Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 2: Right into law.
Speaker 3: Who's the group? Oh, Rob is selected a little vision,
Speaker 3: a little version of Stevie Wonder Superstitions. Thank you very much, Rob,
Speaker 3: very nicely set up here. As we move into our
Speaker 3: twentieth hour of the week, our final hour of the week.
Speaker 3: As I think anyone who has listened to this show
Speaker 3: for any length of time knows that when we get
Speaker 3: to Friday night at eleven o'clock, we try to cool
Speaker 3: things off. We try to get little, a little bit
Speaker 3: kind of kind of roll into the weekend. We've had
Speaker 3: all of our conversations this week about the presidential debates,
Speaker 3: back and forth. We've had all of those conversations. We've
Speaker 3: heard our conversations about the Karen Reid trial, about what
Speaker 3: happened yesterday and Newton, all of that. All of that
Speaker 3: now you can think about over the weekend if you
Speaker 3: would like. That's fine. You can have conversations with your friend.
Speaker 3: But for now, for the rest of the night, we're
Speaker 3: going to kick back and talk about superstitions. It is
Speaker 3: Friday the thirteenth. Before we do that, we have, of course,
Speaker 3: this week done a lot on the presidential debate. We
Speaker 3: previewed it for a couple of hours on Monday night.
Speaker 3: We previewed it on Tuesday at eight. We listened from
Speaker 3: ninth to ten to ten forty five, and then you
Speaker 3: reacted to it on Tuesday night from ten forty five
Speaker 3: until midnight. We remembered September eleventh on Wednesday, September eleventh,
Speaker 3: and we did that for two and a half hours,
Speaker 3: and we reacted to the debate a little bit more
Speaker 3: last night. We talked about the law in Massachusetts, which
Speaker 3: many people think is going to be very restrictive when
Speaker 3: it goes into effect in terms of the Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 3: We talked with Toby Leary of Cape Gun Works. That
Speaker 3: was a really good hour. We also talked with Lewis
Speaker 3: Ferrante History of the Mafia. We'll Talk, You'll hear. That
Speaker 3: replayed on Sunday night at eleven o'clock. We also talked
Speaker 3: last night eleven about President Trump's the former President Trump's
Speaker 3: decision to say no to a second debate with Vice
Speaker 3: President Harris. Tonight, we talked about this pro Israeli demonstration
Speaker 3: that turned pretty ugly yesterday for an hour and a half,
Speaker 3: and then we talked about the appeal of the appeal
Speaker 3: that Karen Reid lawyers are going to take to the
Speaker 3: state Supreme Court here in Massachusetts. I think it raises
Speaker 3: a new and novel issue. And again I apologize to
Speaker 3: some of the callers. Karen had trouble with her line
Speaker 3: last hour. I was rushing Tom a little bit because
Speaker 3: I wanted to try to accommodate Nick Frank and Kate
Speaker 3: Frank disagrees with me. Have ver experienced Laurier thirty eight years.
Speaker 3: If he is correct, I want him to call back,
Speaker 3: and as we often say, take a victory lap simple
Speaker 3: as that. I do not claim that I am omnipotent.
Speaker 3: I do claim that I have opinions, and that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Often is intended to stir conversation. So tonight, as we
Speaker 3: finish up here, I want to stir a conversation about
Speaker 3: Friday the thirteenth. This year, we'll have a couple of
Speaker 3: Friday the thirteenth. We're having one tonight, and hopefully you've
Speaker 3: all made it through without any problems. There'll be another
Speaker 3: in December. On December thirteenth. That is only a function
Speaker 3: of the fact that September has two extra days beyond
Speaker 3: twenty eight. October has three extra days obviously from the
Speaker 3: twenty ninth, thirtieth, and thirty first, and November has two
Speaker 3: the twenty ninth and thirtieth, which means in December we
Speaker 3: will replicate a Friday the thirteenth. So I want to
Speaker 3: ask you, are you superstitious? Did you wake up today
Speaker 3: with a knowledge now this is Friday the thirteenth. Was
Speaker 3: it a day in which you said I'm going to
Speaker 3: stay at home a little more often? What are these
Speaker 3: superstitions that you have? Did you follow I got to
Speaker 3: tell you, if a black cat walks across in front
Speaker 3: of the street with me, it freaks me out. I
Speaker 3: have no idea why. I'm just telling you the truth.
Speaker 3: Will I walk under a ladder on Friday the thirteenth,
Speaker 3: I won't walk under a ladder on any day, any
Speaker 3: day at all. Am. I cognizant about not stepping on
Speaker 3: you know the phrase, you step on a crack, you
Speaker 3: break your mother's back. If you step on a crack
Speaker 3: on a sidewalk, I'm pretty cool. I try to stay
Speaker 3: away from that. I can tell you that when I
Speaker 3: played baseball, I didn't want to step on the base lines.
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but when I had a chance,
Speaker 3: you know unless I wasn't paying attention, I skipped over
Speaker 3: the baselines. There's no reason to do that. I don't
Speaker 3: know why. I don't know why, but there were things
Speaker 3: that somehow get into our heads. Maybe you have something
Speaker 3: that you'd like to share with us and tell us
Speaker 3: what your superstition is, what your practice is. Maybe you
Speaker 3: only get up out of one side of the bed.
Speaker 3: I am very much like that. I have to. I
Speaker 3: don't want to get up on the wrong side of
Speaker 3: the bed. That that stuff goes through my mind. So
Speaker 3: we're going to open up phone lines. I will tell
Speaker 3: you that right now six one, seven, nine, three thirty,
Speaker 3: those lines are full. If you want to get on
Speaker 3: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. What are
Speaker 3: your superstitions and why do you think you have them?
Speaker 3: And if you don't have any superstitions, that's fine. I
Speaker 3: have superstitions. If I buy a lottery ticket, I do
Speaker 3: not open I do not scratch the ticket quickly. I
Speaker 3: know that there are a lot of people who buy
Speaker 3: the lottery ticket. I've stood in line behind them in
Speaker 3: the scratch the ticket. I take the lottery ticket home.
Speaker 3: I want to get comfortable with the lottery ticket. I
Speaker 3: want the lottery ticket to be comfortable with me. I
Speaker 3: put it on a table, I walk away, maybe have lunch,
Speaker 3: come back, look at it again. I take my time.
Speaker 3: My belief is, hey, if I have winning numbers, which
Speaker 3: I never do, they're gonna be there when I come back.
Speaker 3: I want to enjoy the experience. It's almost like I
Speaker 3: look at a lottery ticket, which I buy infrequently, as
Speaker 3: a fine glass of wine. I'm not gonna guzzle a
Speaker 3: glass of wine, particularly if it's expensive. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: guzzle a glass of wine anyway. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: scratch off. I'm gonna sit there. The anticipation of scratching
Speaker 3: the lottery ticket, particularly the ones where you can you
Speaker 3: have five potential winners and you can scratch off twenty five.
Speaker 3: I never win. I never win. Occasionally, yep, i'll get it.
Speaker 3: You've won ten dollars, so you can go back and
Speaker 3: buy another ten dollar card. But whatever, what are your
Speaker 3: superstitions and how they affected your life. We'll take a break,
Speaker 3: we're coming back. We'll get everybody in that wants to
Speaker 3: share with us whatever the superstitions are. I was going
Speaker 3: to do a brushes with celebrity tonight we haven't done
Speaker 3: that on a Friday night for four months now, June, July, August, September.
Speaker 3: Probably we'll do that next Friday night. Last Friday night
Speaker 3: we do what grinds your gears, so we kind of
Speaker 3: mix it up. And oh, by the way, the last
Speaker 3: Friday night of the month, which will be the twenty sixth,
Speaker 3: if I'm doing my math correctly, the twenty seventh. Excuse me,
Speaker 3: we will do our sixth. Yeah, it'll be our sixth
Speaker 3: pole presidential poll. I'm really interested into what the numbers
Speaker 3: are going to show. We did that. We started this
Speaker 3: on the last Friday night in March, April, May, June, July, August. Wait,
Speaker 3: that is sixth. This will be our seventh March April, May, June, July, August.
Speaker 3: This will be our seventh September, March, April, May, June, July. No, no,
Speaker 3: my March, April, May, June, July, August, September. It'll be
Speaker 3: our seventh pole. We'll take a break. The only lines
Speaker 3: are that are open right now, six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty.
Speaker 3: Your superstitions, let's fest up. Come on, let's see what
Speaker 3: how weird you are? Okay, it's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: We're coming back on night Side. Now back to Dan
Speaker 3: Ray live from the Window World Night Sin Studios on
Speaker 3: WBZ News Radio. By the way, just the germs of
Speaker 3: scheduling planning for next week. On Tuesday night, I think
Speaker 3: it's Tuesday night, we will have US Republican Senative candidate
Speaker 3: John Deaton. He will join us at nine o'clock on
Speaker 3: Tuesday night. It's coming Tuesday night, Thursday night next week.
Speaker 3: The w BZ car guys, Larry Scott, Larian, Scott Rubenstein
Speaker 3: will join us answer all your questions about cars as
Speaker 3: we head into the cooler part of the year, the
Speaker 3: winter driving season, which becomes a very cool part of
Speaker 3: the year here in New England. And so that's Thursday
Speaker 3: night next week. Let's go to the Phone's got to
Speaker 3: go to Neil and water down. Neil, haven't heard from
Speaker 3: you in a while. Welcome back, How are you Neil?
Speaker 4: Thank you Dan. I actually called this on this subject.
Speaker 4: I think it was was October twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen,
Speaker 4: but I called too late and I didn't present my
Speaker 4: argument very well, not argument, but well you are you are, You'll.
Speaker 3: Leading the pack tonight, Neils, right ahead.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll confess you inherently I'm very superstitious. That's okay,
Speaker 4: something I think I should battle or resist. And in
Speaker 4: a larger issue, I think, you know, people in general
Speaker 4: should Now, the word that in the interim that came
Speaker 4: to my mind was accretion. And it was in a novel.
Speaker 4: And an older woman tells of a younger woman how
Speaker 4: the people in her country estate go to the witch elm,
Speaker 4: which is sol w y c h and they stick
Speaker 4: in the people of old stuck pigs teeth into it.
Speaker 4: They thought that if they chewed on the bark, it
Speaker 4: would cure the toothache. And Margaret, the younger woman, says, oh,
Speaker 4: I love folklore infestering superstition. But then by a couple
Speaker 4: of chapters later, Missus Wilcox dies and it turns out
Speaker 4: that it wasn't really true. And and just quoteeness for me.
Speaker 3: Is this a novel you're talking about?
Speaker 4: Now? This this just put the I This gave me
Speaker 4: the word I needed in my head. It's very brief
Speaker 4: excerpt from the novel, not describing the novel in any length.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying how the author used the word. Is
Speaker 4: that all right? Okay? So market struggle that's just you
Speaker 4: know what is what, that's the that's the young woman's name,
Speaker 4: and said few people had tried more earnestly to pierce
Speaker 4: the accretions in which body and soul are wrapped. So
Speaker 4: accretions are like I was looking at the dictus. They're
Speaker 4: like the Mississippi Delta. They form over the millennia and
Speaker 4: before you know it, you can't even see them forming.
Speaker 4: And you're born into it as a young person. You
Speaker 4: don't question it, and you know, well, things like the
Speaker 4: lottery ticket that doesn't really hurt anything. But people today,
Speaker 4: you know, Friday the thirteenth, I got my flu shot
Speaker 4: and I got my COVID shot at the same time.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like I was trying to but it was.
Speaker 4: It was the best time in my schedule to go
Speaker 4: get them. So it wasn't. But I've heard Laura, like
Speaker 4: presidents or rulers, they've stopped the train so that the
Speaker 4: train doesn't leave the station. I'm the thirteenth. So it
Speaker 4: happens to intelligent people too, all right.
Speaker 3: I don't quite get the when you use the word
Speaker 3: of creation, it it's a c c R.
Speaker 4: I means like these things build up over time, these ideas.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that it's spelled A
Speaker 3: C C R E T I O N.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Can I sometimes comment on Friday the thirteenth though itself?
Speaker 3: Wow? Hold on, let me finish my point and then
Speaker 3: I'll let you come right, Okay, okay. Accretions are the
Speaker 3: opposite of erosion.
Speaker 1: So in.
Speaker 3: Certain parts of the country, including Cape Cod, one side
Speaker 3: of Cape Cod is eroding because it's got hits with
Speaker 3: all the heavy weather storms. The other side is having accretion.
Speaker 3: It's actually increasing, its beaches are increasingly right, Yes, you
Speaker 3: don't have all I think you've taken me down a
Speaker 3: complete rabbit hole. I want to get out of the
Speaker 3: rabbit hole. Talk to me. If you want to tell
Speaker 3: me if you're superstitious or not, that's great because if
Speaker 3: you don't, I'm going to move on.
Speaker 4: Can I just say that Friday the thirteenth is good Friday.
Speaker 4: It's the day that Jesus was crucified. I think many
Speaker 4: people date.
Speaker 3: I think many people date the Friday the thirteenth. I
Speaker 3: don't know if Jesus he was crucified allegedly on a Friday.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was Friday the thirteenth, but
Speaker 3: I think that that about a thousand years ago, according
Speaker 3: to some research that I did, Biblical scholars began to
Speaker 3: talk about that in terms of the number thirteenth and Friday,
Speaker 3: so I believe that was part of Friday in the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: The thirteenth, thirteenth considered a lucky number. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of hotels that don't have a four thirteenth. You get
Speaker 3: in the Elba and says I want to go to
Speaker 3: four twelve or fourteen. Great, but there's no four thirteen,
Speaker 3: So that that is that's fairly common. Neil, thanks for
Speaker 3: getting us going. I don't quite get the literary reference,
Speaker 3: but it was interesting, and I think you've always one
Speaker 3: of my more interesting callers.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I have a great night. Okay, my six, one, seven, two, four, ten,
Speaker 3: thirty lines are wide open. Let me go next to
Speaker 3: Laurie in Oha in Idaho. Laurie, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: make you wait any longer. You go run yet. Are
Speaker 3: you superstitied?
Speaker 5: Well really not not totally. I mean I will never
Speaker 5: walk on a painted line on the street, but that
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with superstition. It has everything to
Speaker 5: do with wearing dress shoes and painted lines are almost
Speaker 5: always very slippery and it's not a good jo.
Speaker 3: That's okay, So that's well, that's that's the reasonable SUPERSI.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was okay, yeah, an avoiding embarrassment and injury.
Speaker 5: So the only time I've ever been, and I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's superstition versus just you know, over the
Speaker 5: top karma. Was the postseason in two thousand and four
Speaker 5: for the Red Sox. I made sure every game I
Speaker 5: had the radio one with Jocastigon. Even if I had
Speaker 5: the TV on, I had my one, my favorite Red
Speaker 5: Sox hoodie, which was just gray with the red be
Speaker 5: on it. I wore that everything.
Speaker 3: Without those dress choices, the Red Sox might not have
Speaker 3: made it to the World Series that year, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: now you I want to talk about Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: The Red Sox were playing tonight at Yankee Stadium. They
Speaker 3: were head yet for did nothing.
Speaker 6: Do you know how the game they were?
Speaker 5: Yes, Aaron Judde hit a home run that he hasn't
Speaker 5: hit in seventeen games with the basis field I think
Speaker 5: by walks, Yes, yes, I think you're and they lost
Speaker 5: five four.
Speaker 3: They lost five four. It was an ugly way to lose.
Speaker 5: It was horrifying. But they've been doing that to us
Speaker 5: a lot lately.
Speaker 7: But yeah, that was yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And now seventy four and seventy four they are
Speaker 3: a fine five hundred baseball team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when the season almost over, yay.
Speaker 3: I think this means they have if I'm doing my
Speaker 3: math correctly, they have fourteen games left, so best possible
Speaker 3: worlds they could they could win if they win out,
Speaker 3: which is not likely. And by the way, the kid
Speaker 3: Fits pitched another good game tonight. The kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the Bullton's Lenning's down and then yeah, whatever,
Speaker 5: And so your your story about the lottery ticket cracked
Speaker 5: me so funny.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I just I don't want to rush.
Speaker 3: If if I'm going to spend ten dollars on a
Speaker 3: lottery ticket, I'm going to It's like a fine glass
Speaker 3: of wine. I'm going to take my time on it.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 5: And so don't I don't. I don't really buy the
Speaker 5: lot just scratch tickets because I never went, but a
Speaker 5: friend of mine does, so don't some of them have
Speaker 5: a game you can go through and go through all
Speaker 5: the numbers, or there are four boxes. You can just
Speaker 5: scratch off and figure if you want automatically. I'm guessing
Speaker 5: you go through all the little game thing first.
Speaker 3: Well, what happens is my brother and my sister in law.
Speaker 3: I think they're more of gamblers, and they will give
Speaker 3: me a couple of lottery tickets. I don't tend to
Speaker 3: buy them myself to you, but I always say, look,
Speaker 3: you know, like a birthday present, Christmas present, Yeah, Christmas.
Speaker 3: I always say, if if we hit big, we'll split
Speaker 3: in three ways and we'll share it.
Speaker 5: Do that, Okay, Now I'll get the I'll get the
Speaker 5: lottery like the big draws. I don't buy the scratch
Speaker 5: I don't. I can't win a blackjack game, to say
Speaker 5: my soul, so I don't bother crash tickets. But I'll
Speaker 5: do the mega millions or oh yeah, when it's over like.
Speaker 3: Five hundred million dollars or something, then it's worth it.
Speaker 3: Then it's worth it.
Speaker 7: I guess you're gonna wake up.
Speaker 3: I don't want to win like some lottery jackpot that
Speaker 3: only has like a hundred million dollars in it. Well,
Speaker 3: hell no, I'm going I'm going for all the gustos here.
Speaker 5: I've got exactly, and I'm buying one ticket to do it.
Speaker 8: Well why not?
Speaker 3: Why why waste your money? It's just you go.
Speaker 9: It's just exactly, Lauria.
Speaker 3: I love your calls. You know that any more beer
Speaker 3: sightings in Idaho in your backyard are in your living room.
Speaker 5: No, don't JINX met you?
Speaker 3: So you are superstitious. You believe in Jinx? Is okay?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: I do? Actually, yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, I do.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 1: I do that.
Speaker 5: Yep, that's true.
Speaker 3: No, I'm a big believer in Jinx's I really am.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: So no, so far, so good. We've had a moose but.
Speaker 3: No, no, theres okay, that's good. So how close did
Speaker 3: the moose come to the house?
Speaker 6: I would destroyed the pear tree which is next to
Speaker 6: the house.
Speaker 5: Well, twenty five thirty feet.
Speaker 3: That's close enough. That's close enough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we've another one that kemps and hangs out
Speaker 5: at the end of the dry waving. They're pretty comfortable
Speaker 5: around here.
Speaker 3: Which is can you shoot moose? Not that you would
Speaker 3: want to. Is there a moose hunting season in Idaho?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's got to be, but I think it's pretty
Speaker 5: limited and it's not till later in the year. But no, no,
Speaker 5: you're not allowed. You're not allowed to pick them off
Speaker 5: in your backyard unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 5: So it's like, may I think there might be a lottery,
Speaker 5: like you know, like in Maine, in New Hampshire there's
Speaker 5: a lottery.
Speaker 3: You get a license you can go bag a moose.
Speaker 5: Yeah okay, yeah, so I think they have that, but
Speaker 5: not in the backyard when they're destroying your pars.
Speaker 3: It's the ways of a while. West Laurie will talk soon. Okay.
Speaker 3: By the way, I did notice that they moved the
Speaker 3: trial of that kid who's accused of killing the three
Speaker 3: college students to a different county in Idaho.
Speaker 5: They yep, they're down in bois now and Boise State
Speaker 5: will be a member of the PAC twelve in a
Speaker 5: couple of years, which blows my mind.
Speaker 3: Well, they've had a good football team. They really have
Speaker 3: a great football program.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, although the field for a long time was bluegrass,
Speaker 3: it probably still is, which was a little you know,
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 6: It's horrifying.
Speaker 9: It is why I will not be still in a
Speaker 9: couple of years.
Speaker 5: But yes, but yeah, I know they did.
Speaker 6: All right, you have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: They can still finish eighty eight and seventy four if
Speaker 3: you wear that, if you wear the hat the right
Speaker 3: way for the next fourteen games.
Speaker 5: Is that like like over my here Aaron coxsided like
Speaker 5: a like a rapper?
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly. That will do it.
Speaker 6: That will do it too.
Speaker 3: Yes, if it's inside out okay.
Speaker 5: Inside oh the rally cap indeed, yes, or it might
Speaker 5: undo it then I'm really in trouble.
Speaker 3: Thanks a great night. All right, we got some wide
Speaker 3: open lines here. You guys don't want to talk about superstitions.
Speaker 3: I got Larry and Dennisport. He's going to be first
Speaker 3: up on the the other side of the news break.
Speaker 3: I want to know, come on, tell me that if
Speaker 3: you think superstitions are just useless, and if you have
Speaker 3: no superstitions and nothing bothers you, you know you're you're
Speaker 3: pretty well adjusted. But I suspect that most of us
Speaker 3: aren't well adjusted. I know I'm not well adjusted, and
Speaker 3: I know that all of us have our little quirks.
Speaker 3: So this is an opportunity for you to rid yourself
Speaker 3: of the quirk and tell us what superstition? What will
Speaker 3: you do or will you not do? Depending upon the circumstances,
Speaker 3: that would be considered a superstition, meaning you do it
Speaker 3: because you don't understand why you do it, but you
Speaker 3: you will not walk under a ladder. I think that's
Speaker 3: just being smart in case someone falls down the ladder.
Speaker 3: But a black cat, Why should I be bothered by
Speaker 3: a black cat? I don't know why. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: But if I see a black cat, I know it's
Speaker 3: associated with Halloween and all of that. Give me a call.
Speaker 3: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. It's nightside,
Speaker 3: it's Friday night. We're going into the weekend. We can
Speaker 3: have a little fun, can we not. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: we don't have to always talk about politics and serious events,
Speaker 3: death and destruction. This is your time to shine right
Speaker 3: here at Nightside, back after the news at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the hour. You're on night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 3: on w Boston's news radio. All right, let's go to
Speaker 3: Larry and Dennisport. Larry, you superstitious guy.
Speaker 9: I am not Dan. I love Friday the thirteenth, and
Speaker 9: here's why.
Speaker 3: My birthday, Why do you love it?
Speaker 9: My birthday is November thirteenth, and every four or six
Speaker 9: years it falls on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: That would be every seven years.
Speaker 9: I would think, well, let's see the last one. I
Speaker 9: think it was twenty twenty and the next one is
Speaker 9: twenty twenty six. I think I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Thrown in there every once in a while, which can.
Speaker 9: Exactly exactly, But for some reason, I've just always had
Speaker 9: an affinity for I love Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 6: But I'm going to let you go. But I think
Speaker 6: a great subject what you've kind of brought up with
Speaker 6: that previous caller, with how the Cape card beaches grow
Speaker 6: and it takes a fand from other beaches, maybe you
Speaker 6: could get a guess from like Woodshole Ocean, a graphic
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 3: And you talk about well, I think it's kind of simple,
Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what I think it is. I
Speaker 3: think that the beaches on the north side of the
Speaker 3: Cape are dealing with erosion. And I think the reason
Speaker 3: that they're dealing with erosion is because they get hit
Speaker 3: with all those big winter storms coming out of the Northeast.
Speaker 9: Yes, that is true, and I live in the south
Speaker 9: side and my local beach that we go to is
Speaker 9: actually growing slightly. But if you if you're familiar with
Speaker 9: the cape of the south side, all those jetties that
Speaker 9: they put out out of the big rocks. If you
Speaker 9: stand on your beach and look out into the ocean,
Speaker 9: the beaches on the right side of the jetti grow
Speaker 9: and the left side shrinks. So I think they've kind
Speaker 9: of decided maybe that wasn't a good idea to put
Speaker 9: those in.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, well that's interesting. I can tell you this
Speaker 3: that I.
Speaker 10: Had one Friday the thirteenth, many years ago. It was
Speaker 10: a Friday the thirteenth, and I got out of basic
Speaker 10: training at Fort Dicks, New Jersey, and was driving home
Speaker 10: with a colleague. I was the passenger, and we got
Speaker 10: into a pretty bad car accident on a rainy day.
Speaker 9: Oh oh, that's just sorry to hear that. But wait
Speaker 9: a minute, now, you just reminded me of something you
Speaker 9: did basic training in Fort Dickson nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3: That's what that was around the time.
Speaker 9: Yep, yeah, I basic training there too in nineteen I
Speaker 9: was the last winter cycle. Wouldn't that be aesthelical if
Speaker 9: we did basic training together?
Speaker 1: No, I was.
Speaker 3: I was gone by November thirteenth.
Speaker 9: Okay, I was in March. I was the last winter cycle.
Speaker 9: But in seventy, So it was like March of nineteen
Speaker 9: seventy because both one.
Speaker 3: Someday we'll grab coffee and we'll discuss the joy of
Speaker 3: basic training.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sounds good. All right, have a good night, thanks, Larry.
Speaker 3: Have a great night. All right, let's keep rolling here.
Speaker 3: All right. So we're looking for your thoughts about superstitions.
Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, very rarely on a
Speaker 3: Friday night at eleven o'clock do people not participate If
Speaker 3: this is not a good subject. We'll have a couple
Speaker 3: more calls and I'll go open lines if you want,
Speaker 3: we can do that as well. Florence and Groveland. Hey, Florence,
Speaker 3: next on, nice saga. Right ahead, Florence, how are you?
Speaker 8: Oh great, Gillian. Couple of things. You know, when I'm
Speaker 8: talking with someone about something that I don't want to occur,
Speaker 8: and I knock on wood. People do that.
Speaker 1: I have no.
Speaker 8: Thought.
Speaker 1: Why we do that?
Speaker 8: Something we picked up along the line.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It must be a reason for that.
Speaker 3: Someone will be able to tell us why they knock
Speaker 3: on wood. When I say knock on wood, you know
Speaker 3: what I do. But I knock on my skull.
Speaker 8: Oh, oh gosh. The other thing is dan very weird.
Speaker 8: I don't know where I heard if there's many, well
Speaker 8: a number of years ago. And when you're going out
Speaker 8: the door and you're going somewhere and you forget something,
Speaker 8: you go back in the house get it, but before
Speaker 8: you leave, you count to ten and then will back out. Man,
Speaker 8: I've never heard it since when I picked that up
Speaker 8: some years to go, let me help.
Speaker 3: You out here. They say, why do people knock on
Speaker 3: wood for luck? Okay, so says Turkish people often pull
Speaker 3: on one ear lobe, which I've never heard, and knock
Speaker 3: on wood twice. Other origin theories. One common explanation traces
Speaker 3: the phenomenon to ancient ancient pagan cultures who believe that
Speaker 3: spirits and God resided in trees trees, so knocking on
Speaker 3: tree trunks may have served to rouse the spirits and
Speaker 3: call on their protection. That makes sense, Yeah, yeah them,
Speaker 3: Well whatever, you know, people do it all the time,
Speaker 3: You and I do it. Someone must have taught it
Speaker 3: to us, knock on woods.
Speaker 8: And what about the one leaving the house forgetting something?
Speaker 8: Go back in, but before you go back out?
Speaker 3: I never heard that. I've never heard that one. Maybe
Speaker 3: some others have. Okay, go back to knock on wood
Speaker 3: for a second with me, stay with me for and
Speaker 3: dance with me. Well your Turkish people off and pulling
Speaker 3: one ear lobe and knock on wood twice toward off
Speaker 3: of jinks. I tell you just meanwhile, say the phrase
Speaker 3: touch iron when trying to avoid tempting faith. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've learned stuff here really. Yeah, all right? Interesting?
Speaker 3: So you take me the next time I forget something
Speaker 3: and I go back in the house, I'm going to
Speaker 3: Now you're planted in my mind. I'm going to count
Speaker 3: to ten before I leave. Maybe the idea is if
Speaker 3: you go back in the house and you count for
Speaker 3: ten and you take your time, you would have avoided
Speaker 3: a car accident, or you would have avoided falling down.
Speaker 8: When you want to maybe everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd be wrong with the casley on for ten.
Speaker 3: I do it sometimes when I'm mad at myself. Okay,
Speaker 3: I you know when you walk down the cellar and
Speaker 3: you hit your head. Oh yeah, look, I'm gonna now
Speaker 3: start doing that. I'm gonna say Florence taught me to
Speaker 3: calm down and count to ten instead of saying what
Speaker 3: A got a knuckle in.
Speaker 8: You are Dan just gonna right and then carry on
Speaker 8: can okay?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Vaunt. You helped me appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Good talking to talk with you.
Speaker 3: You sound great. Thanks. Ileen. Eileen is in ho and
Speaker 3: Iileen has been at the beach Fantaska Beach for most
Speaker 3: of the the month of September. Eileen, good to know
Speaker 3: that you're You're off the beach tonight, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: Yes? Well, I spent the whole afternoon on the beach.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful, and.
Speaker 5: I uh, I'm.
Speaker 2: Didn't want to go out in my car today.
Speaker 3: I thirteenth. That's good. Well, you had a great day.
Speaker 3: Then here's the thing about about September in Nantasket. It's
Speaker 3: not only great weather, but all the tourists.
Speaker 6: Have gone right exactly speach to yourself.
Speaker 2: Almost yep.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: And it was low tide and I took my chair
Speaker 2: right down to the water line and sat there until
Speaker 2: the water was coming up.
Speaker 7: To my feet.
Speaker 5: But I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't yesterday.
Speaker 5: I took my car out and I parked.
Speaker 2: I was went in to get a salad bar, and
Speaker 2: somebody parked so close to me that I you know,
Speaker 2: I I was afraid to back out. I was afraid
Speaker 2: I was gonna going to hit that car. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I'm driving my car lately.
Speaker 6: I don't know why I'm so nervous, but.
Speaker 2: Because tomorrow I'm going to go out and go out
Speaker 2: with one of my sons.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, don't be nervous. But I'll tell you it's smart
Speaker 3: if you're in a situation where you think. I've been
Speaker 3: in situations where you park your car in a parking
Speaker 3: lot and you come out and the person next to
Speaker 3: you is six inches away from you, so you try
Speaker 3: to open the door to get in. I've had to
Speaker 3: actually time in through the passage seat, which is much which.
Speaker 6: Is totally yep for the other side of the car.
Speaker 3: Ye, crazy, absolutely crazy. So that shouldn't happen either.
Speaker 2: Well, I you know, I sat there thinking he would
Speaker 2: back out, but I guess he sat there and ate lunch.
Speaker 3: So this car how close was this car to you?
Speaker 3: Was the car to your left or to your right?
Speaker 8: It was?
Speaker 2: It was on the right side of my car. I mean,
Speaker 2: I swear it was not more than two inches from me.
Speaker 2: And it was a big van and I have a
Speaker 2: little Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are unconscious. That's my problem with so many people.
Speaker 3: They're just unconscious. I mean you, you drive somewhere and
Speaker 3: you I always slowed down when I come to a
Speaker 3: bike bike lane, but oh yeah, the bikes who don't
Speaker 3: even look. They assume you're going to stop. And you know,
Speaker 3: if you're distracted or you're doing something or you it's like,
Speaker 3: please people, if you're driving bikes, just pause, make sure
Speaker 3: that those car people have stopped. Okay, hey, Allen, have
Speaker 3: a great weekend. Okay, I've got a screwed here because
Speaker 3: I'm up against it. No great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. All right, all right, good night, Dan,
Speaker 2: good night.
Speaker 3: We take a break. Coming back. I got Jim, Kathy
Speaker 3: and Clara got room for you. The only place I
Speaker 3: got room for you is at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. You know the number. Dial it up and
Speaker 3: I get everybody in. What are your superstitions or are
Speaker 3: you superstitious? And if you're not, and you think that
Speaker 3: those of us who are superstitious really are a wacky,
Speaker 3: feel free. You can call me wacky. Coming back on
Speaker 3: night Side Now back to Dan ray Line from the
Speaker 3: Window World Night six Studios on WITBZ News Radio look
Speaker 3: at this full lines. Let me get everybody in. It's
Speaker 3: going to take a little bit of work, but let's go.
Speaker 3: Kathy and Everett.
Speaker 6: Hey, Kathy, how are you good?
Speaker 1: How are you today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great tonight. And what are you suspicious? Are you?
Speaker 1: Today's my birthday and I was born on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: Happy birthday. What you were born in September of Friday
Speaker 3: the thirteenth, It's September. What did you do today to celebrate?
Speaker 6: I worked?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, no, I'm going out on Sunday. All
Speaker 1: my girls have a big surprise for me on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is, so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna wait until then.
Speaker 3: Are your girls you're gang or your girls your daughters?
Speaker 6: My daughters?
Speaker 1: I have three daughters.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, we are they taking it?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's a big surprise.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great.
Speaker 6: That is great.
Speaker 3: That is so great.
Speaker 1: What's funny is I have a cousin, my brother, and
Speaker 1: my niece, all Friday thirteenth babies. It's four of us.
Speaker 3: Cool, very cool. Yeah, look, I think that's great. And
Speaker 3: you you're not superstitious, I assume not at all. No,
Speaker 3: I believe in well, first of all, happy birthday today
Speaker 3: is actually your birthday. I wish we had like a
Speaker 3: happy birthday song. Rob. We don't have a happy birthday song,
Speaker 3: do we do? You got applause all right from my
Speaker 3: digital studio audience. Kathy, thank you, thank you so much,
Speaker 3: and and I really mean it. Please, when you're with
Speaker 3: your daughters on Sunday, thank them for me. Just say that.
Speaker 3: They got to be really great sweet daughters to take that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they're wonderful, wonderful, wonderful girls. Kids, a bunch of
Speaker 9: great kids.
Speaker 3: Well something you said, you're probably a great mom. Kids
Speaker 3: are kids are great? They drive you crazy, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did when they were younger.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I have a grandson is now too,
Speaker 3: so little two plus and.
Speaker 1: Yeah on four and one, and a girl that's seven,
Speaker 1: so I know. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I opened up a a cabinet tonight and this little
Speaker 3: guy loves cookies, and of course I opened the cabinet
Speaker 3: and there's a cookie there, and I said to my wife,
Speaker 3: I said, what's up with this? He says he thinks
Speaker 3: it's an oven, So that cookie will stay there until
Speaker 3: he comes back in a week or so. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much, Happy.
Speaker 1: Dan, Thank you have a great weekend.
Speaker 6: Good year to do you bet?
Speaker 3: You let me go to Clara down in Florida. Clara,
Speaker 3: how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 11: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 11: I'm very superstitious. It's my If my left eye itches,
Speaker 11: that means somebody I'm going to see someone I don't like,
Speaker 11: or something bad's going to happen, so I avoid itching
Speaker 11: it or scratching it. In the Hungarian traditions, the last
Speaker 11: minute of the new year just supposed to eat twelve grapes,
Speaker 11: so bring in a good year, and a man is
Speaker 11: supposed to enter the home the new year of first
Speaker 11: besides a woman. And when I was in Hungry, there
Speaker 11: was an old woman whose eyebrows were connected, and my
Speaker 11: grandmother and aunt told me not to stare at her
Speaker 11: because she was a witch.
Speaker 3: They call that aw.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was.
Speaker 3: I was in Hungry a few years ago. Beautiful country,
Speaker 3: beautiful country.
Speaker 1: Classes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how are you doing down there in Florida? Hopefully
Speaker 3: no hurricanes have hit your area?
Speaker 11: Uh so far now, but on the way down, we
Speaker 11: drove through Hurricane Debbie all the way.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, look, Clara, thank you so much for listening, Thanks
Speaker 3: so much for being there. We're with you in spirit.
Speaker 3: I hope you know that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, I do.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Clara, talk soon, have a time all right.
Speaker 3: I have a first time caller here, Dallas from Ohio.
Speaker 3: The reason I know he's a first time caller he
Speaker 3: was listening to night Side on Facebook night Side postgame
Speaker 3: on Facebook night Side with Dan Ray Dallas, thanks very
Speaker 3: much for becoming a first time caller. How are you.
Speaker 6: Pretty good? Nice talking to It's.
Speaker 3: Just great, Jude. Are you superstitious?
Speaker 6: No, No, not really, not really. I just take things
Speaker 6: in stride.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm so delighted to get you to call in.
Speaker 3: It's like jumping in the shallow end of the pool.
Speaker 3: Now that she has that's true. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 3: come back. What do you do? What do you do?
Speaker 3: I'd never asked you what are you do in Ohio?
Speaker 6: Oh? I'm retired?
Speaker 3: Good for you. Are you enjoyed retirement? Are you enjoying it?
Speaker 6: Yes? I am, I am, I am somewhat okay.
Speaker 3: So how do you spend your time in Retirement's? What's
Speaker 3: your app? What's your day?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: Sometimes I fly drones or go to the par work
Speaker 6: on different electronic projects and a little bit of tinkering
Speaker 6: here and there and repair and restoring different things.
Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. So you sound you're somebody who understands mechanical
Speaker 3: You have mechanical aptitude. I have no mechanical aptitude. Okay,
Speaker 3: that was that, Dallas. Thanks so much for calling. Do
Speaker 3: me a favorite, Come on back anytime. I really enjoyed
Speaker 3: talking with you, and I appreciate the fact that you
Speaker 3: check in with us periodically on night side on our
Speaker 3: Facebook page. We do the postgame right after the show
Speaker 3: and the pregame at four point thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: How did you find us in the first place, Dallas, Well,
Speaker 3: one night I got off of work.
Speaker 6: I was working second shift at the time, and and
Speaker 6: uh back back in seventy one and uh at the
Speaker 6: time the fella ran out program. I believe it was
Speaker 6: uh The Loving Touch.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was Dick Summer. I thank you, Dick Summer.
Speaker 6: Yah.
Speaker 3: I'm right right, great, good yeah, yeah, listening for a while.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: We will talk again. I got two more calls. We
Speaker 3: are going to try to sneak in with a wire.
Speaker 6: Okay, nice talking to you today.
Speaker 3: Good night, great talking with you, Dallas. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Have a great one. Good night. Let me get two
Speaker 3: more in here real quickly, Jim and Boston. Jim, you
Speaker 3: and Christine are going to split a minute. Go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 6: Okay, hoddy damn uh said time?
Speaker 3: Colin.
Speaker 6: Hooray, so first time, first time calling time number five?
Speaker 3: Okay, go run ahead. No applause for five, but go ahead.
Speaker 7: So, being being an engineer, I have to be article.
Speaker 7: It's not really a superstition. But when I see a spider,
Speaker 7: I don't kill it, not because it's gonna rain, but
Speaker 7: because those are free insect traps. So I relocate them
Speaker 7: around my house and they walk around and you know,
Speaker 7: the bugs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a good one. Yeah. I know that
Speaker 3: they love to set up their little nets. Matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I was one in my garage the other day. Had
Speaker 3: caught a bee and the bee is just sitting there,
Speaker 3: you know, dead as a doornail. Couldn't agree with you more, Jim,
Speaker 3: Thank you much. I appreciate it. Come on back more often. Okay,
Speaker 3: I get you in more. Okay, thanks man. All right,
Speaker 3: real quickly, Christine got ten seconds for you. What can
Speaker 3: you do with it? Christine?
Speaker 5: I was always taught to open your door and let's
Speaker 5: stare us out on Friday the thirteen.
Speaker 3: Oh, a perfect call to end it in. Everybody is
Speaker 3: still Friday the thirteenth, Open your doors and let the
Speaker 3: spirits out. Thanks Christine, love your calls. We'll talk soon. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, we are done for the night. We're done
Speaker 3: for the week. I thank all of you for listening.
Speaker 3: I think all if you're calling you a part of
Speaker 3: my family. Rob Brooks, thank you very much for your work.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Marita. We're done for the week. I'll see
Speaker 3: you Monday night. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
Speaker 3: to heaven. That's my pal, Charlie raised. We passed fourteen
Speaker 3: years ago in February. That's why your pets are past.
Speaker 3: They loved you and you love them. You'll see them again.
Speaker 3: I promise you that. I believe that, and I'll see
Speaker 3: you again on Monday night.