Speaker 1: It's nice time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, we have reached the twentieth hour. I told
Speaker 2: you if you stuck with us, we'd get you to Saturday.
Speaker 2: We're within an hour of Saturday now, so please, we
Speaker 2: have one hour to go. And it's Mother's Day weekend
Speaker 2: this weekend. And look, I don't know if your mom
Speaker 2: is alive or has passed on and is in heaven,
Speaker 2: but this is a weekend that all of us need
Speaker 2: to spend a moment or two thinking about our moms
Speaker 2: and what they have meant to us while they were alive,
Speaker 2: or if they're still alive, and all of that. So
Speaker 2: this is a night that I'd like to get people
Speaker 2: an opportunity just to remember and tell a story, hopefully
Speaker 2: be an upbeat story about your mom and in many
Speaker 2: cases that what she sacrificed for all of us these Again,
Speaker 2: I just I give this as an opportunity. It's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. While you dial in and get set
Speaker 2: and jump on board, just tell us a story, tell
Speaker 2: us a lesson you learned. I remember my mother used
Speaker 2: to always teach me the lesson which I really haven't
Speaker 2: learned as well. And I think every whenever I do this,
Speaker 2: she always says, she would say to me, remember Danny self,
Speaker 2: praise is no praise, And I've tried to take that
Speaker 2: to heart, you know. Or she would kid me and say,
Speaker 2: don't patch yourself on the back. As she was a
Speaker 2: mom that that really cared for her children in the
Speaker 2: nineteen fifties and sixties, and you know, older generation passed
Speaker 2: much too young an age as far as I was concerned,
Speaker 2: miss her to this day. Again, your your parents are
Speaker 2: the people who who bring you up. They do everything
Speaker 2: for you, including changing your diapers, which of course I'm
Speaker 2: seeing once again played out with a couple of grandchildren.
Speaker 2: At this point, it's been a while, but you just
Speaker 2: realize the the the total love that you receive from
Speaker 2: a parent. You know, it's it's a different it's it's
Speaker 2: just an a total and complete, unselfish love. They bring
Speaker 2: you into the world and then they try to set
Speaker 2: you straight. And I know that there are some parents
Speaker 2: who are better than others, and some parents provide more
Speaker 2: financial support than others. But I still think that a
Speaker 2: parent's love is a different type of love that it is.
Speaker 2: It asks very little in return. When you think about it.
Speaker 2: Most of us who are in relationships with adults, you
Speaker 2: try to, you know, keep that relationship as balanced as possible,
Speaker 2: and you try to be as nice to the other
Speaker 2: person and hope that they'll be as nice to you.
Speaker 2: And about fifty percent of those relationships ended up in divorce,
Speaker 2: but in the vast majority of cases, with few exceptions,
Speaker 2: and there are some pretty tragic exceptions. But there's there's
Speaker 2: something special about parents, and there's certainly something special about moms.
Speaker 2: So six thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one, ten
Speaker 2: thirty let me hit the week very quickly. It's been
Speaker 2: a memorable week. A memorable week. We started off each night,
Speaker 2: We've we hit four four topics. We talked on Monday
Speaker 2: night about voke ed reform in Massachusetts badly needed. Talked
Speaker 2: about the air traffic control problem at Newark and elsewhere,
Speaker 2: talked about student loans and credit scores, and talked about
Speaker 2: kids and teens and ADHD. We continued with Jamie Gass
Speaker 2: at the Pioneer Institute about the whole question of reducing
Speaker 2: vogue ed education to a lottery, which I think is
Speaker 2: a mistake. I shared a personal story where I came
Speaker 2: very close to hitting a bicyclist last Sunday morning, no
Speaker 2: fault of my own. I actually was sworn enough and
Speaker 2: observant enough to notice this guy coming down Washington Street,
Speaker 2: down an incline, so going downhill and just flying. And
Speaker 2: I thank god that I saw him, because he would
Speaker 2: have ended up as a hoodo ornament on my car.
Speaker 2: He blew right through a red light, never slowed down,
Speaker 2: never even attempted to stop. I hope he I hope
Speaker 2: that he that he made a mistake and he you know,
Speaker 2: didn't blackout, but just you know, was not thinking on
Speaker 2: a Sunday morning. Then on Tuesday, we talked about early
Speaker 2: onset for puberty for kids these days much earlier. Talked
Speaker 2: about Massachusetts not being the best date in the Union
Speaker 2: according to US News and World Report Number I think
Speaker 2: that was respectable, but New Hampshire was number two in
Speaker 2: Utah number one. Talked about the Seawan Did Combs trial,
Speaker 2: talked about five foods that damaged your brain. Then we
Speaker 2: talked with two county sheriffs here from Massachusetts in the
Speaker 2: nine o'clock hour, Pat McDermott of Norfolk County, Tom Bowler,
Speaker 2: Sheriff Bowler, and Sheriff McDermott, Sheriff Bowler of Berkshire County,
Speaker 2: talked about for two hours. On Tuesday night, President Trump
Speaker 2: invited and received the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
Speaker 2: at the White House, and they both were very polite
Speaker 2: and diplomatic. Trump was still trolling a little bit, but
Speaker 2: he refrained from some of his usual jabs that he
Speaker 2: took at Justin Trudeau and treated Mark Conney much more respectfully. Thankfully.
Speaker 2: Wednesday night, learned how to stop the bleed. We talked
Speaker 2: about Operation Warm Coats and Shoes. Talked about underage patrons
Speaker 2: at a low pub with a really good reporter from
Speaker 2: The low Son, Melody Gilbert. Talked with Sandra Fava, a
Speaker 2: lawyer in New Jersey who's a cancer survivor and she's
Speaker 2: not only survived cancer, but she's prospering as a lawyer.
Speaker 2: Talked with Alison Kuznitz of the State House News Service
Speaker 2: about the fact that maybe maybe we'll have some action
Speaker 2: on banning cell phones for kids while in school. Of course,
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, that was the day that we were talking
Speaker 2: about the conclave with Professor Thomas Groom. The conclave was
Speaker 2: underway and we talked with him for an hour. Then
Speaker 2: we talked about Donald Trump trolling a lot of people
Speaker 2: on his suggestion of reopening Alcatraz. Don't think that's ever
Speaker 2: going to happen. Thursday night, talked about osteoporosis and an
Speaker 2: arthritis awareness. Talk with Sheriff Donna Buckley, She's the only
Speaker 2: female sheriff here in Massachusetts. Talk with Bob Ryan about
Speaker 2: the Celtics Knicks series, which is not going in the
Speaker 2: right direction. Talked with a really interesting guy last night,
Speaker 2: Adam Vibe Gunton. He is a leader of a recovery
Speaker 2: movement and we're going to talk with him one of
Speaker 2: the hours next week. I forget which night it was.
Speaker 2: I wish I had written that down when Marita told
Speaker 2: me today, but I will. We'll talk about talk with
Speaker 2: him next week. I think it may be Monday night
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, so just bear that in mind.
Speaker 2: And of course, last night we spent three hours talking
Speaker 2: about the election of Pope Leo the Fourth. We brought
Speaker 2: Professor Tom Groom from Boston College back and also Professor
Speaker 2: Mary and Glendon. She's a Harvard Law School professor who
Speaker 2: had been a US ambassadors the Vatican under George Bush.
Speaker 2: Bush forty three, and then tonight we talked about a
Speaker 2: wheelchair repair bill, which I think needs to get passed
Speaker 2: pretty quickly with Adams, a good reporter from the State
Speaker 2: House News Service. Talked with Alexandra Sherry Dorriles about the
Speaker 2: annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace on this Sunday, Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: Just a really important event and one that I hope
Speaker 2: some of you will think of participating in that is
Speaker 2: now the I think it's the twenty ninth year that
Speaker 2: moms are walking for Peace in Dorchester in memory of
Speaker 2: Lewis Brown. Talked with Geene Duffy about soccer games, soccer
Speaker 2: Granny's at an event in South Africa. Talked with Bob
Speaker 2: Shick of Walpole. He knew Pope Leo when he was
Speaker 2: Robert Francis Privo in a seminary back in the early
Speaker 2: nineteen seventies, and we in the nine o'clock hour talked
Speaker 2: about the release of the toughest graduate student, which I
Speaker 2: think is overdue and the administration I think overreacted and
Speaker 2: I think the optics on that were horrible and there
Speaker 2: was no effort to provide any information as to why
Speaker 2: she would have been taken into custody. And the last
Speaker 2: hour we talked with Bruce Mittman about the state of
Speaker 2: radio in America. So that's it. We got lines of
Speaker 2: filling up six one seven two four thirty six one
Speaker 2: seven nine. We're going to be back. We're going to
Speaker 2: do our annual Tribute to Mothers to your mom on
Speaker 2: Mother's Day, for us to pay tribute to your mom
Speaker 2: and what she did for you and your family. You
Speaker 2: got a call. We're coming back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dana on Boston's News Radio. It's
Speaker 1: night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get rolling here. We're going to start
Speaker 2: off with my pal Mark down in Maryland. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 2: appreciate you calling in. How are you tonight, sir?
Speaker 3: Bless my mother not hand no more. She died back
Speaker 3: in January.
Speaker 2: So that's too recent. Mark. How How old a lady
Speaker 2: was your mom when she passed?
Speaker 3: She was eighty and we was close. We never was
Speaker 3: so hot on every issue, but I still loved the world,
Speaker 3: love them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Mom said they'd be a little independent.
Speaker 2: So uh uh. You know you did you have a
Speaker 2: big family growing up or how many children in your family? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All together is three boys less than three girls.
Speaker 2: Six kids. That was that was a lot for your
Speaker 2: for your parents to handle, That's for sure. But uh,
Speaker 2: you know you'll be thinking of her this this weekend,
Speaker 2: I'm sure. And and if a tear comes to your eye,
Speaker 2: that's only shows how much she loved you. Mark, you
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still trying to figure. I want to play
Speaker 3: is not working that? Well?
Speaker 2: What's working? Your your your computer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm listening on the u AHAP, but I'm a figure.
Speaker 3: I want to I don't want to miss too much
Speaker 3: of your show on Let's just go to listen to
Speaker 3: on the podcast.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we got the podcast for you. They'll
Speaker 2: be posted every night. I wish I could uh send
Speaker 2: your radio. It could be that you're in somewhere with
Speaker 2: a little bit of interference, But just keep keep working,
Speaker 2: keep calling. You one of my best listeners in Maryland,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you doing a great job.
Speaker 2: You're the best.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you very kind. Enjoy your weekend and think
Speaker 2: about your mom. Okay, a lot of people will be
Speaker 2: thinking about it because of your call. Okah, bye, Mark,
Speaker 2: talk to you soon. Good night. Let me go next
Speaker 2: to Christine and Denim. Christine, you were next on nightside
Speaker 2: gor Hey.
Speaker 5: Christine, Hi, Dan, how are you good?
Speaker 2: Is your mom still with us? I hope?
Speaker 5: Yes, she's at the German Home in West Rock far
Speaker 5: all right?
Speaker 2: Right right? You had mentioned that how's she doing doing okay? Yes?
Speaker 5: Say she had kind of a bad day, yes, but
Speaker 5: could come through today good. So it's Monday at a time.
Speaker 6: How many in your family as a child, three boys
Speaker 6: and two girls, five.
Speaker 2: Of us, Well, right up there, that's still a bit.
Speaker 2: That's a big family by today's standards, might not have
Speaker 2: been by fifty years ago. But that's that's a lot
Speaker 2: of work for mom.
Speaker 5: Right right, exactly exactly. She she means the world to me, Dan.
Speaker 5: She she's always been there for all of us. She
Speaker 5: she never she stopped working when she had all of us.
Speaker 5: She was always there for everything, qaras. She always raised
Speaker 5: us to stay together. And she always said be kind
Speaker 5: the people. Open doors to people. You never know how
Speaker 5: small a world that convey. You don't know who who,
Speaker 5: So you never talk bad about people because you never know.
Speaker 5: But you always instilled that enough and always.
Speaker 2: Yes, they they embodied a lot of wisdom, didn't they.
Speaker 2: And they nobody, nobody cares cares more. I think, uh
Speaker 2: for you, uh that those first few years, I mean
Speaker 2: they literally mold you. You know, by time you get
Speaker 2: out and you're an adult, you've developed all of your habits,
Speaker 2: your good habits and your bad habits. But they try
Speaker 2: to make every one of their children just you know,
Speaker 2: perfect for the world. And uh, unfortunately we're not perfect
Speaker 2: for the world. But it's not because of them lack
Speaker 2: of try. And that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Christine right, she's such a good mom to me. I
Speaker 5: love her so much.
Speaker 2: She's a well do me a favorite when you see her?
Speaker 2: Would you do me a favorite? I know the German Home.
Speaker 2: I visited the German Home many times. Well, please give
Speaker 2: her a big hug and a kiss from me.
Speaker 7: Okay, I will.
Speaker 5: Know you WFE on Facebook at tonight.
Speaker 2: I was briefly because I was trying to very quickly,
Speaker 2: I messed up. I'm glad you mentioned that I was
Speaker 2: on the wrong Facebook page last night. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: was trying to figure out what was wrong with my show,
Speaker 2: and I figured it out. I went on to my
Speaker 2: wrong page. I went on to a personal page. So
Speaker 2: tonight I will do uh and a couple of good
Speaker 2: listeners of me of mine today said to me, what
Speaker 2: happened to your to your to your nightside postgame last night?
Speaker 2: So every night after the show, I'm on night side
Speaker 2: with Dan Ray and I I'm going to try to
Speaker 2: get back on there. I'm kind of a goof when
Speaker 2: it comes to technical stuff. Christine, I'm not that good.
Speaker 5: It's not just do it's me too, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, thanks Christine, I see at midnight.
Speaker 8: Thanks good guys, say dry.
Speaker 2: You too will try to do that. Let me go
Speaker 2: next to Steve from Chickapee out in western Massachusetts. Hey Steve,
Speaker 2: how are you welcome?
Speaker 9: Hi Dan, Hi Steve.
Speaker 4: I made my mother's birthday very special back in November
Speaker 4: twenty fourth of nineteen sixty one. Is I was born
Speaker 4: on her birthday, so we shared that together.
Speaker 2: WHOA, that's a one out of three hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five shot. Huh.
Speaker 4: Yeah. My twin sisters were born in my parents' anniversary.
Speaker 4: My late brother was on Halloween and my other brother
Speaker 4: was almost on Labor Day, So pretty good time in Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 4: Steph's family, Yeah, yeah, she passed August seventh of twenty ten,
Speaker 4: but she did lose her son when she was thirty eight.
Speaker 4: He drowned back in seventy two.
Speaker 9: How old?
Speaker 4: Only fourteen?
Speaker 2: Oh God, what a horrific.
Speaker 4: So she didn't Yeah, so she didn't want to get
Speaker 4: out of bed for three days, but she said, I
Speaker 4: got to get out of bed. You know, I got
Speaker 4: four more kids to raise. So we're a family of five.
Speaker 2: So well between Mark, Mark with five siblings, Christine and
Speaker 2: you with four siblings, that's a lot. So your brother
Speaker 2: drowned at the age of fourteen.
Speaker 4: Was see how May May twenty seventh or seventy two,
Speaker 4: and he almost brought my other brother down with a
Speaker 4: in his Panic and Jump was a strong swimmer, but
Speaker 4: they said he either had solder and cramped up.
Speaker 8: But in that little.
Speaker 4: Web river in Dixfield, Maine, it's a current right off.
Speaker 4: They call it Brigady Rock. And years before a girl
Speaker 4: died in the same area. So he might have got
Speaker 4: pulled down by a current.
Speaker 8: We don't know for.
Speaker 2: Sure, but I assume that that water was pretty cold
Speaker 2: in May up in Maine.
Speaker 4: Yeah cool, Yeah, it could have been a lot of factors.
Speaker 4: We don't know, like I said, And they found them
Speaker 4: two days later, and you know, it was it was
Speaker 4: a sad day for the town and for our family.
Speaker 4: But anyways, she was a doting mother. She even put
Speaker 4: high school clothes over the kitchen chairs every morning we're
Speaker 4: going to school.
Speaker 8: Ye Oh yeah, I can identify with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a common thing back then because and.
Speaker 2: In those days the clothes were ironed, you know.
Speaker 4: I yeah, she was a great but I was as
Speaker 4: close to her as my other siblings were. But I
Speaker 4: was the youngest of five, so I was the last
Speaker 4: one to leave the house at twenty four. So she
Speaker 4: she did her best. You know, both girls did. They
Speaker 4: all do their best as we do too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we try, we try. I don't think we can
Speaker 2: equal the devotion that they that they gave to us.
Speaker 2: Steve that thanks, thanks for checking in from Chickapee. I
Speaker 2: I want more listeners in Chickapee, and I want more
Speaker 2: people in western Massachusetts to call in, So I thank
Speaker 2: you for doing that.
Speaker 10: YO.
Speaker 4: Welcome all right, buddy, time la have.
Speaker 2: A great weekend. Thanks, have a great Now, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get one more in here before the break. Where am
Speaker 2: I going to go next? I'm gonna go to Bill
Speaker 2: in New York? Bill whereabouts in New York. You calling
Speaker 2: in from tonight?
Speaker 11: Uh no, Watertown area.
Speaker 2: Oh up, up, I know where that is, absolutely So
Speaker 2: tell us about your mom.
Speaker 11: I well, I grew up in the Pittsburgh, mass area.
Speaker 11: And uh a friend of mine and I were out
Speaker 11: egging cars when we were kids in the early eighties,
Speaker 11: and uh we till we get away with everything. And
Speaker 11: this guy that we hit the car with the egg.
Speaker 11: He came running down the road and my buddy went
Speaker 11: one way, and I just pretended like nothing ever happened.
Speaker 2: And big mistake.
Speaker 9: Take me up.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, Well he picked picked me up by the
Speaker 11: scruff of my neck. He says, where do you live?
Speaker 11: I pointed to my house, and he brought me up
Speaker 11: to uh my front door, ring the doorbell. My mother answered,
Speaker 11: and she said, put my son down. Why are you
Speaker 11: touch my son? Yagged my car and I my mother says, Billy,
Speaker 11: did you do that? I said, no, min I didn't
Speaker 11: do that. Put my son down, and she told him
Speaker 11: to leave the porch. I came inside and she commenced
Speaker 11: beating my behind and I said, Ma, what are you doing?
Speaker 11: She said, you have a yoke all over your shoes.
Speaker 2: So so she defended you. She protected you, and then
Speaker 2: she disciplined you. Now that's a mother.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I'll tell you what. I never lied to
Speaker 11: my other ever again after that. God rest his soul.
Speaker 11: She passed away in twenty nineteen, and I miss her
Speaker 11: every day and I think about her every day because
Speaker 11: of that. She taught me to do the right thing
Speaker 11: even if nobody's looking.
Speaker 2: Boy, what a great lesson. And I think it's great.
Speaker 2: She defended you, uh, and she did the she she
Speaker 2: handled that perfectly perfectly. I mean that she she was.
Speaker 2: That was a flawless She had to have been pretty
Speaker 2: shaken up when some how old were you at the time, Bill.
Speaker 8: I had to have been twelve, maybe, yeah, you were.
Speaker 2: You were feeling your oats. She figured it out. Bill,
Speaker 2: that was a great call. That was a great call.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they may feel more like that. You had a
Speaker 2: great mom. She handled it right. Thank you.
Speaker 11: It was a beautiful woman. And then I appreciate everything
Speaker 11: she taught me.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate your calling tonight. And by the way,
Speaker 2: how's the signal up in upstate New York?
Speaker 11: It's great on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. Well, thank you very much. More people should
Speaker 2: get the iHeart app bring it down. Make us your
Speaker 2: number one pre set Bill call more off and I
Speaker 2: love hearing from you. Man. That was a great story.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. Have a great night. We got
Speaker 2: a quick break coming up here for the news at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the eye. We're going to be right
Speaker 2: back at it. The only line that is open right now,
Speaker 2: here's the tip six one seven nine three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the screen six one seven nine three
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. Everything else is full. Back on Nightside after.
Speaker 1: This night Side with Dan Ray onbs Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we're talking about your mom. Actually you're talking
Speaker 2: about your Let's go next to Ron in Newton. Ron,
Speaker 2: tell us about your mom.
Speaker 7: Hi, Dan, My mom's name is Pauline, and she didn't
Speaker 7: basically the foundation for my abilities to persevere in the
Speaker 7: face of anything that was put before me. She was
Speaker 7: a mother of eight of us for seventy years. You
Speaker 7: know how many marriages can can state seventy years amazing
Speaker 7: And while there were eight of us, we all felt equal.
Speaker 7: She all made us feel that way, amazing that we
Speaker 7: always had nutritious meals when we left, and this is
Speaker 7: a time when there were no dishwashers and microwaves. We had,
Speaker 7: as you had mentioned earlier, press clothing to go to school.
Speaker 7: We always felt stylish.
Speaker 8: Yep, and.
Speaker 7: I miss her a lot. Every morning I say prayer
Speaker 7: and thank God for everything that I've been grateful that
Speaker 7: I have, and in the same moment, I thank my
Speaker 7: mom for all that she did to make me who
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you've had some interesting adventures in your in
Speaker 2: your field, including working as someone who's on a twenty
Speaker 2: four hour call for emergency activity. And you've gone to
Speaker 2: you know, nine to eleven and Iran and Haiti and
Speaker 2: I think New Orleans from some of the stories you've
Speaker 2: told me. So she brought up some some good young people.
Speaker 2: She and her she and her her husband, so pretty
Speaker 2: special family ron as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dan, thanks for having us in. The calls
Speaker 7: were terrific tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's a little different. You were the first that
Speaker 2: that mentioned your name, your mom's name, and I forgot
Speaker 2: to mention my mom's name was Catherine with a C
Speaker 2: and uh uh. Our daughter is named after her and
Speaker 2: her her her grandmother and on both sides, Catherine Florence.
Speaker 2: My wife's mom's name was Florence, and so you know
Speaker 2: those those names very very important names as they're handed
Speaker 2: down through from one generation to the next. So thanks Ron,
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate it, as always appreciate you the
Speaker 2: loyalty to this program as well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Dan.
Speaker 2: All right, man, talk soon, have a great weekend. Stay drive.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Jake is in Roxby. Hey, Jake,
Speaker 2: welcome to Night'side.
Speaker 8: How are you, hey, Dan? Long time. I appreciate your
Speaker 8: call us tonight really sounds really great.
Speaker 2: Is this your first time calling Jake?
Speaker 8: No, No, we go back a bit, back up, just
Speaker 8: when our blood's passed a while. We I've called a
Speaker 8: couple of times, but I listened every night to you.
Speaker 8: I just don't call them very often.
Speaker 2: Thanks well, thanks very much. Feel free any night, any
Speaker 2: night the spirit moves you. Tell us about your mom.
Speaker 8: Hey, my mom. Her name was Slant Slant Cardoza. She
Speaker 8: has passed about six years now, and she had a
Speaker 8: great saying. We had five kids. There were three boys,
Speaker 8: two girls, and my big brother. He graduated from Cathedral
Speaker 8: back in seventy four, So we're in minority family. So
Speaker 8: you can imagine the adversity that we went through back
Speaker 8: in those days.
Speaker 2: Those those are rough days. That was the height of
Speaker 2: bus sing. But Cathedral was a great high school. It's
Speaker 2: passed passed on, but Boy was a great high school at.
Speaker 8: The time, right run by the outstats back in those days,
Speaker 8: and also on the trains were up and things of
Speaker 8: that nature. Have memories of all of that type of stuff.
Speaker 8: So I'm also a child of the bussing. When I
Speaker 8: all first started and she, you know, she sent us
Speaker 8: to school. We had to have blankets, things of that nature.
Speaker 8: Always made sure all of us, all five of us
Speaker 8: had a me and clothes on our back and things
Speaker 8: of that nature. So a lot of us, you know,
Speaker 8: life and we moved a lot. So we have a
Speaker 8: great kind of knowledge of the city because of how
Speaker 8: many different places I've lived on the streets that no
Speaker 8: longer exist because they've been developed, and things of that nature.
Speaker 8: But anyway, she had a great saying. Her name was
Speaker 8: also her name was Florence, Florence, and so her saying, well,
Speaker 8: she was five to three and all of the sons
Speaker 8: were always taller than her. She always said, hey, I'm
Speaker 8: a little piece of leather, but I'm well put together.
Speaker 8: So she had a very very staunched way of looking
Speaker 8: at you, and you knew, well, if mama is crossed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, if mama isn't happy, no one's going
Speaker 2: to be happy, is what you're telling me exactly.
Speaker 8: In those sayings. You know, she always tell you I'm
Speaker 8: a little piece of leather, but I'm well put together.
Speaker 8: And that was the warning for you that the you know,
Speaker 8: the the Fairy's coming out and it's gonna be a
Speaker 8: lot of fire going on. So yeah, yeah, she had
Speaker 8: a lot of fighting her.
Speaker 2: That's great, good, that's great. Hey, Jake, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a great story. You know, it's funny. But you you
Speaker 2: mentioned her size. Yeah, we get five threes pretty normal
Speaker 2: for for a mom. Uh but I'm a little piece
Speaker 2: of leather, but I'm well put together. That I'm gonna
Speaker 2: remember that one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I mean, you know, you'd have
Speaker 8: to look down at her because she's five three and
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, when I was younger, I'm you know,
Speaker 8: five babe, some sick three. Now all of my brothers
Speaker 8: at least six feet, so you know, even the girls.
Speaker 8: Everybody was just taller than her because she was. She
Speaker 8: was very well and down and just short and definitely
Speaker 8: put you in your place with without fear. Everyone knew
Speaker 8: who would boss.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she ran the house. She ran the house.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. Hey, Jake, I love the call.
Speaker 2: Great call again, thanks for reminding us of your mom.
Speaker 2: And hopefully she's listening in a better place tonight and
Speaker 2: she's smiling listening to the show.
Speaker 8: Okay, I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you very much, Daniel,
Speaker 8: callings were great.
Speaker 2: All right, come on back soon. Thanks very much. Let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here on night Side. As we head towards
Speaker 2: some Saturday morning, I got John in Drake Att, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: John and Draket you were next on Nightside. Welcome. Tell
Speaker 2: us about your mom, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 12: My mom was Marie Francis Kalella.
Speaker 11: She was Italian.
Speaker 12: Of course, she married an Irish gentleman, my father, Bob Joyce.
Speaker 12: My mother passed away in thirteen, in twenty thirteen, and she.
Speaker 8: Was just unbelievable.
Speaker 12: She had the comedic value that came right to me
Speaker 12: as a comedian. My mother was just the funniest person
Speaker 12: on the earth. And she just made it. We had
Speaker 12: six kids in my family and she had nine brothers
Speaker 12: and sisters. And if anybody ever wants to hear exactly
Speaker 12: how funny she is, go to YouTube and put in
Speaker 12: my Rejoyce jam Scam. I play that every single time
Speaker 12: I do a show at the end of my show,
Speaker 12: to remember just how funny my mother was there, just
Speaker 12: absolutely iconic. And she roasted me on my fortieth birthday.
Speaker 12: And I miss her so much, and she was just
Speaker 12: something else. And that says it all. Marie Joye jam Scam.
Speaker 12: I'll tell you folks at home that.
Speaker 9: Are listening to your show, and she listened to.
Speaker 12: You every night. Dan every night should call me Dan,
Speaker 12: raise on. Don't forget Dan, Ray's forget Dan.
Speaker 2: I love her even more now.
Speaker 9: She loved the show.
Speaker 12: She listened and would listen together, and she should hear
Speaker 12: me call in bobbies on again.
Speaker 9: It was just something else, Dan.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you she really enjoyed your show.
Speaker 12: And she loved the Red Sox and I miss her
Speaker 12: so much. She was just something else.
Speaker 9: It really was.
Speaker 2: You know, Dad's in a different way, but Mom's really
Speaker 2: special because that is the love that they provide. It's
Speaker 2: unconditional and they don't necessarily always you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 2: give you a pat on the back or a little
Speaker 2: little bit of a tap on the butt as well.
Speaker 2: But they love unconditioned.
Speaker 12: In the sure time. She had the old Italian spool
Speaker 12: right from the sauce.
Speaker 4: But she was the best.
Speaker 7: She was the best, and she was a great cook.
Speaker 12: Of course, being Italian, of course, with her brothers and sisters,
Speaker 12: and every Sunday was a long meal at that breezeway table.
Speaker 2: And wouldn't you love to be able to just go
Speaker 2: back there one Sunday and recreate it? Huh?
Speaker 12: Yes, just all brothers and sisters on one side, and
Speaker 12: all the nephews and nieces. I have fifty one first cousins.
Speaker 2: How do you keep them straight?
Speaker 9: Jeez?
Speaker 12: I know it's unbelievable. But one of great big family
Speaker 12: she has. Of course you carry it right on to
Speaker 12: you know, six of us, four sisters and me.
Speaker 11: And my brother.
Speaker 12: Just an amazing, amazing family.
Speaker 2: And your mom roasted you for your forty birthdays?
Speaker 12: Who roasted me? I still have it. I have the
Speaker 12: outtakes too, And like I said, if you get a
Speaker 12: second day and you're all alone a little bit later
Speaker 12: or a Sunday morning, Marie Joyce, Jim Scaled and you
Speaker 12: will die all.
Speaker 2: Right, man. Thanks John, I appreciate it so much. We'll
Speaker 2: talk soon. Have a good one.
Speaker 9: Thanks you.
Speaker 2: These are great stories, they really are. Let me keep
Speaker 2: rolling here, I got uh, Matt in bright, Matt, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get you, and so you don't have to wait here,
Speaker 2: you go right ahead, Matt.
Speaker 1: Hey, Okay.
Speaker 13: I just want to say how awesome this is to
Speaker 13: hear everyone speak about their mother and how touching it is.
Speaker 13: So I appreciate you getting everybody this opportunity. You know,
Speaker 13: for my mother, her name is Cheryl or or Hia
Speaker 13: her Hebrew name. And you know, I always say she's
Speaker 13: who gave me my heart, and who gave me being
Speaker 13: grounded and compassionate for others and never gave up on
Speaker 13: me ever do everything and just treated me so well
Speaker 13: it made me feel so loved and knew just to
Speaker 13: treat all the others the same way. And you know,
Speaker 13: she would go into work at seven o'clock, come home
Speaker 13: at seven pm, worked in the city in a schedule
Speaker 13: building for Oosha, and just always made time for me.
Speaker 13: And you know, I had a parent who is a
Speaker 13: Holocaust survivor and just you know, really worked her hard
Speaker 13: for her home wife and from now we're retired with
Speaker 13: my dad.
Speaker 2: And that's an amazing, an amazing life when you when
Speaker 2: you think about what she endured and then you know
Speaker 2: how she continued. Everybody so far tonight has come from
Speaker 2: big families. How many siblings did you have, Matt? It's
Speaker 2: just me, just you well, you know something that's a
Speaker 2: different type of maternal love. I mean, she poured everything
Speaker 2: into you. And I can hear it in your voice.
Speaker 2: I really can. Yeah. And I know that a lot
Speaker 2: of the people called before and they were three or
Speaker 2: four or five siblings, uh, and and they got loved
Speaker 2: by every one of them got loved by their mother.
Speaker 2: But it's when you're an only son that's pretty special.
Speaker 2: That's pretty special. How long has she been gone?
Speaker 3: Mad?
Speaker 2: Is she's still with us?
Speaker 13: No, she's well excellent, that's so she always Uh you know,
Speaker 13: can I.
Speaker 2: Make a suggestion to you, Matt? You will have this posted? Noah,
Speaker 2: who's who's producing the programs? And I'll have this posted.
Speaker 2: That was pretty impressive what you said. Uh, why don't
Speaker 2: you play that for her over the weekend? I think
Speaker 2: she get a big kick out of it. If she's
Speaker 2: not well, I will.
Speaker 13: I appreciate it and thank you. And everybody's mother who's
Speaker 13: not there. I hope you're looking down and in a
Speaker 13: good place, and they're all looking down.
Speaker 2: None of them are looking up. We know that about moms,
Speaker 2: no doubt about that. Hey, Matt, appreciate you. Call talk soon, Okay.
Speaker 8: God bless thank you, right back at you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, good night, quick break coming back. I got Christian, Tim, Gary,
Speaker 2: and John. You're all set. The only line well, I
Speaker 2: got one line at six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. I will try to get all five in
Speaker 2: if a fifth joins us, but I guarantee you Christian, Tim,
Speaker 2: Gary and John are all set. Coming back on night's
Speaker 2: side as we wrapped the week, and we wrapped the.
Speaker 1: Hour night Side with Dan Ray on news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna wrap it up here. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get everybody in. Next up is John in New York. John,
Speaker 2: I got you and three more so go ahead.
Speaker 9: John, Hi, Ray, do you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yes, John, I can hear you. My first name is Dan,
Speaker 2: my last name is Ray. You go right ahead.
Speaker 9: I'm very sorry. I'm driving in the rain. And it's
Speaker 9: very stressful.
Speaker 2: Shoot, no problem. Be careful tell us about whereabouts are you?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where are you? Uh?
Speaker 9: I'm outside of Schenectady, New York.
Speaker 2: All right, be careful. What tell us about your mom?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you took the words out of my mouth early.
Speaker 9: I was gonna say. You know, there's nothing like a
Speaker 9: mother's mother. It's so unique and special.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question, there's just no question. How is
Speaker 2: your mom still with us?
Speaker 9: I hope now. She died from a brain aneurysm in
Speaker 9: two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she was too young.
Speaker 9: No, she was like sixty eight years old.
Speaker 2: That's too young. Ye as much too, You're much too young.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. How many children did she have?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 9: My brother, my sister. My sister died from uh, pancreatic
Speaker 9: cancer about ten years ago.
Speaker 2: That's a tough one too, man. That's that's tough.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is tough. And my wife died in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Man, man, how are you doing?
Speaker 9: You know, there's one thing, one thing I think about
Speaker 9: all the time. My mother told me, Yeah, she because
Speaker 9: I think about my mother and my wife, like every
Speaker 9: night before I go to sleep and when I wake up.
Speaker 9: In the morning, believe or not, probably ever since they
Speaker 9: both died. All right, And my mother sends to me
Speaker 9: one time when my feelings were deeply hurt from you know,
Speaker 9: in that Uh, I stood up to this, right, she
Speaker 9: said to me, John, Uh, it's better to have loved
Speaker 9: than never has loved at all. That is so true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, better to have loved and lost than never who
Speaker 2: have never to have loved it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, I didn't see you said the whole thing.
Speaker 10: I didn't, you know.
Speaker 9: I cut it short.
Speaker 2: But we got no, we got we got the point, man,
Speaker 2: We got the point. How are you doing now?
Speaker 9: I'm doing fine. I work for General and Schenectady. I'm
Speaker 9: on my way home now, and I'm seventy years old,
Speaker 9: and I'm thinking to retire and then their future maybe
Speaker 9: in a couple of weeks, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, keep us posted. Have you ever called me before?
Speaker 2: Is this your first time?
Speaker 9: I called in and spoke today? Uh? The car guys
Speaker 9: last week.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll do me a favor. Do it become more
Speaker 2: of a regular caller and a regular listener as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to, uh, I want to get to know
Speaker 2: your bit more. You sound like a great guy, and
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you taking the time tonight to to
Speaker 2: share your story with my audience, because it's good. It
Speaker 2: was a good that's okay.
Speaker 9: I absolutely love your program. I like I love you WBZ.
Speaker 9: I used to listen to you just directly on the
Speaker 9: car radio, you know, getting the groundwave at night. You
Speaker 9: know how that goes. It sounds like short wave hitting
Speaker 9: in and out. But I'd hear about eighty percent of
Speaker 9: what you would saying, and then the other twenty I'd
Speaker 9: have to fill in the blanks, you know. But now
Speaker 9: I'm listening on an iHeart app in the car through
Speaker 9: the dashboard, you know, with the system, and you sound
Speaker 9: like you sound like you're in the studio with men.
Speaker 2: That's that's perfect. That's perfect.
Speaker 9: And one other quick thing I like to mention, I'm
Speaker 9: an amateur radio operator, you know, hand radio operata. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and of course you get to speaking to people all
Speaker 9: around the place, the whole world.
Speaker 14: And I want to tell you that you I was
Speaker 14: very well called Fight to be a syndicated national radio program.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It's very kind of you on
Speaker 2: the station like WBC. It's it is the equivalent of
Speaker 2: of a syndicated show. Hey John, I gotta run here
Speaker 2: because they got three sitting here. Are gonna get to
Speaker 2: all of them. We're gonna try to get all right.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, thank you so much.
Speaker 10: Call again.
Speaker 2: You money, be well, be well, have a good one.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Gary, Gary, help me out here.
Speaker 2: You're a little late. I know I'm really late.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Gary, I'll make it fast. I'll tell the
Speaker 10: good stuff at the end. My mother I delivered the
Speaker 10: Eagle tribut your newspapers when I was a kid, fifteen
Speaker 10: years old. It was a rainy day and my mother
Speaker 10: was coming in the driveway with a car, and she
Speaker 10: ran over all the newspapers. I said, now, look what
Speaker 10: you did. I don't believe this. I had one hundred
Speaker 10: papers to deliver. I called the Tribune. I said, my
Speaker 10: mother destroyed all my newspapers. They brought it back a
Speaker 10: couple of hours later, delivered to all the customers after
Speaker 10: six o'clock at no He said, what the heck to
Speaker 10: my newspaper, Bess. I told the story. My mother drove
Speaker 10: over the car the papers. I said that laugh, you're
Speaker 10: off the hook. It's funny to you, but not to me.
Speaker 8: But not that.
Speaker 10: Sorry, it's true, all right. It was an awesome awesome Im.
Speaker 2: Thanks thanks so much. Gary, talk to you soon. Let
Speaker 2: me get to real quickly, Tim, Tim, can you be
Speaker 2: quick for me? Man, I'm tight on time. Oh Dan,
Speaker 2: Hey Jim.
Speaker 6: Thanks to taking my call. Make this quick. My mother
Speaker 6: right when I was I played football, baseball, ran track.
Speaker 6: Fondest memory. I have my mother my first touchdown I
Speaker 6: ever did. She said she proud of me, kissing me
Speaker 6: and everything. So she's going food shop and she goes
Speaker 6: wait around for me and take in the bundles. So anyhow,
Speaker 6: she goes about three hours away up there where.
Speaker 10: The heck is she?
Speaker 6: He comes home, says, the bundles are in the cage,
Speaker 6: down and get him. You know what's in the car
Speaker 6: on top of the bundles. No, a cashmere coat. Whoo,
Speaker 6: that's them all all right, only cashmere coat and moving all.
Speaker 2: Right, Thanks Tim, thank you so much. No, what do
Speaker 2: I got left here? Thirty seconds? Okay? Unfortunately, Christian and Peabody,
Speaker 2: I'll give you ten seconds. Give a shout out to
Speaker 2: your mom.
Speaker 15: Go ahead, Christian, WHOA, that's quick. My mom was a
Speaker 15: waitress at OPAP for thirty one years.
Speaker 9: All right, real quickly.
Speaker 15: When she was in her fifties, she took up running.
Speaker 15: We're marathons and one day were like, what what happened
Speaker 15: to you? She's eighty six months ago, six kids.
Speaker 2: All right, gotta go, gotta go, Christian, Thank you much man,
Speaker 2: great call, great call. I wish he gave you more time.
Speaker 2: Done for the night, done for the week. I'll be
Speaker 2: on Facebook real quickly. We'll end as always, All dogs,
Speaker 2: all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's why Pal
Speaker 2: Charlie raised the past fifteen years ago. That's where your
Speaker 2: pets are. We passed. They love you and you love them.
Speaker 2: You'll see them again