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Speaker 3: Now what am I gonna do? Last hour? You know
Speaker 3: my favorite eleven o'clock hour is always is always going
Speaker 3: to be brushes with celebrity. And guess what I I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do brushes with celebrity tonight. I'll tell you a
Speaker 3: couple of funny stories. But you can, you know you can.
Speaker 3: How shall I tell you this story? Look, every one
Speaker 3: of us at some point have met someone who we
Speaker 3: consider to be a true celebrity, whether they were a
Speaker 3: celebrity again, politician, movie star, or whatever. I I have
Speaker 3: a lot of funny stories. Most of them involve family members,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to embarrass family members, never to
Speaker 3: do that. But every I'm gonna get in trouble here.
Speaker 3: But but you know what, I don't, I don't, I
Speaker 3: don't care. I just think that Okay, I was away
Speaker 3: for a few days with with family members, including Mustard
Speaker 3: the dog who you've heard me or two and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be in big trouble here. My daughter has an
Speaker 3: ability to spot celebrities. Okay, maybe some of you and
Speaker 3: your family have that ability, and she can get a
Speaker 3: quick glimpse of someone, and invariably she's right in the money,
Speaker 3: right in the money. One time we were on vacation
Speaker 3: and my daughter said to me. She's sitting across the
Speaker 3: table from me, and she said, do not turn around,
Speaker 3: which means she spotted someone. And I said, okay, who
Speaker 3: are you looking at? Don't turn around. I said, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to turn around. And of course what
Speaker 3: did I do? I turned around? She said, but I
Speaker 3: think in the table just behind you is Solomond Rushty.
Speaker 3: He was the author of Satanic Verses, and he was
Speaker 3: the guy who was the subject of a horrific assassination
Speaker 3: assault a year year and a half ago. He wrote
Speaker 3: this book, Satanning Verses, which put him basically on a
Speaker 3: hit list for many many in the Muslim community who
Speaker 3: felt that he had slandered the prophet Muhammad. I've never
Speaker 3: read the book, so I don't know, but I do
Speaker 3: know that at that time they were what's called fatoise
Speaker 3: issued against him, and a fatois is a death penalty
Speaker 3: or a death sentence, as I understand it. Anyway, I
Speaker 3: of course turned around, and you know, I tried to
Speaker 3: do it as discreetly as possible, which I did, And
Speaker 3: sure enough I wish, in retrospect that I had after
Speaker 3: dinner was over, had approached him and talked to him.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I regret that because I do think that
Speaker 3: he's somebody who was courageous and a writer, and he
Speaker 3: would have been interesting to talk to. But my daughter
Speaker 3: has this ability. So last week we were we had
Speaker 3: a few days, my family and I and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, at a table just to the left of us,
Speaker 3: out of earshot was my daughter. I could see her
Speaker 3: looking very quickly. Actually, what happened was a waitress dropped
Speaker 3: a plate, and and of course whatever there's a noise,
Speaker 3: people always tend to look. And in that instant, my
Speaker 3: daughter not only looked, but she saw within her line
Speaker 3: of sight pretty famous Hollywood actor. And he was the
Speaker 3: star in the movie about Elvis Presley Austin Butler, Uh
Speaker 3: and I have seen the movie and really good actor
Speaker 3: and quite accomplished actor, but no one approached him or
Speaker 3: anything like that. There were a couple of people who
Speaker 3: asked him for his autograph. No one asked me for
Speaker 3: my autograph. That's no one knew who I was, which
Speaker 3: was great, not that they would have asked for my
Speaker 3: autograph anyway. But the point is that there are certain
Speaker 3: people who can spot celebrities. And of course all of
Speaker 3: you have at some point interacted with a celebrity, which
Speaker 3: is the way that I'm going to just introduce this
Speaker 3: and I invite you to join the conversation here and
Speaker 3: let's have some fun going into the weekend. Your celebrity
Speaker 3: might be an actor. Your celebrity might be a movie star.
Speaker 3: Your celebrity might be a politician. Your celebrity might be
Speaker 3: a writer. I could be any number of things. There
Speaker 3: are lots of celebrities in this world, a varying magnet, dudes.
Speaker 3: But I will bet within my audience tonight, we're going
Speaker 3: to have some very interesting stories. So without any further ado,
Speaker 3: we're going to open up. You know, Rob, we should
Speaker 3: really have a theme song for this Brushes with Celebrity.
Speaker 3: We do have a couple of themes, but we got
Speaker 3: to come up with the Brushes with Celebrity theme song,
Speaker 3: and Rob, you're good at this, think about it. Maybe
Speaker 3: we'll come up with something we won't do. We don't
Speaker 3: do this every Friday night. We don't do it even
Speaker 3: we do it about three or four times a year.
Speaker 3: So let's hear your story. Who is your brush with Celebrity?
Speaker 3: Six one seven, two four thirty six, one seven, nine
Speaker 3: three one ten thirty. My name is Dan Ray. This
Speaker 3: is Nightside. Who have you met? And we always like
Speaker 3: to add as a caveat tell us the good, the bad,
Speaker 3: and the ugly. If the person was really nice to you,
Speaker 3: you know, give them credit. If someone was not nice
Speaker 3: to you, me can tell us the story.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And if someone really was nasty to you, you can
Speaker 3: tell us that story. So open the lines up, Rob,
Speaker 3: let's get it going. Six one, seven, two, five, four
Speaker 3: ten thirty six one seven nine three to one ten thirty.
Speaker 3: Your brush, your meeting with celebrity? Give us a call.
Speaker 3: We'll coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side stwo years. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, we're off to a slow start, but that's fine.
Speaker 3: We're gonna start it off with Steve and Shrewsbury. Steve,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Nightside. And who is your brush with celebrity?
Speaker 5: Steve Hi dan Well, I have one, two, three, four,
Speaker 5: five six seven. I think I've told you about two
Speaker 5: celebrities I've brushed wood.
Speaker 6: One was Dwight.
Speaker 5: Evans back in nineteen eighty nine, last game of the season.
Speaker 5: I went in with a chaplain down in the clubhouse
Speaker 5: for a little service before the game, and Dwight brought
Speaker 5: me into the weight room and at twenty seventy years old,
Speaker 5: with a new infant and a wife, he asked me
Speaker 5: about my life, and nobody's ever done that before.
Speaker 3: So that was Dewey, Great Dwight Evans, who I have met,
Speaker 3: a class act, I mean just and should be in
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame in my.
Speaker 7: Opinion, Yes he should.
Speaker 5: And he went to He goes to the church where
Speaker 5: I used to go to, Calvary Christian Church in Lynfield.
Speaker 5: I think I've told you that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a great player and a great and he and
Speaker 3: his wife are both great, great folks. Who else you got?
Speaker 5: So when I delivered to Dana Fober Oh, I don't know,
Speaker 5: probably the nineties you have to go up the stairs
Speaker 5: to the dark. And who comes out and grabs the
Speaker 5: paper out of the kiosk was Rico Petrocelli, who was
Speaker 5: my brother's hero when he played My Brother's sixty eight today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, cap what you brought. What's your brother's name,
Speaker 3: first name? Will give him a shout out, Mike, Mike,
Speaker 3: all right, if mike's listening, you can tell him we
Speaker 3: gave him a big happy birthday sellow shout out. And
Speaker 3: Rico Petrocelli great.
Speaker 5: Guy too, by the way, Oh he is. Yes, they're
Speaker 5: both Christians, so they're wonderful people born again, so I
Speaker 5: have that in common with him.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: In Newton, my ex wife's cousin, Kurt, he went to
Speaker 5: this school in Newton and they had they had a
Speaker 5: Robert Parrish there that night. So my ex wife now
Speaker 5: and myself had a picture with Robert, and my ex
Speaker 5: wife had her arm in the picture. You know, he's
Speaker 5: so tall, seven feet and it looked like she had
Speaker 5: her hand on his butt, you know, could be so tall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 5: I'm at a hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, going to
Speaker 5: a meeting, and who comes out to the car with
Speaker 5: a Oriental friend. I don't know if it's his wife
Speaker 5: or not, but is the host of Dancing with the Stars. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom worked at Channel four. I knew Tom a
Speaker 3: little bit. We were kind of were working off hours.
Speaker 3: But he's done very very well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, I love him too. So when I first
Speaker 5: came down in nineteen eighty five, this gal a friend
Speaker 5: that I met. She took me through Harvard Square and
Speaker 5: I said to her, I said, that's Jim Rice on
Speaker 5: the sidewalk. So I popped my head out of the
Speaker 5: window and waved to him, and he was nice enough
Speaker 5: to wave back to me, and I thought that was
Speaker 5: pretty I must.
Speaker 3: Be a sports fan to to because you mentioned Rico,
Speaker 3: Dwight Evans, and Robert Parrish and Jim Rice. So those
Speaker 3: are four really pretty good guys and well known athletes
Speaker 3: here in Boston. My favorite Rico story, My favorite Rico story.
Speaker 3: We were sitting together at an event and he was
Speaker 3: telling me that when he was a rookie, he was
Speaker 3: batting again. It's White Wilhelm, who's a Hall of Fame pitcher.
Speaker 3: I don't know. He must remember that you were White Wilhelm,
Speaker 3: and Wilhelm was a grizzled veteran at this point, and
Speaker 3: Rico was a rookie. This would have been sixty six
Speaker 3: maybe and maybe sixty five, but apparently old gets to
Speaker 3: three and two. And Wilhelm, who was a knuckleball pitcher,
Speaker 3: tried to just sneak a fastball by Rico, uh you know,
Speaker 3: which he is, a grizzled veteran, was trying to just
Speaker 3: you know, sneak one by him, and Rico turned on
Speaker 3: and put out and put it up in the next
Speaker 3: home run, and he said as he ran around the bases,
Speaker 3: Wilhelm was was screaming at him with all sorts of
Speaker 3: words we can't say on the radio, and informing him
Speaker 3: that he will never ever again in his entire career
Speaker 3: see a fastball from White.
Speaker 1: Wilhelm exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: You know when you played, when you played baseball after
Speaker 5: high school, you know, they get all exposure to the pros,
Speaker 5: but it's not any different than you know, pick up baseball.
Speaker 5: Just just the the memories and the things that said,
Speaker 5: somebody hits a home run off you. I've been through
Speaker 5: so many experiences like that, and Tangway when I call
Speaker 5: them last Friday, I said, all right, Gary, I said,
Speaker 5: I have a famous quote, and I need.
Speaker 4: You to tell me who said it. He goes, Oh boy,
Speaker 4: I go. I couldn't run very fast, but could I talk?
Speaker 4: He said me, I go exactly away.
Speaker 3: Famous quote I can put in the back of my mind. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 3: I gotta keep rolling here, so gonna let you run. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I got to keep going. Man. I know, I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's going to be another baseball player. All right, doctor leader,
Speaker 3: thank you, all right, let me go next to Mike
Speaker 3: is in Canton. Mike, who's your brush with celebrity?
Speaker 7: Well, actually it was it was too It was Dick
Speaker 7: Cheney and Ted Copple, and so.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting combination. Tell me tell me about those two.
Speaker 7: Well, my company was we were working in in New
Speaker 7: Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and and so we we were
Speaker 7: we were powering up uh communication sites with generators and
Speaker 7: so we had we had run into some I think
Speaker 7: they were the New Yorker l a fireman, and they
Speaker 7: were saying they was we were walking they were walking
Speaker 7: to the Harrot's Hotel, which is like downtown New Orleans,
Speaker 7: and they and they said there was food over there.
Speaker 7: And of course we hadn't eaten in a few days
Speaker 7: any good meals. So we came. We followed them, and
Speaker 7: we went around the corner and up the stairs and
Speaker 7: there was a whole bunch of reporters all standing in
Speaker 7: the circle and with these like long sticks that they
Speaker 7: hold microphones on.
Speaker 3: Yeah and audio audio booms ahead, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So so one of the MP's was standing there, so
Speaker 7: I said, oh, who's over there? And he says, oh,
Speaker 7: it's Cheney And I said oh, And I tried to
Speaker 7: get a look, but there were so many people. I
Speaker 7: was no way I'm going to see him. So off
Speaker 7: to left. Off to my left was was like a
Speaker 7: buffet and there was like a whole bunch of hamburgers
Speaker 7: and cheeseburgers and stuff. And then there was this ice
Speaker 7: cold mountain dew. And I went in a hurricane zone
Speaker 7: and ice is kind of rarety, you know, it's getting
Speaker 7: something old. So I saw all that, and as they
Speaker 7: started walking over there, there was this short guy with
Speaker 7: kind of a funny ido and it was like it
Speaker 7: was Ted Copple. So I just said, oh, hi, and
Speaker 7: I said Hi to Ted. He said hi back, and
Speaker 7: I grabbed the mountain dew and then next thing, you know,
Speaker 7: I looked up and Dick Cheney was walking with his
Speaker 7: wife tour the Humbie and he said to me, oh, son,
Speaker 7: can you pass me one of those? And I handed
Speaker 7: him a mountain dew and it was just so amazing.
Speaker 7: He was like two feet away from me. And then
Speaker 7: Ted Copple looked at me and he just you just
Speaker 7: left up my because he was standing alone in the corner, Yeah,
Speaker 7: trying to catch Ted as he got into the truck.
Speaker 7: I didn't even know. I was so like just naive
Speaker 7: about it, but yeah, so.
Speaker 3: Did so did was did Cheney blow Copple off? Was
Speaker 3: was Copple all set to sort of what we would
Speaker 3: call it an ambush interview and stick the microphone in
Speaker 3: his face and all.
Speaker 7: Of that, Yep, exactly, And then like Ted just I mean,
Speaker 7: he just he started to say something and Dick Cheney
Speaker 7: and his wife just get into the hummer and left.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Cheney was was never the most cooperative politician.
Speaker 3: He was sort of the anti politician in the sense
Speaker 3: that he was not someone who was particularly gracious, uh generally.
Speaker 3: And I think the demeanor that that you saw on
Speaker 3: TV was was what you got. I had one interesting
Speaker 3: exchange with Cheney back in ninety six when he actually
Speaker 3: was thinking of running for president was a very short
Speaker 3: lived presidential campaign, and he wanted nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the media. And uh, you know, I feel that any
Speaker 3: person who's running for president who wants to avoid the
Speaker 3: media probably is not long long for the race. And
Speaker 3: you know, he's sort of the he's sort of the
Speaker 3: antithesis of of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The thing
Speaker 3: about Clinton and Trump and their success is they both
Speaker 3: love the cameras. They love to be in front of
Speaker 3: the camera, and they're both good at it, whether you
Speaker 3: agree or disagree with either one of them. And they
Speaker 3: both you know, had their own shall we say, they're
Speaker 3: with their own you know, personal personal flaws if you
Speaker 3: get on drift. But but they they loved the camera,
Speaker 3: they loved the attention. And that's why I think both
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were successful politicians. Well, Dick
Speaker 3: Cheney was was the vice president of the United States
Speaker 3: for our two terms, but he was a vice president
Speaker 3: only because George Bush, who also was fairly was a
Speaker 3: very friendly guy, not quite as as friendly as as Trump,
Speaker 3: and uh in Clinton, President Trump and President Clinton. So
Speaker 3: that's you. You you got a you got a kind
Speaker 3: word out of Big Cheney. That was better than that
Speaker 3: was more than I got from him.
Speaker 7: Well, he was asking me. He was asking me for something,
Speaker 7: I guess. But you know what, you know, no one
Speaker 7: known his resume, his background. He was just a really
Speaker 7: he was a really good behind the scenes type person.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: He was always in the back. He was always in
Speaker 7: the back. He was never really a public out front.
Speaker 3: And like, you're right, we've been a congressman. He had been,
Speaker 3: he had been a congressman and and uh he was.
Speaker 3: He was close to the Bush family, and he became
Speaker 3: vice president once George Bush, you know, George W. Bush
Speaker 3: won the nomination in two thousand and set up the
Speaker 3: Bush v. Gore race. Mike, I appreciate the call. Those
Speaker 3: are two good ones. I'm sorry that you disappointed Copple,
Speaker 3: but I'm glad you had a chance to share a
Speaker 3: word or two with Dick Cheney. He called your son.
Speaker 3: You must have been very young at the time.
Speaker 7: Well I was in my forties.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, maybe maybe everyone to Dick Cheney looked
Speaker 3: like a son. I don't know. Hey, thanks, Mike, appreciate
Speaker 3: you call. Talk soon. Okay, great, week Thank you, all right,
Speaker 3: good night, we're doing brushes with celebrity. Come on, now,
Speaker 3: let's light these lines up. Okay, this is one that
Speaker 3: never misses. People like to hear your stories. You like
Speaker 3: to sit and listen to other people's stories. Steve and
Speaker 3: Shrewsby talked about some athletes Dick Dwight, Evans, Rico Petrocelly,
Speaker 3: Robert Parrish, and Tom Berger on longtime WBZ TV personality
Speaker 3: and now of course host of Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 3: and Mike talked about Ted Copple and Dick Cheney meeting
Speaker 3: them all in a period of about sounded like thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Right place, right tod six, seven, two, five, four ten,
Speaker 3: thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty. I
Speaker 3: like to call it the good, bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 3: If you had a good experience with someone, give them
Speaker 3: a shout out. If you had a bad or an
Speaker 3: ugly experience, you're gonna let us know that as well.
Speaker 3: My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside, coming right back
Speaker 3: right after this quick news break at the bottom of
Speaker 3: the hour, as we'll take you to the weekend. Okay,
Speaker 3: and this is a this is a topic that never
Speaker 3: misses for me. So light it up, folks, coming back
Speaker 3: on Nightside.
Speaker 2: If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on waz
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Speaker 3: Now have full lines. Perfect. Let's go to Alice in Beverly. Alice,
Speaker 3: who's your Brushwood celebrity?
Speaker 7: Hi Alice, Yes, hi hand.
Speaker 9: I haven't called for a while, but I'm a professional spectator,
Speaker 9: So I'm going to tell you one of my early stories.
Speaker 9: When I was in high school and I went to
Speaker 9: a Celtics game and I never thought that there was
Speaker 9: any problem with me walking right down to the bench,
Speaker 9: you know from the second when they use to have
Speaker 9: a second balcony, because you see, I was important, and
Speaker 9: they didn't have the police in front of the you know,
Speaker 9: the players. And I went right up to Bob Coosey,
Speaker 9: tapped him on the back and I just said, oh,
Speaker 9: I know you class at fifty three. You graduated with
Speaker 9: father Malaukeey. My father was class of thirty five. Could
Speaker 9: you sign my program.
Speaker 7: And pass it down and have the other guys sign it?
Speaker 9: So it was Casey Jones, Sam Jones, I can't even
Speaker 9: remember who all the people that were signing it, and
Speaker 9: stupid me, I gave it to my my friend's brother,
Speaker 9: I mean, and he he gave it away or something.
Speaker 9: But you know, it's only an autograph.
Speaker 3: You know what. I'm not going to tell you how
Speaker 3: much that would be worth today. Okay, I'm not even
Speaker 3: going to attempt to break your heart. So wasec you
Speaker 3: did this during the game?
Speaker 9: Yes, well the games, and my friends was saying they
Speaker 9: could see me because they had a red purse. So
Speaker 9: they're up in the second balcony and they see me.
Speaker 9: I walk right down like I belonged there. And after all,
Speaker 9: I know mister Koozy because he wasn't the Holy Cross,
Speaker 9: so he's not gonna say anything to me, like you know,
Speaker 9: and I was very polite and you know when I
Speaker 9: had him found it. But then I got to know
Speaker 9: Casey Jones later on when he was a coach, because
Speaker 9: I used to go to this this bar that he
Speaker 9: was at and we used to get him a drink,
Speaker 9: you know, before a game, and we got him his
Speaker 9: birthday is May twenty fifth, we'd buy him a cake
Speaker 9: because I when I had money when I was working.
Speaker 3: The Last was this the Last Rabbi?
Speaker 9: I don't think that was the name of it. It
Speaker 9: was kind of across and I can't. It's awful, but
Speaker 9: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: When you get house. But it might have been near
Speaker 3: the near.
Speaker 9: The garden, right near the garden. It was right near
Speaker 9: the garden.
Speaker 3: Okay, and might have been the force. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of great bars down there.
Speaker 9: There's no no to the to the Scotch and Serlo.
Speaker 9: And one time I gave one of the guys they
Speaker 9: didn't have they didn't have after dinner mints there, so
Speaker 9: I brought my own and I'm in the elevator and
Speaker 9: a couple of the players said, where'd you get those?
Speaker 9: I said, I brought them myself, and they said, oh,
Speaker 9: could we have one?
Speaker 3: Good for you? Good for you? Alice love the story.
Speaker 3: I've never talked to anyone who was able to get
Speaker 3: the Celtics during the game to autograph a program.
Speaker 7: That's a great story that they were doing that.
Speaker 9: Well, then you know, well.
Speaker 3: They probably weren't drawing big crowds because the Celtics. I'm
Speaker 3: assuming that this was sometime in the sixties, if you're
Speaker 3: talking Sam and.
Speaker 9: Casey jonesph because I was in yeah, because I was
Speaker 9: in high school all right, graduated sixty six. But you know,
Speaker 9: the real people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt and Alice, you were pretty important that day.
Speaker 3: People my just said, who's Alice?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 3: Right? They have a great weekend, Happy New Year, Alice.
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, thanks, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Go to Donna in Methuen Hi, Donna, welcome next on Nightside.
Speaker 8: Hi Dan, Hi Dan. I worked for seventeen years for
Speaker 8: this man in the nursing home industry who was very
Speaker 8: politically inclined. He was the chairman of the DNC for
Speaker 8: a while, and he was very involved in Bill Clinton's campaigns.
Speaker 8: He and his wife were very friendly with Bill and Hillary.
Speaker 8: In fact, they stayed in the Lincoln bedroom. They visited
Speaker 8: the White House and stayed in the Lincoln bedroom. He
Speaker 8: called me in the office and said, I'm in the
Speaker 8: Lincoln bedroom sitting on Lincoln's bed. Anyway, I went to
Speaker 8: Bill Clinton's sixtieth birthday party in New York City. He
Speaker 8: my boss, gave me a ticket from myself and for
Speaker 8: my daughter. We stayed in the Waldorf Astoria hotel and
Speaker 8: we went to Bill Clinton's sixtieth birthday.
Speaker 3: Patty, I'm guessing I think Clinton was born in forty.
Speaker 7: Seven, forty six.
Speaker 3: I think forty six. Okay, so that would have been.
Speaker 7: I think younger than me two and six.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was around Yeah, it was around then. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I've met I've met Clinton several times, interviewed him
Speaker 3: many times. Always found him to be, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: an easy guy to talk with obviously, you know. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: I remember being in New York. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm just double checking here because I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Bill Clinton was born in Oh I got it. Where
Speaker 3: is it here? Come on, we're supposed to have all that.
Speaker 3: He was born in August nineteen, nineteen forty six. Nineteenth,
Speaker 3: nineteen forty six.
Speaker 8: You think you're younger than I am. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, so, how big was the birthday party? The sixtieth
Speaker 3: birthday party at the Waldorf? It was?
Speaker 8: It was it was big. It was big. I mean
Speaker 8: we got we got all dressed up. It was a
Speaker 8: really big deal.
Speaker 3: Good. Yeah, good for you. That's a great And.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I used to talk to Judge Stephanopoulos on
Speaker 8: the phone all the time. He was always calling my boss.
Speaker 3: Who was your boss?
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 8: Alan Alan Solomon?
Speaker 3: I know who Alan Solomon is. He just he just
Speaker 3: finished up as an ambassador. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 7: Yes he was.
Speaker 8: He was ambassador to Spain for in Barack Obama's administration.
Speaker 8: But I didn't work for him any longer. I worked
Speaker 8: for him for seventeen years until he sold U. I
Speaker 8: mean he started out with four nursing homes and ended
Speaker 8: up I don't know how many he had when he
Speaker 8: sold the company, like fifty. So yeah, it was, yeah,
Speaker 8: it was. It was an interesting It was an interesting
Speaker 8: job that I had. I spoke with Terry mccaulliffe all
Speaker 8: the time, you know, Terry mccaulliff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, former governor of Virginia.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, Yeah, you were.
Speaker 3: You were in some in some interesting that's for sure.
Speaker 8: And I was never a political person.
Speaker 7: I was not political.
Speaker 8: We used to run fundraisers, not not my favorite thing
Speaker 8: to do, but anyway, we were successful.
Speaker 3: But but Solomon, you know, Alan Alan Solomon is still
Speaker 3: your you know, around your age. He was born in
Speaker 3: nineteen forty nine, right, Yeah, he served.
Speaker 8: He taught it tough, and he taught it tough too. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Policy yeah, when he retired from the nursing home industry.
Speaker 8: Nice guy, nice, nice, great boot.
Speaker 3: He's doing very very well for himself, that's for sure. Well,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. I hope you you d did
Speaker 3: to sign an autograph of the program that night, because
Speaker 3: that could be worth something.
Speaker 8: You know what I didn't, But you know what I
Speaker 8: do have from his inauguration, and I have it right
Speaker 8: on the cod that it came on was a saxophone
Speaker 8: with the date of the inauguration. I don't know. I
Speaker 8: don't know who'd be interested in that hanging on my refrigerator.
Speaker 3: You have his saxophone or or it's a.
Speaker 8: Little gold it's a little gold saxophone pin and it
Speaker 8: was on it was on a cod and it had
Speaker 8: the date of the inauguration on it.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, hold on to that. There are people
Speaker 3: who collect stuff like that.
Speaker 8: Someday retirement, Well that would wouldn't that be nice? Okay,
Speaker 8: have a good night, Dan, you tube.
Speaker 3: Great talking with you. Good night. All right. Let me
Speaker 3: see when we get We'll get one more in here.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna make people wait. Let me go to
Speaker 3: Christian in Peabody. Christian you were next one night side welcome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, or good to talk with you, breaking short because
Speaker 6: you got others. But I was a latchmith for Triple A.
Speaker 6: This is going back to the nineties and I think
Speaker 6: it was the second season of the Superman series when
Speaker 6: they did the TV thing. And anyway, I'm working on
Speaker 6: his car and I'm having a hard time. It's like,
Speaker 6: oh bo and this guy comes out with a martini.
Speaker 6: He says, how's it going. I said, I need Superman
Speaker 6: to get this lockworked on. I can't see through the
Speaker 6: ivy because oh, he said aside. Anyway, over the next
Speaker 6: couple of hours.
Speaker 11: I had this cast one by one, growing in crowds
Speaker 11: and they're all trying to convince me that they are
Speaker 11: Superman Lex Luthor and I wasn't a Hollywood buff. I
Speaker 11: didn't know.
Speaker 6: And then at the end of all this and they're
Speaker 6: all pretty well with They're having to celebrate the Soults
Speaker 6: and I'm just like, yeah, yeah, whatever, and I have
Speaker 6: to run the card. And when I called the number
Speaker 6: and the call for the card it's something in New
Speaker 6: York and he says, oh, well, you can't have anything
Speaker 6: from them, and he explains me, really are and I'm
Speaker 6: like what. I was like, Oh my goodness, I spent
Speaker 6: two hours with this cast and they were so enthralled.
Speaker 6: Was just because I was.
Speaker 8: Not no.
Speaker 3: Hold on Christian hold on for a second, First of all,
Speaker 3: when you say you were triple A, yeah, someone had
Speaker 3: locked the keys in the car.
Speaker 6: I assume no, they had lost the keys and I
Speaker 6: had to make a key.
Speaker 3: So they lost the key.
Speaker 6: Right, and I had to create the key by taking
Speaker 6: a part of door.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, whose car wasn't Who's whose car was it? Actually?
Speaker 6: I don't remember. It was so long ago, but it
Speaker 6: was just hilarious. Now I had one by one, the
Speaker 6: proud is growing, Lex Luthor, Lois Layne, Superman, all these
Speaker 6: people were here. I'm just like, I'm just like, okay.
Speaker 7: That's so.
Speaker 3: This wasn't like a cost This wasn't a costume party.
Speaker 3: This was actually some sort.
Speaker 6: Of it was it South Boston and it was a
Speaker 6: really big place that was off the main I didn't
Speaker 6: even know what exist until But.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is was this like a costume
Speaker 3: party where people are walking out? Or was this a
Speaker 3: cast party?
Speaker 7: This was a cast party. So the cast was fair.
Speaker 3: So that's the real What to say is that's that's
Speaker 3: that's the that's that's the that's the real deal. That's
Speaker 3: a great story.
Speaker 6: Christian and I did not get a single autograph. I
Speaker 6: was just so imbattased when I really talk call in
Speaker 6: New York that they really are.
Speaker 3: Did you find did you finally were you able to
Speaker 3: create a key?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I gotta I gotta take a new job.
Speaker 3: You did your job. I like you know what you were.
Speaker 3: You were superman to actually you you did something which
Speaker 3: was amazing. Christian, this is your first time call on
Speaker 3: my show. If I ever talked to you before.
Speaker 6: You will, Yes, You're have on multiple occasions over the years.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for being loyal to this program.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed the conversation. Happy New Year, my friend,
Speaker 3: you too. Thanks Christian. I were gonna get everybody in
Speaker 3: the other side of the break. I have Dan and Ipswich,
Speaker 3: Ed and Quincy Rick and Bill Ricca. I might be
Speaker 3: able to get you if you want to call. There's
Speaker 3: a couple of lines six one seven, six seven nine
Speaker 3: back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 3: All right, we got four calls. Let's see if we
Speaker 3: can get them all in. Won't be easy. Let's start
Speaker 3: off with Ed and Quincy Ed next on Nightside, go
Speaker 3: right ahead.
Speaker 10: Hey, danil it's been a long time. I finally got
Speaker 10: around calling you back.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, Ed welcome. What's you Brushwood
Speaker 3: celebrity here?
Speaker 10: Well, one of my many brushes. It was Julie Numar,
Speaker 10: whom I met at a corn a while back. And
Speaker 10: I know cat because Catwoman. Do you talk to her?
Speaker 10: You had her as a guest on your show, and
Speaker 10: I actually called in and it was one of the
Speaker 10: lucky to you who got in.
Speaker 3: That was the Catwoman, Julie Numar, right.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, she was pushing her book at the time,
Speaker 10: and she you had her as a phone in guests
Speaker 10: on your show. So yeah, I met her at Megafest
Speaker 10: con about maybe eight years ago. She was with Adam
Speaker 10: Weston Bert Ward and she was one of the Oh yeah,
Speaker 10: and she was extually as Catwoman and so gracious as
Speaker 10: a guest and uh and and and I got a
Speaker 10: picture of her with me and uh so that was
Speaker 10: one of probably one of my favorite brushes.
Speaker 3: A beautiful a beautiful woman. And a buddy of mine
Speaker 3: who played with the Yankees stated her for a while.
Speaker 10: No kidding, Yeah, and you know she's ninety one years
Speaker 10: old and she's still kicking, and she's still active and
Speaker 10: she she she's gardens and she she's she's she she
Speaker 10: does a want. She's a very active woman for her age.
Speaker 3: That's one. Julie Numar. I never met her, but did
Speaker 3: have her on the show. And I'm not going to
Speaker 3: tell you who she dated, but that's uh, but I
Speaker 3: know about it. Well, well, she was celebrities.
Speaker 10: She was. She was probably one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: All right, and great, save save more for the next time,
Speaker 3: because I got three more callers were going to try
Speaker 3: to sneak in as well. Thank you, thank you checking in,
Speaker 3: and I appreciate it very much. Let me go next
Speaker 3: to Rick and Bill, Rick of Rick, got you and
Speaker 3: two more, go right ahead, Rick, all right.
Speaker 12: I'll go fast. I remember meeting mL Carr when I
Speaker 12: was working at Benicans and framing him when I was
Speaker 12: going to the Framingham State and he came in and
Speaker 12: I was just I was dumbfounded because they yeah, this
Speaker 12: is like nineteen ninety one or something, and he had
Speaker 12: they won many championships at Burt McHale, all those guys,
Speaker 12: and he was there and I remember just saying thanks
Speaker 12: for all you, you know, for doing such a great job.
Speaker 12: And I, you know, I know, they made him a cheerleader.
Speaker 12: Oftentimes he wasn't playing a lot, but I said to him,
Speaker 12: I have a card to you on the pistons and
Speaker 12: he and he laughed. And then the other story, so
Speaker 12: that was great to meet m L. And then the
Speaker 12: other story is real fast. Bob Lobell was doing something,
Speaker 12: some motivational thing. He went to the Burlington High School
Speaker 12: in like eighty one or eighty two, and I remember
Speaker 12: meeting He brought with him some sports players. One of
Speaker 12: the guys was Vegas Ferguson of the Patriots, I believe, yeah,
Speaker 12: running back and I got to meet him and got
Speaker 12: an autograph, and I got to say hello to Bob.
Speaker 12: And he have those commercials out where he was taking
Speaker 12: his mother alone.
Speaker 3: Bob. Bob was a great friend. He was a colleague
Speaker 3: of minut Channel four for many years, and you know,
Speaker 3: he used to live We worked together on every opening
Speaker 3: day and we always had a lot of fun with it.
Speaker 3: I was there early in the day and would do
Speaker 3: the noontime live shot. He was a great guy. He
Speaker 3: still is. He's a great guy. Talk. I'll have to
Speaker 3: have him on some night in the not too distant
Speaker 3: future and get people an opportunity to talk with him.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, I'll ask him about that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was.
Speaker 12: It was a lot of fun. And ask him about
Speaker 12: the I'll ask him about the mother in law commercials.
Speaker 12: I can't remember exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: I remember those two, I do remember those. We had
Speaker 3: great promotions departments in WBZ back in the day. Oh hey, Rick,
Speaker 3: I got to get two more into was a great
Speaker 3: guy too. Thank you much. Let's keep rolling. You're going
Speaker 3: to go to Dan and Ipswich. We want to save
Speaker 3: some room for Diana and addlebro Dan and Ipswich.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead, Dan, Hi, Dan, Yeah, I was. I'm
Speaker 1: making my bush for celebrity. I was working in northern
Speaker 1: New Hampshire teaching about nineteen ninety one. Took a summer job,
Speaker 1: seasonal job a bunch of college students, other teachers, and
Speaker 1: the last day we all met together and this person
Speaker 1: came up to pick up his daughter who was a
Speaker 1: college student, and she introduced me and he said, I'm
Speaker 1: Peter Benchley.
Speaker 10: And I looked at him and.
Speaker 3: He said Jaws, the writer, the author of Jaws.
Speaker 1: Right, older people remember, but and he looked at me
Speaker 1: and said, because he obviously I was taking aback a
Speaker 1: little bit, and that's right, he says Peter Benchley. All
Speaker 1: I said, I think was I read the book, but
Speaker 1: fast forward to the Ipswich speech and forty four years later,
Speaker 1: whatever number of years it is, I was taking time
Speaker 1: off because I always do that after Labor Day because
Speaker 1: the water temperatures is pretty warm down the Hipswich speech
Speaker 1: and I went down and there's a sign no swimming,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was e coli or something.
Speaker 13: No.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard. We had shark sightings
Speaker 1: for the for the first time in about one hundred years.
Speaker 1: That's hips.
Speaker 3: So they they brought it all together. Josh.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, is it was no longer a story.
Speaker 1: It was fun gay call.
Speaker 10: Great great.
Speaker 3: I didn't get down.
Speaker 1: There before the shark sidings, right, but okay, thanks Dan.
Speaker 3: Be Happy new Year, Happy New Year, Dan. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: last call of the night. We're gonna sneak in under
Speaker 3: the wire. We did it. We had some good ones tonight, folks,
Speaker 3: Diane and Attleborough. You did not disappoint me. Tonight, folks, Diane.
Speaker 3: You're gonna wrap it up. Gret ahead, Hi.
Speaker 13: My brush was celebrity was kind of a local celebrity.
Speaker 13: It was back in the late eighties. It was mosy
Speaker 13: to both of the Patriots.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, running.
Speaker 13: I stopped at a light in at Broke. I had
Speaker 13: my two boys in the car. It was a big
Speaker 13: band was up behind me. And this is kind of
Speaker 13: interesting because he approached me. He started They started flashing
Speaker 13: their lights, keeping their horn. I didn't know who they were.
Speaker 13: I just thought two big guys and the fuck. I
Speaker 13: was like, I'm not stopping for thee guys. Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 13: I went through the light. They kind of kept were
Speaker 13: consistent about it. I thought, maybe there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 7: With my car.
Speaker 13: I pulled over. Ye, and he had seen the two
Speaker 13: boys in the car and we had a New England
Speaker 13: Patriots bumper sticker on the car and he wanted to
Speaker 13: give me a team pitcher.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well that's that's that's a good guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good guy.
Speaker 3: I think his son played in the in the NFL
Speaker 3: as well. Dan, thank you so much. That was a
Speaker 3: great We said good stories tonight. That was a good one.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year, Diane, appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 13: Thanks to you too.
Speaker 3: All right, Rob, what do we get left here? Give
Speaker 3: me a time? All right? We got thirty perfect under
Speaker 3: the wire. Everybody done for the night, done for the week.
Speaker 3: I'm back Monday night. You can listen to night Side
Speaker 3: and Demand all weekend. If you want to listen to
Speaker 3: this or any other hour, Rob will have it posted
Speaker 3: at nightsideundeman dot com. My name is Dan ray want
Speaker 3: to thank Rob. I want to thank Marita and Karen Boussemi. Today,
Speaker 3: all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
Speaker 3: my pale Charlie Rayes, who passed fifteen years ago on February.
Speaker 3: That's why your pets are who passed. They loved you
Speaker 3: and you love them. You do We'll see them again,
Speaker 3: and I do believe you'll see them again. Thanks so
Speaker 3: much of a great weekend. Everyone. Stay warm.