Speaker 1: It's nice Eyes, Dan Ray Unbellian Crazy Boston's news radio bro.
Speaker 2: Here. We are at the end of another week. It's
Speaker 2: the twentieth hour, and we are doing brushes with celebrity.
Speaker 2: Before we do that, let me just hit some of
Speaker 2: the topics for those of you who normally don't listen
Speaker 2: to us. Some of the topics we have hit this week.
Speaker 2: We started off on September sixteenth with a Washington Post
Speaker 2: reporter talking about more food warning labels. We talked with
Speaker 2: doctor Marty maccaret mcarry when medicine gets it wrong. Talk
Speaker 2: with Carly Church about parenting being hazardous to your health.
Speaker 2: And talk with Alex Spear, Boston Globe reporter for the
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox. And at that point they were still
Speaker 2: hanging on. Now they're losing four to one late innings,
Speaker 2: actually extra innings. We talked on Monday night about the death,
Speaker 2: the untimely death of the Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique
Speaker 2: Delgado Garcia. We also talked about the second assassination attempt
Speaker 2: on President Trump last weekend at his golf course in
Speaker 2: West Palm Beach. On Tuesday night, talked with Kate Wiseman
Speaker 2: about seven hundred cancer advocates in Washington. She was one
Speaker 2: of them. Talk with Julia Forbes about America's insomnia. Talk
Speaker 2: with Omar Collins about kids and energy drinks, and Jan
Speaker 2: Goss about Boston being one of the rudest cities in America.
Speaker 2: Talk with the Republican set of candidate John Deaton at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock on Tuesday night. That hour will be replayed
Speaker 2: this Sunday night at eleven and the Best of Nightside.
Speaker 2: Talked at ten o'clock on Tuesday night about mental health
Speaker 2: and the increase in suicide in this country with Nazar
Speaker 2: Yassen of an app called Soul sol. Also, we did
Speaker 2: delve in a little bit to the background story on
Speaker 2: this assassin who's the potential assassin who was arrested in
Speaker 2: Florida this weekend Wednesday night. Talked with Dana Gerber the
Speaker 2: Boston Global who's leaving Massachusetts, with Amy Laramie about the
Speaker 2: Steefel Killington Cup up in Killington, New Hampshire. Talked with
Speaker 2: rich John Allen Richard John Allen about coping with grief,
Speaker 2: and with Chris van Buskirk of The Boston Herald about
Speaker 2: mass Initiative two fifty. We're coming up on the two
Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Again,
Speaker 2: we went back on Wednesday night to the lack of
Speaker 2: information about the death of Enrique Delgado Garcia for two hours,
Speaker 2: and then we talked about the Teamsters Union deciding not
Speaker 2: to endorse them this year's presidential race. Talked with last
Speaker 2: night at on Thursday Night the nineteenth a professor from
Speaker 2: Entericott College, professor John Kelly, about the concept of no
Speaker 2: sebo kind of the opposite of placebos. Talked with Richard
Speaker 2: Siema the Washington Post about brain matters, with Nicol Maley,
Speaker 2: who ate a lot of food at the Big Ee
Speaker 2: out in West Springfield. And with Bill Dendy about the
Speaker 2: federal raitcut. He's a financial place. Talk with state senator
Speaker 2: about Peter Durant about the corrections officers attacked that Susan
Speaker 2: Bereonowski saw that video tonight on television. Just crazy, Just crazy.
Speaker 2: Talked last night for two hours with the WBZ nightside
Speaker 2: car Guy Scott and Larry Rubinstein. They were great last
Speaker 2: night and tonight we talked about dealing with workplace conflict
Speaker 2: with David Dye. Talked about sharks up on the North
Speaker 2: shore off the north Shore with John Chisholm of the
Speaker 2: New England Aquarium. Talked with Adrian Hernandez about a new
Speaker 2: not necessarily a new, but a new interest in people
Speaker 2: eating dirt and talk with James O'Brien, the general manager
Speaker 2: of the Topsfield Fear about some ticket scams only by
Speaker 2: your tops Field Fair tickets from the Topsfield Fair site.
Speaker 2: Talked with a city councilor at nine o'clock. Ed Flynn
Speaker 2: from Boston and Jeff Robbins, great lawyer with mince Levin,
Speaker 2: first Amendment lawyer, former head of the Anti Defamation League
Speaker 2: here in New England. A delegate on Human Rights to
Speaker 2: the UN under President Clinton, about the effort failed effort
Speaker 2: to raise the Israeli flag at the Israel Flag at
Speaker 2: Boston City Hall on the one year anniversary of the
Speaker 2: massacre of last October seventh. We talked in the last
Speaker 2: hour with two good friends of mine, two good attorneys,
Speaker 2: Bill Kickham and Robert George about the next chapter in
Speaker 2: the Karen Reid case, an appeal that her lawyers are
Speaker 2: taking to the court over whether or not lawyers, whether
Speaker 2: or not the jurors in this case actually came to
Speaker 2: a decision in the jury room. Also, I want to
Speaker 2: mention that Bill Kickham has reminded me not only is
Speaker 2: he in west is he in Westwood, but Bob George
Speaker 2: has offices now in Hyenas in Boston. So which brings
Speaker 2: us to the favorite hour of for me, breshes with celebrity?
Speaker 2: Who have you met? Who treated you well? One of
Speaker 2: the things I think I mentioned before that my daughter
Speaker 2: met a celebrity who will remain anonymous, as I told
Speaker 2: the story a couple of times, so I don't want
Speaker 2: to pile on here, but a celebrity who was not
Speaker 2: particularly pleasant, and somebody who you would think would have
Speaker 2: been pleasant because he was a member of the Monty
Speaker 2: Python group. But so, who have you met and how
Speaker 2: did they treat you? And you're going to determine if
Speaker 2: who the celebrity is okay for you. The celebrity might
Speaker 2: be Frank Sinatra or maybe Lady Gaga, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's possible Taylor Swift, I don't know. Or it may
Speaker 2: be a professional athlete or an actor or an author,
Speaker 2: or it might be someone who you view as a
Speaker 2: celebrity who might just know Whoever you think, we're going
Speaker 2: to go right to the phones, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: start it off tonight with Neil in Watertown. Neil, welcome
Speaker 2: to Nightside. How are you?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Jim.
Speaker 3: I work in a college bookstore in the textbook department,
Speaker 3: and a young man and two women came in, and
Speaker 3: the young man asked me, do you have the Associated
Speaker 3: Press style Book? I said, oh, I think so. It's
Speaker 3: over here in the English department. And then I said,
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure because we have the
Speaker 3: other style books, and is this the book that your
Speaker 3: professor wants you to use? And then the one woman said, oh,
Speaker 3: we're part of a project and between the university and
Speaker 3: the Boston Globe. She said, I'm a photographer. And I said, oh, well,
Speaker 3: what's your name? And she said, Jessica Ronald and oh
Speaker 3: I read. I read the what they call the cup
Speaker 3: Line and the Globe and the New York Times. So
Speaker 3: I read the Globe and the New York Times and
Speaker 3: the Herald. Those are my basically, and so I said oh.
Speaker 3: And I said, but I was trying to think of
Speaker 3: other photographers and I couldn't think of them. And I went, oh,
Speaker 3: very turning, she says yes, and I said, and I
Speaker 3: stammered at and I said, Pat Greenhouse and she said yes,
Speaker 3: And then I couldn't think of anymore. So they told
Speaker 3: me about the project between the Globe and the universe
Speaker 3: of right, right, I thought about celebrity.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a celebrity in here.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I would define her as a celebrity because
Speaker 3: I'm just an average person. I know who she is.
Speaker 2: And okay, so Jessica photographer.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: But so they told about the project, and then the
Speaker 3: reason this is memorable to me personally, he said, uh
Speaker 3: so she's she said okay, goodbye, thank you very much,
Speaker 3: and she's walking across the floor and up the stairs.
Speaker 3: I'm about to go out the last second. Ago Anna
Speaker 3: Moneymaker and she says, oh yes. And I don't know
Speaker 3: why I thought of me any Anna money Maker, except
Speaker 3: because she's a photographer either for the New York Times
Speaker 3: for the Associated Press. And she said, oh yeah. So
Speaker 3: I the thought that that's what it was meaningful to
Speaker 3: me was a fellowship of photographers.
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's a good one. And they treated you well, Neil,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, appreciate it very much for your call.
Speaker 5: Talk about it.
Speaker 2: Let me keep rolling here and I'm going to go
Speaker 2: to Sandy in West Roxbury. Sandy, how are you?
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm very well. Thank you. I wanted to thank
Speaker 6: you also for having that the nine o'clock hour. It
Speaker 6: broke my heart, but thank you. I have something a
Speaker 6: little bit unusual. But I was going through you know,
Speaker 6: I work in the archives for the West Rocky Historical Society,
Speaker 6: and I was going through the a petition that was
Speaker 6: signed in nineteen eighty five, it doesn't matter what it
Speaker 6: was for. And it came across the name Bobby or Sure,
Speaker 6: and I said, oh my goodness, could it be? Could
Speaker 6: it be? You know, did he sign this petition? So
Speaker 6: he it said Bobby or to make a plane. So
Speaker 6: I don't know much about sports. I didn't know, you know,
Speaker 6: how old he would have been. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I don't think Bobby lived in Jamaica. Plane.
Speaker 6: He lived downtown, and yeah, I thought, you know he might.
Speaker 6: Some people said they thought he was in Canada, but
Speaker 6: I thought, well, maybe he has another in Boston.
Speaker 2: And then he's been living in Florida. Also is a
Speaker 2: place down the cape.
Speaker 6: Well anyway, I after talking to a few people and
Speaker 6: not figuring it out, I googled Bobby Or to make
Speaker 6: a plane, And it turns out I thought, this is
Speaker 6: just so funny. There's a Bobby Orr who listened to
Speaker 6: make a plane and it said meet Bobby Orr. But
Speaker 6: it was m E.
Speaker 7: A T.
Speaker 6: He is exactly about the same age, and but he works,
Speaker 6: has all his likes all his working life, works in
Speaker 6: the stop and chop at the meat counter, and to
Speaker 6: stop and dropping to make a plane. And you know,
Speaker 6: he got so much ribbing, and people would say, oh,
Speaker 6: you know the customers then oh, you want to meet
Speaker 6: Bobby Or? You wantn't get up to or I wanted
Speaker 6: to meet Bobby Or. And then they take him over
Speaker 6: and introduce him to this other guy. But his whole life,
Speaker 6: you know, it was just sort of like a double
Speaker 6: ganger that was hanging over that maybe.
Speaker 2: A double gang or a name, but not necessarily Okay.
Speaker 6: I know, I just thought that was so funny when
Speaker 6: it came across the name Bobby Or.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, if you ever have a chance
Speaker 2: to meet Bobby Or, he's one of the great class
Speaker 2: acts in this city.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 6: I know, I've heard you say that many times.
Speaker 2: Absolutely great guy, a great guy. I know him very well.
Speaker 2: He's a he's the greatest hockey player in the history
Speaker 2: of the NHL, but I think he's a better person
Speaker 2: than he was just a hockey player. Let me put
Speaker 2: it like that.
Speaker 6: Okay, so nice that you could say that, Sandy, Thanks
Speaker 6: so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. And by the way, for anyone
Speaker 2: that's interested, we have on the eleven on the eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock hour on any Friday night on the twentieth hour,
Speaker 2: everybody gets a hall pass, so even if you're called
Speaker 2: in during the week, you can still participate in brushes
Speaker 2: with celebrity.
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks, Andy talks, so thank you.
Speaker 2: Take bye bye six one thirty six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty are triple eight nine to nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. You're brush with celebrity. Love to find out
Speaker 2: who you met and under what circumstances. Coming back on
Speaker 2: Nightside right after this, Now.
Speaker 1: Back to Dan ray Line from the Window World. Night
Speaker 1: Side Studios on WBZ News.
Speaker 2: Radio bring one of my favorite end of the week
Speaker 2: hours in the twentieth hour. For those of you who
Speaker 2: don't understand the twentieth hour, I do twenty hours of
Speaker 2: radio a week Monday through Friday, eight to midnight. Four
Speaker 2: hours times five nights, that's twenty hours and this is
Speaker 2: the last hour of the week. Let's go to my
Speaker 2: friend Bill Winnaker. I suspect he's meant a lot of celebrities.
Speaker 2: Bill Winnaker. UM, bring Bill Winnaker up for me this
Speaker 2: this mouse has died.
Speaker 5: Good, go ahead, right, Damn, I'm here, Dan, I know well.
Speaker 2: You're there, that's for sure. I gotta I got a
Speaker 2: faulty mouse here, and then we'll figured it out. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Bill.
Speaker 8: All right, I want to preface this, uh lebrity for
Speaker 8: a second. I just want to say that sometimes at
Speaker 8: the end of the night you'll say that you weren't
Speaker 8: happy with the show. But I've never heard any of
Speaker 8: your shows that weren't spectacular.
Speaker 2: They're a very kind, very kind.
Speaker 5: I know that they're all great.
Speaker 2: Well. I know that when the Winnakers play music in Boston,
Speaker 2: they're they're always great shows, so I can return the compliment.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you ever have a knife
Speaker 2: when you when you feel well, maybe I could have
Speaker 2: done this song a little bit better, that song a
Speaker 2: little bit better.
Speaker 8: I think, yeah, absolutely both perfections.
Speaker 2: But thank you you're so gracious to make that comment.
Speaker 2: You're a great friend, and.
Speaker 8: I get so much. I learn a lot from listening
Speaker 8: to your show, and it's it's the best show in town,
Speaker 8: probably the best talk show in the country.
Speaker 9: But we'll leave it.
Speaker 2: But that is high praise coming from you. But and
Speaker 2: I mean that seriously. I know you know the Winnick
Speaker 2: is very well. You guys have been friends for more
Speaker 2: than forty years, and I know you're so loyal to
Speaker 2: this program, and you know I'm loyal to you guys.
Speaker 8: And it's oh, we're all big fans of yours. But
Speaker 8: i'll tell you what happened. We'll go to celebrity now.
Speaker 8: In nineteen eighty three, I got a hug, a really
Speaker 8: nice hug from Jackie Kennedy.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, wow.
Speaker 8: But i'll give you the backstory of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So Peter Lawford married Patricia Kennedy and their daughter, Sidney Lawford,
Speaker 8: married Peter McKelvey and we got called to do this wedding.
Speaker 8: It was on the Kennedy compound. Yeah, and I knew.
Speaker 2: I knew Sydney from when I was living in the
Speaker 2: back base. A lovely woman, very very pretty.
Speaker 8: Yes, great, she's wonderful. And she married a wonderful guy,
Speaker 8: Peter mc kelvey. So we got to call in the
Speaker 8: In the in the eighties, my father would be out
Speaker 8: on Saturday nights with his band, and Bo would be
Speaker 8: out with his band, and I'd be out with The
Speaker 8: demand was high because we'd been playing at the Parker
Speaker 8: House for a long time, so I got the assignment.
Speaker 8: So I went to the Kennedy compound with an eight
Speaker 8: piece span and I had no interaction with Jackie at
Speaker 8: all all night long. I was I was looking at
Speaker 8: her to her date that night was Oldig Cassini, the
Speaker 8: dress designer. And I mean, this was quite a night.
Speaker 8: I had a guitar player go out in the audience
Speaker 8: with his guitar and sing sweet Rosio Grady to Rose,
Speaker 8: Oh my God. But when the night was over, it
Speaker 8: was a spectacular evening. When the night was over, I
Speaker 8: see Jackie walking towards us. We're on a stage with
Speaker 8: an eight piece span. She climbs right up onto the
Speaker 8: stage and she comes up to me and I stood
Speaker 8: up and she gave me a big hug. She said
Speaker 8: the music was spectacular, and then she went down the
Speaker 8: line and gave everyone a really great handshaken. So I'll
Speaker 8: never forget that hug.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. I'll tell you this is going
Speaker 2: to be a tough celebrity because not only was she
Speaker 2: a a celebrity, but she wasn't somebody who was readily accessible.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying there.
Speaker 8: I know that, you know, so it blew me away.
Speaker 8: But she was so warm and sincere about it. But
Speaker 8: we really delivered the goods that night, and she was
Speaker 8: very appreciative.
Speaker 2: And I saw her, never met her, but I saw
Speaker 2: her a couple of times at a restaurant on Marthy's Vineyard.
Speaker 2: She had a big piece of property out of what
Speaker 2: was called Gayhead, which is now called a Quinna at
Speaker 2: the far end of Martha's Vineyard, and there was a
Speaker 2: restaurant up by the lighthouse. It wasn't the most elegant
Speaker 2: restaurant in the world, if the truth be known. It
Speaker 2: was kind of a touristy type restaurant. And every once
Speaker 2: in a while she would be sitting over off in
Speaker 2: the corner. You know, no one would bother. Oftentimes she'd
Speaker 2: be sitting there with a pair of dark glasses and
Speaker 2: a scarf overhead. But you know, if you knew who
Speaker 2: she was, you knew who she was and people were
Speaker 2: very very respectful. Bill, that's a fabulous That's one that
Speaker 2: that's going to be tough to beat. Tonight.
Speaker 8: I gotta tell you, that's a story I've never told
Speaker 8: on the era, to really tell that story, but I'll
Speaker 8: never forget it. It was really special, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You brought the goods tonight, mister Winnaker, as you guys
Speaker 2: do always do. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk again.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. How many different venues are you
Speaker 2: guys hitting this weekend? Where can people go and hear
Speaker 2: the Winnick is next play?
Speaker 8: Oh, it's all private parties this weekend, but we had
Speaker 8: a couple of public things during the week. I will
Speaker 8: tell everybody that we play once a month and West
Speaker 8: will at a restaurant called Naroli, And you can just
Speaker 8: go to the website for restaurant and find out all
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 2: Just just spell that so people can get there. Because
Speaker 2: you have a lot of fans on this on this
Speaker 2: this show.
Speaker 8: This show is it's n E R O l I.
Speaker 8: And they have have this once a month for a
Speaker 8: Thursday night, just two hours of music and dinner. It's
Speaker 8: so it's like a party. It's really fun.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you said in Westwood, right.
Speaker 8: In Westwood, it's a great restaurant.
Speaker 2: Great, all right, when I get back closer to the back,
Speaker 2: closer to Boston, I'm going to hit that one night
Speaker 2: with you. Maybe I'll let a few of our friends
Speaker 2: here know then and we'll make a little get a
Speaker 2: little group of group together there.
Speaker 8: But that's a you can't wait a minute, No, it's
Speaker 8: a it's a Thursday night.
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 8: You know what, you know what we can do for you.
Speaker 8: We can pick one Sunday and do a brunch out there.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it, We'll talk about it privately. Okay, yeah, thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. Let me go next to Dawn. Uh,
Speaker 2: Dawn enlighten us.
Speaker 10: How are you, don I'm good, Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great? Thanks for calling in down from
Speaker 2: Stain Go.
Speaker 11: Ahead, thank you.
Speaker 10: I personally have met John Densmore from the Doors the
Speaker 10: Drummer at a little bookstore in Boston. But yeah, that
Speaker 10: was pretty big for me. But I'm going to tell
Speaker 10: you a funny story. Years ago, I took my daughter
Speaker 10: and some of my friends to a little dive in
Speaker 10: Framingham called the Chicken Bone.
Speaker 2: I know the Chicken Bone. Yeah, the Chicken Ball. I
Speaker 2: don't think the Chicken Bone's in business any any longer.
Speaker 2: It was right there. It was on Route sixteen, was
Speaker 2: it nuts, Yeah, not too far on the other side
Speaker 2: of the tracks from the railroad station. I know exactly
Speaker 2: how it was. I had a friend of mine who
Speaker 2: worked there. Actually, Oh, who'd you see there?
Speaker 10: Well, Peter Talk from the Monkeys had formed a blues
Speaker 10: band and he was playing at the Chicken Bone, and
Speaker 10: my youngest daughter had a major crush on him. So
Speaker 10: I said, well, let's go. I mean she was I
Speaker 10: think thirteen fourteen at the time. And we go in
Speaker 10: there and we got our seat and we're waiting, and
Speaker 10: then I go, oh, I forgot the album out in
Speaker 10: the car for him to sign a Monkey's album. So
Speaker 10: I go out to the car, I come back in
Speaker 10: and I go, oh, great, who's sitting in my seat now?
Speaker 10: It was Peter Talk talking to my daughter and she's
Speaker 10: in tears because she's so starstruck. He was the nicest
Speaker 10: person you could ever meet. He signed the album, he
Speaker 10: gave her a T shirt, he gave for a hug.
Speaker 10: I thought she was going to pass out, but he
Speaker 10: just was great.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable that that is such a great story. That is
Speaker 2: totally unbelievable. Oh man. Now, the monkeys, of course were
Speaker 2: really big in the sixties. I mean that was that
Speaker 2: was when they were they were rolling rolling it in right, yes,
Speaker 2: so this must have been a little after the height
Speaker 2: of their career.
Speaker 10: I'm guessing, oh, long after Yeah.
Speaker 2: What year approximately.
Speaker 10: That I was there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh was there.
Speaker 10: Let's see, at least fifteen years ago maybe.
Speaker 2: Okay, so so this was in this century. So so
Speaker 2: they have still been doing this. I hear who's the
Speaker 2: guy that It's not Peter Tork, Who's who's the most
Speaker 2: there's another one of the monkeys who I hear all
Speaker 2: the time and you hear him on.
Speaker 10: Radio, Nicky Dolans.
Speaker 2: No, no, maybe it was Peter Talk. Maybe it is
Speaker 2: Peter Talk. No, no, I don't think so, Rober said
Speaker 2: Davy Jones.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and Mike Ness, it must be Peter Talk. It
Speaker 2: must be Peter Talk. Then I think he does. He's
Speaker 2: kind of the lead guy in the group, right, No,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 10: It was kind of Davy Jones was kind of Okay, well,
Speaker 10: but then Peter Talk has passed away.
Speaker 2: Okay, well then I'm not here in them. It's a
Speaker 2: good tell. If he was a middle infielder for you know,
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Cardinals in the nineteen fifties, I would
Speaker 2: know him. But that's great. But the Chicken Bone, I
Speaker 2: haven't thought about the Chicken Bone in a long time.
Speaker 2: It was a great, great place. It was a great place.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I grew up in Framingham, so it was sure born
Speaker 2: for many years.
Speaker 10: Beautiful place from eighty six.
Speaker 2: To two thousand and six. And I hit a lot
Speaker 2: of restaurants, Marconi's and oh yeah, yeah, that was a great,
Speaker 2: great Italian restaurant. Thanks so much, down, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Have you called the show.
Speaker 10: Before, Yes, many time.
Speaker 2: Well come on keep calling, will you?
Speaker 10: Thank you so much?
Speaker 2: Thanks, Donha have a great night. Okay, thanks, good night.
Speaker 2: We're taking a quick break. Six one seven, two five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty, triple eight nine ten thirty and
Speaker 2: six one seven nine thirty. That's the only line open
Speaker 2: right now. We're going next to my good friend Hank
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Hank, hold on, man, I want to
Speaker 2: talk to you. We're coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the phones here, let me go
Speaker 2: to we got we got Hank in New Jersey. Hank, welcome,
Speaker 2: my friend. How are you?
Speaker 5: Thank you for taking a call. Dad. Everything's good.
Speaker 2: I left you a voice mail the other day. I
Speaker 2: hope you got it. I didn't want to bug you out.
Speaker 2: Check in with you over the weekend.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, okay, fine, I did't get the voice boil,
Speaker 5: by the way, you didn't. I have two one good,
Speaker 5: one bad?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
Speaker 5: One because I met Ronald Reagan while he was governor
Speaker 5: of the California and before he announced his word for
Speaker 5: the president.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was governor of California for two terms. I
Speaker 2: can help you out, and he was elected in sixty six,
Speaker 2: so he served from sixty seven to January of seventy five.
Speaker 2: He was real life.
Speaker 5: So I met him nineteen seventy five in that area.
Speaker 5: We're at a New York City Conservative party dinner. I
Speaker 5: went up to him and he I said, mister President,
Speaker 5: which you boy? Sided the brochure for the and he
Speaker 5: signed it. He danked me, and I danked him, and
Speaker 5: I wished him well on his presidency. Very very pleasant
Speaker 5: old guy on the other hand, many years later at
Speaker 5: a baseball card show, I met Mickey Mantel, Duke Sneider,
Speaker 5: and Willie Mays.
Speaker 2: Three pretty good New York baseball.
Speaker 5: Players, absolutely, but what a disappointment. Mantel was terrific. Duke
Speaker 5: Sneider actually had my father sit down with him, but
Speaker 5: he was signed in autographs and the turor would often
Speaker 5: had to smoke together, and they were. But when I
Speaker 5: went over to Willie Mays, I used to think about
Speaker 5: little roses. I gave one to him and then a
Speaker 5: very obnoxious toad. He says, don't touch me, and I said,
Speaker 5: I apologize anything buy it's I'm here to side to autographs.
Speaker 5: That's all I find out. As we were a dealer
Speaker 5: I was talking to admitted the dealers. We were at
Speaker 5: the Trump Plaza at that time, and he was a
Speaker 5: little bit down to talk to people nicely. I've come
Speaker 5: out with this. Vicky Bahner was twenty five dollars for
Speaker 5: a signature, Duke Sneider was ted, and Mays was fifteen.
Speaker 5: And maybe he's a little po that he didn't get
Speaker 5: the top billied.
Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah, he had a pretty good reputation to be
Speaker 2: really honest with you, I'm disappointed to hear that there
Speaker 2: are other people who you would say, maybe so, but
Speaker 2: you might have caught him on a bad day.
Speaker 5: Hank, you never know. I, like I said, I only
Speaker 5: time I met him, But uh, three years, I've talked
Speaker 5: to a lot of people and they said he was
Speaker 5: the same way. Yet I've heard, but especially after he
Speaker 5: passed on, how many people sports talk shows said how
Speaker 5: good he was. Well, another guy, a guy in fact,
Speaker 5: who has another talk show just before you in New York,
Speaker 5: Bett Willie McCovey. Willie Mays as a kid asked for
Speaker 5: the signature. McCovey gave the kid the signature. I mean
Speaker 5: he's a man now, obviously, but he went to May's
Speaker 5: mass to get I'm not here, don't bother me. I'm
Speaker 5: here to play baseball, not give out signatures. I know
Speaker 5: that you have to do it bad days in his life.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You never know.
Speaker 5: Thank you for taking a call.
Speaker 2: You sound great. You sound like your own self. Do
Speaker 2: you sound great. I'll give you a call tomorrow. Okay, Thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks very much. Hank is a great friend and a
Speaker 2: listener down in New Jersey and just a great guy.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here. There's one line open at six
Speaker 2: one Hank spot has already been filled. Let me go
Speaker 2: to my friend Dennis in Lowell. Dennis, you are next
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 7: Welcome, Well, good evening, Dan. And of course I've got
Speaker 7: to do a sports celebrity all Corse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're a sports guy. Come on.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, actually, Casey Jones used to live in andover
Speaker 7: Son Kipper used to play in the Merrimack Valley League,
Speaker 7: and I coached basketball at Low High for twenty thirty years.
Speaker 7: I used to do with summer camps up at Norwich University,
Speaker 7: so for like a decade, and I got to meet
Speaker 7: Larry Bird, McHale, Paris, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge. I've got
Speaker 7: to be pretty good friends with Jerry Shesting because he'd
Speaker 7: do the whole week at the camp. Bill. The only
Speaker 7: thing with Bill Walton is I couldn't do a high
Speaker 7: five with Bill Walton. He was just a little too tall.
Speaker 2: But well you got you got to meet the entire
Speaker 2: team with the big eighties.
Speaker 7: You know, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Would you believe
Speaker 7: I even had a basketball player played for a little High,
Speaker 7: became captain of Texas Christian University, Tracy Mitchell is his
Speaker 7: name is one of the last cuts in nineteen eighty
Speaker 7: six when the Celtics went fifty and one at home. Oh,
Speaker 7: Casey wanted to keep Tracy, but kept another guy they drafted.
Speaker 7: You know, I didn't want to blow a million dollars,
Speaker 7: so that was a problem.
Speaker 2: Who was the guy they drafted that they kept instead?
Speaker 7: Oh jeez, I can't think of his name. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that. That's tough. Have you kept in
Speaker 2: contact with Tracy Mitchell?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he's still around Lowell and he's still
Speaker 7: rougherees basketball and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's sometimes I dealt with a lot of
Speaker 2: sports guys over the years, as you know, and sometimes
Speaker 2: I respond. I referred to it as the cruel gift.
Speaker 2: You know, the guys who were great Triple A players
Speaker 2: or what sometimes they call four A players and that
Speaker 2: could not make it to the big leagues or NHL
Speaker 2: players who were great players in college, did really well
Speaker 2: in the AHL, but just you know, they ended up
Speaker 2: playing European hockey. And again, think of a guy being,
Speaker 2: you know, cut from the Celtics would have been the
Speaker 2: twelfth man back in those.
Speaker 7: Four would have loved to have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I don't know. Did they carry fourteen
Speaker 2: back in.
Speaker 11: That and.
Speaker 7: Just twelve?
Speaker 2: I think it might have been, I think for a while,
Speaker 2: and I think they then expanded it later. But but yeah, again,
Speaker 2: a cruel gift. You're so talented, you chase that dream,
Speaker 2: and you're that close. You're that close. You and I
Speaker 2: never were that close. So we were blessed.
Speaker 12: Dennis, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks talk soon. I got Jim in Kansas City. Jim,
Speaker 2: I kind of imagine who you might I met up
Speaker 2: there in KC. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 7: Hi Dan, I'm happy again? Thank you? How are you great?
Speaker 2: You're always happy?
Speaker 7: Go ahead, I am.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 9: This is when I was living in San Diego and
Speaker 9: I had to be like eighty eight, maybe eighty nine.
Speaker 9: I was working for this concrete construction company called RW
Speaker 9: Hankins down in National City. We got a contract to
Speaker 9: redo some of the concrete work at Sea World at
Speaker 9: the Amphitheater, at the Shamou Show at Shamoo at the
Speaker 9: Shamoo Show, but they were still it was a part
Speaker 9: of the season when it was closed, but they were
Speaker 9: still doing something there in the afternoon, so we had
Speaker 9: to start work like three o'clock in the morning. We
Speaker 9: started work, and they told us very first day, don't
Speaker 9: go over where shamou is, don't go in there, don't
Speaker 9: touch the you know. Sure enough, one morning nobody was around,
Speaker 9: I went over there, I kneeled down. It came right
Speaker 9: They're trained to come up to get a fish, and
Speaker 9: it came right up and I patted it on head
Speaker 9: and then it went back down again.
Speaker 2: You met Shammoo the whale.
Speaker 7: I met. I met Shamou. It was a good experience.
Speaker 2: Okay, Shamoo the whale. Okay, so so you're you're I got,
Speaker 2: I got Jackie Kennedy, Shammoo the whale, Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a group Shammoo the whale. Uh shamo Hey,
Speaker 2: you know something? Hey, that that's everybody knew Shamoo, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. How many sheamoos did they have. I assumed
Speaker 2: that when one shamou passed on, they they had another shamoo, right,
Speaker 2: I assume.
Speaker 5: Well, like I.
Speaker 9: Said, this was the one in eighty eight or eighty nine,
Speaker 9: there was only one of.
Speaker 7: Them in this tank.
Speaker 13: Okay, well, yeah, there was just I think they had
Speaker 13: other tanks where they kept dolphins and you know whatever else,
Speaker 13: but this was a special place and they said don't
Speaker 13: go in there. Sure enough, I went in.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's okay. Sometimes a man has to
Speaker 2: do what a man has to do. Jim, thanks much
Speaker 2: to talk soon, Thanks buddy. I'll enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Let me get Jay and framing him in here, Jay
Speaker 2: and framing him is next.
Speaker 5: Hi Jay, how are you good?
Speaker 7: Hi Dan? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Give me your celebrity go right ahead. I should have
Speaker 2: asked Jim on Chimu if Chimu treated him well, but
Speaker 2: I suspect people treated yeah.
Speaker 7: Anyway, So last summer I was with my wife on
Speaker 7: the Cape and we went into the Hot Chocolate Sparrow.
Speaker 7: It's our favorite place on the Cape.
Speaker 2: To get town that What town is that?
Speaker 7: Oh it's in Orleans.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, I know Orleans show.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's right near the Rotary. Anyway, So we were
Speaker 7: in there and look, there are a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: people seated inside, have their coffees and lunches and stuff.
Speaker 7: And I see the circle of people and there's this
Speaker 7: guy there that looked, you know, very very come ending,
Speaker 7: like he's holding court. You know, and he had his
Speaker 7: friends around him, like, he looks so familiar, and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 7: I know who that is. That's Curtis Armstrong. Now do
Speaker 7: you know who that is by name?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know who that is, but sounds like he.
Speaker 7: Was one of the He was one of the most
Speaker 7: prevalent supporting actors in the eighties. He he was in
Speaker 7: Risky Business, he was in Moonlighting, he was in Revenge
Speaker 7: of the Nerds, he was in Better Off Dead.
Speaker 2: Okay, again, I'm not a big movie guy, but that's
Speaker 2: that's Did you get a chance to chat with them?
Speaker 7: Not so much of a chat, but as he was
Speaker 7: I saw him. I didn't know if I wanted to
Speaker 7: bother him too much, but he was getting up, so
Speaker 7: I figured I got to go talk to him. Sure,
Speaker 7: and I said, you know, Curtis. He goes yes, and
Speaker 7: I said, Hi, I'm really big fan and loved your
Speaker 7: movies and stuff, and you know, can I get a picture?
Speaker 7: And so I have a selfie with him. He looks
Speaker 7: somewhere between bored and annoyed. I'm looking at at.
Speaker 2: His picture now here Actually yeah, yeah, so it was
Speaker 2: it was not sound. I thought you might have been
Speaker 2: going here. It was not a pleasant memory.
Speaker 7: Well it was still great. Okay. It was great for me,
Speaker 7: Maybe not for him.
Speaker 2: He's not a big guy. He's only five feet forward.
Speaker 7: Says yeah, yeah. So did you ever see the show Moonlighting?
Speaker 7: The TV show I've.
Speaker 2: Been I've been working in radio and TV most of
Speaker 2: the career. Nights in TV, I worked six and eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock newscast. I assume Moonlighting was on in prime what
Speaker 2: we call prime time. Yeah, yeah, no, I missed that.
Speaker 7: Tvrs were so prevalent. But Bruce Willis was the star, okay,
Speaker 7: and Curtis Armstrong was, like, you know, the supporting actor
Speaker 7: in the show.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Curtis Armstrong. So he was okay,
Speaker 2: but he wasn't. He didn't become like a close personal friend,
Speaker 2: is what you're telling me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. So it's how it goes sometimes.
Speaker 2: But that's okay. You got that selfie? You got that Selfieeah? Hey, Jake, thanks,
Speaker 2: I love that one. Thanks much, Doctor you later. All right.
Speaker 2: I must tell you tonight that that in terms of
Speaker 2: famous Jack Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Shammou the Whale are
Speaker 2: ahead of Curtis Curtis Armstrong.
Speaker 7: And tell you the next year on the Cape, I
Speaker 7: think I saw another celebrity.
Speaker 2: Who's that?
Speaker 8: Do you drive a Volvo?
Speaker 2: Yes? I do so.
Speaker 7: About a month ago we were on the Cape again.
Speaker 7: We're pulling into the dunkin Donuts and Harwich Where that
Speaker 7: was you pulling out in a Volvo?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I have a black Vovo. Yes I do.
Speaker 2: And I've been known to frequent dunkin Donuts And I
Speaker 2: would have taken a selfie with you and I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been bored, trust me.
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks Jay, Okay, that's my other that's my good
Speaker 7: celebrity seting.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Bal we'll talk so next time when you
Speaker 2: see me, say hi, we'll have a coffee.
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks, Okay, we'll do.
Speaker 2: I have a great one. I think Curtis Armstrong is
Speaker 2: probably a bigger name than maybe not in Boston. Maybe
Speaker 2: not in Boston. Quick break coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, let's buckle up. We get five minutes,
Speaker 2: five calls. Let's see if we can do it. Gonna
Speaker 2: go first off to Doris in Lympfield. Doris next on nightside.
Speaker 11: Hi Jan, I met my favorite beetle on my honeymoon.
Speaker 2: Come on which one?
Speaker 11: George Harrison?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 11: So we will flying to Hannah, Mawi and it was
Speaker 11: like a six or eight seater in. The pilot said
Speaker 11: to us, you see that construction down there. George Harrison
Speaker 11: is building a house. So I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 11: So the whole week we were in Honor, I kept
Speaker 11: asking the people at the hotel any sighting of George
Speaker 11: Harrison every day?
Speaker 7: No, no, no.
Speaker 11: So the day we were leaving for Kawhi, and we
Speaker 11: had to go to the airport, which is this tiny
Speaker 11: little building, a hangar, about six seats outside of the building,
Speaker 11: and I had my suitcase, my pocketbook, everything all over
Speaker 11: every single seat. My husband goes to the men's room.
Speaker 11: This car pulls up and the passenger gets out.
Speaker 2: I'm pushing you a little because they got five people
Speaker 2: for I know.
Speaker 11: He was wonderful.
Speaker 2: He was okay, that's what we want to hear.
Speaker 11: We're sitting there and my husband comes out in you know,
Speaker 11: before cell phones, I had my camera taken. Oh yeah,
Speaker 11: we took pictures of him. He had his sunglasses on
Speaker 11: and my husband saying take off your sunglasses because you
Speaker 11: know no one's going to believe that.
Speaker 4: We back.
Speaker 2: That's great, that's great, Doors, I gotta run. If you
Speaker 2: called earlier, I would have spent five minutes talk with you.
Speaker 11: But I was on hold a long time. But that's okay.
Speaker 2: Well only on for ten minutes. Some people are onlonging
Speaker 2: to that. Thanks Doors, All right, take him in order.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Kennon, Florida. Kenny, gotta be quick for me, buddy.
Speaker 2: Who's your celebrity?
Speaker 7: I'll be quick.
Speaker 14: Athletes Wade Boggs, Lot, Kim Boyd, Kim Neely, Linden Byers,
Speaker 14: Dennis Johnson, Rick Roby, uh, musicians, musicians Steven Tyler, John
Speaker 14: Denver two years before he died, and Dan, you're gonna
Speaker 14: love this one. Benjamin Orr of the Cars, and I
Speaker 14: got to drink bud Cans with him at the place
Speaker 14: that you love, the Channel in Boston.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I went to the Channel only once I
Speaker 2: met my wife there.
Speaker 14: And that's what I know.
Speaker 7: You told story you met your wife.
Speaker 2: I'll tell that story mother or now wait, yeah, I
Speaker 2: love the list. It's a laundry list. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: Thanks man.
Speaker 7: I love you, Dan.
Speaker 2: Bye, you two pell be well, be well, be well,
Speaker 2: Lee and Mendon, Lee Gonna get you and two more
Speaker 2: in Garrett Head Lee.
Speaker 12: Hi, Dan Uh Bellingham, Massachusetts a parade in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 12: Mike Garrel from Greenhouse was on there. He was sitting
Speaker 12: on the back of his convertible and I was grabbed
Speaker 12: my camera to take a picture. As he came by,
Speaker 12: he was gesturing to me that the fingle with my
Speaker 12: finger was on the lens and he was telling me
Speaker 12: that too, And when the photo came out, it's the
Speaker 12: perfect of him showing me that I had my finger
Speaker 12: over the less and it didn't distract the picture at all.
Speaker 2: Oh that's you.
Speaker 12: Have a good night, you two, Lee, Thank you Dan.
Speaker 2: We've got two left. We're gonna get him both in
Speaker 2: We're gonna go Matt, Matt and Brighton. You gotta be quick, Matt,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 15: Matt, all right, Dan, real quick and I lived in
Speaker 15: Key West. Four years ago I was able to be
Speaker 15: in a movie with Matthew Mcconaugheyes, drown a Hill, I
Speaker 15: mean a couple of people seeing the Coney was one
Speaker 15: of my favorites. Ice is most antaous guy. You know
Speaker 15: the hill, the exact opposite. Happened to meet McConaughey. Cool
Speaker 15: inspirational time, and.
Speaker 2: That's a great I love Coney too, I think. And
Speaker 2: you know from Texas by.
Speaker 15: The way, as you know, yes, yes, before I got
Speaker 15: to run.
Speaker 2: What do we got? One minute? One minute? We're going
Speaker 2: to make it. Here we go marry and hang and
Speaker 2: hang am Mary, you got thirty seconds go?
Speaker 4: Yes. Bernian the he played for the.
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Flyers, goaltender Bernie Barrant A good one, right, came
Speaker 2: up with that. I think he came up with the
Speaker 2: Bruins and eventually got I think. I think, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: that's a good one. Mary, that's what that's.
Speaker 4: Very nice.
Speaker 2: He gave me.
Speaker 4: It gave me tickets to the next game. He left.
Speaker 4: He's one of some places where I can movement. But
Speaker 4: he meant and another man met me about Mary.
Speaker 2: I hate to do this to you, but we're way over,
Speaker 2: so I gotta let you run. Call early. I give
Speaker 2: you more time. Have a great weekend, Mary, have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. Everyone. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
Speaker 2: to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie Ray is, who
Speaker 2: passed fourteen years ago in February. That's all your pets
Speaker 2: are who were passed. They loved you and you love them.
Speaker 2: I do believe you'll see them again. Hope to see
Speaker 2: again tomorrow on Monday Night. Have a great weekend everybody.
Speaker 2: I'll be on Facebook Night Side with Dan Ray and
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Speaker 2: Thanks Marina.