Speaker 1: It's nice time with.
Speaker 2: Boston's news radio. All right, Dan, thanks a lot. Final
Speaker 2: hour here, folks, gonna have some fun. What are you
Speaker 2: thankful for? And as I said, you know, we're thankful
Speaker 2: for turkey, We're thankful for our family for the most part.
Speaker 2: Some days no, thankful for good health, thankful for our lives.
Speaker 2: So but let's have some fun with us. So there
Speaker 2: is a list out one hundred and eleven unique things
Speaker 2: to be thankful for. Some of these I buy into,
Speaker 2: some I don't, But please let me know what you're
Speaker 2: thankful for it with if there's something unique to it,
Speaker 2: that'd be great. At six, one, the satisfying pop when
Speaker 2: opening a new jar of peanut butter. Hmm, there's something
Speaker 2: to that. This is this one definitely a synchronized trap
Speaker 2: light when you're running late, no doubt. And number three
Speaker 2: here I think is impossible finding the perfectly ripe avocado.
Speaker 2: I can never nail it. I buy avocados at the store.
Speaker 2: When I use them, they're either too old and too
Speaker 2: smushy and a little black on the inside, a little dark,
Speaker 2: you know, or they're hard, they're they're not ripe. I
Speaker 2: can never get the perfectly ripe avocado. A friend who
Speaker 2: sends you hilarious memes on tough days. You know, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good. That's not no. Now, I'm the guy that
Speaker 2: sends hilarious memes to other people. I have been doing
Speaker 2: that lately a lot, saying to my cousins, sending people
Speaker 2: I know, and I have different people like I look
Speaker 2: at a certain meme and I go, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna send that one to blah blah blah. I'll
Speaker 2: send that one of my friend Bernadette, or I'll send
Speaker 2: that one of my friend Mike. I'll send that one
Speaker 2: to my brother in law Brian. But his instagram, I
Speaker 2: think always says Brian and Debbie's wife, And I always wonder,
Speaker 2: is this wife gonna look at it? If this is
Speaker 2: too like dirty? Is it problem me? I'm the one
Speaker 2: always sending the memes or the instagrams. That's my job.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs to send me that. I send it to you.
Speaker 2: Let's grab Mark and Maine. I'm thankful for Maine, one
Speaker 2: of the unerrated states. Mark, you're up on WBZ. What
Speaker 2: are you thankful for? Hey?
Speaker 3: Hey, Gary Tangler, you're ready. You said you're gonna have
Speaker 3: some fun I'm gonna have some fun with this little game.
Speaker 3: You're ready, let me play this game?
Speaker 2: Yeap?
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna give you a couple of hints.
Speaker 3: This is I like to tell the truth. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to guess who I am.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: You got to go back to your small roots. Now, okay,
Speaker 3: thanks regarding baseball, all right, my first clue to you.
Speaker 3: I grew up in dick spe Old, Maine.
Speaker 2: Mar Ditchfield, Maine. Yes, derego high first. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My first cousin played third base on the Mexico Pinto
Speaker 3: baseball team.
Speaker 2: Randy Palmer. No, Jeff Jeff dor No, he was in
Speaker 2: left field.
Speaker 3: No, oh, Jeff de late Jeff dor guy. No, he
Speaker 3: was a Yes he was. He was a junior and
Speaker 3: I was a senior and we beat you guys fourteen
Speaker 3: to five. I'm marine man with numbers.
Speaker 2: So you played pitch, Yes, you pitch?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: I played third I played short stop.
Speaker 2: The Conzo, yes, Mark the Conzo. No, no, no.
Speaker 3: I I gave the producer my middle name. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to give you my first name.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marca.
Speaker 2: That Steve de Conzo, Yes, Steve de Conzo, my god, yes,
Speaker 2: you well know you also played center field.
Speaker 3: Yes, well my brother did too, Mike. He was a
Speaker 3: class of seventy four. But yeah, Dick Stewart, Richard Stewart's
Speaker 3: my cousin, my first.
Speaker 2: Cousin, Richie Stewart. How's he? The people listening tangued, what
Speaker 2: are you doing to me?
Speaker 3: But I love it.
Speaker 2: What's Dicky Stewart doing? He was in the Marines.
Speaker 3: Yes, he retired and he worked for Boise and he's
Speaker 3: doing some other kind of work now he's he's back
Speaker 3: in the area. Yes, he just shot a buck eleven
Speaker 3: days ago.
Speaker 2: Did he really did somebody else? Did he really shoot it?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, Those Stuart boys, Clifford and Terry is here
Speaker 3: from Hawaii where he lives. I mean they are all
Speaker 3: hunting with their father and my uncle Kuffey, who is
Speaker 3: my mother's brother.
Speaker 2: Dickey. Dickie Stewart's dad always had a motorcycle.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, unfortunately divorced.
Speaker 2: It happenstart. He was one of my favorite people. I'll
Speaker 2: leave you with this. Tell him, I said alone. He
Speaker 2: sat in front of me in history class. He sat
Speaker 2: in front of me a history class, and I think
Speaker 2: and I remember he went to see Cheap Trick. I
Speaker 2: couldn't go, and he saw a cheap trick. The Augusta
Speaker 2: Civic said, I remember these things. I also screwed him
Speaker 2: over once I was coaching. I was coaching third base
Speaker 2: and I waved him in and he got thrown out
Speaker 2: at home. I don't think he's talking to me.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that. Thank you for the memory. Oh yeah, No, No,
Speaker 3: I didn't know you were so big time now. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember anybody on.
Speaker 2: Steve the concert. No, I thought you were going to
Speaker 2: become a priest.
Speaker 3: Well I'm glad I didn't. I became bored again Christians,
Speaker 3: so I lost the Catholic faith.
Speaker 2: And well, good for you. It's no Steve, No, I
Speaker 2: remember everybody up there. You got you were a hell
Speaker 2: of an athlete. Dickie Stewart too. I mean Dicky was
Speaker 2: a good fullback and running back. We had great battles
Speaker 2: with dire Ago.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with.
Speaker 2: Dougie Clark and Tommy Kelly. Tommy Kelly running. He runs
Speaker 2: a car cleaning service.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I think the last time I talked.
Speaker 3: Well, no, now he worked in the mill over at
Speaker 3: the I P and J. Yeah, he retired from that.
Speaker 3: Now he's a bus driver for Darrago High School.
Speaker 2: Oh, good for him. He's a good man. He could
Speaker 2: score anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just he just got married. By the way,
Speaker 3: he married a girl from Dick's Field. She was in
Speaker 3: New York and he won her hut and they married
Speaker 3: less than a year ago. They got married up in
Speaker 3: kwany ink Man. Thank you for remembering my name.
Speaker 2: Gary, I remember you like it was yesterday. Good MANE
Speaker 2: get my best. Everybody by well, thank you.
Speaker 3: I'll let them know. I'm gonna say I'm going to
Speaker 3: send him a clip to Tom Kelly and everybody that
Speaker 3: you mentioned now.
Speaker 2: Tommy Kelly, Dougie Clark, uh oh yeah, Rob Marshall, Robin
Speaker 2: Marshall left Mexico, went down and coach dire Ago two
Speaker 2: state championships. Oh god, that pissed me off anyway, at
Speaker 2: least too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, talking to you. We bought everybody else,
Speaker 3: so you and I had a good time talking.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen after eleven, who cares?
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, you're really funny tonight. By the way,
Speaker 3: you are funny, but you're really funny tonight, and I
Speaker 3: enjoy Did your teachers ever say to you, Gary, you're
Speaker 3: going to be a broadcaster someday. Did you ever get
Speaker 3: that back in high school?
Speaker 2: Well, in eighth grade, I did a book report on
Speaker 2: being a DJ, and yeah, they all knew I wanted
Speaker 2: to do it. They said I talked too much. I'm serious,
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 3: But you have a wonderful radio voice. It's amazing. And
Speaker 3: of course I didn't know you in high school, you know,
Speaker 3: unless I played against you, and we only played you
Speaker 3: that one time that I remember, so you twice a year.
Speaker 2: Here's another one, here's another one. I was slow as hell.
Speaker 2: I could not run. I hit a sharp single decento field.
Speaker 2: You almost threw me out at first base, you son
Speaker 2: of a bitch. I swear to.
Speaker 3: God, I did that. I did that in junior high
Speaker 3: in West Peru over at West Peru from field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, remember that. I go, I'm running like a
Speaker 2: s I'm running like a No. No, that one wasn't me.
Speaker 2: I did. He didn't get me. You didn't get me.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, you shouldn't have been running backwards.
Speaker 3: That was your problem.
Speaker 2: No, believe me. I just couldn't run period.
Speaker 3: All right, Stevie be good money, great talking to you,
Speaker 3: Thank you. We'll see it.
Speaker 2: Gary. Everyone great Steve the Conzo. He could play ball. Now.
Speaker 2: I know that everybody listening right now is tanguy. This
Speaker 2: is the dumbest thing ever. But that was somebody from
Speaker 2: back home, and it's Thanksgiving week, so I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk to him. That's just the way it is. That's
Speaker 2: just the way it is. It's amazing, you know, you remember,
Speaker 2: I can't remember. My dad used to always tell me this.
Speaker 2: As you get older, you can't remember what you did yesterday,
Speaker 2: but you can remember something from like thirty five years ago.
Speaker 2: Go to Mexico High School, Rumford High School, Mexico High School,
Speaker 2: Derrego High School, and then Mexico and RUF Goodbine to
Speaker 2: become Mountain Valley High School. Yep, those were the days.
Speaker 2: So things to be thankful, Phone calls from guys like
Speaker 2: Steve Deconzo, What are you thankful for? Give me something
Speaker 2: crazy at six one, seven thirty, and we'll be back
Speaker 2: with more right after this.
Speaker 4: Now back to Dan rad Mine from the Window World
Speaker 4: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks you're thankful for folks, six thirty. That's what we're
Speaker 2: going to wrap up the show here tonight. I'm thankful
Speaker 2: for sweatpants. I'll tell you that. Nothing better. Thanks. That's why. Look,
Speaker 2: well I'm hosting Thanksgiving, so we're gonna have I gotta
Speaker 2: dress up a little bit. I gotta find some like
Speaker 2: sweatpants that look like dress pants. Now that's an invention.
Speaker 2: I know they're out there. I know they're out there.
Speaker 2: I gotta just fire. I'm gonna have to go look
Speaker 2: for them tomorrow. Steve Deconzo from Dixfield, Maine, where I
Speaker 2: grew up, played for this baseball team Dirego High School.
Speaker 2: They also had a Pine Tree team pine Tree League
Speaker 2: in what's in the town would play each other in
Speaker 2: the summer. So, guys, it wasn't guys are twenty thirty
Speaker 2: forty years old. They're still playing baseball. It's one of
Speaker 2: the oldest baseball leagues in the war in the country.
Speaker 2: And it would be you know, Mexico Ruveneta team. Uh
Speaker 2: squeak the point random run for a team. How about
Speaker 2: that for a nickname? The Palmer Boys ran the Mexico team,
Speaker 2: which I played for. And then Bitsy Ionta, how's that
Speaker 2: for a name. Bitsy Iona pitched for dier Ago and
Speaker 2: I hit my first disfield and I had a home
Speaker 2: run off him. He was probably sixty years old, and
Speaker 2: he would throw like a thirty five mile an hour
Speaker 2: float across and you could easily miss it. You could
Speaker 2: screw yourself into the ground. And I just got lucky
Speaker 2: and I hit it short ports down the right field
Speaker 2: line to it in twenty Yeah, it was great. I mean,
Speaker 2: the only home run I ever hit off the great
Speaker 2: Bitchy Iona. Back through things we're thankful for. I am
Speaker 2: thankful for a bitchy Iana thirty five mile an hour
Speaker 2: whatever it was. I can't call it a fastball, but
Speaker 2: I was thankful for that the highlight of my athletic career.
Speaker 2: And I could not run. He's right. I mean I
Speaker 2: remember the guy almost threw me out from centerfield. I
Speaker 2: just couldn't run. And we would play these things in practice,
Speaker 2: chase the rabbit. We had to catch the guy in
Speaker 2: front of you. I was always the last one, but
Speaker 2: I could talk. I could talk the satisfaction of peeling
Speaker 2: the protective film off a new electronic device. There's something
Speaker 2: to that, yeah, you could, Yeah, there is definitely something
Speaker 2: to that. Then another thing that I'm really thankful for
Speaker 2: that I've never ever been able to shake because it's
Speaker 2: not good for you. There's nothing like a good French
Speaker 2: onion dip. I mean there really isn't. And anything. You
Speaker 2: can dip anything into a French onion dip. You can think,
Speaker 2: you know, you can fool yourself, like, I'll use some celery.
Speaker 2: I'll put some celery in it. I'm like, I'm eating healthy,
Speaker 2: but I'm meaning French onion dip, which is loaded with
Speaker 2: salt and calories. That's why I couldn't run fast. I
Speaker 2: hate too much French onion dip. Man. I would inject
Speaker 2: that thing into my veins. Oh nothing better roll around
Speaker 2: naked it. Oh well, I'm not gonna roll around naked
Speaker 2: getting I'm getting a little punchy here. This one. I
Speaker 2: will tell you this. The feeling of freshly washed sheets
Speaker 2: against your skin. Here's the one thing you gotta spend
Speaker 2: money on. Thread count. Thread count matters. You can have
Speaker 2: a crappy mattress. You can you can have a crappy mattress.
Speaker 2: But if you have a high thread crount thread count, man,
Speaker 2: you will feel like a gazillion dollars. You will feel
Speaker 2: like royalty. Now, the higher the thread count, the more
Speaker 2: of the money. But you will feel like you are
Speaker 2: on air because I have sheets with a high thread count.
Speaker 2: My mattress sucks. But my wife and I we can't
Speaker 2: agree on it. And I know you can get those
Speaker 2: beds where you're like one side goes up, one side
Speaker 2: goes down. We're just too lazy. We just don't deal
Speaker 2: with it. But I'm telling you, man, plus you get.
Speaker 2: You know, the best mattress in my house belongs to
Speaker 2: my daughter. I think we played like ninety nine bucks
Speaker 2: for it from my mattress discount store. Its so frustrating.
Speaker 2: The red count matters. The red count matters. Yep. This
Speaker 2: out of rain tapping on your window at night, that
Speaker 2: annoys the hell out of me. Some people find it relaxing,
Speaker 2: like they have to listen to on their phone. They'll
Speaker 2: put like rain drops. No, that means I got to
Speaker 2: take a leak in like twenty minutes. And it's bad
Speaker 2: enough at night. I mean at night, I'm peeing all
Speaker 2: the time. I don't get any sleep, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: listen to rain. No God, I'll never get I'll never
Speaker 2: get to bed. Okay, media shower, smell them a new
Speaker 2: booker magazine? Do they even make magazines anymore? A co
Speaker 2: worker always remembers your cost. We order that. I haven't
Speaker 2: had a coworker in five years, so that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: A mentor who challenges your thinking, no, I don't want
Speaker 2: to be challenged. Just nod your head and say yes,
Speaker 2: I agree, and that's it. I don't need to be challenged.
Speaker 2: I don't need any debates. This I find awesome. I
Speaker 2: am thankful for the way a campfire crackles and pops.
Speaker 2: There is nothing more relaxing than that. And if you
Speaker 2: want to jump in six seven thirty when a fire,
Speaker 2: you get a fire and you could just you smell
Speaker 2: it right. The smell is just right, and you can
Speaker 2: hear the crackling and the glow and the warmth. I'm
Speaker 2: going to fall asleep just thinking of it now. That
Speaker 2: you could put on your phone. Remember I think it
Speaker 2: was MSG in New York. They would on Christmas Day
Speaker 2: they would just put they would have put like a fireplace.
Speaker 2: This is before the NBA started playing games on New
Speaker 2: Year's On Christmas Day, they would just have a fireplace going.
Speaker 2: You put that up on your phone. I totally get
Speaker 2: into that. Yeah, I could be thankful for that. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm thankful for And the only way you
Speaker 2: can do it is you have to You have to
Speaker 2: make an appointment for yourself. I have a back porch.
Speaker 2: I go and sit on my back porch. I leave
Speaker 2: the phone inside. I just sit there like twenty minutes
Speaker 2: nothing nothing, no phone, no list, no food, nothing, just
Speaker 2: sit there silence. You will be thankful for silence if
Speaker 2: you think to do it. The problem is you never
Speaker 2: think to do it, you know what. It's also sometimes
Speaker 2: when you're driving in the car, you always think something
Speaker 2: has to be on, and of course you can keep
Speaker 2: it on WBZ radio, but in case, maybe you need
Speaker 2: to check out a little bit, shut everything off and
Speaker 2: just drive. At first, it's weird. For like a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes, you have like anxiety You're gonna be jonesing
Speaker 2: because I'm not listening to a podcast about a murder,
Speaker 2: or I'm not listening to a Celtics game, or you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not listening to Dan Ray on Night's side. Tell
Speaker 2: me everything about politics and what's going on in the world,
Speaker 2: you know, or Ben in the afternoon doing you can
Speaker 2: get past not listening to something for a couple of
Speaker 2: minutes and just silence. Then the dts start to go away,
Speaker 2: the shakes start to settle down, and you find yourself
Speaker 2: enjoying it. I'm telling you it should twenty minutes of
Speaker 2: silence a day. And I know they call it meditation,
Speaker 2: you can call it whatever you want. I just call
Speaker 2: it twenty minutes of just nothing nothing. Also things, I'm
Speaker 2: thankful for a coworker who's a pro at diffusing office drama. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: And this is something I believe in. I you know,
Speaker 2: when I was in the workplace, probably the last five years,
Speaker 2: everybody had to be polite, and you should be polite
Speaker 2: and you should respect others. But that doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: can't disagree with people. The best ideas in the workplace
Speaker 2: come out of impassioned discussion. Now, some HR gurus will
Speaker 2: say that's fighting. No, it's not fighting. Disagreement is good,
Speaker 2: impassion discussion, different ideas, not being afraid of being penalized
Speaker 2: for having a different idea or taking a stand or
Speaker 2: saying no, that won't work. But you can't do that now,
Speaker 2: I mean you can't. I remember, oh my god, a
Speaker 2: Comcast Sports then somebody we did one of those things
Speaker 2: where we had a consultant come in and you know,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, consultants are just that people that have
Speaker 2: they don't they can't find a job. I mean, so
Speaker 2: many consultants in the media business over the years. I remember,
Speaker 2: I go, so, what did you do before? Well, I
Speaker 2: was with this company and with this company, and then
Speaker 2: I decided to start my own consultancy firm. You mean,
Speaker 2: after you get fired. So this consultant like took a poll.
Speaker 2: You know, I said, we're not Russia, this isn't communism,
Speaker 2: and everybody said that. It was Comcast Sportsnet at the time.
Speaker 2: Everybody said we should all be involved in having input
Speaker 2: into the show. So we go into the conference room
Speaker 2: at noon or one like twenty people would be in
Speaker 2: there from audio director's production camera, all giving input on
Speaker 2: what the sports topics of the day should be. I
Speaker 2: thought I was going to lose my freaking mind. I was,
Speaker 2: I said, do I tell anybody how to run a camera?
Speaker 2: I would sit down with our producer, Jeff capatasto minutes
Speaker 2: will come up with the show. Boston Sports is not hard.
Speaker 2: Doing sports for a living is not hard. That I
Speaker 2: have friends of mine and is Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: had to write three sports columns this week. Oh you
Speaker 2: poor baby. Oh I had to go cover training camp.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's like digging a ditch. I had to
Speaker 2: stay late because the game went to overtime. Seriously, seriously,
Speaker 2: or like I need an hour to come up with
Speaker 2: what we need to talk about at six. Really, just
Speaker 2: listen to what people are talking about in the streets.
Speaker 2: Listen to what the buzz is. You gotta have The
Speaker 2: Patriots suck, the Celtics are on a role. I mean
Speaker 2: you just you know, it's it's, it's, it's it. Should
Speaker 2: Pritcher be the sixth Man of the Year for the NBA.
Speaker 2: It's not hard, but we have to have this big
Speaker 2: meeting with everybody in there, and a couple of times
Speaker 2: I blew my stack and it's not good. But I
Speaker 2: would be like, I can't take this. These other people
Speaker 2: don't know what they're talking about. Let's just the people
Speaker 2: who are on the air and the people who produce
Speaker 2: the shit. Let's do it. So No, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't care. I think that disagreement is good. Disagreement is
Speaker 2: good in the workplace, and I don't think it happens enough.
Speaker 2: You always have to be worried about everybody's feelings. Plus,
Speaker 2: let's come on, let's be real. Office drama is fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun, it's gossip. Do you know who's sleeping with who?
Speaker 2: Just see them make it out in the parking lot
Speaker 2: of the office. Drama works. It gets you through the day.
Speaker 2: Did you know that this person has a two pain?
Speaker 1: Or?
Speaker 2: Okay, your call's coming up next. Thanks, you're thankful for what?
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for office drama. When I actually worked in
Speaker 2: an I loved it. Phenomenal got you through the day. Man,
Speaker 2: Nothing like good office gossip and drama. Gossip's the best,
Speaker 2: isn't it? As long as it doesn't really hurt anyone.
Speaker 2: There's nothing better than good gossip and good office drama.
Speaker 2: Andrew and Rick, What you're thankful for? Coming up next
Speaker 2: to WBZ.
Speaker 4: You're on night side with on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back, Eary tangling for day here. We're here
Speaker 2: to twelve midnight tonight. What we are thankful for? You
Speaker 2: need things, you know, things like the rustling of leaves
Speaker 2: in a gentle breeze. Eh, that's kind of corny. This
Speaker 2: was weird. The feeling of sandpaper under your fingertips. No,
Speaker 2: I've never been thankful for that. That kind of hurts,
Speaker 2: doesn't it. I don't understand that this is cool, the
Speaker 2: crunch of snow beneath your boots on a winter morning.
Speaker 2: That there's nothing better for me in this es. I
Speaker 2: used to do this and main a lot. You go
Speaker 2: in the back of our house after their snowfall and
Speaker 2: you go out. We could go into the woods. We
Speaker 2: had snowmobile trails and snowshoe trails or whatever, and all
Speaker 2: the trees will be covered with snow. Just silence. You
Speaker 2: can tell I'm big on silence. That's my thing. You
Speaker 2: just go in the woods, the snow is sitting on
Speaker 2: the trees, and you just walk in silence. You can
Speaker 2: almost hear the snow in the trees. Okay, now I'm
Speaker 2: losing my mind. What's Andrew in Boston got for me? Andrew,
Speaker 2: you're up on wb Z.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jerry, thank you for taking my call, Thanks for calling.
Speaker 5: Thankful for a lot. To be honest, My wife is
Speaker 5: on the mend after a long health issue. So very
Speaker 5: thankful there. In spite of being on the road for
Speaker 5: fourteen hours in counting going back and forth between Boston
Speaker 5: and New York for my small business, I am especially
Speaker 5: thankful for hearing your voice on the radio after a
Speaker 5: long time. I think the uh, I think the last
Speaker 5: time I heard your voice in the radio was the
Speaker 5: w E I Days and uh, I think the segment
Speaker 5: was you reading some erotic fan fiction. I forget the
Speaker 5: pen name, but oh.
Speaker 2: My god, yeah that was with Kirkie and Jerry. Oh god, well,
Speaker 2: well what was it? I you know what, I had
Speaker 2: a ball doing that. Uh, it was fun. It was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Well listen, happy, thanksgimming, safe travels,
Speaker 2: and thanks for calling. Thanks for remembering. What the hell tangling?
Speaker 2: Oh god, what do we call that? I gotta dig
Speaker 2: those up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you can find them, that'll be that'll be
Speaker 5: some good replay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Andrew. We'll see you later. Yeah. We
Speaker 2: did romance. We did Romance behind the Glass. That was
Speaker 2: one with our producers. Oh my god, that was hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, every once in a while you got to
Speaker 2: sit back in life and you're going to remember the
Speaker 2: good things you've done. We focus on the pot We
Speaker 2: focus on the negative way too much. We always dwell like,
Speaker 2: oh I should have done this, I should have done that,
Speaker 2: I should have as opposed to hey, remember when I
Speaker 2: did this, Remember when I did that. Yes, I'm going
Speaker 2: through a bit of a phase. I'm talking about sitting
Speaker 2: in silence on my back porch, taking silent walks in
Speaker 2: the woods after a snowfall, and now trying to think positively.
Speaker 2: You could tell I've been out of the media for
Speaker 2: a while. I will tell you this, after working in
Speaker 2: Boston media for thirty years, which was a great career.
Speaker 2: When I stopped working it, I was not as grumpy.
Speaker 2: I was not. I was happier. I didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: have as much money, but I certainly wasn't looking for
Speaker 2: an argument every time I walked around the corner. Rick
Speaker 2: and Bell, Ricor you're up on WBZ.
Speaker 1: Darry Happy, Thanks killing you too.
Speaker 2: Rick.
Speaker 1: I'm great, you know, I'm just thinking of a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I'm great before. How about kitchen sinks to
Speaker 1: drum on, because I'm really good at that. No joke said.
Speaker 1: You said you were good at it too. You know,
Speaker 1: one of these days we'll have a battle. I do
Speaker 1: it on my work too. You know. If you hear
Speaker 1: the pounding, it's good stuff. And the other thing is
Speaker 1: I like some good beer, especially brown, and you don't
Speaker 1: really find really good ones. But there is one called
Speaker 1: black Hog brown. If I don't want to be maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be announced. You can't do that. Black Dog
Speaker 1: brown is a pound you can you can find.
Speaker 2: Do you like? Do you like a hint of molasses
Speaker 2: in your beer? No? Really, I can't.
Speaker 1: I wanted it can be nutty brown. This is black
Speaker 1: dog brown is a grenoble brown. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: sell something keep making it, but it's it's uh black
Speaker 1: Hog is that Connecticut company and it's it's Granola bron
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. So I like that. I like English style
Speaker 1: browns too, and even even German. But molasses I really
Speaker 1: don't go over that. I don't go vanilla for vanilla
Speaker 1: in the porter. I kind of like it straight you
Speaker 1: like it straight ahead?
Speaker 2: Were you a Newcastle guy?
Speaker 1: I was, once upon a time, and about twenty years
Speaker 1: ago they I loved Newcastle, But probably around twenty years
Speaker 1: ago or nineteen years ago they changed it and it's
Speaker 1: not as good anymore. I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it. I used to live up in
Speaker 2: portsandth New Hampshire, out at the old Faery landing Man
Speaker 2: in the Newcastle Brown Ale. That was my thing that
Speaker 2: was well done. I loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it was great. Don't you think they've it's changed.
Speaker 2: Well, I got to be honest with you. I stopped drinking,
Speaker 2: so I don't know my memory. I know I'm no
Speaker 2: fun anymore.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's that I pulled back on mine because
Speaker 1: I need to sing and keep the voice and shape
Speaker 1: and decide. You're gonna drink too much. You're just chasing
Speaker 1: your teel because you've got to put so much water
Speaker 1: in your body. You can never catch up as you
Speaker 1: drink too much. And I'm older, so.
Speaker 2: Well, you ever know when you get those signs in life?
Speaker 2: For lent, I gave up drinking and I just I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go. I'm gonna go. I dropped like fifteen pounds
Speaker 2: and I got a job on TV. And a year
Speaker 2: later I was working at Channel four and I met
Speaker 2: my wife and I said, you know there's something here,
Speaker 2: There's a sign, there's a size.
Speaker 1: That was it? Then you quit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That I quit? I mean because the thing I
Speaker 2: liked beer. Man, I used to drink a ton of beer.
Speaker 2: And if you're on television, not so much now. The
Speaker 2: great thing about media now is it really doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what you look like, it matters what you say. It's true.
Speaker 2: I mean you could. I mean it's really true. I
Speaker 2: mean you look on all kinds. Because there's so many
Speaker 2: different cable outlets. You have people all shapes and sizes.
Speaker 2: Even though they the beautiful people still get the gigs,
Speaker 2: but it's much more open. But when I started, you
Speaker 2: had to be svelt. You had to you know, have
Speaker 2: a suit on. You had to look good. So you know,
Speaker 2: you couldn't if you went ten pounds overweight. Man, you
Speaker 2: were in trouble. So that's why I quit. And then
Speaker 2: I never.
Speaker 1: Looked back, you know, and I'm sure you looked here,
Speaker 1: but you know that you knew I have to lose
Speaker 1: even more because the TV is going to put ten
Speaker 1: extra pounds on me. Just like that, dude, it sucks it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you look good. That's you better. Thank God
Speaker 1: every day though, you got your wife And now that
Speaker 1: is a that's that. Wow. I got to think about that.
Speaker 1: I really got to digest that one. That Thanks for
Speaker 1: that story. But if I just have a little bit
Speaker 1: of beer and I keep the body, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta walk on my marshmallow. I got to get out
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, work out a little bit,
Speaker 1: just a little bit, and just eat better. And when
Speaker 1: I eat better, I always feel better.
Speaker 2: Well you do, always, yeah, you always do. I mean
Speaker 2: the thing, the thing of it is is when I stopped,
Speaker 2: when I gave up the beer, I didn't miss it,
Speaker 2: you know. And you still have to have a cheap day.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't go cold turkey, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna eat, you still have to have a
Speaker 2: cheat day on a Friday. So give it a five
Speaker 2: days a.
Speaker 1: Week, mean drink well, no exactly, and no exactly. If
Speaker 1: you don't have a cheat day, You're gonna say to
Speaker 1: hell with it. I'm going back to my old ways completely.
Speaker 1: But if you allow yourself to cheat once or twice
Speaker 1: a week, you will you will sustain, you'll do the
Speaker 1: sort of awaken I don't know. Dan talks about waking
Speaker 1: one AA. It sounds like it works quite a bit.
Speaker 1: But I think it's based on the idea that you
Speaker 1: know that maybe the order I'm thinking it's the order
Speaker 1: of what you eat, and it's and it's watching your calories.
Speaker 1: But you have to have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: cheat day or you're never gonna you're never gonna stick
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Rick, you know my cheat day. I
Speaker 2: make love to a bag of cool ranch to ritos
Speaker 2: like you've never seen.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm right there with you. I think we're
Speaker 1: sharing it.
Speaker 2: No, Rick, have a good Thanksgiving same here.
Speaker 1: Thanks carry.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Rick calling in here six seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty things you are thankful for this? A cozy
Speaker 2: blanket coming out of the dryer warm, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: A roommate who gives you a workout, who gives you
Speaker 2: workout motivation. And I just talked to Rick about working out.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't need to hear that from other people.
Speaker 2: I don't need I haven't had. My roommate is my wife,
Speaker 2: and she's actually never done this to me. But when everybody,
Speaker 2: if anybody ever says to me, you should work out,
Speaker 2: not a good thing. No, no, And I do work out,
Speaker 2: but I don't need to hear it. Or when you're
Speaker 2: working out, there's nothing worse when somebody tries to give
Speaker 2: you advice. Like if I'm right now, I'm a big
Speaker 2: Orange theory guy. So I just go in focused and
Speaker 2: I just do my thing and leave and you talk
Speaker 2: to you people talk to you. You, I'll talk back
Speaker 2: to them, and you can be social and so forth.
Speaker 2: Don't want a lot of advice, don't want a lot
Speaker 2: of advice. Keep those elbows up. Oh yeah, kiss my butt.
Speaker 2: I'm paying leave me alone, and I don't get that
Speaker 2: at the place I go. They're all pretty cool, you know,
Speaker 2: they're all pretty cool. The feel of gentle rain on
Speaker 2: your face. That is annoying as hell. That is now,
Speaker 2: that is dumb. That is so damn annoying. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: sit there and I'm gonna get no. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no that. I can't. I can't. I can't get
Speaker 2: into that at all. The feeling of a gentle massage.
Speaker 2: I've never had a bad massage, let me tell you
Speaker 2: that right now, whether it's gentle or not. So that
Speaker 2: I would be thankful for six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. We got one more segment to go here, folks,
Speaker 2: here on WBC's night Side.
Speaker 4: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 4: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Gary tangleing for Dan Rag tonight on night Side.
Speaker 2: Getting ready to wrap things up, things you are thankful for.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Christian in the peabty Christian. What's ow Buddy,
Speaker 2: You're on WBC's Everything You too, Buddy.
Speaker 3: This goes back to childhood when you go on through
Speaker 3: the ice on the first freeze on the lake when
Speaker 3: it's thin, and you take the rocks and skip it
Speaker 3: and it makes the musical phones.
Speaker 2: I've never done that. Run that by me again.
Speaker 3: When ice is really thin, like on a pond. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like that first freeze. If you go out with
Speaker 3: b walk a small one and you throw the walks
Speaker 3: across the water as they bounce on the ice, it'll
Speaker 3: make musical phones.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I've never heard that. I have to look
Speaker 2: online to see that because I bet you that's really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like being boing ban but it's all
Speaker 3: different tones depending on the size of the rock.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I am getting so I am getting so
Speaker 2: eclectic in my old age. That's a great one, Christian, buddy.
Speaker 3: But that's really cool. I mean it's something that you
Speaker 3: never offer.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's something you never think of. Listen, have
Speaker 2: a good time Thanksgiving. I appreciate the callet. I gotta
Speaker 2: try that one. I mean, as you get older, it's
Speaker 2: those are the things in life. I mean, I'm really
Speaker 2: I don't mean to get deep on you, man, but
Speaker 2: sometimes silent. I'm just thankful for the silence. This from
Speaker 2: a guy who makes a lot of noise. Things. You're
Speaker 2: thankful for a local food bank that helps those in need. Absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 2: you know. I did this with my family at the
Speaker 2: Pine Street Inn. Just sign up, go over, serve a meal.
Speaker 2: Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it,
Speaker 2: do it Pine Street in or any of your local shelters,
Speaker 2: especially if you got kids. Take the kids, show how
Speaker 2: they can help. Go do it, go do it, absolutely
Speaker 2: and they will see and they will realize how they
Speaker 2: need to be thankful for things. A shower head with
Speaker 2: an adjustable water pressure. Okay, here's the big debate in
Speaker 2: my house. I want to rain shower those things in
Speaker 2: the middle. My wife just likes to regular shower. In
Speaker 2: a heartbeat, it's way too much money, it's totally extravagant.
Speaker 2: But those showers with like the rain shower on the
Speaker 2: top and like jets coming out of the wall so
Speaker 2: you get nailed like every which way. It's phenomenal. I'd
Speaker 2: be thankful for that. I will tell you right now.
Speaker 2: I'm thankful that it seems to be we're getting some
Speaker 2: peace in the Middle East. There's people that are talking
Speaker 2: and there could be some a treaty between Palestine and Israel.
Speaker 2: Very thankful for that. Now, if we can just do
Speaker 2: the same thing with the Ukraine, it's still it never
Speaker 2: ceases to amaze me. The more advanced we get, the
Speaker 2: smarter we get, the more intelligent we get, and people
Speaker 2: still kill people. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: We have cures for diseases, we have vaccinations, we've weathered
Speaker 2: the storm of a pandemic. We do all these incredible things.
Speaker 2: But yet because of somebody's religious belief or nationality, people
Speaker 2: want to kill them. I just it, just it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't understand it. Boy, tangway, that took a turn.
Speaker 2: How'd you go from talking about showers to that? Wow?
Speaker 2: Who that's a little nuts. The simple joy of a
Speaker 2: well organized desk. You know what, If I have a
Speaker 2: well organized desk, that means I'm not doing crap. When
Speaker 2: everything's a mess on my desk and I got papers everywhere,
Speaker 2: and I got pens, and I got empty coffee cups,
Speaker 2: that's progress. If everything's neat. My wife's desk is immaculate,
Speaker 2: and she does a ton of work, so I really
Speaker 2: can't say anything there. But there's sometimes if I saw
Speaker 2: somebody's day that's a little too neat, I'm going, what
Speaker 2: are you really doing? What are you really doing here?
Speaker 2: What are you hiding? What are you hiding? Kid? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the desk is too neat. They're not getting enough done.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that right now. The joy of singing
Speaker 2: along if it's not gonna come sounds of burt a
Speaker 2: birch chripping on the suthing. Yeah, I like that. The
Speaker 2: aroma of a delicious meal cooking in the kitchen depends
Speaker 2: what the meal is. I mean, come on, if it's
Speaker 2: fiddle heads like my mom used to cook fiddle heads,
Speaker 2: or should or do some pickling? Oh my god, the
Speaker 2: pickles are good after they were pickled, obviously. If they're
Speaker 2: not pickled, it's a cucumber. But you know what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to say, But the pickling process, my mom would
Speaker 2: have this big thing on the stove, a big pot
Speaker 2: at about eight jars eight ball jars in there with
Speaker 2: all caught up cucumbers and vinegar and brown sugar, and
Speaker 2: that would last for hours. Oh, my god, I would oh,
Speaker 2: vomit boo boo. A hug that conveys love and support
Speaker 2: without words, and somebody doesn't stab me in the back.
Speaker 2: There I could do that. I could understand as well.
Speaker 2: So there you have it. Things were thankful for. I
Speaker 2: gotta tell him. My health club has these massage chairs.
Speaker 2: They're awesome. It's so expensive, though. I would buy one
Speaker 2: in a heartbeat. My brother in law has one, but
Speaker 2: they never use it. I never understand it. I should
Speaker 2: just go over and like get a key and go
Speaker 2: in and start using it myself. But they have these
Speaker 2: massage chairs where you put it on for like ten
Speaker 2: minutes and it just rolls through your body back and forth.
Speaker 2: And there's only supposed to be a ten minute limit.
Speaker 2: But if there's nobody waiting in line, I just like
Speaker 2: fall asleep and I could pull the shade like in
Speaker 2: the area I'm in and no one will see me,
Speaker 2: and I just fall asleep for thirty minutes. Boom knocked out.
Speaker 2: Thankful for that man, Thankful for that, Thankful for Rob,
Speaker 2: Thankful for Marita. But doing a great job putting the
Speaker 2: show together tonight here on WBC. So it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting. We have Thanksgiving coming up, got some folks
Speaker 2: coming down from Maine, and right now, my big decision
Speaker 2: is to put marshmallows on the sweet potatoes? Do I
Speaker 2: do that? I mean, if you don't like them, you
Speaker 2: can take them off. Because if you put marshmallows on
Speaker 2: the sweet potatoes, that makes the sweet potatoes sweet sweet potatoes.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they need it. Maybe a little
Speaker 2: brown sugar is all you need. And there is nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with having your Thanksgiving, cadude. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 2: going to Whole Foods or Sudbury Farms or Roach Brothers
Speaker 2: or any of the great super mar the big Why
Speaker 2: whoever does it here in Massachusetts? There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: I have friends of mine. They got like thirty people coming.
Speaker 2: They're baking the bird, they're cooking all the food. Man,
Speaker 2: you got to really want to cook to do that.
Speaker 2: And you know, since I stopped working, which has been phenomena.
Speaker 2: By the way, a lot of people say, like, I
Speaker 2: go crazy. I'm not. I'd go crazy if I didn't work. No,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't, trust me, you wouldn't. Working is highly overrated.
Speaker 2: Doing what you want is not. There's a difference just
Speaker 2: because you're not working here, you're not employed, doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you're just sitting on your asshole day feeling sorry for yourself.
Speaker 2: You're out doing stuff that you want to do. So
Speaker 2: what I tried to do was become a good cook.
Speaker 2: Because my wife is working. You know, we had somebody
Speaker 2: for the kids. Let that person go. Unfortunately I became
Speaker 2: the nanny. I became the manny. I became the I
Speaker 2: can't cook and I don't want to cook. And there's
Speaker 2: something romantic about being a great cook. There is like
Speaker 2: having a glass of wine and cooking up this great
Speaker 2: meal and tossing the food around and you got the
Speaker 2: music going. And you know what happens in every movie,
Speaker 2: you know, the guy has the girl over and he's
Speaker 2: cooking up some great recipe and everything is perfect. And
Speaker 2: it's only in the movies because when I try to
Speaker 2: do it, I mean when I cooked dinner at home
Speaker 2: and my wife brings out the hummus and the carrots,
Speaker 2: and my daughter will bring out the peb and j
Speaker 2: should I feel insulted. The last thing I want to
Speaker 2: do is cook a freaking turkey. Does that make me
Speaker 2: a communist? No, it makes me a man who can't cook.
Speaker 2: The last thing I want to do is cook a turkey.
Speaker 2: It's bad enough. I think I got to reheat it.
Speaker 2: I pick it up at Hoples, bringing it sliding it.
Speaker 2: I'm thankful for all of you that listen tonight. I'm
Speaker 2: thankful for our guests. I'm thankful for the Celtics, thankful
Speaker 2: for Emily Kennedy, thankful for Giuliano, thank you for Jackson Tolliver,
Speaker 2: thank you for Scott Barredell. I appreciate you, guys. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you guys joining us tonight here on WBZ. Have a
Speaker 2: great Thanksgiving. You've been listening Tonight's side. Catch you next time.