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Speaker 3: All right, here we go, twentieth hour of the week.
Speaker 4: Look, for those of you who are new to Night's side,
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Speaker 3: Last hour we do. We're running your five nights a week.
Speaker 4: I think everybody knows that four hours a night, eight
Speaker 4: to midnight, so that twenty hours. So we reserved the
Speaker 4: last hour of the week to kind of lighten up
Speaker 4: a little bit. Okay, I thought we were going to
Speaker 4: do kind of a light hour last hour. It didn't
Speaker 4: turn out that way. In the twentieth hour of the week,
Speaker 4: everyone gets a hall pass, meaning if you've called once
Speaker 4: earlier in the week, you're eligible to call now. So
Speaker 4: my question tonight, and I'm going to give you a
Speaker 4: minute to think about it. I'm going to give you
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes a think about it. Never done
Speaker 4: this one before, to the best of my recollection, if
Speaker 4: you could meet anyone in the world right famous person,
Speaker 4: you want to tell me your old girlfriend, that's okay,
Speaker 4: and spend dinner. You're not paying for it, Okay, we'll
Speaker 4: pay for it. Hypothetically, not in reality. You could have
Speaker 4: two hours or two and a half hours, drink or
Speaker 4: two before dinner, lovely dinner. Everything from appetizers, soup to nuts,
Speaker 4: as they say, dessert, fine wine, whatever. Who would that
Speaker 4: or if you're a non alcoholic whatever, who would that
Speaker 4: person be?
Speaker 3: What are the the person? One has to be alive.
Speaker 4: A lot of times we've done this before, people would say, well,
Speaker 4: I would have loved to have met A. B. Lincoln
Speaker 4: or loved to have met Jesus. But no, got to
Speaker 4: be someone who's alive.
Speaker 3: It could be.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be someone who's a political leader.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be someone It could be someone
Speaker 4: who's a movie star, famous athlete. You know, if you
Speaker 4: want to tell me you want to meet your high
Speaker 4: school teacher who impacted your life and you don't know
Speaker 4: where that person is, you can say that too, Okay,
Speaker 4: they fit in that category. You just have to tell
Speaker 4: me who it would be and why, simple as that,
Speaker 4: and you can span the there's eight billion people in
Speaker 4: the world, eight billion people in the world, and who
Speaker 4: would it be? I have and by the way, I'm
Speaker 4: I don't think anyone's gonna come up with like something
Speaker 4: that's going to surprise people.
Speaker 3: But that's okay, love to know why. I have a
Speaker 3: couple of.
Speaker 4: Thoughts which I'm going to hold off on, but people
Speaker 4: who I would really love to meet six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 4: four ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 4: ten thirty.
Speaker 3: We do this. This is just gives me some insight
Speaker 3: into my audience. That's all, okay.
Speaker 4: And by the way, it could be a movie star,
Speaker 4: can be a pro athlete, can be a famous person,
Speaker 4: can be a can be an author. It might be
Speaker 4: someone I've never heard of, but it might be someone
Speaker 4: who you really want to meet. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: know whoever it would be. I will tell you that
Speaker 4: we've had I think a pretty good week here on
Speaker 4: Nights side. We've had a lot of new callers this week,
Speaker 4: which I always appreciate. They've identified themselves as new callers.
Speaker 4: But just to give you a sense of the week,
Speaker 4: we talked about President's Day on Monday night, a little
Speaker 4: bit of a history of President's Day. We talked about
Speaker 4: the snowy owls which are here in New England as
Speaker 4: they come every year during the winter time. When they
Speaker 4: leave the cold of the Arctic they go back home.
Speaker 4: Talked about the price of eggs and well seasoned recipes.
Speaker 4: We talked about a TV show dealing with Atlantic bluefin tuna.
Speaker 4: Talk with Professor Jeffrey Myron of Harvard University. He's the
Speaker 4: head of the economics department at Harvard University Undergraduate and
Speaker 4: he his hour will be replayed this Sunday night at
Speaker 4: eleven on Best of Night Side. Talked a little bit
Speaker 4: about the cold weather with ACU weather meteorologist Isaac Longley
Speaker 4: at ten o'clock on Monday night, and continue to talk
Speaker 4: about the coldest February in many years here in New
Speaker 4: England Tuesday Night. Talked about an uptick in pedestrian fatalities
Speaker 4: with Mark Shield Drop of Triple A. Talked about getting
Speaker 4: from doubt to do with an author named kat O'Sullivan.
Speaker 4: Talked about credit card debt and estate planning. Talked about
Speaker 4: gen Z they have telephobia. Talk with Jeff Robinson Sarah
Speaker 4: cob of the ADL about anti Semitic materials that the
Speaker 4: Massachusetts Teachers Association was circulating.
Speaker 3: To their union members.
Speaker 4: The next day they decided to withdraw those materials, and
Speaker 4: I congratulate Jeff Robbins and Sarah Cole for joining us
Speaker 4: and the timing of it. Maybe we had some influence
Speaker 4: on that. We'd spent an hour reacting to that Hummas
Speaker 4: propaganda that the mass Teachers Association was so glibly making
Speaker 4: available to their teachers. Asked the question, is Elon Muska
Speaker 4: hero or a villain? We had interesting reactions to that.
Speaker 4: Wednesday Night talked about endangered species in Massachusetts. Talked about
Speaker 4: a great thing at the MSPCA this week where you
Speaker 4: can adopt dogs, any of them that are over the
Speaker 4: age of one, for free. Normally it costs about four
Speaker 4: hundred dollars in different fees, but they are free at
Speaker 4: the the the Massachusetts Association of Society of Prevention of
Speaker 4: MSPCA Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Talk with vic Femia
Speaker 4: out of Northboro about the Dellman's Club, talk with Crystal
Speaker 4: at the State House News Service about White Stadium. Had
Speaker 4: Josh kraft On talked about that he's a candidate for mayor.
Speaker 4: Spent two hours on Wendy Night talking about some of
Speaker 4: the cuts that are being proposed by the Trump administration.
Speaker 4: Thursday Night talked about Tanglewood's set schedule coming up this
Speaker 4: summer with Alex Spear. Talked with Donna Williams about the
Speaker 4: Blackstone Heritage car trail walks, talk with Kaiva Kiva Schuler
Speaker 4: about peaceful parenting, and with Grace Warner again remind you
Speaker 4: they had that Red Bull snowboarding exhibition at City Hall
Speaker 4: tomorrow afternoon from two to five, talked about ticketing people
Speaker 4: who haven't shoveled their sidewalks in some of it. I
Speaker 4: think it's totally unfair. We did that for two hours
Speaker 4: last night, and by the way, they're doing the same
Speaker 4: thing in Boston. And then we talked about the baggage
Speaker 4: bin battles on airplanes across America. At eleven and tonight
Speaker 4: we talked about the soon to be opened Holocaust mus
Speaker 4: him here in Boston, hide the people hiding debt from
Speaker 4: their partner, and talk with Betsy Ann Manning about employers
Speaker 4: keeping tabs on employees. And talk with doctor Shira Dorone
Speaker 4: about a flu surge in Massachusetts. Doc with doctor John Friedman,
Speaker 4: a healthcare expert, about the cutbacks at Massachusetts General Brigham,
Speaker 4: and last hour, talked about how the Democrats can make
Speaker 4: a comeback. They're in a whirl of herd right now,
Speaker 4: so when we get back, I'm going to go right
Speaker 4: to the phones, and it's real simple. Who would you
Speaker 4: like to spend you know, a long, leisurely dinner with.
Speaker 4: You can pick their brains, lovely dinner, apps, wine, main meal,
Speaker 4: some dessert, maybe an after dinner drink. Who would it be?
Speaker 4: And it can be anybody who is alive today. We'll
Speaker 4: be back the only line that open. I have one,
Speaker 4: one line open, six, one, seven thirty. I try to
Speaker 4: come up with as many of these type topics as
Speaker 4: I can.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: There are some that are our evergreen, such as what
Speaker 4: grinds your gears and brushes with celebrity, which I love.
Speaker 4: But I try to do it differently as much as
Speaker 4: often as we can. If you ever have a suggestion
Speaker 4: for a uh please, I'm not going to do your
Speaker 4: favorite pizza place. Maybe I should do your favorite pizza
Speaker 4: place some night. Maybe that'd be a good one. No,
Speaker 4: but I just we try to make you think here
Speaker 4: a little bit. We're trying to make you think going
Speaker 4: into the weekend, think about it.
Speaker 3: Who would it be? I don't know, maybe maybe some of.
Speaker 4: You out there would love to have a dinner, a
Speaker 4: nice leisurely dinner with a Taylor Swift. Everything's on the
Speaker 4: table coming back on night'side right after this.
Speaker 3: The lines are now full.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on' WBZ news Radio.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phones. The question is
Speaker 4: who would you enjoy of anyone in the world alive?
Speaker 3: Can't do a B. Lincoln anyone today.
Speaker 4: Let me start it off with Steve in New Hampshire. Steve,
Speaker 4: you were first this hour at Nightside.
Speaker 3: Who would you like to have a lovely dinner conversation with?
Speaker 3: Good two and a half hours? Who would it be? Steve?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 7: Dan, I promised you I'd call you glad to be here?
Speaker 3: Yes, So are you on the road? Are you on
Speaker 3: the road tonight? Or are you home?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: This is my three trip week. I'm in names were
Speaker 7: right down in four ninety five South. I'm heaving a
Speaker 7: scranting them from there, I go to York, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: By the way, I listened to someone the other day,
Speaker 4: one of the federal workers who had been dismissed, and
Speaker 4: she said that federal workers are the lifebot of blood
Speaker 4: of America. I disagree totally.
Speaker 1: You're the liruck drivers.
Speaker 4: Drivers, the people who drive products across the country because
Speaker 4: everything that we buy that we need to survive at
Speaker 4: some point spends the time, and it spends time in
Speaker 4: a truck. You guys are the road warriors. So I
Speaker 4: just want to say hats after all the truck drivers
Speaker 4: out there tonight.
Speaker 3: We're listening.
Speaker 7: I know you always compliment me when i'm you know,
Speaker 7: postgame on Facebook.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and I know you appreciate.
Speaker 7: Us and I appreciate you. So this person, yeah, I
Speaker 7: I'm thinking I'm hoping not, but I'm sure they have
Speaker 7: said who their favorite person they'd like to sit down
Speaker 7: two hours do you with? So I'm going to give
Speaker 7: it a go, and I'm gonna give you a couple
Speaker 7: of hints because I like the hint game. I like
Speaker 7: to play a little game, usually with tangue.
Speaker 9: I'll do that.
Speaker 7: So I've known this person for indirectly for a whole year, Okay,
Speaker 7: and this person is I have a lot in common
Speaker 7: with this person. This person is very humble. He oh,
Speaker 7: I just gave it away. He is very patient with people.
Speaker 7: And I would love to sit down and have a
Speaker 7: two hour at dinner with mister Dan Ray do that.
Speaker 7: He's interesting because you've been around for a while and
Speaker 7: because I lived in Boston for thirty years and probably
Speaker 7: watched you but didn't know you like I know you
Speaker 7: now since I've been in the radio family at night side.
Speaker 7: But I would love to sit down and just hear
Speaker 7: your stories. And the only way I think I can
Speaker 7: get that accomplish if I go on to on the
Speaker 7: tour with you when you have your tours, we come up.
Speaker 3: With something, Steve, trust me, I'll like that.
Speaker 4: That is I'm I've done that with listeners and UH,
Speaker 4: believe me, you would you would be on the short list.
Speaker 3: Trust me, I'm on that.
Speaker 4: You'll leave your number, leave your number with with Rob
Speaker 4: and he can give you my direct line number.
Speaker 3: Uh, would you try to work something out? I I had.
Speaker 3: There was one of our listeners who lives over.
Speaker 4: In Scotland and she came back, uh for one summer
Speaker 4: and met her for breakfast down on the Cape. So
Speaker 4: it is I like to meet my listeners to be
Speaker 4: really you're.
Speaker 7: Very sociable like I am, and you love people.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and.
Speaker 4: We've done we've done, We've done some events and we're
Speaker 4: looking to try to figure out to do some other
Speaker 4: events too where it's not going to cost an arm
Speaker 4: and a leg for people. We so yeah, okay, you
Speaker 4: get on the call. S. I'm honest, honestly, I am humbled.
Speaker 4: I am humbled by mentioning me.
Speaker 7: All right, buddy, I love you.
Speaker 4: Right back at you do me a favorite? You give
Speaker 4: give a number two, Robin, I will well, yeah, we
Speaker 4: not gonna happened next week, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: We got some time hopefully.
Speaker 1: Okay, hopefully.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Let me go to Laurie in Idaho. I'm ever going
Speaker 4: to Idaho, Laurie. I'm looking up. Okay, don't worry, oh you.
Speaker 11: Tonight, Okay, excuse me, I'm doing all right. It's Friday,
Speaker 11: and it is supposed to be above forty degrees all
Speaker 11: week with rain and above preasing at night. And I've
Speaker 11: never been so excited about a forecast.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. I can't wait.
Speaker 4: We're to get some forties back here, and so we're
Speaker 4: hoping that someone.
Speaker 3: El snow is going to stock to melt it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's frozen solid back here. It's frozen. Solvet So, who
Speaker 3: want to be?
Speaker 4: Who would you love to sit down with and have
Speaker 4: a conversation with over maybe a drink and over leisurely dinner.
Speaker 11: In this day, in this moment, in whatever's going on, I.
Speaker 10: Would it would be Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a pretty obvious one, isn't it.
Speaker 9: That's okay?
Speaker 2: Well, it is it? Is it?
Speaker 11: What I really want to know is well, I would
Speaker 11: like to talk about The Apprentice with him, because he
Speaker 11: was I liked him on that show. But what I
Speaker 11: really want to know is how sick did COVID make
Speaker 11: him because he had a bad bout of it, and
Speaker 11: how how really did it disable him? If you will,
Speaker 11: with all the you know, the treatments and also the
Speaker 11: weird stuff they were doing to him, he was not
Speaker 11: himself during those weeks. So if he's honest enough to answer,
Speaker 11: I want those answers. I want to say, you know,
Speaker 11: when you when you get pinged in the ear, what
Speaker 11: was your thought right away? Which I think we know?
Speaker 11: And then five six hours later, what were you thinking?
Speaker 11: And then I'm going to ask him how much fun
Speaker 11: is he having?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 4: He probably is enjoying it immensely, But I got to
Speaker 4: tell you, I don't know how this guy does it
Speaker 4: on four hours sleep at night.
Speaker 7: No, you can do it.
Speaker 10: That's probably so much fun to watch, you know.
Speaker 4: And and particularly compared God love him to Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: I mean it, It is just astopshing when when you
Speaker 4: look back and you think about you President Biden, former
Speaker 4: President Biden, and the people in his group who were saying,
Speaker 4: this guy is on top of his game. He is
Speaker 4: as sharp today as he ever has been.
Speaker 11: And man, well, and there there are the Democrats who
Speaker 11: are complaining, well, we don't know everything that Trump's doing,
Speaker 11: or we don't know he's doing everything under everybody. He's
Speaker 11: not hiding anything, He's doing things he's allowed to do.
Speaker 11: And I'm thinking that these.
Speaker 10: People, do you remember the past four years?
Speaker 11: Did you ever know anything the president was doing? And
Speaker 11: you didn't know what he's doing that he wasn't doing it?
Speaker 10: Don't these people remember this?
Speaker 3: But well, there was all sorts of stuff. I remember.
Speaker 4: Some people who I know said that that they thought
Speaker 4: that he would cut funding to IVF treatments, and he's
Speaker 4: done just the opposite. He said that he wants more
Speaker 4: opportunity for people who are having trouble conceiving.
Speaker 12: Now again, I also.
Speaker 11: Think he throws a lot of pasta at the wall.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't absolutely, but but would you agree with me that
Speaker 4: he is literally taking up space rent free in the
Speaker 4: heads of a lot of people.
Speaker 11: Oh yes, you nailed that tonight.
Speaker 10: That was a great expression.
Speaker 3: Well it's not unique.
Speaker 4: I've heard it before, but I thought it really applied
Speaker 4: here that yuh. And there are some people who I
Speaker 4: know and I just feel that that. Look, he's gonna
Speaker 4: Trump will do what he's gonna do. If he really
Speaker 4: messes up, he'll get himself impeached again.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't mess up, uh, and he's able to
Speaker 4: do so many of the things that he says he'll
Speaker 4: he'll be he'll be even more popular.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 11: All we want him to do is set the country
Speaker 11: on the right path in four years, because he can't
Speaker 11: do it again and we need a correction.
Speaker 3: And the other the other day I saw him. He
Speaker 3: was saying, well, I forget what he was speaking. He
Speaker 3: was talking about, well, maybe I can run for a
Speaker 3: third term. He kind of he knows you count run.
Speaker 3: Everybody is.
Speaker 4: But I think people's heads exploded when they heard that.
Speaker 4: I think people's hair burst into flames across America.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: With the end, Oh my god, he's somehow gonna go
Speaker 4: for a third term because he's a dictator.
Speaker 11: It's like come on, and don't you think that was
Speaker 11: his intent?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Was his intent exactly?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like the guy who lives next door
Speaker 4: to you, who you go over to and you say.
Speaker 3: Gee, can you kind of cool it a little bit
Speaker 3: on the flashing Christmas lights?
Speaker 4: You know, maybe the guy was all over the top,
Speaker 4: and two nights later he intensifies it three times.
Speaker 3: It's what the good you did asking him to cool it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Or the guy? Yeah, turned down?
Speaker 4: You know, I know you'd like to have a party
Speaker 4: out at the pool, but you know we got people
Speaker 4: over here.
Speaker 3: Too, and whatever.
Speaker 6: Boom.
Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, thanks Laurie, talk soon, have a great weekend.
Speaker 10: Thank you you too. Good night, good night.
Speaker 3: Let me go to Mary Beth in Hanover.
Speaker 4: Mary Beth, who would it be if you could have
Speaker 4: dinner and nice, leisurely easy dinner with anybody in the world.
Speaker 13: Okay, First of all, I'm just gonna say, Dan, you
Speaker 13: broke your golden rule right now. You guys went way
Speaker 13: off topic.
Speaker 3: So I'm to calling you which topic we're talking about?
Speaker 13: The second caller, I.
Speaker 4: Thought we would I thought we were talking about who
Speaker 4: would you like? And she was saying that she wanted.
Speaker 13: To happen with then you got into all the policy.
Speaker 13: I'm just messing with you, Dan, anyways, No, no, no,
Speaker 13: that's fine.
Speaker 4: No no, I I thought I stayed on it because
Speaker 4: because what I said earlier tonight was that that he's
Speaker 4: he's taken up space in people's heads were in free
Speaker 4: But go ahead, bring us back on topic, very bed.
Speaker 13: I'm messing with you. But anyhow, this is my favorite
Speaker 13: hour of the week. I love all the atwees is
Speaker 13: my favorite so because it's so light, you know, And
Speaker 13: I would love to sit down with Keith Urban.
Speaker 4: How about that he and he and his wife at
Speaker 4: home was just broken into Did you see that?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I did. And I have her too. You know, she's
Speaker 13: just you know, she's amazing. That both are. They're just
Speaker 13: decent human beings. He's just he's had his own, you know,
Speaker 13: like uh, struggles in life, and you know, he's just
Speaker 13: a decent person. I don't know, but I think she
Speaker 13: is too. So anyways, those are the kind of people
Speaker 13: I would just love to sit down with, you know.
Speaker 4: Refresh my recollection. I'm not good in the Hollywood stuff.
Speaker 4: I know he's married to a superstar.
Speaker 10: Who's he married to Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 3: Oh right, right, right, yeah, oh my god, yeah, the
Speaker 3: black son right, those in that areror movie.
Speaker 13: I don't think No, I don't think she was a
Speaker 13: black sown Nicole Cadwin did.
Speaker 10: Come on, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I told you, I don't know movies.
Speaker 13: Thought she was married to Tom Cruise. Yeah, right, and
Speaker 13: then she's a redhead girl, and oh my god, there's
Speaker 13: so many things.
Speaker 5: You just have to look it up.
Speaker 13: She's an amazing Australian actress.
Speaker 3: No. I know.
Speaker 4: The only story that I know about Keith Urban. My
Speaker 4: wife and daughter went on a trip I believe or
Speaker 4: not to Sydney, Australia. This is going to be ten twelve, no,
Speaker 4: maybe fifteen years ago, and they were staying at a
Speaker 4: hotel one a nice hotel in Sydney. And when they
Speaker 4: came out of the hotel in the morning, there was
Speaker 4: a huge crowd there. And you know how in the summertime,
Speaker 4: some of the morning talks, you know ABC Morning News
Speaker 4: or the CBS This Morning or whatever, they have sometimes
Speaker 4: an entertainer outside.
Speaker 3: They walked out the door and they were like five
Speaker 3: feet from Keith Urban, who was entertaining the crowd. How
Speaker 3: about that? And I said did you get a picture?
Speaker 3: Did you get an autograph? No?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 11: And I said, like.
Speaker 3: I said, who's Keith Urban?
Speaker 4: Ago?
Speaker 13: Listen, my my husband passed away on Valentine's State. It
Speaker 13: was eighteen years this year. So anyways, but we were
Speaker 13: never really Valentine's people. But he so I grew up
Speaker 13: with the country music that was, you know, yodling whatever,
Speaker 13: you know, that's fifty sixty seven. And so he kept
Speaker 13: my husband kept saying, and he was a guitar player
Speaker 13: in a band, but he kept saying, Oh you love
Speaker 13: this guy. I'm like, no country, no way. And it
Speaker 13: wasn't until after he passed. My daughter and I were
Speaker 13: in the car and this song came on. I'm like,
Speaker 13: oh I love this and she goes, mom, that's the
Speaker 13: guy dad said you would love.
Speaker 3: How about that? He knew you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Well, and also country was totally not the same. Oh yeah,
Speaker 13: but anyway, you know, I just like, I just like
Speaker 13: good people, and I think he's a really good person.
Speaker 3: So but heard that, so Keith Urban.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we got we got Keith Urban and Donald
Speaker 4: Trump on the board and Steve Steve.
Speaker 13: Sell for me different side.
Speaker 4: Thanks very bad talk soon, have a great weekend. Okay,
Speaker 4: thanks by love. Back on nights Side right after this.
Speaker 4: The only line is listen carefully six one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 4: ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Back after this, You're on Night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 2: on w BEZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 4: Let's keep rolling here. We're going to go next to
Speaker 4: We're going to pick it up a little bit. Glenn
Speaker 4: is back. Hey, Glenn, who would you like to have
Speaker 4: dinner with?
Speaker 9: Glenn? My favorite woman on planetar is Caroline Leavitt, Trump's
Speaker 9: press secretary. I don't know if you remember, but on
Speaker 9: weaved Day weekend of twenty twenty two, when she was
Speaker 9: a congresswoman, well she was running against Chris Tappis, and
Speaker 9: you had a show symbol. You said, who would you
Speaker 9: wait in line for five hours? And I said, Caroline Leavitt?
Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, Okay, Well, look I don't know. I do
Speaker 4: not remember that vaguely I do, but obviously you are
Speaker 4: holding a flame for Carolina Levitt, and she now has
Speaker 4: gone from unsuccessful congressional candidate to the Press secretary of
Speaker 4: the United States of America. That's quite a jump. She's
Speaker 4: pretty sharp, she' she handles herself pretty well.
Speaker 9: She doesn't she doesn't do the words there with Boogie
Speaker 9: Jam White and O KJP Yeah yeah, kareem jump here.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: But it almost seems like a long time. It's been
Speaker 4: a while since we've seen KJP. Mister a lot, mister yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, man, we'll try to set it up for you, okay,
Speaker 4: fair enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: The thing I love about Carolina is she's polite, white,
Speaker 9: but firm in her answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you. I like that style. That's
Speaker 4: kind of the way I'd like to be, you know why.
Speaker 4: You don't have to be nasty, absolutely, Glaire. Great, that's
Speaker 4: a great one, Glenn. If that's great. And you know what, Glenn,
Speaker 4: that's also one that's reasonable, that's doable. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 4: it's a girl from New Hampshire, young woman from New Hampshire,
Speaker 4: who knows maybe she's listening tonight. Oh, I'd love it
Speaker 4: if she calls us, we'll give her We'll.
Speaker 3: Give her your number.
Speaker 4: Fair enough, all right, there's a little hope for you.
Speaker 4: It's like in the movie Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: might be a one in a million shot, but at
Speaker 4: least you got a chance, you know what I'm saying, Glenn, Right, Thanks,
Speaker 4: I talk to you all rights, keep rolling. You're gonna
Speaker 4: go to George and Belmont. Hey, George walking on the nightside.
Speaker 10: How are you good, sir?
Speaker 3: How are you doing great?
Speaker 4: So you know the question, who would you love to
Speaker 4: have dinner with? Anyone alive in the world today?
Speaker 5: The current Agat Khan?
Speaker 3: The current who.
Speaker 5: The Aga Khan?
Speaker 3: The Aga Khan?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Is he a religious leader I assume or political leader?
Speaker 5: Religious? He is the head of a segment of the
Speaker 5: Sunni Sect. I think that's about a million and a half.
Speaker 4: Okay, sure, Now why the Aga Khan and not the
Speaker 4: Pope or the or the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Speaker 8: Because I didn't know them. I met this kid when
Speaker 8: he was a young prince when I was in the Marines,
Speaker 8: and uh he was roommate's housemates with my nephew at
Speaker 8: prep school, and uh I got to know him as
Speaker 8: a young, shy, quiet kid that came from incredible wealth
Speaker 8: and lost.
Speaker 5: Track of him.
Speaker 8: And then his father passed away last week of believe
Speaker 8: before and he was annointed is the Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did read that. And again, which is it?
Speaker 3: Is it the Sunni sect? That he is the head of.
Speaker 5: A segment of the Sunny Sect?
Speaker 3: I believe, yes, a segment, but you said representing how
Speaker 3: many people?
Speaker 8: I think it's about a million and a half, okay,
Speaker 8: And my interest is kind of out of curiosity seeing
Speaker 8: this gentleman that I knew as a young kid.
Speaker 4: Well, that would be fad. How old is this guy?
Speaker 4: How old is this guy today, George? Would you say
Speaker 4: fifty or so?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's gonna be in his mid fifties now.
Speaker 8: And I guess what the real question I have is
Speaker 8: as we look around and everyone, you know, comments on
Speaker 8: the state of the world and all of the insanity
Speaker 8: in it, Let's say, here's a kid who kind of
Speaker 8: grew up and inherited this position, and I kind of
Speaker 8: want to know what his view might be now that
Speaker 8: he's effectively in the spiritual leader of a large segment
Speaker 8: of a group that we probably don't understand that well,
Speaker 8: So we take.
Speaker 4: You could ask to that very same question of King
Speaker 4: Charles in England. He was born into it as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I never knew him.
Speaker 4: I know, that's I think that's great. I think that's great.
Speaker 4: What prep school did you? Did you meet him at?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Phillips, Phillips andover.
Speaker 4: That's that's right up there. George, thanks for the call.
Speaker 4: That was a really interesting uh choice. Uh and you
Speaker 4: backed that up with the connection. Great call.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thanks time.
Speaker 8: And uh I'll tell you how Gary Lapierre got.
Speaker 5: Me promoted once too, but that's another story.
Speaker 3: Fair enough.
Speaker 4: Great guy, great guy, Garry LaPier one of my one
Speaker 4: of my heroes in the business. Trust me on that,
Speaker 4: there were none better. Thank you, George. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep rolling here and we're gonna pick up
Speaker 4: the pace.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Laurel, Laurel Jr. Laura, welcome back.
Speaker 9: How are you hey?
Speaker 12: Thank you for the welcome back.
Speaker 9: Dan.
Speaker 12: I wish you through happiness. I wish all your listeners
Speaker 12: through happiness, including the next call after me. Whoever that is,
Speaker 12: I would say it has to be someone who I
Speaker 12: look up to. It could be either or and you
Speaker 12: could pick either Tiffany Chen from Channel four, Kirsten Graven
Speaker 12: from nbc TM Boston, or Lauren Melendez from NBC T
Speaker 12: in Boston, someone who I look up to. H and also, Dan,
Speaker 12: can I just say thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 12: for your charity the Shadow Fund, the Lady Diane, she
Speaker 12: helped me out recently to pay for my cats PetVille Bill. Unfortunately,
Speaker 12: I had to put my cat down on Tuesday. He
Speaker 12: died of kidney failure. And I do have to ask you,
Speaker 12: just as a favor, if you can mention their charity
Speaker 12: a few times so in case anybody is in need
Speaker 12: of a PetVille. I kind of mistake, I kind of
Speaker 12: misunderstood her. The first time she helped me was a
Speaker 12: number of years ago, around twenty eleven. She said in
Speaker 12: the email that she could only help once, and I
Speaker 12: thought she met like once a year. Thankfully, she helped
Speaker 12: me this time around, and they can from what I understand,
Speaker 12: they could only pay up to three hundred dollars up
Speaker 12: to other than that, you want your own, you know
Speaker 12: so well.
Speaker 4: All I can tell you is Diane Sullivan is a
Speaker 4: saint in my mind. She's the assistant dean at the
Speaker 4: Massachusetts School of Law. She runs the Shadow Fund, which
Speaker 4: I support and my listeners support. I have at least
Speaker 4: one extraordinarily generous listener, a woman in Boston who is
Speaker 4: just over the top supportive of the a Shadow Fund.
Speaker 4: And it's a wonderful organization and has done so much
Speaker 4: good for different people. And I'm glad that it has
Speaker 4: helped you, and it sounds to me like I.
Speaker 3: Got those three names.
Speaker 4: I think you like you like you want to meet
Speaker 4: a female local TV reporter. That's the commonality there. Okay,
Speaker 4: thanks laua to someone to look up to. Have a
Speaker 4: nice to have a great weekend, Laura. We'll talk soon. Okay,
Speaker 4: have a great one.
Speaker 3: Good night you too.
Speaker 4: Let me go to Sylvia, Sylvia, going to get you
Speaker 4: in here. Sylvia is in Beverly, Massachusetts, Sylvia. Who would
Speaker 4: you like to have dinner with anyone in the world
Speaker 4: alive today that that you would.
Speaker 3: Like to meet?
Speaker 14: Yes, Dan, I would love to have dinner with doctor
Speaker 14: Thomas C.
Speaker 9: Freed.
Speaker 14: He is a professor and a brilliant researcher at Boston
Speaker 14: College who has tirelessly investigated the UH way to treat
Speaker 14: cancer and has come up with big building on another
Speaker 14: researchers knowledge too, of a way that you can have
Speaker 14: a non toxic treatment that does not kill and hurt
Speaker 14: other selves and it actually stops the beast. Wow. And
Speaker 14: he is firelessly. I would love it if you would
Speaker 14: have him on your program as a matter of that.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you said doctor Thomas Freed.
Speaker 14: Is that F R I E B S F The
Speaker 14: S e y f r I E D. Boston College professor.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, you're going too fast
Speaker 3: for me. F E y.
Speaker 14: F is in Sylvia.
Speaker 10: He is an m.
Speaker 14: Why isn't yes C Freed.
Speaker 3: Se Okay, do me a favor, will you? I don't
Speaker 3: want to look. Do me a favor. Spell that for Rob,
Speaker 3: and Rob will give that to me after the show. Okay.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get into a spelling contest. I
Speaker 4: misheard you initially at thet you said doctor Thomas Freed.
Speaker 4: But you give Rob the correct spelling, fair enough?
Speaker 14: Okay, Okay, that's great, all right. This man is a
Speaker 14: saint and he's absolutely brilliant, and he kissed deeply, and
Speaker 14: he's trying to get doctors to listen and to the
Speaker 14: science so that they can get the help they need
Speaker 14: to right.
Speaker 4: Okay, we will, we'll, we'll try to do something on that.
Speaker 4: Rob get his name, and if Sylvia has a number,
Speaker 4: that would be great as well. We'll take a quick
Speaker 4: break coming back on night Side. The lines are full.
Speaker 4: When Sylvia drops off, the line will be six, one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 4: ten thirty Back on night Side.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night side studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got full lines. I want to try to
Speaker 4: get everyone in. Who would you like to have dinner with?
Speaker 4: Has to be a living person. I did this once before,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to tell you who I'd like to
Speaker 4: have dinner with at the end, and that person has
Speaker 4: not been named as yet. Let me go next to
Speaker 4: Julie out in spring Felt. Julie, welcome back. Always good
Speaker 4: to hear your voice. Julie, go right ahead.
Speaker 15: Hi Dan, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Who's your dinner date?
Speaker 15: This would be Stephen Kinge, my favorite author of all time.
Speaker 3: Woh yeah, that would be interesting. That's a great pick.
Speaker 4: First of all, it's someone who everybody knows, and it's
Speaker 4: someone he's from Maine. He's a local guy, and he's
Speaker 4: a fascinating guy. I've seen him a couple of times
Speaker 4: at Red Sox games. He's a big baseball fan, as
Speaker 4: I'm sure you know.
Speaker 15: Yes, yes, that's great. Have you read all his books
Speaker 15: about like where his stories come from? Where does he
Speaker 15: get these ideas? It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I wish I had the time to read more stuff
Speaker 4: like that. I'm the stuff I read on a daily
Speaker 4: basis tends to be the matters of the moment because
Speaker 4: I have to be ready for my show. But I
Speaker 4: wish I had in retirement. I'm going to make it
Speaker 4: a point to read all of these books that I've missed,
Speaker 4: but he would be one I would read. Thanks so much.
Speaker 4: That's a great suggest That's a great one, Julie. That
Speaker 4: might be the best of the night, to be honest
Speaker 4: with you.
Speaker 14: Okay, all right, thanks, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend. Okay, good night. Let's keep rolling here.
Speaker 4: We're trying to get everybody in Christine, Christine, I'm going
Speaker 4: to be fascinating to know who you would like to
Speaker 4: have that dinner with you.
Speaker 3: I got two votes here.
Speaker 16: And you know who else to is Dolly Potton.
Speaker 4: Really well, that would be if we could get you,
Speaker 4: me and Dolly Parton together, said night, that would be
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. Okay, you too, take it easy, Christine,
Speaker 4: have a great one. That's good night. All right, let's
Speaker 4: keep rolling. Here're going to go to Mona in Halifax. Hey, Mona,
Speaker 4: haven't talked to you in a while. How are you tonight?
Speaker 16: Yes, hello, I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 3: That's not my fault I'm here every night from you,
Speaker 3: you know, go.
Speaker 7: Ahead to Ireland.
Speaker 16: I was in Ireland.
Speaker 3: Oh were you? How long were you in Ireland back.
Speaker 16: In October for three weeks?
Speaker 3: Well you've been October.
Speaker 16: Pasted, visiting family and friends and cousins and a good
Speaker 16: time away.
Speaker 3: Yes, hope you had a great time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It hasn't Galway gotten.
Speaker 4: I remember being in Galway thirty years ago and he
Speaker 4: felt like it was a small town.
Speaker 3: Now it's just it was a big city.
Speaker 10: Yes, there, I was in Galway a year.
Speaker 3: Ago in September.
Speaker 10: Anyway, Yes, I heard that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so who would it be.
Speaker 16: If you have dinner with well you of course, but
Speaker 16: my second one day, Neil Diamond. I know you're not
Speaker 16: crazy about them. I don't think, but I love being think.
Speaker 4: I think he's a great entertainer and sweet Carolina at
Speaker 4: some time as at Fenway Park and.
Speaker 3: And the Red Sox, you know, seventh inning stretch. You
Speaker 3: know that absolutely, Yes, I know I listened.
Speaker 16: Yes, I heard that he has Parkinson's unfortunately, but he's
Speaker 16: still writing songs. I've heard, Yes, I didn't two years now. Yes,
Speaker 16: so the first time I saw him was in in
Speaker 16: the football stadium in Dublin Crow Park. Oh sure, I
Speaker 16: was visited. I was visited in Ireland. My sister Alice,
Speaker 16: who lives in Donegall, had seen it advertised and she said, Mona,
Speaker 16: let's go to see Neil Diamond. My mother was alive
Speaker 16: at the time. She said, oh no, Mona wouldn't want
Speaker 16: to see him, and I said, oh yes I would,
Speaker 16: so we did go. It was wonderful. And then I'll
Speaker 16: tell you Boston twice.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 4: I had been to Donegall and in my opinion, it's
Speaker 4: the most beautiful.
Speaker 16: Part of Ireland, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, many beautiful parts of Ireland. But I think Johnnie
Speaker 4: Gall takes the cake.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 16: Just My sister lives in Letter Kenny in Johnny Gaul.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that one. I don't know that one.
Speaker 16: Yes, Inland.
Speaker 7: Yes, beautiful, beautiful, absolutely.
Speaker 3: So great, so great to hear your voice. Thanks so
Speaker 3: much for calling and you.
Speaker 16: Talk soon, okay, I hope, so thank you, Dan Slim laugh,
Speaker 16: good night, good bye, goodbye.
Speaker 4: Week bye bye. Let's go next to Jamie and Worcester. Jamie,
Speaker 4: you were next on night Side. Go on ahead, who
Speaker 4: would you like to spend a couple of hours, a
Speaker 4: nice leisurely dinner.
Speaker 17: With Believe it or not, I grew up loving Larry
Speaker 17: Bird from Boston. I'd love to have dinner with him
Speaker 17: and ask him why doesn't he come and associate with
Speaker 17: the championship teams we had two thousand and twenty four,
Speaker 17: two thousand and nine, you know, any special event we had.
Speaker 7: Why why is he his associate himself with us?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but let me ask he's is he
Speaker 3: still the general manager of the patients?
Speaker 7: I thought he no, I thought I did, That's what
Speaker 7: I mean. I thought he disconnected himself.
Speaker 17: I thought he retired from that and everything.
Speaker 4: So I don't know that, but I think it's a
Speaker 4: great and you know, Bird would be would be a
Speaker 4: fun guy to talk about the about.
Speaker 3: The the glory years. Absolutely.
Speaker 17: It was kind of like, I don't know. It just
Speaker 17: disappoints me that, like we know, we had these you know,
Speaker 17: these ship like Bob, who's he gonna his thing and
Speaker 17: his ring and stuff? And I'll be like, why why don't.
Speaker 7: You hear like, Okay, that's well, buy the crowd, you know.
Speaker 4: Let's see what happens. Maybe maybe he's listening in Indiana
Speaker 4: to time. We'll get him to come back. Thanks, Jamie.
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: I got two more. I got to get in okay, thanks, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: no problem quick, Thanks Jamie appreciated.
Speaker 4: Let me go to Steve in New Hampshire. Steve and
Speaker 4: got room for you and Tony and Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Steve. Who would it be?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 10: How are you having a good night?
Speaker 3: Having a great name.
Speaker 1: I know I'm Johnny come lately, but you would be
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 3: I thank you very much. You're too kind.
Speaker 5: I agree with you on so many issues.
Speaker 1: It's like I feel like I'm talking to myself when
Speaker 1: little maybe what.
Speaker 4: I should do is I should have a dinner and
Speaker 4: we could go somewhere and everybody. We'll figure that one out.
Speaker 1: I'll buy the court, I'll buy the course light.
Speaker 3: Okay. Who would it be?
Speaker 1: My favorite? And you're going to probably appreciate this too.
Speaker 1: Our former governor Chris and Nunu. He is such a
Speaker 1: nice guy. I know him personally. I've met him, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was running for reelection several times.
Speaker 4: Chris is a great friend, a high friend of mine.
Speaker 4: I'm going to have dinner with him in March.
Speaker 1: Actually seventy three percent approval rating in the state, which
Speaker 1: is incredible.
Speaker 4: Not bad, not b What I will do because when
Speaker 4: I when I see Chris in in March, I will
Speaker 4: tell him of a conversation.
Speaker 5: Fair enough, Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1: And he also sent me a birthday card when he
Speaker 1: was governor.
Speaker 3: Not bad.
Speaker 4: Hold on to that one. I want to get one
Speaker 4: more in here, buddy. We'll talk soon. Okay, maybe we
Speaker 4: will come up with the game by dinner. We'll figure out.
Speaker 4: We'll figure it out. Thanks every good one. Let's go
Speaker 4: to Tony and Rhode Island. Tony, I think we're down about
Speaker 4: less than thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: What do you got for me?
Speaker 6: I was gonna say that there's a lot of choices,
Speaker 6: but moving the last call, it says it all with you.
Speaker 6: I'm singing young and we were a lot of issues
Speaker 6: and you're your first class professional.
Speaker 5: So we can talk.
Speaker 4: About why I am overwhelmed. I'm absolutely overwhelmed, Tony.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend. That's quite a compliment. Thank you,
Speaker 3: my friend. We'll talk soon. One more here.
Speaker 4: Let me see if I can sneak Chris. I got
Speaker 4: ten seconds. What can you do with it? Chris on
Speaker 4: the cape?
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Chris, two words Larry David and four more
Speaker 10: curb your enthusiasm and Seinfeld gotcha.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know who Larry David is. I enjoy curb
Speaker 4: your enthusiasm absolutely.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris. We're done for the night, done for
Speaker 3: the week. Thanks everybody, everybody for calling.
Speaker 4: Rob.
Speaker 3: Great job, Marita, great job. All end is always all dogs,
Speaker 3: all cats, all pets go to heaven.
Speaker 4: That's why Pal Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago
Speaker 4: this very month, that's where all your pets are, your past.
Speaker 3: They loved you and you love them. I do believe
Speaker 3: you'll see them again. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Everyone, get out and enjoy the warmer weather. I'll see
Speaker 4: you Monday night and I'll see you on Facebook in
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes. Nights out with Dan Ray and Facebook.
Speaker 3: Join me there. Thanks Rob, Thanks Marita, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: All