WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:06.559 It's Nightside with Damn Ray on WVST Radio. 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.000 Cor I couldn't agree with you more. I don't need 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:12.560 sports wait got Damn Ray. 4 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:15.000 Look, if you want to watch sports recall, all they 5 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:16.760 have to do is just watch it on TV. If 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:18.600 they want, then turn the audio down and they can 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.160 multitask and listen to Nightside all of our interesting program 8 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.440 and good evening. Everybody, welcome on into it. Monday night 9 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.640 we start another week of Nightside. We will take you 10 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.039 all the way almost a Saturday morning, every Monday night 11 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.520 from eight until midnight. Rob Brooks, our producer, is back 12 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:36.280 in the control room set to take your calls beginning 13 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.799 after nine o'clock, and we have four guests lined up 14 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:42.479 this hour on various and sundry topics. Some of them 15 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.439 are newsworthy, some of them are of interest, and some 16 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.759 of them are informative. It's a polpery sort of an 17 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.960 an eclectic mix, if you will, and that's what we 18 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.600 offer here from eight until nine and have been doing 19 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.119 that for about a year and a half and it's 20 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:00.200 worked out pretty well. A lot of different groups and 21 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.280 organizations have got a little bit of airtime. They're not 22 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.200 necessarily topics that we generated an hour's worth of discussion. 23 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.599 We saved those for the nine to ten and the eleven, 24 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:13.120 and tonight we will be talking about the teacher strikes 25 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.560 that are going on in three communities here in Massachusetts. 26 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.000 That's our great news for kids and great great news 27 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.680 for their parents, no doubt, I'm sure that there are 28 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.359 people of those communities Beverly, Marblehead and Gloucester who are upset. 29 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.640 Maybe some of them don't want to say anything because 30 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.480 they're afraid that it might impact their child's grades. I 31 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.640 just think it's unfortunate that these sort of strikes occurred 32 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.760 during the school year. I don't see why they copy 33 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:41.840 resolved during the summer with arbitration and necessary binding arbitration strikes. 34 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.599 Teacher strikes were illegal here in Massachusetts anyway. 35 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:46.400 But we'll get to we'll get to all of that 36 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:47.680 stuff later. 37 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:49.840 We're going to start off with a really fun topic, 38 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.439 literally a fun topic. 39 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.959 Going to talk with Justine Sigal. 40 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.959 Justin just five ways I can pronounce your last name, 41 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.280 So give me the correct pronununciation if I haven't done 42 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:01.879 it correctly. 43 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:05.680 It's a seagull, SEAgel. 44 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.639 Okay, that's fine, Okay, she is the co founder of 45 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:13.800 the Women's Pro Baseball League and founder of Baseball for All. Well, 46 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.560 welcome to Night's side. This is exciting news. Apparently by 47 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.639 the year twenty twenty six, you hope to have a 48 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:25.199 professional women's baseball league in action. 49 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:26.120 Tell us about it. 50 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.800 Yeah, we're very excited to launch and as you said, 51 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.360 twenty twenty six will be the inaugural season and good 52 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.960 news for Boston fans as we plan to be in 53 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:42.240 the Northeast and we're still choosing where, but you know, 54 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.319 we'll almost see in your neighborhood. 55 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:46.520 Do you know where or no, I mean, have you 56 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.159 have you you know, picked the locations. 57 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.680 We're still determining which locations would be best. 58 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.879 Yeah, okay, so I'm assuming that even if you're in Boston, 59 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.599 you're probably not going to be sharing Way Park with 60 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.400 the Red Sox, that there'll be another location of some 61 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.719 sort where people can will be able to find you. 62 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:07.199 Correct. 63 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.719 Yeah, absolutely, we plan to be in smaller stadiums, about 64 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:13.680 twenty five hundred to five thousand. 65 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:15.479 That's great. 66 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.599 You know, hey, you have there's several of those those 67 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.879 ballparks in the greater Boston area. And when you say 68 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.439 the Northeast, can you leave, at least give us a 69 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.280 description of the Northeast. Most of us will live in Boston, Justine, 70 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.319 we think the Northeast is basically all within Route one 71 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.840 twenty eight. But you probably have a more expanded view 72 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.319 of the Northeast than those of us in Boston. 73 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.039 Half correct. 74 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:41.039 No, No, I used to work at Sport and Society 75 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:44.479 at Northeastern, so about the world. 76 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.919 Ends after that, we'd have absolutely no way. 77 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:48.879 No, I'm only teasing. 78 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.599 So, so you're talking about maybe a couple of teams 79 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.639 in New England, and maybe a couple of teams and 80 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.199 other Northeastern environments that are baseball centric. Oh, I think 81 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.159 maybe New York, Philadelphia communities like that. 82 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.439 We will see, but I can tell you that for 83 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.360 the first year, we'll be moving by bus. Okay, so 84 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:10.599 that's important to us. 85 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.960 And yeah, necessary, I know I can understand that. Okay, 86 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.199 So let me ask us. You know a lot more 87 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.759 about women's baseball, and you may know a lot more 88 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.000 about baseball than me, although I got a pretty good 89 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:31.519 knowledge of baseball. I remember when Cores had a women's 90 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.160 team that toured back in the mid nineties. They actually 91 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:37.360 played at Faenway Park. They were called the Silver Bullets. 92 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.360 You're probably too young to remember them. Do you have 93 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:41.079 any knowledge of them? 94 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:41.800 Yeah? 95 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.879 I went to spring training with the Silver Bullets, so 96 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.000 they I went down to the Red Sox spring training 97 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.079 facility and played there. 98 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:51.600 Yeah. 99 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.000 Unfortunately I hurt my arms, so I didn't make the team. 100 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:54.360 Yeah. 101 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.560 We've all hurt our arms at some point. Trust man, 102 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:58.480 it was a picture tree, so I know exactly what 103 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:02.240 you mean. Anyway, I think Phil Nekro was the manager, 104 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.279 if I'm not mistaken. What Maybe it was Phil, Maybe 105 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.040 it was Joe Negro, It's one of the Negroes. 106 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.199 It was Phil and Joe, both of them. 107 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.439 Okay, they were both there, absolutely, Okay, now correct me 108 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:14.920 if I'm wrong. Did they play women's teams or were 109 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.800 they playing? They were they were playing some men's teams. 110 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:21.600 I thought as well, Yeah, the Silver Bullets they played 111 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:25.279 men's teams. And so what makes you know the women's 112 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:28.959 professional baseball leagues so exceptional is that we're going to 113 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.199 have a women's BASEBA league of our own. And it's 114 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.600 been seventy years since all the All American Girls Professional 115 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.000 Baseball League, So seventy years is a big drought. 116 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.680 No, I think it ready to come. I think it 117 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:42.399 is great. 118 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:47.399 And for those who do not understand this, I watched 119 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.120 some of the Silver Bullets pitchers and they could they could, 120 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.439 they could get it up there. They they had something 121 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.879 on the ball. This is not slow pitch baseball. Trust 122 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:57.680 me on that, folks. 123 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.399 It's uh uh. You know, I'm asuming these pitchers were thrown. 124 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.839 Somewhere in the high seventies, low eighties, or am I 125 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.480 over over remembering. 126 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.240 As we say, No, that's correct, low eighties, seventies, yeah, 127 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:12.120 mid eighties. 128 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:13.040 Yeah. 129 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.639 And anybody thinks that's slow, try hitting something like that, 130 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.800 you know, particularly if the ball's move And where will 131 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:20.279 you find your players? 132 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:22.399 I do know a little bit. 133 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:24.079 I looked at your background a little bit, and I 134 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.639 know that you have been You were a coach at 135 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.360 one point with the Oakland A's and you actually were 136 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.600 the first women to throw spring training batting practice. 137 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:33.680 To the Cleveland Indians. 138 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:37.319 And anyone who's thrown batting practice has to know that 139 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.600 you've got to be pretty agile to throw the ball, 140 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:42.279 get it where you want to get it to, and 141 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:43.720 then duck behind the screen. 142 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.279 Well, we're at the players. I mean, they're going to 143 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.839 be mostly US players, but we're also looking internationally. We 144 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.560 have a women's national team through USA Baseball, so we 145 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.120 already know who the top twenty players in the country are. 146 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.160 But we have five hundred at least five hundred players 147 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.319 and our player pooro, you know, wanting information on how 148 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.879 to try out. So uh, you know, it's we're going 149 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:12.959 to start to the amazing talent, some that we knew 150 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.519 of and some that's going to be brand new. 151 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:15.920 So here's my question. 152 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:21.120 Are there any colleges or high schools that have girls 153 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:25.560 baseball teams? My daughter played softball in high school, but 154 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.920 are there any you know, girls, Where do you find players? 155 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.839 Because obviously, in order to develop a skill, you got 156 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:37.879 to play against other people. So where where are these 157 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.639 players coming from? 158 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:43.560 Most of the girls who play baseball they play with 159 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.639 the boys. They did, okay, thousands of girls playing baseball 160 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.160 at the boys across the country. You even have a 161 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.480 girls program in Boston called the Boston Slammers. And therefore 162 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.639 all ages and we have eight women are playing at 163 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.959 college level with the men, and about two thousand girls 164 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.879 playing high school baseball. And that's just here in the US. 165 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.560 And you're talking in Japan and Mexico and so on. 166 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:08.639 That's great. 167 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.480 So, yeah, they play with the boys, but the dreams 168 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.439 to play with the you know, with the girls and 169 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.399 play with the women and have a pro league. 170 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.759 So how long is schedule? The first season, the inaugural 171 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:23.879 season twenty twenty six? Are you talking. 172 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.560 About sixty games? I mean, you're not talking about one 173 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.560 hundred and sixty two games. I'm assuming. 174 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:34.159 No, we're starting off with a summer league, so you're 175 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.879 looking at more forty games to summer. They can also 176 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:39.559 capture the college athlete as well. 177 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:40.759 Yeah, excellent. 178 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.960 So if anyone has an interest in either trying out 179 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:47.759 or getting more information, either as a fan or whatever, 180 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:49.840 is there a website we can direct people to. 181 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:54.759 Yeah? Absolutely, Women's Pro Baseball League dot com? 182 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.960 Perfect, Women's no apostrophe or is there an apostrophe in 183 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:00.399 their pro baseball free? 184 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.480 Women's Probaseball League dot com? 185 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:02.840 Perfect? 186 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.879 Okay, Well, Justine, best of luck. I'm looking forward to 187 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.480 watching you play two summers from now, and I think 188 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.919 it's great. I really do think it's great. I love 189 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:20.320 watching college women's college softball, and I mean they do 190 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.120 amazing things with that ball underhand and at fifty two 191 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.879 feet or whatever the mound is that ball moves around, 192 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.960 and I'm sure you gotta have some real interesting games, 193 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.600 and we'll keep we'll keep you posted, or you keep 194 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.240 us posting, and I'd love to have you back, and 195 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.559 maybe we'll have you back some night and take some 196 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.240 phone calls from listeners because I think baseball is still 197 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:40.600 America's pastime. 198 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:42.679 It's great that women are getting involved in it at 199 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.159 this level. It's going to be fabulous. Thank you so much. 200 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:46.759 Thank you. 201 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.840 All right, Justine Siegel, co founder of the Women's Pro 202 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:50.639 Baseball League. 203 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.080 When we come back, we're going to talk with a 204 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:58.360 movie producer about a film called Silent Dignity, six part 205 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.600 docuseries raising up veterans' voices to tell their stories to 206 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.120 promote healing. And of course we could not have picked 207 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.279 a better night. This is Veteran's Day and so this 208 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.039 is Veterans Day night, and we'll be talking with the 209 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.519 producer of that film, who also I believe appears in it. 210 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:18.480 Right after this break here on Nightside. Now back to 211 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.000 Dan ray Line from the Window World. 212 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.240 Night Side Studios on wb Z to news Radio. 213 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.120 I want to welcome to the program, Wayne Sores. Wayne 214 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:31.320 is a producer. He's also an actor. From Western Massachusetts 215 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.480 and he is putting together a docuseriies raising up veterans' 216 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.000 voices to tell their stories to promote healing. The docuseries 217 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.639 is called Silent Dignity. Wayne, Welcome to Nightside. How are you, sir? 218 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.320 I'm doing very well, Dan, Thank you so much for 219 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:46.320 having me on the program. 220 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.679 Well, thank you for the enthusiasm in your voice. I 221 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.519 love enthusiastic guests. Tell us about the idea and the 222 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.519 series and how it has come to be and it 223 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.480 is still a work in progress as if I if I'm. 224 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:04.639 Correct, Yes, it's still I created this about started storyboarding 225 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:07.759 about two about two years ago and had an opportunity 226 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.360 to bring on somebody that I did some film work 227 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.960 with armand De Sante and they award winning, Golden Globe 228 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:20.279 winning actor and he was just embraced it tremendously and 229 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.080 has equally the passion that I have. And what we 230 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.559 did in episode one, Dan was we we this is 231 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:32.919 about our Vietnam veterans and really kind of welcoming them home. 232 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.399 They never got the appropriate you know, parade, or they 233 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.679 came home to scorn and ridicule, and so what we've 234 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.440 tried to do is show the the bring out the 235 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:47.080 emotion of what the men and women that served in Vietnam, 236 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.399 what they went through. And and in our second episode 237 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.879 right now that we're in the midst of we really 238 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:59.720 want to bring awareness to PTSD. Uh, it's horrible, horrible, horrible, 239 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.159 as well as Agent Orange and the effects that it 240 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.879 had on our Vietnam veterans. 241 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.240 So took a lot of lives. 242 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.799 They used to call it in World War Two shell 243 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:16.159 shock exactly. It's got the PTSD characterization. So is this 244 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.360 it's going to be as I understand that the plan 245 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:23.120 is to be a six part series documentary correct. 246 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.840 Yes, correct, yep, documentary series. 247 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.720 And is it focused on the Vietnam era veterans? 248 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.000 Yes, okay, yes, we wanted from from We're going to 249 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.200 be doing stuff on the service dogs that went over there. 250 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:42.960 People don't realize that almost four thousand dogs went over 251 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.039 during during the Vietnam Era and very very very few 252 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.919 came home. I believe about four hundred dogs came home. 253 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.279 We want to do a combat nurses, which were which 254 00:12:55.320 --> 00:13:00.639 were just a huge part of anybody that got the wounded, 255 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.919 the donut dollies. We've got to We've got a segment 256 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.039 on them. They were the people, the women that reached 257 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.679 their their lives, going around to make soldiers lives better 258 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:15.519 with just their enthusiasm and and making them fee relaxed. 259 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:17.960 So we've we've got a kind of a potfolry of 260 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.000 things that were were going to be including in this series. 261 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.120 Now the service dogs that everyone is interested in service dogs. 262 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.080 My understanding is that they were often used going down 263 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.799 what was called spider holes. Correct me if I'm wrong. 264 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.279 Exactly that's exactly right. You know, obviously they had the 265 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.320 tunnel rats, but the dogs, the dogs were were fearless, 266 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:46.639 and uh, the the enemy in Vietnam was was was 267 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:51.320 really really afraid of them. And when the dog was 268 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.600 was was killed, they gave them a burial exactly like 269 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.480 they were a soldier, which which I think is really 270 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.399 a testament to the to the courage, you know, the 271 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:02.679 of the dogs that were over there. 272 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.919 Wow, what was the genesis of this? How did this 273 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:12.279 idea come to you? And how did it? Is this 274 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.480 something you've thought about for a while or something that 275 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:15.799 has been of just reason? 276 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.559 Well it wasn't, I think dn we all have those. 277 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:22.679 But my my grandfather was my idol was no longer 278 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.120 with US. He was in World War Two Navy, UH 279 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.000 veteran in the CDs. And when I started to to 280 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:34.600 look at different things, I kicked myself because I think 281 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:36.600 we all do it to cheese. I should have I 282 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:39.200 should have asked my grandfather. I should have asked, you know, 283 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.240 my my uncle, you know what it was like? And 284 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.080 he never really talked about it. That was the that generation, 285 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.559 the greatest generation. They never they never talked about it. 286 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.480 But once in a while when he when he got 287 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.080 a few pops in him, he would open up just 288 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.600 a little bit, but not much. And I think that 289 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.360 was that was really the trademark of of the men 290 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.799 and women that that did serve in that. But I 291 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.360 I love the storyboard. I'm a writer. I have a 292 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.799 syndicated column that goes out to any outlets around the 293 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.799 country called Veterans Spotlight. So I just wanted to really 294 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:12.679 kind of build on that. And I was sitting home here, 295 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:18.200 I watch a lot of video on Bob Hope, and 296 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:20.840 I thought that there might be something that I could, 297 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.679 you know, compile and and put together in my first 298 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:26.320 series that I did you. 299 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:28.639 Talk about you talking about Bob Hope with the USO 300 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.279 Tours of Vietnam, Bob Hope andt I Margret. 301 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.519 Yes, oh yes, yes, yes, Rockel Welch and then you 302 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.519 know just litany of people that he took and I 303 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:42.960 just became just so the focused and and I couldn't 304 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:48.399 ensconced in trying to make something that that we could 305 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:53.159 really use to help not showcases a bad word, but 306 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.600 kind of give tribute to to our to our veterans. 307 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:58.960 It started with our World War two vets, and then 308 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.200 I just came up with the idea that we should 309 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:03.240 do something for our via non dettors, because if you 310 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.679 look at every part of our history, excuse me, Vietnam 311 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:12.000 vennorans really get they got absolutely nothing when when they 312 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:13.960 came home, and they really got the short end of 313 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:14.320 the stick. 314 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.279 Now, minunderstanding is that there's a way. Do you have 315 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.759 some trailers that people can start to look at or 316 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.919 what how how can people get a sense of uh, 317 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:27.120 you know what this will eventually become. And minderstanding is 318 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.919 that you're hoping that it's going to be available on 319 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.600 one of the cable network channels. I'm sure that you 320 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.360 probably are talking to cable network channels about this. 321 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.200 Yes, yes, we actually have a studio that's I'm not 322 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.799 at liberty to say right now, but they're very interested there. 323 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.639 They do a lot of inspirational films and movies and 324 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.200 documentaries and this would fit this, This is a perfect 325 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.480 fit for their puzzle. But you can go to our 326 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.559 website and you can see clips and trailers Silentdignity dot Us, 327 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.240 Silent Dignity dot Us and that's some great piece that 328 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.240 Armand does. A does a beautiful, beautiful introduction, and in 329 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:12.079 episode two we really have some very very powerful, powerful 330 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.680 interviews and I think that that people will this is 331 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:21.319 very educational, excuse me, very educational. It's extremely informative, but 332 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.079 most of all, it's very patriotic. Where this is not 333 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.759 an anti military nothing of that sort. We just want 334 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.319 to be able to go ahead and give the welcome 335 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.720 home that our Vietnam veterans truly deserve. 336 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:40.559 Well, the Vietnam veterans or men and women who are 337 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:46.920 now well into their seventies or all in their seventies. 338 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.000 I mean, when you do the math, it's pretty simple. 339 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:54.039 And just as there's only a handful of World War 340 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.880 Two veterans who are still alive, I think that numbers 341 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:01.759 down to like below five hundred Korean War veterans are 342 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.559 also of you know, sort of a middle generation there. 343 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.680 But when you think about, you know, Vietnam veterans, you 344 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.480 would have some that you know, could be as old 345 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.160 as eighty, but a lot of them are going to 346 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.839 be in their mid seventies, and you know, this is 347 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.119 this is the time to give them the respect and 348 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.200 the welcome home that they never received. So the website 349 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:32.279 again is Silentdignity dot us and some of the final 350 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.279 cuts that you know, one at least one part is there. 351 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.720 These are not long presentations. I think the other day 352 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:43.839 you told me twenty eight twenty nine minutes. 353 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:47.319 Exactly, yep, exactly. It's it's the short documentary. But again 354 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.319 we compile, you know everything, We just look to make 355 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:53.079 this a series. And along the lines, you and you 356 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:56.119 talk about World War two vets. A good friend of mine, 357 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:58.920 if I could just give a shout out, he was 358 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:00.680 a one hundred and two years he's one hundred and 359 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.559 two years old. I spend just about every Saturday with him. 360 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.880 I've spent a lot of holidays with him. My buddy, 361 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.240 Chizo Masaconi. He lives in Cheshire, Massachusetts. He's one hundred 362 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.279 and two he was at Pearl Harbor. He's an army 363 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:18.039 veteran Pearl Harbor. After the attack, they came in four 364 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.079 months later, and then he was at the Battle of Saipan, 365 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.039 and then he spent eight months on Iwo Jima. He's 366 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.559 one hundred and two years old and still his faculties. 367 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:31.799 The only thing going on is his knees, and he's 368 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.039 too old for a knee transplant, but loves to have 369 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:38.279 an occasional glass of wine and great spirits and a big, 370 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:39.400 big baseball fan. 371 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:41.200 So his first name again is what. 372 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.440 Is Cheezo h ee as in sam Oh, it's it's destrord, 373 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.319 abbreviated for at Narciso, which is Narciso in Italian? Is Charlie? 374 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:53.440 All right, Cheezo? 375 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.640 Well, happy one hundred and two, Chiezo, and hopefully there's 376 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.279 many more to come. I really love the interview of 377 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.200 your enthusiasm, Wayne. I know it's going to be a success. 378 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:06.119 Please keep in touch with us and if we can 379 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.480 do anything along the way, you know, periodically as you're 380 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:12.319 making some news here and getting some breaks. I think 381 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:14.920 this is a perfect a lot of these uh you 382 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:22.440 know series, these these cable networks, they need good, positive presentations. 383 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.480 And I think that the Vietnam era veterans certainly did, 384 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:28.319 as you said, get the short end of the stick. 385 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.200 And now it's time to at least acknowledge. They might 386 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:33.519 not have been involved in a popular war, but but 387 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:35.559 they went and they served, and it's something that we 388 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.279 now appreciate as a society much more than perhaps we 389 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:40.240 did back in the day. 390 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.319 Thanks so much, thank you, thank you for saying that. 391 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:46.519 I'd like to really quickly say thank you to armand 392 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:49.000 Decante and the guy that put us together. Are a 393 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:51.000 good town, Mark Lund so good. 394 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:53.039 I once worked with Mark, or I should say I 395 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.160 worked for Mark, so it's a great friend of mine. 396 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:57.400 And he spoke very. 397 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:00.359 Highly of you, and and you you fulfill all of 398 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:04.319 my expectations. Thanks for your passion on this. You were 399 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:06.799 destined for success. With this great success. Thank you waye 400 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:07.279 appreciate it. 401 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:09.400