Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you very much. This is the twentieth final
Speaker 2: hour of the week. As I think all of you
Speaker 2: know here on Nightside, we talk about serious subjects the
Speaker 2: first nineteen hours of the week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 2: and the first three hours on Friday. But I like
Speaker 2: to light it up during the eleven o'clock hour on
Speaker 2: Friday night. It is the twentieth hour. You do the math,
Speaker 2: if you still do math. There are five days in
Speaker 2: the work week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We're on
Speaker 2: from eight to midnight, four hours a night, four times
Speaker 2: five twenty hours. So this is the twentieth hour. I
Speaker 2: like to take a quick review of what we've done
Speaker 2: this week, and I'm going to be really quick on
Speaker 2: this one tonight. And I'm just going to tell you
Speaker 2: that every night at the eight o'clock hour, we talked
Speaker 2: to four guests. They can be writers, they can be authors,
Speaker 2: they can have all sorts of interesting stories to tell,
Speaker 2: And instead of going over all of them, is going
Speaker 2: to pick one for every night that I'm going to
Speaker 2: highlight tonight. So on Monday night, amongst our four guests.
Speaker 2: We talked with John Spooner, who is an author. He's
Speaker 2: written about thirteen books, I believe, and his latest is
Speaker 2: Wake Up, a Lifetime of Lessons from Smart Women. John
Speaker 2: is a financial advisor, a big time financial advisor, and
Speaker 2: you may want to pick up that book. We also
Speaker 2: talked at nine o'clock on Monday night about the presence
Speaker 2: of rats, the four legged type, not the two legged
Speaker 2: type rats in Boston. Warmer weather coming, You're going to
Speaker 2: see more rats. What are we going to do about it?
Speaker 2: And then we talked about political violence last weekend, most
Speaker 2: specifically the bombing of Governor Josh Shapiro's home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: The governor has a governor's home, a mansion in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: In this nut job was able, I guess, in a
Speaker 2: protest because Governor Shapiro is Jewish. The Hamas War and
Speaker 2: he was upset with Israel away for a long time.
Speaker 2: There was also some other events that we talked about,
Speaker 2: which included the bombings at Tesla dealerships around the country
Speaker 2: as well. And there was a kid who this is
Speaker 2: a story that most of you hadn't heard about. Kid
Speaker 2: he's only like seventeen years old. I guess he killed
Speaker 2: his mom, who was thirty five in Wisconsin, Washoka, Washika, Wisconsin, Walkshaw.
Speaker 2: I keep pronouncing those names and correctly, I apologize. And
Speaker 2: his stepfather stole a whole bunch of money fourteen thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: a plot to kill Donald Trump. And apparently he had
Speaker 2: some text messages which were encrypted, and also text messages
Speaker 2: in Russian on his devices. Who knows. Tuesday night, in
Speaker 2: the eight o'clock hour, amongst others, we talked with Mark
Speaker 2: shield Drop of Triple A. Talked with a couple of
Speaker 2: folks who were involved in running the marathon. We talked
Speaker 2: about traffic fatalities being down around the US in the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. Met up in Massachusetts. We talked
Speaker 2: with Danielle Scrogi. She is a US Postal inspector. You've
Speaker 2: seen some of these stamps that are sold on websites
Speaker 2: and they're kind of expense. They're cheap, they're inexpensive. They're
Speaker 2: like twenty two. You get one hundred stamps for twenty
Speaker 2: two dollars. Caveat emptor buyer beware, buyer beware. On Tuesday
Speaker 2: night at ten eleven, we talked about your memories of
Speaker 2: the Boston bombing. That, of course was the actual date
Speaker 2: of the bombing, August fifteenth, twelve years ago, back in
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen. On Wednesday night, we talked with a bunch
Speaker 2: of interesting guests, really interesting guests. The director executive director
Speaker 2: the Concor Museum, talked about a new movie Unspoken, Would
Speaker 2: You Would You Hide Me? And talked about a bluegrass
Speaker 2: festival this weekend at the Club Passie in Cambridge. But
Speaker 2: we also talked about the arrival pretty soon Rude fourteen cicadas.
Speaker 2: You want to listen to that one. That was a
Speaker 2: really interesting hour. We talked about the rush being on
Speaker 2: for real ID drivers' licenses, and we also talked about
Speaker 2: President Trump's threats to Harvard University. Thursday night, we talked
Speaker 2: with a variety of people. We talked with Aman Tory,
Speaker 2: who is a writer for the Boston Globe, about a
Speaker 2: woman named Kira Demato. She may be the favorite to
Speaker 2: win the women's division in the marathon on Monday, keep
Speaker 2: her name in mind, And talk with doctor Marshall Ruggie,
Speaker 2: the Dean of the University of Medical the University of
Speaker 2: Michigan Medical School, about, amongst other things shortages of doctors countrywide.
Speaker 2: Talked with Professor Stephen Parker of the psychology Department at Harvard,
Speaker 2: and also Harvey Silverglate about the threats that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has made against Harvard, including removing their tax exempt status.
Speaker 2: For two hours last night tonight, during the eight o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: we talked with a couple of the folks. Will be
Speaker 2: out there for the Battle of Lexington, the two hundred
Speaker 2: and fiftieth Battle of Lexington tomorrow morning, and it's a
Speaker 2: great event. If you are going to be there, get
Speaker 2: there early. I talked with Mike King of the mass
Speaker 2: Family Institute about a Burlington school survey this tonight. We
Speaker 2: talked during the nine o'clock hour and for thirty minutes
Speaker 2: in the ten o'clock hour about that survey. Pretty interesting
Speaker 2: survey of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders middle school students.
Speaker 2: You can read about it in the Boston Globe today
Speaker 2: if you like as well. It's a great story written
Speaker 2: by a writer in the Boston Globe. And last hour
Speaker 2: we spent that last hour, we spent half an hour
Speaker 2: talking about the trip that Maryland US Senator Van Hall
Speaker 2: and Chris van Holland back from El Salvador tried to
Speaker 2: get down there to bring home the Maryland member who
Speaker 2: was accused by the Trump administration of being an MS
Speaker 2: thirteen gang member, but Van Holland failed in that mission,
Speaker 2: but he did get a chance to meet with the individual.
Speaker 2: And this how we're going to do what grinds you gears?
Speaker 2: So that's the coming right up. We're going to get
Speaker 2: to phone calls. What grinds your gears? We do this.
Speaker 2: This is a very popular topic. Last week we did
Speaker 2: brushes with celebrity, which is my favorite topic, but I
Speaker 2: think my second favorite is what grinds you gears? What
Speaker 2: is it that just gets you? It can be a
Speaker 2: little thing that kind of just sticks in your crawl,
Speaker 2: or it can be a big thing. I one of
Speaker 2: the things that I don't understand that I'm just old this.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you've heard me talk about people who who you
Speaker 2: stop to allow them to cross the street, whether they're
Speaker 2: in a crosswalk or not. And I know you're supposed
Speaker 2: to stop if they're a crosswalk, but they can't even
Speaker 2: acknowledge and say thank you. Really bothers me. But also
Speaker 2: what bothers me is when you fly, have you noticed
Speaker 2: that they always load airplanes from the front and not
Speaker 2: the back would make more sense to old to basically
Speaker 2: have the people in the back of the plane. The
Speaker 2: back five rows go first, and they're not going to
Speaker 2: interfere with anybody. They always board first. I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: I almost can see if you want to board the
Speaker 2: business class people because they want to be able to
Speaker 2: sit there and be comfortable, But board the people who
Speaker 2: are in the back of the plane. That grinds my
Speaker 2: gears because they bored the people who are in like
Speaker 2: rows one to six and they take a long time.
Speaker 2: Then the people in rows seven to twelve or seven
Speaker 2: to fourteen, they're standing there waiting for the people in
Speaker 2: one to six to sit down. It's little stuff like
Speaker 2: that that grinds your gears. What grinds your gears? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We will get to as many of you with what
Speaker 2: grinds your gears right after this very quick. This is
Speaker 2: one of the quick commercial breaks of the week. It's
Speaker 2: only about a minute and a half, So dial quickly
Speaker 2: so you can get in. Don't be dialing at five
Speaker 2: minutes of midnight because our wines will be full and
Speaker 2: you won't get coming back on night side. What grinds
Speaker 2: your gears? And Rob, I think we do have our
Speaker 2: promo piece for what grinds your gears? So we could
Speaker 2: probably play that either now or when we return. Your choice. Rob,
Speaker 2: you're the producer, So what grinds your gears? By the way,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what doesn't grind your gears, and that
Speaker 2: is we are doing a Sunday brunch. What I mean
Speaker 2: by that is we're doing a night side brunch next Sunday,
Speaker 2: not this Sunday. This Sunday is Eastern. This is you know,
Speaker 2: Holy Week for Christians, and it's also Passover for members
Speaker 2: of my Jewish audience. But on Sunday, April twenty seventh,
Speaker 2: there will be two seatings at the Niroli Restaurant in
Speaker 2: Westwood at eleven and at twelve thirty two eighty two
Speaker 2: Washington Street in Westwood, sort of like what's called Islington,
Speaker 2: kind of between Denham and Westwood. Easy parking, nice big
Speaker 2: parking space in the back on street. Free parking. You
Speaker 2: got to call a restaurant and make a they had
Speaker 2: they had so many reservations request they're having two seatings.
Speaker 2: One at eleven if you want to get up a
Speaker 2: little early, or twelve thirty if you want to sleep
Speaker 2: in the restaurant number is seven eight one three, seven
Speaker 2: five two five nine four. Rob, I'm going to have
Speaker 2: you just write that number down in case anyone wants
Speaker 2: that number. Seven eight one three, seven five two five
Speaker 2: nine four. We will be entertained that morning at both
Speaker 2: seatings by the winnakers, Bill and Bowl Winnaker.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Their singer they're Sean too, says we would say in French,
Speaker 2: Cindy Gale, who is fabulous. Neil Green on the piano,
Speaker 2: bo sings and and plays the trumpet. Bill is on
Speaker 2: the drums. It will be a fabulous morning. Get to
Speaker 2: meet other night side listeners, get to meet myself, get
Speaker 2: to meet more importantly, producer Lightning. Uh. And we're gonna
Speaker 2: have it's gonna be a hoot. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a hoot. Casual dress. Don't have to get dressed up. Uh,
Speaker 2: you don't have to. There's a bright if you're if
Speaker 2: you want a brunch, if you want to eat a
Speaker 2: little lighter. There's also a breakfast menu, and there's also
Speaker 2: a lunch menu, so you can have something relatively simple
Speaker 2: like pancakes and coffee or burger and fries or whatever
Speaker 2: you want to have, or you can go all in
Speaker 2: for the brunch. So that's our invitation. We've been asked
Speaker 2: to do this. We've done a couple of baseball games
Speaker 2: in the last couple of years which were great successes,
Speaker 2: and this is just a different sort of event and
Speaker 2: the response has been great. You got to get your
Speaker 2: reservations in and please don't make a reservation unless you
Speaker 2: intend to go, because they will close the reservations off.
Speaker 2: And you know, look, some people can make a reservation
Speaker 2: and then you have an emergency, but only make a
Speaker 2: reservation if you do intend to go. We are going
Speaker 2: to go right now. Speaking about going to What Grinds
Speaker 2: Their Gears, let me go first to Joel in Natick. Joel,
Speaker 2: welcome back, What Grinds your Gears? Joe.
Speaker 4: I have a couple of items. Dan one, I'm not interested.
Speaker 4: I'm not a busing at the section Oaks Gluten nine
Speaker 4: and I'm waiting for the left turn signal. And as
Speaker 4: I'm waiting for the left time signal, it turns green.
Speaker 4: And guess what, a guy or whatever goes right through
Speaker 4: the red light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, hopefully that didn't happen to you and you
Speaker 2: got hit. Hopefully you anticipated good you weren't hit, right,
Speaker 2: That's all I.
Speaker 4: Can I've been anticipating this. They do this a lot. Damn,
Speaker 4: they do this a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it. Assume when you drive in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: you got it. Assume that the other people in the
Speaker 2: road there's a bunch of knuckleheads, as Tom Anita would say,
Speaker 2: and that you want to make sure that you avoid
Speaker 2: the knuckleheads. I mean, I'm serious. You have to drive defensively, Joel.
Speaker 2: What's the other thing that grinds your gears?
Speaker 4: You're on the telephone and you're looking for information and
Speaker 4: people are asking you for your first name and your
Speaker 4: last name. So you have to spell your first name
Speaker 4: and you stow your last name, and they say again,
Speaker 4: can you please spell your name again? And you have
Speaker 4: to stow it again, the first name and your last name.
Speaker 4: It gets kind of weapons and borrowing. I mean, why
Speaker 4: can't they just do it the first time and get
Speaker 4: it right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I love sometime when you call a company and
Speaker 2: you have a very simple question, which is what time
Speaker 2: do you open on Monday morning or whatever the question is,
Speaker 2: and it's like, can you give us your name? No,
Speaker 2: I just want to know what time do you open
Speaker 2: on Monday. Well, we can't answer questions unless we know
Speaker 2: who's calling. It's like why we kindred spirits, Joel. I
Speaker 2: hope you know that.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 4: If you go Google maps, yeah, put in the name
Speaker 4: of the store and I'll tell you what time it opens,
Speaker 4: what time it closes.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I get that. I just use that as
Speaker 2: an example. Uh, you know you could you could call
Speaker 2: wherever if you're calling somewhere to get some information. Uh,
Speaker 2: and I've called you know, rest, rest whatever. It's like,
Speaker 2: I don't need there are certain questions that I need
Speaker 2: to give you my name because if I'm calling a
Speaker 2: doctor's office and I want to reference my medical records,
Speaker 2: I want you to have them in front of me.
Speaker 2: But if I'm calling just to ask a question, and
Speaker 2: I'll say I have a very simple question, well please
Speaker 2: give us your name, Well, it just it's wasting my time. Joe,
Speaker 2: Thank you much. Always great to see you. I hope
Speaker 2: you're going to join us at the at the Big
Speaker 2: Brunch next Sunday if you're if you're around.
Speaker 4: Okay, out of town, have a happy Easter.
Speaker 2: Dan, Thank you very much, and I hope that you've
Speaker 2: had a happy pass overseason. Thank you, Thanks Joe, catch
Speaker 2: you soon. Good night. Okay. One of my favorite callers
Speaker 2: is Glenn, and this is one of his favorite topics. Glenn,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that grind your gears. What
Speaker 2: do you want to talk about tonight?
Speaker 5: Oh? God, yeah, this is my favorite topic. In fact,
Speaker 5: Hi label a week from Sunday. Good Sunday. I hope
Speaker 5: that's okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, that's not sacrilegious.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, No, I'm not trying to be a uh.
Speaker 5: I come home from Tvity yesterday. It didn't occur to
Speaker 5: me to forward my heusephone and my cell I wish
Speaker 5: I had, but I was having one with my friend
Speaker 5: and Layne. And my landline is deader than a door nail.
Speaker 5: Is the speak a long message on my answer machine
Speaker 5: that Comcast came to. You know, I'm trying to switch
Speaker 5: from RCN to Comcast because I have more block capability
Speaker 5: as I get like five scam calls a day. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you know RCN is what I have. You can
Speaker 5: only block a hundred the Comcast you can balk two
Speaker 5: hundred and the only time I don't get scammed is
Speaker 5: on Sunday. That must be the scam Sabbat because that's
Speaker 5: the Yeah. So I called the guy in my service morning.
Speaker 5: He goes, oh, good thing you called me. I mean you.
Speaker 5: I caught your line by mistake, your landloaded. I didn't
Speaker 5: know this. The RC ends in the basement, but the
Speaker 5: well Comcast line is on the roof, and he couldn't
Speaker 5: get up to the roof. Well, I guess he got
Speaker 5: up to the wolf, but he cut something by he
Speaker 5: disconnected the wrong thing, so I had no way. That's
Speaker 5: why I called you on my cell last night. I
Speaker 5: couldn't call you on my household, which has good quality.
Speaker 5: So I got my I got my service back. Because
Speaker 5: it's still my original carrier, they still have to come
Speaker 5: again and go on the wolf.
Speaker 2: It was funny. I had a thing happened to me
Speaker 2: today on my phone. I've never had this happen before.
Speaker 2: My phone is a Verizon phone. It's a it's a
Speaker 2: it's a phone that that really it's an iheartphone that
Speaker 2: that I have. They give me to use in the
Speaker 2: course of my business. And at one point today I
Speaker 2: went to make a call and it said your phone
Speaker 2: is not connected to a service. You can only make
Speaker 2: emerdency calls. I've never seen anything like that before. I
Speaker 2: shut my phone off, rebooted the phone, and I was
Speaker 2: able to make the call.
Speaker 5: But I've heard of that happen.
Speaker 2: You have heard of that?
Speaker 5: Does that just have happened to me? But I've heard
Speaker 5: of it?
Speaker 2: Is it just a mess up that that's in the system,
Speaker 2: a glitch in the system, because that's going to ride
Speaker 2: my gears if it keeps coming.
Speaker 5: That's another thing that glenns might be is this whole
Speaker 5: thing you have to reboot. I gave me once in
Speaker 5: a while, I have to turn my phone off and
Speaker 5: turn it back on just to get messages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's true. No, yeah, I get it. I
Speaker 2: totally get it. I really do. Hey Glenn, you have
Speaker 2: a great weekend, and we'll see you next Sunday.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: We're doing this in large part because of you and
Speaker 2: your request over the years, so I want you to
Speaker 2: expect to see you there. Okay, Thanks Glenn. I hope
Speaker 2: you're all set with transportation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I am was wrong?
Speaker 2: Good good, all right. He's a good guy. He's a
Speaker 2: great Amern.
Speaker 5: He's the best.
Speaker 2: Thanks Glenn, talk to you soon. See you next week.
Speaker 2: Right now, all right, let's keep going. Get one more,
Speaker 2: one more idiot before the break. Gonna go to my
Speaker 2: friend Alice in Ohio. Hey, Dallas, how are you pretty good?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 3: Yousel?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Thank you so much. You're one of
Speaker 2: my most loyal listeners in Ohio. I wish you could
Speaker 2: join us at the brunch, but it's kind of a
Speaker 2: you're in you're an akron, right.
Speaker 3: That's correct, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: Spirit excellent, We'll we'll host a mimosa to you or something.
Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate that. I'd just like to say what
Speaker 3: grinds my gears is probably for the past year, maybe
Speaker 3: year and a half, I have been unundated with individuals
Speaker 3: and it you know, it's a number of you know,
Speaker 3: male females, young old that contact me either by text
Speaker 3: or direct call on my cell phone or my house
Speaker 3: phone because I still have a landline phone. Uh. And
Speaker 3: even in the mail of people wanted to buy my home.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, And it's like I've got a stack of
Speaker 3: letters and I'm constantly erasing the messages.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 2: Your home in some you know, a garden of Eden
Speaker 2: like location. I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 3: I guess? So I guess I uh, you know. I'm
Speaker 3: on the do not call list, my cell phones listed,
Speaker 3: my forget. They still call, and a lot of times
Speaker 3: they come in when my answering service, when my caller
Speaker 3: ID uh audio kicks in, it'll say unidentifiable or unavailable.
Speaker 3: I d under, you know, And well I had to.
Speaker 2: Say, I get I get on my home phone. I
Speaker 2: still have a home phone for my alarm system, you know.
Speaker 2: And if if obviously I probably can get rid of it.
Speaker 2: But I also like it because there are some people
Speaker 2: who have my home number, but I get more phone
Speaker 2: calls from and it's like, no matter what I say
Speaker 2: to them, if I say, please lose my number, they
Speaker 2: just hang up. If they ask me, and they'll and
Speaker 2: they'll say we're trying to reach you know, is this
Speaker 2: mister Rhea or whatever. I'll say, No, he's joined the
Speaker 2: French foreign Legion. We haven't heard for the years. You
Speaker 2: give him something crazy, even something crazy, you never get
Speaker 2: off their list. I love it when the politicians in Washington,
Speaker 2: we will establish a do not call list for all Americans,
Speaker 2: and it's they may have established it, but it doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Over the years I have registered and re registered. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't do any good. It doesn't do any good.
Speaker 2: Just give them a song and dance and the other
Speaker 2: thing to Dallas. You know what I do. If I
Speaker 2: have some time and they call up, and particularly if
Speaker 2: they say, we'd like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 2: We're doing a survey and it's generally it's going to
Speaker 2: be a political survey. I'll say, great, great, great, great,
Speaker 2: I'm a professional survey taker. Where do I send the
Speaker 2: bill from my answers? And immediately they they they say,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about? I said, well, you've called me.
Speaker 2: I happen to be a professional survey taker. I'm so
Speaker 2: glad you called. I charge five hundred dollars an hour.
Speaker 2: Where can I send my bill? I'll be happy to
Speaker 2: answer your questions. Well, we don't pay, I said, sir,
Speaker 2: I'm a professional. Please don't insult me. Do you pay
Speaker 2: your doctor when you go to your doctor? And I
Speaker 2: have this insane conversation with him and some of them
Speaker 2: don't call back. Dallas. All right, all right, just just
Speaker 2: some ideas. The other one which I told you, uh,
Speaker 2: and I said this last week. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: say it again. Have you been like in a line
Speaker 2: in a store and somebody crowds your your your personal space,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. They're just standing a little
Speaker 2: too close for comfort and you move a few a
Speaker 2: few inches or whatever, and they kind of you know,
Speaker 2: they're in line behind you. And so now what I
Speaker 2: do is I turn to them and I say, very quietly,
Speaker 2: I say, gee, I just want to let you know
Speaker 2: I was tested yesterday for COVID and I'm still awaiting
Speaker 2: the results. They move away very quickly on that point, Dallas,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go. Thank you man, great call,
Speaker 2: great call, man, hall of fame type call. Thanks buddy
Speaker 2: talks to Happy Easter. If you celebrate Easter, I think
Speaker 2: you do. Happy Easter.
Speaker 3: Down, Thank you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks good night, six seven, two, five, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: But those lines are full. I should have even given
Speaker 2: you that. Here's the one that gets you through right now.
Speaker 2: If you dial six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty,
Speaker 2: I can get you in. We'll be back on Nightside
Speaker 2: after the News with Dan Ray.
Speaker 1: I'm w BZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, what grind your gears. We got Gene in Brookline. Hijeene,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight? Welcome? Where would Jean be? If
Speaker 2: Jean's not ready, We'll put Gene on hold and we're
Speaker 2: gonna go to Christian and Peabody. Christian, you are next
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Yeah, welcome, I like describe your gears.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 6: Quickly though, I too will be answered to your question
Speaker 6: about your phone hands up.
Speaker 8: If you have a butcher your signal that gets interrupted
Speaker 8: and the phoneus on the search and sporadics next to dead,
Speaker 8: it will cost the phone just to block itself. It
Speaker 8: just gets hut up and then you have to restart
Speaker 8: the phone and a function again.
Speaker 2: Okay, is is that you know more about this than
Speaker 2: I do? Is that something? Uh? That that is common?
Speaker 2: I have an Android, a Verizon Android phone.
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that more common in a Verizon phone and Android?
Speaker 6: It's an I have an Android phone and it happens frequently.
Speaker 2: Oh hm, okay, well thank you. It kind of it
Speaker 2: scared me because they thought to myself and said, you're
Speaker 2: no longer connected to a provider or something weird. I
Speaker 2: forget what it was, and it said you could only
Speaker 2: make emergency calls, which is you know, pleasant, which is fine.
Speaker 2: But I trying to call someone back and it was crazy.
Speaker 2: It was absolutely crazy. Well, thank you, thank you. I
Speaker 2: did it and it did work. That's always my instinct.
Speaker 2: But I'd never seen that before. So Christian, what is
Speaker 2: it that grinder gears?
Speaker 6: I have a couple of things. First of all, these
Speaker 6: people that are calling from foreign countries trying to effort
Speaker 6: to Joe down the street, and yeah, it's like you know,
Speaker 6: and it's just like, oh, not another one. You mean,
Speaker 6: you've interrupted my day for something. And it be like,
Speaker 6: you know, if they they put any kind of bign whatever,
Speaker 6: it's just like, oh well, they just go away.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if you ask him. I sometimes I asked them politely.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I asked them not so politely to lose my number.
Speaker 2: They throw a couple of words in.
Speaker 6: There, yeah, exactly what you can't say on TV, Yes,
Speaker 6: but anything radio.
Speaker 2: But that's.
Speaker 6: The thing, is what I mean. I'm going to the
Speaker 6: point with that real quickly. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 6: what what that about your home? We want to give
Speaker 6: you a better homeowner plans? Yeah you really, yeah, but
Speaker 6: my home's got four wheels.
Speaker 4: It's my car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I get them. I get them when they
Speaker 2: call and they'll say, we want to reduce your electric bill. Uh,
Speaker 2: and of course it's a scam. And I say, well,
Speaker 2: I love paying I want to pay more on my
Speaker 2: electric bill. Can you do that for me? Then I
Speaker 2: hang up on it because I'm afraid they would if
Speaker 2: they could. Those are two good ones, Christian, and and
Speaker 2: thank you for the Yeah.
Speaker 6: Really me, it's a lack of common in common sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that you grind everybody scars. I mean the idea
Speaker 2: you hold the door for someone. Oh, I will hold
Speaker 2: the door going in somewhere, you know, hold the door
Speaker 2: for the person's ten feet behind you. And I get
Speaker 2: to the point now where when they just want I
Speaker 2: say you're welcome, and oh, thank you, thank you, No, welcome,
Speaker 2: thanks Ben, thanks christ Well, I hope you do. And
Speaker 2: come on up and introduce yourself. I want to start
Speaker 2: to put some names with some faces. Okay, get your
Speaker 2: reservation in and bring whoever you want. We'll have fun.
Speaker 2: I promise a great day.
Speaker 6: Okay, to repeat the number again later second, write it down.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will repeat the number at the end of
Speaker 2: the hour. As a matter of fact, if you want
Speaker 2: to hold on, Rob, did you write the number down
Speaker 2: of the restaurant? Rob? Did you write it down? Okay,
Speaker 2: hold on, Christian. Rob will give you the number, which
Speaker 2: is seven eight one three, seven five two five nine four.
Speaker 2: Hold on, don't hang up. Rob will give you the number. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: Let me keep going here. I'm gonna go to darryl
Speaker 2: Is in New Brunswick. Daryl, I got your voicemail tonight.
Speaker 2: Happy Easter to you as well. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I was very kind of you.
Speaker 10: Well, hey, we're always thinking about you guys.
Speaker 2: Well, right back at you.
Speaker 10: Gars thing, my lord, it's it's the phone number thing,
Speaker 10: for one, when you actually go into a franchise restaurant. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and when you walk in, you cannot order a pizza
Speaker 10: apparently at this one franchise without giving them your phone number.
Speaker 10: And again, so it goes back to I believe it
Speaker 10: was Dallas, somebody trying to buy his phone number.
Speaker 2: I think his house, he said. I think he was
Speaker 2: not talking about his phone, He's talking about his house.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well that's again it's people possibly trying to scam people
Speaker 10: because you actually have credit history.
Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha, And so it could be it could be.
Speaker 10: A scam that way. Okay, my lord, you guys have
Speaker 10: great topics, and there's the grind my gears things. I
Speaker 10: want to keep hearing more of what other people have
Speaker 10: to grind their gears about.
Speaker 2: All right, Daryl, I do too.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 10: It's like again going back to the last caller about
Speaker 10: people from other places, and you actually asked, well, how
Speaker 10: is Bill doing?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 10: They don't know what Bill is or the slang for Bill. Yeah,
Speaker 10: if you get if you get my draft.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, absolutely.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 2: What I've done in the past is I've I've said
Speaker 2: to people you know where you located, and they tell
Speaker 2: me that you know the company that I remember one
Speaker 2: time with American Airlines. I was having frust I was
Speaker 2: being frustrated trying to get a flight changed, and so
Speaker 2: I said, where are you located? And they said Dallas.
Speaker 2: American Airlines is headquartered in Dallas. And I said, really,
Speaker 2: I said, so you're in Dallas. Yes, American Airlines is
Speaker 2: headquartered in Dallas, and they said it in an accident.
Speaker 2: I knew they were in Dallas. So I said, okay,
Speaker 2: can you tell me the name the nickname of the
Speaker 2: Dallas hockey team. Why would you be asking me that
Speaker 2: I said, because if I asked you the nickname of
Speaker 2: the football team, that would be too easy. Hung up
Speaker 2: on me. Thanks, Darryl, Talk to you soon. Happy Darryl,
Speaker 2: talk to you soon. Have a great night. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get one more in here if we can, before
Speaker 2: the breakout of to Alex and Milliss. Alex will grind
Speaker 2: you gears.
Speaker 14: A couple of things. One was the other day I
Speaker 14: was in market Basket and I went in to wash
Speaker 14: my hands in the restroom and a guy walks out.
Speaker 14: He wasn't an employee, he didn't wash his hands, so
Speaker 14: I felt like taking a shoppie and sticking a sign
Speaker 14: on his back saying, I'm a dirty.
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 14: I don't wash after I use the restaurants.
Speaker 2: I love market Basket. So you were it's a good
Speaker 2: move to be in market Basket, But obviously that guy was.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, why would, particularly particularly when you're in a
Speaker 2: food store. Yeah? Yeah, what else you got, Alex? What
Speaker 2: else you got?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 14: These guys, these guys that fall, they all sound like
Speaker 14: they're related, either from Bangladesh or from you know, a
Speaker 14: country nearby, and they're trying to sell me, you know,
Speaker 14: a car warranty or you know, it's always a cam
Speaker 14: and it all sounds similar, similar accents. So what I
Speaker 14: do is to retaliate, I take the hair dryer, or
Speaker 14: I put up the phone, put the phone up to
Speaker 14: the smoke alarms.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good thing. Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 9: Like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well sometimes what I yeah, but again it's it's funny.
Speaker 2: I remember calling one of these companies, you know, you
Speaker 2: see the ads on TV about you get car insurance,
Speaker 2: and you get insurance and you never have to pay
Speaker 2: a bill again. And obviously it's going to cost you.
Speaker 2: They're not doing it for free. It's going to cost
Speaker 2: you more money. And I was just curious what it
Speaker 2: might cost. And I was given, you know, a price
Speaker 2: that I knew was, you know, over overpriced. Yeah, charged
Speaker 2: me five thousand dollars a year. Yeah, I think probably
Speaker 2: I will be okay. But anyway, they kept I said no,
Speaker 2: I'm all said, thank you very much. They must have
Speaker 2: called me twenty times, Hey, just want to double check
Speaker 2: make sure. Yeah, I'm all set. I'm all set, and
Speaker 2: they just were so finally persistent.
Speaker 13: I had to block the numbers and uh and we'll
Speaker 13: miss I'll miss the brunch because we're having the Greek
Speaker 13: Independent State Parade that day on Boylson Street.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's a legitimate excuse. We'll try to reschedule
Speaker 2: something in the future that doesn't conflict with your heritage.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 14: I hope you do it again. You know, because we're
Speaker 14: right down the street from Westwood, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that. Yeah, no problem, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 2: Happy Happy Easter to you. A year a weekend.
Speaker 14: Well, first time that they all coinside, so I don't
Speaker 14: get to save on on the after, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh so Greek Easter is the same as as Okay,
Speaker 2: that's good to know. That's good to know. I thought
Speaker 2: Greek Easter was always a year a week a week later.
Speaker 2: Thanks Alex, you gotta run. Talk to you soon. You
Speaker 2: have a great night. We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get everybody and Michael, Joe, Henry if you're there,
Speaker 2: don't worry. And there's one more that's being checking in
Speaker 2: right now. If you want to give us, try six
Speaker 2: point seven. Yep, that just filed six point seven nine
Speaker 2: three one thirty. This is a popular topic back on
Speaker 2: Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: We're gonna try to get everybody in. It won't be easy,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna give it a shot. Let me start
Speaker 2: off with Henry and Sutton. Henry pave the way for us.
Speaker 2: What grinds your gears?
Speaker 9: Henry, Well, grinds my gears. I'm seventy six years old.
Speaker 9: And how this guy going to El Salvador and he's
Speaker 9: a US congressman. This person had two immigration counts against
Speaker 9: him and two immigration courts. I'm sorry, you know they
Speaker 9: they deemed him here illegally. He's a member of the
Speaker 9: MS thirteen gangs. He had deportation orders that were valid.
Speaker 9: The Supreme Court ruled nine to zero in favor of
Speaker 9: the administration to deep bought him. So there is no court,
Speaker 9: you know, a district court. They do not have the
Speaker 9: power to compel the foreign policy of the US government.
Speaker 9: They can't.
Speaker 5: The guy was, don't I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think the court has ruled
Speaker 2: in this case. I think they gave the White House
Speaker 2: the authority. I think this case might end up being
Speaker 2: adjudicated in the federal courts. But with you, Well, agree
Speaker 2: with you. How do we get twenty million people? Do process?
Speaker 11: He was pulled over in twenty twenty two in Tennessee.
Speaker 11: He was held by the Tennessee Highway Patrol. He was
Speaker 11: arrested for human sex trafficking and the member in the
Speaker 11: car with him there was someone in the car on
Speaker 11: the terror watch list. I don't know what this guy
Speaker 11: was doing in our country. The woman he's married to,
Speaker 11: they're not his children, they're her children. He doesn't belong
Speaker 11: here people. I don't know how hard is this to
Speaker 11: figure out?
Speaker 2: I mean, all right, Henry, we got this in Undergrind
Speaker 2: your Gears, but no, we're talking about a let's let's
Speaker 2: heavy topic. Henry, thanks so much for you call. Have
Speaker 2: a great, uh great weekend. Thank you much. Let's keep
Speaker 2: going here. Gonna try to get everybody, Joe and Lyn, Joe,
Speaker 2: you gotta be quick for me. Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 12: I will all do my best and happy Easter, even
Speaker 12: of a colt. What grinds my gears? I think you
Speaker 12: grind them sometime, damn.
Speaker 2: But okay, that's okay.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 12: What you grind them for. I was always wanted to
Speaker 12: get Naomi Wolf as a guest. I know sometimes you're
Speaker 12: a little liery of some of these guests, but this
Speaker 12: lady is extremely nice. She's used to be outdoors fashion designer,
Speaker 12: and I just wish you'd have her on. I'm loved
Speaker 12: to hear.
Speaker 2: I had it on once many years ago. I believe Joe,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, I'll try to I'll try
Speaker 2: to reach back and see if I can do it again.
Speaker 2: But we'll find out.
Speaker 12: Okay, from one other quickie, market Basket. I love market Basket.
Speaker 12: When I go in to get help, sometimes there's no peak.
Speaker 12: I can't get an English speaking person. I gotta wait,
Speaker 12: and that's horrible. That's not good.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. I love market Basket, as you know. Thanks, Joe,
Speaker 2: have a great weekend, have a great weekend, Happy Easter. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll talk soon.
Speaker 12: Hope I can see you at the next get together.
Speaker 2: I hope. I hope we're going to see you on
Speaker 2: the twenty seventh. No, I can't see.
Speaker 5: I'll be in the hospital. Be in the hospital.
Speaker 2: Thanks, be well, be well, good night. Michael is in Boston.
Speaker 2: Michael next on nights, I go right ahead.
Speaker 10: Hi.
Speaker 7: It seem that all of these that we've heard so far.
Speaker 7: Luckily they're isolated. They don't happen every day. They may
Speaker 7: happen once a year, or twice or three times, but
Speaker 7: thank goodness, they're not hit every day with these things.
Speaker 7: But what bothers me is an every day, everyday occurrence
Speaker 7: of people waiting for the right time. Do you know
Speaker 7: what I mean? That they miss the present by searching
Speaker 7: for another moment?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 7: They come into work at nine o'clock and they start
Speaker 7: to talking about leaving at five.
Speaker 3: When is it going to be five?
Speaker 7: They wait all week, They wait all week for Friday.
Speaker 7: It's only Tuesday. I can't wait for the weekend. This
Speaker 7: is what I'm going to be doing all winter. They
Speaker 7: wait for summer. I have friends that say they're fourteen
Speaker 7: year olds can't wait to get their Learners per Mont,
Speaker 7: their driver's license. They can't wait to go to college,
Speaker 7: they can't wait to become Okay.
Speaker 2: So you're talking about impatience. That's what you're talking about. Impatience.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 7: Well, I think they have to realize that right now
Speaker 7: is a gift.
Speaker 2: Absolutely every day is a gift. You got that one, Michael,
Speaker 2: I got two more. I'm going to get to thank
Speaker 2: you much, Thank you very much. Talk to you soone.
Speaker 2: They have a great one. Let me keep rolling here,
Speaker 2: Frank and hanging Frank, what you one for you? And
Speaker 2: one more? Go ahead, Frank.
Speaker 15: Hey Dan, I just picked up my daughter care at
Speaker 15: the airport and we were just thinking about this. Two
Speaker 15: things that grind us, and they're related, and it's the
Speaker 15: same case. Is when able bodied people are just wasting
Speaker 15: their time on nonsense. And that applies to all of
Speaker 15: those protesters outside the Denham Courthouse on the Karen Reid thing.
Speaker 15: And why aren't they working is when people can't keep
Speaker 15: their mouths shut when they might be ahead of the game,
Speaker 15: and that's Karen Reid. I just saw her interview in
Speaker 15: Vanity's Fair when she said, oh, when I watched the
Speaker 15: Oja case, I had no doubt that he was guilty.
Speaker 15: But then when I saw how the police acted, I
Speaker 15: would have cheered that verdict because police have to become accountable.
Speaker 15: So in other words, what you're saying is, yes, I
Speaker 15: hit my boyfriend, but because these police are so bad,
Speaker 15: we need to teach them a lesson and you need
Speaker 15: to find me in our guilty.
Speaker 2: Because I think that's an excellent point I think those
Speaker 2: words will be used at the trial and then make
Speaker 2: them back to haunt. It looks to me as if
Speaker 2: Hank Brennan, the new prosecutor, wants to use some of
Speaker 2: those words.
Speaker 15: Yeah, oh yeah, Hank Brendan will be all over that
Speaker 15: she's going down on her own sports because she couldn't
Speaker 15: keep her mouth shut.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, we will. We'll start to talk about
Speaker 2: the case next week. The case starts on Tuesday. Thanks Frank,
Speaker 2: I got to get one more in here. How much
Speaker 2: time did you say, Rob? I missed that. Okay, here
Speaker 2: we go. Let's wrap it up with Tim and Woolber
Speaker 2: and Tim you're next on NIGHTSA go right ahead.
Speaker 7: Hi, Dan.
Speaker 16: That's what grinds my gears when the phone company shuts
Speaker 16: my phone off.
Speaker 2: I can't understand that. Why did they shut your phone off? Why?
Speaker 16: Well, I have to pay it right. Uh, it's still
Speaker 16: on the first of the month that they say I
Speaker 16: have five days before they shut it off, Right, I
Speaker 16: have till the fifth. Sometimes I'm so busy I forget
Speaker 16: and I don't get down there. Then I go to
Speaker 16: use the phone and it's dead.
Speaker 2: I here you that's I would grind my gears as well.
Speaker 2: It would grind my gears as well.
Speaker 3: Tim.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next Sunday. Okay, looking forward to it. Wait,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks very much. All right, another week of
Speaker 2: Nightside is in the books. I want to thank all
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Speaker 2: the twenty seventh. Call me if you want and I'll
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Speaker 2: listeners there as possible. Rob Brooks, great job, Marina, thank
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