Speaker 1: It's nice eyes with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio very.
Speaker 2: More much Madison, and I'll tell you thank God it's
Speaker 2: Friday tgif I suspect many of you feel that way
Speaker 2: for a whole bunch of reasons, one of which is
Speaker 2: that summer will arrive officially during our program. So we're
Speaker 2: going to start in the spring, and we're going to
Speaker 2: finish in the summer. And by the end of the show,
Speaker 2: and certainly by the first two or three days, we
Speaker 2: will be broiling. And we're going to talk with a
Speaker 2: Boston Globe media relogist, Ken Mahan at eight forty five
Speaker 2: about that. We're going to talk with the mayor of Wemster,
Speaker 2: Dean Mazarella, and we're also going to talk about a
Speaker 2: new show called Moonwalkers. It's a journey with Tom Hanks
Speaker 2: during this program. But first, after I introduced myself as
Speaker 2: Dan Ray, the actual host of Nightside with Dan Ray
Speaker 2: and Rob Brooks. After having enjoyed an evening off our
Speaker 2: day off yesterday, is back in his normal position in
Speaker 2: the WBZ control room with us. We're delighted to be
Speaker 2: joined by really long time in an excellent WBZ News reporter,
Speaker 2: great friend, Kendall Buell. Kendall, welcome to Night's side. I
Speaker 2: think you've been with us before, but it's been a while.
Speaker 3: It has been a long time, Dan, great talking to you.
Speaker 2: Great to talk with you. So you were up in
Speaker 2: Gloucester today for the re enactment of the Battle of
Speaker 2: bunker Hill. But Bunker Hill was about thirty miles to
Speaker 2: the south or the southwest. There's a little confusion here,
Speaker 2: so let's start to unravel this. Why was the two
Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth commemoration of the Battle of bunker Hill,
Speaker 2: which really really was, I think arguably the beginning of
Speaker 2: the revolution, with all due respects to our friends in
Speaker 2: Conquered and Lexington. Why was the recreation of it the
Speaker 2: commemoration of it?
Speaker 3: Loster Well, because the organizers are going big, really big,
Speaker 3: as well they should because you're absolutely right, then, Conquered Lexington,
Speaker 3: those were skirmishes. Bunker Hill was the big battle that
Speaker 3: really kicked off the Revolutionary War. That's the one that
Speaker 3: sent the message to the Crown that they had a
Speaker 3: fight on their hands, and also sent the message to
Speaker 3: the militia across Massachusetts and across the colonies that they
Speaker 3: could take the fight to the British. So it's such
Speaker 3: an important event to commemorate as we stand here on
Speaker 3: the eve of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3: Of course, we just celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 3: birthday of the Army and that's exactly really what the
Speaker 3: birth of the Army was really the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Speaker 3: So this is such a huge event and the the
Speaker 3: organizers decided to really go big. We're talking about a
Speaker 3: thousand reenactors and then thousands and thousands of people who
Speaker 3: are going to be in Gloucester to watch for each
Speaker 3: of the days of the events. And the fact is,
Speaker 3: if you have that many people the real Bunker Hill,
Speaker 3: well it's not going to do it. Charles Town has
Speaker 3: changed quite a bit over the last two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty years and with the urban development there, you really
Speaker 3: couldn't do such a large scale operation, just as far
Speaker 3: as having all that many reenactors, but also logistically speaking,
Speaker 3: accommodating that many spectators as well. One of the organizers
Speaker 3: in Gloucester said that the parking alone has just been
Speaker 3: a logistical nightmare for them. It's enough that they've cracked,
Speaker 3: they feel, but it was a very hard thing to do.
Speaker 3: It is very hard when you look at all the
Speaker 3: people who are going to be coming to Gloucester and
Speaker 3: just how big of an event that they have planned.
Speaker 3: It's very hard to imagine it actually happening in Charlestown.
Speaker 2: So this is throughout the weekend in Gloucester. Tonight's Friday,
Speaker 2: obviously the twenty The Battle of Bunker Hill, I guess
Speaker 2: was actually on the seventeenth, if I'm not mistaken, Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: So have they reenacted the battle or is the best
Speaker 2: yet to come? And will that happen over the weekend?
Speaker 3: They're not. So Today was all about getting set up,
Speaker 3: and getting set up was exactly what was going on
Speaker 3: from very early on as they put up the tents
Speaker 3: and just kind of secured the perimeter of the area.
Speaker 3: There was a press conference this morning where we heard
Speaker 3: from the Mayor of Gloucester, Greg Virga, various people from
Speaker 3: Revolution two fifty who have been helping organize this event.
Speaker 3: State Senator Bruce tar the Senate min Order leader, was there.
Speaker 3: He is actually going to be one of the reenactors
Speaker 3: is tomorrow in honor of one of his ancestors. Who
Speaker 3: was one of the youngest combatants in that particular battle.
Speaker 3: They just kind of set the stage for everything today.
Speaker 3: Then came the crews who are setting up the encampments,
Speaker 3: and then the setting up of the fortification is going
Speaker 3: to be the first real big events starting tomorrow. This
Speaker 3: is when the colonial militiamen, seeing that they had the British,
Speaker 3: were advancing on where they were bunker and breeds Hills,
Speaker 3: trying to get the high ground so that they could
Speaker 3: mess with the British navy, who we're going to try
Speaker 3: to break the siege of Boston. It was feverish work
Speaker 3: to get these fortifications, these redoubts as they're called, all
Speaker 3: set up, and that is going to begin the whole
Speaker 3: reenactment tomorrow at eight point thirty, and then throughout the
Speaker 3: day tomorrow you're going to have the British first landing,
Speaker 3: although they're actually not going to be coming by sea,
Speaker 3: but they're going to be showing up at half Boon
Speaker 3: Beach there in Gloucester. The first attack on those colonial
Speaker 3: missures militias will be at one o'clock, and then the
Speaker 3: second and then ultimately the third successful attack on the
Speaker 3: Colonials will start taking place at four o'clock and then
Speaker 3: the whole thing is going to be repeated on Sunday,
Speaker 3: doing it on two consecutive days just so that they
Speaker 3: could really accommodates as many spectators as possible, because they're very,
Speaker 3: very excited to tell this story and to bring this
Speaker 3: seminal piece of America's history to life for as many
Speaker 3: people as they can.
Speaker 2: Well, I know talking to having talked over the years
Speaker 2: to some of the enactors, they take this very seriously
Speaker 2: and when they practice for these events, they want everything
Speaker 2: to be just so, and it's great. Any idea how
Speaker 2: many thousands of people? I guess either day will work,
Speaker 2: But is there is there any tips we can give
Speaker 2: any of our listeners that one day might be a
Speaker 2: little easier than the next. I'm thinking that maybe Sunday
Speaker 2: might be a better day to get up there. Or
Speaker 2: is it flipping a coin?
Speaker 3: It is absolutely a flip of a coin. I am
Speaker 3: not going to venture up trying to get anybody advice
Speaker 3: on what day to go. But the advice that I
Speaker 3: will pass on, and this comes from the Gloucester Police,
Speaker 3: is check the Gloucester PD Facebook page or go to
Speaker 3: the Revolution two fifty website. They're going to have real
Speaker 3: time updates on which of the satellite parking lots become full,
Speaker 3: which are more easily accessible at any given time with
Speaker 3: the traffic patterns and all that, because that's what people
Speaker 3: are going to want to do. They're going to want
Speaker 3: to go to these satellite parking spots that have been
Speaker 3: set up around Gloucester, around Manchester and avail themselves of
Speaker 3: the free shuttles that'll get them there. And of course, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is, it really is. And of course Gloucester is
Speaker 3: served by the MBTA, so that would really be a
Speaker 3: very good way for people to get there. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the officials are being very proactive and keeping people informed
Speaker 3: on what's going on just from a traffic and parking standpoint,
Speaker 3: to try to ease the expected congestion as much as possible.
Speaker 2: Well, Kendall, I'll tell you, I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: going to be working this weekend, but if you are,
Speaker 2: you're going to have a front row seat. And I
Speaker 2: know that you're a history buff yourself. You have a
Speaker 2: lot of aspects of it that maybe people who don't
Speaker 2: know us very well. You're a very active guy, kept
Speaker 2: in shape all the time, so I think that if
Speaker 2: you're up there tomorrow, are they going to be some
Speaker 2: fine reporting, that's for sure. So thanks so much Kendal
Speaker 2: for all the information tonight and really set it up
Speaker 2: really well. And I appreciate particularly you're working on a
Speaker 2: Friday night, that's for sure. Thanks Kendal, appreciate so much.
Speaker 2: Look forward to seeing you around.
Speaker 3: Absolutely my pleasure there.
Speaker 2: All right, Kendall. But ladies and gentlemen who is on
Speaker 2: the scene in Gloucester with the reenactment of the Battle
Speaker 2: of Bunker Hill in Charlestown will take place tomorrow and
Speaker 2: on Sunday when we get back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: with the Dean, i should say with Dean Mayor, Dean Mazarella,
Speaker 2: the mayor of Leminster. Lemister is going to be competing
Speaker 2: along with about nineteen other communities nationwide for one of
Speaker 2: the ten All American City Awards. Though that's not bad
Speaker 2: odds if there's going to be ten winners out of
Speaker 2: nineteen competitors. We're going to talk with the mayor on
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Speaker 2: beautiful Lemonster, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Right after this, It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Friday night edition of the night
Speaker 2: Side News Update with us is longtime mayor of Leminster, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Mayor Dean Mazzarella. Mayor Mazzarella, I covered you as a
Speaker 2: TV reporter. Now we're doing something on the radio. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight, sir?
Speaker 4: I'm good. I just seems like a while that we've
Speaker 4: got a chance to to speaks. Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you besides being a man a mayor named dean
Speaker 2: dean in this case Dean Mazzarella, are you also the
Speaker 2: dean of the Massachusetts mayor mayors?
Speaker 4: So what they say is that I'm the longest serving
Speaker 4: mayor ever ever?
Speaker 2: Wow? When were you first elected? What year?
Speaker 4: There's no there's no benefits to this.
Speaker 2: No, ninety three? Yeow, so ninety three you now have
Speaker 2: done over thirty.
Speaker 4: Years, right, thirty second year. I was a cop for
Speaker 4: ten and business owner for the whole time I was
Speaker 4: throwing both. I wonder you know how you know how
Speaker 4: it goes three and flies?
Speaker 2: Oh? Believe you know the Latin the Romans had it
Speaker 2: right with the Latin phrase tempest fugit. So I wonder
Speaker 2: if there's a mayor and you're the mayor of a
Speaker 2: legitimate city. I mean, you're not the mayor of you know,
Speaker 2: backwater West Virginia, pardon my you know, and there was
Speaker 2: you know, we po dunk Iowa or something. You're a
Speaker 2: mayor of a real side.
Speaker 4: I'm wondering if a man. Yeah, I you're the manager.
Speaker 4: You're the actual city manager, right, But.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if that, if you may not be the
Speaker 2: longest serving mayor in the nation.
Speaker 4: I'm up there. I can tell you up there, I guess,
Speaker 4: Like you know, there's some smaller cities that you know,
Speaker 4: the mayor's been there longer. But I'm up there, I guess.
Speaker 4: But well, say you some to think about it, well.
Speaker 2: Mayor Mazzarella. Some of these cities have, like I'm in Wyoming,
Speaker 2: they have twelve residents.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, I'm the.
Speaker 2: Mayor here of bug Tussel Wilhoaming since I was fourteen
Speaker 2: years old. I'm maybe three now, and nobody else wants
Speaker 2: to run against me. Geez, that's as a nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: three mayor. Just to give it in some perspective, I
Speaker 2: was just beginning my efforts on behalf of the Joe
Speaker 2: Solvati story. Getting Joe and three other guys out of
Speaker 2: prison took fifteen years.
Speaker 4: For us fourteen. You know, you know that Peter Lamoney
Speaker 4: was my father's best friend.
Speaker 2: I had heard that, and Peter, who I got to
Speaker 2: know after you get out, very nice man. Okay. I
Speaker 2: can't talk about what he might have done during his career,
Speaker 2: uh but but I think there was a time when
Speaker 2: he actually saved the life of a guard in a
Speaker 2: prison riot and walk in Walpoles, and I know a
Speaker 2: little bit about that. But I spent Dick Barrow worked
Speaker 2: in that case so long, and I spent, I spent.
Speaker 4: I remember fourteen years.
Speaker 2: And then the day that Joe and Peter and the
Speaker 2: estates of the two men who died in jail were
Speaker 2: awarded one hundred and one million dollars and they got
Speaker 2: the money. They got one hundred and six million, sixteen
Speaker 2: million dollars from the FEDS. That's the day I started
Speaker 2: this program nightside. And we're now in our eighteenth years.
Speaker 4: So I remember, no, I remember, and I remember it
Speaker 4: well and well. They all grew up in the West End.
Speaker 4: My father was a West End sure. Yeah, and you
Speaker 4: know they stayed friends forever no matter where they moved
Speaker 4: or you.
Speaker 2: Know where they were moved to where they with the
Speaker 2: case of Peter, Peter at a great restaurant on Cambridge Street.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this honor. Has the city of
Speaker 2: Lemonster ever competed for one of these All American Cities Awards? Previously? Never?
Speaker 4: And that's what's sorry, I mean I think we've put
Speaker 4: in but this time we made the finals. We're one
Speaker 4: of twenty and uh next week we'll be heading up
Speaker 4: to Denver, Colorado, and we're going to.
Speaker 3: Go for the gold.
Speaker 4: You know, we're going to go for for the final. Wow,
Speaker 4: and I'm pretty excited. We're excited about it. It's it's uh,
Speaker 4: it's we've never made it this far and uh so yeah,
Speaker 4: we're excited.
Speaker 2: How many just just to put in perspective, every year,
Speaker 2: how many people, how many cities try to win the
Speaker 2: nomination when when they.
Speaker 4: Starts in hundreds, hundreds and hundreds. Yeah, and we made
Speaker 4: it to the we made it to the finals.
Speaker 2: And what and so they're out of the twenty finalist
Speaker 2: ten so you got a fifty to fifty shot here.
Speaker 2: Ten right, we'll be given that designation. So the question
Speaker 2: is what did they judge? What are you judged on?
Speaker 2: Are you judged on cleanliness? Are you judged on you know,
Speaker 2: good government? Are you judged on crime? What? What? What
Speaker 2: are you judged on? Do you have any.
Speaker 4: Idea well, like take for example, Johnny Oppis was born
Speaker 4: in Leminster. Johnny Appleseed was all about nature and and
Speaker 4: you know, planted trees and we had the last running orchard,
Speaker 4: apple orchard in the city where Johnny Applete was born,
Speaker 4: and it was about to be developed. We stepped in
Speaker 4: and the community got together and it was over five
Speaker 4: or six million dollars total at the end, but we
Speaker 4: ended up raising enough money, getting some state grants and
Speaker 4: then we purchased it. But beyond that, they looked for
Speaker 4: the sustainability, like, okay, so you purchased it twenty years ago,
Speaker 4: so you know, how's it going. And one of the
Speaker 4: things they looked at is were you able to keep
Speaker 4: you know, that orchard running and you know things like that.
Speaker 4: So you know, you did a project, you did something
Speaker 4: that you know, changed the community, how did you sustain
Speaker 4: yourself through the process, And that's really what the whole
Speaker 4: that's what our you know, that's how we were selected
Speaker 4: on the sustainability and right now that orchard runs ninety volunteers.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's an incredible resource for the city. It
Speaker 4: helped to preserve the reservoirs that surround it. So and
Speaker 4: it's one of those pieces of land that on a
Speaker 4: clared day you can see Boston. So you know, they
Speaker 4: look for, you know, what was the project and is
Speaker 4: it did it sustain itself with the use you keep
Speaker 4: it going?
Speaker 2: Okay, So that really is in this competition. Lemonster's calling card,
Speaker 2: that's one of them.
Speaker 4: And then we had the big floods in September level
Speaker 4: and ten days later we had the journey up to
Speaker 4: Sea Festival, you know, in the same place that had
Speaker 4: five feet of water. So you know, that's what they're
Speaker 4: looking for. That's what they're hoping to see.
Speaker 2: Resilience, you know, resilience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little engine that could and traditionally.
Speaker 2: All of that. How many people are in your great
Speaker 2: city at this point?
Speaker 4: How many forty five thousand people? We still have seventy
Speaker 4: two factories in the community that are very lean and
Speaker 4: energy of fission and we recycle a lot of plastic.
Speaker 4: We make a lot of plastic, but we recycle probably
Speaker 4: more than any other place the country. We get plastic
Speaker 4: that comes from the ocean and recycle it. There are
Speaker 4: companies here that make things like via degradeable g cops
Speaker 4: that people use in their coffee every day. And so
Speaker 4: very diverse in the community. We have many, many, you know,
Speaker 4: countries represented here and everybody's That's the other thing that's
Speaker 4: unique is it's so diverse and everybody gets along. And
Speaker 4: you know, Devon's was very close. In the military, you
Speaker 4: have to be a team. Construction was big Inleminster. You
Speaker 4: got to work as a team. Manufacturing was you know,
Speaker 4: it's still you know, it's still huge in Lemister. And
Speaker 4: you got to work as a team. And that's the
Speaker 4: stuff that breaks down racial diversity and divide personalities is
Speaker 4: these are things that nobody cares. You have to work
Speaker 4: as a team. Military, construction and u and manufacturing.
Speaker 2: Well. Best of luck. Uh, not that you need any luck,
Speaker 2: because I think you deserve it. I'll also tell you
Speaker 2: a little known fact about Leminster. My mom was born there.
Speaker 4: I know that, you know, I think I knew.
Speaker 2: That once before. Yes, well, I had my roots a
Speaker 2: little bit in Lemonster, And uh, every time I've been
Speaker 2: up there, I've enjoyed the community, enjoyed that whole neck
Speaker 2: of the woods up in a central mass up in
Speaker 2: north central Massachusetts. Keep us posted. And when you win
Speaker 2: this thing, you bring, bring all the gold. I'd love
Speaker 2: to have you back on and talk about it.
Speaker 4: I have to tell you your loyal listeners. George mc namara
Speaker 4: is a guy from Lemons that I know. George, and
Speaker 4: this guy was your pr man. There was never a
Speaker 4: conversation that didn't have your name in it. I can
Speaker 4: tell you that he never missed the show, he never
Speaker 4: missed attendance. And he passed away just about a year ago,
Speaker 4: and he was had.
Speaker 2: Word from George in a while.
Speaker 4: And oh yeah.
Speaker 2: You get to become friends with people. I remember George.
Speaker 2: God do I remember George and I he was a
Speaker 2: good guy. Yeah. Sometimes you think, well, maybe people have
Speaker 2: lost interest or they've you know, they've moved moved.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well hopefully if thing now is my cruise when
Speaker 4: I used to drive the cruise that you can only
Speaker 4: dial in on w b Z right at night, listen
Speaker 4: to Larry Clake over the night. Yeah, today you can
Speaker 4: take the app with you in anywhere in the world
Speaker 4: you can listen.
Speaker 2: I hope you take the app to Denver and you
Speaker 2: let us know and we'll have you back when you win. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna jinks you. You you got you. You
Speaker 2: are destined for greatness here for a whole bunch of reasons.
Speaker 2: You're you're great anyway. Always enjoyed govern here and I
Speaker 2: so enjoyed our conversation tonight. And if if you talk
Speaker 2: to any of Georgie's family, please pass along. Michael Dolen says,
Speaker 2: I've had not informed of that.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well, well.
Speaker 2: Mayor Mazzarella, Dean Mayor Mazzarella, who also I think is
Speaker 2: the Dean of Massachusetts mayors. The Mayor of Lemistry is
Speaker 2: going to Denver. He's gonna win a big award for
Speaker 2: the city of Leminster, and we'll tell you all about
Speaker 2: it when it comes back. Thanks again, Mayor. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 2: All right, We get back and to talk about the Moonwalkers.
Speaker 2: A Journey with Tom Hanks, an immersive cinematic experience, so
Speaker 2: one of a kind perspective on Humankinds past and future
Speaker 2: voyages to the Moon, narrated by none other event Tom Hanks.
Speaker 2: We'll be back with all the specifics right after the
Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. There's a big event coming up in
Speaker 2: Boston and it's going to be at the Sanders cat
Speaker 2: the Saunders Castle in Boston, which with us is Richard Slaney.
Speaker 2: He's the CEO of Light Room. The company behind this
Speaker 2: immersive experience is called The Moonwalkers, a Journey with Tom Hanks,
Speaker 2: narrated by Hanks. It's an immersive cinematic experience, so one
Speaker 2: of a kind perspective on humankind's past and future voyages
Speaker 2: to the Moon. This sounds fabulous. Richard Slaney, welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 5: I'm very good, Thanks for having nice to be.
Speaker 2: So when how was this project born and how did
Speaker 2: you folks get involved in it? And how long has
Speaker 2: it been in the incubator.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a really funny story. Actually we made a
Speaker 5: big immersive show in London with the artist David Hockney
Speaker 5: and the week we opened, Tom Hanks came as a
Speaker 5: guest of David and we just got chatting in the room.
Speaker 5: So our room in London is a big immersive room
Speaker 5: projected on all sides, and Tom was just immediately taken
Speaker 5: with the space and the format, and he said, well,
Speaker 5: you could do anything in here. You could walk on
Speaker 5: the moon in here. And I said to him, well, okay,
Speaker 5: how about we make a show, you know? And some
Speaker 5: months later Tom had written a script. He's obsessed with
Speaker 5: the Apollo missions. He's obsessed with space, as many people
Speaker 5: know from his movies and TV productions he's made about
Speaker 5: this subject, and we wanted to make something different, and
Speaker 5: we went about it, worked with NASA, worked with Tom,
Speaker 5: and a few months later we'd made The moon Walkers
Speaker 5: and it's been a huge hit in London and we're
Speaker 5: just thrilled to bring it out to Boston.
Speaker 2: So it premiered in London. Is that the proper term?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I guess it is. It's somewhere between a film and
Speaker 5: an art installation. Really, it's hard to describe until you've
Speaker 5: been in it. But yeah, we had a premiere in
Speaker 5: London a little over a year ago and we're probably
Speaker 5: now sort of more than two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 5: people something like that have been to seat in London,
Speaker 5: alongside of other shows, and it's just It's just a
Speaker 5: really wonderful show that Tom's made because it tells you
Speaker 5: the Apollo story and for those who were who were
Speaker 5: there in that era and they remember the moon landings,
Speaker 5: it's very nostalgic in that way.
Speaker 3: Has got great.
Speaker 5: Footage and stuff like that. But also, yeah.
Speaker 2: From watching it on a black and white television sitting
Speaker 2: on the floor.
Speaker 5: Well that's it, you know, That's what Tom talks about.
Speaker 5: He remembers it being twelve thirteen years old, and he
Speaker 5: talks a lot about how it shaped his life. You know,
Speaker 5: he was inspired by that. And what's crazy is that
Speaker 5: as humans, we've not been anywhere near the Moon in
Speaker 5: all our space inpormation for the last fifty something years.
Speaker 5: No human, no human has been near the Moon since
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy two, right, and we're going again next year
Speaker 5: with Artemis. So that's the first time since the seventies
Speaker 5: that anyone has been in lunar orbit. And that will
Speaker 5: be a crew that I've had the privilege to meet
Speaker 5: and work with. And you know, that'd be the first
Speaker 5: woman ever to be in lunar orbit and be near
Speaker 5: the Moon, first person of color, like it's going to be,
Speaker 5: it's going to be amazing. So we talked to that
Speaker 5: crew as well, the Artemis crew, and the show features
Speaker 5: them a little bit. So it's both sort of nostalgic
Speaker 5: and it's also looking forward. But it's just a really
Speaker 5: really fun show and a really lovely thing to do.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about Boston here. Okay, So you're coming
Speaker 2: to a very nice location, the Saunder's Castle. Well used
Speaker 2: to call us of the castle at Park Square, but
Speaker 2: that one has the name the Saunder's Castle. I believe
Speaker 2: that's the location. Have you visited it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, the location yet I assume you have.
Speaker 5: The team is on site right now building it. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I've see I've seen photos of videos that I don't
Speaker 5: come to Boston until I fly on Monday, so I'm
Speaker 5: still here in London up late to set to you
Speaker 5: and I come next week to see it.
Speaker 2: When does the show open? And I assume will it
Speaker 2: run here for some period of time? It sounds to
Speaker 2: me like it's a it's a really great experience, and
Speaker 2: I hope that it's here.
Speaker 5: It's just not one and done, right, It's absolutely not
Speaker 5: one and done. We So we open next Friday, and
Speaker 5: I think we're on sale for the next couple of months.
Speaker 5: You can get tickets at fever up dot com or
Speaker 5: just search Room Walkers Boston. You'll find it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're there.
Speaker 5: I'll pick it songs out for the next couple of
Speaker 5: months at least, and we hope for longer because it's
Speaker 5: it's one of those shows that I think we in
Speaker 5: London at least people come again and again because they
Speaker 5: come often sort of inter generationally. You get grandparents bringing
Speaker 5: grandkids to get the parents at the same time. It's
Speaker 5: really fun. You get school groups, you get everything in between. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because it's like I said, it's about it's just under
Speaker 5: an hour long, but it's it's very immersive, so you
Speaker 5: learn a lot, but in a way that's not It
Speaker 5: doesn't feel like you're learning, you know. It feels like
Speaker 5: the best teacher you ever had is just guiding you
Speaker 5: through something.
Speaker 2: And that's just to ask you the question that probably
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be asking, that is, will Tom Hanks at
Speaker 2: any point make an appearance here in Boston.
Speaker 5: We're not sure, to be honest, that's okay.
Speaker 2: You never know who might slide into the seat next
Speaker 2: to you. Is is the seating in the theater atmosphere
Speaker 2: describe it if you would, And this a show sort
Speaker 2: of around you. We have a couple of those theaters
Speaker 2: in Boston wanted the Museum of Science where they're sort
Speaker 2: of like tiered seating and it's a very immersive experience.
Speaker 2: Is that someone with what we'll experience here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess it's similar to the projection is all
Speaker 5: the way around you. It's on all forward and on
Speaker 5: the floor, so you're you're really in it. You can
Speaker 5: move around the space if you want to. You're not
Speaker 5: sort of fixed into like a to start seating. There
Speaker 5: is seating there, but you can also lie on the
Speaker 5: floor if you want to. Always a couple bits of
Speaker 5: rakee seating so you can see the show from slightly
Speaker 5: different perspectives. And then there's really an amazing score as well,
Speaker 5: amazing music by a composer called and the Kit in
Speaker 5: which we recorded at Abby Road here in London, So
Speaker 5: you've got this sort of huge orchestral score washing over you,
Speaker 5: the voice of Tom and the voice of the Astronauts,
Speaker 5: and then video from those amazing the footage the Astronauts took.
Speaker 5: So every image you see in the show is from
Speaker 5: the Apollo archive, is from the photos that the astronauts
Speaker 5: took and the movies that they took on the Moon,
Speaker 5: and some of that stuff works incredibly well as brilliant
Speaker 5: photography that the astronauts took that when it wraps all
Speaker 5: around you, it really shows you what they were experiencing
Speaker 5: on the Moon all those years ago, and it's really compelling.
Speaker 2: Is there any shot of whichever the astronauts were who
Speaker 2: hit the off ball in the moon?
Speaker 5: I'm wondering if, yeah, there is, there is a little
Speaker 5: bit footage of that. Actually, it's one of the sequens
Speaker 5: is Tom loves talking about. Is the thing is Thomas
Speaker 5: met I think all of the moon were because at
Speaker 5: some point in his life was he can look out
Speaker 5: from stories that he heard firsthand from them. But they
Speaker 5: talk a lot about things they love doing on the Moon.
Speaker 5: So some of them loves to throw things. They throw
Speaker 5: the packing foil that came with all their equipment that
Speaker 5: they were going to just leave there. They could throw
Speaker 5: it and it would it would go, you know, six
Speaker 5: hundred yards or something.
Speaker 2: So if you hear the golf of the longest drive
Speaker 2: be the longest driver of your life, if you think
Speaker 2: about it, really, if you really cranked it out, there. Well,
Speaker 2: that's great. So it starts next Friday, which was going
Speaker 2: to be I think that would be the I get
Speaker 2: my calend twenty seventh. It would be the twenty seventh, right,
Speaker 2: and running through most of August. Moonwalkers Boston will get
Speaker 2: you there, get your tickets in advance. Everybody knows where
Speaker 2: the Saunders Castle is, and who knows you might be
Speaker 2: there the day that Tom Hanks decides to drop by
Speaker 2: and see how it plays in Boston. I really.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 5: That's the real funny.
Speaker 2: How about that joy? You never know? Why not.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of people from those you know, Harvard
Speaker 5: and Mit and all these other places in Boston who are.
Speaker 3: Around the place.
Speaker 5: So let's let's hope we get some of them in
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: All right. Richard Slaney, the CEO of light Room, the
Speaker 2: company behind this immersive experience, thank you so much. Honored
Speaker 2: to talk with you, and I hope you enjoy. Have
Speaker 2: you been to Boston before? Yeah? I have.
Speaker 5: It's a great city. Can't wait to be back there.
Speaker 2: Good. Well, we'll see you see you sometime in the
Speaker 2: not too distant future for your time, Thanks Richard. Richard
Speaker 2: Slaney talking about the Moonwalkers a Journey with Tom Hanks,
Speaker 2: an immersive cinematic experience, one of a kind perspective on
Speaker 2: human kinds, past and future voyages to the Moon. And
Speaker 2: it's narrated by none other than Tom Hanks. Boy, this
Speaker 2: should be fun. When we get back, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about something it might not be a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: and that is a heat wave in Boston next week.
Speaker 2: Three days and we could hit one hundred degrees. I
Speaker 2: think it's three days of ninety That makes it a
Speaker 2: heat wave, So I think we're pretty confident of that.
Speaker 2: Ken Mahon, Boston Globe Meteorologists, will join us. Also. We'll
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about the wind today. I was
Speaker 2: indoors most of the day and didn't experience it, but
Speaker 2: Ken will give us up to date on all of
Speaker 2: that and what to expect weatherwise for the weekend. Back
Speaker 2: on Nightside right after these messages.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Well sometime, I think it's within the next hour or two.
Speaker 2: I think it's ten thirty nine. But if anyone's going
Speaker 2: to know when summer will officially arrive here in Boston
Speaker 2: or in New England, it's our guest Ken Mahan, Ken,
Speaker 2: is it about ten thirty nine tonight that summer actually
Speaker 2: creeps into our neck of the woods?
Speaker 6: Hey, that's right, Dan, thanks for having me back. You
Speaker 6: are absolutely right. Summer Solstice. The official time for the
Speaker 6: Greater Boston area is ten two pm. Ranges between. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you were close, you know, you're maybe a little more
Speaker 6: like Worcestern Mass it will be ten thirty nine. But yeah,
Speaker 6: summer Solstice, that's right. The longest day of the year
Speaker 6: tonight anyway, and then we start losing a couple seconds
Speaker 6: in the nights at first, over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: But yeah, summer Solstice.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's for us for the fun of it.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the weekend. What are we looking at.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow is going to be a dry Saturday, which is
Speaker 2: as rare as a dry martini here in New England.
Speaker 6: You are absolutely right. Can you believe it was fourteen
Speaker 6: Saturdays in a row where Boston saw some form of
Speaker 6: measurable precipitation dating back to early March. This is the
Speaker 6: best odds that we have over the last three months
Speaker 6: where we could actually have a completely dry at least
Speaker 6: Saturday and Sunday. The weather setup essentially has a pocket
Speaker 6: of dry air just hanging out uh in the Northern Atlantic,
Speaker 6: and that should actually prevent Boston, at least the eastern
Speaker 6: coast of New England from seeing any precipitation this weekend,
Speaker 6: which I'll tell you what everybody will really enjoy.
Speaker 2: Uh. Is that unprecedented. I know that they keep weather
Speaker 2: records for everything, but I don't assume that they keep
Speaker 2: weather records for Saturdays or Thursdays or Tuesdays, you know, always.
Speaker 2: I think with the last Saturday, the Saturday, well it
Speaker 2: would have been in March of Saint Patrick's Day weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's funny, and you hit the nail
Speaker 6: on the head, Dan, if this, if this happened on
Speaker 6: a Thursday, and nobody would care.
Speaker 4: Right, I actually had to.
Speaker 6: I had to dig out the data and it was, yeah,
Speaker 6: there was a trace of rain the weekend of what
Speaker 6: was in March eighth and ninth. And then yeah, it
Speaker 6: was Saint Patrick's Day weekend where ended up being about
Speaker 6: a start of an inch or so in the greater
Speaker 6: Boston area. And then yeah, we've seen it, you know,
Speaker 6: either whether it's a Saturday or Sunday or both days
Speaker 6: leading up through last weekend. But I think we're going
Speaker 6: to be in good shape this weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, let's we get through the weekend pretty well.
Speaker 2: And the temperature Saturday and Sunday, what are we looking
Speaker 2: at tomorrow? And and again I realized, always tough a
Speaker 2: few weather guys, because temperature in southern New Hampshire could
Speaker 2: be very different from the temperature in Worcester or down
Speaker 2: on the Cape. What are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: And then you're talking you know, you're talking peak sunlight
Speaker 6: right with the summer solstice, so you have a sea
Speaker 6: breeze up and down the coast, so Cape Cod, the
Speaker 6: islands in North and South Shore, going up into Portland,
Speaker 6: you know, they're dealing with the seabreez that keeps it
Speaker 6: five to seven degrees cooler on average.
Speaker 5: So what I.
Speaker 6: See is I see favorable conditions mid eighties tomorrow, which
Speaker 6: would be beautiful, very low spot chants for a shower,
Speaker 6: but well west of Boston. And then Sunday, Monday Tuesday,
Speaker 6: we're going to start seeing the temperature click up towards
Speaker 6: that heat wave category. Upper eighties Sunday, maybe a hint
Speaker 6: at ninety degrees on Sunday, afternoon, and then Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 6: you're climbing towards triple digits. I have a circle between
Speaker 6: ninety eight and get this one oh one. Perhaps on
Speaker 6: Tuesday we get a pretty favorable high pressure system that's
Speaker 6: just going to open the flugates in terms of heat
Speaker 6: and humidity.
Speaker 2: So to have a heat wave, correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: you need three days consecutive. Each day has to register
Speaker 2: ninety degrees? Is that the if we're talking a couple
Speaker 2: of days as one hundred?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that's that's absolutely right. So for each New
Speaker 6: England state, all six states, at ninety degrees is the threshold.
Speaker 6: And then three consecutive days of having ninety plus temperatures,
Speaker 6: we're going to be dancing right along that Starting Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 6: Monday and Tuesday is almost a sure lock that we're
Speaker 6: going to be well above that threshold. And then as
Speaker 6: the heat builds over from Sunday through Tuesday, so it
Speaker 6: with humidity, you're going to be talking tropical life. Do
Speaker 6: points into the low seventies on both Monday and Tuesdays.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprising if we saw a chance for
Speaker 6: some storms developed at least two day evening in response.
Speaker 5: To that, So.
Speaker 2: During the year here in New England, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you are hip to these, I'm sure you're
Speaker 2: hip to it normal summer. How many ninety three days
Speaker 2: do we have it in normal summer? Would you say?
Speaker 3: Funny?
Speaker 6: It's like you were in my meeting room earlier this week.
Speaker 6: We just sort of circled around like a number of
Speaker 6: eighty degree days, ninety three days that we've seen in
Speaker 6: a typical summer. So like around here, the greater Boston area,
Speaker 6: spreading through most of some New England, anytime during a
Speaker 6: typical summer you see between eight to ten ninety degree days.
Speaker 6: That's an increase over the last couple of decades, but it, yeah,
Speaker 6: between about eight to ten or so ninety degree days
Speaker 6: we've a little bit normally.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that we're getting if we knock off safe
Speaker 2: three nineties in the first few days of June, the
Speaker 2: twenty third, twenty fourth, and twenty fifth of June, we're
Speaker 2: going to be way ahead of the curve in terms
Speaker 2: of what.
Speaker 6: We Yeah, yeah, it's funny. You sort of led right
Speaker 6: into what I was going to say, yes, or very
Speaker 6: much ahead of the curve and we're just seeing summer
Speaker 6: as a season sort of bloat earlier and later two
Speaker 6: in the year, so giving us more chances than many
Speaker 6: degree weather well into September.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, my experience, and I'm not a weather guy,
Speaker 2: although I enjoy weather and I watch it closely, all
Speaker 2: of you folks on TV, and I checked the Globe
Speaker 2: every Sunday on the average daily highs and lows. I'm
Speaker 2: fascinated by that. But the fact of the matter is
Speaker 2: that it seems to me like New England springs have
Speaker 2: kind of disappeared. We kind of have a late spring,
Speaker 2: if we get any spring at all, and then we're
Speaker 2: right in summer, and then I think the best months
Speaker 2: of the year are September and October and even into November.
Speaker 6: I'm right there with you. Yes, spring has certainly shortened
Speaker 6: over the years, and summer has sort of expanded the
Speaker 6: most comfortable I'm right there with you, September, October, even
Speaker 6: a few weeks early November, most sort of ideal temperatures
Speaker 6: as far as I'm concerned. Some people love the heat
Speaker 6: and the humidity, some people love the rainy showers of spring.
Speaker 6: But yeah, summer kind of fires up earlier and spring
Speaker 6: kind of has been a dog over the last five
Speaker 6: to ten years.
Speaker 2: If the truth be known, I am a New Englander.
Speaker 2: I love when the weather changes, and I love the summer.
Speaker 2: By the Labor Day middle of September, I'm more than
Speaker 2: ready for some cooler nights. And then you get through
Speaker 2: the football season, college football season. I'm ready for the holidays,
Speaker 2: and then give you a little bit of snow in
Speaker 2: January February, and let's do it all over again. So
Speaker 2: I love the changes, really do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you as well. I
Speaker 6: grew up in Worcester, Mass and I was in a
Speaker 6: bunch of different markets across you know, the country and
Speaker 6: experience all four seasons, but nothing is nearly remotely close
Speaker 6: to what New England is. And I'm with you with
Speaker 6: the turning of the leaves during autumn, the snow we're
Speaker 6: near Christmas and spilling into the new year. And then
Speaker 6: of course you start seeing the flowers bloom and whatnot
Speaker 6: in spring, and then yeah, we have summers, and we
Speaker 6: have pete leaves, and there might be might be seeing
Speaker 6: our first one in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine being a weather guy or weather gal
Speaker 2: or whatever and say I don't know Phoenix, Arizota. Well,
Speaker 2: let's going to you one hundred and four today and
Speaker 2: one hundred and four tomorrow and one hundred and four
Speaker 2: every day through next week. Back to you, Bob.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of my former colleagues is now an NBC.
Speaker 6: Let me see your Fox reporter for San Diego, and
Speaker 6: they in our group chat, they're like, well case sixty
Speaker 6: seven degree funny, and that's that's about it.
Speaker 2: You got it. Let's go to sports. Hey, Ken, I
Speaker 2: really enjoy talking with you. I hope you realize that.
Speaker 2: And thanks so much for being available, particularly on a
Speaker 2: Friday night and summer at ten forty two. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to mark ten forty two on my notes tonight
Speaker 2: and we'll try to celebrate it. Okay, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I like that a lot.
Speaker 6: Dan is always really appreciated you.
Speaker 2: Take care, talk soon, have a great weekend. Stay cool.
Speaker 2: All right, we get back. We're going to talk about
Speaker 2: not the weather. We're going to talk about rats, and
Speaker 2: rats are more of a problem than I think we realized.
Speaker 2: Don't want to come to and bring you a little
Speaker 2: down on this first weekend. First, well, not full, but
Speaker 2: almost full weekend of summer. Rats and some diseases that
Speaker 2: rats are carrying, and we got to be concerned about it.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Night's side right after the nine
Speaker 2: o'clock news