WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:01.439 It's nice eyes. 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:06.839 Undoing Mazy Boston's news Radio. 3 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.320 All right, we're at the end of the week. It's 4 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:11.759 the twentieth hour. A little bit of an abbreviated week 5 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.880 for me. I was off Monday and Tuesday night. Again. 6 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.679 Want to thank my friend Morgan White, who sat in 7 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.600 on Monday and Tuesday night. Gave me a chance to 8 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.679 spend a little bit of time relaxing. Next week, I'm 9 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.239 here for the entirety of the week, and who knows, 10 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.160 a lot of politics is going to be happening next week. 11 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:33.439 The big story out of Washington tonight is that Pete 12 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:39.439 hegstaff Seth, the former host of a show on Fox 13 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.359 Fox and Friends, has now been nominated by the closest 14 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:46.679 of margins by one vote, a tie breaking vote from 15 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.679 Vice President Jay d Vance is now the United States 16 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.320 Secretary of Defense. I'm sure we'll talk about that next week. 17 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.880 But this is the twentieth Hours. So although we keep 18 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.479 you up to date on what's going on politically, the 19 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:01.159 same time, we try to sort of ease into the 20 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.280 weekend here and this is this is what we do 21 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:06.959 in the last hour of the week. We call it 22 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.120 the twentieth hour. Again, for those of you who are 23 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:10.519 new to the show. And by the way, we've had 24 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:12.560 a whole bunch of new first time callers this week, 25 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:14.680 which is great. I know many people say, I'm listening 26 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.319 to you for a long time. I love to call 27 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.079 earlier tonight. I'm trying to remember which call it was. Yeah, 28 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.799 it was Joe and Braintree. Who's a thirty five year 29 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:27.400 old Jose rather in Braintree, I think, who's a thirty 30 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.640 five year old listener told me that he had called 31 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.959 once before when he was eighteen, so that would be 32 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:41.079 like seventeen years ago. But thank you for listening. Also, 33 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.959 thank you for calling. As I have explained, I can 34 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.599 sit here and talk for four hours. Wouldn't be a 35 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.680 particularly interesting show if I did. But I rely upon you, 36 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.840 the listeners, to joining the conversation. Sometimes, as we did 37 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.560 last Hour, we had someone on who could potentially be 38 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.920 of help to you. And I certainly hope that everyone 39 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.079 who called last hour gets something out of it. And 40 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.560 I know that everyone who called last Hour there are 41 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.319 other people who were listening hove here in the North End. 42 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.280 I do hope you're able to get the book, the 43 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.719 audio version, because I think it would be something that 44 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:14.639 would be good for you and those of you who 45 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.199 are having trouble sleeping. I think it would be a 46 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.439 book that you might do well to get. Again, it's 47 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:24.199 it's available, and I'll just mention it one more time. 48 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:28.759 It's a long title by doctor Sondra Dalton Smith Sacred rest, 49 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.719 Recover your life, renew your energy, and restore your sanity. 50 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.280 Now what am I gonna do? Last hour? You know 51 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:43.400 my favorite eleven o'clock hour is always is always going 52 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.479 to be brushes with celebrity. And guess what I I'm 53 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.560 gonna do brushes with celebrity tonight. I'll tell you a 54 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:55.919 couple of funny stories. But you can, you know you can. 55 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:05.560 How shall I tell you this story? Look, every one 56 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:10.159 of us at some point have met someone who we 57 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:13.039 consider to be a true celebrity, whether they were a 58 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:23.199 celebrity again, politician, movie star, or whatever. I I have 59 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.159 a lot of funny stories. Most of them involve family members, 60 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:33.159 and I don't want to embarrass family members, never to 61 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.520 do that. But every I'm gonna get in trouble here. 62 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.400 But but you know what, I don't, I don't, I 63 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:50.520 don't care. I just think that Okay, I was away 64 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:58.199 for a few days with with family members, including Mustard 65 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:04.800 the dog who you've heard me or two and I'm 66 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.599 gonna be in big trouble here. My daughter has an 67 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:12.439 ability to spot celebrities. Okay, maybe some of you and 68 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.720 your family have that ability, and she can get a 69 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:21.279 quick glimpse of someone, and invariably she's right in the money, 70 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:24.720 right in the money. One time we were on vacation 71 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.759 and my daughter said to me. She's sitting across the 72 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.959 table from me, and she said, do not turn around, 73 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.639 which means she spotted someone. And I said, okay, who 74 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.959 are you looking at? Don't turn around. I said, okay, 75 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:42.639 I'm not going to turn around. And of course what 76 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.120 did I do? I turned around? She said, but I 77 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:51.519 think in the table just behind you is Solomond Rushty. 78 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.040 He was the author of Satanic Verses, and he was 79 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.560 the guy who was the subject of a horrific assassination 80 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.800 assault a year year and a half ago. He wrote 81 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:07.480 this book, Satanning Verses, which put him basically on a 82 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:13.319 hit list for many many in the Muslim community who 83 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:20.199 felt that he had slandered the prophet Muhammad. I've never 84 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:24.279 read the book, so I don't know, but I do 85 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:29.240 know that at that time they were what's called fatoise 86 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:34.199 issued against him, and a fatois is a death penalty 87 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:40.079 or a death sentence, as I understand it. Anyway, I 88 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.160 of course turned around, and you know, I tried to 89 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.879 do it as discreetly as possible, which I did, And 90 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.519 sure enough I wish, in retrospect that I had after 91 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.360 dinner was over, had approached him and talked to him. 92 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.079 I didn't. I regret that because I do think that 93 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.399 he's somebody who was courageous and a writer, and he 94 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:08.319 would have been interesting to talk to. But my daughter 95 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:15.720 has this ability. So last week we were we had 96 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.040 a few days, my family and I and all of 97 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:24.920 a sudden, at a table just to the left of us, 98 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:31.040 out of earshot was my daughter. I could see her 99 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:37.000 looking very quickly. Actually, what happened was a waitress dropped 100 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.839 a plate, and and of course whatever there's a noise, 101 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:45.800 people always tend to look. And in that instant, my 102 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.040 daughter not only looked, but she saw within her line 103 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:56.480 of sight pretty famous Hollywood actor. And he was the 104 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.920 star in the movie about Elvis Presley Austin Butler, Uh 105 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.319 and I have seen the movie and really good actor 106 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:10.480 and quite accomplished actor, but no one approached him or 107 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.560 anything like that. There were a couple of people who 108 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:15.199 asked him for his autograph. No one asked me for 109 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:19.199 my autograph. That's no one knew who I was, which 110 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.120 was great, not that they would have asked for my 111 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.959 autograph anyway. But the point is that there are certain 112 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.720 people who can spot celebrities. And of course all of 113 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:33.120 you have at some point interacted with a celebrity, which 114 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.600 is the way that I'm going to just introduce this 115 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:41.319 and I invite you to join the conversation here and 116 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.439 let's have some fun going into the weekend. Your celebrity 117 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.360 might be an actor. Your celebrity might be a movie star. 118 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.639 Your celebrity might be a politician. Your celebrity might be 119 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.480 a writer. I could be any number of things. There 120 00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:00.480 are lots of celebrities in this world, a varying magnet, dudes. 121 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.800 But I will bet within my audience tonight, we're going 122 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.600 to have some very interesting stories. So without any further ado, 123 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:10.480 we're going to open up. You know, Rob, we should 124 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.959 really have a theme song for this Brushes with Celebrity. 125 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.879 We do have a couple of themes, but we got 126 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.720 to come up with the Brushes with Celebrity theme song, 127 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.959 and Rob, you're good at this, think about it. Maybe 128 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.759 we'll come up with something we won't do. We don't 129 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:25.800 do this every Friday night. We don't do it even 130 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:27.879 we do it about three or four times a year. 131 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:32.559 So let's hear your story. Who is your brush with Celebrity? 132 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.559 Six one seven, two four thirty six, one seven, nine 133 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:39.879 three one ten thirty. My name is Dan Ray. This 134 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.279 is Nightside. Who have you met? And we always like 135 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.960 to add as a caveat tell us the good, the bad, 136 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.159 and the ugly. If the person was really nice to you, 137 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.480 you know, give them credit. If someone was not nice 138 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.159 to you, me can tell us the story. 139 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:55.879 Uh. 140 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.279 And if someone really was nasty to you, you can 141 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.000 tell us that story. So open the lines up, Rob, 142 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.200 let's get it going. Six one, seven, two, five, four 143 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:08.720 ten thirty six one seven nine three to one ten thirty. 144 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:12.600 Your brush, your meeting with celebrity? Give us a call. 145 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.200 We'll coming right back on Nightside. 146 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.080 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 147 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.600 night Side stwo years. I'm WBZ News Radio. 148 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.000 All right, we're off to a slow start, but that's fine. 149 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.759 We're gonna start it off with Steve and Shrewsbury. Steve, 150 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.679 Welcome to Nightside. And who is your brush with celebrity? 151 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.159 Steve Hi dan Well, I have one, two, three, four, 152 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.200 five six seven. I think I've told you about two 153 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.000 celebrities I've brushed wood. 154 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.039 One was Dwight. 155 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:43.679 Evans back in nineteen eighty nine, last game of the season. 156 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.440 I went in with a chaplain down in the clubhouse 157 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:51.480 for a little service before the game, and Dwight brought 158 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.639 me into the weight room and at twenty seventy years old, 159 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.519 with a new infant and a wife, he asked me 160 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.600 about my life, and nobody's ever done that before. 161 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:04.840 So that was Dewey, Great Dwight Evans, who I have met, 162 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.720 a class act, I mean just and should be in 163 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:09.799 the Hall of Fame in my. 164 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:10.960 Opinion, Yes he should. 165 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.919 And he went to He goes to the church where 166 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.919 I used to go to, Calvary Christian Church in Lynfield. 167 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:17.279 I think I've told you that. 168 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:22.480 Yeah, a great player and a great and he and 169 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.440 his wife are both great, great folks. Who else you got? 170 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.200 So when I delivered to Dana Fober Oh, I don't know, 171 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.320 probably the nineties you have to go up the stairs 172 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.159 to the dark. And who comes out and grabs the 173 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.639 paper out of the kiosk was Rico Petrocelli, who was 174 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:45.720 my brother's hero when he played My Brother's sixty eight today. 175 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.159 Yeah, okay, cap what you brought. What's your brother's name, 176 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.200 first name? Will give him a shout out, Mike, Mike, 177 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.159 all right, if mike's listening, you can tell him we 178 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.440 gave him a big happy birthday sellow shout out. And 179 00:10:57.559 --> 00:10:59.519 Rico Petrocelli great. 180 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.639 Guy too, by the way, Oh he is. Yes, they're 181 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.279 both Christians, so they're wonderful people born again, so I 182 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:06.759 have that in common with him. 183 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:07.240 Uh. 184 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.720 In Newton, my ex wife's cousin, Kurt, he went to 185 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.799 this school in Newton and they had they had a 186 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.639 Robert Parrish there that night. So my ex wife now 187 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:25.000 and myself had a picture with Robert, and my ex 188 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.840 wife had her arm in the picture. You know, he's 189 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.240 so tall, seven feet and it looked like she had 190 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.440 her hand on his butt, you know, could be so tall. 191 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:40.960 Yeah, No, I got it, I got it. 192 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.679 I'm at a hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, going to 193 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.720 a meeting, and who comes out to the car with 194 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.200 a Oriental friend. I don't know if it's his wife 195 00:11:52.320 --> 00:12:01.759 or not, but is the host of Dancing with the Stars. Yeah. 196 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:07.639 Yeah, Tom worked at Channel four. I knew Tom a 197 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:10.200 little bit. We were kind of were working off hours. 198 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.799 But he's done very very well. 199 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.320 Yeah, yes, I love him too. So when I first 200 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.799 came down in nineteen eighty five, this gal a friend 201 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:23.240 that I met. She took me through Harvard Square and 202 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.080 I said to her, I said, that's Jim Rice on 203 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.399 the sidewalk. So I popped my head out of the 204 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.799 window and waved to him, and he was nice enough 205 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.440 to wave back to me, and I thought that was 206 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:34.200 pretty I must. 207 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.000 Be a sports fan to to because you mentioned Rico, 208 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:43.120 Dwight Evans, and Robert Parrish and Jim Rice. So those 209 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.320 are four really pretty good guys and well known athletes 210 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:52.000 here in Boston. My favorite Rico story, My favorite Rico story. 211 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.679 We were sitting together at an event and he was 212 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.399 telling me that when he was a rookie, he was 213 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.159 batting again. It's White Wilhelm, who's a Hall of Fame pitcher. 214 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.519 I don't know. He must remember that you were White Wilhelm, 215 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:10.600 and Wilhelm was a grizzled veteran at this point, and 216 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.960 Rico was a rookie. This would have been sixty six 217 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:20.639 maybe and maybe sixty five, but apparently old gets to 218 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.759 three and two. And Wilhelm, who was a knuckleball pitcher, 219 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.919 tried to just sneak a fastball by Rico, uh you know, 220 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.480 which he is, a grizzled veteran, was trying to just 221 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.759 you know, sneak one by him, and Rico turned on 222 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.399 and put out and put it up in the next 223 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.799 home run, and he said as he ran around the bases, 224 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.120 Wilhelm was was screaming at him with all sorts of 225 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.639 words we can't say on the radio, and informing him 226 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.799 that he will never ever again in his entire career 227 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.279 see a fastball from White. 228 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.960 Wilhelm exactly exactly. 229 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.720 You know when you played, when you played baseball after 230 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:01.080 high school, you know, they get all exposure to the pros, 231 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.679 but it's not any different than you know, pick up baseball. 232 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:08.600 Just just the the memories and the things that said, 233 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.840 somebody hits a home run off you. I've been through 234 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.919 so many experiences like that, and Tangway when I call 235 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:19.480 them last Friday, I said, all right, Gary, I said, 236 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:21.679 I have a famous quote, and I need. 237 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.399 You to tell me who said it. He goes, Oh boy, 238 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:29.320 I go. I couldn't run very fast, but could I talk? 239 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.279 He said me, I go exactly away. 240 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:40.279 Famous quote I can put in the back of my mind. Hey, Steve, 241 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:46.200 I gotta keep rolling here, so gonna let you run. No, no, no, no, 242 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.399 I got to keep going. Man. I know, I'm sure 243 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.080 it's going to be another baseball player. All right, doctor leader, 244 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.600 thank you, all right, let me go next to Mike 245 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.519 is in Canton. Mike, who's your brush with celebrity? 246 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.080 Well, actually it was it was too It was Dick 247 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:06.519 Cheney and Ted Copple, and so. 248 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.799 That's an interesting combination. Tell me tell me about those two. 249 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.480 Well, my company was we were working in in New 250 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.960 Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and and so we we were 251 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:26.639 we were powering up uh communication sites with generators and 252 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.720 so we had we had run into some I think 253 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.639 they were the New Yorker l a fireman, and they 254 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:33.679 were saying they was we were walking they were walking 255 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.559 to the Harrot's Hotel, which is like downtown New Orleans, 256 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.200 and they and they said there was food over there. 257 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.000 And of course we hadn't eaten in a few days 258 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.639 any good meals. So we came. We followed them, and 259 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.000 we went around the corner and up the stairs and 260 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.919 there was a whole bunch of reporters all standing in 261 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.720 the circle and with these like long sticks that they 262 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:54.919 hold microphones on. 263 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.360 Yeah and audio audio booms ahead, yeah. Yeah. 264 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:01.879 So so one of the MP's was standing there, so 265 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.360 I said, oh, who's over there? And he says, oh, 266 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.480 it's Cheney And I said oh, And I tried to 267 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.120 get a look, but there were so many people. I 268 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.200 was no way I'm going to see him. So off 269 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:13.799 to left. Off to my left was was like a 270 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:18.159 buffet and there was like a whole bunch of hamburgers 271 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.159 and cheeseburgers and stuff. And then there was this ice 272 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.799 cold mountain dew. And I went in a hurricane zone 273 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.879 and ice is kind of rarety, you know, it's getting 274 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.879 something old. So I saw all that, and as they 275 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.799 started walking over there, there was this short guy with 276 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.799 kind of a funny ido and it was like it 277 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.679 was Ted Copple. So I just said, oh, hi, and 278 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.600 I said Hi to Ted. He said hi back, and 279 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:41.840 I grabbed the mountain dew and then next thing, you know, 280 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.960 I looked up and Dick Cheney was walking with his 281 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.279 wife tour the Humbie and he said to me, oh, son, 282 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.799 can you pass me one of those? And I handed 283 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.600 him a mountain dew and it was just so amazing. 284 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.200 He was like two feet away from me. And then 285 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.480 Ted Copple looked at me and he just you just 286 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:05.079 left up my because he was standing alone in the corner, Yeah, 287 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.279 trying to catch Ted as he got into the truck. 288 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.920 I didn't even know. I was so like just naive 289 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:11.000 about it, but yeah, so. 290 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:16.759 Did so did was did Cheney blow Copple off? Was 291 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.079 was Copple all set to sort of what we would 292 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.359 call it an ambush interview and stick the microphone in 293 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:23.200 his face and all. 294 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.319 Of that, Yep, exactly, And then like Ted just I mean, 295 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.559 he just he started to say something and Dick Cheney 296 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:32.480 and his wife just get into the hummer and left. 297 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:38.200 Yeah. Well, Cheney was was never the most cooperative politician. 298 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:41.000 He was sort of the anti politician in the sense 299 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:46.000 that he was not someone who was particularly gracious, uh generally. 300 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:49.279 And I think the demeanor that that you saw on 301 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:54.359 TV was was what you got. I had one interesting 302 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.680 exchange with Cheney back in ninety six when he actually 303 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.799 was thinking of running for president was a very short 304 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:06.000 lived presidential campaign, and he wanted nothing to do with 305 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.880 the media. And uh, you know, I feel that any 306 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.480 person who's running for president who wants to avoid the 307 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:16.599 media probably is not long long for the race. And 308 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:18.759 you know, he's sort of the he's sort of the 309 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.599 antithesis of of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The thing 310 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.519 about Clinton and Trump and their success is they both 311 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.960 love the cameras. They love to be in front of 312 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.559 the camera, and they're both good at it, whether you 313 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:35.279 agree or disagree with either one of them. And they 314 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.039 both you know, had their own shall we say, they're 315 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:43.039 with their own you know, personal personal flaws if you 316 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.319 get on drift. But but they they loved the camera, 317 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:50.039 they loved the attention. And that's why I think both 318 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:54.200 Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were successful politicians. Well, Dick 319 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.240 Cheney was was the vice president of the United States 320 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.400 for our two terms, but he was a vice president 321 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:02.279 only because George Bush, who also was fairly was a 322 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:06.000 very friendly guy, not quite as as friendly as as Trump, 323 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.880 and uh in Clinton, President Trump and President Clinton. So 324 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:13.079 that's you. You you got a you got a kind 325 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:15.079 word out of Big Cheney. That was better than that 326 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:16.559 was more than I got from him. 327 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:20.319 Well, he was asking me. He was asking me for something, 328 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.200 I guess. But you know what, you know, no one 329 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.160 known his resume, his background. He was just a really 330 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.920 he was a really good behind the scenes type person. 331 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:31.200 You know. 332 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:33.079 He was always in the back. He was always in 333 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.200 the back. He was never really a public out front. 334 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:39.000 And like, you're right, we've been a congressman. He had been, 335 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:42.920 he had been a congressman and and uh he was. 336 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:45.920 He was close to the Bush family, and he became 337 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:51.240 vice president once George Bush, you know, George W. Bush 338 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.960 won the nomination in two thousand and set up the 339 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.519 Bush v. Gore race. Mike, I appreciate the call. Those 340 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:01.799 are two good ones. I'm sorry that you disappointed Copple, 341 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.839 but I'm glad you had a chance to share a 342 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.480 word or two with Dick Cheney. He called your son. 343 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:08.119 You must have been very young at the time. 344 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:11.160 Well I was in my forties. 345 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.839 But yeah, yeah, maybe maybe everyone to Dick Cheney looked 346 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.359 like a son. I don't know. Hey, thanks, Mike, appreciate 347 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:21.160 you call. Talk soon. Okay, great, week Thank you, all right, 348 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:23.920 good night, we're doing brushes with celebrity. Come on, now, 349 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.200 let's light these lines up. Okay, this is one that 350 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.960 never misses. People like to hear your stories. You like 351 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.079 to sit and listen to other people's stories. Steve and 352 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:36.880 Shrewsby talked about some athletes Dick Dwight, Evans, Rico Petrocelly, 353 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:42.200 Robert Parrish, and Tom Berger on longtime WBZ TV personality 354 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.519 and now of course host of Dancing with the Stars, 355 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.640 and Mike talked about Ted Copple and Dick Cheney meeting 356 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:52.640 them all in a period of about sounded like thirty seconds. 357 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.519 Right place, right tod six, seven, two, five, four ten, 358 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:59.160 thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. I 359 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:00.759 like to call it the good, bad, and the ugly. 360 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.440 If you had a good experience with someone, give them 361 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:05.240 a shout out. If you had a bad or an 362 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:07.279 ugly experience, you're gonna let us know that as well. 363 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.519 My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside, coming right back 364 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:13.279 right after this quick news break at the bottom of 365 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:15.440 the hour, as we'll take you to the weekend. Okay, 366 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.279 and this is a this is a topic that never 367 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.599 misses for me. So light it up, folks, coming back 368 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:24.200 on Nightside. 369 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:29.319 If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on waz 370 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.799 Boston's news radio, we. 371 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.240 Now have full lines. Perfect. Let's go to Alice in Beverly. Alice, 372 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.880 who's your Brushwood celebrity? 373 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:41.039 Hi Alice, Yes, hi hand. 374 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:45.440 I haven't called for a while, but I'm a professional spectator, 375 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.039 So I'm going to tell you one of my early stories. 376 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.680 When I was in high school and I went to 377 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:54.400 a Celtics game and I never thought that there was 378 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.000 any problem with me walking right down to the bench, 379 00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.279 you know from the second when they use to have 380 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:05.160 a second balcony, because you see, I was important, and 381 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:07.480 they didn't have the police in front of the you know, 382 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.400 the players. And I went right up to Bob Coosey, 383 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:13.880 tapped him on the back and I just said, oh, 384 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.440 I know you class at fifty three. You graduated with 385 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:21.720 father Malaukeey. My father was class of thirty five. Could 386 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.400 you sign my program. 387 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.279 And pass it down and have the other guys sign it? 388 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:29.319 So it was Casey Jones, Sam Jones, I can't even 389 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:31.960 remember who all the people that were signing it, and 390 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:37.200 stupid me, I gave it to my my friend's brother, 391 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 I mean, and he he gave it away or something. 392 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.160 But you know, it's only an autograph. 393 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:47.519 You know what. I'm not going to tell you how 394 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:50.680 much that would be worth today. Okay, I'm not even 395 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:53.359 going to attempt to break your heart. So wasec you 396 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:54.920 did this during the game? 397 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:01.559 Yes, well the games, and my friends was saying they 398 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:04.119 could see me because they had a red purse. So 399 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.200 they're up in the second balcony and they see me. 400 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:10.000 I walk right down like I belonged there. And after all, 401 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.160