WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.000 It's night. 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:05.360 On B'SO. 3 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:09.759 I have been telling you all night long. Dan will 4 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:13.720 be off. He's got a vacation. I think it's one 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.480 of those station trips. But he will be back on 6 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.399 the twelfth of August that Monday, and I should let 7 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:28.440 you know on the Morgan Show Saturday. Mel Simon's will 8 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.320 be joining me again. A WBZ legend, and I've got 9 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.799 him and I'll share him with you on Saturday ten 10 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:41.000 to midnight. I'll be here for Night's Side on Monday. 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.600 And I've got a gentleman well known for gossip reporting, 12 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:57.079 Will Cach as well, Alison Angram. Remember her on Little 13 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.320 House in the Prairie. She was that brady little earl. 14 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:05.159 Now she'll be joining me. And for those of you 15 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.040 who've had these gentlemen entertain at your function over the years, 16 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.879 the Winnakers, Bill and Bo will be here. So now 17 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.680 that you know all of these things, you may call 18 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:26.200 about National Parks and Ranger Richard Thurando aka Dixie is here. 19 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.200 And as soon as I said that Dixie, two people 20 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:30.959 have called in. 21 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.400 Should I finish my story or wait. 22 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:35.719 No, finish his story? 23 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:43.799 Okay, So I was I was being a volunteer, being 24 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:46.319 a good boy helping out. I was. I was in 25 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.719 the office by myself on July fourth weekend. I did 26 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.799 everything that was there to do. Everything went fine, And 27 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.400 then as the month went by and became labor day, 28 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.159 all of the other volunteers disappeared slow except for me. 29 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:04.760 When you say volunteer, were you paid? 30 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:09.560 No, no, no no. And there was an elderly couple, 31 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:14.680 a single woman maybe in her thirties or forties, a 32 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.599 couple younger people, but there were all kinds of little people. 33 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:19.840 They just showed up and wanted to help out the 34 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.120 park Service. And that's fine. But as the days went by, 35 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.520 they went either back to school, back to their families, 36 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:30.120 went on vacasion, whatever, And I was the last one left, okay, 37 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:32.919 And you got to remember that the man in charge 38 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.599 was going to leave, the person who was second in 39 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.759 charge was going to leave, and the person who hired 40 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.919 me was going to be left by herself, hung out 41 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.439 to dry. So when labor day came, and this was 42 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.599 a parent, I said to her, you know, I could 43 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:52.560 work here if you can find a way to do it. 44 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.400 I can work here because I hate where I work. 45 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.400 And she found a way to do it, and that's 46 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:02.879 how I became a park service worker. 47 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.479 And the rest is his. 48 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.439 History, for good or for bad. 49 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:11.879 All right, let's take Garry and Wooburn. So, Gary, you 50 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:13.800 want to talk about National parks, do you? 51 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:15.120 Oh? 52 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.120 I'm so sorry you had Dixie on. I was working 53 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:19.840 and I hit the phone. I thought you guys were 54 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:20.840 talking about baseball. 55 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.520 If you want to bring up baseball going out? Gary? 56 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.080 No, no, no, he cannot, No, No, We're not going 57 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.639 to do this. Absolutely not. Plenty of time to talk 58 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:33.319 about baseball. When we're talking about baseball. It's National Park Night, 59 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:34.479 that's it. I'm sorry. 60 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.000 Oh, but you hear how surly he got. All right, Gary, 61 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.800 thanks for calling. Bye bye, Here goes Gary. Let's go 62 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.039 to Sandy in West Roxbury. Sandy, I hope you're going 63 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:47.960 to stick to topic. 64 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:54.759 I think I am okay, No, excuse me. In nineteen 65 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.800 ninety five, I was teaching first grade in a private 66 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.639 school and I wasn't there, and I had come from 67 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.439 teaching in Roxbury. And one of the things that we 68 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.080 had done was my boss, who was also different, had 69 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.840 called the I think it was the National Park Service, 70 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.560 and we got a tour of the monument to the 71 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:21.040 fifty fourth Robert Gulchar, and I thought, well, this is 72 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.199 something that the first graders should be exposed to. So 73 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.839 I called them and we arranged the tour. They was 74 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.480 thrilled that I called, and the kids loved it, and 75 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.680 they came to me afterwards, the park ranger and said, 76 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:35.800 you know, we have lots of programs for kids, and 77 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:41.079 nobody takes advantage of them. So every week for a 78 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:46.519 full year, they either changed my class and did programs, 79 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.120 or we went to down with Love Reading and they 80 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.759 taught us things, or it was just something every week 81 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.240 that we did and they were thrilled, and of course 82 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.639 I was thrilled, and the kids were pills. The best 83 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.519 one they had was a pro been called horse, of course, 84 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:05.480 and we were right near Adams Park. I'm getting at 85 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:10.360 Adams Park in Usindale, but they brought a horse and 86 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.600 they let all the kids ride them, very gentle of course, 87 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.240 you know, and pat them, and they taught them how 88 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.480 to talk to kids and me how to take care 89 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.319 of a horse, and we had so much fun that year. 90 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:22.560 I think it went on for three or four years, 91 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:24.920 and then they said we can't do them. We just 92 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.399 don't have the funding, you know, And that It was 93 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.399 just so much fun and it was wonderful. 94 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:31.720 Ah. 95 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.439 You see there's the magic word. We don't have the funding. 96 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.360 Yeah, it's a shame. 97 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.800 And everybody was having a swell time. 98 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.639 Oh everybody. You know, it was just fantastic. 99 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.839 You mean, what what visitors don't grasp maybe right away, 100 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.680 is that most park rangers, whether they're state park rangers, 101 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:03.360 national park rangers, most park rangers love an audience. Are 102 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.879 they are They are willing, ready, willing and able to 103 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.600 tell you what they know. 104 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.959 Yeah, and the kids have the best questions, you know. Well, 105 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.879 it was just wonderful. I was hot broken and they said, 106 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.720 you know, they didn't shut this up, you know, but 107 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.040 they did like one a month, and the next year 108 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.199 it was like, you know, three four times a year 109 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:24.839 and then yeah. 110 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.399 See that that's the thing when you don't have enough funding, 111 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.560 you have to pick and choose of when you can 112 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.600 do stuff, as opposed to just doing it because you 113 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.800 have the funding and have the people to do it. 114 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.839 Yeah. Oh and other kids, I mean, they'll let them 115 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.079 know what they missed not having that program. I've never 116 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.759 seen it in any other school because I guess they 117 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.319 have never been able to do it again. 118 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.279 Oh, Sandy, thank you for sharing that story. 119 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.040 Yeah, and thank you for your service to the first graders. 120 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.120 Oh, oh, like you. You know, I loved what I 121 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.439 was doing, so you know, it was just it was wonderful. Well, 122 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.839 thank you for everything you do and keep on doing it. 123 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:07.560 Thank you, Thank you for the call. 124 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:08.399 Good night. 125 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.000 All right, We're going to take a break and then 126 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.519 Susan and Worcester will be up. If you want to 127 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:18.639 do what Sandy has done and Susan has done six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, 128 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:22.240 thirty eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty and 129 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:30.000 Dixie is being adamant only calls about the National Park Service. 130 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.399 I know I've used Dixie in the past about baseball, 131 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.879 but tonight it is his National Parks hat that he's wearing, 132 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.680 not a baseball cap. Here on Night Side. Well, the 133 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:47.120 time is eleven point fifteen, temperature eighty four degrees. 134 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.800 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 135 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:56.040 Nice Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio. 136 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.560 This is night Side without Dan Ray and Dixie. I 137 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:04.240 was just speaking with Rob. He's wearing a hat that says, 138 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.240 may the Forest be with you. 139 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.519 All right, that's good, that's good. 140 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:12.720 Let's go to let's go to Worcester and speak to Susan. Susan, 141 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:13.600 good evening. 142 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.360 Good evening, Morgan, and Dixie, thanks for the program tonight. 143 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:20.639 Just a couple of things. I'm a mom of four. 144 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.519 They're old older now thirty eight to twenty eight. But 145 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:27.240 we've driven across country twice with them when they were 146 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.720 younger and hit many national parks, and we're very grateful 147 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.240 for each and every one of them, and they are 148 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.759 all so unique from each other. It's just quite an 149 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.960 adventure out there, and I would encourage everyone to explore 150 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:47.879 National parks near and far. So many opportunities abound. But 151 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:51.000 I did want to know. I'm actually just tuning in. 152 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.080 Has anybody mentioned anything about Sunday and it being a 153 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.399 National Park Day. My husband told me about it today, 154 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.960 and maybe you can confirm it, Dixie, that you can 155 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.879 go into national parks that normally charge, but it would 156 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:08.600 be for free. 157 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:14.200 Well, it sounds possible. I don't know about it because 158 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.960 I'm no longer in the Park Service. I wouldn't get 159 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.840 a memo about it. I know there's a National Park 160 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.120 Week earlier in the year, so for them to have 161 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:27.080 a specific day at this time of year is a 162 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:31.200 little bit odd. Normally you would think they would have 163 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:34.559 it on the day of the National Park Service birthday, 164 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.559 which is Longust twenty fifth, But if they pick something else, 165 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:38.879 then you pick something else. 166 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.879 And I could be totally wrong. So people out there, 167 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.240 don't go by me and investigate Firth. 168 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.480 You can't tell me with four children traveling, which is 169 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.919 a chore, did you have time to pick out a 170 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:55.639 favorite National park? 171 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:02.960 But that's a loaded question personal favorite. I think it's 172 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:08.480 a toss up between Glacier National Park and Zion National Park. Okay, choices, 173 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:15.120 both absolutely stunning beauty, totally different from one another. And 174 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.360 I would be remiss to say not to say that 175 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.080 locally here with all of the history that we have 176 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.559 and everything the National Park Service does here in Massachusetts, 177 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.960 we have done it all with the kids. I can't 178 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.320 say maybe all of it, but a large percentage of it. 179 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.600 And I'm so grateful that we are in this part 180 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:34.159 of the country. 181 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.960 Susan. Let me ask your kids that are now all adults. 182 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.759 I'm sure they some of them have kids of their own, 183 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.799 and are they forwarding this, paying it forward that they 184 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.279 are now taking their kids to national parks? 185 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.200 So we actually just had her first grand baby. She's 186 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.200 eight weeks old, so not yet. But I was actually 187 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.600 thinking of this today, Morgan, that if they don't travel, 188 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:06.039 we are bringing those grandkids with us because we drove 189 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.360 every time, and we homeschool homeschooled our kids, so we 190 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.159 were free to do it in the month of September 191 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:17.000 October when everyone is back in school and things are 192 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:22.240 less crowded. So it's just one of the luxuries of homeschooling. 193 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:27.159 And so yes, I look forward to I won't even 194 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:31.200 say dragging the grandkids because I can't say our kids 195 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:34.120 were always angels in the car and wanting to go 196 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:35.919 to the places that we wanted to go to. But 197 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.159 I think they will look back and do look back 198 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.960 now grateful for the experiences they had. 199 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:43.080 Thank you. 200 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.799 Yeah, that's all ye. 201 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:54.080 Let me ask this in regards to national parks. Did 202 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:59.120 you prefer to stay overnight in the national parks or 203 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.000 were they day trips to national parks? 204 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.240 They were mostly drive bys, not drive bys, but we'd 205 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.639 be along the way. We would go through Lake Glacier, 206 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.240 Mount Rushmore. We would go through them and then just 207 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.200 press on to the next night's hotel. But no, he 208 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:23.600 never did stay in the National parks okay, so yep, 209 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.000 and they all did when we went. They did the 210 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.120 Junior Park Ranger, which I would encourage everyone we've young children. 211 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.080 They did the Junior Park Ranger, which meant taking a 212 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:37.279 little more time, but the results were that they came 213 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:38.639 away with so much more. 214 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.879 So, and you know what, you're the reason. You specifically 215 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.480 the reason why I do this show once or twice 216 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:51.919 a year with Dixie to encourage activities such as that. 217 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.039 And since you homeschooled your kids, do you feel that 218 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:03.799 your kids are scholastically equal to or ahead of other 219 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.440 kids of their ages because you learn more with mom 220 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:08.279 and dad at home. 221 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.759 Well, thanks for saying that, Morgan, because it would really 222 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:16.440 sound braggadocious of me to say that, because I truly 223 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.519 believe the ratio is so much better when you're at home. 224 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.320 I will tell you all four of them, not that 225 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.559 this necessarily means anything, but all four of them have 226 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:32.159 graduated from college with very good GPAs two of them 227 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.720 have gone and gotten their masters. All of them are 228 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:41.279 dutifully and well employed, so if you're measuring it by that, 229 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.279 but to be honest, the better success story to me 230 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:49.039 is that they are all friends with each other. And 231 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:55.000 we have a very tightly knit family, but we're not 232 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:58.919 under a rock. We are definitely out and about and 233 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:06.840 they have a very great perception of the world. And 234 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.879 it's just it's a great way to do it. We 235 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.240 had religious reasons we were doing it, but also the 236 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:13.960 academic comes alongside of it. 237 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:19.559 So and I'm sure your kids are well versed in 238 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:26.360 the academics of mathematics, geography, history, all the things that 239 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.759 you would get in the little over it schoolhouse. 240 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:30.720 Yep. 241 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.080 And they know how to and they know how to 242 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.080 do cursive handwriting. How about that? 243 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:36.399 How about God? 244 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.240 I told them, someday you're gonna make a lot of 245 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:45.159 money interpreting historical documents because other people will not be 246 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:46.279 able to do this. 247 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.240 What letters said is that an ass I don't know. 248 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.360 I know, Susan. Thank you for the call. 249 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.120 All right, thank you, Morgan, have a great night. 250 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.440 Thank you, Dixy, bye bye, thanks for calling. 251 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.120 And let's take another call. Let's go to South Carolina, 252 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.720 and I'm gonna throw sticks and stones at South Carolina. 253 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:11.960 My son, born and raised in Massachusetts, uprooted his family 254 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.960 and relocated to South Carolina. One of my good friends, 255 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.720 a gentleman who I've had on the air many a time. 256 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.159 I'm not gonna say his name because he might not 257 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:25.559 want people to know his business. Excuse me, just niece 258 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.679 has gone, or we'll be going to South Carolina. And 259 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:37.759 an old girlfriend this week drove down with her child 260 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.639 and the current man in her life to do the 261 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:46.240 same thing. Good grief. What is it about South Carolina? 262 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.480 And as I'm saying all that, the caller that we 263 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:55.360 had from South Carolina is patiently letting me ambalon. Jeff, 264 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.840 thank you for letting me ambalon. How are you good? 265 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:02.120 I'll do a good Morgan. I just one of the 266 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:07.039 comments on what season just said about a range. There 267 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.919 was a Ranger Day. World Ranger Day was July thirty first. 268 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:17.840 Every year is World Ranger Day, Okay, And I wouldn't 269 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:20.799 let you know this. I contacted a special events station, 270 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:25.519 i HAM Radio on qy Z. That's the website to 271 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.720 go to, and the call SI was W four R. 272 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.399 So it was from July twenty seventh to July thirty first, 273 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:34.480 just to let you know. 274 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:37.360 Did you know that? No? 275 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:38.279 I did not? 276 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.720 All right, Yeah, So I just want to let you 277 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.799 know that, and they do that every year. I didn't 278 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.799 know that, so I just wanted to call in and 279 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.159 tell you that that. 280 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:53.200 Let me ask you, what is it about South Carolina? 281 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.600 Three died in the wall. People born in Massachusetts just 282 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:02.879 pulled up stakes to relocate in your state. What is 283 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.880 it about your state that just welcomes all the people 284 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:07.759 moving down there. 285 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.720 I guess it's getting getting out of the cold weather, 286 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:12.759 the snow in the winter. 287 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.400 There is no cold weather. 288 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:24.599 Rumor. But you get hurricanes doing much more damage from 289 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.720 June to November tornado. 290 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.480 But tornadoes, yes, but not to really tornadoes. That's hurricanes 291 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:33.279 you have to worry about. 292 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:35.119 Yeah. 293 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:38.559 Are you anywhere near Greenville? 294 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.960 H No? Okay, A couple hours away from Greenville? 295 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.119 Okay, yeah, all right. 296 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.279 Thank you Morgan. Okay, take care. 297 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.839 I appreciate your contribution. Thank you. You are right now. 298 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.799 I'm almost at another break time. That calls all of 299 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.160 a sudden started coming in hot and heavy. If you 300 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.720 want to call in to talk about national parks. He's 301 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.599 got good memories of when you're a kid, mom and 302 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.960 dad chucking you into the old station wagon and you 303 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:18.200 went to go see this national park of that national park. 304 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.839 All right, let me throw it, let me, let me 305 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.920 throw in another fact. All right, go ahead, all right, 306 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.519 we know the number of parks is four hundred and thirty, 307 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.720 and we know a lot of other stuff now, including 308 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.839 the first park, Yellowstone. I'm still looking for an answer 309 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:38.519 to what is the second National Park? But what you 310 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.440 should know out there, sports fans, is that the national 311 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:47.920 parks take up eight eighty five million acres of land. 312 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:55.640 And eighty five million acres is the combined size of 313 00:18:55.759 --> 00:19:00.559 the state of New Mexico and Vermont. Okay, Now you 314 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.440 could have other two sums of states, yes you could, 315 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:06.119 but I just picked those two. But it is eighty 316 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:10.279 five million acres is how much land is taken up 317 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.480 by national parks at this point. 318 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.960 Well, thank you. That's more of a fact than a 319 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:16.759 trivia question. 320 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:21.400 Oh I know, Oh yes, all right, it's not a 321 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.440 trivia question. Trivia question now is what is the second 322 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:25.119 National Park? 323 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:28.720 No one has answered or tried to answer. 324 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.279 Yeah, they got a half hour, and that's exactly right. 325 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.799 Let me take my break, and Rob, I'm asking you 326 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.119 you can just whisper in my ear. Are we going 327 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:47.799 to get from CBS? Oh all right, so perfect. During 328 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.960 this break, which is coming in about ninety seconds, CBS 329 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.799 is going to give us a bit of the news 330 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.799 conference that's going to get people who were freed from Russia. 331 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:13.519 So former Marine Paul Whalen and writer for was it 332 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:17.000 the New York Post of the New York Times, Evan 333 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:20.599 gersh Covi. I knew i'd miss his name up, Evan 334 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:28.359 gersh Kovich. If if I say, if you're ever mind to, 335 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:33.480 this ought to be interesting. So pay attention to this 336 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:38.599 break and after that press conference is over, dixing out, 337 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.960 we'll be back to talk about national parks six one, 338 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:46.599 seven to five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, 339 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:52.640 ten thirty Time and temperature here on wbz's night Side 340 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.079 eleven thirty eighty four degrees. 341 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:06.079 Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news. 342 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:11.240 Radio Kidoky, we are down to roughly twenty one minutes 343 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:16.839 of show to go. Dixie is here, and Dixie, did 344 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:19.799 we leave off at something hanging or can I take 345 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:20.519 another phone call? 346 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.759 I don't think we left anything hanging except the trivia question, 347 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.000 and that's up to the person coming on the phone. 348 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.480 And it might be Bill Winnaker that knows it. So 349 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.799 Bill can't wait to be on the radio with me 350 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:34.559 next week. You got a call in tonight. 351 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:39.279 We're looking forward to Dixon. It's great to hear Dixie's voice. 352 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:43.359 We were riding home from Westwood tonight. We play in 353 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.960 a restaurant on Thursday nights and Westwood. We're riding home 354 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.240 when I hear Dixie. So, Dixie, was great to hear 355 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:50.759 your voice. 356 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:52.200 Thank you very much. 357 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.680 And Bill, tell everybody where you and your brother play 358 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:57.759 on Thursday nights. 359 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:03.200 You know, we play in a restaurant called Neoli any Roli. 360 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:08.079 It's a beautiful new restaurant's about two years old, and 361 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.920 they created a room for us. They call it the 362 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.359 Supper Club, and we play in there and it's too us. 363 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.559 It's a couple of hours you have dinner and a 364 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:22.480 couple of hours of music. It's it's almost like family. 365 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.160 It's just all our friends come and it's just just great. 366 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:29.480 We've only music to you and your brother play. 367 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:29.880 I know. 368 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.559 But tell the audience, all right, well, we're doing the 369 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.839 whole gamut. We look over the crowd, we play jazz, 370 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:41.039 we play you know, motown music, we do, we do 371 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.079 just everything. We look at the study, the people that 372 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.319 are there, and gear the music. You know, we keep 373 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:50.920 changing it all night long. So that we're touching everybody 374 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:54.119 in the room. So it's the potpourri of music. Everything 375 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:59.559 not too loud because people are eating. But I'm writing 376 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:02.920 home car and it reminded me. When I was a 377 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:07.759 freshman in college, I got a bunch of gigs voted 378 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.960 too with this piano player, Jimmy Donovan, and he used 379 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:14.680 to talk about this island in northern Michigan is in 380 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:22.599 Mackinac Mackinaw, Yeah, Macinac, Mackinaw Island. Yes, So there was 381 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:25.640 this big resort there and he was always telling me 382 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:30.880 about the National Park on the island, and he I think, 383 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:34.160 if I'm right, he told me that was the second 384 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.920 park National Park, so that I'm putting in my guest 385 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.720 for that Dixon right, he. 386 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:46.680 Is not correct. Oh, here here's the reason why he's 387 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:52.119 not correct. Mackinaw Island was supposed to be a National 388 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:58.559 park and then it wasn't. It was recalled. 389 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:01.079 Michigan. 390 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:04.200 State of Michigan wanted it more than they didn't want 391 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:08.039 the National parks. They didn't want it to be become 392 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:11.640 part of the National Park Service. So it is still there. 393 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:14.039 Mackinac Island is still a great place to go. It 394 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.799 was a very highly known tourist spot in northern Michigan. 395 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.759 But it was only supposed to be a national park, 396 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.880 but it never really became one. For if it was, 397 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.279 it might have been one for a six months or 398 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:29.440 something and then it was taken back. 399 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:33.319 Pardon my grammar, but is you is or issue? Ain't 400 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:40.240 my baby? I mean, can't they make up their mind? Isn't? Well? 401 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:45.519