Speaker 1: It's nice eyes.
Speaker 2: Dan Ray, Undown's Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back at different show tonight. We try
Speaker 1: to do it differently, but some nights we try to
Speaker 1: do it real differently, and tonight we've done it very differently.
Speaker 1: We had four interesting guests. In the first hour. We
Speaker 1: talked about Louis ti on why is he not in
Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame. He had some great calls.
Speaker 1: During the second hours, some new callers, and we talked
Speaker 1: to a guy down in North Carolina who now lives
Speaker 1: It's just a few houses away from Grady Little, to
Speaker 1: former manager of the Boston Red Sox. He's a guy
Speaker 1: from Haveral Dave who now lives in North Carolina. And
Speaker 1: at the top of the ten talked about what a
Speaker 1: great guy Grady Little is. When we try to get
Speaker 1: Grady on the show some night, I think he was
Speaker 1: he was not given a good chance here in Boston.
Speaker 1: I think he was a real gentleman. And again I
Speaker 1: think he could have easily won two or three World Series.
Speaker 1: Obviously was succeeded.
Speaker 3: By Oh it was Let's say it wasn't Francona or Francona,
Speaker 3: it was Oh God, the guy that was that didn't
Speaker 3: have a lot of success. Bobby Valentine pretty sure. Bobby
Speaker 3: Valentine was between Grady Little and Terry Francona. And then
Speaker 3: last time we talked about institutions that you've missed here
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts and for that matter, New England. You know,
Speaker 3: so we're gonna we're going to continue on that theme.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk about institutions that you miss
Speaker 3: that would be fine. That was a very strong hour
Speaker 3: and there were a lot of folks. We talked with
Speaker 3: the State Treasurer of the Comwealth straight technically the state
Speaker 3: Treasurer and receive a general deb Goldberg and she dropped
Speaker 3: by which we always a delightful she's delightful to talk
Speaker 3: to and a good friend and someone who is actually
Speaker 3: doing a great job as the Treasurer of the Comwealth.
Speaker 3: And I do not compliment every politician, only the ones
Speaker 3: I like. But I want to since today's Friday the thirteenth,
Speaker 3: every year we have one or two Fridays the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: If you look at a calendar example, I'm just thinking that, okay,
Speaker 3: we've had a Friday the thirteenth, Our next Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: When you think about it.
Speaker 1: It's going to take a while, and of course the
Speaker 1: reason for that is the way the calendar works, and
Speaker 1: it's only be like seven or eight months before you
Speaker 1: get at least Yeah, okay, we'll have a Friday the
Speaker 1: thirteenth in June. That'll be one Friday the thirteenth for
Speaker 1: next year. But then we probably won't have another one. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get by here. Maybe is there one more
Speaker 1: coming that's really going to have one? It looks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there'll only be one Friday the thirteenth, it'll be in June.
Speaker 1: So I thought tonight I'd like to find out from you.
Speaker 1: I you superstitious. There's a pointed time where I think
Speaker 1: everybody had superstitions, but the superstitions the black cats, walking
Speaker 1: under the ladders and all of that. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to talk about are you superstitious?
Speaker 1: When you woke up today? Will you more conscious of
Speaker 1: today's date and day of the week because it's a
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth. That's my first question. And then if
Speaker 1: you were, why have you ever had a bad experience
Speaker 1: on a Friday the thirteenth. I've had a couple of
Speaker 1: bad experiences on Friday the thirteenth, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but I also will still give folks an opportunity to
Speaker 1: call in about what they miss. An institution, an event
Speaker 1: that they miss. It could be anything. It could be
Speaker 1: an athlete that you miss. There are athletes that we
Speaker 1: watched them for years and they go away, and it's
Speaker 1: like you say, gee, what ever happened to so and so?
Speaker 1: Or is there a Hollywood person? But mostly a New
Speaker 1: England institution? Something you miss. We talked a lot about
Speaker 1: restaurants last hour, so feel free join the conversation. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna get you all the way till midnight. It's
Speaker 1: a Friday, Friday the thirteenth, heading into the weekend. Patriots
Speaker 1: are back in action sat on Sunday, which is a
Speaker 1: good thing. And we were a week closer to Christmas
Speaker 1: and Hanukkah and all the other holidays and the New Years.
Speaker 1: The sand in the hour glass of twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is now starting to stream away, and before you know it,
Speaker 1: it will be it will be January first, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: The years just peel off that calendar. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: get to Vince in Brock and Vince is going to
Speaker 1: start us off this hour. He Vince, how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 4: Hi Dan, I'm good in you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Vents. Appreciate your calling in. You can
Speaker 1: talk about superstitions or you can talk about something that
Speaker 1: that you miss here in the greater Boston area or
Speaker 1: New England. But which would it be here? You do both?
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 5: I was born in Haiti, moved to Boston, specifically in
Speaker 5: High Park. Dinner I've if I'm dinner I have in
Speaker 5: High Park.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I grew up in Readville.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, that's I grew up in the area, And
Speaker 5: I mean I grew up playing soccer, watching soccer. He
Speaker 5: was when I went to college, I started watching football,
Speaker 5: and it's just McNair was my fairflick quarterback.
Speaker 1: Oh sure that he he if I'm not mistaken. Was
Speaker 1: Houston right?
Speaker 6: He was?
Speaker 1: Uh played for Houston.
Speaker 4: And the Titans before that, Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah maybe, well yeah, I think that didn't
Speaker 1: the Titans moved from Houston. I'm gonna look mcneir up here,
Speaker 1: because I know you're right in that. Did he have
Speaker 1: a pretty good career? You know? Maybe it was let
Speaker 1: me let me get how did why did mcner become
Speaker 1: your favorite? Do you have a do you have a
Speaker 1: connection with him at all?
Speaker 4: No? I guess I was born in Hey. I just
Speaker 4: as song Arms, the kind of quite a bad player
Speaker 4: or person that you was, you know back then, did
Speaker 4: I mean? I was coming to you as do love
Speaker 4: and my friends from college they got me into football,
Speaker 4: and that's how I got into football.
Speaker 1: I want you to know. He started with the Houston
Speaker 1: what was called the Houston Oilers, which which then became
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Oilers and then of course became the current
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. So yeah, uh he had ah, he had
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl season in nineteen nineteen, nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: When did you start rooting from what year?
Speaker 4: I think that was that? You Yeah, my freshman year
Speaker 4: in college.
Speaker 1: Okay, now I get it, now I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah uh and.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah he He also played with the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: as well. We forget about some of that stuff. But
Speaker 1: two years in Houston, a long time in Tennessee, ten
Speaker 1: years in Tennessee, uh, and then finished up with Baltimore
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I assume he's in the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame because he should be at this point in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Oh what about you know he passed away.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, I did not realize that. That's Yeah, it
Speaker 1: says his death here, which which surprises me because I've
Speaker 1: forgotten that he had he had passed away. He died
Speaker 1: in twenty ten. Yeah wow. Uh so, yeah, he died
Speaker 1: shortly after his career ended.
Speaker 4: Yeah, much too young, very young? Yeah, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I'm looking at it here.
Speaker 1: He was forty seven years old when he died.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought I was younger than that.
Speaker 1: Uh no, you know something I think I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think he was thirty seven years old.
Speaker 4: I didn't ye.
Speaker 5: Thirty seven now yeah, yeah, yeah, unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Hey, I got to look at that. Well, okay, I
Speaker 1: can understand. Are you a Patriots fan now, Vince?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, good, just about to check out. Have
Speaker 1: you called my show before this? It's your first time calling.
Speaker 4: I called him four years ago. Yes, well come on.
Speaker 1: Don't don't be a stranger, Come on back more often?
Speaker 1: Would you.
Speaker 4: Not a birthdays? Doing things? Giving the weekend?
Speaker 1: Oh? Happy birthday? Okay?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: And do you celebrate Christmas? Yeah? Yes, Merry Christmas?
Speaker 4: Okay, Merry Christmas? Then thank thank you.
Speaker 1: Thanks Vince, talk soon, Thank you very much. Bye bye
Speaker 1: bye six ladies, you can jump on board too. I
Speaker 1: got one line, well that just filled this one line
Speaker 1: at six one, seven, nine, three thirty. That's open right now.
Speaker 1: Phill it and I'll have you on before you know it.
Speaker 1: Back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back to the calls where we're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Who's next? Yeah, Larry and Dennisport down to
Speaker 1: the Cape. Larry, welcome, How are you tonight? Are you superstar?
Speaker 1: What do you miss?
Speaker 7: I got both? I got an in proportion that you'll know.
Speaker 7: Everybody in the mid misses this. It is Benny's of Dennisport.
Speaker 7: Do you remember Benny's?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I haven't been on the Cape
Speaker 1: as long as you have. Was this a restaurant? I assume? No?
Speaker 7: No, it was, Oh my god. It was like a
Speaker 7: hardware store. Whatever you needed, whatever you needed.
Speaker 4: In the house.
Speaker 7: You going to Benny's. You never left empty handed. And
Speaker 7: people in Dennisport and the Midgate we still talk about it,
Speaker 7: how we missed Benny's. So anyway, superstition, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 4: It is my favorite day.
Speaker 7: Because my birthday occasionally falls on Friday the thirteenth. It was,
Speaker 7: so it's by ring day.
Speaker 1: Okay, So wait a second, So what is your birth
Speaker 1: Your birthday is in December thirteenth, is it? No?
Speaker 7: No, no, it's November thirteenth. It won't come on Friday
Speaker 7: until I think twenty twenty six. It was it like
Speaker 7: every six years or something.
Speaker 1: Well, I think what happens is, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: we should have a Friday the thirteenth every seven months
Speaker 1: now because months and in different days at the combination
Speaker 1: can change. But for example, the next Friday the thirteenth
Speaker 1: is in June next year twenty twenty five, and there
Speaker 1: are no other Friday the thirteenth in the entire November.
Speaker 7: But November thirteenth falls on a Friday. I think every
Speaker 7: sixth or seven years or something because of lap year.
Speaker 7: I never really calculated it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, what happens is when it's three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five days in the year, that pushes the calendar
Speaker 1: ahead one year. So next year is twenty fifth, So
Speaker 1: a year from tonight it's going to be Friday and
Speaker 1: it's going to be in December, but it's going to
Speaker 1: be December twelfth because it was in alyp Ya. And
Speaker 1: two years from now, I can tell you that that
Speaker 1: Friday will be December eleventh. It just works that way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but what do you think about it that
Speaker 1: there's seven days in a week, so on any given
Speaker 1: month it should have a one in seven chance of
Speaker 1: being being a Friday being on the thirteenth.
Speaker 7: Right exactly. So anyway, next time, maybe next time you're
Speaker 7: down the cape, though, next time you're down the cape,
Speaker 7: any ask any of your longtime neighbors, ask him about
Speaker 7: Bennie's of Dennis Port.
Speaker 1: All right, when did that business when a business?
Speaker 7: Oh my god, it's got to be at least ten
Speaker 7: years ago. I mean Ocean State and not Ocean State.
Speaker 7: Job lot was in there, some other place that tried
Speaker 7: to go in. Nothing else has been able to stay.
Speaker 7: It's whatever's in there now. I think it's job lots,
Speaker 7: and I think that's gone. So everybody wants a market
Speaker 7: basket to go in there.
Speaker 1: Oh that's in Dennis right, I know, yeh, right.
Speaker 7: Right on twenty eighth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I know.
Speaker 1: Exactly where that is. Yeah, it's a big there's a
Speaker 1: big set of lights, and then there's a fork in
Speaker 1: the road south.
Speaker 7: Exactly go beyond it. Right, that's where Ocean State is.
Speaker 7: But just go go right through Dennis Sports Center and
Speaker 7: about another block or two in the rest right after
Speaker 7: Babo's trying a show, got it.
Speaker 1: I know exactly where it is. I know we'd love
Speaker 1: to see a market basket in there.
Speaker 7: Well yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Hey, I have a great, great, great weekend. And
Speaker 1: what do you do you celebrate Christmas? Or do you
Speaker 1: celebrate what's your what's your holiday?
Speaker 7: Great fest of us, the holiday for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: For the well. I hope you have a happy Festivus. Okay, Larry,
Speaker 1: thank you, calculative by bye. All right. The only line
Speaker 1: open is now that's seven eight one. Excuse me, the
Speaker 1: six one seven nine three one. That's the ninth three one,
Speaker 1: six one, seven nine ten thirty. We have two lines there.
Speaker 1: Let me go next to Joe is in Boston. Joe,
Speaker 1: how are you? Joe? You got your radio turned up here?
Speaker 1: That's you got to put you on hold. Joe. We'll
Speaker 1: come right back to you. Let me get Steven Lynn
Speaker 1: in here. Steve, you were next on Night Side go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 8: Hello, Yeah, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? Thank you for calling. Always great to
Speaker 1: hear from from someone from Lynn. Go ahead, sir.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Well I go way back. I grew up
Speaker 8: in the North End. Then I worked in the Financial
Speaker 8: District in Boston and there's a couple of restaurants, the
Speaker 8: Newspaper Hangouts and the old Bell in Hand on Devonshire Street.
Speaker 8: Were you familiar with that.
Speaker 1: No, that's that goes back aways.
Speaker 8: Give me a sixty eight Monty. Monty was the name
Speaker 8: of the fellow in there. It was around sixty eight
Speaker 8: when when I started working. And of course I'm a
Speaker 8: product of the three martini lunch.
Speaker 1: Yes, there were a lot of free martini. How did
Speaker 1: you guys ever work in those days.
Speaker 8: Well, well, you know, I gave out a lot of
Speaker 8: printing throughout the city and they would the printers would
Speaker 8: take me out to lunch. So you know, I could
Speaker 8: go as I'm going out with a client and you
Speaker 8: would go back to the office and then you'd have
Speaker 8: your three martinis. Then you smoke a cigar. It was
Speaker 8: crazy in those days, and no one complained about the
Speaker 8: cigar smoke, by the way, so I was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was still in college law school. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever even had a martini
Speaker 1: in my life. I'm a cors beer guy, of course,
Speaker 1: light actually or red wine. But how I know what
Speaker 1: goes into a martini? How could you build up the
Speaker 1: ability to have three martinis and do anythink functional in
Speaker 1: the afternoon.
Speaker 8: You didn't do that, oh anyway. And then there was
Speaker 8: Warmitts on Devonshire Street. No, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Warms the sixties, late sixties, How long? How deep into
Speaker 1: the seventies did these go?
Speaker 8: Only the the bell in hand and Warmitts. Warmitts went
Speaker 8: out in sixty eight, nineteen sixty eight. And it was
Speaker 8: right across the street from the Herald on uh on
Speaker 8: Devonshire Street. No, Devonshire Street, he.
Speaker 1: Was I thought that was on Harrison.
Speaker 8: Nope, well this was maybe it's way back all right?
Speaker 8: Well anyway. Then then there's the European on Hanover Street.
Speaker 1: Sure, the European absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 8: Now that was The prices were terrific and everything was great,
Speaker 8: I mean, and then that went out. Now these are
Speaker 8: all out of business. The Red Coach Grill in Saugus,
Speaker 8: remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember the Red Coach grill that was. There were
Speaker 1: a bunch of Red Coach grills around. Absolutely those were
Speaker 1: those were I can remember as a kid, my family
Speaker 1: took our neighbors, the Gordon's, to red Red Coach grill
Speaker 1: and it was like I thought we were driving to Montana,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think it was the Red Coach
Speaker 1: Grill in Whaland or someone who was. This was like
Speaker 1: cities and towns I had never heard of. I mean, yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, I gotta ask you, Steve. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've called before, but I'm fascinated. Yeah you
Speaker 1: have Okay, first of all, stunt that you're still alive
Speaker 1: after all those three But but where did you retire?
Speaker 8: Oh? Maybe six or seven years ago? I worked for Well,
Speaker 8: you know, I called you a while back. I wrote
Speaker 8: a book and I got I started talking. You had
Speaker 8: just come back from Ireland and you were I think
Speaker 8: you And it was one of those nights you you
Speaker 8: had to throw something together. And I got on the
Speaker 8: phone and I overcome. I said, I'm so damn nervous.
Speaker 8: I got to talk to Dan and I had fifteen
Speaker 8: things going through my mind and it didn't go well.
Speaker 1: So did I have you I have you on as
Speaker 1: a guest during.
Speaker 8: The Yeah, you did, and I it was horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I just messed up. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Let me let me give you a second chan hold
Speaker 1: on for a second, let me give a second chance.
Speaker 1: I just got back from Ireland. Tell me the title
Speaker 1: of your book, uh not then Journey. Oh I remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember you now, Steve Sure your son sent me
Speaker 1: a copy of the book, I think, right.
Speaker 8: Right, right, yes, yes, if we started talking about restaurants
Speaker 8: in the North End and you were you were saying,
Speaker 8: everything's so expensive today, and then you get this little
Speaker 8: little piece of meat on a plate, and you know,
Speaker 8: and in the old days you had plenty of food
Speaker 8: and it was terrific.
Speaker 1: And then the look we got, Steve, what about Look
Speaker 1: one of my two favorite restaurants in the North End
Speaker 1: Joe Tecchi's right.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've been to both of them. And I went
Speaker 8: to Saint Mary's School with Saltecci in the not.
Speaker 1: Then is one great American? How are you still? I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to Sally in a long time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I went in to talk to him,
Speaker 8: uh in the North End and they all hung out
Speaker 8: in this place and it was called the Oh gosh,
Speaker 8: it was it was a golf club or something, and
Speaker 8: they were all in there smoking cigars and playing cards
Speaker 8: and I and I met him, uh and uh anyway,
Speaker 8: and all he said to me was was we went
Speaker 8: to Saint Mary's School together. And he says, what I
Speaker 8: could in school, he said, I think I think I
Speaker 8: think they threw him out of school and his father
Speaker 8: sent him off. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're right in that. I think
Speaker 1: he went to a prep school or something prep.
Speaker 8: School, right, and he and that's that's all I remember.
Speaker 8: But but and and quickly, there's Rita's place in Chelsea.
Speaker 8: Did you ever go there?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I've heard of that. Yep, I've been there too.
Speaker 1: Actually I thought of it though it was. I think
Speaker 1: of it's more as being in East Boston. If it's
Speaker 1: the same one we're thinking about.
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, you're right, it is. It's well, it's no,
Speaker 8: it was in Chelsea right on the line of these podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, I h a friend of mine uh
Speaker 1: suggested that and was and I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: still there, but it was excellent. It was excellent.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So anyway, I thought, you know, I wasn't anything
Speaker 8: good on DV and I said, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 8: going to miss this because I've got all these places.
Speaker 8: Oh and there's one other one, Brandy Pete.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah I have. I had a good
Speaker 1: friend of mine who used to have lunch at Brandy Pete's.
Speaker 1: He was in the television business. He was in management,
Speaker 1: and he also would have a martini lunch. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, the martinis came in a in a in a
Speaker 8: water glass. Oh so anyway, and the best martini is
Speaker 8: just either either gin of vodka on the rocks, very dry.
Speaker 8: But anyway, so much Steve.
Speaker 1: I I hate to do this to you, but I
Speaker 1: got to let you go. Do you favor? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: well well you did very well. You you were more
Speaker 1: relaxed tonight. But look, you did a great job again.
Speaker 1: How can folks get your book? If I I hope
Speaker 1: you still have a few that you can sell?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no, you know, it's more of a hobby
Speaker 8: with me. I don't sell a lot of them.
Speaker 1: And what's the website? How can people look? There are
Speaker 1: people who are listening who might want the book, how
Speaker 1: can they get Do you still have the website? And
Speaker 1: know you must have?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we do it's Mystic Mistic, mystic View.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 8: Ste I'll tell you what. Yeah, go ahead, you go ahead, and.
Speaker 1: If you have it in front of you, I'll give
Speaker 1: you the opportunity to read it. If you don't have
Speaker 1: it in front of you, we can just have people google.
Speaker 1: It's called my North End Journey right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, just not then journey injury. And here it
Speaker 8: is f s z s z j R. At Mystic
Speaker 8: Hyphenview dot com.
Speaker 1: It's always good to have a simple website. See that's what.
Speaker 8: No, that's that's my my Uh that's you get in
Speaker 8: touch with me. That's my email, ok s Jr. Mystic
Speaker 8: due dot But anyway, it was great talking.
Speaker 1: Then I got to run here because we're we got
Speaker 1: people backed up here. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 8: You have a great night, you bet all right?
Speaker 1: Thanks, Merry Christmas, good night. We'll take you, oh free
Speaker 1: martini lunch. I told you we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: things differently tonight six one seven, two five four ten
Speaker 1: thirty six one seven ninety. I got some lines here.
Speaker 1: You're Friday the thirteenth, Superstitions. Okay, this is a twentieth hour.
Speaker 1: If you don't fill it up on your Friday the thirteenth, superstitions.
Speaker 1: We will go to some other topic. But I got
Speaker 1: Lewis and Dorchester, George and Boston. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to Joe, but Joe, call back and we'll get
Speaker 1: you on. I know exactly who who Joe is. Feel free.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a he's a veteran caller and he
Speaker 1: must have been pulled away to do something to miss
Speaker 1: a call here on Nightside. Here comes the news at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. Stay with us. We'll take
Speaker 1: you right until midnight. The only lines open now are
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Speaker 2: You're on to Night's Side with Dan Ray on wz
Speaker 2: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Back to the phones we go on this Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you've made it through the day. We only have
Speaker 1: about twenty two minutes left. Let's talk with Lewis and Dorchester. Lewis,
Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
Speaker 9: I'm doing fine. Dan, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing Jess grat superstitious on this Friday the thirteenth, Nah.
Speaker 9: Not really, but uh, I recollect that one year. I
Speaker 9: don't know what year was, I'm seventy one years old.
Speaker 9: There was two or three Friday the thirteenth in one year.
Speaker 1: Well, you're absolutely right, and I'll tell you why that happened. Okay, February,
Speaker 1: as you know, normally, except in a leit leap year, only
Speaker 1: has twenty eight days. Right, So if you get a
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth in a non leap year, and you
Speaker 1: get a Friday the thirteenth in February and it is
Speaker 1: a non leap year, you're going to automatically have a
Speaker 1: Friday the thirteenth in March, right, yep.
Speaker 9: Because of the twentieth there was at least three, three
Speaker 9: or one.
Speaker 1: Yeares absolutely, so then you have a pretty good shot
Speaker 1: at having another Friday the thirteenth. And when you think
Speaker 1: about it, March has has three extra days because it's
Speaker 1: a thirty first yep. April has two extra days, but
Speaker 1: then May has three extra days. So now you're up
Speaker 1: to Now you're at eight, which really means one. So
Speaker 1: you add two for June, you add three four July,
Speaker 1: you're at six, but then you add three for August.
Speaker 1: That's another three. So you're back now to nine, so
Speaker 1: now you're really up two in September, you you add
Speaker 1: two and then you add three for October. And if
Speaker 1: you get a Friday the thirteenth in February of a
Speaker 1: non leap year, you're going to get a Friday the
Speaker 1: thirteenth in March automatically, and you'll get Friday the thirteenth
Speaker 1: in October. So you are absolutely right. That is the
Speaker 1: combination that gives you three Friday the thirteenth in the
Speaker 1: same year. I figured it out for you.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 9: Also, then, I know everybody probably know this, and some
Speaker 9: some of the hotels don't have a thirteenth floor.
Speaker 1: That is correct, because that's the superstition.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah. And also I used to work Charlene pop
Speaker 9: apartment complex and they went from eleven to fifteen. They
Speaker 9: didn't have a thirteenth number, you know really yeah, yeah, Actually.
Speaker 1: It'll be by the way me correct myself. Let me
Speaker 1: correct myself, it won't be October, it's November. So if
Speaker 1: you get a Friday the thirteenth in February of a
Speaker 1: non leap year, you're going to get a Friday the
Speaker 1: thirteenth in March, and then you get a Friday the
Speaker 1: thirteenth in November. Works every time. What did you tell me?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: What did you do with that? Where you worked? I
Speaker 1: interrupted you and I apologize.
Speaker 9: I was a maintenance mechanic.
Speaker 1: And what sort of did you do? Everything that you
Speaker 1: have a special?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 9: I did grounds and grounds work and paint. I was
Speaker 9: a painter by trade, so I did a little bit
Speaker 9: of everything.
Speaker 1: Now you retired by now?
Speaker 9: Or no?
Speaker 8: You say, yeah?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, long time, long time. Well I lost my vision,
Speaker 9: so I'm visually imperd Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: To hear that, Lewis, you sound much too young. You
Speaker 1: have the voice of a fifty year old.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, seventy one. You're all born in fifty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I got that. That's good. Math. Are you enjoying?
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying your retirement?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay? Do you have some vision, Lewis?
Speaker 9: Or or when you say no, really okay? You know
Speaker 9: vision is twenty twenty right?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 9: Vision? Okay, my left eye is twenty two hundred, My
Speaker 9: right eye is twenty one hundred. That's not bad, we
Speaker 9: mean not bad. The bigger than number the worst your
Speaker 9: vision is you know?
Speaker 8: No, no, I know that, but.
Speaker 1: But Lewis Lewis, those those numbers do you have? Do
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 9: Okay, put it this way. I got gaucoma, so my vision. Okay,
Speaker 9: that could be a complicated, but surely you know.
Speaker 1: No, I hear you, I hear you. Are you being
Speaker 1: seen by an ophthalmologist?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm being seen by a glaucoma specialist.
Speaker 1: You know, good? Perfect?
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, okay, legally blind says twenty two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Wow, I will tell you normally those numbers. Maybe again,
Speaker 1: maybe it's the glaucoma. That's glaucoma that's causing the problem
Speaker 1: those numbers. Normally, there's a lot of kids who get
Speaker 1: you know, they turned at thirteen to fourteen and their
Speaker 1: vision is like that, and they get contact lenses and
Speaker 1: they get twenty twenty vision. But I'm not dealing with glaucoma.
Speaker 9: So that's probably Cooma's a different different man.
Speaker 1: Well, I wish you what do you celebrate this later
Speaker 1: this month? What's your holiday?
Speaker 9: I just celebrate days, celebrate them all. Yep.
Speaker 1: Oh do you celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 9: Not really I used to.
Speaker 1: But well, I wish holiday. I wish you're happy holiday.
Speaker 9: But but Dan remember we're telling you about the numbers. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it went, it went all all odd numbers was on
Speaker 9: that side. So it went from from three, five, seven, nine, eleven, fifteen,
Speaker 9: did it went to went to seventeen?
Speaker 1: Yep, sky all right, all right, all right this yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's no no, uh no floor thirteen at the
Speaker 1: hotels are like that? Due absolutely yes, yes, Lewis my.
Speaker 9: Friend, thirteenth floor, no thirteen floor.
Speaker 1: We will we will talk soon, okay, can you'd be way?
Speaker 9: You bet your happy holidays.
Speaker 1: You stay right back at you happy holidays, you celebrate
Speaker 1: them all. Thanks, Lois, good night. We'll take a break.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get everybody in. George and Tim Dott
Speaker 1: and Linda. You guys are guaranteed. I only go one
Speaker 1: open line. I can't guarantee I'll get you on, but
Speaker 1: I'll try six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 1: Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Now, Baptis Dan Ray live from the Window World night
Speaker 2: Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you are interested, and I hope
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Speaker 1: Tim is in Uber next Tim on night side? Hi, Tim?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm good? Dan number one?
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: I talked about two weeks ago and you told me
Speaker 6: you want to send me a night side mock. I
Speaker 6: never got it.
Speaker 1: I did send that. It was it was mailed my
Speaker 1: friend do me a favorite with me? You called back, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was this. I know your last name starts with
Speaker 1: an M because I saw it. I ordered it and
Speaker 1: it was sent out. No I know I didn't. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I absolutely, and I know I would see. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you I'm well to do. Uh.
Speaker 1: I will call you, But here's what I want you
Speaker 1: to do. Rob's going to give you my direct line.
Speaker 1: I want you to call me Monday or Tuesday. Okay.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can take a little time to get out.
Speaker 1: But I ordered it and and College Hype sent it
Speaker 1: out to you, and I suspect you a little bit
Speaker 1: slower in the mail. But you'll get it. I promise.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'd love to Now. The main reason I called
Speaker 6: right place I go like restaurants and stuff. Have you
Speaker 6: ever been to Charlie's Kitchen in Howard Square?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, used to go there a lot when I worked
Speaker 1: for w BZ nights. Sure, absolutely, that's a good one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much place, good food, good food, years ago. Right,
Speaker 6: I've been going. I'm seventy three. I used to go
Speaker 6: there when I was eighteen and twenty and I used
Speaker 6: to go to Harvard games and after the game, I
Speaker 6: go over there. Charlie was a great guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that still operational or no?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's still there.
Speaker 1: Okay, is he still there? As he passed?
Speaker 6: He passed away. After Harvey Games. I'd come in and say,
Speaker 6: Tim McMahon, sit over here, right, I have a lady
Speaker 6: friend with me. Treated me like gold in the eighties.
Speaker 6: In the eighties and eighty five, right, two cheeseburgers a
Speaker 6: salad was a dollar ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I know it was amazing. Those those prices are never
Speaker 1: coming back.
Speaker 6: Okay, no they're not. But I haven't been over there. Right,
Speaker 6: driving down a mass Ave, you know I'm from moving right,
Speaker 6: mass Ave is like taking your life in your own hands.
Speaker 6: So I don't go there too much.
Speaker 1: Well, it's also tough to get parking at this point. Tim,
Speaker 1: let me do this. I want you to stand the line.
Speaker 1: Rob will give you my direct number, and I want
Speaker 1: you to give me a call. If you don't get
Speaker 1: that mug by Tuesday or Wednesday, you give me a
Speaker 1: call and I will make sure it gets you. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably already. What happens is I get a
Speaker 1: confirmation that's been sent out and it gets sent out.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not joking with you, Jack Dougherty at college,
Speaker 1: they're the best people in the world to deal with.
Speaker 1: For some reason, there's a mess up, it will take
Speaker 1: care of it. Trust me on that. Jack Dougherty is
Speaker 1: like a brother to me. Let me tell you. And again,
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Speaker 1: Shadow Fund, which with one of the charities will wow.
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Speaker 6: Well, I get your number right, I'll call you. I
Speaker 6: love to meet you and shake handle with you.
Speaker 1: We can we can figure that one out too, Tim,
Speaker 1: You stay right there. Rob is going to give you
Speaker 1: my direct line. I want you to call me. What
Speaker 1: if you get the monk tomorrow or Monday, call me
Speaker 1: let me know and if not, call me like Tuesday
Speaker 1: or Wednesday. We'll make sure that that gets you. I promise.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, and also Merry Christmas to you and your eyes.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you as well. Tim, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the call. All right, let's go next too.
Speaker 1: Gotta go to Dot and med for Dot. How are
Speaker 1: you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 10: Hey Dan? Did you ever go to Semioni's in Cambridge?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 10: It's in Central Square, right off the square.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I would. I never spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in Cambridge, so.
Speaker 10: Oh oh well, that was a wonderful Italian restaurant. I
Speaker 10: mean we always used to go there for celebrations and
Speaker 10: you know, it was a great place. But one of
Speaker 10: my favorite days is Friday's the thirteenth. I love Friday
Speaker 10: the thirty because it just it just feels like a
Speaker 10: real good day. I mean, I'm not the least it's superstitious.
Speaker 10: So Friday is my housban was born on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 10: I was born on Halloween, October thirty first. So the
Speaker 10: threes and the ones, I like, I got it totally
Speaker 10: told by the way I gotta I gotta tell you.
Speaker 10: I just was checking through my closet. I found over
Speaker 10: the years free night side shirts I got from you.
Speaker 10: One is white, one is pink and one is gray.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope you occasionally wear them, don't just weird,
Speaker 1: I will. I.
Speaker 10: I had them for years and they're in great shape, excellent.
Speaker 10: I never put them in I never put them in
Speaker 10: the dryer.
Speaker 1: Good. That's that's always important with anything when I when
Speaker 1: I do laundry, I take shirts I like or T shirts,
Speaker 1: and I hang them up, let them air drive. You got,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta because I've got a couple more here.
Speaker 1: Take mer Christmas. If we don't talk, but hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: talk next week.
Speaker 10: Okay, I hope we'll say all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks bye bye. Let me go to Linda and Weymouth. Linda,
Speaker 1: tell us about Friday the thirteenth or something you missed.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Linda, Hi, I.
Speaker 11: Don't Dare'll really get upset about it. People say I
Speaker 11: do everything wrong, so hey, let them have their own opinion.
Speaker 11: But I have a question about the Baggin Center. It
Speaker 11: was a young man heavy on downstairs. I think he
Speaker 11: may have been in the fabric department. Do you know
Speaker 11: his name? We call his name?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Okay, not be in the fabric department anyway.
Speaker 1: I'd be in the sports department. Okay, sorry about that.
Speaker 11: Now on the other side, it was the sales, a
Speaker 11: lot of sales.
Speaker 1: Okay, then okay, thank thanks Linda. That's that question I
Speaker 1: never would have expected tonight. Hey, thanks Linda Angelo and
Speaker 1: New Angelo. You're next one nights. I go ahead.
Speaker 4: How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Damn?
Speaker 8: Think of to my before I go on? I was
Speaker 8: with a good friend of us with him yesterday.
Speaker 1: Who's that?
Speaker 8: Albert Frankie.
Speaker 12: Told me he was out with you. He says he
Speaker 12: was up with you.
Speaker 8: He had a meal.
Speaker 1: Yes, we did ago, Yeah, yep, we were. We had
Speaker 1: a lovely lunch up in in Maldon. Actually yes, he
Speaker 1: told him.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I was cheated from him a long time ago.
Speaker 12: I guess maybe before when he even started doing that.
Speaker 8: And I had to go back to him again yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And how how you doing all right?
Speaker 12: Doing the best I can. I hope my leg gets better.
Speaker 8: That's all I told him. I told him.
Speaker 12: I told him.
Speaker 6: Dan talked very well about you.
Speaker 8: All the time on the radio. He's got a laugh.
Speaker 1: No, he's a he's a great guy. He's helped me
Speaker 1: over the years, and he's helped a lot of our
Speaker 1: our nightside listeners. And and if he gets to the
Speaker 1: point where he can't help you, he'll he'll help you
Speaker 1: find you know, if if you've got to get something
Speaker 1: in terms of surgery, he can get you to some
Speaker 1: good surgeons himself.
Speaker 12: So yeah, and before I forget, I'm not superstitious, but
Speaker 12: what I miss us, I don't remember the Paragrin Park
Speaker 12: and it was a near tasket yeap.
Speaker 1: List, Yeah that was on the list. That's true. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Paragon Park. That was a place to
Speaker 1: be back in the day. Fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, not like that anymore like it used to be.
Speaker 6: I missed that, Angelo.
Speaker 1: I hate to do this. You were We're running out
Speaker 1: of time. I'm so glad that you that you saw
Speaker 1: doctor Frankie yesterday. And he is a a great friend
Speaker 1: of mine.
Speaker 3: And he is right, I promise, okay, So yeah, keep
Speaker 3: in touch, keep in touch, my friend.
Speaker 1: And Merry Christmas, okay, same deal.
Speaker 8: And happy healthy New Year.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Angelo, have a great night.
Speaker 8: You welcome, bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: All right, we are done for the night, We're done
Speaker 1: for the week. A couple of things. I just want
Speaker 1: to tell you that Governor Chris Snuno Tuesday night at
Speaker 1: nine o'clock next Friday, night from ten to midnight, we'll
Speaker 1: be doing the Night Side Charity combine. That's really a
Speaker 1: great show. To end my broadcast here, I will be
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Speaker 1: right now to Night Side with Dan Ray and we'll
Speaker 1: pop up at about twelve oh one twelve o two.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a rundown of tonight's show and we
Speaker 1: can exchange greetings. Okay, I'd love to see some new
Speaker 1: people tonight at a little postgame on Facebook. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, everyone, enjoy yourself, stay warm, be good to
Speaker 1: one another. My name is Dan Ray. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Rob Brooks, want to thank Marita. You guys have
Speaker 1: done great jobs. And I will be back on Monday night.
Speaker 1: A great week next week. We've got some surprises coming
Speaker 1: up next week as well. Done for the night. All dogs,
Speaker 1: all cats, all pets go to Heaven. That's my pal
Speaker 1: Charlie Rayes, who passed fourteen years ago in February. That's
Speaker 1: where your pets are who have passed. You loved them
Speaker 1: and they loved you, and I do believe you'll see
Speaker 1: them again. Hope to see you again. On nightside. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend everyone, stay well, stay safe. See you
Speaker 1: on Monday.