Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for introing me, and good grief,
Speaker 2: where has the week gone? I was here Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday. I'm here now and I'll be here
Speaker 2: next Monday and Tuesday. Philly in for Dan. He'll be
Speaker 2: back with a brand new set of shows on the
Speaker 2: first of the year, Wednesday, January one. But I'm ahead
Speaker 2: of myself. Let's stay with tonight. You've heard this name
Speaker 2: many a time, usually towards the end of Nightside. Dan
Speaker 2: has said it, I have said it, but a lot
Speaker 2: of you just have no idea of the responsibilities that
Speaker 2: this woman has making sure Nightside fits for you to
Speaker 2: spend four hours listening to it. I have spoke welcome
Speaker 2: to this woman, and as a matter of fact, I'm
Speaker 2: going to say at least a dozen conversations I've had
Speaker 2: with her setting up my week of fill ins and
Speaker 2: the guests that I have here on night Side. So
Speaker 2: without further ado, she's now my one of my new
Speaker 2: best friends. Karen. Karen, welcome to this side of night Side.
Speaker 2: You're normally on the other side of night Side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is an absolute treat. Morgan, thank
Speaker 3: you so much for having me on. This is new
Speaker 3: for me. I'm not usually on that speaking side. I'm
Speaker 3: on the cruising side.
Speaker 2: Well I had you on what three years ago somewhere
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 3: What. Oh yeah, yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 2: It's been a while and it was time to do
Speaker 2: it again. Now right off the bat, you're one of
Speaker 2: the producers. They're a good four at times five producers
Speaker 2: of Nightside. Tell people what your responsibilities are to this
Speaker 2: show with Dan Ray.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so I actually fill in for Marita who
Speaker 3: Marita McKinnon lightning as she's referred to. Uh, I did
Speaker 3: fill in for her, and uh when I fill in,
Speaker 3: we're actually responsible for you know, we have to for
Speaker 3: guests at the top for the eight o'clock hour, which
Speaker 3: can be challenging, I'll tell you, because you know, you
Speaker 3: got to find four topics that you know that you
Speaker 3: deem interesting for the listeners, and then we have to
Speaker 3: go fetch you know, four people that can support that
Speaker 3: topic and obviously do it properly, and they have to
Speaker 3: be experts, and so you know, it can be challenging.
Speaker 3: Then you know, once we find our four guests, if
Speaker 3: we have those nails down, and it takes it takes
Speaker 3: a while. I know it takes me. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: how Maria handles it, but it takes me a while
Speaker 3: to find people because you know, if you if you
Speaker 3: think of one person, you're like, oh, they'd be great,
Speaker 3: you contact them and they're like, oh, I can't do it,
Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh, shoot, now I need somebody else,
Speaker 3: so you got to go fetch someone else. And so
Speaker 3: it's it's fun. I enjoy it, but it can be challenging.
Speaker 3: And then you know, sometimes you just can't. You love
Speaker 3: a topic, but you just can't find a guest that
Speaker 3: you know is great to cover the topic. So you
Speaker 3: can't just okay, well we've got to move on. Got
Speaker 3: to find a different topic, and well, you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a challenge, but it's certainly fun.
Speaker 3: Get to meet all sorts of new people, so to speak,
Speaker 3: because you get to you know, talk to new people.
Speaker 3: You know, you email people and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I used to you know being you know, used to
Speaker 3: work in radio, or sometimes they used to you know,
Speaker 3: be in the Boston area they're now in California, or yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of fun. Then after you nail down
Speaker 3: all the guests for the evening, then you know what
Speaker 3: I usually do is I'll write up a little blurb
Speaker 3: to look at sheet sheet for the host because you know,
Speaker 3: I'm booking the stuff, They're not really going to know
Speaker 3: much about the topic possibly or who the guest is.
Speaker 3: So you know that's it's a lot of paperwork like that.
Speaker 3: Then after you get all that paperwork settled, then you're
Speaker 3: going to go and advertise it on you know, social media.
Speaker 3: We do Facebook. Actually, Marita and Dan for the most
Speaker 3: part do Facebook live every day at four thirty, So
Speaker 3: if you ever want to tune that in, you know,
Speaker 3: you can go on to Facebook via night Side Web
Speaker 3: Facebook page and you see Dan and Marita they promote
Speaker 3: the show and there's a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 2: Did you promote yourself today?
Speaker 3: I did not. I was actually off today, Marita, I
Speaker 3: guess did the night Side hit at four thirty. So
Speaker 3: I'll be doing it Monday and Tuesday though, because Marita's off. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be producing.
Speaker 2: I was wondering how you promoted yourself, but you didn't
Speaker 2: do it to themself?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I'm kind of shy about it too.
Speaker 3: When I'm on Facebook, I'm kind of like, oh, but
Speaker 3: I love I love I love the listeners. I mean
Speaker 3: that they're absolutely you know great, you know, we really are.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say something right now, any of the
Speaker 2: regulars who are listening to night Side, you are huge
Speaker 2: proponents of Dan Ray and Nightside. If you have in
Speaker 2: mind a guess that would work well for night Side,
Speaker 2: call tonight. Leave that person's name and information, Marie I'm
Speaker 2: sure has a pencil and paper next to the phone,
Speaker 2: and just maybe you'll help Karen do her job.
Speaker 1: I'd love it.
Speaker 3: We need all the help we can get.
Speaker 2: That would be so. The phone number here is six one, seven,
Speaker 2: two five ten thirty or eight eight eight nine to
Speaker 2: nine ten thirty. Camblue Semi is my guest and she's
Speaker 2: one of the producers of Nightside. How long have you
Speaker 2: been with Besy and did you start off with the
Speaker 2: task that you have for Nightside or did you start
Speaker 2: somewhere else on the chart?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I actually I started in nineteen eighty eight. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm a little old. Started in nineteen eighty eight. I
Speaker 3: was actually twenty back then when I started, So yeah,
Speaker 3: so yeah, nineteen eighty eight. I was hired like for
Speaker 3: fill in. I was. They called it a casual employee
Speaker 3: back then, and yeah, you would fill in for the regulars.
Speaker 3: It's it's basically like part time, but you literally would
Speaker 3: fill in here and there. It was. It was less
Speaker 3: than part time work.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was very casual, so, you know, and I did
Speaker 3: what Rob does right now. I worked the board. So
Speaker 3: I was basically a board operator. We were still called producers.
Speaker 3: We're still called producers because I guess we're we are
Speaker 3: producing the product. So yeah, I worked the board. I
Speaker 3: started with Dave Maynard. Believe it or not, I was.
Speaker 2: In the morning exactly the jingle we used.
Speaker 3: To play right right, Yeah, he was. He was a card.
Speaker 3: So I started with him. It was Maynard in the
Speaker 3: morning that was like talking music, and then we had
Speaker 3: the afternoon was like Tom Kennedy and Paul Perry, Bruce
Speaker 3: Stevens the music, and then I think, I mean we
Speaker 3: definitely did some news in there at some point I
Speaker 3: can't remember when, like Gary, I mean Gary was there,
Speaker 3: Deb Lalla all them, and then evenings were like Peter
Speaker 3: Mede and David BRODNOI I you know, so I basically
Speaker 3: did the board like, like, Rob, does you just the phone?
Speaker 3: I thought, it's so much different now. I mean I
Speaker 3: walked in the mask to control the other day and
Speaker 3: it was just like a light show in there, and
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh my gosh, like what is all
Speaker 3: this stuff? It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Rob's been here for twenty five years, believe it or not.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know because I work you by seven. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, he's Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We we're oldies, oldies for goodies.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm going to take a break. You know
Speaker 2: the clock for this show as well as I do,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to take a break. When we get back,
Speaker 2: I want you to tell me some of the favorite
Speaker 2: people that you have coordinated for Dan Ray on night Side.
Speaker 2: So you think about that while we have our break.
Speaker 2: And who else wants to call in six five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine, ten thirty Please call
Speaker 2: Ty and Temperature here on Nightside eight point fifteen thirty
Speaker 2: five degrees. Now back to Dan Ray.
Speaker 1: Mine from the Window World.
Speaker 2: Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Karen blu Semmi
Speaker 2: is my guest, one of the producers of night Side,
Speaker 2: and we had a woman on hold named Karen and
Speaker 2: she hung up. So, Karen, if there was a reason
Speaker 2: that you hung up, I understand, But if it was
Speaker 2: an accident or you got cold feet, called back in,
Speaker 2: you would be the first caller that Karen will talk
Speaker 2: talk to. And Karen, I asked her before the break
Speaker 2: a guest that you coordinated, you arranged them to be
Speaker 2: on with Dan Ray, give me a couple of your favorites.
Speaker 3: No, boy, it's hard to pick favorites. Well, I mean
Speaker 3: we have we haven't array usually. I mean I definitely
Speaker 3: try to look for, you know, newsworthy or you know,
Speaker 3: things that are different. Obviously Dan has to be comfortable
Speaker 3: with the topic as well, and you know, so sometimes
Speaker 3: we coordinate that way, and we tried for the eight
Speaker 3: o'clock hour. We try not to get too like a
Speaker 3: heavy topic because it can you can't cover it in
Speaker 3: ten minutes. So sometimes it's a topic that you know,
Speaker 3: we definitely want to carry over into another hour. So
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean we've had definitely an array of
Speaker 3: different people. I kind of enjoyed. There was a gentleman,
Speaker 3: you know, after the Maui fires the Banyan tree. It
Speaker 3: was like a miracle that this you know, one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty year old banyan tree survived, and he was
Speaker 3: He's an arborist and he's in charge of, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to bring this tree back, and it is coming
Speaker 3: back fully, which is kind of giving the island hope,
Speaker 3: you know. So that was that was nice. I found
Speaker 3: him by chance because you know, I was like, I
Speaker 3: got to get an arborist, and you know who's going
Speaker 3: to answer the phone? What I call? You know, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not there are these experts. We don't have them
Speaker 3: on well I don't. I don't have a big long
Speaker 3: file of people that I can go to, I mean,
Speaker 3: because the topics are always changing. So well, now I
Speaker 3: have an arborist in Maui, but well, you know, it
Speaker 3: takes a while to build. You know that I'm.
Speaker 2: Guessing because I do it. But I've been doing it
Speaker 2: for four decades. I have no fear of making a
Speaker 2: cold call, as as it's termed meaning you doubt somebody
Speaker 2: you've never spoken to before. You want them to do
Speaker 2: something like talking the radio in front of thirty eight states,
Speaker 2: and you've got to try and immediately introduce yourself to them,
Speaker 2: make them feel comfortable with the idea of being on
Speaker 2: the radio, and I'm assuming cold calls no big deal
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, no, I have no fear
Speaker 3: of calling people asking them if they want to join us.
Speaker 3: And actually it's great because yeah, I mean, busy radio
Speaker 3: speaks for itself. Because I mean, like you said, thirty
Speaker 3: eight states, we're streaming on the web where I heart.
Speaker 3: You know, it's cute wide.
Speaker 2: Well, you've got a phone caller. I'm sure she doesn't
Speaker 2: want to talk to me. She's called to talk to you.
Speaker 2: She lives in my community of Newton, Suzanne, Suzanne, welcome to.
Speaker 5: An honor to talk to you and your guests. I
Speaker 5: have a suggestion for a light side someday in the future.
Speaker 2: And who would that be?
Speaker 5: Well, he is Daved. He was chief of psychiatry at
Speaker 5: Best General. He has stepped out, doctor Roses, but he
Speaker 5: is experimenting and had quite a bit of success with
Speaker 5: giving the magic mushrooms for depression.
Speaker 2: All right, have you heard of this psychiatrist?
Speaker 3: But Rosenbaum's sounds familiar. I don't know why.
Speaker 5: He's a psychiatry at Last General for many years. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he's and he's very well known, and he now
Speaker 5: has stepped out as chief and he's working from home
Speaker 5: much and his secretary takes boys fails from me and
Speaker 5: other people, and he understands to go to Dantucket once
Speaker 5: a year. And he's really Yale educated med school school.
Speaker 5: So I've just thought I've never taken them, but very
Speaker 5: controlled justice for depression and people apparently stand up feel.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the suggestion. And Karen, did you write
Speaker 2: that name down?
Speaker 5: I think I'll just get you to buy ice water.
Speaker 2: But don't we appreciate you taking the time to call us.
Speaker 2: And by the way, happy.
Speaker 5: Holidays, Thank you too.
Speaker 2: And Karen did you write that one down?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: I did, because now you know this is a is
Speaker 3: a hot topic right now, right now.
Speaker 2: Definitely, let you have time. I have time. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Quincy. I don't know if this is the Kathy
Speaker 2: who called before. Kathy, I can't believe it. Now that's
Speaker 2: twice she has hung up.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we're very friendly here, I promise.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I don't know if it was on our
Speaker 2: end or her. And but Kathy, no waiting. You call
Speaker 2: right back please and we'll get that you are.
Speaker 3: So that phone might be disconnecting, you know, cell phones by.
Speaker 2: What number do people need to reach you with, whether
Speaker 2: it's through the computer or office line. Tell people your information.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and you know, any suggestions or anything you could.
Speaker 3: You could reach me at Karen VI SEMMI my name,
Speaker 3: It's k A R E N b U S C
Speaker 3: E M I at iHeartMedia dot com. That's my email
Speaker 3: and I don't really I mean I have a phone number,
Speaker 3: but not to get.
Speaker 2: Ahe the email should be sufficient. Kathy is back and
Speaker 2: let's hope this time it's not a problem. So Kathy, Hi, somehow.
Speaker 6: I got disconnected there, Morgan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I am fine, thank you for your persistence.
Speaker 6: But two things real quick three But first of all,
Speaker 6: I want to wish everybody at Busy happy news year,
Speaker 6: same to you. And I want to say the thing
Speaker 6: that I love about Busy and talk radio in general,
Speaker 6: although sometimes I get upset with some of the viewpoints
Speaker 6: I hear and I go no, But anyway, it's it's
Speaker 6: it's I've been a talk show listener since the Larry
Speaker 6: Glick days, okay, way way back, and Jerry Williams remember
Speaker 6: him quite well.
Speaker 2: I did a thing on Jerry Williams earlier this week.
Speaker 6: Oh I missed that one I'm sorry. I had companies
Speaker 6: so I didn't have you on, but normally.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Alan Toles who was Jerry Williams producer in
Speaker 2: two different communities of which Boston was one, and he
Speaker 2: helped write a book along with Steve Elfman, who was
Speaker 2: another Jerry Williams producer, called Burning Up the Air. HU
Speaker 2: track that book down. If you're Jerry Williams fan.
Speaker 6: It's what was Wow, I'll have to look. I'm vision appeared.
Speaker 6: So sometimes it's hard to find some of those books.
Speaker 6: But okay, I don't know if it's available on tape
Speaker 6: or not, but that would be is it really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Where would I find it?
Speaker 2: I would call a book her company like Barnes and
Speaker 2: Noble and begin your search through them.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll put my sister onto that because, as I said,
Speaker 6: I'm blind, so I can't do some of that stuff.
Speaker 6: But I can talk to my sister and she can
Speaker 6: look it up. But I go back to the Larry
Speaker 6: Glick days, Glory Larry Glick days, every why oh Man
Speaker 6: every night, and he'd have his wife Patricia on, and
Speaker 6: one of my girlfriends got very friendly with her. Over
Speaker 6: the years. He used to actually meet her and stuff
Speaker 6: like that. But we used to. We were real glicknics.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'd get into trouble because if I was
Speaker 6: in college and I'd have to go back to class
Speaker 6: the next day, and I'd get stuck on Larry and
Speaker 6: stay up all night listening to him.
Speaker 2: There's a man I know on the radio and his
Speaker 2: name is Larry click click clip.
Speaker 6: And then they had this other one, glick Knicks, blick Knicks.
Speaker 6: I forget how that whole thing went.
Speaker 2: Don't forget Larry click lemonade, Larry lemonade, Larry click lemonade.
Speaker 6: Oh god. And then Jelly had that woman that used
Speaker 6: to call up and sing all the time. Oh what
Speaker 6: was her name? And she'd call up and sing all
Speaker 6: these nineteen twenty songs and all this, and she was
Speaker 6: I think she was born a nightclub singer or something,
Speaker 6: the music lady. No, it wasn't music lady. I forget
Speaker 6: what her name was.
Speaker 2: I wish I had Alan on now he would.
Speaker 6: Know, yeah, he would know that when he went in,
Speaker 6: because I was thinking about that. But oh, some of
Speaker 6: the people. And then, you know, I was a folks
Speaker 6: singer back in the day, and I liked all the
Speaker 6: you know, I remember calling during the all the stuff
Speaker 6: with you know, Martin Luther King and all the stories
Speaker 6: and everything, and there was a performer I loved. His
Speaker 6: name was Theodore Biquel and he's gone now too.
Speaker 2: I know that name quite well.
Speaker 6: Oh he's wonderful. I had such a crush on him.
Speaker 6: I used to go and see him when he came
Speaker 6: to Boston. And he was one of the friendliest guys.
Speaker 6: And I was into languages at the time, and he
Speaker 6: could sing, as you remember, in any language.
Speaker 3: You know pretty much yea.
Speaker 6: And I loved Israeli and Yiddish songs, and so he
Speaker 6: was one of my favorites. And I used to love
Speaker 6: it when Jerry had him one you mean Larry Larry?
Speaker 6: I mean Jerry what Jerry was? No, Larry was cool
Speaker 6: and you could do. He did a lot of funny stuff.
Speaker 6: Remember the Champagne Lady, that's the one she called. Oh
Speaker 6: she was funny, you sing. And of course when Kenny
Speaker 6: Meyer got on, that was fun.
Speaker 2: To be on with me on Monday.
Speaker 6: Oh you're kidding, Oh goody, I don't kid. Well, get
Speaker 6: what time are he going to be on? What hour?
Speaker 2: Nine to eleven?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Okay, that'll be fun. Yeah, I haven't seen. My husband
Speaker 6: went to Graham Junior College and stuff, and he he
Speaker 6: actually knew Kenny better than I did.
Speaker 5: But I went there as well.
Speaker 6: I was, oh, then you might you might have known
Speaker 6: my husband. His name is Chris and he's we met you.
Speaker 6: You came to one of the American Council of the
Speaker 6: Blind functions we had here or something someone of the banquets,
Speaker 6: and I remember meeting you.
Speaker 2: Then I do those once a year for John OLIVERA.
Speaker 6: That's right, and we were at one of those years ago,
Speaker 6: and uh so I got to talk to you that
Speaker 6: and you like my dog.
Speaker 2: Yes, I recall that. Yeah, so real, I have to
Speaker 2: take a break, so real quick.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else not that I can think of?
Speaker 6: But I love your show, and I think for a
Speaker 6: lot of people, especially those who are elders or who
Speaker 6: are alone, you bring some real community to their lives
Speaker 6: and it's something they can look forward to. And I
Speaker 6: think you're great.
Speaker 2: Kathy. Thank you very much. I appreciate that, and I
Speaker 2: hope you and your husband have a healthy and happy
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: Well you too, Morgan, and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Take care, bye bye bye, all right, Karen half the
Speaker 2: hour down, half the hour to go. Let's get news
Speaker 2: out the way so I can get you on the
Speaker 2: more people, and I'll just do time and temperature eight
Speaker 2: thirty one thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Karen Semi, one of the producers of night Side, is
Speaker 2: my guest, and I thought it might be interesting for you,
Speaker 2: the Nightside fans and listeners to hear some of the
Speaker 2: behind the scenes information of how Nightside gets brought to
Speaker 2: you five nights a week. So are you ready to
Speaker 2: go back to the phones?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Well, you've got Bill Winaker from the famous Yes.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: I just I just wanted to tell you you when
Speaker 1: you do the pregame, you make it so much fun.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a riot. You're so happy, jolly, is enthusiastic.
Speaker 1: It's that's like five or ten minutes of joy in
Speaker 1: the in the later part of the day. It's just
Speaker 1: you do a great job.
Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate that, You're very sweet. I get nervous.
Speaker 3: I'm very nervous about especially that I well, luckily I
Speaker 3: can't see everyone looking at me, but I get nervous,
Speaker 3: but I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Well, you're you're great at it, and you do really
Speaker 1: well and you make everyone want to listen to the show.
Speaker 1: You So, how many years have you been have you
Speaker 1: been at the station?
Speaker 3: Well, well, I started in nineteen eighty eight, so I'd
Speaker 3: say it's probably been about thirty six years. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so I started when I was twenty that I haven't left.
Speaker 3: I must, I must love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's that's a test of it to
Speaker 1: both you and and the company. You know, to have
Speaker 1: that longevity, that's that's so great. You know a few once, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we had a brief conversation when we were doing
Speaker 1: the Bradley J Show a long time ago. You called
Speaker 1: and set it up or something. I know we spoke then,
Speaker 1: but uh, you do great work. I don't remember her same.
Speaker 2: Yeah you name dropper you Bradley Jay's coming in at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock. Okay, yeah, in roughly twenty two minutes, Well.
Speaker 1: Said of my best.
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to give you permission. And I've never
Speaker 2: given anyone this permission where I've had them on. They'll
Speaker 2: hang up and they are allowed to call back in
Speaker 2: twenty minutes later.
Speaker 1: So I mean, and I've never done.
Speaker 2: I have never done that in forty plus years of radio.
Speaker 1: Ever, I believe that I've.
Speaker 2: Let people call in the next week or the next
Speaker 2: day in certain circumstances, but I've never encouraged somebody to
Speaker 2: call again within twenty minutes. Oh yeah, you must be special,
Speaker 2: you must care.
Speaker 1: Well. I love Karen. She does a great job. And
Speaker 1: I love you. You you you are a master of radio.
Speaker 1: I mean. And there's some you know, there's an award
Speaker 1: I want for you, and I hope it will happen someday.
Speaker 2: I'll sit and be patient. If it happens, I love it.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't, I'll still come to work the next week.
Speaker 1: You'll come to work. But you're you deserve it. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're put on the radio for a long time,
Speaker 1: and every program is fun. You make it fun. And
Speaker 1: not only that, but you're so you're you're so interested
Speaker 1: no matter who the guest is, You're able to almost
Speaker 1: be the co guests with the guests, even though you're
Speaker 1: the host. You know about everything. I've never met anybody
Speaker 1: that knows about so many different fields. Your memory is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: You know what happened this happened today. Last night I
Speaker 2: had Eryphy and doctor on Call for Action from TV four,
Speaker 2: and she called me back to thank me for having
Speaker 2: her on. Now that that has happened before, but that
Speaker 2: was such a pleasant surprise, and I told her I'm
Speaker 2: going to have her back in February because you know
Speaker 2: that it was great.
Speaker 1: We heard that driving home from a gig last night.
Speaker 1: We've heard you and Cheryl. That was terrific.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you now, anything else you want to say
Speaker 2: to Cambu Semi?
Speaker 3: No, I'm blushing.
Speaker 1: I appreciate her great work in the thank spirits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so take care. I'm not sure if I if you're
Speaker 1: really if I should call Bradley. I like Bradley.
Speaker 2: Up to you. If you want Rob, Rob will warmly
Speaker 2: accept your phone call. And if you don't call, you
Speaker 2: just want to listen. That's your option.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks so much. I love you both.
Speaker 1: You're you're both grace.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks for calling in, Bill.
Speaker 2: Thank you Bill, take your brother and your mother.
Speaker 1: I said hello, I sure will say Happy New Year
Speaker 1: Year you too.
Speaker 2: And some people who were wondering wondering if the sound
Speaker 2: of the voice reminds them of anybody, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: Karen reminds me of Sally Field from the Smoking the
Speaker 2: Bandit era.
Speaker 3: Oh really, because.
Speaker 2: Your petite and stature as was Sally Field. She had
Speaker 2: that that warm, wholesome smile on her face all the time.
Speaker 2: She was an adorable person.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm going to come on more often
Speaker 3: because all I'm getting is compliments. This is so nice.
Speaker 2: She's been curious about what Karen, who sent me, looks
Speaker 2: like I just told you.
Speaker 3: There you go, or tune in on Monday. I'll be
Speaker 3: doing Facebook Live at at four thirty.
Speaker 6: He can see me there.
Speaker 2: Let me I'll even tell you my Monday show run.
Speaker 2: Jerry Beck, who is an expert on animation, MeTV uses
Speaker 2: him for their information when they do animation cartoons. Clail
Speaker 2: Campbell a regular I've had on before. And Cleio and
Speaker 2: I are going to be talking about bands and musical
Speaker 2: acts from Boston in the eighties. Bradley Jan and I
Speaker 2: are going to be talking about that next hour. And
Speaker 2: doctor David Nathan, who I have to thank for keeping
Speaker 2: me alive. I had a hospitalization, a very serious hospitalation
Speaker 2: hospitalization twenty twelve, and he made sure that I'm still here.
Speaker 2: Breathe in Breathe Out and Barbara Feldon from Get Smart
Speaker 2: My Love Monday, that's my life Love Monday. And now
Speaker 2: I've heard the the pregame that you and me reading.
Speaker 2: There was another voice as well that that did Dan
Speaker 2: Rai's line up for an upcoming evening. Who who's the
Speaker 2: third voice?
Speaker 3: Not sure? I mean it's usually you're talking about the
Speaker 3: pregame Facebook Live. Yes, yeah, it's usually just me Dan
Speaker 3: or Marita doing it. Okay, well, I don't know of
Speaker 3: anyone else that might have done it.
Speaker 2: It won't be Dan on Monday.
Speaker 3: So no, it'll be It'll be me because I'm filling
Speaker 3: in for Marita on Monday and Tuesday, and I'm doing
Speaker 3: Dan on Wednesday as well.
Speaker 2: So the first and I'll have you a minute to
Speaker 2: answer this question. Okay, have you ever wanted to do
Speaker 2: your own show? Have you ever wanted to your voice
Speaker 2: to be the voice on radio?
Speaker 3: That's that's funny because I do get asked that all
Speaker 3: the time, you know, like, oh, have you ever wanted
Speaker 3: to be on air like full time? I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could handle it. I mean,
Speaker 3: because I think of all the I mean, you guys
Speaker 3: are incredible. I mean talk hosts. You know, you're so
Speaker 3: well rounded. Just like Bill said, you know you know
Speaker 3: a lot about everything. I know a little bit about something.
Speaker 3: So you have fun. Yeah, i'd have fun, but I'm
Speaker 3: not sure you know how knowledgeable I would be about everything.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like you know.
Speaker 2: How do you think Dane where he is doing this?
Speaker 2: Have you think I have achieved that? That across the
Speaker 2: board focus? You learn as you go along. True, as
Speaker 2: you go along, you learn and you allow information to
Speaker 2: come into you. Every day you hear a conversation between
Speaker 2: two people and you get that perspective that they have
Speaker 2: on politics, on sports, on the flavor of the month,
Speaker 2: Hollywood star, be it movies or TV. And your knowledge
Speaker 2: bank expands. You know, your knowledge bank has expanded weekly
Speaker 2: because of what you do.
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, Oh that that is for sure. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: appreciate it too. I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to whisper in Bill's here, and you know,
Speaker 2: Bill our boss, I'm going to whisper Bill's in that
Speaker 2: maybe just maybe a Dan ray Off night should go
Speaker 2: to you. Now I'm cutting my I'm cutting my own
Speaker 2: throat because no, if it goes to you that means
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get it, but I think they
Speaker 2: should give you a chance because I think you could
Speaker 2: do a good job.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I'm not sure. I mean maybe I
Speaker 3: should practice on some other station other than DZ right now. Oh,
Speaker 3: I guess I think you could do for me.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, I have fun, don't copy
Speaker 2: me because I'm late for my break. I was supposed
Speaker 2: to take it a quarter of and it's a minute
Speaker 2: after that, so let me take the break and a
Speaker 2: little bit more of karenbou sent me after these messages.
Speaker 2: Here on night Side. The time and temperature eight forty
Speaker 2: seven thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Live from the Window World Nightside
Speaker 1: Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: My name Morgan White Junior. I'm filling in for Dan. Dan.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Wednesday, the first of the year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. My guest, one of the producers of Nightside,
Speaker 2: Karen Bousemi, is here and I've asked this question and
Speaker 2: maybe with the last eight minutes of show with Cameron,
Speaker 2: I'll get some phone calls. At least one more would
Speaker 2: be nice. She helps coordinate the guests that Dan Ray
Speaker 2: interviews So if you have somebody that you think might
Speaker 2: make a great guest, you may know them personally or
Speaker 2: be just aware of who they are. Call in six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten
Speaker 2: thirty and tell Cameron who that person is and basically
Speaker 2: how she can track them down, whether it's a phone
Speaker 2: number or a website or an email, what have you.
Speaker 2: And you are going to be like an assistant to
Speaker 2: Karen Bussemi. That's a feather in your cap. And Nancy,
Speaker 2: who was sitting next to me, she is my producer
Speaker 2: on site with me here made a great suggestion. And
Speaker 2: the next time this situation comes up, I'm going to
Speaker 2: tell Bill this suggestion. Nancy said, the next time Morgan,
Speaker 2: you take a vacation, you need a night off. Now
Speaker 2: I've used Jordan in that capacity the last couple of
Speaker 2: times that's happened. But I don't miss shows. I rarely
Speaker 2: take a vacation and I don't think I've missed more
Speaker 2: than two shows in the past eight year. But the
Speaker 2: next time I do, I'm going to suggest to our
Speaker 2: boss Bill, let Cameron take over. Oh my god, I
Speaker 2: have I have an advantage. I have a come Rex,
Speaker 2: that's why I can do the show from my home.
Speaker 2: You are periodically at the Metro station location. True, true,
Speaker 2: so it's no big deal for you to go into
Speaker 2: the station. Yea. So one Saturday, one Saturday night from
Speaker 2: nine to midnight, you could do the Morgan Show tonight
Speaker 2: starring Caribou Semi and I will do this if you want,
Speaker 2: I'll line up guests, or if you prefer, I'll let
Speaker 2: you line up your own guests.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I definitely have Bill and Bow because you
Speaker 3: know they're they're fans, so I have for surely there
Speaker 3: you go.
Speaker 2: I've used them for two hours.
Speaker 6: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3: I could do that.
Speaker 2: I would. I would get guests for you because, as
Speaker 2: you know, I have a litany of guests.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I would give.
Speaker 2: Them a heads up that I won't be doing it,
Speaker 2: but they'll be interviewed by a very smart, bright part
Speaker 2: of the w b Z family, Caribou Simi.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you can pitch that to Bill. No guarantees.
Speaker 2: I know that, no guarantees, but I learned a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of years ago. You ask
Speaker 2: somebody a question, if it floats into the world, of
Speaker 2: a favor. They can eat, say yes or no. Correct
Speaker 2: either way. If they say no, you have what you
Speaker 2: have before you ask. If they say yes, you get
Speaker 2: your request.
Speaker 6: Yay.
Speaker 2: Now are there any other aspects to your job that
Speaker 2: are necessary to do your job correctly?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you pretty much have to make sure
Speaker 3: you have guests for the evening. That's that's my anytime
Speaker 3: I'm starting my day, if a topic is mentioned, and
Speaker 3: you know, if Dan or whoever I'm producing wants a
Speaker 3: certain topic covered, my mission is find a good guest
Speaker 3: to cover it, because a bad guest could be torture
Speaker 3: for the hosts.
Speaker 2: And you want to know, over forty five years of
Speaker 2: being in front of a microphone, and Bob, I've had
Speaker 2: bad guests and you know what I mean gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna name one right now.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I had?
Speaker 2: Oh tall? You what remind me that? That's what I've
Speaker 2: planned to do. But you've got a phone call, and
Speaker 2: calls take priority, So Susan and Cambridge, I'm squeezing you
Speaker 2: in to speak with karenbu Summy.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks so much. Morgan, and I'm calling actually just
Speaker 4: to second this idea that that she that we give
Speaker 4: her the Mic, because I've enjoyed this hour and for
Speaker 4: a long time I felt I mean I listened to
Speaker 4: Easy all the time, and you know, there's been great
Speaker 4: hosts over the years, talk show hosts, but no women,
Speaker 4: and we really need to start getting some some women.
Speaker 4: And I mean that's true of talk radio, you know
Speaker 4: in general, except for maybe on like you know, m
Speaker 4: PR and and you know, the public stations, but really
Speaker 4: lacking in talk rated. They're they're on the news. I mean,
Speaker 4: I love, you know, Nicole Davis delivering the news and
Speaker 4: everything like that, you know, so I don't see why
Speaker 4: they can't be when when we can't have them hosting
Speaker 4: and you know, helping to shape opinion out there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't Nicole Davis have a great voice, doesn't matter, she
Speaker 2: has a superb broadcasting voice.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, But I think Karen could could could
Speaker 4: do really well because I've really enjoyed her tonight, just
Speaker 4: her general demeanor, her general bearing, like very you know,
Speaker 4: very kind of a more chill Sally Field, I would say,
Speaker 4: a little bit, you know, take down the perky notch
Speaker 4: and but very very amiable and very just yeah, I've
Speaker 4: enjoyed you, so thank you, and I love.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, and happy New Year to such.
Speaker 4: I love you, and also for trying to promote women.
Speaker 4: That's a great idea.
Speaker 2: So thank you. Byebye, okay, bye bye, and I have
Speaker 2: just seconds to waves goodbye to you. But I'll be
Speaker 2: speaking to you next week because you and I are
Speaker 2: in constant contact. And Karen, oh, Karen's gone too. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness. All right, Happy new Year to you. Cambus
Speaker 2: semi time and temperature eight fifty eight thirty five degrees