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Speaker 1: and it's daunting. Now, I also want to very quickly
Speaker 1: just review our week, as I always do, and then
Speaker 1: we're going to go to brushes with celebrity. And I
Speaker 1: know that many of you realize that is my favorite
Speaker 1: twentieth hour of the week. It is the twentieth hour
Speaker 1: because if you calculate five nights, four hours a night
Speaker 1: from eight to midnight, it works out the twenty hours.
Speaker 1: And this is number twenty. And what we do with
Speaker 1: brushes with celebrities. We invite you to call and tell
Speaker 1: us an experience that you've had with a celebrity. Doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a former president or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Celebrities come in all shapes and sizes, and if it's
Speaker 1: a celebrity to you, it's a celebrity to us. And
Speaker 1: I also ask you if you've had a good experience
Speaker 1: with someone who you've met. Sometimes you meet someone on
Speaker 1: an airplane, you meet them sitting in a I don't know,
Speaker 1: in a restaurant, walking along the street. If you've got
Speaker 1: a good experience, we love to hear a celebrity who
Speaker 1: treats you well. If you've had a bad experience or
Speaker 1: an ugly experience, feel free to tell us that story
Speaker 1: as well. Now this week just some of the stories
Speaker 1: that we have covered. This week. We cover four every
Speaker 1: night at eight o'clock. In our eight o'clock hour, we
Speaker 1: really do cover a lot of different stories. So, for example,
Speaker 1: on Monday night, we talked about the Boston Public Art
Speaker 1: Triennial with Kate Gilbert. We talked about artificial intelligence, the pros,
Speaker 1: the cons and the pitfalls with Abdu Maurra. We talked
Speaker 1: with Wayne Sores about Silent Dignity, a movie that he's
Speaker 1: putting together about Vietnam veterans. We talked with Jennifer Schaeffer,
Speaker 1: the chair of the Marvelhead School Committee, about the continuing
Speaker 1: strikes in those three communities, marvel Head, Gloucester and Beverly.
Speaker 1: We then talked a couple of hours about the idea
Speaker 1: of why is it the Teachers' union seem to always
Speaker 1: strike in the middle of the year, and maybe they
Speaker 1: should have to do their negotiatings in the negotiations in
Speaker 1: June and July. A couple of themes. This week Monday
Speaker 1: Night at eleven we talked about what the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: should do to recover from their loss a week and
Speaker 1: a half ago to the Republicans. We talked with a
Speaker 1: fellow named Brett Stevens about turning dirty diapers into electricity.
Speaker 1: Talked with the music director of the New Philarmonia Orchestra
Speaker 1: of Newton with Jorge Soto. Talk with Norfolk County Sheriff
Speaker 1: Pat McDonough, Patrick McDonough and Steve Sweeney, great comedian about
Speaker 1: a sober comedy night, which I think was tonight down
Speaker 1: in down in Quincy. Talk with Alison T. Baldy about
Speaker 1: seven great New England beaches in the fall.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then we talked about school strikes and about a plan
Speaker 1: that I proposed to stop these school strikes from They're
Speaker 1: illegal in Massachusetts and these teachers unions are being fined.
Speaker 1: Talked about celebrities threatening to leave the US in the
Speaker 1: wake of the Trump victory. Wednesday night. Talked with doctor
Speaker 1: Kira Bobinet about something called habenoa hit, sort of like
Speaker 1: an adrenaline hit. Talk with Matty Peppin of the Boston
Speaker 1: Globe about the upcoming winter ski season. Talk with doctor
Speaker 1: Dan Dennis Sharff about the concussions and Christian Tejer of
Speaker 1: some new things at the Massachusetts Lottery. Talked with about
Speaker 1: homeless ordinance in Brockton with homeless city Councilor Shirley Asak
Speaker 1: and what to do about the homeless problem. That's a
Speaker 1: real problem. Talk with fous Raggio about fixing your addiction.
Speaker 1: If you have an addiction, check out Thursday nights eight
Speaker 1: o'clock hour and listen to what Foust Raggerio had to say.
Speaker 1: Talk with Jeremiah one of the Freedom Trails strolls that's
Speaker 1: going to be coming soon. Talk with Adam Dumay about
Speaker 1: do you Buy Now and do You Wait for? Black Friday?
Speaker 1: With Justin Burr about the top trending gifts this Christmas season.
Speaker 1: Last night Congressman Seth Moulton about some of the controversy
Speaker 1: that he's been dealing with in the Democratic Party. Reaction
Speaker 1: of his interview for an hour, and then we had
Speaker 1: reaction last night to Donald Trump's cabinet nominations. Tonight talked
Speaker 1: with Alex London, a librarian out of Worcester, about this
Speaker 1: book that was returned to the library after fifty one years.
Speaker 1: Talk with a really interesting guy at a Brookline Smaller
Speaker 1: who has visited literally like twenty four hundred stadiums around
Speaker 1: the world. We'll have him on as a full hour guest.
Speaker 1: Talk with doctor Jeremy Abramson about stage three non Hodgkin lymphoma.
Speaker 1: Talk with eight year old Bobby his young boy who
Speaker 1: has decided to have a pop up bookstore believe it
Speaker 1: or not, and he's collected some of his books. Bobby
Speaker 1: Atkinson lives in Winchester and he was a great guest
Speaker 1: and a real goal getter. Talked about Christmas creep and
Speaker 1: also talked about the pink House with Rachel Rochelle. Joseph
Speaker 1: was the president of the support the Pink House up
Speaker 1: in Plumb Island. Anyway, that's what we've done this week.
Speaker 1: That's just one week of Nightside. You can listen to
Speaker 1: all the hours of Nightside. Just go to Nightside and
Speaker 1: demand over the weekend. When we get back, you brush
Speaker 1: with celebrity? Who'd you meet? How did they treat you?
Speaker 1: Was it a good experience? It's amazing in my audience
Speaker 1: the number of people that you had met, you collectively
Speaker 1: had met along the way. We will get right to
Speaker 1: those phone calls, I promise right after this one of
Speaker 1: our very quick, quicker commercial breaks coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, without any further Ado Rushes with Celebrity, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite favorite hours. It's a great way to
Speaker 1: end the week. David in Somerville, David first tonight on
Speaker 1: Nightside Brushes with Celebrity. Who would your celebrity be? David?
Speaker 5: I have three, but I'll start out with Don Rickles.
Speaker 1: Come on, where'd you meet? Well? Where where'd you meet him?
Speaker 5: I met him at a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
Speaker 5: many years ago. I was a seventeen year old employee
Speaker 5: dishwasher slash bus boy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Okay, Now he came in and he came to this
Speaker 5: restaurant regularly and with an entourage of people, of course,
Speaker 5: you know, at least nine or ten or maybe more. So.
Speaker 5: He came in this day and he very loud person,
Speaker 5: and he asked to see the bus boy with the
Speaker 5: worst complexion with the first pimples right, And I immediately
Speaker 5: went towards him. Though I was not the one. There
Speaker 5: was another guy who was really bad. I just had
Speaker 5: a few pimples here and there, and I went over
Speaker 5: to him and I said, uh, hey, what do you
Speaker 5: want your hockey puck? And I took him by surprise.
Speaker 5: I it was something, you know, I just took him
Speaker 5: by surprise, and uh he just handed me a hundred
Speaker 5: dollars bill folded up and said thanks for coming over.
Speaker 5: So then, uh, then I met Davy Jones.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, singing right, singing right.
Speaker 5: Yeah from the monkeys as Yeah, you must have been
Speaker 5: five foot one at the most smallest, and the girls
Speaker 5: were all around him. It was at a place called
Speaker 5: the Candy Store. Very popular bar and bought Lauderdale and uh,
Speaker 5: I just hung out with him, and uh I couldn't get,
Speaker 5: you know, get to talk to him everything. There was
Speaker 5: so many women around him was unbelievable. And the third
Speaker 5: one I met the same at the same place, was
Speaker 5: you remember such an agon Ray.
Speaker 1: Store Larry Storage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Larry Store. Yes, I met him and uh
Speaker 5: uh I had several drinks with him and uh had
Speaker 5: fun with him. And that also was at the U
Speaker 5: Yeah candy store, So yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: It was in Florida. It sounds that was your place
Speaker 1: in Florida. David. Those are good ones. The Ricords one
Speaker 1: is amazing. Hundred bucks. That was real money when he
Speaker 1: got hundred bucks back of the day.
Speaker 5: You kidding me? And I beat I beat the guy
Speaker 5: who was in front who wanted to go over, and
Speaker 5: you know, because he had ampos all over space. So
Speaker 5: what I got there fair enough?
Speaker 1: And David, I gotta let you run. I get packed
Speaker 1: lines here a great, great way to start us off.
Speaker 1: And everybody treated you well, which is most important. Thanks David,
Speaker 1: talk to you so good night. Let me go to
Speaker 1: Gary and Woburn. I'll bet you Gary has some stories.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Gary, I got one. I met Rush Conway
Speaker 6: before he passed passed away? You know who Rush Conway was?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: I think I should know, but I'm blanking on it.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Well it's right down your alley because you're
Speaker 6: a hockey guy throughout your life and as a kid. Yes, hockey.
Speaker 6: Uh he wrote the book Uh that exposed Allen Eagleson.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, he's a hockey writer. And he was based
Speaker 1: up was he Lowell? Up in that neck of the woods.
Speaker 6: He was an Eagle Tribune sports writer for a decade.
Speaker 1: Lawrence Eagle Tribune. Sure, No, I'm sorry I blanked on
Speaker 1: the name. I a good guy. By the way, from
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 6: Understand, did you ever have him on as a guest?
Speaker 1: Never did? Never did. No, I never was doing TV.
Speaker 1: I was doing TV at the time. So I'm guessing,
Speaker 1: if I had to, I'm guessing Russ has probably been
Speaker 1: gone for twenty years. What do you think?
Speaker 7: Boom?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he must have died in his mid fifties. But
Speaker 6: here's the catch. Okay, when I met him int the
Speaker 6: Haveral Chinese restaurant, He's sitting at the bar eating and
Speaker 6: I go up to him and make some conversation with
Speaker 6: him before. Now I saw him from a distance before,
Speaker 6: because after all, he was local because I used to
Speaker 6: live in the Merrick Valley. But here's something I go
Speaker 6: right after from Russ talking on this stat blank blank blank,
Speaker 6: I'm talking about Sterry o'rally, and he says, oh, he
Speaker 6: blows the Hall of Fame. He had a different brand
Speaker 6: of hockey, but he definitely he was had the type
Speaker 6: of playmanship that deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6: And then he said something about obviously Ellen Eagleson, it'll
Speaker 6: stay with you and me forever. He goes like, yes,
Speaker 6: I'll tell you how upset the players were. Instead of
Speaker 6: just talking about the criminal act of killing someone, he
Speaker 6: goes against. Brad Pack said it so poetically. He said,
Speaker 6: I'm going to the Hall of Fame, Russ, and I'm
Speaker 6: going to rip that plaque off the wall if they
Speaker 6: don't put him in jail.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. By the way, he passed away at the
Speaker 1: age of seventy in twenty nineteen, so he hasn't been
Speaker 1: gone that long. But he was a great reporter, great writer.
Speaker 1: But he was a writer who was also a reporter.
Speaker 1: He did his homework yep.
Speaker 6: So brad Pack that's a story for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one too. Let me tell you. Thanks, Gary,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Have a great night, have a good weekend.
Speaker 1: We going to see next, you know, gonna go see next.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go see John in Dorchester. John, You're next
Speaker 1: on Night Side. Who's your brush with celebrities?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 6: Uh Well?
Speaker 3: I used to carry on the men's golf tour and
Speaker 3: the women's tour, and then the off season we were
Speaker 3: out at Lakeside golf clubs to Luca Lake Vocals, remember Cymbals,
Speaker 3: Junior Grectis, all those people. But my it was a
Speaker 3: day before Thanksgiving and I think it was eighty six
Speaker 3: and it was Frankie Uh. Joe Namath was in a
Speaker 3: cat He just did a Monday Night came in December.
Speaker 3: He flew in Sandy Kolfax. He said he had a
Speaker 3: place in name. He was in the cot. I carried
Speaker 3: Frank the Avalon's bag and then one of the other
Speaker 3: guys and they were great. Frank the Avalon was funny
Speaker 3: though about the second he just kept asking about the
Speaker 3: ladies on the tour.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure I don't want to. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't want to open that can of orange. I think
Speaker 3: you know what I was gonna sit what they're gonna say,
Speaker 3: but but.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm guessing but that, but that's quite a crude
Speaker 1: Joe name it Sandy Kofax and Frankie Avalon.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and uh but it was funny the other thing,
Speaker 3: the thing that came out of uh frank Diavalon Beach,
Speaker 3: Patty Bingo. They were in next full Intello. One of
Speaker 3: his kids was either on the prices right or let's
Speaker 3: make a deal. And they won the whole shooting match
Speaker 3: and he goes, we had to pay taxes on that.
Speaker 3: As soon as he said that, I said, I know
Speaker 3: he's not going to give me a nickel. And sure
Speaker 3: enough we have finished. He said, oh, the member told
Speaker 3: me not to tip it. And he said they jump
Speaker 3: off the Golden Gate bridge, would you? And uh, I
Speaker 3: swear again? What what?
Speaker 1: What course?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What course?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: This was called Lake Lake Side Golf Club, the Smokehouse.
Speaker 3: Lesson was right next door to it, but Warner Brothers
Speaker 3: was directly across the street with but what I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying, where you're talking about in southern California at this.
Speaker 3: Point, Yes, yeah, yes, that's a tool of the lake,
Speaker 3: notth Hollywood, California for a bank Studios was great there
Speaker 3: there and and these were these.
Speaker 1: Guys were in the foursome name of Kofax and Frankie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, uh name. It was funny. On about the
Speaker 3: fifth fall, he goes, Hey, Boston, John min favor, go
Speaker 3: in and get us like four pitchers of greyhounds, like
Speaker 3: it was a lot or great food juice, And so
Speaker 3: I started running, where you going take the cat? And
Speaker 3: then uh Avon goes, I'm gonna have to carry my
Speaker 3: own bag and name it goes Boston Jones was right,
Speaker 3: you're tighter than the skin on a fun way. Frank anyway,
Speaker 3: so I go and grab them and I finished my name.
Speaker 3: It gave me like a hundred cofax that don't say
Speaker 3: anything my golf clubs on the cat look underneath it
Speaker 3: with one hundred under there. The member gave me, I
Speaker 3: think a juice and uh Bablon didn't give me anything
Speaker 3: anything but the fact that that was eighty six. It
Speaker 3: was good money.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was two hundred dollars for a day's work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that.
Speaker 3: It was the night before Thanksgiving. I pull home and
Speaker 3: I ended up I had a girl I was dating
Speaker 3: at the time, and a parent slipped in the data
Speaker 3: not the data in a little district, and I was
Speaker 3: saying with her and I saw the Mason's Date parade
Speaker 3: the next day, and then I took the train home
Speaker 3: in the box and like a home my Thanksgiving a
Speaker 3: night or something. So yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: Those are good memories. You know. You should have got
Speaker 1: the four of them to sign some autographs for you,
Speaker 1: and you would have made a lot more money.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't do that, you know. I chided you
Speaker 3: for uh, what's your name? But he played Bonnie Miller
Speaker 3: in San Diego at.
Speaker 1: The the I know you you're talking about Albert.
Speaker 3: He was a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1: Oh hell, hell Lindon Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hell. And then I caddies with Steve wynn Uh
Speaker 3: in Vegas. I think all the desident I had something
Speaker 3: to do it. He was really nice.
Speaker 1: He should have been a big tipper.
Speaker 3: What you do?
Speaker 1: What'd you do spend a few years you know as
Speaker 1: a caddy as a professional caddy? Did we lose him?
Speaker 1: I just lost him. I didn't hang up on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he dropped off. Okay, Well, take a break. Here's the news.
Speaker 1: That was a good one. John from Dorchester, Joe, name
Speaker 1: is Sandy Kofax, and Frankie Avalon quite a crow. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on nightside Feel Free Joint. The only line
Speaker 1: that's open right now is six one seven.
Speaker 2: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's
Speaker 2: news radio.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep rolling here. We got we got
Speaker 1: pack lines. We just got pack lines. Let me go
Speaker 1: Laurie in Idaho real quickly, here, Laurie, how are you tonight?
Speaker 8: I'm doing okay. So mine is one that you know
Speaker 8: about because you were one of the reasons that happened,
Speaker 8: and it was talking to Joke Ostiglio. Oh yeah, it's
Speaker 8: a long distance precious greatness.
Speaker 1: That's okay. That Joe was a great guy and he
Speaker 1: was fun that night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was, and I listened him for years and
Speaker 8: I just love him, so it was it was really
Speaker 8: a great.
Speaker 6: Thing for me.
Speaker 1: So well, you've told me that you're a Red Sox fan,
Speaker 1: and you get Red Sox baseball games that you listened
Speaker 1: to out in uh in Idaho.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah. With the with the satellite unnamed, I can
Speaker 8: get the home radio broadcast of every single game that
Speaker 8: was played.
Speaker 4: Now well that's yeah.
Speaker 1: So you're on the internet. You listen to us on
Speaker 1: the internet too, though, I mean, yeah I.
Speaker 7: Do, and yeah, you're your single does not go this far?
Speaker 1: Well, I had one guy I one night. I think
Speaker 1: I might have told you at one point. Guy and
Speaker 1: IHO called me one night from Idaho. All right, No,
Speaker 1: never called again. Uh and he said we're all So
Speaker 1: he says, I I know. I said, well, what are
Speaker 1: you are you listening you know, to us on the internet.
Speaker 1: He said no, he says, I'm in my truck. I
Speaker 1: said you don't. You don't have a tablet. He said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm in my truck. That's a skip, Laurie. I mean
Speaker 1: that guy, it is.
Speaker 8: And there there are some high mountains out here. Are
Speaker 8: mountains are way highed? Who is New England mountains?
Speaker 4: So oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a guy listening one night who was a
Speaker 1: construction worker who was from eastern Canada who listens to
Speaker 1: us a lot. And he was listening to us on
Speaker 1: a ten transistor radio in Winnipeg, on his ten transistor radio,
Speaker 1: so he didn't have a he didn't have a table
Speaker 1: Why we love radio?
Speaker 8: I love radio, My dad love radio. And it's I
Speaker 8: love radio, and so if it has to be embraced
Speaker 8: by the Internet out here, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Just just just look at the the people that
Speaker 1: we've talked to tonight, you know, between David Gary John
Speaker 1: and you you know, Don Rickles, Joe, Nama City, Kovax.
Speaker 1: It's amazing the number of people that who meet very
Speaker 1: interesting people, you know, the circumstances.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it is amazing.
Speaker 8: And I'm most a minor classical music which nobody cares about.
Speaker 8: But Joe jocastigly on for me was a huge, huge,
Speaker 8: kind I owe you for him getting for you getting
Speaker 8: him on the show, and I just I thank you
Speaker 8: for that, and it was it was, it was a
Speaker 8: great thing for me.
Speaker 1: I thank you for being my most loyal listener in Idaho.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. I was actually talking to a
Speaker 1: sales representative in Idaho today and I thought about you
Speaker 1: earlier today, said I wonder where this person is. I said,
Speaker 1: we're about Idaho. I said, well, I know someone in Idaho.
Speaker 8: It's a very tall state and the southern part of
Speaker 8: the state is very different from the northern part of state.
Speaker 8: But yeah, so anyway, anyway, thank you for for my
Speaker 8: most recent brush with greatness longest we.
Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks for the call. Thanks Laurie, talk to you
Speaker 1: soon and have a great night. Good All right, talk
Speaker 1: about a brush with celebrity. We have a celebrity calling
Speaker 1: to talk about a brush with some other celebrity. Livingston Taylor.
Speaker 1: Hi Livingston, how are you, Dan?
Speaker 5: I'm just fine.
Speaker 4: Nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 1: Well, great to hear yours as well. Where were you
Speaker 1: You were performing somewhere tonight? I assume yes.
Speaker 4: I had a show and a Arundel Maine at Vinegar Hill.
Speaker 4: It's an absolutely wonderful music venue, and we were all
Speaker 4: sold out and the natives were friendly, and I just
Speaker 4: had a great time. And I was listening to you
Speaker 4: on the way home as I often do, and because
Speaker 4: I love VS Radio, as you know, and I had
Speaker 4: a celebrity under myself, which really made an impression on me.
Speaker 1: Who was that? I?
Speaker 4: Okay, I was at Boston Garden and I was listening
Speaker 4: at a ute to concert again.
Speaker 9: Uh uh uh uh.
Speaker 4: It was a Don Law promotion, and Don's a good
Speaker 4: friend of mine.
Speaker 3: And uh uh.
Speaker 4: And so I was there. I was walking it was
Speaker 4: fairly uh uh dark, and I saw two friends of mine,
Speaker 4: David and Nina Fialco, and.
Speaker 1: I know David Filo absolutely.
Speaker 4: And so so they were there and I said, Hi David,
Speaker 4: Hi Nino, I live, you know, and we're having greetings.
Speaker 4: And there was a person with David, and again it
Speaker 4: was dark.
Speaker 7: And not that easy to see who was there.
Speaker 4: And David said to me, uh, meet our friend Jezelle.
Speaker 4: And I turned and I looked and it was Giselle Dungeon,
Speaker 4: Tom Brady's formal wife, Brady's former wife. And I turned
Speaker 4: and I was surprised by the celebrity. I wasn't expecting
Speaker 4: to see her. And she did the most gracious, kind
Speaker 4: thing that I've ever seen, knowing that being completely situationally aware,
Speaker 4: understanding who and what she was and the effect that
Speaker 4: it would have on me, and that in my surprise,
Speaker 4: I'd sort of look at her and go oh oh, oh, hi, oh,
Speaker 4: I really like the way your husband plays football or something,
Speaker 4: and then spend the rest of the night going stupid, stupid.
Speaker 4: And she but this is what she did, Dank. She
Speaker 4: saw me my surprise, and she took my hand and
Speaker 4: she shook it and she said, Livingston, my name is Gizelle,
Speaker 4: and it's nice to meet you, giving me time to
Speaker 4: regain my composure. It was the most gracious thing I've
Speaker 4: ever seen a celebrity do. And trust me, I've met
Speaker 4: plenty of them.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure of that. So what she did was
Speaker 1: she slowed the moment down, almost the same thing that
Speaker 1: an athlete will do when when the game's going too fast.
Speaker 1: The great athletes will slow the game down so they can,
Speaker 1: you know, deal with what what's going on.
Speaker 4: Wow, it was just it was just so gracious of
Speaker 4: her to understand who's she was, what she was, what
Speaker 4: affect that her celebrity and beauty would have on me,
Speaker 4: and she protected me until I regained my composure. It
Speaker 4: was just the classiest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But that's a great story, Livingston, That is a great story.
Speaker 1: So are you? I'm assuming you're on ninety five South
Speaker 1: at this point somewhere.
Speaker 10: I or you are?
Speaker 5: You are?
Speaker 11: Have got that right?
Speaker 4: I'm ninety five South, and of course I'm just by
Speaker 4: Georgetown and Rowley, And of course, of course I'm driving modestly.
Speaker 1: Right, no doubt, no doubt. We don't want any trooper
Speaker 1: to pull you over.
Speaker 8: And as for okay, I do not want to be
Speaker 8: pulled over.
Speaker 5: While I'm on the.
Speaker 1: Air with you, Dan, I'm with you. I'm with you, Livingston.
Speaker 1: Great to hear your voice. We got to grab lunch
Speaker 1: someday and uh leave it in my court. If I
Speaker 1: can catch you when you're hanging around town and not
Speaker 1: out touring somewhere left to left to grab lunch.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love to I'd love to do that. And
Speaker 4: at some point I'll grab my guitar, I'll come by
Speaker 4: Night's side and we'll, uh, we'll throw a few tunes
Speaker 4: and we'll talk music.
Speaker 1: Well, I would, I would also. I would also love
Speaker 1: to do that. I do now all my shows remotely.
Speaker 1: I haven't been in studio. The last time we were together,
Speaker 1: I was in studio and it was before COVID. But
Speaker 1: we still can do exactly what we're talking about. Great,
Speaker 1: so we'll set that up as well. I think the
Speaker 1: audience would really love it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Oh I would as well.
Speaker 4: Well. Thanks for having such a wonderful show, and we
Speaker 4: will speak soon.
Speaker 1: Dan, absolutely Livingston, talk to you soon, my friend.
Speaker 6: Bye, Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. So there's a celebrity telling us about us
Speaker 1: their meeting with the celebrity. So celebrities meet celebrities as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: I am going to take a quick break. I don't
Speaker 1: want to short short cut or short change Mike in
Speaker 1: Watertown or Jack on the Cape, and I, for the
Speaker 1: first time tonight, have some open lines here, so fill
Speaker 1: them up. We'll get you in. I promise. Six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 1: foard ten thirty, six one seven, Well, just do the
Speaker 1: two five, four to ten thirty because the nine three
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Speaker 1: four to ten thirty. Just a little inside secret. We
Speaker 1: have five lines, folks. We have three with two six
Speaker 1: one seven, two five four to ten thirty. Those are
Speaker 1: open right now, which they should not be. And we
Speaker 1: a couple of folks dropped off. If you've dropped off,
Speaker 1: call back, we'll put you back in line. If not,
Speaker 1: call in and fill the lines. And then we have
Speaker 1: two with six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to Mike and Jack. Jack will be first,
Speaker 1: Mike will be second, and then you'll be third. If
Speaker 1: you dial right now, you're brushed with celebrity so far,
Speaker 1: all all of the including Livingston Taylor's brush with Giselle
Speaker 1: Bunchkin not only was pleasant and kind, but she was
Speaker 1: able to slow the meeting meeting down a little bit.
Speaker 1: And those of us who have ever been in that
Speaker 1: situation where you meet someone and you kind of either
Speaker 1: aren't exactly sure the circumstances or who the person is you,
Speaker 1: sometimes you need to have someone kind of introduce themselves
Speaker 1: to you. We'll be back on Night's Ide. Feel free
Speaker 1: join the conversation back right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on w b Z the news radio.
Speaker 1: Next up is Jack on the Cape. Hey Jack, welcome back.
Speaker 1: How are you Jack?
Speaker 7: Dan, I can't thank you enough for giving me the
Speaker 7: opportunity to share this story.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Now, go right ahead.
Speaker 7: So I'm down here on the Cape and I'm driving
Speaker 7: ab and I get a call and it's a call
Speaker 7: I got to go to Hyanna's Marina, okay, And and
Speaker 7: he's the call is kind of like, you know, take
Speaker 7: care of the guy. So I go down there and
Speaker 7: find the guy and you know, pick him up and
Speaker 7: pick him up and the girl with him, and and
Speaker 7: so they're going up on the north side of the
Speaker 7: Scargo Cafe and he says, we're going to want to
Speaker 7: hold you tonight. I said, okay, whatever. And so we're
Speaker 7: driving up from Hyanna's up to the north Side and
Speaker 7: they're just chit chatting. But the girl is snapping the gum.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you know, you know how gum
Speaker 7: snappers are.
Speaker 1: Ye, I hear you, Yeah, I hear you. The north
Speaker 1: side you're talking about the north side of the Cape,
Speaker 1: or the north side of Ya's Port or what.
Speaker 7: No, north side of the Cape? Corset up this cargo
Speaker 7: up the Cargo cafe, have dinner. And he says, well,
Speaker 7: we're we're going to catch the playhouse and you know,
Speaker 7: and I mean anyway.
Speaker 1: There right, yeah, the playout the playoffs is over in Dennis, right,
Speaker 1: I think correct, and Scargo Cafe right across the street.
Speaker 7: So you know, we're going up there and I'm just
Speaker 7: listening to the you know there she's just chewing his
Speaker 7: ear off, snapping their gum and you know, and anyway,
Speaker 7: so we get up there and and uh we pull in.
Speaker 7: He says, here's twenty don't hold me. You know, he
Speaker 7: wants to hold the cab and you don't going to.
Speaker 4: Have to worry.
Speaker 1: It should be more than twenty if he's going to
Speaker 1: hold the cab for dinner, but go ahead.
Speaker 7: Well okay, so uh you know, so I wait for
Speaker 7: him and he comes out here. Here's another twenty and
Speaker 7: they're going to go to the playhouse and watch the play.
Speaker 7: There's another twenty long story short. It's philled on a
Speaker 7: Hue and his wife Marlo Thomas.
Speaker 1: Whoa yeah, yeah, Donna, Donna who just died, as you.
Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7: But he was awesome. Chill Donaghy was an awesome guy.
Speaker 7: He had a great show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh he he was one of the first that
Speaker 1: did the live TV shows with the audience. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you He was a he was a groundbreaker. There's no doubt.
Speaker 7: Totally love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and about him. Yeah, and it's unfortunate that Marlow
Speaker 1: was a gun's gum snapper.
Speaker 7: I find yourself sorry, I mean, I'm having to listen
Speaker 7: to him, listen to him, listen to her while she's
Speaker 7: snapping her gum who was anyway?
Speaker 1: That was my pay Hey Jack, thanks so much. That's
Speaker 1: a great one. I really really appreciated that one. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Thanks man, Like you right, we got
Speaker 1: a one line at six one seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 1: ten thirty one at six one, seven, nine, three, ten
Speaker 1: thirty Gotta go to Mike in Watertown. Hey Mike, welcome back.
Speaker 4: How are you hey?
Speaker 5: Dan?
Speaker 11: Thanks for taking my call. I don't know some of
Speaker 11: these guys, but I've been listening to show for a while.
Speaker 11: I was UPS driver for many many years, and UH
Speaker 11: had the honor of meeting Bill Buckner. And I'll tell
Speaker 11: you what the heck of a guy he was.
Speaker 5: Was this before Afterkie Wilson was about probably four or
Speaker 5: five years after the.
Speaker 1: The day the night the play Well, I thought that
Speaker 1: you had had had gotten out of town and had
Speaker 1: relocated from many years to Ida.
Speaker 11: He did, he but he owned a He came back
Speaker 11: to Boston and he had a hitting instruction clinic in Waltham, Okay.
Speaker 11: And Uh, I was on that probably route for fifteen years.
Speaker 11: And he moved in and he painted all the inside
Speaker 11: the building looked like Fenway Park and the other half
Speaker 11: was like inside looked like Wrigley. And he was a
Speaker 11: hell of a nice guy. I'll tell you he's always
Speaker 11: talk to and I got to know him, and he
Speaker 11: was all a kid, because why are you live in packages?
Speaker 11: You should play baseball. They'll be hit away in the
Speaker 11: cages at lunchtime a couple of times and gave me
Speaker 11: some advice. It's a real nice, nice guy. And uh
Speaker 11: I got to know him personally after a while. I'm like,
Speaker 11: you know, I says, you don't deserve that the BS
Speaker 11: the media put you through here. I said, you're a
Speaker 11: hell of a guy, you know. And he appreciated that.
Speaker 11: And then he finally left and his manager took over
Speaker 11: and the place folded about a year later. And then
Speaker 11: another time I got to meet Juliet Childs.
Speaker 4: That was strange.
Speaker 11: It was the first Saturday that upstarted delivering overnight packages
Speaker 11: on Saturdays, and they called a few of us in
Speaker 11: and there she was, I'm like, your ps on this Saturday.
Speaker 11: I'm like, yeah, you got a cookbook delivered but nicely.
Speaker 11: And then one all the time, I know you're a
Speaker 11: big baseball guy and I was just a kid, but
Speaker 11: a one time one to come up a clear even
Speaker 11: Indians in your early eighties, Joe Shaban.
Speaker 1: Oh, sure you have Rookie of the Year. And then
Speaker 1: he was done. He was one and done on the league.
Speaker 11: Up like crazy. There was a rain delay at Fenway.
Speaker 11: I was like fifteen or sixteen. Me, my buddy it
Speaker 11: u was a hundred bucks, and so went down and
Speaker 11: get me a couple of hot dogs and the solder
Speaker 11: and you guys, get me you want and keep the change.
Speaker 11: So we ran down, gone the stop, and he came.
Speaker 7: Back and.
Speaker 1: Not dogs.
Speaker 11: During the game, maybe maybe that raindelay. He was sitting
Speaker 11: in a chair in the right field corner, right right
Speaker 11: down the a tusky pole. Me and my buddy ran
Speaker 11: down and get an autograph. Yeah, I'll give you an autograph.
Speaker 11: I wont a couple of dogs, you know. And we
Speaker 11: ran down gone with dogs, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: Now, But I gotta tell you, you know that the
Speaker 1: argument was that mc namara should have put Stapleton in
Speaker 1: as a defensive replacement for bucking and Buckden was working
Speaker 1: with bad legs and then that ball just his legs.
Speaker 1: Absolutely had to pass ball, you know. Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1: There's always more than one or two factors that goes
Speaker 1: into something like that. Hey, Mike, I got to run
Speaker 1: because they're gonna get a couple more in here. Thanks
Speaker 1: that those men, greatstof Thanks Buddy. Talk to you soon,
Speaker 1: John and Drake and John. I want to get you
Speaker 1: in one more in maybe go ahead.
Speaker 10: John, all right, Hey Dan, real quick. I was working
Speaker 10: for Wingate Management in Boston at nineteen twenty five Comab,
Speaker 10: working for the Shuster family, and I was working for
Speaker 10: them as a maintenance uh director at the building. And
Speaker 10: two shoply dressed men showed up at my unit. I
Speaker 10: lived in the building, I was living superintendent. And they
Speaker 10: had passes on their on their uniforms. There was a
Speaker 10: secret service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I believe with big Democratic contributors, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. His wife was the Democratic National Committee chairperson,
Speaker 10: yep and Elaine, And of course they were bringing in
Speaker 10: Bill Clinton for a picture there, and he was in
Speaker 10: the limo coming up com Ab and they wanted to
Speaker 10: check the building. They had uh German Shepherd's on top
Speaker 10: of the elevators. They checked my whole unit. They had
Speaker 10: me bring them down on the boiler room. It was
Speaker 10: absolutely Was this after.
Speaker 1: His presidency or was he still president?
Speaker 10: He was, no, he was it was during his second year?
Speaker 4: Second year?
Speaker 10: Wow, so nine ninety five.
Speaker 1: And how did the former president treacher?
Speaker 10: I hope, Well, he was unbelievable. I said, mister Clinton,
Speaker 10: was very nice to meet you, sir, And he said, well,
Speaker 10: nice to me. You too.
Speaker 3: What do you do for work here?
Speaker 10: I says, I'm the maintenance director. He said, wow, so what.
Speaker 3: Do you do?
Speaker 10: Like go around pitts and toilets. It was like it
Speaker 10: was like pretty cool, like I got his voice down bad,
Speaker 10: I got a kick on and he was very nice.
Speaker 1: And you gotta be you got you did a good
Speaker 1: job on that one. Yeah. I've met Clinton many times.
Speaker 1: He was always a pretty friendly guy to deal with.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he was genuinated.
Speaker 3: He talked to me for about four minutes and then
Speaker 3: he was honest, way quick.
Speaker 1: Then you got it, got it? We could compare Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton accent some night you and me. Okay, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get one more in here real quick.
Speaker 10: John in Boston, I listened to WBS with Dan Ray
Speaker 10: have a good all.
Speaker 3: Right, I like that.
Speaker 1: I'll put that on as a promo piece, mister President,
Speaker 1: Thank you much.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I hey John and Maine. John, I gave you about
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. What do you got for me?
Speaker 9: Okay, this is for Live. One time I was coming
Speaker 9: out of a lesson with Charlie Banakas and I met
Speaker 9: liv Uh. We were back to back in our lessons
Speaker 9: with the Great Charlie Banakas all right, Charlie might remember that,
Speaker 9: I mean, excuse me. And Charlie's not been within it
Speaker 9: for quite a while. Live may remember that. And I
Speaker 9: was introduced to him and I met Sonny Rowans at
Speaker 9: the airport on a tour that I was going on
Speaker 9: and he was. We had played at Symphony Hall the
Speaker 9: night before, and that was right, real.
Speaker 1: Week, John, I wish, I wish you'd call literally, but
Speaker 1: I'm flat out of time. I'm hoping Livingston Taylor was
Speaker 1: continuing to listen and heard the story that you told
Speaker 1: about him. I thank you so much. Brought this, brought
Speaker 1: the show full circle. Thanks again. Okay, all right, We're
Speaker 1: done for the week. Everybody. Thank you all very much.
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Speaker 1: for the week, Rob Brooks, thank you very much. Maria
Speaker 1: did a great job all week. We'll see you Monday.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Rayo, Dogs, all cats, all pets
Speaker 1: go to Heaven. That's my pal Charlie Rayes, who passed
Speaker 1: fourteen years ago in February. That's all your pets were past.
Speaker 1: They loved you and you love them. I do believe
Speaker 1: you'll see them again. We'll see you again on Monday
Speaker 1: night on Nightside. Have a great weekend everyone, stay safe.