WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.240 It's nice eyes. 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:06.040 Dan Ray, Undown's Boston's News Radio. 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:12.919 All right, welcome back at different show tonight. We try 4 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.720 to do it differently, but some nights we try to 5 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.120 do it real differently, and tonight we've done it very differently. 6 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.760 We had four interesting guests. In the first hour. We 7 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.120 talked about Louis ti on why is he not in 8 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:25.320 the Baseball Hall of Fame. He had some great calls. 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.239 During the second hours, some new callers, and we talked 10 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.320 to a guy down in North Carolina who now lives 11 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.520 It's just a few houses away from Grady Little, to 12 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:36.759 former manager of the Boston Red Sox. He's a guy 13 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.359 from Haveral Dave who now lives in North Carolina. And 14 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.880 at the top of the ten talked about what a 15 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.200 great guy Grady Little is. When we try to get 16 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:47.359 Grady on the show some night, I think he was 17 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.359 he was not given a good chance here in Boston. 18 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.960 I think he was a real gentleman. And again I 19 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.280 think he could have easily won two or three World Series. 20 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.600 Obviously was succeeded. 21 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:07.040 By Oh it was Let's say it wasn't Francona or Francona, 22 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.040 it was Oh God, the guy that was that didn't 23 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.560 have a lot of success. Bobby Valentine pretty sure. Bobby 24 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.480 Valentine was between Grady Little and Terry Francona. And then 25 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.359 last time we talked about institutions that you've missed here 26 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.280 in Massachusetts and for that matter, New England. You know, 27 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.400 so we're gonna we're going to continue on that theme. 28 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.680 If you want to talk about institutions that you miss 29 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.319 that would be fine. That was a very strong hour 30 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:39.319 and there were a lot of folks. We talked with 31 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.560 the State Treasurer of the Comwealth straight technically the state 32 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:48.480 Treasurer and receive a general deb Goldberg and she dropped 33 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.000 by which we always a delightful she's delightful to talk 34 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.239 to and a good friend and someone who is actually 35 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.120 doing a great job as the Treasurer of the Comwealth. 36 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.400 And I do not compliment every politician, only the ones 37 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:06.200 I like. But I want to since today's Friday the thirteenth, 38 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:11.319 every year we have one or two Fridays the thirteenth. 39 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.159 If you look at a calendar example, I'm just thinking that, okay, 40 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:19.439 we've had a Friday the thirteenth, Our next Friday the thirteenth. 41 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.360 When you think about it. 42 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.400 It's going to take a while, and of course the 43 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.800 reason for that is the way the calendar works, and 44 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.120 it's only be like seven or eight months before you 45 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.319 get at least Yeah, okay, we'll have a Friday the 46 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.400 thirteenth in June. That'll be one Friday the thirteenth for 47 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:40.319 next year. But then we probably won't have another one. No, no, no, 48 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:42.840 we're gonna get by here. Maybe is there one more 49 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.479 coming that's really going to have one? It looks like, yeah, 50 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.919 there'll only be one Friday the thirteenth, it'll be in June. 51 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.520 So I thought tonight I'd like to find out from you. 52 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.919 I you superstitious. There's a pointed time where I think 53 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:09.080 everybody had superstitions, but the superstitions the black cats, walking 54 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.560 under the ladders and all of that. So I'm going 55 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.479 to give you an opportunity to talk about are you superstitious? 56 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.759 When you woke up today? Will you more conscious of 57 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.599 today's date and day of the week because it's a 58 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.800 Friday the thirteenth. That's my first question. And then if 59 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.840 you were, why have you ever had a bad experience 60 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.840 on a Friday the thirteenth. I've had a couple of 61 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.280 bad experiences on Friday the thirteenth, to be honest with you, 62 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:41.919 but I also will still give folks an opportunity to 63 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:46.000 call in about what they miss. An institution, an event 64 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.360 that they miss. It could be anything. It could be 65 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:56.879 an athlete that you miss. There are athletes that we 66 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.759 watched them for years and they go away, and it's 67 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.960 like you say, gee, what ever happened to so and so? 68 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.039 Or is there a Hollywood person? But mostly a New 69 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:12.000 England institution? Something you miss. We talked a lot about 70 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.560 restaurants last hour, so feel free join the conversation. We're 71 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:20.959 just gonna get you all the way till midnight. It's 72 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.639 a Friday, Friday the thirteenth, heading into the weekend. Patriots 73 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.040 are back in action sat on Sunday, which is a 74 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.199 good thing. And we were a week closer to Christmas 75 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:37.920 and Hanukkah and all the other holidays and the New Years. 76 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.879 The sand in the hour glass of twenty twenty four 77 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.000 is now starting to stream away, and before you know it, 78 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.680 it will be it will be January first, twenty twenty five. 79 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.959 The years just peel off that calendar. Okay, let me 80 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.199 get to Vince in Brock and Vince is going to 81 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.680 start us off this hour. He Vince, how are you tonight? Welcome? 82 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.079 Hi Dan, I'm good in you. 83 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.120 I'm doing great, Vents. Appreciate your calling in. You can 84 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.920 talk about superstitions or you can talk about something that 85 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.439 that you miss here in the greater Boston area or 86 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.600 New England. But which would it be here? You do both? 87 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.360 Then. 88 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:20.000 I was born in Haiti, moved to Boston, specifically in 89 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.480 High Park. Dinner I've if I'm dinner I have in 90 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:22.959 High Park. 91 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:24.879 Absolutely. I grew up in Readville. 92 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:32.000 Okay, yes, that's I grew up in the area, And 93 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.160 I mean I grew up playing soccer, watching soccer. He 94 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:38.879 was when I went to college, I started watching football, 95 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:43.040 and it's just McNair was my fairflick quarterback. 96 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:48.560 Oh sure that he he if I'm not mistaken. Was 97 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:49.439 Houston right? 98 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:49.800 He was? 99 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.120 Uh played for Houston. 100 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.720 And the Titans before that, Tennessee Titans. 101 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.000 All right, yeah maybe, well yeah, I think that didn't 102 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.240 the Titans moved from Houston. I'm gonna look mcneir up here, 103 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.800 because I know you're right in that. Did he have 104 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.279 a pretty good career? You know? Maybe it was let 105 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.279 me let me get how did why did mcner become 106 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.120 your favorite? Do you have a do you have a 107 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:16.240 connection with him at all? 108 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.399 No? I guess I was born in Hey. I just 109 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.360 as song Arms, the kind of quite a bad player 110 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:28.120 or person that you was, you know back then, did 111 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.279 I mean? I was coming to you as do love 112 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.959 and my friends from college they got me into football, 113 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:36.720 and that's how I got into football. 114 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:39.959 I want you to know. He started with the Houston 115 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:44.839 what was called the Houston Oilers, which which then became 116 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.839 the Tennessee Oilers and then of course became the current 117 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:54.000 Tennessee Titans. So yeah, uh he had ah, he had 118 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.560 a Super Bowl season in nineteen nineteen, nineteen ninety nine. 119 00:06:57.920 --> 00:06:59.560 When did you start rooting from what year? 120 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.360 I think that was that? You Yeah, my freshman year 121 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:03.800 in college. 122 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.160 Okay, now I get it, now I get it. 123 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.399 Yeah uh and. 124 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.920 Yeah yeah he He also played with the Baltimore Ravens 125 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.920 as well. We forget about some of that stuff. But 126 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:22.680 two years in Houston, a long time in Tennessee, ten 127 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:27.040 years in Tennessee, uh, and then finished up with Baltimore 128 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:29.360 Hall of Fame. I assume he's in the Hall of 129 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.639 Fame because he should be at this point in my opinion. 130 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.360 Oh what about you know he passed away. 131 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:43.160 Though, Yeah, I did not realize that. That's Yeah, it 132 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.519 says his death here, which which surprises me because I've 133 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.800 forgotten that he had he had passed away. He died 134 00:07:53.360 --> 00:08:03.800 in twenty ten. Yeah wow. Uh so, yeah, he died 135 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.959 shortly after his career ended. 136 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:13.399 Yeah, much too young, very young? Yeah, yes, yes, yeah, 137 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.079 I mean I'm looking at it here. 138 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.480 He was forty seven years old when he died. 139 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.480 Oh I thought I was younger than that. 140 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.879 Uh no, you know something I think I think you're right. 141 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:29.720 I think he was thirty seven years old. 142 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:30.319 I didn't ye. 143 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.360 Thirty seven now yeah, yeah, yeah, unfortunate. 144 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.360 Hey, I got to look at that. Well, okay, I 145 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.279 can understand. Are you a Patriots fan now, Vince? 146 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:45.720 Yeah? 147 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.120 Yeah, yeah, okay, good, just about to check out. Have 148 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.399 you called my show before this? It's your first time calling. 149 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:56.679 I called him four years ago. Yes, well come on. 150 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.320 Don't don't be a stranger, Come on back more often? 151 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:01.759 Would you. 152 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.120 Not a birthdays? Doing things? Giving the weekend? 153 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:08.879 Oh? Happy birthday? Okay? 154 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:09.360 Uh? 155 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:14.039 And do you celebrate Christmas? Yeah? Yes, Merry Christmas? 156 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.080 Okay, Merry Christmas? Then thank thank you. 157 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.399 Thanks Vince, talk soon, Thank you very much. Bye bye 158 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.799 bye six ladies, you can jump on board too. I 159 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:27.279 got one line, well that just filled this one line 160 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.360 at six one, seven, nine, three thirty. That's open right now. 161 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:32.480 Phill it and I'll have you on before you know it. 162 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.200 Back on night Side right after this. 163 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:39.600 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 164 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.840 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 165 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.720 Okay, let's go back to the calls where we're gonna 166 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.639 go to Who's next? Yeah, Larry and Dennisport down to 167 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.360 the Cape. Larry, welcome, How are you tonight? Are you superstar? 168 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:54.519 What do you miss? 169 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.080 I got both? I got an in proportion that you'll know. 170 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:04.080 Everybody in the mid misses this. It is Benny's of Dennisport. 171 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:06.720 Do you remember Benny's? 172 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.120 You know, I don't. I haven't been on the Cape 173 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.240 as long as you have. Was this a restaurant? I assume? No? 174 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.639 No, it was, Oh my god. It was like a 175 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.799 hardware store. Whatever you needed, whatever you needed. 176 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:21.039 In the house. 177 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.759 You going to Benny's. You never left empty handed. And 178 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.159 people in Dennisport and the Midgate we still talk about it, 179 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.799 how we missed Benny's. So anyway, superstition, Friday the thirteenth. 180 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.120 It is my favorite day. 181 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:42.200 Because my birthday occasionally falls on Friday the thirteenth. It was, 182 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:43.840 so it's by ring day. 183 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.279 Okay, So wait a second, So what is your birth 184 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.919 Your birthday is in December thirteenth, is it? No? 185 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.559 No, no, it's November thirteenth. It won't come on Friday 186 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.240 until I think twenty twenty six. It was it like 187 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:57.879 every six years or something. 188 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.879 Well, I think what happens is, when you think about it, 189 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:08.879 we should have a Friday the thirteenth every seven months 190 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.759 now because months and in different days at the combination 191 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.919 can change. But for example, the next Friday the thirteenth 192 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:20.240 is in June next year twenty twenty five, and there 193 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:25.639 are no other Friday the thirteenth in the entire November. 194 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.159 But November thirteenth falls on a Friday. I think every 195 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:32.919 sixth or seven years or something because of lap year. 196 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:34.519 I never really calculated it. 197 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.039 Well, yeah, what happens is when it's three hundred and 198 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.639 sixty five days in the year, that pushes the calendar 199 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:45.840 ahead one year. So next year is twenty fifth, So 200 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:51.440 a year from tonight it's going to be Friday and 201 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.039 it's going to be in December, but it's going to 202 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:59.039 be December twelfth because it was in alyp Ya. And 203 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.039 two years from now, I can tell you that that 204 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.759 Friday will be December eleventh. It just works that way. 205 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:06.320 But yeah, but what do you think about it that 206 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.279 there's seven days in a week, so on any given 207 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.159 month it should have a one in seven chance of 208 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.919 being being a Friday being on the thirteenth. 209 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.799 Right exactly. So anyway, next time, maybe next time you're 210 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.200 down the cape, though, next time you're down the cape, 211 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.399 any ask any of your longtime neighbors, ask him about 212 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.600 Bennie's of Dennis Port. 213 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.120 All right, when did that business when a business? 214 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.240 Oh my god, it's got to be at least ten 215 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.559 years ago. I mean Ocean State and not Ocean State. 216 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.559 Job lot was in there, some other place that tried 217 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.600 to go in. Nothing else has been able to stay. 218 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.600 It's whatever's in there now. I think it's job lots, 219 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.519 and I think that's gone. So everybody wants a market 220 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:52.600 basket to go in there. 221 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.440 Oh that's in Dennis right, I know, yeh, right. 222 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:57.559 Right on twenty eighth. 223 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:58.480 Yeah, oh, I know. 224 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.240 Exactly where that is. Yeah, it's a big there's a 225 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.399 big set of lights, and then there's a fork in 226 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:04.039 the road south. 227 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.039 Exactly go beyond it. Right, that's where Ocean State is. 228 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.679 But just go go right through Dennis Sports Center and 229 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.080 about another block or two in the rest right after 230 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.039 Babo's trying a show, got it. 231 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.679 I know exactly where it is. I know we'd love 232 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.200 to see a market basket in there. 233 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:19.639 Well yeah, all. 234 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:25.759 Right, Hey, I have a great, great, great weekend. And 235 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:27.799 what do you do you celebrate Christmas? Or do you 236 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.559 celebrate what's your what's your holiday? 237 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:34.279 Great fest of us, the holiday for the rest of us. 238 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.799 For the well. I hope you have a happy Festivus. Okay, Larry, 239 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:44.080 thank you, calculative by bye. All right. The only line 240 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:48.080 open is now that's seven eight one. Excuse me, the 241 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.080 six one seven nine three one. That's the ninth three one, 242 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.039 six one, seven nine ten thirty. We have two lines there. 243 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.039 Let me go next to Joe is in Boston. Joe, 244 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:05.480 how are you? Joe? You got your radio turned up here? 245 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:08.559 That's you got to put you on hold. Joe. We'll 246 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.840 come right back to you. Let me get Steven Lynn 247 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.679 in here. Steve, you were next on Night Side go ahead, Steve. 248 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.919 Hello, Yeah, Hi, how are you. 249 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:19.840 I'm doing great? Thank you for calling. Always great to 250 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.240 hear from from someone from Lynn. Go ahead, sir. 251 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.840 Oh yeah, Well I go way back. I grew up 252 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.519 in the North End. Then I worked in the Financial 253 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:34.799 District in Boston and there's a couple of restaurants, the 254 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:40.960 Newspaper Hangouts and the old Bell in Hand on Devonshire Street. 255 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:42.080 Were you familiar with that. 256 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.759 No, that's that goes back aways. 257 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:50.440 Give me a sixty eight Monty. Monty was the name 258 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.159 of the fellow in there. It was around sixty eight 259 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.320 when when I started working. And of course I'm a 260 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.320 product of the three martini lunch. 261 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:02.279 Yes, there were a lot of free martini. How did 262 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.639 you guys ever work in those days. 263 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.120 Well, well, you know, I gave out a lot of 264 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.960 printing throughout the city and they would the printers would 265 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.399 take me out to lunch. So you know, I could 266 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:24.039 go as I'm going out with a client and you 267 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.559 would go back to the office and then you'd have 268 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.559 your three martinis. Then you smoke a cigar. It was 269 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.279 crazy in those days, and no one complained about the 270 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.440 cigar smoke, by the way, so I was. 271 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:42.000 Yeah, so I was still in college law school. So 272 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.200 I don't know that I've ever even had a martini 273 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.360 in my life. I'm a cors beer guy, of course, 274 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:53.000 light actually or red wine. But how I know what 275 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.120 goes into a martini? How could you build up the 276 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:01.759 ability to have three martinis and do anythink functional in 277 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:02.600 the afternoon. 278 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:09.879 You didn't do that, oh anyway. And then there was 279 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.720 Warmitts on Devonshire Street. No, I don't remember. 280 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:21.080 Warms the sixties, late sixties, How long? How deep into 281 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:22.320 the seventies did these go? 282 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:28.480 Only the the bell in hand and Warmitts. Warmitts went 283 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:33.039 out in sixty eight, nineteen sixty eight. And it was 284 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:38.320 right across the street from the Herald on uh on 285 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:42.159 Devonshire Street. No, Devonshire Street, he. 286 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.240 Was I thought that was on Harrison. 287 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.639 Nope, well this was maybe it's way back all right? 288 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:54.960 Well anyway. Then then there's the European on Hanover Street. 289 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.639 Sure, the European absolutely, yeah. 290 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:03.960 Now that was The prices were terrific and everything was great, 291 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.960 I mean, and then that went out. Now these are 292 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.240 all out of business. The Red Coach Grill in Saugus, 293 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:12.079 remember that. 294 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.559 I remember the Red Coach grill that was. There were 295 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.440 a bunch of Red Coach grills around. Absolutely those were 296 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:24.079 those were I can remember as a kid, my family 297 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:31.720 took our neighbors, the Gordon's, to red Red Coach grill 298 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.960 and it was like I thought we were driving to Montana, 299 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:39.519 you know, And I think it was the Red Coach 300 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:41.480 Grill in Whaland or someone who was. This was like 301 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:47.279 cities and towns I had never heard of. I mean, yeah, yeah, wow. 302 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.319 So yeah, Well, I gotta ask you, Steve. I don't 303 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.960 know if you've called before, but I'm fascinated. Yeah you 304 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.960 have Okay, first of all, stunt that you're still alive 305 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:03.680 after all those three But but where did you retire? 306 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:09.599 Oh? Maybe six or seven years ago? I worked for Well, 307 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.799 you know, I called you a while back. I wrote 308 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:16.799 a book and I got I started talking. You had 309 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.680 just come back from Ireland and you were I think 310 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:23.440 you And it was one of those nights you you 311 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.759 had to throw something together. And I got on the 312 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:28.720 phone and I overcome. I said, I'm so damn nervous. 313 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:32.200 I got to talk to Dan and I had fifteen 314 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:35.039 things going through my mind and it didn't go well. 315 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.440 So did I have you I have you on as 316 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:39.759 a guest during. 317 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:45.440 The Yeah, you did, and I it was horrible. Yeah, 318 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.119 I just messed up. I didn't know. 319 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:50.079 Let me let me give you a second chan hold 320 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:51.519 on for a second, let me give a second chance. 321 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.720 I just got back from Ireland. Tell me the title 322 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:58.839 of your book, uh not then Journey. Oh I remember that. 323 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.839 I remember you now, Steve Sure your son sent me 324 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:03.640 a copy of the book, I think, right. 325 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:10.359 Right, right, yes, yes, if we started talking about restaurants 326 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.079 in the North End and you were you were saying, 327 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.160 everything's so expensive today, and then you get this little 328 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.880 little piece of meat on a plate, and you know, 329 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.119 and in the old days you had plenty of food 330 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.119 and it was terrific. 331 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.119 And then the look we got, Steve, what about Look 332 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:30.640 one of my two favorite restaurants in the North End 333 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:33.440 Joe Tecchi's right. 334 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:34.279 And. 335 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.920 Yes, I've been to both of them. And I went 336 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.880 to Saint Mary's School with Saltecci in the not. 337 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.680 Then is one great American? How are you still? I 338 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.759 haven't talked to Sally in a long time. 339 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.400 Yeah, you know, I went in to talk to him, 340 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:59.440 uh in the North End and they all hung out 341 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.839 in this place and it was called the Oh gosh, 342 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:08.359 it was it was a golf club or something, and 343 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.160 they were all in there smoking cigars and playing cards 344 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:16.400 and I and I met him, uh and uh anyway, 345 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:21.119 and all he said to me was was we went 346 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:23.240 to Saint Mary's School together. And he says, what I 347 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.559 could in school, he said, I think I think I 348 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:28.720 think they threw him out of school and his father 349 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:31.559 sent him off. Uh. 350 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.480 I think I think you're right in that. I think 351 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.240 he went to a prep school or something prep. 352 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.799 School, right, and he and that's that's all I remember. 353 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.920 But but and and quickly, there's Rita's place in Chelsea. 354 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:44.720 Did you ever go there? 355 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:47.839 Yes, yeah, I've heard of that. Yep, I've been there too. 356 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:50.720 Actually I thought of it though it was. I think 357 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:53.000 of it's more as being in East Boston. If it's 358 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:54.240 the same one we're thinking about. 359 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:58.440 Oh, yeah, you're right, it is. It's well, it's no, 360 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:01.960 it was in Chelsea right on the line of these podcast. 361 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.119 Well, I know, I h a friend of mine uh 362 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:07.680 suggested that and was and I don't know if it's 363 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.079 still there, but it was excellent. It was excellent. 364 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:15.400 Yeah, So anyway, I thought, you know, I wasn't anything 365 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:17.640 good on DV and I said, oh my gosh, I'm 366 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:20.079 going to miss this because I've got all these places. 367 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:22.079 Oh and there's one other one, Brandy Pete. 368 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:24.880 Oh yeah, oh yeah I have. I had a good 369 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:27.440 friend of mine who used to have lunch at Brandy Pete's. 370 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:30.000 He was in the television business. He was in management, 371 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.920 and he also would have a martini lunch. Yeah. 372 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:40.000 Well, the martinis came in a in a in a 373 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:48.039 water glass. Oh so anyway, and the best martini is 374 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:53.319 just either either gin of vodka on the rocks, very dry. 375 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:57.119 But anyway, so much Steve. 376 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:58.920 I I hate to do this to you, but I 377 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:02.680 got to let you go. Do you favor? Yeah, well, 378 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:05.400 well well you did very well. You you were more 379 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:09.279 relaxed tonight. But look, you did a great job again. 380 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:11.480 How can folks get your book? If I I hope 381 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:12.960 you still have a few that you can sell? 382 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:17.279 Oh yeah, no, you know, it's more of a hobby 383 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:19.119 with me. I don't sell a lot of them. 384 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:22.440 And what's the website? How can people look? There are 385 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:24.559 people who are listening who might want the book, how 386 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:26.839 can they get Do you still have the website? And 387 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:27.519 know you must have? 388 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:35.920 Yeah, we do it's Mystic Mistic, mystic View. 389 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:37.640 What is it? 390 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:37.799 Now? 391 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:42.039 What do we do? 392 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.480 Ste I'll tell you what. Yeah, go ahead, you go ahead, and. 393 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.279 If you have it in front of you, I'll give 394 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:53.319 you the opportunity to read it. If you don't have 395 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.839 it in front of you, we can just have people google. 396 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:58.799 It's called my North End Journey right. 397 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.559 Yeah, no, just not then journey injury. And here it 398 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.799 is f s z s z j R. At Mystic 399 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.279 Hyphenview dot com. 400 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:14.960 It's always good to have a simple website. See that's what. 401 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:23.319