Speaker 1: It's nice eye Dan Raye, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, a little bit after the eleven o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: my name is Dan ray We have reached the twentieth
Speaker 2: hour of the week, as we do at this time
Speaker 2: every week, and just we always like to look back
Speaker 2: quickly at the variety of topics that we have talked about,
Speaker 2: either in the eight o'clock hour we call the nightside
Speaker 2: News Update or in the more full discussion with listeners.
Speaker 2: So we started off on Monday night talking with an
Speaker 2: expert about the fact that sleep gets tougher as you age.
Speaker 2: We talked about the Bruins fire sale, which for a
Speaker 2: couple of days a couple of games, looked like it
Speaker 2: had worked out pretty well for the Bruins. We talked
Speaker 2: about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife. She
Speaker 2: died Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus, a very rare disease.
Speaker 2: We talked about army recruiting, talked with Chris Anderson in
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock hour and Monday night, the founder of
Speaker 2: the Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance. And of course on Monday was
Speaker 2: really the first day where the stock market took a
Speaker 2: big hit, and we talked about the stock market tanking
Speaker 2: on Monday, and a lot of that was the result
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump's answer to a question about the possibility
Speaker 2: of a recession. On Tuesday night, we talked about the
Speaker 2: best cars for twenty twenty five, particularly the best cars
Speaker 2: for families. Talked about a scholarship fund that's being run
Speaker 2: by the Ford Corporation for Auto technicians. Talked about the
Speaker 2: dangers and the need for colo colon rectal cancer checks.
Speaker 2: Not pleasant subject but one that we had to remind
Speaker 2: people of. And we talked about fentanyl laced drugs. It
Speaker 2: is spring break, and it is that time of year
Speaker 2: when a lot of your children and your grandchildren are
Speaker 2: heading to faraway places for spring break from college. And
Speaker 2: drugs were around, sadly, and many of them are laced
Speaker 2: with fentan'l talk with David Urban, newest member of the
Speaker 2: EMK Institute, News director of the EMK Institute for the
Speaker 2: US Senate. That's a wonderful facility over at Columbia Point
Speaker 2: and Urban is now a CNN contributor, And we talked
Speaker 2: about high energy bills here in Massachusetts and who's to
Speaker 2: blame and I put it squarely on the Department of
Speaker 2: Public Utilities commissioners, three people who dropped the ball in
Speaker 2: November in my opinion. On Wednesday night, we talked about
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party searching for a message in the wake
Speaker 2: of the Trump victory. The victory by President Trump last week.
Speaker 2: Talked about the Patriots free awning, free agent signings with
Speaker 2: Chris Price from the Boston Globe. Talked about New England
Speaker 2: slang with Stacy Milbauer of a website called Granite News,
Speaker 2: and talked about hospital bed shortage around the country with
Speaker 2: a doctor from UCLA. Talked with Julie Sullivan about long
Speaker 2: COVID recovering from long COVID. Shees with Brigham and Women's
Speaker 2: Hospital MGH Brigham and Women's Hospital. And we talked at
Speaker 2: ten o'clock about the decision by Jean Shaheen, Senator Democrat
Speaker 2: from New Hampshire, not to seek reelection. And we talked
Speaker 2: about Mahoud Khalil, the Palestinian student at Columbia who is
Speaker 2: now facing deportation. Last night, talked with an expert about
Speaker 2: the push for people to return to the office. Talked
Speaker 2: about the Twitter outage with an expert the Twitter or
Speaker 2: ex outage. We talked with a gentleman about how tariffs
Speaker 2: are going to hurt farmers, and we talked about young
Speaker 2: kids as young as seven being concerned about their body image.
Speaker 2: With Kelly's Shoup, we will have her on at some
Speaker 2: point in the next week or two to take phone calls.
Speaker 2: And then we talked last night, we did two hours
Speaker 2: on the various type of boycotts that have gone on
Speaker 2: in this country in recent years, and we focused a
Speaker 2: little bit on the Tesla boy clot some of the
Speaker 2: physical damage that has been done against private and public property,
Speaker 2: commercial property, and talked about that compared to the bud
Speaker 2: Light and also the January sixth protest. Obviously January sixth
Speaker 2: was a very different type of protest, but the bud
Speaker 2: Light was a protest and economic protest which was in
Speaker 2: effective boycott very effective in that regard. And then talked
Speaker 2: about the FEDS not shutting government down. Senator Schumer blinked,
Speaker 2: which I think is pretty accurate. Tonight, we talked about
Speaker 2: a new movie any day now about the Gardner Heist
Speaker 2: with Eric Aronson, and talked about speaking circles international getting
Speaker 2: past the fear of public speaking, and talked about pinnipeds
Speaker 2: and penguins with Christian McMahon of the beautiful full location
Speaker 2: downtown that all of us go the the arbor where
Speaker 2: where we go and see all the the the the
Speaker 2: fish and everything at New England, at the New England Aquarium.
Speaker 2: We're so blessed to have that facility in our community.
Speaker 2: Talk with Mark Jarman about the company called Futurian a
Speaker 2: one b ai being used for security. Talk with doctor
Speaker 2: Edward Christino, president of the Animal Rescue League of Boston,
Speaker 2: about their efforts to get some legislation passed which will
Speaker 2: help older folks and folks with disabilities be able to
Speaker 2: keep their their animals. And last hour we talked about
Speaker 2: the federal judge rejecting the Karen Reid case the double
Speaker 2: jeopardy claim and with us now is the Senator from
Speaker 2: South Boston other places as well, Nick Collins Nick Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day weekend is upon us. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm great, Dan, thanks for having me on. Happy Saint Patrick, Stan,
Speaker 3: happy you have had delationis day right.
Speaker 2: Back at you. You have a big responsibility. The breakfast,
Speaker 2: the annual Saint Patrick's Day Breakfast is on Sunday and
Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, which of the the politicians are you
Speaker 2: going to have for breakfast on Sunday?
Speaker 3: If you get my drift, Yes, everyone is on the
Speaker 3: menu for the roast.
Speaker 2: Yes, spread who is signed up? Sometimes we get surprised
Speaker 2: by sometimes guests from far away places. Any chance that
Speaker 2: President Trump is going to make a remote appearance.
Speaker 3: Well, we're never too sure. We can break last minute,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna We're gonna leave that up to the
Speaker 3: audience to find out on Sunday morning. But we have
Speaker 3: a great lineup that's already committed from federal, state, and
Speaker 3: local elected leaders, and we have some foreign leaders that
Speaker 3: are joining us from the Irish government, So it should
Speaker 3: be an exciting day. We have a great parade planned
Speaker 3: as well, with a lot of preparation that has been
Speaker 3: made over the last year. And you know, it's a
Speaker 3: great time of year. It breaks away from winter, and
Speaker 3: we turned into a town from thirty five thousand to
Speaker 3: a million people overnight, and we're celebrating great history in
Speaker 3: our city and our state and really in our country
Speaker 3: with March seventeen, seventeen seventy six being both Saint Patrick's
Speaker 3: Day and the first victory in the American Revolution here
Speaker 3: in Boston and known as Evacuation Day. But I think
Speaker 3: the most fun part of the day for sure for
Speaker 3: me is the Saint Pat's Day breakfast where we get
Speaker 3: to have some fun with a roast that's been around
Speaker 3: for over one hundred years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me ask let me ask you this
Speaker 2: nick minderstanding. Have they moved the parade up? I know
Speaker 2: they're concerned about rain later in the day. The breakfast
Speaker 2: is normally what nine o'clock? That the breakfast starts early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the breakfast is normally at ten clock, and it's
Speaker 3: when we bumped it up an hour early to accommodate
Speaker 3: the earlier start for the parade. So you can watch
Speaker 3: it on TV on nesson the Women's Sports Network, the
Speaker 3: womand cable News NYCN along with BNN if you live
Speaker 3: in Boston. I'd also be streamed live on Cottonsulty dot com.
Speaker 3: But it's a it's just an adjustment that was necessary
Speaker 3: to accommodate a better safety plan for the parade led
Speaker 3: by the South Boston Now I had World Westerns Council.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the parade will will step off at what
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock? Is that? What I'm eleven thirty, okay, and
Speaker 2: they hope.
Speaker 3: Will give nine to eleven and the parade will kick
Speaker 3: off at eleven.
Speaker 2: Thirty, okay. And my understanding is that they're looking at
Speaker 2: some heavy or rain later in the day and that's
Speaker 2: why they're moving things up. The weather forecast, what time
Speaker 2: will the parade wrap up? What time can people expect
Speaker 2: to be starting to.
Speaker 3: The parade should wrap up around two two thirty. It's
Speaker 3: a combination of well, I think this year really was
Speaker 3: about the storm that was on the streets of South
Speaker 3: Boston last year with respect to the the out of
Speaker 3: control revee. And there's a there's a notion that bumping
Speaker 3: it up an hour early would allow people to get
Speaker 3: in earlier and out earlier. And also, you know, it
Speaker 3: does help us mitigate any weather issues that we expect
Speaker 3: to have later on the day. It's you know, the
Speaker 3: weather report is changing ever so slightly, but it looks
Speaker 3: like the rain will be a little bit later in
Speaker 3: the afternoon, if not early evening, so we'll miss most
Speaker 3: of that for the parade. But it also get people
Speaker 3: a reason to you know, pack up and go when
Speaker 3: the party's over.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Nick, thanks very much. I know you got
Speaker 2: a lot of work and a lot of preparation to do,
Speaker 2: and again, have your way with whatever one of those
Speaker 2: politicians are brave enough to venture into South Boston for
Speaker 2: the breakfast. They know what they're gonna get. They're going
Speaker 2: to be served up as well as they'll be served breakfast,
Speaker 2: and a great day for everyone in South Boston, whether
Speaker 2: they're Irish or not. And of course on Sunday, everyone
Speaker 2: in South Boston is going to claim they're Irish. Nick Colins,
Speaker 2: State Senator, Thanks so much, Nick for joining us tonight,
Speaker 2: and we will we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, Thanks Jam, welcome right.
Speaker 2: Back at you, Nick Collins, thank you so much. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's what I want to do. This is the twentieth hour.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from as many of you as possible.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you if you're Irish or
Speaker 2: if you're not Irish. If you're Irish, I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear from you. If you have taken the step to
Speaker 2: get your dual citizenship. If you're not Irish, I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from you, if you've taken your step to
Speaker 2: get dual citizenship. If some of you would like to
Speaker 2: if any of you would like to call in and
Speaker 2: join us and tell you tell us what Saint Patrick's
Speaker 2: Day means to you. For me, it's like one of
Speaker 2: the first harbingers of spring, because even though we can
Speaker 2: still get snowstorms April first, nineteen ninety seven, I'll put
Speaker 2: on the table as evidence of that. I think it
Speaker 2: really does finally tell us that we've broken the back
Speaker 2: of winter. So there's a lot to be happy about.
Speaker 2: If any of you have been to Ireland, I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear a story if you've ever gone back and
Speaker 2: met some of the family who's still in Ireland. Let's
Speaker 2: turn this into a nice positive finish for the week.
Speaker 2: All comments and questions related to Ireland or to your
Speaker 2: heritage or welcome and who knows, if I hear a
Speaker 2: good story or two, maybe we can get you an
Speaker 2: Irish T shirt from our great friends at college Hype
Speaker 2: dot com. They have a wonderful website, my city Gear.
Speaker 2: Wherever you live in Boston, you can find some great
Speaker 2: sweatshirts and T shirts and hats at my city Gear.
Speaker 2: That's the website mycitygear dot com. Our friend jack Darty
Speaker 2: and I'll also mention, by the way, Jackson been such
Speaker 2: a great friend of our program for so many years.
Speaker 2: His daughter is finishing her hockey career. She plays for
Speaker 2: Hingham the Hingham Harbormen, and they're in the state finals
Speaker 2: on Sunday at Boston Garden at eleven o'clock. So our
Speaker 2: best wish is to all the girls' hockey teams who
Speaker 2: have made it, who have played this winter, but particularly
Speaker 2: we wish best of luck to the girls' hockey teams
Speaker 2: that will play. Have the thrill of playing on the
Speaker 2: home ice of the Boston Bruins throughout most of Sunday,
Speaker 2: so that's one of the great thrills and I hope
Speaker 2: all the parents enjoy it as well. I so miss
Speaker 2: the hockey games that my kids played in in high school.
Speaker 2: You think they'll never end sometimes, but they do, and
Speaker 2: when they end, you're very sad as a parent. Trust
Speaker 2: me on that. Okay, go to open up the phone lines.
Speaker 2: Let's talk all things Irish six one seven, and you know,
Speaker 2: if you want to bring your your heritage into the conversation,
Speaker 2: what's wrong with that. Us Irish are very open minded.
Speaker 2: We love everyone Irish. The Irish don't get involved in wars.
Speaker 2: Uh for the most part, uh, and we we love people.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. How are you going to celebrate Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day? Let us know. I know one of the
Speaker 2: things I will do is I will watch the stream
Speaker 2: of students from Boston College head to the MBTA here
Speaker 2: in Newton, and they will be going into South Boston,
Speaker 2: many of them for the first time. And uh, it's
Speaker 2: it's quite it's quite an experience. Let's put it like that.
Speaker 2: We'll be back at Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ.
Speaker 2: The news radio. All right, we're looking Uh, this is
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day weekend, let's get it going here. Six
Speaker 2: one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
Speaker 2: one ten thirty. If you're Irish, come on, give us
Speaker 2: a call. If you're not Irish, the only two types
Speaker 2: of people that can call tonight are eligibill call. Either
Speaker 2: have to be Irish or anything other than Irish. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. We'll get right to the calls.
Speaker 2: Let me go to uh, Steven Weymouth, Steve, welcome first
Speaker 2: this hour on Night Side tonight. Well, we dropped off.
Speaker 2: We dropped him off. Look at that now, I actually
Speaker 2: rob hit the coreer. He he must have dropped himself
Speaker 2: off because I did hit the right green button. Let
Speaker 2: me go to Dave's David in wear him. David has
Speaker 2: his radio track. That's very good. Let's put David on
Speaker 2: hold and see if you can work with these folks
Speaker 2: here tonight. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be one of those nights. Huh. I hope not.
Speaker 2: Six one seven, two five four ten thirty. Got an
Speaker 2: open line there and six one seven nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. That was the line that Steve was on.
Speaker 2: And what happened was Steve had us on speakerphone and speak.
Speaker 2: Steve hit speakerphone and disconnected himself. Steve called back, you
Speaker 2: would love to hear from you. Let me go. Let's
Speaker 2: try David and wear him. David, do you have you
Speaker 2: radio turned down?
Speaker 4: Radio is bound?
Speaker 2: Sir boy. I'll tell you before it sounded like it
Speaker 2: was blasting. How are you welcome to Night Side?
Speaker 4: It's because I love your show, that's why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's good. I'll tell you better check your
Speaker 2: hearing in the morning. Because having a radio that loud
Speaker 2: could be a problem.
Speaker 4: Go right ahead, Well I'm not Irish, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: Said as I said, the only two groups of people
Speaker 2: that could call on St Patrick's Day Friday night, you
Speaker 2: got to be Irish or not Irish. That's that's your
Speaker 2: eligible ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in that category. But I do love quanbe
Speaker 4: for cabbage.
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's I think it's the worst meal in America.
Speaker 2: I've never I've never. Do you actually like it or no?
Speaker 4: Of course I do, and and I have a I
Speaker 4: have to. I want to bring something up about that though.
Speaker 4: Of course that was the kind.
Speaker 3: Of meat that was cheap in them days.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, right, that's why they used it, you know, affordability.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 4: Have you noticed the price is now corn.
Speaker 2: Well, particularly this week, I assume, yeah, I particularly this week.
Speaker 2: It's it's much sought after. Yeah. I have never been
Speaker 2: a fan of corn beef and cabbagy. The only time
Speaker 2: that I've liked corn beef if I can slather it
Speaker 2: with mustard, then I'm okay with that. But now I'm
Speaker 2: not not at when I was a kid, that was
Speaker 2: always on the table, and that was the one meal
Speaker 2: that I never was a fan of And I don't
Speaker 2: know why I'm at Jessin Never. I'm sure people are
Speaker 2: going to disagree with me, but that's you that maybe
Speaker 2: you dude, maybe you are Irish after all if you
Speaker 2: like gorned beef the gabbage, Dave, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know you're Iris, so you're supposed to.
Speaker 2: I'm Irish, but yeah, we look. I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: the Irish cuisine. I first went to Ireland I think
Speaker 2: it was nineteen eighty two as a TV reporter, and
Speaker 2: the food was horrible. It was hot, it was in edible,
Speaker 2: it was inedible. But Irish cuisine over the last forty
Speaker 2: years has improved dramatically, dramatically. I can remember being in
Speaker 2: Ireland in eighty two and there was They had nothing
Speaker 2: like Dunkin Donuts. I said to myself that I would
Speaker 2: I would. I would start a dunkin Donut franchise and
Speaker 2: retire to Ireland. I should have. I would have been
Speaker 2: a multi millionaire by now. All you would have would
Speaker 2: be a pub. You go into the pub at ten
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning and they would give you a
Speaker 2: white bread sandwich with one slice of flat slice of ham,
Speaker 2: and that was considered a lovely morning snack. Not great,
Speaker 2: not great, but but Virius cuisine has got better. It
Speaker 2: has gotten better over time. Trust me on that.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well I don't cook it.
Speaker 4: I know all these restaurants that have it right now.
Speaker 2: Well, probably the restaurants do better than than it was
Speaker 2: when I growing up in my family. Some members of
Speaker 2: my family liked it. It was not my favorite. David.
Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice. This is your first time
Speaker 2: calling the show, baby Chancell know.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but I'd listened all the time.
Speaker 2: I got to give you a ride of applause. Is
Speaker 2: the first tight caller, David. That's you know, that's part
Speaker 2: of your reduction into the order of nightside go ahead.
Speaker 4: But what I'm really doing is I'm I'm one of
Speaker 4: those old fashioned guys that if you can't sleep, you
Speaker 4: go for a ride out by the water or something.
Speaker 4: You know what, bag you know, I couldn't, you know,
Speaker 4: I get restless and and I put you on and
Speaker 4: listen to you, and well, you know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting for the stroke of midnight.
Speaker 2: You know why, I have no clue.
Speaker 4: The stroke of midnight is the IDEs of botch.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, so make.
Speaker 3: Sure you keep keep you.
Speaker 2: Keep your back to the wall. At two, brote you too.
Speaker 4: We have to.
Speaker 2: Well. Happy birthday, Happy birthday. I'm gonna ask you how old,
Speaker 2: but happy birthday. Get it another round up from wear him.
Speaker 2: Here you get two rounds of floss. First time caller,
Speaker 2: and on your birthday, David.
Speaker 4: Congratulations, I'll tell you after a few hot operations, I'm
Speaker 4: turning seventy. Thank you lord.
Speaker 2: Wow, good for you. Good for you, a big one,
Speaker 2: a big one. Enjoy the day and do something special.
Speaker 2: Thanks David. Touch you soon, all right, good back, good night,
Speaker 2: all right, cad. I let me go back on to
Speaker 2: try Steve and uh in wayman, Steve, I have no
Speaker 2: idea what happened. I was afraid your house blew up.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead. We lost?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh Dan, this is Steve from North Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: And uh yeah, I'm the truck driver.
Speaker 2: Come on, how you doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, that's where I used.
Speaker 5: To live, Dan, I thought, I told Rob. I said,
Speaker 5: let's throw Dan off.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Tell him I'm from North Weymouth, Massachusetts, where I live
Speaker 5: for two decades.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I got.
Speaker 2: You, soasa, how you did get me? How far are
Speaker 2: you from the tappan Zee Bridge, because every time you come,
Speaker 2: you're either going over it, Teddy heading to Pennsylvania. See,
Speaker 2: I know you're route or you're coming down.
Speaker 4: How you do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm about twenty minutes from the bridge.
Speaker 2: At the bridge for you is not the Sagamore or
Speaker 2: the board.
Speaker 5: For you, it's the no no, even though I've been
Speaker 5: over both of those bridges many times on the truck.
Speaker 5: But no, I'm I didn't get to see the lunar
Speaker 5: clips in the morning because it was really thick cloud
Speaker 5: cover in New York. Yeah, I could see it partially
Speaker 5: in Massachusetts Connecticut border, but the clouds were getting thicker
Speaker 5: and I couldn't see it. But I have a friend
Speaker 5: in Homer, Pennsylvania, and they said.
Speaker 6: That they saw it was clears, guys.
Speaker 5: And of course the minute I drove into Pennsylvania it
Speaker 5: was clear skuys. But it was too late by then.
Speaker 5: But I'm sorry I missed it because I really get
Speaker 5: into that.
Speaker 2: Well, great if they had held it off for a
Speaker 2: couple of hours for you, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know what funny you were funny with Bob to
Speaker 5: call the too about a reference to seems like somebody's
Speaker 5: already taken the bar something old like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think Bob knew what I was saying.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, he got about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: So in between his books, Yeah he understood what you
Speaker 5: were saying.
Speaker 2: No, no, you get classy callers here. Don't worry. So look,
Speaker 2: I know, when when do you When does your day
Speaker 2: or when does your ride in? You got what four
Speaker 2: hours left? Maybe?
Speaker 5: Uh, probably seven six and a half. I got to
Speaker 5: take my half an hour break. So I'm direct. I'm
Speaker 5: a direct flight from York, Pennsylvania our terminal, to Leiston, Maine,
Speaker 5: to our other terminal. That's my home base. So it
Speaker 5: takes two hours, like I said, from York, Pennsylvania to
Speaker 5: the Pennsylvania New Jersey border. Then from there it's real long,
Speaker 5: you know, ninety five through Connecticut.
Speaker 3: But I love to drive, so it's not long to me.
Speaker 5: Plus you entertain me. I get to hear you all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 2: So well, if you if you watch the evening news tonight,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of wind out in the Midwest
Speaker 2: and Texas and some of the big eighteen wheelers were
Speaker 2: literally being blown over, So please be careful.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, it doesn't take much even if you're fuller
Speaker 5: empty your trailer. That win. You know, it's amazing how
Speaker 5: powerful it can be. I mean, I've been down the
Speaker 5: road and forty mile prowl a fifty mile per hour gusta.
Speaker 5: My tractor will want to go into all lane. So
Speaker 5: it's good to have two hands on the.
Speaker 2: Up. We just lost him, Steve. We lost you. You
Speaker 2: weren't cut off. We lost you. You cut cut off
Speaker 2: in mid sentence. Be well, Steve. Have a great weekend,
Speaker 2: Happy Saint Patrick's Day. We're ready to break for the
Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the hour, coming right back
Speaker 2: on nightside. My name's Dan Ray. Feel free to join us.
Speaker 2: We're getting you started on the Saint Patrick's Day weekend.
Speaker 2: And if you're out there and you want to, you know,
Speaker 2: open a beer or have a glass of wine tonight
Speaker 2: to toast Saint Patrick, one of the great saints, drove
Speaker 2: the snakes out of Ireland. I'm not sure there were
Speaker 2: snakes in Ireland, but as legend has it, he drove
Speaker 2: them out. And you want to give a toast to
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick, you can. I have to wait until after midnight,
Speaker 2: which I will coming back on nightside. After this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We're gonna go next
Speaker 2: to We got Gregory in Dorchester. Gregory will get you in.
Speaker 2: Then I got Laurie and Idaho, Jennifer and Yarmouth Port,
Speaker 2: Karen and Rhode Island, and Doreen and Chelsea, although not
Speaker 2: necessarily in that order. Gregory, how are you going to
Speaker 2: be at the Mary and Brett food pantry?
Speaker 7: I don't think so. Sorry, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: I'll be there representing you.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah. Do you see Bill Breath around the tall?
Speaker 2: Of course I do. Bill, absolutely, I'll tell him you
Speaker 2: said hello, I.
Speaker 7: Haven't down a corner.
Speaker 2: He's there tomorrow. He's there, Bill Brett is there, Jim
Speaker 2: Brett is there, Harry Brett is there, all the breads
Speaker 2: are there. And I'm the MC tomorrow and we'll raise
Speaker 2: some money for the Mary.
Speaker 7: Brett food I'll make it next year, hope. So I'm
Speaker 7: still live.
Speaker 2: In Happy St. Patrick's day. To you, I can tell
Speaker 2: whether the little I know that you're one hundred percent Irish?
Speaker 2: What what town? What Cork? What? What? What county? Did
Speaker 2: you eminate?
Speaker 7: I was born in Dingle County Kerry Dingles most I
Speaker 7: know you read the Globe stage it's an article with
Speaker 7: an Ireland on.
Speaker 6: It and set.
Speaker 2: Beautiful, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 7: Language for from we speak all Irish Gaelic. Have you
Speaker 7: been back, Oh, I've been quite back back quite often. Yeah,
Speaker 7: not lately because my parents have passed away, and I
Speaker 7: still have a sister and none know their sister a
Speaker 7: retired school teacher, a brother home and the home place
Speaker 7: and another sister and.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Speaker 7: I used to go. I used to go a lot,
Speaker 7: but not as that just happen as they used to.
Speaker 7: You know, I used to go once a year one time,
Speaker 7: and you know, I was married with a couple of kids,
Speaker 7: and it wasn't that easy. The one time you go back.
Speaker 7: Then then this you go back, and you go for
Speaker 7: six weeks or something. Now they're going back and forth
Speaker 7: like every other day.
Speaker 2: Greg, what year did you come here?
Speaker 7: Nineteen fifty nine, sixty nine, fifty.
Speaker 2: Nine, fifty nine.
Speaker 7: How tough over the twenty second I'll never forget it,
Speaker 7: nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2: How tough was it to get into the country back
Speaker 2: in those days?
Speaker 7: It wasn't tough for me because we did the right thing.
Speaker 7: You know what, My mother was an American citizen and
Speaker 7: she worked in Cambridge, and when things for Badge, they
Speaker 7: tell me all about America and Boston, and she was
Speaker 7: telling me how proud the Irish were that they wouldn't
Speaker 7: even go on the breadline or something. And she was
Speaker 7: a house keep her a cook or something in Camerage
Speaker 7: for some rich family over there, and she was cooking
Speaker 7: Irish bread, sticking it out the window at night. They
Speaker 7: used to come around just to give them something to eat,
Speaker 7: but they were too proud to go going to the
Speaker 7: front and the soup line or whatever they called it.
Speaker 7: You know, they set up. They weren't set up in
Speaker 7: hotels and giving vouchers or anything. That's It wasn't tough
Speaker 7: for meat all it was. It was easy.
Speaker 2: I'm good here and and you're you're an American by choice, Greg,
Speaker 2: I got to run, I got packed lines, happy, very proud.
Speaker 7: I love this country and it's the best cook in
Speaker 7: the world. And if anybody who knocks today, I ate it.
Speaker 7: I love it. There's no country like it in the world.
Speaker 7: I got one thing in common with you. I never
Speaker 7: heard the carn beef and cabbage in Ireland til I
Speaker 7: come out here.
Speaker 2: Now now I feel better. I feel better, Greg, I
Speaker 2: got a run, I got packed right, So.
Speaker 7: Wish and make sure.
Speaker 2: I'll tell them all. I'll tell them all. I promise you, Greg,
Speaker 2: talk to you. Thank you, good night. Let me go.
Speaker 2: Laurie is in Idaho. Laurie, welcome. How are you?
Speaker 8: I'm well.
Speaker 9: My refrigerator died tonight?
Speaker 2: So will there be some services that we could attend if? Oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, good fridge.
Speaker 9: But it's just I didn't it's running, but obviously the
Speaker 9: condenser must have pooped out because it's not keeping anything cold,
Speaker 9: which is not what I need to discover at eight
Speaker 9: o'clock at night.
Speaker 2: But no, I know, can you put it out on
Speaker 2: a porch or something and that at least is closed
Speaker 2: in so the animals don't get it?
Speaker 9: Or no, it's cold enough. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 9: what kind of critters can crawl back and forth, but
Speaker 9: I mean something stuff. Maybe I'm just going to go.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna get to get a little one tomorrow and
Speaker 9: then see what we want to do about I don't
Speaker 9: know if it can be serviced. I mean, do they
Speaker 9: fix refrigerators anymore? Did they just bury them and any one.
Speaker 2: Probably not. They hold a lovely service and they take
Speaker 2: it to the well.
Speaker 9: Moving on. Happy Saint Patrick's Day weekend right to you
Speaker 9: as well.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. It's it's a it's a
Speaker 2: nice way stop during the year kind of to me
Speaker 2: says winter is finally over. You know. We can talk
Speaker 2: about Groundhog's Day Valentine's Day on March first, but Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day, that's.
Speaker 3: That's my holiday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to celebrate it tomorrow, tomorrow and all
Speaker 2: out in Idaho. There's no parades in Idaho, I'm sure
Speaker 2: for Saint Patrick's.
Speaker 9: Day, right, Probably not, but I wouldn't go to one anyway,
Speaker 9: So no, I you know, I I kind of like
Speaker 9: leave amateur Hour to the amateur hours now. But I
Speaker 9: love friends and I we did we did. We did
Speaker 9: the the Hodge to the Black Rose for many many
Speaker 9: years on Saint Patrick's Day and it was it was
Speaker 9: always fund to stay a life for a while.
Speaker 2: But it's it's a it's that's a bit of a
Speaker 2: religious experience, I'm told, probably when you're.
Speaker 9: In twenties, yes, but it was great, didn't you didn't
Speaker 9: eat I like the gray corn beef. I do not
Speaker 9: like the red stuff. So I kind of cook my
Speaker 9: guy corn, my own brisket, and I have my own
Speaker 9: corn beef, and I love the music.
Speaker 6: And how much cherry?
Speaker 2: How much Irish blood do you have in you? You
Speaker 2: are you thorough?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 9: No exactly. I mean, I know my mother's grandmother was
Speaker 9: a Kelly. My mother's mother was a Kelly, and so
Speaker 9: they had that. There's a little bit of Scotch in
Speaker 9: there somewhere, and we also have a lot of English.
Speaker 9: So that must have been a fun family reunion way
Speaker 9: back when.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you know, hey, they buried
Speaker 2: the hatchet and they they they now yet it was yeah,
Speaker 2: well they have. But back in those days, I think
Speaker 2: that there still was good feelings amongst families. That's all.
Speaker 2: We might be related. I had some relatives who were Kelly's,
Speaker 2: so who knows, you know, we're we're all in some
Speaker 2: form of fashion related. Anyway, Have you got I want
Speaker 2: to give away a night side T shirt? Have you
Speaker 2: got a night side T shirt out there to wear
Speaker 2: now that spring is about to spring to spring to
Speaker 2: spring past its Yeah, no, it's not. Unfortunately it's gray.
Speaker 2: It's great. So you can take you can take it
Speaker 2: or leave it your choice. You let us know here. Okay,
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 9: Is it an Irish steam or is it a night
Speaker 9: side T shirt?
Speaker 2: Nice side T shirt? Night side T shirt? I can
Speaker 2: get you an Irish I can get you an Irish
Speaker 2: T shirt if you want. Would you like an Irish
Speaker 2: T shirt?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: I do have a gray one, but green is my
Speaker 9: favorite color.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I don't have any green knightside T shirts.
Speaker 2: But I'll get your green T shirt from our friends
Speaker 2: of college Hype. That'll be That'll be a nice, uh
Speaker 2: spring addition to your wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes my night much better?
Speaker 2: All right, excellent, excellent, that's coming to you from our
Speaker 2: friends at college Hype. And you just leave the all
Speaker 2: the information, size, et cetera address and we'll get it
Speaker 2: in the mail in the next couple of days for sure. Okay.
Speaker 9: I appreciate that, and thank you and happy things have
Speaker 9: to pay that got them the other guy.
Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, but I don't think you've been drinking.
Speaker 2: Thanks Lloyd. We'll talk soon. Don't hang up. Get that
Speaker 2: information a rob Okay, what are we gonna do here? Well,
Speaker 2: we got four more calls. We're gonna get everybody in
Speaker 2: we're gonna be a little quicker. We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: break and we'll be right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling. You're going to go to
Speaker 2: Jennifer in you aremo boy, Hey Jennifer, welcome back. Happy
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day. How are you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: Good Dan? Thank you? Yes, the same to you. What
Speaker 10: I do for Saint Patrick's Day being and I do
Speaker 10: home healthcare. I make a millions of share More cookies
Speaker 10: and bring them to a lot of the nursing homes
Speaker 10: in the area residents to enjoy. That's very kind of you,
Speaker 10: and that's my gift for Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: That's an annual tradition. Know what, because you've been so general,
Speaker 2: I'm going to send you. I'd like to send you
Speaker 2: a night side T shirt.
Speaker 10: Oh thank you, that's so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, what you got to do is you got to
Speaker 2: give your name and address and your phone number. Remember,
Speaker 2: get the phone numbers, Rob and whatever size you want.
Speaker 2: The biggest they go up to is two X. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that you're no two X, but whatever you need,
Speaker 2: you let us know. It's kind of a great night
Speaker 2: side T shirt and you can wear it. Summer is
Speaker 2: right around the corner. You can show your pride in
Speaker 2: Nightside and show it off in Yarmouthport this year.
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, And if you ever get the inkling to
Speaker 10: come down here, I'd love to have you as a
Speaker 10: guest to my home.
Speaker 2: Well, you never know, you never know. I do spend
Speaker 2: some time on the cape in the summertime, and I'd
Speaker 2: be more than happy to give your call and stop
Speaker 2: buy and say hello. So you just leave all of
Speaker 2: that information. And when did you start this cookie tradition,
Speaker 2: because that's pretty nice.
Speaker 10: Oh gosh, probably twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2: Good you you've gotta be a good person to do that.
Speaker 2: That's great. Well, Jen, you hold on and we'll get
Speaker 2: you that Nightside T shirt in the mail in no
Speaker 2: later than Monday.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, that's great. Thank you Dan very much.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Rob will take all that for you. Okay.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Doreen and Chelsea. Doreen, you
Speaker 2: were next on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 5: How are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great?
Speaker 6: Toy san patties to everybody out there.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 8: Them well and good luck.
Speaker 6: I remember what they say when Irish eyes are smiling,
Speaker 6: the whole world smiles with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm guessing that you must have a little bit
Speaker 2: of Irish blood in you. Yes, I do.
Speaker 7: I do for you, and I love the dinner.
Speaker 9: I love the dinner, especially the cabbage, curly cabbage.
Speaker 6: Are you too, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 2: Never developed a taste for it. It's funny people.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 8: It's good for your blood.
Speaker 3: Good for your blood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that is good to know, Dorian. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I you know what I'm I'm going to send you
Speaker 2: a nightside T shirt too. How's that? Okay?
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Show it off well, I would appreciate that. Summertime's coming
Speaker 2: and very very comfortable. They're gray with I think it's
Speaker 2: blue lettering. So you leave your information with Rob and
Speaker 2: we'll take care of you. Okay.
Speaker 6: You hanging there, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, Derry. Thanks for being such a loyal Nightside listener.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Karen in Rhode Island. Karen and going
Speaker 2: to get you in here and a couple more. Karen,
Speaker 2: You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11: Hi Dan, Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: Right back at you. A happy weekend. The weekend is
Speaker 2: about to start for all of us. Tgi F it's Friday,
Speaker 2: that's for sure, Yes it is.
Speaker 11: This is the first time I can honestly say I
Speaker 11: am pot Irish because I recently did my DNA and
Speaker 11: I came back twelve percent Irish.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh wow? What what are the other? What's the other?
Speaker 2: Eighty eight percent? Is it?
Speaker 11: Well, big surprise?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you a mutt like many people?
Speaker 11: If you know what I'm saying, I'm my mother on
Speaker 11: my mother's side, both her mother and father have English ancestry.
Speaker 11: On my father's side, his father came from Sweden, his mother,
Speaker 11: the ancestry was English. So I knew all I knew
Speaker 11: was English that I could actually trace back to a person.
Speaker 11: So I finally decided to do my DNA and find
Speaker 11: out if I could find like connections over there, to
Speaker 11: do more, do more research because it's hot with records
Speaker 11: over here, to get records over there. And yeah, I'm
Speaker 11: twelve percent Irish and I'm twelve percent and twenty eight
Speaker 11: Swedish and the rest of it is English.
Speaker 2: That's a good combination. Good combination there, that's for sure. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's great. That's great, Karen. Let me. We're just giving
Speaker 2: away night side T shirts here, so let's give one
Speaker 2: more to you. You have you don't have one yet. No,
Speaker 2: well we're gonna get you one. But you're gonna do
Speaker 2: the same thing. Leave all your information with rob name,
Speaker 2: phone number, and whatever size you want. Okay. The biggest
Speaker 2: we go was two X, but I'm sure that you're
Speaker 2: less than.
Speaker 7: Two X I am.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, we'll get your good gray T shirt and
Speaker 2: it'll work for you. And they're pretty warm, by the way,
Speaker 2: they're really good quality T shirts. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Dan, and have a nice week again.
Speaker 2: Don't hang up, don't hang up. All right, let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling here. I got Tim and Woolber and Tim. A
Speaker 2: little Irish blood.
Speaker 6: Here, a lot of Irish blood. How much my mother
Speaker 6: was My mother was a rooney from Cork. My father McMahon, right,
Speaker 6: a hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2: Well, you got it all, You got it all whereabouts
Speaker 2: in County Cork. My four meres are from Mala, which is.
Speaker 6: That I not I'm not. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: You got to do the research on that. You got
Speaker 2: to do the research and then at some point have
Speaker 2: you ever been back over?
Speaker 6: No, no, my mother has been over there. We sent
Speaker 6: my mother over. She passed away, but we sent our
Speaker 6: mother over the years ago. She loved it.
Speaker 2: Well, you should see if she left you some notes
Speaker 2: of relatives. It's it's a it's something everyone should do.
Speaker 2: We should talk about it sometime.
Speaker 6: Okay, could I ask you? Are you Italian?
Speaker 2: Nope? Nope, Irish with the A on the end, right, AE,
Speaker 2: I owe you were the vowel.
Speaker 6: I thought you might have been.
Speaker 2: Anyhow do you know any people who have the last
Speaker 2: name of Shay s h g A. You kind of
Speaker 2: get more Irish than Shay.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyhow, let me
Speaker 6: tell you a quick story years ago, right, I came home.
Speaker 2: You gotta be quick on this, tim You gotta be
Speaker 2: quick on this one, because they got one more behind you.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, okay, tell you what.
Speaker 6: Anyhow, I'd love a night side T shirt. I wear
Speaker 6: it to the function at Namoli.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, why not? Go ahead? Well you
Speaker 2: stay right there, We'll get you a night side T shirt. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks you hanging there? Okay, on one boy here, let
Speaker 2: me go to j L in Boston. J L welcome,
Speaker 2: How are you hi?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 2: Hi? JL.
Speaker 8: I wanted to call because I just recently learned this
Speaker 8: past week that my maternal grandmother has been recognized in
Speaker 8: the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
Speaker 2: Excellent, how about that?
Speaker 8: That's yeah.
Speaker 2: What was she recognized for, j L?
Speaker 8: Well, she was a lost resident of the old West
Speaker 8: End at three seventy nine Charles Street, all right, all right,
Speaker 8: and fought the taking of the West End.
Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of people thought that that was terrible
Speaker 2: for that community. But yeah, unfortunately, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: communities that get themselves gentrified. There's no question about that.
Speaker 2: Have you called before? I never had a JL call
Speaker 2: this show. I have not. No, We've got to give
Speaker 2: you a run of applause. JL, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for our digital studio audience. JL. I gotta let you run.
Speaker 2: I've had five T shirts to give away. If I
Speaker 2: had one more, I would give it to you. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to get you maybe next time when you call. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks JL, appreciating congratulations on your grandmother. That's quite an honor.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Thank you, Thanks, JL.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend.
Speaker 8: Oh she was one hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2: Well then you've got to be at least I'm guessing
Speaker 2: fifty percent. So happy Saint Patrick's n you as well.
Speaker 8: Thank you. That's the whole reason for my calling.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, thanks, Thanks Jay, I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: We had done for the week. We're done for the night.
Speaker 2: Rob Brooks, great job, Maria, great job. Happy Saint Patrick's
Speaker 2: Day to everyone. There are people who are still calling,
Speaker 2: but I can't get you in because we're run out
Speaker 2: of time. I will be on Facebook again. I would
Speaker 2: remind you if you want to join us for a
Speaker 2: brunch on April twenty seventh. Uh, make a reservation seven
Speaker 2: eight one three seven five two five nine four. Oh
Speaker 2: call me at WBZ and I'll give you all the specifics.
Speaker 2: Done for the week, I'm going to be on Facebook.
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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you in the next couple of minutes.
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Speaker 2: who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
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Speaker 2: I do believe you'll see them again. We'll see again
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