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Speaker 2: go over what we've done this week. It's always amazing
Speaker 2: different subjects we have discussed this week. I'll get to
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Speaker 2: really simple. Doesn't matter how old you are, doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what your status in life was. Do you remember your
Speaker 2: first car? Not the first car that was given to
Speaker 2: you or the first car that you might have used.
Speaker 2: I guess if you want to consider it that way, now,
Speaker 2: the first car that you actually bought. I will tell
Speaker 2: you about my first car, and I want to know
Speaker 2: what you paid for it too. Imagine what trying to
Speaker 2: get a new car today if you were a young person,
Speaker 2: forty fifty dollars in so many of these cars. And
Speaker 2: I know that there are cars that are less than that,
Speaker 2: but cars have become really expensive, but you need them.
Speaker 2: You need a car. For the most part. We always
Speaker 2: fight for cars, and we talk about bike lanes and
Speaker 2: all of that stuff. But I just will like to
Speaker 2: reminisce your first car, the first car that really was
Speaker 2: your car, something that you purchased. What was it? We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that this week. You know, it's funny. The
Speaker 2: week sometimes can seem very long when you're working to
Speaker 2: put together shows for five nights. But we started off
Speaker 2: this week talking with a teacher and a high school
Speaker 2: student from Lexington High School who were involved in a
Speaker 2: tournament coming up in August, dealing excuse me. In June
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, Georgia about financial literacy, talked about flood lighting,
Speaker 2: which is a new dating trend where people often on
Speaker 2: the rebound, have their first dates with people and all
Speaker 2: they do is tell them about their past problems. It's
Speaker 2: called floodlighting. We spoke with Sharif Mityas. He is CEO
Speaker 2: of a company called Bricks Holdings. They bring restaurants, particularly
Speaker 2: former restaurant chains, out of bankruptcy, and they're doing that
Speaker 2: right now with Friendli's Restaurants. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: talked with him last night for an hour because he
Speaker 2: was such a good guest. And then we talked about
Speaker 2: with a professor from Holy Cross, Professor Matthew Schwaltz. On
Speaker 2: Monday night about the death of Pope Francis. Talked with
Speaker 2: Father Jonathan Gaspar of Saint Mary's in Brookline and the
Speaker 2: passing of Pope Francis, and then heard from you about
Speaker 2: for an hour about the your reaction of the passing
Speaker 2: of the Pope, and we talked about Gail King's objections
Speaker 2: to people who said that it wasn't really quite what
Speaker 2: you'd call a space mission, but it was kind of
Speaker 2: a space ride on Blue Origin. You might remember that.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday night, we talked with Bob Collings so the
Speaker 2: American Harrod Museum out Hudson Mass. Talk with John Wilson,
Speaker 2: one of the few parents who essentially was indicted in
Speaker 2: the Varsity Blues case. Although he was convicted, it was
Speaker 2: overturned on appeal. Talked with John Schultz about how gen
Speaker 2: Z students think college is a waste of time and money.
Speaker 2: Talk with Phil Tracy previewing the Karen Reid opening remarks
Speaker 2: at trial, which started on Tuesday, the opening statements from
Speaker 2: the defense and the prosecution. During the nine o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Talked with Professor Gregg Styler of the Boston University Question
Speaker 2: School of Business about the latest on the tariffs. It's
Speaker 2: a tough day on the market on Tuesday, and then
Speaker 2: we talked about confidence or lack thereof in President Trump's
Speaker 2: economic plans. On Wednesday night, talked about Fyco scores with
Speaker 2: the woman named Adriana o'connos. Fifty three of the American
Speaker 2: public does not know what a Fyco score is. They're
Speaker 2: pretty important. Talk with Susan Shapiro about the complexity of
Speaker 2: female friendships. Talk with Bruce Robinson about Lowell's Lowell General's Hospital,
Speaker 2: low General Hospital's teamwork walk for Cancer Cure, and talk
Speaker 2: with doctor Shirah Drone about the CDC lifting a broad
Speaker 2: COVID vaccine requirements. Talk with tick me and Dan about
Speaker 2: ticks on Wednesday night at nine spent an hour, actually
Speaker 2: an hour and a half with him, and then at
Speaker 2: eleven we talked about the elimination of red dyes in
Speaker 2: our foods. Hats off by the FDA. Hats off to
Speaker 2: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 2: Junior on that one last talked. Talked last night with
Speaker 2: Samantha Joseph of the ADL here in New England about
Speaker 2: a rise of anti Semitism sadly in Massachusetts. Talked with
Speaker 2: Bett Beth o'maio about a charity that basically collects coats
Speaker 2: for people called One Warm. Colt talked about self leed
Speaker 2: living a Connected life with an author named Seth Coppold.
Speaker 2: Wasn't quite sure about that one, but I was. I
Speaker 2: was interested. And then to talk with Julio Vincent Gambudo
Speaker 2: his book please unsubscribe, Thanks, And talk with state Representative
Speaker 2: Steve Smith, he's actually the assistant a speaker Deputy Speaker
Speaker 2: in the House of Representatives in New Hampshire. They want
Speaker 2: to get rid of car inspections across the board up
Speaker 2: there for private vehicles. Commercial vehicles would be able to participate,
Speaker 2: would would have to get inspected. And then we spent
Speaker 2: an hour talking about reaction to that, and then had
Speaker 2: that hour with Shariff mitt yas Yes about the CEO
Speaker 2: of BRIGS holdings about if they're bringing back friendlies, and
Speaker 2: then tonight talked about Irish step dancing with an Irish
Speaker 2: step dancer and her coach. Talked with the gentleman co
Speaker 2: founder of the Boston Pizza Festival, gian Carlo Natali, talked
Speaker 2: with Ben Heller who's boxing Haymakers for Hope, a great organization,
Speaker 2: and talked with Genesis Carl about Massachusetts students not doing
Speaker 2: well in their math scores at all levels. And talk
Speaker 2: with Dan Delaney about this piece of legislation which I'm
Speaker 2: opposed to, which would eliminate life without parole in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: So having said that, we're going to go to the
Speaker 2: phone calls. Right after. My question is do you remember
Speaker 2: your first car? What was it and how much did
Speaker 2: you pay for it. I'm not talking about the first
Speaker 2: car your parents let you borrow. That wasn't your car,
Speaker 2: it was a parent's car, but maybe the first car
Speaker 2: that you actually bought, and was it? How inexpensive was
Speaker 2: it depending upon your age and love to reminisce. This
Speaker 2: is not my idea, this is Maritas. So come on,
Speaker 2: you Marina fans out there aka Lightning's Lightning. We try
Speaker 2: to present on Friday night in the twentieth hour, something
Speaker 2: that is fun and we don't have to have very deep,
Speaker 2: serious conversations. I want you to go into the weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the weekend happy guys. They're going to
Speaker 2: meet about a I don't know about one hundred of
Speaker 2: you this weekend at our night side brunch. This is
Speaker 2: our first night side brunch. Maybe there'll be a second.
Speaker 2: I have no guarantee you of that, that's for sure,
Speaker 2: but we have about one hundred and seventy eight reservations
Speaker 2: at Niroli's Restaurant in Westwood on Sunday. We have a
Speaker 2: seating at eleven for brunch and a seating for twelve thirty,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to meeting so many of you.
Speaker 2: Here are the numbers. I got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty. Two lines at six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one, ten thirty. Your first car, the first
Speaker 2: one that you actually paid hard cold cash, probably not
Speaker 2: a lot of hard cold cash by today's standards. What
Speaker 2: was that car? And do you fondly remember it? I
Speaker 2: remember mine, I know you'll remember yours. It's almost like
Speaker 2: the first kiss. You know what I'm saying. We'll be
Speaker 2: back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, your first car, the first car you actually bought,
Speaker 2: Not the first car that mom and dad let you use,
Speaker 2: or maybe that your big brother a Big Sis lets
Speaker 2: you use. Your first car. Mine was a Dodge Dart.
Speaker 2: It was a brown Dodge Dart. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a pretty cool car. It's kept it for many years.
Speaker 2: I think I paid about twenty five hundred dollars for it.
Speaker 2: While I was in law school. My aunt worked at
Speaker 2: a dealership and it was one of my favorite and
Speaker 2: so though I had many several favorite aunts, but this
Speaker 2: was aunt Mary, and she called me one day and said, hey,
Speaker 2: we got a great We got to a Dodge Dart
Speaker 2: in here and I think you like it. And I
Speaker 2: went in, looked at it, fell in love with the car.
Speaker 2: The car was great, It was a safe car, didn't
Speaker 2: cost a lot of money for gas. I had a
Speaker 2: couple of friends of mine who played in the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bulls back in the day, and I remember the two
Speaker 2: of them trying to get in the car. It was
Speaker 2: like they sort of looked like pretzels. But you know,
Speaker 2: we got from the garden back to the hotel and
Speaker 2: then a few beers. One of them is a guy
Speaker 2: named those are who are basketball fans? Jack Marin played
Speaker 2: with the Bulls a whole bunch of teams. He was
Speaker 2: a first round draft choice of the old Baltimore Bullets,
Speaker 2: and Jack is a great guy, a great friend to
Speaker 2: this day. After playing in the NBA for about thirteen seasons,
Speaker 2: Jack went he was a duke guy. Of course, Duke
Speaker 2: always said great basketball players. And Jack went back to
Speaker 2: law school and practiced law for many years in North Carolina,
Speaker 2: and I still talk to him. He's also very much
Speaker 2: involved in a program called Hope for the Warriors, but
Speaker 2: I remember I had him and I think it was
Speaker 2: Bob Love who was their center. And these guys, their
Speaker 2: knees were like up at their face. They said, don't work, guys,
Speaker 2: just relaxed, breathe out, don't breathe in, breathe out. We'll
Speaker 2: get you back to the hotel. The Dodge Dart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there are a few few good trips, man. I remember
Speaker 2: one time picking up Phil Esposito in the car. Was
Speaker 2: playing for the Bruins, and Phil was you know, he
Speaker 2: wasn't the size for basketball player, but you know, he
Speaker 2: was fine with it. A lot of fun Dodge Dart.
Speaker 2: I think it was like a seventy two or something
Speaker 2: and I probably got it in seventy. It was. It
Speaker 2: was just one of those cars that was in great shape.
Speaker 2: My aunt was at the dealership and she said, this
Speaker 2: is a car you want. And Aunt Mary, God love
Speaker 2: you wherever you are now. You were right in that one.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie, what was your
Speaker 2: first car and how much did you pay for it?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I dated a guy in college.
Speaker 3: He had a powder blue Dodge Dart. But I think
Speaker 3: it was a little bigger than your ear But a
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three VWGTI Rabbit style for eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's not bad.
Speaker 3: No, it was technically used, but only like by first
Speaker 3: eight months. Really, how long did you keep that I
Speaker 3: sold it?
Speaker 2: You might have sold it a.
Speaker 3: Well, no, not not really, because it was there was
Speaker 3: a guy who really wanted it in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: So ways, so you kept that car for how long?
Speaker 3: Eighty three to twenty one?
Speaker 4: Whoa, WHOA?
Speaker 2: WHOA?
Speaker 5: What car?
Speaker 2: You kept that car for almost thirty years?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did it.
Speaker 3: It ended up being the odometer cracked out. I think
Speaker 3: it was at least two hundred and fifty thousand at least.
Speaker 4: But and I just and it was.
Speaker 3: It was my second car by that time. It was
Speaker 3: my two errands in town car.
Speaker 4: But I loved it. I wanted one.
Speaker 3: A guy who worked for my dad had one, and
Speaker 3: I think his was a year earlier than mine. It
Speaker 3: was still the rabbit style, not the rounded style.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I got to jump a picture. I'm pulling
Speaker 2: up a picture on my screen. Give me what type
Speaker 2: of car that was? Again?
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty three VWGTI black.
Speaker 2: Okay, nineteen eighty three DW GTI black. Let's see if
Speaker 2: I could get a picture of Laurie's car. Come on, baby,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've even named it.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 3: They only made it for a couple three years, and
Speaker 3: then they changed when Rabbit went away and they changed
Speaker 3: to the Golf. They still had a GTI then, but
Speaker 3: I wanted one since my father's you know, employee had
Speaker 3: this thing, and so my roommate boyfriends. It was fun,
Speaker 3: it was great to drive. It was it was one
Speaker 3: of the original pocket rockets. And you know about all
Speaker 3: of my car is twenty five.
Speaker 4: Mils a go. They've all been about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't it wasn't a cast saver, but
Speaker 3: but it was. It was so much fun to drive.
Speaker 3: And my room, my roommate's sister's boyfriend worked at Barringer
Speaker 3: Bolkswagen in New Hampshire and for whatever reason, I may
Speaker 3: guess it was out of there was looking for one
Speaker 3: and she's, well, you know, ron sisters went up there.
Speaker 3: So I told my parents and I got the financing
Speaker 3: and my mom, my mom drove me up there and
Speaker 3: she followed me home.
Speaker 5: And I loved that car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't understand why if to keep the car
Speaker 2: twenty eight years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I put money into it. I put money
Speaker 3: into it every.
Speaker 6: Course of time.
Speaker 3: But it was a simple car, and it was a
Speaker 3: standard transmission and it you know, there wasn't much that
Speaker 3: could go wrong on it if you'd.
Speaker 4: Stay on top of it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I named it.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at I'm looking at the picture here, I'm looking.
Speaker 2: I just I did google it nineteen eighty three. Vw
Speaker 2: gg I black love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was a fun little car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you had there's enough room in there,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean you weren't. No, it wasn't an suv,
Speaker 2: but it was.
Speaker 3: No way, it wasn't this, but it was the backseat.
Speaker 3: It fit my dog, That's what mattered. And and I
Speaker 3: just it was so hard to sell it, and I
Speaker 3: really you didn't want to. But then the FedEx guy
Speaker 3: in the area was at the neighbor's house, and the
Speaker 3: neighbor called me and said, uh, Phillips, guys, here, what stuff?
Speaker 3: You're selling that car? And I said no. But then
Speaker 3: I ended up where I had to move and I
Speaker 3: couldn't take three cars with me. So he really loved them.
Speaker 3: He loved vw is the point that he had one
Speaker 3: of those horribly ugly pickup truck things.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, so you you bought it in New Hampshire
Speaker 2: and you sold it in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: No, I sld it in Montana.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, so you.
Speaker 3: I took it out to Montana.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that's that's a workhorse. That's a great that's
Speaker 2: a great story, Laurie, very strong start. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I got full line here. Oh thanks, so okay, great story,
Speaker 2: great story. Let me go to Scott and Quincy. Scott,
Speaker 2: I think I know you pretty well. I have no
Speaker 2: idea what your first car would be.
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Well that would be in nineteen sixty
Speaker 4: at the Black hard Top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that's that's a class that was that The
Speaker 2: first year was Mustang. Was Mustang sixty.
Speaker 4: Five sixty five. And you would know where I bought it,
Speaker 4: because if I told you at the car lot on
Speaker 4: Route one thirty five by the Denisen crossing in Framingham,
Speaker 4: would you would know that?
Speaker 2: I'm sir, yeah, wow, what'd you pay for that car?
Speaker 2: Did you buy a new?
Speaker 4: No? It was used in uh. I was a junior
Speaker 4: in high school at Dover Sherburn in seventy seven and
Speaker 4: I paid eight hundred bucks for it, So that was yes,
Speaker 4: and if only I have it now. And I learned
Speaker 4: to drive in my grandmother's nineteen seventy one Plymouth Scamp,
Speaker 4: which was Plymouth's version of the Dart back in the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't, though I loved the Dart. I remember
Speaker 2: driving my Dart. I was living at that point in
Speaker 2: downtown Boston and at Longfellow Place, and one night coming
Speaker 2: back from WBZ was actually I remember remembers the Blizzard
Speaker 2: of seventy eight. A couple of weeks beforehand, there was
Speaker 2: another big snowstorm that wasn't the Blizzard of seventy eight,
Speaker 2: but it's a substantial snowstorm. And so I'm driving in
Speaker 2: down the ramp at night, midnight, coming back from working
Speaker 2: on WBZ. And you know, the ramp that is right
Speaker 2: after Clarendon Street is kind of underneath where you know
Speaker 2: Berkeley Gess was like the burs Okay, I went down there,
Speaker 2: hits a patch of ice because it had snowed, and
Speaker 2: then the snow had melted and it froze. As I'm
Speaker 2: going down that lamp, I swear to god I did
Speaker 2: a three sixty. There was nobody else in the road.
Speaker 2: I just went with it and it never touched either
Speaker 2: either wall. I did a three sixty, and once I
Speaker 2: was underneath into the tunnel, obviously it was wet, but
Speaker 2: I was able to regain control of the car drove
Speaker 2: it home. Oh yeah, it was. I was just I
Speaker 2: was clipping along and I hit there must have been
Speaker 2: some ice that melted, had gone down, refroze, boom, and
Speaker 2: it's going and it's spinning on me. I'm saying, Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna buy the farm here, didn't
Speaker 2: right through the tunnel, came out the other side. Everything
Speaker 2: was perfect, insane. Absolutely well, I'll tell you, I ye.
Speaker 4: Up and down the roads in Sherburn back of the day.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, we spent twenty years in Sherbourne, so I
Speaker 2: know all of those, all of those road we lived out.
Speaker 2: Did you live in Sherburn and.
Speaker 4: Dover Sherburn right off the twenty seven right which street?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: I know, I know that area, Sony Brook Road, I know.
Speaker 2: Stony Broke Out. We lived on Woodland Street on the
Speaker 2: Route sixteen en to Woodland Street, which is that great
Speaker 2: credit cut through between Route sixteen and twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, When did you leave?
Speaker 2: When did you lett? When'd you leave Sherborne.
Speaker 4: Eighty two?
Speaker 2: Okay, we didn't get there.
Speaker 4: My mom moved to Holliston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I loved Holliston, man, I loved all of
Speaker 2: those places in Holliston. Fisk General Store and oh yeah
Speaker 2: that was great, great John. Bad news. Bertucci's in Holliston finally.
Speaker 4: Closed, by the way, I know, I heard that on
Speaker 4: the news. The whole chain went belly up. But you know,
Speaker 4: I was at the super Utte the other day and
Speaker 4: I bought a slice of Framingham Baking Company pizza and
Speaker 4: uh oh, you just can't beat that.
Speaker 2: The Superrete right across the street from Fisk, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh, I bought all my model planes as
Speaker 4: a kid.
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, absolutely great great people, John and Carol paulton Aery,
Speaker 2: the Paultroonary family. Scott, great call, great call. I got
Speaker 2: two great calls to start it off with Laurie and Scott. Thanks,
Speaker 2: my friend. We'll talk soon. I never realized all the
Speaker 2: times we've talked, I never realized that you grew up
Speaker 2: in Sherman. Are you coming to the brunch on Sunday?
Speaker 4: Your no, no, no, I have alably parents and I
Speaker 4: spend a lot of time with them all the weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, well, that's that's a better It's a better
Speaker 2: way to spend your Sunday. But will mische Thank you much, doctor.
Speaker 2: You soon have a great night. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: It's eleven thirty, bottom of the hour, bringing on back.
Speaker 2: We're coming back right after the news at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the hour. Only line open six, one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Memories of your first car, Marita. If you're listening,
Speaker 2: and you're probably not, this is going pretty well.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray I'm bes Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back on Nightside twentieth hour. We're asking you
Speaker 2: to tell us about your first car. Rob just told
Speaker 2: me his first car was a two thousand and four Saturn.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you the rest of the story.
Speaker 2: It came to it after that situation where you were
Speaker 2: able to get and Rob was not at fault. Will
Speaker 2: we go next, going to go to Donna in Whitman. Hey, Donna,
Speaker 2: your first car? Which was it?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 8: Donna, welcome, Hi Dan, Thanks for taking my call. Hi everybody,
Speaker 8: this is a great subject to talk about. I love
Speaker 8: the nostalgia. Thanks cracking me up thinking about this right now.
Speaker 8: Mine was the nineteen seventy one Dodge Swinger.
Speaker 4: I paid one.
Speaker 9: Hundred, one hundred and fifty while one hundred and fifty
Speaker 9: dollars And those were the days when you saw the
Speaker 9: cars going around with bondo and rust.
Speaker 8: Well, oh exactly, my car was yep. And I remember
Speaker 8: buying tubs of it at the auto shop of Blonde
Speaker 8: and Do and Screen. And my poor, my poor dad
Speaker 8: like nearly had a heart attack when I brought it
Speaker 8: home because you know, I asked, could I get a car?
Speaker 8: And he's like, yeah, sure, get a car, and he'd laugh,
Speaker 8: you know, and keep it.
Speaker 2: How long? How long did that Dodge Swingers?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it lasted me almost four years, and I sure
Speaker 8: did it that. The biggest thing was the day that
Speaker 8: I was I went to radio shack and bought an
Speaker 8: FM converter because it only.
Speaker 4: Had a radio in it.
Speaker 2: You're a she devil FM radio. We're still a bought.
Speaker 8: Myself some cheap speakers and you can hear my car
Speaker 8: coming around the corner before you saw my my car,
Speaker 8: and uh, my dad was just like this thing isn't safe.
Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, I got an inspection sticker. You know,
Speaker 8: it's like, yeah, that's all I needed. That and cardboard
Speaker 8: because the floorboards were routed through and I have to
Speaker 8: lift my feet up.
Speaker 7: No car.
Speaker 2: Cardboard and duct tape, that's all you need.
Speaker 8: And I remember using a screwdriver to open up take
Speaker 8: take the cover off the air filtered, open up the choke.
Speaker 8: So that was a trick I learned with my brother.
Speaker 2: Well, I would know idea. I would have no idea
Speaker 2: what to do there you were. You were much more
Speaker 2: adept at that sort of thing that I was. I'd
Speaker 2: be okay with the cardboard and the duct tape. I
Speaker 2: would have been able to accomplish that.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
Speaker 8: The funniest thing was is when I pulled up in
Speaker 8: front the insurance company to get the car insured. They
Speaker 8: go in and the agent says to me, well, what color.
Speaker 3: Is the car?
Speaker 7: Donner?
Speaker 8: I said, well, I'm really not sure. I mean, it's Bondo,
Speaker 8: it's rust, it's primer. And he had to open up
Speaker 8: the door to look on the inside to see what
Speaker 8: color of the car actually was.
Speaker 3: It was yellow.
Speaker 2: That's a great story. And did you sell the car.
Speaker 3: I drove?
Speaker 2: Did the cargo go directly to the junkyard?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I drove it until it died and I did cry.
Speaker 8: I loved I really loved that car. And you know,
Speaker 8: I was so excited to get that and it was
Speaker 8: just like freedom.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: I had been just using my tense speed bike to
Speaker 8: go back and forth to my jobs, and I was
Speaker 8: so excited to finally have some wheels, and it was
Speaker 8: just I know, I still think how much.
Speaker 2: How how much, how much freedom that meant to all
Speaker 2: of us back in the day. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: like woo, I mean I can I could go somewhere
Speaker 2: and no one knows where I go. It's like like
Speaker 2: taking off the leash.
Speaker 8: We didn't have phones then you could just and nobody
Speaker 8: could get hold of you.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: And Donna, I love the call. We've had three great calls, Laurie,
Speaker 2: Scott and Donald. Let's keep it rolling. Thanks Donna.
Speaker 8: You have a good night, Dan, great weekend.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Let me keep rolling. I'm gonna go to Lauren
Speaker 2: in Melrose. They got Dallas and Ohio in the in
Speaker 2: the on deck circle. Lauren, go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, Hi.
Speaker 7: I'm not too sure of the year. It was like
Speaker 7: it yused fifty eight or fifty nine brought it in
Speaker 7: like sixty six. Yeah, flag and a Volkswag and Bug.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh oh, those were great.
Speaker 7: The Volkswagon Bog at the time, it had no gas gauge.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's sorry how much gas is in the car.
Speaker 7: And I had a joke and it's standard ship and yeah,
Speaker 7: I had to just came up with a system of
Speaker 7: taking down what the mileage was, and every two hundred
Speaker 7: miles where they needed to not I put gas in it.
Speaker 2: And in many in many cases, I mean you you know,
Speaker 2: you got great mileage of the Volkswagen Bug. I've driven
Speaker 2: a Volkswagen Bug. A lady friend of mine had one
Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. And I spent some time in Washington,
Speaker 2: so that was my my my transportation of choice. This
Speaker 2: was well, the.
Speaker 7: Thing is that people did at the time because it's
Speaker 7: hard to find the car in a parking lot, so
Speaker 7: they're gonna put the plastic flowers on the antenna so
Speaker 7: you could find a big, pretty flower.
Speaker 2: So well, most of the people who were driving those bugs.
Speaker 2: Most people who were driving those bugs, they were walking
Speaker 2: around with flowers in their hair. There was kind of
Speaker 2: a hippie vehicle back.
Speaker 7: I wasn't one of those. I just wanted to find
Speaker 7: the car.
Speaker 2: I got you. Now, we use tennis balls right on
Speaker 2: the antenna if you have an antenna.
Speaker 7: Yeah. One thing I just wanted to pass on, if
Speaker 7: you would pass on to the gentlemen that the friendly
Speaker 7: I sent places. The woman that called, she didn't.
Speaker 4: She really wanted a line raspberry rooky, Yeah, ricky right.
Speaker 7: Right, Raby lime rooky, And it was Brigham's that that
Speaker 7: was Brigham's real drink. Friend named that and to pass
Speaker 7: it on to him. Yeah, because and they're the best.
Speaker 7: You know, No, couldn't coffee it. I mean, they used
Speaker 7: fresh lines, and I had I knew people to try
Speaker 7: to make them on their own. They couldn't copy it.
Speaker 7: They just couldn't get it just right. And I wish
Speaker 7: I wish it would they could open up Righoms again because.
Speaker 2: This was great best ice cream, no question about it.
Speaker 7: Skill is I mean, the ice cream the thing. But
Speaker 7: is that you lose the other things I had, you know,
Speaker 7: like their homemade bread, homemade butterscotch, you know, the Sundays
Speaker 7: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about ice cream now as opposed to having
Speaker 2: a beer after the show.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, yeah, you probably have the beer.
Speaker 7: But now I'm just no, but I'm just saying that,
Speaker 7: you know other places and I did today having to
Speaker 7: go to an Apple beefs and it was good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good for you. Yeah, so it was a.
Speaker 2: Little thank so much. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Car.
Speaker 2: Please keep going, have a great weekend. Good night. Let
Speaker 2: me go to my bell Dallas in Akron, Ohio. Dallas,
Speaker 2: welcome back. I'd love to know what your first car was.
Speaker 10: Yes, good evening to you, Dan, Hello Austin. My first
Speaker 10: vehicle was a nineteen sixty one Buick Special. It was
Speaker 10: royal blue and I had just gotten out of high school.
Speaker 10: Bought it in the summer and paid three hundred dollars
Speaker 10: for it.
Speaker 2: What year did you buy it? You didn't buy it
Speaker 2: for three hundred dollars in sixty one.
Speaker 10: I'll get my age way.
Speaker 5: No, I bought it in sixty eight, summer sixty early
Speaker 5: early summer sixty eight.
Speaker 10: Oh, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2: How long you keep it? How long did you keep it? Dallas? Oh?
Speaker 10: I kept it for about three and a half four years.
Speaker 2: Wow, and got good shirt. You said, how much did
Speaker 2: you pay for it? Did you pay for it? How much?
Speaker 10: Three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad deal. Yeah, even in nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: eight dollars that was good. I don't know what that
Speaker 2: would be today. It probably would be like at least
Speaker 2: five times as much with inflation, I'll bet you. But
Speaker 2: still that's a good deal. Can you imagine getting a
Speaker 2: nice car for fifteen hundred dollars today?
Speaker 10: I don't think some No, no, I you know back
Speaker 10: then I paid twenty nine nine cents nineteen cents to
Speaker 10: thirty five nine ten since a gallon for gasoline.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember we had a place in Jamaica
Speaker 2: plane it was called hat Offs h Atoff, and so
Speaker 2: there was a little guy who was there, kind of
Speaker 2: a cattoon character with his top hat off. I can
Speaker 2: remembers as little as nineteen cents a gallon, and I
Speaker 2: had Wow. They must not have been been charging taxes
Speaker 2: at that time. But now, with between state and federal
Speaker 2: taxes in Massachusetts we're probably paying somewhere about sixty eight
Speaker 2: cents in taxes alone, and I'm sure in Ohio was
Speaker 2: probably pretty similar or in taxes fedom with gasoline cost
Speaker 2: us back then. So when you got rid of it,
Speaker 2: was it a sentimental moment or oh.
Speaker 5: No, no, I was a glaud to get rid of
Speaker 5: it because the transmission gave.
Speaker 10: Me a lot of problems.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got that you The time was right as
Speaker 2: we would say, Hey, Dallas, thanks for checking in. I
Speaker 2: really appreciate hearing from you. Again. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: you're in the I think they call Akron the tire city.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that means that you were
Speaker 2: able to get a good, nice new set of wheels
Speaker 2: on it or whatever. But oh, is that that's that's
Speaker 2: that's the nickname for Akron, right, the tire.
Speaker 10: City, rubber capital of the world.
Speaker 2: Right, But I've always heard some people refer to it
Speaker 2: as the as the tire city.
Speaker 10: No, yeah, tire city, tire town, Oh.
Speaker 2: Tire town. I like that. That's a literative I like that. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 2: thank you, Dallas. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, Dan, you do the same. Nice talking to you, Duck.
Speaker 2: Soon right back to you, Okay, good night. All right,
Speaker 2: We're gonna get Greg and Ontario, Dennis and Steve and
Speaker 2: I got room for the only place we got room.
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
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Speaker 2: We have full lines. We're gonna ask everybody to be
Speaker 2: a little tighter here. Let's let's get it going here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to Greg and Ontario. Greg next on Nightside,
Speaker 2: give me a prediction for Tuesday night in the election.
Speaker 11: Up there, Paulief polif got to be Pauly f.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 2: We'll see your first car up there, Greg, What was it?
Speaker 11: My first car was nineteen seventy Plymouth Barracuda. When it
Speaker 11: was yeah, yeah, it was a great car. Was the
Speaker 11: in violet color, so it was it was similar to
Speaker 11: the plumb crazy purple that the challengers were painting, you know, Chrysler,
Speaker 11: I mean, Dodge was painting there.
Speaker 2: What you paint that was? What did you buy it? News?
Speaker 2: You buy it used?
Speaker 11: No, it was used. Actually I bought it when I
Speaker 11: was eighteen, so it would have been about eight years old.
Speaker 11: I got it actually, I bought it for twenty eight
Speaker 11: hundred bucks, which I thought was pretty good. And then uh, yeah,
Speaker 11: I had it for five years and then I was
Speaker 11: off to college h in I about nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 11: and so I sold it. But I made four hundred
Speaker 11: bucks on it. I sold it for three two hundred
Speaker 11: bucks to no.
Speaker 2: Well, that was some of that was some of the inflation.
Speaker 2: The inflation was what fifteen percent back in those days.
Speaker 2: Remember the Jimmy Carter. Yes, yeah, so that was good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the great car, and you made some money.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: Now you're gonna call us Tuesday night with some election
Speaker 2: results right when this starts to come into on Tuesday night.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, yeah, I'll get on the phone and i'll
Speaker 11: keep you update. There are.
Speaker 2: No I'm saying you're an election correspondent, so you gotta
Speaker 2: call it.
Speaker 11: Yo, I'll give you. I'll give you an update and
Speaker 11: how it goes, we should probably find out fairly early,
Speaker 11: I think, uh into the evening.
Speaker 2: Well you instructed me, which was which I had forgotten,
Speaker 2: that it's a parliamentary system up there. So it's not
Speaker 2: like you know, we're going to have Ontario goes for
Speaker 2: so and so and Quebec goes for so and so.
Speaker 2: It's going to depend upon who who controls the parliament
Speaker 2: so keep our fingers crossed. Okay, Greg, I got unpacked here,
Speaker 2: so I got a whole bunch of folks. They got
Speaker 2: to run by run here, So I'll let you run. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you man. We'll talk to your Tuesday night. Give
Speaker 2: that d Thanks thanks great, appreciate it. Let me go
Speaker 2: next too. We're gonna go. Okay, no more calls, Rob,
Speaker 2: Let's get We're gonna get everybody in Dennis and Effett. Dennis,
Speaker 2: your first car, I wonder what that will be.
Speaker 4: Well, I've had I had many. I had at least
Speaker 4: twenty cows when I was growing up.
Speaker 2: By then, you're only talking about your first. Yeah.
Speaker 12: My first one that I bought was a nineteen eighty
Speaker 12: four Firebird which a key top, the door exhausted.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 12: I was only twenty four, so I was, uh yeah,
Speaker 12: maybe I was wild.
Speaker 2: Oh I can imagine. Was that a good car to
Speaker 2: attract the ladies? Dennis? Oh?
Speaker 12: Yeah, but I was already married.
Speaker 2: That case. Why why were you wild? If you were married?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 2: What you paid for? What are you pay Do you
Speaker 2: remember what you paid for it?
Speaker 12: I paid I if I can remember correctly. In between
Speaker 12: ten and twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that would be around eleven thousand dollars. Was
Speaker 2: that new whoa yeah, brand new, very oppressive that you
Speaker 2: were rolling rolling. Dennis was.
Speaker 12: Right on, mister Avin metric Osma Pontiac.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Dennis, I got three more I
Speaker 2: gotta get to so I'm gonna let you run.
Speaker 12: Have a good one, Dan, thanks nobody, thank you, all right,
Speaker 12: I have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Dan youtubell, thank you much. Steve is a chickapee Steve.
Speaker 2: I've never had you on the show before. I don't
Speaker 2: think how were.
Speaker 6: You gonna truck driver Steve. You've had me a couple
Speaker 6: Oh well, of.
Speaker 2: Course, truck driver Steve is wherever he is you got
Speaker 2: of course it's struck driver Steve.
Speaker 7: Car.
Speaker 2: I know what you're driving now, it's an eighteen wheel.
Speaker 2: What's your first car?
Speaker 6: Yeah, first cow was a nineteen eighty Sunbird Pontiac two
Speaker 6: tone color. I paid nineteen hundred bucks and it was
Speaker 6: a low mileage. So as a twenty year old, that
Speaker 6: was a great first car in the little town of
Speaker 6: Dick's Field name.
Speaker 2: So I'll let you go.
Speaker 4: You get to the next caller.
Speaker 2: A great dear, you're where you headed tonight? Where you're headed?
Speaker 4: I mean the guy he's coming from Baltimore.
Speaker 6: I've been doing the Baltimore route this week, so I
Speaker 6: got to see all the Baltimore stadiums and also Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: all the Phillies stadiums.
Speaker 4: So it's like fifty years ago when my first Red
Speaker 4: Sox game. You get a little excited, you know, you
Speaker 4: see it like it.
Speaker 7: I like you.
Speaker 4: I'll let you go.
Speaker 7: You got two more calls?
Speaker 2: Be safe, man, talk soon, Okay, diodn't I let me
Speaker 2: keep rolling here. We're gonna get it both into It's
Speaker 2: gonna be tight. Phil and Wakefield. Phil gotta make room
Speaker 2: for Dennis and Canton as well. Go ahead, Phil, Okay,
Speaker 2: how you doing?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 4: I the all American icon of cause I had a
Speaker 4: fifty seven Chevy.
Speaker 2: A Chevy. What type of Chevy did they call it back?
Speaker 4: Nineteen fifty seven Chevy?
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, a bell Air Okay, okay, that's that. That
Speaker 2: sounds familiar. What you pay for that?
Speaker 4: I think four hundred bucks? We throw it home on
Speaker 4: a milk cradle, had no clause.
Speaker 2: Those were the days. Those were the days, weren't they?
Speaker 2: We thought we were pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Actually, I have one now I'm restoring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're a car guy. Then how long would
Speaker 2: you it was a fifty seven? How much you how
Speaker 2: much you pay for it, and what you sell it for.
Speaker 4: I paid four hundreds for it and I so for
Speaker 4: four hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's okay. How long do you have it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I told it to all high school four years.
Speaker 2: Nice? Nice? All right, you were rolling. Thanks. Phil talks
Speaker 2: on every weekend. You too. All right, I'm done for
Speaker 2: the week and we're done for the night. Rob, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. Maria, good suggestion. Your first car.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 2: We'll do this one again. I want to remind you
Speaker 2: that we will be at the Nioli Restaurant on Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: First seating is eleven, second seating is twelve thirty. They're
Speaker 2: sold out. We'll do it again at some point, so
Speaker 2: feel free to think about but you can't. You gotta
Speaker 2: have reservations. I told you, I told you. If you've
Speaker 2: missed it, all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven.
Speaker 2: That's my pal Charlie ray Is. He passed fifteen years
Speaker 2: ago in February. That's all your pets are past. They
Speaker 2: loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
Speaker 2: see them again. We'll see again on Monday night. I'll
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Speaker 2: We'll see you Monday night on night Side. Thanks Rob,