Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'mbelling and Mazy, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Madison. Welcome to summer everyone. It's
Speaker 2: June fourth, but I think summer arrived sometime today, a
Speaker 2: few days ahead of time when summer normally arrives, so
Speaker 2: summer really gets here actually technically on June twenti. It's
Speaker 2: we're just a couple two and a half weeks ahead.
Speaker 2: That's okay. I'll take the warm weather. My name is
Speaker 2: Dan Ray, host of Nightside, as Madison so graciously mentioned,
Speaker 2: and I am here every Monday through Friday night from
Speaker 2: eight until midnight. Rob Brooks is back in the control room.
Speaker 2: I think he has an assistant in there. Tonight Shane
Speaker 2: is working with him. Tonight Robs doing a little bit
Speaker 2: of training some of our newer team members, and all's
Speaker 2: right with the world. We have four interesting guests coming up.
Speaker 2: In the first hour. There were no phone calls, as
Speaker 2: always during the first hour. We will get to some
Speaker 2: topics later on tonight. A bit of a brawl that
Speaker 2: is going on between Boston Mayor Michelle wou and United
Speaker 2: States Attorney Lea Foley. That is an interesting development. And
Speaker 2: also we'll talk about the end of the bromance. What
Speaker 2: might be the end of the bromance between President Trump
Speaker 2: and Elon Musk. So let us start with our first guest,
Speaker 2: the president of Hunt Auctions, David Hunt, Dave Hunt, and
Speaker 2: he is going to be putting up at public auction,
Speaker 2: not this Thursday, but a week from tomorrow, beginning at
Speaker 2: two o'clock, the personal collection of Bill Walton, who, of
Speaker 2: course all of US Celtic fans remember, Bill Walton finished
Speaker 2: out his career with a couple of pretty good seasons
Speaker 2: here at the Boston Garden. Dave Hunt, Welcome to Nights Out.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: Very good, pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2: So what do you have from the personal collection of
Speaker 2: Bill Walton? A college champion, I'm a great player with
Speaker 2: the Celtics at the end of his career. I've had
Speaker 2: a a great player up with the old Portland trail Blazers.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about here? I'll bet you there's
Speaker 2: some interesting.
Speaker 3: Stuff, sure is. I think if you think about Bill Walton, unique,
Speaker 3: you know, might be a good word to come to mind.
Speaker 3: And not only was a unique human being and just
Speaker 3: this interesting figure in sports history, but one of the
Speaker 3: sort of one of the most encompassing careers in basketball
Speaker 3: across all levels. As you mentioned, coming out of high school,
Speaker 3: national recruit, goes to UCLA two time champion, one of
Speaker 3: only two players, and if you think about this in
Speaker 3: NCAA history, to be a three time college Player of
Speaker 3: the Year three times, we'll all for Al Sampson. Then
Speaker 3: you move on to professional levels. He takes an unlikely
Speaker 3: team in Portland and takes him to an NBA championship
Speaker 3: they're only championship since and wins the NBA MVP. Then
Speaker 3: goes to you know, so on and so forth in
Speaker 3: San Diego and Los Angeles, and then comes to Boston
Speaker 3: and as you mentioned, you know, six Man of the
Speaker 3: Year award, and you read about that Celtics team from
Speaker 3: eighty six being considered by many to be the greatest
Speaker 3: team in NBA history overall, and a lot of the
Speaker 3: players when they're quoted saying that he was the key
Speaker 3: component that they needed to push them to know, sort
Speaker 3: of over that level to get to that championship, and
Speaker 3: then of course into a broadcasting career that was you know,
Speaker 3: legendary and finally and maybe most interestingly, considered by almost
Speaker 3: everybody to be the greatest fan in the history of
Speaker 3: the great BULTECHI. Yeah, yeah, that passed an interesting career
Speaker 3: in life, for sure.
Speaker 2: You'll passed at much too young, an age seventy one
Speaker 2: a year or so. So tell us some of the
Speaker 2: items we will give out the website so people can
Speaker 2: peruse some of these items. Are all of the Do
Speaker 2: many of the items or any of the items have
Speaker 2: reserve on them? Or is everything in play?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Two fronts, There are two answers. I suppose there are
Speaker 3: hundreds of items, and they range from a few hundred
Speaker 3: dollars up to a few hundred thousand dollars. And that's
Speaker 3: something that's important for both us and auctions and the
Speaker 3: Wall and family for that matter, to have something for
Speaker 3: everybody to truly let you know, all types of fans
Speaker 3: and collectors participate. So the overwhelming majority literally have no reserve.
Speaker 3: They will sell to the highest bidder, whatever that may be,
Speaker 3: and even the very best items have very conservative reserves
Speaker 3: to just protect them for a base level. We've averaged
Speaker 3: around a ninety six to ninety eight percent sale rate
Speaker 3: over thirty years, so you know, when you have a
Speaker 3: great auction of great materials, and most importantly from a
Speaker 3: great figure such as Bill they really become almost a
Speaker 3: moot point because the market itself sets those levels, and
Speaker 3: you'll see that in the bidding. You're going to see
Speaker 3: things that are estimated at five hundred one thousand dollars
Speaker 3: bring six and seven thousand dollars because that's what the
Speaker 3: market decided they are worth. You may see some things
Speaker 3: they're estimated at ten to twenty thousand bring seven thousand
Speaker 3: because of the reverse of that. But that's kind of
Speaker 3: the fun of it, right is to see where they'll fall.
Speaker 3: And with those very pricing levels, there's so many interesting pieces,
Speaker 3: you know, for your listeners, like not just his Celtics
Speaker 3: World Championship ring, which is obviously one of the technical
Speaker 3: pieces you could obtain, but even like you know, his
Speaker 3: maybe his cachet Celtics bag that he had with some
Speaker 3: images of Celtics players from that period. So just kind
Speaker 3: of fun and interesting pieces of basketball history there there are,
Speaker 3: you know, we're really privileged to offer, for sure.
Speaker 2: So the Championship Celtics ring, I mean, most people are
Speaker 2: not going to be able to bid on something like that.
Speaker 2: Bidding where is that ring expected to go for? The
Speaker 2: high rollers? In my audience. I'm sure they're interesting behind that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, great question. And you know, for example, that's
Speaker 3: estimated to fifty to one hundred thousand in the estimate,
Speaker 3: you know, the pre sale estimates. It's already over fifty
Speaker 3: thousand already in the online betting now, so we would
Speaker 3: expect it to fall in that range. Could it bring more?
Speaker 3: It certainly could. Given his importance to that particular team.
Speaker 3: You know, we were honored, as maybe some of your
Speaker 3: listeners recall, several years ago, to represent Bill Russell, you know,
Speaker 3: in selling his things and with a portion of going
Speaker 3: to his charities as well. And now Bill was not
Speaker 3: a member of that team, but received a ring as
Speaker 3: one of the members of the organization and that exceeded
Speaker 3: six figures. And you know, so sort of interesting comparison.
Speaker 3: And while you can use sort of comparable prices in
Speaker 3: these in these materials, in these auctions, every auction is
Speaker 3: different everyone. And it might be a particular party or
Speaker 3: two or four that decided to focus on a piece
Speaker 3: that takes them back to something that's very memorable to them.
Speaker 3: The nostalge of what we do is what drives a
Speaker 3: lot of us.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me see if I can drive some
Speaker 2: of my listeners. So let's say some of my listeners
Speaker 2: the same. Boy, I'd love to get something from the
Speaker 2: Bill Walton collection. But yeah, somebody's thinking, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I can probably spend a couple one hundred, but what
Speaker 2: are some items that maybe are in that range that
Speaker 2: a real Bill Walton fan would want to be aware of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what we focus on, really. I mean,
Speaker 3: the best pieces sort of take care of themselves. They
Speaker 3: find their own path, if that makes sense. But there
Speaker 3: are quite literally hundreds of pieces, hundreds ranging from it
Speaker 3: might be a warm up pair of Celtics shorts that
Speaker 3: shorts that he wore in practice that are two three four,
Speaker 3: five hundred dollars. There might be a pair of tickets
Speaker 3: that he was given for the eighty six playoffs that
Speaker 3: were used by either family member or not used by
Speaker 3: Bill or whatever, that are in that range. There are
Speaker 3: dozens and dozens of small awards and interesting things. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a desk. This is a little bit of a
Speaker 3: time piece, but there's a desk ornament like almost a
Speaker 3: name plate from Larry Bird as a representative when he
Speaker 3: worked for the Pacers that he gave to Bell. There's
Speaker 3: just so many different interesting pieces that are under that
Speaker 3: thousand range.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that you have peaked the interest of
Speaker 2: my listeners and particularly Bill Walton fans, basketball fans generally.
Speaker 2: So the auction early bidding, I guess is underway. The
Speaker 2: auction doesn't officially start until next Thursday at two pm.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Basically, Yeah, the live auction, live, interactive online portion, that's correct.
Speaker 3: But if you go to hunt auctions dot com you
Speaker 3: can view all the items, register to bid, and then
Speaker 3: decide which way you would like to do it. Some
Speaker 3: people just prefer to put their bids in and let
Speaker 3: the system basically do it in an automated fashion for them,
Speaker 3: and some want to register to just to be part
Speaker 3: of that mix. If you will, on auction day where
Speaker 3: you can be on your phone at a Little league
Speaker 3: game or work or wherever you are in this wonderful
Speaker 3: world of technology in twenty twenty five and bid live
Speaker 3: just as if you were sitting in a live auction
Speaker 3: house room, you know, sort of in an old school,
Speaker 3: raised the paddle type of way. But it's fun. It's
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. It's a lot of interesting things
Speaker 3: and prices and we tell people just go take a look,
Speaker 3: even if you don't want to bid at all. It
Speaker 3: is such a fascinating stroll through through history, especially with
Speaker 3: the person is, as you know, as important as Bill
Speaker 3: Walton is what he was to his support.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Dave Hunt, thanks very much again, give us the
Speaker 2: website one more time.
Speaker 3: Yes, hunt auctions dot Com again. Register, take a look
Speaker 3: at all the items and be ready to bed.
Speaker 2: So when you get to Hunt auctions dot com you'll
Speaker 2: see you'll be directed towards the Bill Walton collection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it land you right on it. And I do
Speaker 3: want to mention one quick thing. A portional proceeds of
Speaker 3: course go to Walton family charity as well. Really important.
Speaker 2: Perfect Dave Hunt, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 2: Always an interesting guy to interview. Thanks Dave, You've got
Speaker 2: he's got a fascinating career here. I must be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun to go through these materials and catalog
Speaker 2: them as well. Thanks so much. We'll talk again anytime
Speaker 2: you get a big auction you let us know.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thanky, thank you.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk with Jonathan Goliver,
Speaker 2: not about problems at the pike. In one twenty eight.
Speaker 2: We may talk about how that went last weekend and
Speaker 2: what that might augur for an upcoming weekend later this month.
Speaker 2: That there's also, according to Jonathan Galliver, the MASSED Department
Speaker 2: of Transportation Highway Administrator, a work zone crisis that demands
Speaker 2: a blue light solution. We will explain on Nightside right
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BEAZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio all right. A week or so ago, we talked
Speaker 2: with Jonathan Golliver, he's the Massachusets Department of Transportation Highway
Speaker 2: administrator about the big work. I don't want to say
Speaker 2: big dig, the big work that it was being done
Speaker 2: last weekend at one twenty eight and the master Turnpike. Jonathan,
Speaker 2: before we move on to the issue at hand, how
Speaker 2: did things go last weekend? Did you guys get accomplished
Speaker 2: what you needed to accomplish that weekend and how bad
Speaker 2: were the backups?
Speaker 4: So things went very very well. The backups were manageable
Speaker 4: the whole time. We did get some pretty severe ones.
Speaker 4: It took almost twice as long to get to the
Speaker 4: job site, approached about an hour delay at one point
Speaker 4: on Saturday, but for the most part stayed around thirty
Speaker 4: minute delay, which is something that we consider to win.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of people stayed away from the site.
Speaker 4: Exactly what we wanted to have happened. So thanks to
Speaker 4: you and the rest of the media for really getting
Speaker 4: the word out out and people really paid attention and
Speaker 4: it really worked out great. We actually finished the job
Speaker 4: about two and a half hours early, and we're looking
Speaker 4: forward to hitting the next weekend on the twentieth coming
Speaker 4: down a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: The weekend of the twentieth, the twenty first, and the
Speaker 2: twenty second. We'll have you back for that, but let's talk.
Speaker 2: You have raised an alarm, which I think is legitimate,
Speaker 2: that there's a work zone crisis that demands a blue
Speaker 2: light solution. I think I know what you're talking about,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure that you can explain it perfectly for
Speaker 2: everyone in my audience, including myself.
Speaker 4: Sure, so this is something that's very, very important to us.
Speaker 4: We obviously have a lot of work sites across the state.
Speaker 4: Many of them are behind fixed work zones like the
Speaker 4: one we did this weekend. But many of the job
Speaker 4: sites that we have or maintenance, which means that they're
Speaker 4: not behind fixed work zones with barriers. They're behind things
Speaker 4: like barrels and cones, obviously a much softer barrier and
Speaker 4: much more easily penetrated by things like cars. And we
Speaker 4: do a lot of things to keep our guys safe
Speaker 4: when they're working in those conditions. We make sure they're
Speaker 4: in the high visibility gear, we make sure we have
Speaker 4: crash trucks out there. But things happen, and speeds right
Speaker 4: now are incredibly high not just in Massachusetts but across
Speaker 4: the country, and we have seen an alarming trend over
Speaker 4: the last few years, really since COVID, we have seen
Speaker 4: things spike and we had a particularly deadly year this year.
Speaker 4: One of our own staff, David Seussa, was killed just
Speaker 4: a little bit less than a year ago in these
Speaker 4: Bridgewater picking.
Speaker 1: Up some road debris at nighttime.
Speaker 4: And then just a few months ago in Springfield, we
Speaker 4: had three workers for one of our contractors who was
Speaker 4: doing some guardrail work was killed by a driver that
Speaker 4: went into the work zone. And we have right now,
Speaker 4: I think a really good chance is a lot of
Speaker 4: safety initiatives being proposed of the legislature worked on earlier
Speaker 4: this week, and I had the opportunity to testify on
Speaker 4: one that was proposed to allow us to use blue
Speaker 4: lights and very specific and limited ways as a way
Speaker 4: to improve driver awareness when they're approaching some of the
Speaker 4: work zones. So the way this would work is, uh,
Speaker 4: it's for strictly for dot vehicles and I'm talking like
Speaker 4: the heavy equipment stuff, so I'm talking like crash trucks,
Speaker 4: where you would have a small number of blue lights
Speaker 4: which have been very very proven to slow traffic down. Uh,
Speaker 4: and they would be rear facing so that you would
Speaker 4: see them as you're approaching these work zones. And and
Speaker 4: you know, as they said to uh some folks earlier
Speaker 4: in the week, the first thing every driver does when
Speaker 4: they see blue lights coming up is they check their
Speaker 4: speed and they slow down.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's going to disagree that the reaction we're looking for.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: So, so would would these blue lights be attached to
Speaker 2: vehicles or would they be standalone blue lights that would
Speaker 2: just warn people, Hey, you're approaching a work zone. You'll
Speaker 2: want to pull over. I mean, everybody knows when you're
Speaker 2: coming up on a police car which has pulled someone
Speaker 2: over in the right hand lane, if you can, you're
Speaker 2: supposed to drift into another lane to the left to
Speaker 2: give the police officer as much clearance as possible when
Speaker 2: he gets when he or she gets in or out
Speaker 2: of their vehicle. Same principle is applying here, I believe.
Speaker 4: The exact same principle, And the idea would be to
Speaker 4: put it as part of the standard light package that
Speaker 4: we have on our trucks right now, so we have
Speaker 4: amber lights, and this would be something that would be
Speaker 4: again small number, a lot of states do this in
Speaker 4: different ways, and this is something that you know to
Speaker 4: be clear, this law change would allow it. Like right now,
Speaker 4: we're not allowed to even discuss even a pilot. This
Speaker 4: would allow us to go into a to set up
Speaker 4: rules and regulations about how these would be used. And
Speaker 4: the way we're envisioning it is how many other states
Speaker 4: do it, which is very small number of lights, So
Speaker 4: we're talking less than twenty percent of the lights on
Speaker 4: the light package. Would be blue, could be fixed, could
Speaker 4: be off lading, It could be on one side of
Speaker 4: the truck or the other. There's a few different ways
Speaker 4: of doing it, and we'd want to trial out these things.
Speaker 4: We're facing only only for trucks that are going to
Speaker 4: low speed, so there would be no mistake about it.
Speaker 4: Nobody's going to confuse one of these for a police
Speaker 4: vehicle or something along those lines. What we're looking for
Speaker 4: is that instinctual gut response that people have when they
Speaker 4: see blue lights. That's proven over and over again. We
Speaker 4: want them to want them to hit the brakes, we
Speaker 4: want them to slow down, we want them to do
Speaker 4: that speed check and move over, and we don't get
Speaker 4: that kind of reaction with amber lights. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of Again, we have a lot of construction sites out
Speaker 4: there right now, and there's a lot of other things
Speaker 4: that use amber lights, like tow trucks and such. They
Speaker 4: don't invoke the same reaction as the blue lights, and
Speaker 4: it's really that slow down through that work zone that
Speaker 4: we're looking for.
Speaker 2: Last clarification, Jonathan, would these blue lights be both on
Speaker 2: trucks that might be moving from one area to another
Speaker 2: area as well as trucks which were stationary where work
Speaker 2: is going on in a specific area. It seems to
Speaker 2: me that they should be available in both trucks that
Speaker 2: are moving on the road to a work site and
Speaker 2: trucks that are functioning on a work site, because that'd
Speaker 2: be a little bit protective of the workers.
Speaker 4: So I think both makes sense to me. But you know,
Speaker 4: this is something that we we would be certainly willing
Speaker 4: to trial out either way, and really our goal is
Speaker 4: to get the most effective one. So if we do
Speaker 4: have some of these rolling operations like the road debris
Speaker 4: that I was talking about, where where we think.
Speaker 3: Having uh, you know, a.
Speaker 4: Blue light that that is in that slow moving maintenance
Speaker 4: activity would be effective. But there's also another areas too,
Speaker 4: where where we think having whether it's a when it's
Speaker 4: a short term uh saying where the park truck, Like
Speaker 4: if let's say you're feeling a pothole. Again, that blue
Speaker 4: light is effective at keeping people slowed.
Speaker 2: Down, absolutely, and it's also it's a safety factor for
Speaker 2: the drivers because you see that blue light, it's going
Speaker 2: to it's going to get your attention. If you if
Speaker 2: you're kind of not paying attention and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you're in a in a lane and you're into
Speaker 2: the back of a truck because it didn't have blue lights.
Speaker 2: It's a safety factor for the drivers as well. So
Speaker 2: I hope you get that, Jonathan. If anything we can
Speaker 2: do to help you, let us know. Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate and appreciate the attention you bringing to it.
Speaker 4: Very important safety regulation for us.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to do it, and I look forward to
Speaker 2: doing something with you in advance, you know, sometime in
Speaker 2: the middle of that week of June sixteenth to the twentieth,
Speaker 2: so we can once again ring the alarm bell for
Speaker 2: everybody to stay away that weekend of the twentieth. Thanks Jonathan, Oliver,
Speaker 2: appreciate it very much, all right, Thank you, Dan. All Right,
Speaker 2: we get back when I tell you about the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show. US Navy
Speaker 2: Blue Angels going to be back in New Hampshire the
Speaker 2: first time in thirteen years. This gets to September, but
Speaker 2: let me tell you they are a great attraction. You
Speaker 2: want to know in advance. We'll be talking with a
Speaker 2: major from the military, Major Michelle Mastro Battista, coming back
Speaker 2: right after the news break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Side with Dan Ray. I'm w Z Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we tend to promote things that, oh are
Speaker 2: going to happen a couple of weeks or maybe at
Speaker 2: the most a month. But when you start talking about
Speaker 2: the US Navy Blue Angels, who now we're talking the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show will
Speaker 2: return to New Hampshire for the first time in thirteen
Speaker 2: years September sixth and seventh with US. Now is Major
Speaker 2: Michelle Maustro Bautista. Major Mastro Bautista, Welcome to night side.
Speaker 2: I assume that tickets are gonna get harder to get
Speaker 2: as the summer goes on, so tell us how tough
Speaker 2: it is to get the Blue Angels to come back,
Speaker 2: and what is it going to be like to stand
Speaker 2: to be in New Hampshire that particular weekend.
Speaker 5: Hi, thanks for having me. Yes, it's really hard to
Speaker 5: get the Blue Angels. You have to request them to
Speaker 5: come out to your show two years in advance, and
Speaker 5: you're competing with hundreds of other shows across the country.
Speaker 5: So we're really excited to have them come back to
Speaker 5: see us. They haven't been here since about twenty twelve.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a busy weekend. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of activity going on in the Sea Coast, but the
Speaker 5: Blue Angels will be here all weekend, as well as
Speaker 5: a lot of other demo shows, so we can't wait.
Speaker 2: So the tickets get you on to the property. This
Speaker 2: is not like going to a race car event to
Speaker 2: go into a football game. What did the tickets? What
Speaker 2: access did the tickets get people other than what they
Speaker 2: might get if they just kind of drove in the
Speaker 2: area looked up in the sky. I'm trying to make
Speaker 2: them understand why they really need to get some tickets.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the premium parking tickets are sold out at
Speaker 5: this time. However, we're really excited to have a drop
Speaker 5: off location. It's located at the P's International Airport, and
Speaker 5: that's where people can partake and ride share or drop
Speaker 5: off or bicycles even and they can just come on
Speaker 5: in for free. So the admission is completely free for anybody.
Speaker 5: And right now our production team is actively working more
Speaker 5: perking nearby.
Speaker 2: Oh I see, okay, So I've never been to one
Speaker 2: of these air shows, but I assume that the area
Speaker 2: that the Blue Angels will be performing in has to
Speaker 2: be a pretty big chunk of the sky. I mean,
Speaker 2: what are we talking four or five miles in every
Speaker 2: direction or because.
Speaker 5: Just about Yes, if you're in the area, you'll see them.
Speaker 5: But if you want the best front seat area to
Speaker 5: see them, you'll definitely want to come to our air
Speaker 5: show that weekend.
Speaker 2: And this is not Labor Day weekend. It's the weekend
Speaker 2: after Labor Day, which I think is important for people
Speaker 2: to know to realize. And again, so there's no tickets,
Speaker 2: what you're paying for is parking access or yeah, I see, okay,
Speaker 2: So the show, the program is free to free at
Speaker 2: one and all bank of crowd. Do you think again,
Speaker 2: New Hampshire, we know where that portion of New Hampshire's
Speaker 2: you're done in the southeast corner of the state. How
Speaker 2: many people do you think are going to attend this
Speaker 2: year based upon once you've done other.
Speaker 5: Years, based on our past couple of air shows, we
Speaker 5: are definitely expecting over forty thousand guests each day, and
Speaker 5: we have a lot on the ramp to showcase while
Speaker 5: they're here, so hopefully they get out and see our
Speaker 5: stem exhibits as well as all the statics and enjoy
Speaker 5: the aerial acts that we have lined up now.
Speaker 2: I assume that one of the benefits from the Air
Speaker 2: Force point of view with the Blue Angels and the
Speaker 2: Navy as well, they're the US Navy's Blue Angels. I
Speaker 2: want to be clear on that, is you're hoping that
Speaker 2: this might inspire some young people, young men, young women
Speaker 2: to join the service of the country. Does that generally
Speaker 2: follow that after an event like this, people get inspired
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they say, Hey, maybe I'll
Speaker 2: sign up out of high school. I assume this is
Speaker 2: a recruiting tool as well.
Speaker 5: It's definitely one of our bigger events for that reason,
Speaker 5: and all branches benefit from this. After our last couple
Speaker 5: of years shows, we directly had people wanting to join
Speaker 5: our unit and other branches. But the benefit of this
Speaker 5: is that we're planting seeds for the next ten, twenty,
Speaker 5: maybe thirty years into the future for our military. So
Speaker 5: it's definitely worth it, worth it for us to put
Speaker 5: on a good show that people remember for the rest
Speaker 5: of their lives.
Speaker 2: Now your branch major is you're an Air Force major? Correct? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 2: if some eighteen or nineteen year old young man or
Speaker 2: woman was inspired, can they sign up and say, gee,
Speaker 2: I'd like to somehow work in the branch that gets
Speaker 2: me close to the Blue Angels. How does that work?
Speaker 2: I had an MS many years ago called thirty six
Speaker 2: K twenty which had nothing to do with anything this exciting.
Speaker 2: Trust me on that. How How does the Air Force
Speaker 2: and you know, the do you and does the Navy
Speaker 2: give people a chance when they volunteer. It's an all
Speaker 2: volunteer military. Now to say, gee, this is an area
Speaker 2: that i'd like to work in, whether I'm in Air Force,
Speaker 2: whether I'm an airplane mechanic, I'd like to work in
Speaker 2: that portion of the service. Or is it kind of
Speaker 2: like we'll talk to you after boot camp.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of opportunities there even if
Speaker 5: you're an active aviator or a support person. It's a
Speaker 5: very team oriented organization. So if you are interested in
Speaker 5: those things, you know, we'll have recruiters all over the
Speaker 5: ramp who can certainly answer questions from all the branches
Speaker 5: if you have a specific question for a specific brand
Speaker 5: that people are interested in. But it's just got to
Speaker 5: get that conversation started and make your you know, a
Speaker 5: young person interested has to make their interests known and
Speaker 5: people we try to work with them.
Speaker 2: So even the Army will have representatives there as well.
Speaker 5: Right absolutely, I mean the Army is going to be
Speaker 5: in the air. They're going to have a great Blackhawk demonstration.
Speaker 5: We're really excited about that.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, So so it's more than just a
Speaker 2: Blue Angels. That's that's great. So what is the website?
Speaker 2: Where can people go today to to to basically do
Speaker 2: whatever they can do to get as good a view
Speaker 2: of what's going to happen that weekend of September sixth
Speaker 2: and seventh? Where can where can they go?
Speaker 5: Sure, they can go to thunderover New Hampshire dot com
Speaker 5: and that's where any future parking opportunities will appear, as
Speaker 5: well as our lineup as it grows, and the FAQs
Speaker 5: what to bring, what not to bring, and you know,
Speaker 5: just to get excited and pumped up and be connected
Speaker 5: for our show coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking It says general admission is free, does
Speaker 2: not require a ticket, but parking on site does require
Speaker 2: the reservation of a parking pass. So this is this
Speaker 2: is great. It's something called the Wildcat Club is a
Speaker 2: spacious tented area. So yeah, you got this looks great.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you, folks, you've got to get
Speaker 2: there as a matter of fact, it might even be
Speaker 2: tough right now, but navigate this site and try to
Speaker 2: get to where you wherever you can. But wherever you can,
Speaker 2: I guess there's some memberships that are that are available
Speaker 2: as well. Here. Uh, this is a great website. I
Speaker 2: wish I had looked at it earlier, but just get there, folks.
Speaker 2: If you're interested in this, believe me, this is going
Speaker 2: to be This is going to be quite an event
Speaker 2: up in New Hampshire on September sixth and seventh. Again,
Speaker 2: website one more time major if you'd be so kind.
Speaker 5: Sure it's thunderover New Hampshire dot com and we hope
Speaker 5: that everyone can make it up for a event.
Speaker 2: Sounds great. Thank you very much. I do appreciate you
Speaker 2: taking the time to talk with us tonight, Major Michelle
Speaker 2: mastro Batista, Major, thank you very much and thank you
Speaker 2: for your service.
Speaker 5: Hey wear, are you welcome? Have a good night.
Speaker 2: All right? When we get back after our break here
Speaker 2: at I'm eight forty five, those of you who like puppies,
Speaker 2: which I believe means all of you, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about the Puppy Protection Act. I mean, who's not
Speaker 2: in favor protecting puppies will explain it all on the
Speaker 2: other side of this very quick break on a Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: a warm Wednesday night. It's going to get warm or
Speaker 2: maybe even tomorrow, but it's starting to feel like summer,
Speaker 2: even though it's still spring. Back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray, I'mbzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, this is a story you want to pay attention to.
Speaker 2: My guest is Sheila Goff. Sheila Hope, I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Speaker 2: I know there's an E on the end. Is at golf?
Speaker 2: You nailed it, okay. You were the vice president of
Speaker 2: government relations for the American Kennel Club AKAC, And there
Speaker 2: is a piece of legislation which I guess is making
Speaker 2: its way through Congress. I believe it's has it passed
Speaker 2: the House already, So this is uh hasn't passed the House, Okay,
Speaker 2: So it's in the House, which would have to pass
Speaker 2: the House and Senate to get to the President's desk.
Speaker 2: And it's entitled the Puppy Protection Act, which makes it
Speaker 2: sound like, hey, who wouldn't vote for that? But I
Speaker 2: guess the AKAC, the American Kennel Club is a little
Speaker 2: bit concerned about this, this piece of legislation because it
Speaker 2: would it would adversely impact breeders of puppies in America
Speaker 2: who are doing it properly, and help some the importation
Speaker 2: of dogs from countries like China and Turkey. This a
Speaker 2: little confused, but I know you're going to straighten it
Speaker 2: out for us.
Speaker 6: Go right ahead, absolutely, Thanks so much for having me
Speaker 6: on tonight. Yeah, it's called a it's a bill that's
Speaker 6: just been reintroduced in the US House, and it's called
Speaker 6: the Puppy Protection Act. And as you know a lot
Speaker 6: of folks know, sometimes the name on a bill does
Speaker 6: not appropriately describe what the bill's about.
Speaker 7: And I think a lot of people support.
Speaker 6: This, thinking it's a good bill designed to help puppies.
Speaker 6: The problem with it is it establishes under federal licensing
Speaker 6: for breeders once a lot of one size fits all
Speaker 6: regulations that are very hard for our small hobby breeders
Speaker 6: to meet.
Speaker 7: The Feds regulate.
Speaker 6: A lot of people don't realize this, but the Feds
Speaker 6: actually regulate job breeders. Anyone who has more than four
Speaker 6: intact females with the cats, wraps, gurbils, dogs, small mammals,
Speaker 6: and sells one site unseen as actually subject to commercial
Speaker 6: breeder laws. A lot of folks don't realize that's a
Speaker 6: pretty low threshold.
Speaker 7: So you have one Golden Retriever, two Golden Retrievers, and you're.
Speaker 6: Going to have a little poppies, and when the time comes,
Speaker 6: you ship one to your sister out in Montana and
Speaker 6: lo and behold, you're actually subject to USDA licensing as
Speaker 6: a commercial breeder. So folks think about.
Speaker 2: So I think what I just heard. I think what
Speaker 2: I'm hearing you're saying is that if you read within
Speaker 2: a state, stay within that state, and sell within the state,
Speaker 2: and you don't cross state lines, you're regulated by the
Speaker 2: state in which you're functioning. But once you get into
Speaker 2: interstate shipment, now you come under the federal guidelines.
Speaker 6: Correct, although it have been we've and we've seen cases
Speaker 6: where it doesn't even have to involve interstate commerce.
Speaker 2: Maybe advertising which might might cause advertising in a neighboring
Speaker 2: state of it. That's what's going on there, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: fair enough? Okay, So what what would this? What will
Speaker 2: this act? And again, is there a specific member of
Speaker 2: Congress is really pushing this or is this just something
Speaker 2: that gets filed every year or so?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's gotten filed for several years.
Speaker 6: The primary sponsor is Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania, but he
Speaker 6: generally gets quite a few co sponsors because it establishes
Speaker 6: requirements that sound good if you're thinking about commercial breeders.
Speaker 6: But the problem is because it actually regulates a lot
Speaker 6: of small hobby breeders, it's not so good. And our
Speaker 6: concern is it's going to put those small hobby breeders,
Speaker 6: the folks you want to go to their house and
Speaker 6: meet mom and dad and see how they're brought up
Speaker 6: and see the other puppies. That's the concern is, is
Speaker 6: putting those folks into a situation where they can't continue
Speaker 6: to operate, and inadvertently, perhaps we're putting the very folks
Speaker 6: that we want to sort of encourage out of business.
Speaker 1: And the concern with doing that.
Speaker 7: We want to encourage them.
Speaker 5: But b there is a lot of people don't realize us.
Speaker 6: Your fact for the day is, demographically speaking, the replacement
Speaker 6: rate for puppies in the United States is eight million.
Speaker 7: So like people, puppies age, you know, they.
Speaker 6: Get older, we lose them, families get.
Speaker 5: A new dog.
Speaker 7: So the demand for eight million dogs a year. The
Speaker 7: last year for which we have numbers.
Speaker 6: One point two five million dogs were imported into the
Speaker 6: United States for the pet market.
Speaker 7: It's an absolutely shocking.
Speaker 2: Domer wow, and from countries like China and Turkey.
Speaker 6: Right from countries that unfortunately don't have the level of
Speaker 6: oversight and regulation that we do. So you know, our
Speaker 6: argument isn't that commercial breeders shouldn't be a professional breeder
Speaker 6: shouldn't be regulated.
Speaker 7: American count Club believes.
Speaker 6: They absolutely should be, and we all of course have
Speaker 6: to be subject to any kind of negligence or cruelty rules,
Speaker 6: but over regulating a small hobby breeder, saying you have
Speaker 6: to have certain types of commercial countling. When you're actually
Speaker 6: your family, pets will hang out, you know, on the
Speaker 6: sofa in the living room.
Speaker 7: Isn't the most effective way for us to get.
Speaker 3: At that issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's interesting that you spotlight this because when
Speaker 2: you talk Puppy Protection Act, do you think, oh, there's
Speaker 2: something I got to port. I'm glad that you've explained it.
Speaker 2: I know that you had an is an op ed
Speaker 2: piece yesterday in the Boston Herald. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: or was it in today's paper? I guess it was yesterday's.
Speaker 2: It was yesterday, Okay, So people can go if they
Speaker 2: find their Boston Herald from yesterday, go on the Herald
Speaker 2: website and find that again. It's it's entitled house proposal
Speaker 2: would boost foreign puppy mills. We're trying to get rid
Speaker 2: of puppy mills in the US. Kind of seems to
Speaker 2: me and be a little crazy. I know, my my
Speaker 2: daughter has has adopted uh. I keep referring to my
Speaker 2: my favorite one of them. I have two favorite dogs,
Speaker 2: my my my children's dogs Willie, Who's shitsu part Shorky
Speaker 2: uh Shitsu and part part Yorky. So it's called the
Speaker 2: Shorky uh. And and then Mustard, who was a beautiful
Speaker 2: Corgie uh that my daughter adopted a little less than
Speaker 2: two years ago at a animal shelter in situate south
Speaker 2: of Boston, and it is the nicest dog. They're both
Speaker 2: great dogs, different personalities, but again, you know, there were dogs,
Speaker 2: There were dogs that are available in shelters, folks, and
Speaker 2: those are great dogs. Go down if you're going to
Speaker 2: think about buying a dog, go look at the shelters
Speaker 2: dogs because they need they need to be homed, and
Speaker 2: they need homes and they need good families and something. Now,
Speaker 2: So I'm a big pusher of that, Okay, just so you.
Speaker 6: Know, yeah, and I just want to add that one
Speaker 6: thing A lot of people don't realize about the American
Speaker 6: Channel Clubs. We're actually the largest rescue network in the
Speaker 6: country through our Green Clubs. So people who are interested
Speaker 6: in rescuing a particular breed. We believe in what we
Speaker 6: call sort of pet choice, which is that people should
Speaker 6: become very educated before they ever get a dog. Understand
Speaker 6: what they're getting into, and understand, you know, the very
Speaker 6: characteristics of say that Corghi versus you know, the ships
Speaker 6: to mix and then see what your options are. You
Speaker 6: may want to go to rescue, you may want to
Speaker 6: go to shelter, you may want to go to a
Speaker 6: responsible breder. And our concern is that people just get
Speaker 6: that right pet for their lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, Sheila, I thank you so much for your
Speaker 2: time tonight, and again keep up doing the great work
Speaker 2: that you do and that the AKC does. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Take care.
Speaker 2: All right, we will come back. We get the nine
Speaker 2: o'clock news coming at us, and we get back. We're
Speaker 2: going to get to a more serious topic, and that
Speaker 2: is there is a real battle going on, a verbal
Speaker 2: sparring battle between Boston Mayor and Michelle wou and US
Speaker 2: Attorney Lea Foley Uh and that really broke out today
Speaker 2: and the US Attorney issued a very strong condemnation of
Speaker 2: some of the statements that the Mayor of Boston has made.
Speaker 2: We'll have that and we'll have your the action to it.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to join the conversation, we'll take a
Speaker 2: lot of phone calls in the next hour. Talk to
Speaker 2: you in the other side, on the other side of
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock news here on night side.