our
Speaker 2: ass that we have a problem at the border that
Speaker 2: nobody seems to want to fix that mental illness is
Speaker 2: running rampant through our country, and nobody's addressing it that
Speaker 2: we have a problem with gun control.
Speaker 3: Don't call me, don't I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2: Because it's just a freaking merry go round of crap
Speaker 2: that nobody wants to solve. Nobody wants to solve. And
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, people are tired of hearing about it.
Speaker 2: Like Comcast, they're trying to sell they take an MSNBC
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Speaker 2: another stock configuration because people don't want to watch CNN
Speaker 2: or Fox or MSNBC anymore. They're tired of it. They're
Speaker 2: like burned out, you know, tune into Ben Parker. That's
Speaker 2: what I do fifteen twenty minutes and I you know,
Speaker 2: every half hour turn on BZ radio. Is there anything?
Speaker 2: Is the world coming to an end? Fine? Good?
Speaker 3: I'm in them out.
Speaker 2: Because Bill Flirty, my program director, is like having a fit.
Speaker 2: At least I'm saying listening to BZ Radio. I just
Speaker 2: and I think the rest of the world's the same way.
Speaker 2: And you know what, it's a problem because that's how
Speaker 2: people get information and you're not going to know what
Speaker 2: to believe or who to believe, So you just go
Speaker 2: on and you vote for who you think and you like.
Speaker 2: And maybe I'll like this person, I like the way
Speaker 2: they talk. I don't like that person, so I'm going
Speaker 2: to vote for that person because I don't like that
Speaker 2: person more than the other person. I believe that's how
Speaker 2: Trump got elected. I think more people said I dislike
Speaker 2: or distrust Kamala Harris more than Trump. I really do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's that's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I was listening to a podcast today actually
Speaker 2: with Anderson Cooper. He's being interviewed and the question was
Speaker 2: you can check out great podcasts by the way at
Speaker 2: iHeart dot com. And the interview basically, you know, talked
Speaker 2: about remember the good old days when Walter Cronkite was
Speaker 2: doing the news and it's Anderton Cooper pointed out, he said,
Speaker 2: you know, when Kronkite was doing the news, it was
Speaker 2: eighteen minutes a night, and it was a newsroom filled
Speaker 2: with a bunch of white guys. And he's right, and
Speaker 2: as he pointed out, straight white guys or some closeted
Speaker 2: white guys. You know, that's one good thing about the media.
Speaker 2: It's diverse, and that had to happen because CBS News,
Speaker 2: ABC News, nbceries. We think those are the golden ages
Speaker 2: of journalism.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, we just believe what they told us. I mean,
Speaker 2: I will say this, you have to have sources. We've
Speaker 2: gone way too far to the other side. Where now
Speaker 2: any Tom Dick and Harry or however you want to
Speaker 2: say it, Harriet or however whatever you know, whatever the journalist,
Speaker 2: whoever the journalist is, they can put something out and
Speaker 2: you believe it. If you go, wait a minute, is
Speaker 2: this true? Do I wait a minute? Do I know this?
Speaker 2: Is this to be true? I mean, you really have
Speaker 2: to read. You have to pay attention to what you
Speaker 2: read on social media. Could be maybe, might be hearsay.
Speaker 2: People are saying, okay, is it true? But talk about
Speaker 2: this crap? And now I'm talking about this crap. As
Speaker 2: the great out Wichino said in one of the worst
Speaker 2: movies of all time, Godfather three, every time I try
Speaker 2: to get out, they pulled me back. In coming up
Speaker 2: on the show tonight, I'm done. That's it. Coming up
Speaker 2: on the show tonight. Things we believed as kids but
Speaker 2: were never true. I actually looked at this list and
Speaker 2: I have some problems with it because I think some
Speaker 2: of the things are true. I mean, you know, one
Speaker 2: of them obviously is each your pees kids a starving
Speaker 2: around the world. I mean, you know that that's a
Speaker 2: lame one. But there are some really good ones on here. Actually,
Speaker 2: I looked at this because when I first looked at
Speaker 2: this as a topic, I went, eh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but they're kind of funny. So we're going to do
Speaker 2: that tonight. We are going to talk about battling the
Speaker 2: holiday blues. That's serious. Doctor Gregory Chance is going to
Speaker 2: join us. Doctor Gregory Chance is going to join us
Speaker 2: talking about that, and he has the free trauma tests
Speaker 2: that he's going to talk about as well. I remember
Speaker 2: my mom, and it's interesting now as I'm older and
Speaker 2: I could look back as a kid and realize what
Speaker 2: the hell was going on. I mean, my mom definitely
Speaker 2: suffered from depression. Alcoholic father, Uh, definitely a violent My
Speaker 2: grandfather was definitely violent. I don't verbally, I think I
Speaker 2: think physically I don't know, but I think physically he
Speaker 2: was an alcoholic. He lost everything because of it, you know,
Speaker 2: So I definitely think. You know, my mom suffered from that,
Speaker 2: no question, with anxiety and and she called it the blase.
Speaker 2: Like when we were kids, you weren't depressed, Oh you
Speaker 2: just had the blase.
Speaker 3: I got the blas.
Speaker 2: This radio sta this is crazy. This radio state in Rumford, Maine,
Speaker 2: a radio station I started at, the Mighty wr UM
Speaker 2: AM seven ninety, which would go off there at sundown,
Speaker 2: would play this song like whenever the sun went down,
Speaker 2: and you go, that'll be the end of the broadcast
Speaker 2: day of wr UM and Rumford. It was played the song.
Speaker 2: It would make my mother cry. Every time. I'm just
Speaker 2: remembering this, I'm having flashbacks and I think back to
Speaker 2: it now and I go, of course she was depressed.
Speaker 3: She should have been on medication. I think she got unpack.
Speaker 3: And my mother was the saint.
Speaker 2: She was a nurse. She took care of everybody in town.
Speaker 2: She was an angel. Put a lot of it on herself.
Speaker 2: But I remember on Christmas when we were done opening
Speaker 2: up the gifts, she would all of a sudden start crying,
Speaker 2: and I'd be like, what, what, what's the problem, Why
Speaker 2: are we crying? I got my toy helicopter, I got
Speaker 2: my red Rider bb gun, I got my hot wheels.
Speaker 2: What's there to be sad about? Come on, Ma, that's
Speaker 2: ma hey ma, And it happens. Man. The holidays are
Speaker 2: hard on people. If you've lost someone, you know, it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard. I'll tell you that. Personally, I am in
Speaker 2: a great mood and I can't wait. I am in
Speaker 2: the holiday spirit like you read about. But we are
Speaker 2: going to talk to Gregory Chance about that. And I actually, hey, Rob,
Speaker 2: we have to. We got to pull out the song
Speaker 2: by uh Lennard Skinner.
Speaker 3: That smell. I don't know if you remember that.
Speaker 2: Ooh that smell. Now you can buy a fragrance and
Speaker 2: smell like a food. So I'm going to ask you
Speaker 2: what food would you be? There's a Chipotle deodorant. Think
Speaker 2: about this. I'm going on a date. I want to
Speaker 2: put my arm around my significant other. I maybe want
Speaker 2: to get lucky, and I'm gonna smell like a taco salad.
Speaker 3: What the hell's going on in this world?
Speaker 2: Plus from the Boston Globe, film critic Odie Henderson joins, us,
Speaker 2: I we're going to talk about the best and worst
Speaker 2: Christmas movies of all time. But I've watched two things.
Speaker 2: The Diplomat on Netflix, which is fantastic. It just had
Speaker 2: an ending to season two that I was like, WTF
Speaker 2: what And Conclave I just watched that race finds as unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I mean it's the ending's a little whacked, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's hard to surprise the say Tony V. My buddy,
Speaker 2: the comedian joins us at eleven o'clock and we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about his career. And he's doing a gig tonight.
Speaker 2: I said, can you come on at Eddie says man,
Speaker 2: I'm doing a gig stand up comics, still going strong,
Speaker 2: and was on Seinfeld. He isn't an episode of Seinfeld.
Speaker 2: How many people can say that I was in an
Speaker 2: episode of Seinfeld. So that's what's on the show tonight.
Speaker 2: No more serious stuff. Things we believed as kids that
Speaker 2: are true. Six one, seven thirty. If I miss anything,
Speaker 2: that's next. We are produced by Marita l Rossa. Rob
Speaker 2: Brooks is piloting the ship. I'm Gary Tank for Dan Ray.
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Speaker 1: Now? Back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Gary Tankway for Dan Ray too. If you
Speaker 2: guys want to jump on six, one, seven, two, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: You know, before I get into this, you know I
Speaker 2: don't take a lot of calls usually, but tonight I
Speaker 2: feel chatty. Let's go to Gail and situate. Gail.
Speaker 3: You're on wbz's night side.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 5: Gary, Hey, I'm listening to you tonight as I'm driving home,
Speaker 5: and when you were describing your mother, I felt like
Speaker 5: you described my mother to a t I felt like
Speaker 5: your mother was my mother. It could be exactly the same.
Speaker 5: I have to ask, is is your mom still around?
Speaker 5: She's still alive.
Speaker 3: She is not, no, but she lived to eighty four.
Speaker 2: Good run, as they say, I'm so sorry, Well thanks,
Speaker 2: I mean, but I you know, it's one of My
Speaker 2: dad lived till he was ninety, my mom to eighty four.
Speaker 2: You know, my father in law he passed away suddenly
Speaker 2: at sixty. So you know, I'm kind of I'm grateful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I my mom lived to eighty seven. But I
Speaker 5: feel like you described my mother to a tea and
Speaker 5: my mom too. She was not a nurse, but she
Speaker 5: was a nurse's age, worked in the nursing home. Then
Speaker 5: she went to a private care. So your mother and
Speaker 5: my mother are very similar. And the depression is it's debilitating.
Speaker 5: And I felt, I just felt crushed when you described
Speaker 5: your mom and what she went through with her father,
Speaker 5: because you know, when your mom and my mother growing up,
Speaker 5: they probably grew up at the same time. Was your
Speaker 5: mom born in the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 3: Oh god, now, my mom was born in nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 2: Oh, nineteen eight Oh yeah, she lived through a depression.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, because here's the thing like with my mom,
Speaker 2: and I found this out later on. You know, her
Speaker 2: mother died at childbirth of giving birth to one of
Speaker 2: my uncles. Actually, let's see, there was one, two, three, four, Okay,
Speaker 2: there were She had two brothers. She had three full brothers,
Speaker 2: and then she had two half brothers and a half sister.
Speaker 2: And her mother passed away giving childbirth. And I don't
Speaker 2: think the baby survived either. I mean this so this
Speaker 2: was like the nineteen twenties, you know, you know, before
Speaker 2: the depression, and uh, there's no doubt. I mean. And
Speaker 2: then her dad, her my grandfather, who you know, I
Speaker 2: didn't meet the guy, but I've heard a lot of
Speaker 2: things and you know the thing that was crazy about
Speaker 2: a Gail, she would like give him a pass, Like
Speaker 2: I just you know, I know, I'm not supposed to
Speaker 2: speak ill of the dead, but I'm like, I hear
Speaker 2: stories and I'm like, you know, just what, come on, dude,
Speaker 2: really And she would say, well, they worked hardy and
Speaker 2: how life and you know the you know kids of abuse.
Speaker 3: That's how they justify.
Speaker 6: It, right, you know.
Speaker 5: But you know what back in those days when you
Speaker 5: were a woman, back in those days, just like my mother,
Speaker 5: and you know, my mother grew up in the fifties
Speaker 5: and sixties. You you know, back in those days, you
Speaker 5: did not dare talk against your parents all the thing out.
Speaker 5: So your mom was born in nineteen eighteen, So was
Speaker 5: your mom older in age when she had you?
Speaker 3: My mom was like forty six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that explains it, because myma was thirty six
Speaker 5: when she had me.
Speaker 2: Late fish.
Speaker 5: Got it, Okay. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: But she's in a better place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all good. I mean, Gails, it's I don't
Speaker 2: even know how the hell I got on the topic.
Speaker 2: I just the thing I like about this show is
Speaker 2: that I can just come on and ramble. But I
Speaker 2: will tell you this that in that you know that
Speaker 2: day and age, the boys definitely get the better clothes.
Speaker 3: They certainly got praised more.
Speaker 2: And I think that's why our parents, our moms became nurses.
Speaker 2: My mom took great pride in taking care of others,
Speaker 2: and she was always she took care of herself. Last
Speaker 2: I remember, I'll tell you, Gail, I remember one time
Speaker 2: I called home. My mom suffered from reuma toward her
Speaker 2: critis later in life. Oh my god, holy crap, Gail, Gail,
Speaker 2: where you been.
Speaker 5: And she had depression just like your mom?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Medication, Yeah, oh, finally they took medication. I mean finally.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the big thing with depression is you know,
Speaker 2: I have a I have the director I'm teaching at
Speaker 2: Emerson and next week I have the director of psychology
Speaker 2: or psychology for a for the Boston Celtics coming in
Speaker 2: to talk to kids. I mean, look, there's a there's
Speaker 2: an epidemic with mental health in this country. Period. It's
Speaker 2: been ignored. It's been ignored, we haven't addressed it. We're
Speaker 2: finally starting to deal with it properly. Yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 2: you know, I she would say, like she had the blase.
Speaker 2: And now I look back on it, she didn't have
Speaker 2: the blase. She was depressed, but she had told like
Speaker 2: on one story with my grandfather, you know, got into
Speaker 2: it my uncle Jim and like went after him with
Speaker 2: a knife. He was hammered and like, and my uncle
Speaker 2: Jim didn't drink, like a lot of my uncles, like
Speaker 2: my mom never drank. My uncles didn't drink because they
Speaker 2: saw what it did to their father, right, you know,
Speaker 2: but there's no doubt that.
Speaker 3: You know, she oh, what was I saying? Oh?
Speaker 2: I called home one time, I'm talking on the phone.
Speaker 2: She'd fallen off the bed and she was in between
Speaker 2: a table, a coffee table, in her bed. She wouldn't
Speaker 2: tell me, and my father told me later. He came
Speaker 2: into the room and found her there, and he goes, well,
Speaker 2: why did you tell? Why didn't you tell Gary so
Speaker 2: we could have you know, not that I could have
Speaker 2: done anything, but she wanted We kept talking, like for
Speaker 2: another twenty minutes. She wouldn't say anything because she wanted
Speaker 2: to just keep talking. I mean, that's the type of
Speaker 2: parents we had, you know. It was everybody else first
Speaker 2: them last.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'll tell.
Speaker 2: You something Gail, and people need to remember this. And
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about this coming up at nine
Speaker 2: thirty when we at nine o'clock. When it comes to
Speaker 2: mental health, and I have read this, you can't take
Speaker 2: care of anyone else. You can't take care of your kids,
Speaker 2: your significant other, your parents, you're until you take care
Speaker 2: of yourself.
Speaker 3: That's right, and that's what people need to remember.
Speaker 5: And that it sounds like your poor mother suffered. It's
Speaker 5: too bad she didn't go on, you know, get medication
Speaker 5: until much later. My mother never took medication. My mom
Speaker 5: didn't take anything. I know in anxiety. She's anxiety just
Speaker 5: like your mom. It's delicating.
Speaker 3: Oh and here's the question, Gail, do you have anxiety?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 2: So I had this discussion.
Speaker 3: With a therapist.
Speaker 2: I said, because it's you know, my mom's anxiety was
Speaker 2: off the charts. And I said to that, I got
Speaker 2: and I noticed certain traits in myself in certain situations,
Speaker 2: and I said, is this hereditary? Is it is it?
Speaker 3: Is it genes?
Speaker 2: It's it environmental? And the doctor said both. I go, thanks,
Speaker 2: but I could have figured that out. But it's definitely,
Speaker 2: you know, it's definitely both you know where you know
Speaker 2: and of course back then, back in the early seventies,
Speaker 2: they called it, oh, you're just a worry ward. You know, well,
Speaker 2: being a worryward is hanging.
Speaker 3: Anxiety, exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about it. And I hope people, you know,
Speaker 2: again at nine at nine o'clock, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Around the holidays, talk to people.
Speaker 3: Get health.
Speaker 2: It's really hard, though, I do know, it's hard to
Speaker 2: find a therapist. It's like if you if you you
Speaker 2: want to start a business. Therapists are like booked, which
Speaker 2: is good and bad. It means that people have finally
Speaker 2: woken up and are addressing mental health, right, but it
Speaker 2: also means it's a shortage of therapist, which is how
Speaker 2: you have to You have to really search out there.
Speaker 5: People like your mother and my mother, and then I'll
Speaker 5: this is this one last thing I'll say, and then
Speaker 5: I'll get off the phone. People like your late mother
Speaker 5: and my late mother, they deserved compassion and understanding, and
Speaker 5: they didn't get it. People, you know, when they were
Speaker 5: growing up, people would think, oh, what's wrong with them?
Speaker 5: They deserved compassionate un They did.
Speaker 2: Get but here's the thing that I will tell you
Speaker 2: that may make you rest a little easier. I don't
Speaker 2: think they realized it. Like, I don't think they didn't really,
Speaker 2: they didn't think anything was wrong. And you know, like
Speaker 2: my and I don't want to make it. My mom
Speaker 2: lived a great life, you know, my sister. I think
Speaker 2: she's very proud of my sister. And she was my
Speaker 2: sister and myself and her grandkids, and she was married
Speaker 2: to my dad for forty something years.
Speaker 3: They had a great marriage.
Speaker 2: But looking back on it, I see I see uh
Speaker 2: evidence of it. But I don't think she recognized it.
Speaker 2: I don't think your mom recognized it. They just said
Speaker 2: I got the blase or you know, you know, or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 5: So that's thought it was normal for her to be down.
Speaker 5: Normal for them, yes, you know, and it wasn't normal.
Speaker 3: No, But here's the reality I think.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do I know. I've I've listened, I've
Speaker 2: paid attention. I've read a lot about this stuff. I've
Speaker 2: talked to a lot of people because it affected my family.
Speaker 2: I find it interesting. I think any sort of mental
Speaker 2: struggle is part of the human condition for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: And I think it's this way when we come out
Speaker 2: of the root womb. And it might be a defense mechanism,
Speaker 2: is that we think of the negative first, and it
Speaker 2: might be a defense. It might be a defense mechanism
Speaker 2: where you think, all right, I need to be concerned
Speaker 2: with what's going on in my world.
Speaker 3: What could hurt me?
Speaker 2: Right? Like the first thing when I get out of
Speaker 2: bed in the morning, I don't go, Man, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great day, you know, like those stupid cereal commercials. Man,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great day. I'm gonna go to
Speaker 2: the gym. I'm gonna get everything done on my list.
Speaker 2: The first thing that happens to me when I wake
Speaker 2: up in the morning, I'm like, oh crap, what do
Speaker 2: I have to do today?
Speaker 3: What could go wrong?
Speaker 2: It's the first thing that happened and I and I
Speaker 2: and I have to change my focus.
Speaker 6: But I think that's a defect way of thinking.
Speaker 2: But I think that happens to everyone because I think
Speaker 2: it's a defect mechanism with being our survival right.
Speaker 5: And I hate to say it, I feel like it's
Speaker 5: mostly men that think that way.
Speaker 2: Probably, yeah, I think so too, because women are more secure.
Speaker 2: Gayl thanks for the call. Pal, take care go. Okay,
Speaker 2: that was an outstanding call, and I have my list
Speaker 2: that I still have to get to, but I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to Gail. We will continue to talk more
Speaker 2: about that discussion coming up with psychologist Greg Chance, but
Speaker 2: more I guess more of the crazy things we believe
Speaker 2: as kids and they say they're untrue. Semi challenge. That's
Speaker 2: next on Nights Out of WBZ.
Speaker 3: On Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back, Gary Tangling for day tonight coming up.
Speaker 3: Not a here in double nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: I tried to say holiday blues this season, Doctor Greg
Speaker 2: Jans is gonna join us new fragrances that you can
Speaker 2: you can buy a cologne that smells like a Dunkin
Speaker 2: Donuts Boston cream donut. You know, when I was reading these,
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, so I'm gonna smell like a
Speaker 2: Boston Cream donut. Does that mean I would say you
Speaker 2: know what? You know what I want to say, But
Speaker 2: I think I'll get in trouble if I say it
Speaker 2: begins with E, ends with T with an A, or
Speaker 2: you want to smell me? Ook? God, Oh, we got
Speaker 2: another call.
Speaker 3: Let's let's do this.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to Stephen Maine. Steve, O, what's up. You're
Speaker 2: on WBZ.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, hey.
Speaker 6: Gary, you're gonna have No, I'm not going to I'm
Speaker 6: not going to repeat what I did eight days ago
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 6: You may think your ram went on, Gary, but I
Speaker 6: really enjoy getting to know you. You know about your
Speaker 6: family history. And I didn't realize your mother was born
Speaker 6: in nineteen eighteen. My mother was born in nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 6: We shared the same birthday together.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow, Yeah, so was she born in Rumford?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: It wasn't everybody up there, I know, I know kidding.
Speaker 3: You got that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad was. My dad was nineteen fifteen, my
Speaker 2: mom was nineteen eighteen. So yeah, I was like an accident,
Speaker 2: Like I was a bait, you know, one of those
Speaker 2: miracle babies that couldn't happen.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, you're not an accident, remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Steve. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Look, you got the great voice, you got the great pipes.
Speaker 6: I just let everybody know on Facebook that you are
Speaker 6: on and I said, I said. I sent an audio
Speaker 6: eight days ago to Tom Kelly, Tommy Dick Stewart. Yeah,
Speaker 6: my cousin Dick and Mark Palmer's wife Stephanie. They all
Speaker 6: loved it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's well those they're all great people, man, I mean, yeah, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's going on? Do we get some snow?
Speaker 6: Well, it was supposed to get up in Maine, was
Speaker 6: supposed to get a coating to two inches on the coast.
Speaker 3: I live in Freeport, Oh, Okay.
Speaker 6: And I didn't get to tell you last time we
Speaker 6: talked because we were on other topics. But I lived
Speaker 6: in Massachusetts for thirty years. I left, and yeah, I
Speaker 6: left in October of eighty five. I started in the
Speaker 6: hull well started to hang him for six months, a
Speaker 6: three's company situation with a girl from a good friend
Speaker 6: from EU Maine, Farmington. Because you know, I majored in basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I only lasted a half a year. But you wouldn't know.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't have any idea who my teammate was. He
Speaker 6: was a former a recent NBA coach.
Speaker 3: Oh I know Stevie Clifford.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Steve and I and Steve Burns with a three
Speaker 6: teams three teams yet three Steves on that eighty eighty
Speaker 6: one team with Beavers semifinals. Yeah, we lost to Franklin
Speaker 6: Pas eighty seven to seventy three.
Speaker 3: My sister went to New Math.
Speaker 2: My sister went to Yeah what she studied special ed.
Speaker 2: I mean you guys are all teachers, right, I mean
Speaker 2: pretty much everybody's.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you though. I'll tell you Stevie. This is interesting.
Speaker 2: Steve Clifford came in. I was doing the Celtics pre
Speaker 2: and post game show at the time, so I'm hanging
Speaker 2: around the garden, right, And I remember because the Rumford
Speaker 2: Falls Times, that's or the Lewis and Son they would
Speaker 2: have all the game stories of like um f or
Speaker 2: Umo or baits or whatever. And I remember pictures of
Speaker 2: Steve Clifford and then he then when they I saw
Speaker 2: him at first coaching. He was an assistant when he
Speaker 2: came in, I think he was coaching the Hornets, and
Speaker 2: I went up to him and I said, man, you
Speaker 2: were a lot slimmer and you had hair back when
Speaker 2: you were playing some years Humane Beavers, and he was
Speaker 2: like Ford and I was like, I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: I grew up in Rumford, and uh yeah, he was, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's done great, Holy cow man.
Speaker 6: Yeah. We uh we had a he was a defensive
Speaker 6: type player, and you could you could see the coaching
Speaker 6: him back then too, you know. And he was a
Speaker 6: sophomore when I was a freshman. Yeah, we were one
Speaker 6: to three. I was one of three Steeds on that team.
Speaker 3: Ray McKenna, two from Rumford, played.
Speaker 6: On Yes, right, big Red, Big Red.
Speaker 2: I know, all right, we're.
Speaker 6: Boring people again there.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I just talked to people. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter to me.
Speaker 6: I know. Hey, Gail was very sympathetic and very compassionate. Woman, Gail.
Speaker 6: It was a wonderful call from you. I just want
Speaker 6: to let you know. If he's still listening, there you go,
Speaker 6: all right, yeah, thank you. Keep rambling on about your life.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate it. You got me chuckling here in
Speaker 6: my truck driving back to Maine from uh Pennsylvania. That's
Speaker 6: what I do for work.
Speaker 2: Oh well, good luck with bean.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll see you.
Speaker 2: That's what I do.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys want to come in here for
Speaker 3: four hours.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ramble. I just rambled. Steve the Coonzo
Speaker 2: I don't know he called me. I haven't seen that guy,
Speaker 2: like thirty years. He played center field for Derrego High School.
Speaker 2: He was a really good athlete.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That was another good thing, you know, with high school sports.
Speaker 2: And I know there's still big around Massachusetts. The super
Speaker 2: Bowl's going on, the high school super Bowls. That stuff's great.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the one thing because I got burned
Speaker 2: out covering sports. But man, high school sports is still
Speaker 2: where it's at. My kids played well. My son played it.
Speaker 2: You know, I have a my my youngest daughter's gonna play.
Speaker 2: She'll play field hockey and lacrosse. He's gonna be in
Speaker 2: high school next year. Friday night football. It's still awesome.
Speaker 2: The super Bowl's going on. That's still awesome here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: And you know the parents are a little whacked, but
Speaker 2: that's nothing new. But like I've been Maine where we
Speaker 2: would go, I mean Steve's team Derego, they win the
Speaker 2: state championship like two years in a row. Came out
Speaker 2: of nowhere and they'd go up to Bangor, Maine, and
Speaker 2: everybody would come. I'm in for the tourney. The attorney
Speaker 2: at the Bangor auditorium. Anyways, good to hear from him.
Speaker 2: I will get back to my topic. H lies when
Speaker 2: we were kids that turned out to be true. I
Speaker 2: think at six one, seven, two, four thirty here on WBZ,
Speaker 2: Gary tangway for Dan Ray.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 1: nights since two years on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: As you can tell, Dan's not here tonight because that's uh,
Speaker 2: He's a smart guy. He does the heavy lifting, not me.
Speaker 2: I can't take it anymore. I'm just keeping I'm dumbing
Speaker 2: dumbing down, BZ. That's what we're doing here in WBZ
Speaker 2: Danuy program nights up. Gary Tango here. Okay, my childhood
Speaker 2: was a lie. Twenty things we believed as kids that
Speaker 2: turned out to be totally untrue. I'm going to get
Speaker 2: to these, and I believe this is a kid. If
Speaker 2: you cross your eyes, your face will get stuck that way.
Speaker 2: I still refuse to cross my eyes.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 2: I hate it when somebody else does it to me.
Speaker 2: I want to throw up when I see somebody cross
Speaker 2: their eyes. Oh my god, I want to puke. And
Speaker 2: I probably believe this till I was like eighteen, Uh
Speaker 2: eating peas. No, I never believed that kids are starting
Speaker 2: around the world. Okay, this one, I do not believe.
Speaker 2: This author said this is a myth. You do not
Speaker 2: in fact, need to have pain to gain. That is
Speaker 2: bull crap. If you're gonna work out to lose weight,
Speaker 2: you gotta suffer.
Speaker 1: You do.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I mean, I don't know if I
Speaker 2: do orange theory. And the only way I've ever lost
Speaker 2: weight is with orange theory because I get on the
Speaker 2: treadmill and I need to get into the orange zone
Speaker 2: and I am sucking wind. If you want to lose weight,
Speaker 2: you gotta eat right, So it's a mental pain. You
Speaker 2: can't eat junk, you can't eat the good stuff. You
Speaker 2: can't eat on your rings, you can't eat fried pickles.
Speaker 2: You can tell what I like. You can't, you know,
Speaker 2: have a HYPOSTRROOMI sandwich got them getting hungry. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: gotta hear right. And if you're gonna work out, I
Speaker 2: don't know. So now they're saying like, oh, okay, well
Speaker 2: you can just stretch and you can do light exercise. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's not gonna do anything. It's not. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: when you stretch now in your fifties, pH that hurts.
Speaker 2: But if you want to lose weight, if you want
Speaker 2: to get in shape, you gotta hurt you.
Speaker 4: You just do.
Speaker 2: Anybody that tells you any of these ads. That's you know,
Speaker 2: any of these ads and all this stuff. You don't
Speaker 2: lose weight easy weight. There's no such thing. And there's
Speaker 2: no such thing.
Speaker 3: God probably isn't bowlding when it's thunders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an old one. I never believe. I never
Speaker 2: heard of this one. The blood that is on the
Speaker 2: way back to my heart has never been blue. I
Speaker 2: don't really underst stand that one. Going to sleep with
Speaker 2: wet hair gave me a stiff neck. My mom told
Speaker 2: me that all the time, and I believed it. I
Speaker 2: totally bought it. Also would give me a cold if
Speaker 2: you went outside. They say, if you went outside with
Speaker 2: wet hair, you'd get a cold. I don't think that's
Speaker 2: true either. Oh, here's another good one. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: there's not any Okay, there's a gum rattling. If you
Speaker 2: swallow your gum, it's gonna rattle around in your stomach.
Speaker 2: For years, I never heard that one. My mother always
Speaker 2: told me if you swallowed your gum, you'd be constipated
Speaker 2: for a month, and again I believed it.
Speaker 3: Sitting close to the TV, you will go blind, it
Speaker 3: will hurt your eyes.
Speaker 2: That's probably true.
Speaker 1: This one.
Speaker 2: It says, I swim all the time after eating, and
Speaker 2: I'm perfectly fine. I still think you got to wait
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. If you have a big lunch and you
Speaker 2: got you gotta get a sight eight. I understand. I've
Speaker 2: heard that's a myth, and that's just something our parents
Speaker 2: told us. But I disagree. I think you're gonna I
Speaker 2: don't think you should. I don't think you should swim
Speaker 2: right after you That's quite what I think. This one says,
Speaker 2: I eat a ton of carrots and I still have
Speaker 2: night blindness.
Speaker 3: It is true.
Speaker 2: I've looked this up on the internet, so it must
Speaker 2: be true. Carrots can help you see better because they
Speaker 2: contain vitamin A, which helps you adjust to a certain
Speaker 2: vision in the darkness. It's good for your cornia and
Speaker 2: good for your lens. So there, I'm gonna clean my ears.
Speaker 2: There was something else I was thinking about that people
Speaker 2: told us if you did too much as a young man,
Speaker 2: or quite frankly, maybe as a I don't know, I'm
Speaker 2: not really aware of that side of the street. Whereas
Speaker 2: a young person, well, if that was the case, I'd
Speaker 2: be giving Stevie Wonder a run for his money. Okay,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, my eyes are gonna pop out when I sneeze.
Speaker 2: This one was really cool, I think. Okay. It says
Speaker 2: boys do, in fact make pastes of girls who wear glasses.
Speaker 2: Glasses on women are hot. My wife has a pair
Speaker 2: of has like three pairs of glasses. My wife's a
Speaker 2: smoke show anyways, but I mean she has three pairs
Speaker 2: of glasses that are outstanding. So yes, women who wear
Speaker 2: glasses can absolutely be hot. Very few people have been
Speaker 2: eaten by piranhas. I thought I've only seen it in
Speaker 2: movies like the movie Piranha. It says piranha attacks on
Speaker 2: humans are very rare, so I did not know that.
Speaker 2: So there you have it, Folks, eating carrots will help your.
Speaker 3: Eyesight and doing the other things you will not go blind.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Alex. Alex has been waiting. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Alex and milliks, Alex, youre a WBC's nightside. How
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 6: He's your human Barry.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was told that if you drink your milk you'll
Speaker 6: grow up to be tall, and eat your vegetables.
Speaker 5: You'll be big and shrug. So all my adult life,
Speaker 5: I've one hundred and thirty two pounds, five foot.
Speaker 3: Six well, you know something, you're not overweight.
Speaker 6: In maybe in China.
Speaker 3: No, but you know, I mean you ate your vegetables,
Speaker 3: so you're not overweight.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That's something about milk though, too, because you know something, Alex,
Speaker 2: I drink the.
Speaker 3: The nut milk there, the almond milk. I know, I know,
Speaker 3: but you know what, I drink it.
Speaker 2: In my coffee.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's my wife says that.
Speaker 2: Man, that's what I do too. All right, Alex, good stuff,
Speaker 2: Thank you, yest your vegetable so you can go to
Speaker 2: be big and strung.
Speaker 3: Patent Boston, you're on WBZ.
Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing. Hey A pimp told me when
Speaker 4: I was a kid, use your ear wax to make
Speaker 4: sure that lady is good down there.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Okay,
Speaker 2: use my ear wax to make sure a woman is
Speaker 2: prepared for intercourse. You're telling me.
Speaker 4: She's nott no disease, she won't have no disease, she
Speaker 4: got she's.
Speaker 2: Okay, So uh, ear wax is gonna cure an STD.
Speaker 4: No, it's and you know she's burning, so stay away
Speaker 4: from him, all right.
Speaker 2: Pat thanks for the call. Eait a minute, that took
Speaker 2: a turn. Excuse me. Wow, all right, Pat, that was
Speaker 2: a different one. So I guess if you're a young
Speaker 2: man and you're going on a date, you want to
Speaker 2: make sure you don't clean out your ears.
Speaker 3: You just never know what you're gonna hear. On wbz's
Speaker 3: Night Side. You just don't.
Speaker 2: You just don't. You just don't. All right, it still come.
Speaker 2: We are going to talk about Battling the Holiday Blues
Speaker 2: coming out next with doctor Gregory Chance. We'll do the
Speaker 2: best and worst Christmas films of all time. We can
Speaker 2: take some calls on that. With Boston Globe film critic
Speaker 2: Odie Henderson, my buddy Tony V Comedia checks in at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. I just want to talk to him about
Speaker 2: his career. Guy's been a comedian for like fifty years.
Speaker 2: You know, he's part of that whole crew with like
Speaker 2: Steve Sweeney and Lenny Clark, you know, Don Gavin, just
Speaker 2: Boston legends. I'm telling you, the funniest people in the
Speaker 2: world are from Boston. They are O'Malley Rogan. Whether you
Speaker 2: agree with Rogan or not, I'm not getting into the
Speaker 2: politics and all of it. Stand up coming Stephen Wright,
Speaker 2: stand up comedian Bill Burr, Bill Burr, You kidding me?
Speaker 2: Stand up comedian? All good, right there, Plus we will
Speaker 2: get into new fragrances. People are wearing deodorant that smells
Speaker 2: like food, which I mean, I guess if I want
Speaker 2: to smell like a meatball that's appealing, I guess. I
Speaker 2: don't know. So that's all coming up here on WBZ.
Speaker 2: We are going to take a break for news. Robin
Speaker 2: my good now, I'm sorry, I lost track of time. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll take a break. Do news get back to you.
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