Speaker 1: It's nice time with Dan Ray. I'm dully easy Boston video.
Speaker 2: Thank you Al Griffin. As we get to the Memorial
Speaker 2: Day weekend, you know, it's when you think about it,
Speaker 2: we have finally we have gone through January. Well, we've
Speaker 2: gone through the winter which started sometime in November. Weather
Speaker 2: is always well, it turns in October and then November
Speaker 2: can be a kind of a tough month, and of
Speaker 2: course Christmas gets us through December. January, we got the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and then you get to February and deep
Speaker 2: in winter March you feel maybe the clocks get turned back,
Speaker 2: and then it's April, and then by May you think
Speaker 2: to yourself, okay, we're out of it. Well as you
Speaker 2: can tell, maybe this is the last gasp of the
Speaker 2: bad weather. But it was cold the last couple of
Speaker 2: days here in New England, and of course in other
Speaker 2: parts of the country they've had even worse problems, horrific
Speaker 2: tornadoes and damage, and to our thoughts and our hearts
Speaker 2: go out to all those who have been impacted much
Speaker 2: worse than we are. But here it is Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 2: it is the eve of well, we're into mondure Open,
Speaker 2: I mean Memorial Day weekend started theoretically at five o'clock today.
Speaker 2: For many of you, it might start at new time.
Speaker 2: So as you head wherever you're headed down the Cape,
Speaker 2: up north, going up to Maine in New Hampshire, Vermont,
Speaker 2: or out to the Berkshires or whatever, we will keep
Speaker 2: you company. I suspect that many of you was still
Speaker 2: on the road tonight. I'm sure that the traffic was tough,
Speaker 2: compounded by the rain. But we have one more hour
Speaker 2: left in the twentieth hour of the week, and I
Speaker 2: hope to finish strong. We've had a really, really good week,
Speaker 2: one of our best weeks I think in some time here.
Speaker 2: When we started Monday night, we were talking with Jonathan
Speaker 2: Gulliver of Mass Transportation Massachusetts Department of Transportation about the
Speaker 2: big problems that we're going to begin to see at
Speaker 2: the Newton Western Project Outbeat at one twenty eight and
Speaker 2: the mass Turnpike. So be advised the beginning on March thirtieth,
Speaker 2: which is next Friday, a week from tonight, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a nightmare that next weekend, so stay away.
Speaker 2: Plan accordingly, we talked about on Monday with a doctor
Speaker 2: Jay ram Es Raja about Joe Biden's prostate diagnosis. Sad
Speaker 2: that the president, former president, has to deal with that
Speaker 2: this early in his post career. You would think that
Speaker 2: he would have a few months at least, maybe even
Speaker 2: a few years to enjoy with his family. Dave Wattles
Speaker 2: talked with us about expanding the bear hunting season in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts and then we talked about the arduous task of
Speaker 2: renovating a parent's home. Talk with State Representative Richard Wells
Speaker 2: on Monday night about the Halo Act, and that is
Speaker 2: an act that I support which would provide a periphery
Speaker 2: perimeter around first responders so that people would not interfere
Speaker 2: with them. I talked on Monday night for a couple
Speaker 2: of hours about the political wins were blowing in favor
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, and yes they were. He was coming
Speaker 2: back from a very successful trip in Asia, and here
Speaker 2: we are about one hundred hours later, and things maybe
Speaker 2: going in the other direction, in large proper because of
Speaker 2: his own making. Talk with Christopher Knight, formerly of the
Speaker 2: Brady Bunch, about a Journey Forward event that was held
Speaker 2: this week. Talked with Will Gilson about what it means
Speaker 2: to win a Michelin Star. Talk with Dan macgoon about
Speaker 2: Massachusetts fallen heroes and talked about colo rectal cancer and
Speaker 2: young people. Talk with Brian short Sleeve on Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: he's Republican candidate for governor. Former temporary head of the
Speaker 2: Interim Director of the Massachusetts baytrin the MBTA, mass Patrich
Speaker 2: in Pectation Authority. Talk with Attorney Greg Sullivan of the
Speaker 2: New England First Amendment Coalition who were posed to the
Speaker 2: Halo project. We continued for another hour with that, getting
Speaker 2: reaction from callers. Wednesday night, Talk with Major Kevin Palino
Speaker 2: of the Salvation Army out in the western suburbs of
Speaker 2: Milford about their fly the FAG Flight program. Talk with
Speaker 2: Becca fresshessa Fracasa. I should say have Comcast giving away
Speaker 2: money to one hundred small businesses. Be aware of that.
Speaker 2: Talk with doctor Shavani Kumar about Tamby, which treats aortic aneurysms.
Speaker 2: Talk with Brian Thompson about the weekend weather which his
Speaker 2: predictions were just spot on. We had. We've had a
Speaker 2: lot of rain up here. Talk with Massachusetts Order to
Speaker 2: Die into Zauglia about her report on the emergency Celtic
Speaker 2: crisis and the problems that the healthy administration failed to
Speaker 2: recognize early on, talk with Nicole Roberts of Brookline about
Speaker 2: coyotes in Brookline, and we spent the balance of the
Speaker 2: night on Wednesday talking about coyotes in our neighborhoods. And
Speaker 2: then last night I talked with Michelle McLain about a
Speaker 2: book called Abilities. Talk with Jackie Gindrich Cushman, the daughter
Speaker 2: of Newt Gingrich, about the possibility of a John Adams
Speaker 2: memorial in Washington. Talked with Bob Lawler Boston Harber Cruises,
Speaker 2: Talked with Rob Collings of the American Heritage Institute, Mike Kanneely,
Speaker 2: another Republican candidate for governor. The Republicans are going to
Speaker 2: have a pretty good primary, and I think they're going
Speaker 2: to have a candidate to challenge the incumbent, assuming that
Speaker 2: Amour Healey is the incumbent Democrat. Talked last night with
Speaker 2: Israeli Consul General Benny Shrony about the murder of the
Speaker 2: two Israelis down in d C members of the Israeli staff,
Speaker 2: young man and a young woman. Just horrific, and spent
Speaker 2: an hour reacting to that. And tonight talk with Bruce
Speaker 2: Persily personally, the head of the EMK Institute, talk with
Speaker 2: Chris Carroser about Hamburger Dreams, a new book that traces
Speaker 2: the beginnings of Hamburger's talk with Justin Green about Minis
Speaker 2: with the Mission, and talk with Marcus Dowing about the
Speaker 2: Grendel opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Talk with Frank Baker and
Speaker 2: at large Boston City Council candidate. And then last hour,
Speaker 2: I talked about Donald Trump's ongoing battle with Harvard, which
Speaker 2: I think is a waste of his political capital. But
Speaker 2: that's his decision, not mine. So now it is the
Speaker 2: twentieth hour of the week, I go over that at
Speaker 2: the beginning of twenty two hours. Just to tell you
Speaker 2: the amount of information if you do listen to Nightside
Speaker 2: every night, if you listen to it, those are the
Speaker 2: topics you would hear here on Nightside. I'm very proud
Speaker 2: of this program. It is also a program that I
Speaker 2: swear to you. I give you my word. I will
Speaker 2: always tell you what I think think, whether you agree
Speaker 2: with me or not. I will always be authentic, And
Speaker 2: if I have any success in my career, it is authenticity.
Speaker 2: I sometimes am with the majority opinion, sometimes I'm with
Speaker 2: the minority opinion, but I will tell you what my
Speaker 2: opinion is. So now twentieth hour, I would love to
Speaker 2: give you an opportunity to acknowledge someone in your family
Speaker 2: who served the country. This is Memorial Day weekend. I
Speaker 2: had a dad who served in the military two and
Speaker 2: a half years China Burman, India during World War Two.
Speaker 2: Not a nice place to be at that time. Learned
Speaker 2: a lot about World War Two from him at this
Speaker 2: they said at the kitchen table. So if you have
Speaker 2: someone you'd like to acknowledge this Memorial Day weekend. Again,
Speaker 2: Memorial Day is to commemorate and remember those who served
Speaker 2: and who gave everything. So if at the same time,
Speaker 2: I think it's also not inappropriate to acknowledge people who
Speaker 2: have served and came home and built lives and built families.
Speaker 2: So that's one option. The other option, which Marita mentioned
Speaker 2: today was Marita kind of did this on her own
Speaker 2: during the Nightside pregame today at four thirty on Facebook
Speaker 2: Nightside with Dan Ray on Facebook, which we do every
Speaker 2: week night at four thirty, and of course they do
Speaker 2: a postgame at midnight. Your first concert, the first concert
Speaker 2: that you went to that you sort of paid tickets
Speaker 2: for that you went a big concert. I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about like a little local concert. You know, we all
Speaker 2: went to some of those and they participated in them.
Speaker 2: Grammar school, you were at an elementary school concert. Now,
Speaker 2: the first time you went to a concert somewhere Great Woods,
Speaker 2: on your college campus, maybe your high school campus. Maybe
Speaker 2: Boston Garden, Boston Arena, the first concert. And then also
Speaker 2: I want to give I would be interested to see
Speaker 2: which of these three topics gets more play. Your biggest regret,
Speaker 2: you don't, don't make it personal, but your biggest regret
Speaker 2: maybe a job you didn't take. Maybe a city you
Speaker 2: chose not to to move to. Uh, maybe a college
Speaker 2: you didn't apply to. I don't know. Maybe a friend
Speaker 2: who you ended a relationship with too soon. So those
Speaker 2: are the three options. Acknowledge of acknowledge of veteran. The
Speaker 2: first concert you ever went to? Was it a Beach
Speaker 2: Boys concert? My first concert that I can remember as
Speaker 2: a real, legitimate, live concert, big time concert. You're gonna
Speaker 2: laugh at me, but that's okay. Glenn Campbell at Boston Garden.
Speaker 2: I've always loved country music. I think he's kind of
Speaker 2: in that genre. Didn't realize time Wichita Linemen and all
Speaker 2: of that sort of stuff. It was a good entertainer.
Speaker 2: That was my first concert. So I put my first
Speaker 2: concert out there. Do I have the biggest regret? I
Speaker 2: don't have regrets. I really don't. I've been very lucky
Speaker 2: in my life. I've lost friends and if I had
Speaker 2: a concert, if I had a regret with some friends,
Speaker 2: it would be I didn't make that final phone call.
Speaker 2: That's I can think of people who have passed on
Speaker 2: and I wish I had had one final breakfast or
Speaker 2: one final lunch with them.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then, as I mentioned, my dad was in World
Speaker 2: War two two and a half years in China, Bourman, India.
Speaker 2: Not a good place to be, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: A lot of malaria and a lot of Japanese soldiers,
Speaker 2: and those are that's my that's my contribution. I want
Speaker 2: yours six one, seven, two five four ten thirty. Normally
Speaker 2: we just give you one option. Tonight you're getting three
Speaker 2: first concert, remember event your biggest regret? Six seven four
Speaker 2: ten thirty or six month seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: You know what happens on Friday night. We're slow to
Speaker 2: start and then you can't get into the end. Get
Speaker 2: it going early back on Nightside after.
Speaker 1: This, It's night Side with Dan Ray on Way Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, by the way, if you want to give
Speaker 2: me quick three, you can do that.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: If you want to focus on just one, you can
Speaker 2: do that. A lot of flexibility here tonight. I was
Speaker 2: just saying to Rob the phone call intensity this week
Speaker 2: has been the best that it's been here in a while.
Speaker 2: So as you spend some time this weekend with your friends,
Speaker 2: whether you're at barbecues or parties, do me a favor
Speaker 2: and tell them about Nightside. So many people will come
Speaker 2: up to me and say, hey, Dan, what are you
Speaker 2: doing these days? And I'll say, well, for the last
Speaker 2: eighteen years, I'm doing a talk show. Really where So
Speaker 2: there are people out there who remember me from television
Speaker 2: but are unaware that I'm on the radio five nights
Speaker 2: a week from eight to midnight on WBS. Baffles me. Why,
Speaker 2: But that's okay. Back to the calls we go. Let's
Speaker 2: start with Lincoln in Ashburnham. Hello, Lincoln, how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Dan, yourself excellent.
Speaker 2: Love to hear people from different communities. I kind of
Speaker 2: remember having you as a caller, but welcome.
Speaker 5: So I'm calling to about a veteran.
Speaker 2: Sure, my father.
Speaker 5: My father is a veteran and he has passed away
Speaker 5: from World War Two. But in our town here in Ashburnham,
Speaker 5: we have a Memorial Day parade and our grand Marshall
Speaker 5: is a former staff sergeant Willard Pichtel. He's one hundred
Speaker 5: and two years old and he's going to be our
Speaker 5: grand Marshal on Monday morning. He's a great gentleman, a
Speaker 5: great citizen.
Speaker 6: From our town.
Speaker 5: He's lived in town and in the nineteen Wow.
Speaker 2: That that that is a great tribute. Last his first
Speaker 2: name is Willis and his last name is again give
Speaker 2: it to us slowly.
Speaker 5: His first name is Willard. They call him Billy Will's Is.
Speaker 5: His last name is Pictyl.
Speaker 4: He's n and two.
Speaker 5: He played golf all the time. He's Sharper's attack. He
Speaker 5: lived in our community, raised five children here. He's a grandfather,
Speaker 5: great grandfather and uh, he's just an all around gentleman.
Speaker 7: You have.
Speaker 2: You have a great school out there by the way,
Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, Cushing Academy.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 5: And Master Pact mister lives just around the corner from
Speaker 5: Pushing and I used to own a house right across
Speaker 5: the street. I'm out, but it's not about me. I'm
Speaker 5: a re diire deputy chief of my expirement in that town.
Speaker 5: But mister Picchtel, his one of his sons was in
Speaker 5: school with me, and like I said, his parents and
Speaker 5: my I mean my parents and it uh Bill and
Speaker 5: his wife teen who passed away a few years back.
Speaker 5: We're all great friends in a small town about six
Speaker 5: thousand people. But you know, like I said, I just
Speaker 5: wanted a high.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you. This is this your first
Speaker 2: time calling my show.
Speaker 5: It is the first time I do listen.
Speaker 2: Uh, we gotta give you a round of the clause
Speaker 2: from our digital studio audience.
Speaker 5: Here is like, uh, thank you, thank you. Like say uh,
Speaker 5: he is our community more than happy to honor him
Speaker 5: on Memorial Day. He's always kind of turned this down
Speaker 5: because he's very humble, but like I said, uh, he's
Speaker 5: one hundred ye sharp asttack, great gentleman, has some fine
Speaker 5: sons and a daughter that live in town. Still he's
Speaker 5: been very active im community, church and everything.
Speaker 2: Well, do us a favor, if you'd be so kind,
Speaker 2: you know, please extend our appreciation to him. Let him
Speaker 2: know that he was acknowledged on Night Side and if
Speaker 2: his family wants to listen to it, this will be posted.
Speaker 2: This is a lovely tribute that you gave him, uh
Speaker 2: and it will be posted at our web page, which
Speaker 2: is a podcast page, which is Nightside and Demand dot com.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I'll give you one last comment. When I
Speaker 5: see mister Victal and we talked, he'll be always cheery,
Speaker 5: and I will say to each l I say, well,
Speaker 5: mister Victo, I said, we're still We're still both walking
Speaker 5: on the side of the ground, and we're still getting
Speaker 5: American money at the bank.
Speaker 2: Let's hope that never changes. Thank you very much, Lincoln.
Speaker 2: Great call, and hope come on back, look forward to
Speaker 2: your next call. Good night, Thank you, Happy Memorial Day.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent in Brockton. Vincent, You're next one night,
Speaker 2: so I go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Then, how are we doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Thanks very much for calling in again.
Speaker 2: We have three topics that people can pick and choose
Speaker 2: from a little bit of cafeteria opportunity tonight. Which of
Speaker 2: which of the three you could talk about all three
Speaker 2: if you'd like a right ahead?
Speaker 3: Oh fast met construct?
Speaker 2: Which one.
Speaker 3: The concert?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Jay Z two thousand and three, right after my gradation
Speaker 3: from Yomas jay Z.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Where was that? Was that in Boston
Speaker 2: or elsewhere?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: He lowe at the hockey.
Speaker 2: Are Oh the song the song is Arena.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah you got it?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, that's a good one. That that's a good one.
Speaker 2: What else did you want to chat about? You have
Speaker 2: a regret you'd like to share with us or and
Speaker 2: you don't have to? Or would you like to salute
Speaker 2: a veteran?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: My regret one my cousin for a woman I used
Speaker 3: to live with pastaway in two thousand and seven. He
Speaker 3: called me and then that was that's one called I
Speaker 3: was my way to red Sos game. But I was
Speaker 3: that well, I was not. I was unable to help
Speaker 3: him out whatever you wanted. Yeah, I called it. His
Speaker 3: two brothers that was nearby to go or check on him,
Speaker 3: but he didn't make it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what, that's the timing there was
Speaker 2: pretty bad. You should not feel a regret there because
Speaker 2: the timing there kind of worked against you. It's tough
Speaker 2: to in a situation like that when you're heading into
Speaker 2: Boston and someone calls I think you did it. I
Speaker 2: think you handled it as well as you could have.
Speaker 2: You called before your first time caller, Vincent.
Speaker 3: I've called it before. I went to you mas Dot Monk.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Tingle was a new show one night and I called,
Speaker 3: you know, Jimmy Tingle went to.
Speaker 2: Do all right? Well, Vincent, I appreciate you taking the
Speaker 2: time to call. I hope you have a great Memorial
Speaker 2: Day weekend. You're doing anything.
Speaker 3: Special, Spend time with family and friends. You know, are
Speaker 3: drill in the backyard. That's about it.
Speaker 2: That's that's the best, the best Memorial Day you can have.
Speaker 2: Enjoy yourself and say how to your family for us. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Vincent, to you soon tonight I are going to
Speaker 2: get one more in here before the break. We're going
Speaker 2: to go to Judy in Boston. Hi, Judy, welcome to
Speaker 2: Night Side. How are you?
Speaker 7: I'm great?
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just fine? Thanks so much for calling in.
Speaker 2: What would you like to talk about? You can salute
Speaker 2: a vet, talk about a regret, or go ahead and
Speaker 2: tell us what was your first concert you went to?
Speaker 9: None of that. I'd like to say the greatest Americans
Speaker 9: with vets and my father White E. O'Hara, who just
Speaker 9: passed away seven months ago, was in Korea in World
Speaker 9: War Two, and we were raised by him and all
Speaker 9: his friends and their families, and we hung around does
Speaker 9: for our whole life. And they made the childhood and amazing.
Speaker 9: And it didn't take money. It just took love and friendships.
Speaker 2: You know, something you to you right on the money.
Speaker 2: I understand exactly what you mean. And I think in
Speaker 2: view of what they saw both in World War Two
Speaker 2: and in Korea, they came home and they understood the
Speaker 2: value of family and the value of children and and
Speaker 2: you know, they were Little League coaches and Boy Scout
Speaker 2: leaders and they they they were the greatest generation. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's any I think Tom Broker had it right.
Speaker 9: I do too, And I think you know, if you
Speaker 9: needed a roof, they were all there to put the
Speaker 9: roof on it. The kids needed some food, they were
Speaker 9: there for that. And they taught us to be, you know,
Speaker 9: grateful to be an American, which I think is hard
Speaker 9: to find sometimes now.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately it is well your call and and hopefully
Speaker 2: your dad, Whitey O'Hara is was it Waddy O'Hair or whatdy.
Speaker 5: O'Hara Whitey O'Hara, Whitey O'Hara.
Speaker 2: We had an O'Hara family in the street that we
Speaker 2: grew up on in Reedville, so probably there's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a relation there. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: calling in. Is this your first time or have you
Speaker 2: called before?
Speaker 9: I called last year for the same exact things.
Speaker 5: Well, thanks, you did last year.
Speaker 2: You can make a habit of it. And I'm sorry
Speaker 2: that your dad has passed on, but hopefully he's reunited
Speaker 2: with some of his buddies and they're they're having a
Speaker 2: beer somewhere tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think the whole the FW post is up there now.
Speaker 9: Oh, thanks very much, and thanks for pluting them.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Judy as well. We'll talk again.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: All Right, we've had some good good gone. Let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling here. We'll get people in. Let's let me go. Oh,
Speaker 2: here's my pal Steve. I'm not sure if he's on
Speaker 2: his way to Chickapee, are coming home, but it's Steve
Speaker 2: the truck driver, Steve. Welcome. How are you, hey, Steve?
Speaker 2: Where you're headed?
Speaker 3: I'm here?
Speaker 5: I'm here, Yeah, No, I got you.
Speaker 2: Where are you headed back? Where you're headed?
Speaker 6: I am heading it. I am heading the chi Chickapee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but are you heading home or you're are you
Speaker 2: out on the heading out?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Friday is my meet with a guy from Baltimore co worker.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Oh, I drive the Chickapee and bring some
Speaker 6: freight to him. I have some freight right now. I
Speaker 6: got a fifty three footer, So I'm probably ten minutes
Speaker 6: from the terminal and Chickapee. So I go to Milltown, Connecticut.
Speaker 6: That's where other terminal is and that's where I meet him.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got to go to Connecticut and then
Speaker 2: you can get back home.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Back to leister name.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice? Nice? All right.
Speaker 6: So, so of the three topics, Dan, who am I
Speaker 6: going to speak? I love the guessing game. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: talk about my first concert, which was Halloween nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 6: which was the Cars Old Yeah, the Portland Cumberland County
Speaker 6: Civic Center and Pautland, Maine. That was an awesome, awesome
Speaker 6: concert with the Cars.
Speaker 2: Yeah that that That Civic Center was where the American
Speaker 2: Hockey League the main team played all the time.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well it used to be the Portland let's see main
Speaker 6: Mariners when they won the Great Cups and it became
Speaker 6: the Portland Pirates, then it is now the main Mariners again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What a great friend of mine who was a hockey
Speaker 2: client of mine. Steve Baker was the goaltender on the
Speaker 2: Main Meritis when when they won the Cup in the
Speaker 2: in the early eighties. They played in the Rangers system
Speaker 2: and the Devil system. Steve even great guys, still doing
Speaker 2: very well in retirement. But he's he's got a program
Speaker 2: called three Ice. They're trying to get this this summer
Speaker 2: hockey league going where they'll play three on three with
Speaker 2: a goaltender. It'll be very much open hockey. And so
Speaker 2: Steve Steve, oh yeah you, oh yeah, I got a
Speaker 2: great picture that he that he that he took drinking
Speaker 2: out of the Calder Cup, which is the Cup Ahl
Speaker 2: And yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I said, the Great Cup. That's the Canadian football
Speaker 6: that's true.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, yeah, but that's okay, Old Cup. Steve
Speaker 2: Baker Baker and his wife Roe. Steve grew up in Braintreet,
Speaker 2: Massachusetts and went to Archbishop Williams. Played gold at Archbishop
Speaker 2: Williams and Union College.
Speaker 6: Great excellent. When I work construction in Hall, Massachusetts back
Speaker 6: in eighty five or eighty seven. Uh, doing laborer work.
Speaker 6: This guy was there and we got talking about the
Speaker 6: bean Pot. He said, yeah, I was the Stanton goalie
Speaker 6: in the nineteen eighty three bean Pot when Northeast won
Speaker 6: the championship. And I said, yea, who are you? He said,
Speaker 6: I was the goalie Tim Marshall.
Speaker 2: I remember the name.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tim Marshall. I did construction with him
Speaker 6: down in the hall. So he was nice to meet him.
Speaker 6: He's a nice guy, you know. So I had to
Speaker 6: google him too and find out all about him and
Speaker 6: his jeep.
Speaker 2: Well, if you if you went to Maine Marinon games,
Speaker 2: there were a bunch of people up there. Pat Connecker
Speaker 2: played for them at the time. Stevie Tashura was a
Speaker 2: center iceman. It was from Canada, but he was a
Speaker 2: Canadian Japanese guy, really nice kid. And as they say,
Speaker 2: Steve Baker was the goaltender. And they were all people
Speaker 2: who I did some legal work for and some's that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and just to answer you get to your
Speaker 6: other call. As my dad served in nineteen fifty to
Speaker 6: fifty four in the Air Force.
Speaker 2: So he was in there during Korea.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was the only one in the family. His
Speaker 6: brother went to uh he was in the Navy, his
Speaker 6: older brother. So other than that, that was the only
Speaker 6: two in the extended family that went in the military.
Speaker 6: So anyways, nice.
Speaker 7: Talking to you.
Speaker 6: Enjoy you a long weekend.
Speaker 4: You too, did work with my wife and get.
Speaker 2: And get home, get home safely.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well, thank you Dan.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna find out eleven o'clock last night when you
Speaker 6: mentioned me, so I'll have to find that. We shout
Speaker 6: out to the truckers.
Speaker 2: And you got it.
Speaker 4: You got it, all right, Steve, take it easy day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to you soon. Good one.
Speaker 11: All right bye, are you too.
Speaker 2: Gonna take a break. Let's get to more phone calls.
Speaker 2: The only line open is six one seven back after
Speaker 2: the news at the bottom of the air. We're a
Speaker 2: little bit late coming back on night.
Speaker 1: Side Night Side with Dan Ray you Besy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We're going to go
Speaker 2: to Chris is in Worcester. Chris your next nights. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you calling in. Welcome Hi.
Speaker 7: It's Wooster West Woosta. It sure is city of New England,
Speaker 7: Yes it is.
Speaker 2: And people don't realize that. They think Portland or Hartford
Speaker 2: or something, but it's Worcester.
Speaker 6: True.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 7: My first concert was Billy Joel in the Old Garden,
Speaker 7: maybe late seventy eight, maybe seventy nine. I'd love it
Speaker 7: if one of your callers would know the year, because
Speaker 7: it's a shame. What's happening to Billy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that tonight. It's I didn't. I I
Speaker 2: know that he had fallen in a concert, but I
Speaker 2: thought he just slipped and fell. But apparently it's it's
Speaker 2: a it's a medical issue that is affecting him, and
Speaker 2: I guess he's canceled all those conference concerts. I would
Speaker 2: to a Billy Joel concert at Fenway Park. It was
Speaker 2: probably two summers ago. It was the most beautiful night
Speaker 2: I can remember in my life. It was an absolutely
Speaker 2: spectacular night, and he was fabulous.
Speaker 7: I think my concert might have been his first appearance in.
Speaker 4: Boston, could have been, could have been.
Speaker 7: Secondly, I'd like to talk about my grandfather, myke Pepe,
Speaker 7: who came from French Canada to Massachusetts when he was
Speaker 7: a little boy, and ultimately he joined the US Army
Speaker 7: in the teens, so that means he was in World
Speaker 7: War One and he loved horses, so he was in
Speaker 7: the cavalry and he got sent to eastern France and
Speaker 7: he fought on his horse, and unfortunately his horse got
Speaker 7: hit and my grandfather got injured slightly and the horse
Speaker 7: did not survive. And he rehabbed in France, and they
Speaker 7: gave the men embroidery to do to keep their minds occupied. Ultimately,
Speaker 7: he came back to Massachusetts, stayed in the military, loved it,
Speaker 7: and then finally his wife said enough is enough, so
Speaker 7: he left Fort Devans and became a dad and a painter,
Speaker 7: and he still loved horses and still rode them wonderful.
Speaker 7: Always kept in touch, you know, with his army folks,
Speaker 7: but unfortunately he passed early. And the second one is
Speaker 7: my only female cousin, and she went into the US
Speaker 7: Air Force after high school and traveled the world and
Speaker 7: got her bachelor's on the Air Force. And at some
Speaker 7: point maybe you've done it, but at some point I
Speaker 7: think it would be great to have some female veterans
Speaker 7: on your talk show.
Speaker 2: Well somenight, maybe we'll just open that up and it
Speaker 2: allow people to call in, because I think it's the
Speaker 2: more people we have and the more people get an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good suggestion. Maybe we'll do that
Speaker 2: some twentieth hour in the next few weeks. I will
Speaker 2: keep that in the back of my mind. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: a good question.
Speaker 4: Terrific.
Speaker 7: That's all I've got. So I have a great Memorial Day.
Speaker 2: Right back at you. And again, what a wonderful life
Speaker 2: your grandfather had. Did you get much time with him?
Speaker 7: Not at all?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7: No, No, still got more research to do to the
Speaker 7: Massachusetts Veteran Active So yeah, that'll be done in the future.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. Appreciate the call. Chris,
Speaker 2: We'll talk again.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I have a great night. Let's keep rolling here. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go to We got Betty and Marlboro. Betty, you're
Speaker 2: next on nights. I had a lot of female callers tonight,
Speaker 2: which I love. Betty's in Marble. Hi, Betty, welcome.
Speaker 12: Hi, can't how you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm dude, just great? Tell us which of these three
Speaker 2: topics you can hit them all? Or hit one? Go
Speaker 2: right ahead, Why don't.
Speaker 12: You let's try and hit them all.
Speaker 3: I like to hear.
Speaker 1: I've never called it.
Speaker 13: I wat him get through.
Speaker 2: This waste is this your Is this your first time calling? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: well we got to give you a round and applause
Speaker 2: or magician. That's a bunch of first time callers tonight,
Speaker 2: go right ahead. We love it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and I'm coming from Worcester. I just hit the
Speaker 13: road and called me a wow. Not o for a while,
Speaker 13: so but I'd like to, uh yeah, just my cousin Alex.
Speaker 12: He was Vietnam.
Speaker 7: Okay, he came back.
Speaker 13: I'm anger, say god. He became a state message Cuba
Speaker 13: for for twenty five years. He got married and three children.
Speaker 13: Watch the boat the coats he went, Howie Giant went
Speaker 13: to Arizona, got on a planet Covid and died. After
Speaker 13: all that, oh, never got shot at, Never got shot
Speaker 13: at Yo shot the head and uh Covid took him out.
Speaker 2: Uh Covid took a lot of people out.
Speaker 12: And then my first content seventy three. Uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: Just the fun used to be very Jake Oles and yeah,
Speaker 12: I think I know I was sparsh road.
Speaker 13: I jumped back. I remember jumped back to play the
Speaker 13: cow at the York and York in US.
Speaker 5: That was the seventies.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 13: Actually it was paddled the BNP.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll call it. We'll call it for Jay Giles.
Speaker 2: That's okay, go right ahead, Peter Wolf go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: Right, you got it.
Speaker 5: I got it.
Speaker 2: Thanks Betty. I appreciate you call. And uh, drive drive carefully.
Speaker 2: I can tell you drive and drive carefully. Okay. Well
Speaker 2: you thanks, thanks doctor. You soon have a great night. Okay.
Speaker 2: We're gonna try to get one more in here before
Speaker 2: the break and we're gonna go to Daryl in New Brunswick. Daryl,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 3: How are you hey?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 4: Doing great?
Speaker 10: Hopefully you guys are dealing with the dampness as well.
Speaker 10: Reference to your color prior to Betty reference the cavalry
Speaker 10: World War One, Yep, A good movie to watch. It's
Speaker 10: called war Horse.
Speaker 2: Okay, Warhorse?
Speaker 10: You mentioned you mentioned the movie prior called The Judge
Speaker 10: with Robert Downey Jr. And I actually watched it and
Speaker 10: it's amazing. But going back to the veteran issue, we
Speaker 10: had a Aaron Gunder in the Health X Bombers from
Speaker 10: Northern Ontario, Sergeant Air Gunner Lloyd Hampton. His commander was
Speaker 10: actually from San Francisco. Lloyd did not I'll get his name.
Speaker 10: I wasn't prepared for this topic tonight, but I have
Speaker 10: the flight logs and I will get you his name
Speaker 10: so you can get proper dedication. But air Gunner Hampton,
Speaker 10: he was only not even twenty years old coming back
Speaker 10: from Berlin on his fifth bombing mission, and he didn't
Speaker 10: come back.
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 10: So therefore this goes back to the aircraft commander from
Speaker 10: San Francisco. Ye, and all your veterans that actually sit
Speaker 10: by your rest stops and dedicate on Memorial Day, so
Speaker 10: the best I can do.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Darrel, appreciate it. Very nice dedication. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: Take care, sir, have a great night, happy memorially. Okay,
Speaker 2: the only lines that are open right now, and we
Speaker 2: can get a couple more in six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven nine six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty Back right after this break, I got
Speaker 2: James and Steve coming up.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray onn BZY, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling here. We're going to go
Speaker 2: next to James in Norfolk, Massachusetts. James, welcome to Night'side.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir? How are you doing I'm doing
Speaker 2: just great wrapping up the week.
Speaker 11: Here a time, Colin, probably.
Speaker 2: This is your third time. No applause for third time,
Speaker 2: but thank you for going.
Speaker 11: But I tried the other number. It was very frustrating
Speaker 11: because they looked it up online and it was the
Speaker 11: wrong number that Polk showed up. It was six one,
Speaker 11: seven thirty four and that did not go through.
Speaker 2: Said, where did you see that?
Speaker 4: It was on?
Speaker 11: I was having problems with the computer all day and
Speaker 11: that's what it pulled up WBZ Night Side.
Speaker 2: Oh, Rob, do me a favorite? Can you trouble shoot
Speaker 2: that place? Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 11: We'll get not a high tech guide. But I'm having
Speaker 11: like this is like my big beef with what's going on? Yeah,
Speaker 11: you know, I'm self employed and I always have I'm
Speaker 11: having cyber problems with everything and and being self employed.
Speaker 11: It's been difficult, you know. And I thought maybe it
Speaker 11: was from the weather or whatever, but that was weird.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: We had some problems today too, by the way, but
Speaker 2: we'll leave that. We'll let that go for now. Tell
Speaker 2: us talk to us and tell us about your whichever
Speaker 2: one of these topics you want to address.
Speaker 11: Okay, So well, first, well I would say I had.
Speaker 11: You know, I listened to the earlier show when people
Speaker 11: were complaining about the Harvard thing. I don't really I
Speaker 11: didn't know much about it, but I was a little
Speaker 11: bit horrified but finding out about the Columbia stuff when
Speaker 11: I just happened to see it on the paper. And
Speaker 11: I went to college, but I learned a lot more
Speaker 11: in vocational school than I did at a community college,
Speaker 11: and so I'm wondering, what are they teaching there? And
Speaker 11: I found that a lot of people that had worked
Speaker 11: for me had went to college but didn't have jobs.
Speaker 11: So I thought the voc I think the college thing
Speaker 11: was like overrated. Now I know you probably need it
Speaker 11: for some things from medical.
Speaker 2: No, I'm agreeing with that. I think that vote tech schools.
Speaker 2: You know, people come out of Vokee tech schools and
Speaker 2: they're eighteen nineteen years old and they're starting on jobs
Speaker 2: so they'll carry them for the rest of their lives
Speaker 2: and they'll never be unemployed. But I got to get
Speaker 2: you back because I got other people lined up.
Speaker 8: I've seen things like Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller who
Speaker 8: and I think those were at the the Western Memorial Auditorium.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, that's a great A great venue, great venue, Jeff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good one.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the.
Speaker 8: As far as well, of course, that's the older music. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: you know I saw those when I was a kid,
Speaker 8: I mean like five six years old. My first actual
Speaker 8: so called rock concert that I went to was at
Speaker 8: Boston Garden. Uh somewhere around seventy five, seventy six. It
Speaker 8: was Chicago.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. They were big at the time, weren't they were?
Speaker 2: They were. They were the big sound, the big big
Speaker 2: horn sound. I remember them very well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and uh well, of course that was when you know,
Speaker 8: Terry cath was there, and oh I I remember that
Speaker 8: concert so distinctly, and they became my favorite. And here
Speaker 8: it is fifty you know, fifty years later.
Speaker 2: We had a chance to talk about it in the radio. Jeff,
Speaker 2: I got one more. I got to sneak in here.
Speaker 2: The one person hanging. So I'm gonna let you go
Speaker 2: for now, but continue to listen to this program and
Speaker 2: continue to participate as a caller. It was thanks tonight,
Speaker 2: have a good weekend. Thank you. Yep, good ac Larry.
Speaker 2: You went last up, but I got about thirty seconds
Speaker 2: for you. Let's hit it out of the park. Larry.
Speaker 4: Okay for the concert, yeah, cause they stills in Nash
Speaker 4: and eighty five with the garden.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And then for veterans. Uh, well, my family came over
Speaker 4: on the Mayflower, both of them.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: So we're thirteen, we're thirteenth generation. But anyway, Uh we
Speaker 4: lost George at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Whoa, and
Speaker 4: we had a.
Speaker 2: Larry, I hate to do this year. I wish you'd
Speaker 2: called early because I'd love to go through this lineage.
Speaker 2: But I'm flat out of time. I'm flat out of time, man.
Speaker 2: Happy Memorial Day to you and thank you for your
Speaker 2: family service. Okay, thank you, Larry. All Right, we're done
Speaker 2: for the week, done for the night. Rob Brooks, great job, Marie,
Speaker 2: a great job. Thanks to all the callers, Thanks to
Speaker 2: all the listeners. We had a great week. All dogs,
Speaker 2: all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's my pal
Speaker 2: Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's
Speaker 2: what all your pets are who we passed. They loved
Speaker 2: you and you love them. I do believe you'll see
Speaker 2: them again. I'll see you again on Monday night. Happy
Speaker 2: Memorial Day to everyone. Thank a veteran. Thanks everybody,