Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Nicole. Nice to be back. Had a
Speaker 2: great Thanksgiving week, that is for sure on many fronts
Speaker 2: and in many respects that I wish all of you
Speaker 2: had a Thanksgiving week that was just a smashing success,
Speaker 2: hopefully with family and friends and enjoyed the day of Thursday,
Speaker 2: but also enjoyed some time off from your work as
Speaker 2: I did. I want to thank Gary Tangway and my
Speaker 2: great friend Morgan White who sat in last week for me.
Speaker 2: Gary was in Monday and Tuesday night. Morgan did the
Speaker 2: heavy duty of the week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night,
Speaker 2: including Thanksgiving night. Morgan is always there, has my back,
Speaker 2: and I just want to thank him, particularly for the
Speaker 2: time that he spent last week sitting in for me
Speaker 2: again including Thanksgiving night, so he spent his night not
Speaker 2: necessarily with his family and friends. He was behind the microphone. Morgan,
Speaker 2: thanks very much, as well as thanks to Gary for
Speaker 2: sitting in on Monday and Tuesday night. My name is
Speaker 2: Dan rayam the host of Nightside. A little bit later
Speaker 2: on tonight, we will have specific information for you about
Speaker 2: our twelfth annual Nightside charity combine. We do that this
Speaker 2: year on Friday night, December the twentieth, my last night
Speaker 2: of my broadcast year. And if you are involved in
Speaker 2: a charity, whether it's large or small, as long as
Speaker 2: it is a nonprofit charity. We're not talking about you know,
Speaker 2: Uncle Harry's beer fund or anything like that, has to
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Speaker 2: send me an email here at nightside. Just email me
Speaker 2: at Dan Ray at at iHeartMedia dot com and that
Speaker 2: will get you to me here and we'll give more
Speaker 2: information about that. I don't want to take any more
Speaker 2: time away from our guest. Rob Brooks is back behind
Speaker 2: in the control room running all things, and he'll start
Speaker 2: to take phone calls. Beginning at nine o'clock. We'll talk
Speaker 2: with Ernie Bach. Ernie Bach, the Great Ernie Bak, a
Speaker 2: businessman and philanthropist who does a lot of charity work.
Speaker 2: He also is going to talk to us about Trump
Speaker 2: taxes and tariffs in the nine o'clock hour, and at
Speaker 2: ten o'clock we'll talk about the Hunter Biden pardon. But
Speaker 2: first we're going to talk to you about some good
Speaker 2: charitable activity you might want to involve yourself in in
Speaker 2: the next few weeks leading up to Christmas and Hanukah
Speaker 2: and Kwansa and all the various holidays that people celebrate.
Speaker 2: I want to welcome Rebecca Gavin. She is with Dana Farber. Rebecca,
Speaker 2: Welcome to night Side. How are you.
Speaker 3: Tonight, I'm well, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Well, this is that time of year, obviously, when everybody
Speaker 2: gets involved. You are Dana Farber's vice president of Annual,
Speaker 2: planned and institutional giving, and of course tomorrow is Giving Tuesday,
Speaker 2: a global day of giving back to worthy causes. I
Speaker 2: can't think of a more worthy cause than Dana Farber
Speaker 2: Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. I guess that you're
Speaker 2: hoping to raise tomorrow upwards of a million dollars, maybe
Speaker 2: even a little over a million dollars. Tell us about it.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Giving Tuesday is a really important day
Speaker 3: of giving for us and so many charities around the world. Really,
Speaker 3: it really is an opportunity during this busy holiday season
Speaker 3: when shopping gets underway, we know people are out caring
Speaker 3: and thinking about their loved ones, and Giving Tuesday is
Speaker 3: an opportunity for charities like Dana Farber to share how
Speaker 3: we make a difference in the lives of others. So
Speaker 3: we really try to get the word out and reach
Speaker 3: out to our supporters to let them know that gifts
Speaker 3: to Dana Farber are crucial in helping us fund the
Speaker 3: patient care programs that support the social, emotional, spiritual needs
Speaker 3: of our patients and families, and really importantly help us
Speaker 3: advance the research breakthroughs that we need to move the
Speaker 3: need and find new and improved therapy for all forms
Speaker 3: of cancer right here in Boston and really around the world.
Speaker 3: So it's an incredibly important day for us to launch
Speaker 3: this season of giving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that Giving Tuesday is a relatively new event.
Speaker 2: I believe it sort of became kind of institutionalized formally,
Speaker 2: what about ten or so years ago across the country
Speaker 2: and over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually it started in twenty twelve and Dana Farber
Speaker 3: has participated for the last ten years. But it really
Speaker 3: began as a national day of giving in twenty twelve
Speaker 3: to encourage people to do good and it really has that.
Speaker 2: Last year they had a great year nationally. Again, this
Speaker 2: is not the amount of money that unfortunately Dana Farbara
Speaker 2: or the Jimmy fundraise, but nationally there was three point
Speaker 2: one billion dollars given last year, and I guess that
Speaker 2: gets their total giving over the years on Giving Tuesday
Speaker 2: to about thirteen billion dollars in total. How has the
Speaker 2: data Farber cracked the ten million dollar market at this point?
Speaker 2: You've been doing it for ten years and you're looking
Speaker 2: for a million dollars over time. How generous have people
Speaker 2: been to Dana Farber on Giving Tuesday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, people have been incredibly generous. And I will tell
Speaker 3: you it's actually grown continually year over year for us.
Speaker 3: And that's in the face of a pandemic. In the
Speaker 3: post pandemic years, you know, in spite of world events,
Speaker 3: global events, unstable economy, our giving has increased year over
Speaker 3: a year and it's really incredible. So we're expecting around
Speaker 3: five thousand gifts to be received tomorrow and it's really
Speaker 3: an incredibly generous community of supporters that help us make
Speaker 3: that difference.
Speaker 2: So how does it work tomorrow? Is there a phone
Speaker 2: bank people can call in and pledge or is it
Speaker 2: is there a website they can go to and pledge?
Speaker 2: How does this going to work mechanically for people who
Speaker 2: want to support Data Farber and the Jimmy Fund.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we try to make it easy. You can
Speaker 3: donate online. You can go to Jimmyfund dot org backslash
Speaker 3: give and you can learn more about Dana Farber and
Speaker 3: our mission and make a gift online. Or you can
Speaker 3: call one eight hundred fifty two Jimmy during business hours
Speaker 3: and make your call with whoever answers the phone. So
Speaker 3: really any amount makes a difference. And online giving is
Speaker 3: open twenty four hours and we're happy to take calls
Speaker 3: during the day. So it's a really exciting day for us.
Speaker 3: And thanks to our friends at Arbella Insurance Group, there's
Speaker 3: actually a special opportunity to make an even bigger impact
Speaker 3: this year. Any gift made to Dana Farber and the
Speaker 3: Jimmy Fund will be triple matched. So they are generously
Speaker 3: matching gifts up to fifty thousand dollars tomorrow to really
Speaker 3: jumpstart the day and get us stop much closer to
Speaker 3: achieving incredible progress in our in our mission.
Speaker 2: Wow, so let me give that website again, so it's
Speaker 2: Jimmyfun dot org org backslash simply give give E or
Speaker 2: the phone number and you're going to have these phone
Speaker 2: staff twenty four to seven beginning at midnight, is what
Speaker 2: I see. I think I understood. Is that true?
Speaker 3: So you can call one eight hundred and fifty two
Speaker 3: Jimmy during the business hours. You can go to the
Speaker 3: website Jimmy fund dot org backslash give anytime, day or night.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the phones will be open tomorrow from what time?
Speaker 2: I just want if people are going to use the phone?
Speaker 2: What time?
Speaker 3: Absolutely starting at seven thirty, people are welcome to call
Speaker 3: and we'll be we'll be manning the phones all day.
Speaker 2: And your definition of all day. Some people will say
Speaker 2: it's going to they will stop at five o'clock because
Speaker 2: that's the end of the workday. When when will the
Speaker 2: phones be open to here? I need to know that
Speaker 2: all they might need different things to different people, Rebecca,
Speaker 2: Come on, we want.
Speaker 3: To make sure that you great business.
Speaker 2: Knock it out of the ballpark. How late will the
Speaker 2: phones be open tomorrow?
Speaker 3: That's right, phones until six until six?
Speaker 2: Okay, So phones and seven thirty to six and Jimmy
Speaker 2: fund dot or org slash give Rebecca. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Best of luck tomorrow. I hope that you exceed exceed
Speaker 2: all of your wildest dreams.
Speaker 3: Okay, so much for having me. We appreciate the incredible
Speaker 3: generous community of people that support Dana Farber and the
Speaker 3: Jimmy Fund.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Rebecca, appreciate it. And we come back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about another great charity that is,
Speaker 2: certainly this time of year, very very important, and that's
Speaker 2: the Globe Santa in its sixty ninth year. We'll be
Speaker 2: talking with Linda Matchin, Boston Globe, correspondent, writer and editor
Speaker 2: for the Boston Globe. Right after this quick break on
Speaker 2: a Monday night, as we gear back up again for
Speaker 2: several more weeks of nightside programming right up until December twentieth.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody, mign My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm back here after a great Thanksgiving week off, and
Speaker 2: of course we have now moved into December and Christmas
Speaker 2: is just around the corner, and we are delighted to
Speaker 2: welcome Linda Matchin from the Boston Globe. She's a correspondent,
Speaker 2: writer and editor for The Globe. Santa Is in his
Speaker 2: sixty ninth year. My time flies Linda, how are you tonight?
Speaker 4: It does I'm very well, thank you.
Speaker 2: So is this your project at the Globe? What is
Speaker 2: your involvement? I know that you're a Globe correspondent, but
Speaker 2: are you the person who's writing all the stories about
Speaker 2: that we will see in the Globe in the upcoming weeks.
Speaker 4: Well, my backstory is that I was a Globe reporter
Speaker 4: and editor for thirty eight years, and I tried to leave,
Speaker 4: but I'm back. I was asked about four years ago
Speaker 4: if I would oversee the big the editor of the
Speaker 4: Globe Santa Project, which raises money for children in need,
Speaker 4: and the money goes towards getting them toys and books
Speaker 4: and games for the holidays when their family can't afford it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well again, sixty ninth years, so that is quite
Speaker 2: a heritage. I'm trying to remember. There was a fellow
Speaker 2: who was associated with the Globe Santa for many, many years,
Speaker 2: and I think he recently retired if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: There there was Tom Cokeley. There was a Doug I'm
Speaker 4: forgetting his name. Unfortunate Doug.
Speaker 2: To me, Well, that's okay. There were a number of
Speaker 2: you know, Globe folks over the years who have carried
Speaker 2: on this great tradition. That's what I'm trying to happen. Basically,
Speaker 2: make the point that you've been doing it for several
Speaker 2: years and over that time, some three million million children
Speaker 2: in two hundred and one communities across the Commonwealth have
Speaker 2: had their letters answered. Tell us how it works from
Speaker 2: the perspective of the kid who hears about the globe Santa,
Speaker 2: and then how does it all work? Explain to us,
Speaker 2: and then we're going to try to get some folks
Speaker 2: to help support you.
Speaker 4: Thank you well. Generally, what happens is that the family
Speaker 4: or the guardians are in one way or another connected
Speaker 4: to a social service agency, often under the Department of
Speaker 4: Transitional Assistance, but sometimes it's a church or a synagogue
Speaker 4: or another kind of organization that helps people who are
Speaker 4: in need, and they will very by the families financial need.
Speaker 4: And once it's sort of official, they're given a form
Speaker 4: to fill out and mail it to us to globes
Speaker 4: and it sort of starts. They start you off with
Speaker 4: your globes and you know, tell us your story, and
Speaker 4: they tell us a bit about their family situation. But
Speaker 4: they tell these really heartrending stories that are sometimes so
Speaker 4: eloquent that there are times that it feels to me
Speaker 4: like they're almost like poetry. I mean, people talk about
Speaker 4: their heartships, but not only their heartships. They talk about
Speaker 4: their faith. They talk about how kind people have been
Speaker 4: to them, but they're struggling, and they talk about how
Speaker 4: they're trying to get out of this struggle. But there's
Speaker 4: so many reasons for why they're in the situation that
Speaker 4: they are, and sometimes it's they've been in rough times
Speaker 4: for a long time. Sometimes they have had difficulties because
Speaker 4: of an illness in the family, or a death in
Speaker 4: the family, or a bankruptcy or a lost job. During
Speaker 4: the period of COVID, there were lots of letters like that,
Speaker 4: saying that in one way or another, COVID effected them.
Speaker 2: And so once you get the names of the children
Speaker 2: through what they call now the Department and Transitional Assistance,
Speaker 2: and the children write a letter to the Globe of
Speaker 2: Santa they make a request for a toy or a
Speaker 2: specific type toy. I assume.
Speaker 4: The children occasionally write the letters. Generally it's the grown up,
Speaker 4: although I have seen some really lovely letters from children.
Speaker 4: I mean, sometimes the children are just infants, and we
Speaker 4: have the toys are we kept seventeen thousand letters a year,
Speaker 4: and so we can't tailor each request to each kid.
Speaker 4: But through a lot of thinking and shopping and go
Speaker 4: attending toy fare and putting our heads together, we come
Speaker 4: up with some toys that would be appropriate for every
Speaker 4: age level and age and gender.
Speaker 2: I assume and all of that, and you correct, and
Speaker 2: it could be you know, if it's again a doll
Speaker 2: or a dollhouse, or a game or a baseball glove
Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, and so you've done this for this
Speaker 2: will be your sixty ninth year. How can nightside listeners
Speaker 2: they're not going out and buying toys and dropping them
Speaker 2: off somewhere. I assume you hope that they'll support you
Speaker 2: financially so you can do this. Is that the way
Speaker 2: it works most effectively, most efficiently. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Although there are people or organizations that collect warm
Speaker 4: winterware for children and donate it, and those go into
Speaker 4: the boxes with other with the toys and books and games.
Speaker 4: Going to globstandard dot com is the way that you'll
Speaker 4: find how to donate through various items we own directly,
Speaker 4: or by mailing a check or by phoning telephoning the
Speaker 4: old fashioned way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay. There's still people who use telephone, Jess.
Speaker 2: I'm one of them. As a matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: need to.
Speaker 4: Be one of the two right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's wonderful. Now. I hear whenever
Speaker 2: I hear someone say organization. Did you grow up in
Speaker 2: Canada or did you grow up in upstate New York?
Speaker 4: How did you know?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: Did I say?
Speaker 2: Organiza? Organization?
Speaker 5: What would you say?
Speaker 2: Organization?
Speaker 4: That is very subtle out but nobody's ever pointed that
Speaker 4: out to me before. I've been here for years.
Speaker 2: Whatever. No, no, no, my friend Harry Sindon used to
Speaker 2: use the word organization. That's how I figured out it
Speaker 2: was a Canadian, the former Bruins coach and general manager.
Speaker 2: That's the way Canadians pronounce organization as opposed to organization.
Speaker 2: I'm only having fun with you. I hope you know that, Linda.
Speaker 4: I'm just drug well, I'm very impressed, feel.
Speaker 2: Done, try to try to make you comfortable here. So look,
Speaker 2: this is a great cause. It's a very local cause.
Speaker 2: It's been going on now, a local cause that reaches
Speaker 2: two hundred and one communities. But uh, it's it's just
Speaker 2: a great cause sixty nine years and so, folks, if
Speaker 2: you have an opportunity Globe Santa dot com, you can
Speaker 2: get all the information you need about either making a
Speaker 2: donation or contributing gifts or you also said again, winter clothing,
Speaker 2: and certainly with the temperatures of the last couple of days,
Speaker 2: all of us have started to rummage through our closets
Speaker 2: and try to find where all that winter clothing was
Speaker 2: that we put away last spring. So you know it's
Speaker 2: it's clothing in this neck of the woods as well
Speaker 2: as in Canada is an important aspect of the holiday
Speaker 2: season as well. That's correct.
Speaker 4: But I made a mistake, Globe forgive me. If Globesanta
Speaker 4: dot org or as dot d no problem.
Speaker 2: See that's what's great about radio. We can make mistakes
Speaker 2: and we can we can correct them. Globe Santa dot org.
Speaker 2: I should have caught that anyway. But Globe Santa dot org,
Speaker 2: uh and Linda, I wish you every success this year
Speaker 2: delivering toys and books and games to local kids, kids
Speaker 2: who might not otherwise find something under the tree that
Speaker 2: Santa left for them. And and as a result of
Speaker 2: your great efforts, a lot of children will wake up
Speaker 2: with smiles on their faces on Christmas or or whatever
Speaker 2: holiday the family may be celebrating. Linda, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I stunned you with the with the organization, but.
Speaker 4: But that's I learned my news. I gotta be careful now.
Speaker 2: It's charming. It's absolutely charming. Linda, thanks very much for
Speaker 2: your time today.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity. Much appreciated,
Speaker 4: my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Imagine the Boston Globe, Globe Santa Dot. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have one more Santa theme to talk about, and
Speaker 2: that is via Santa to a senior when we get
Speaker 2: back right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 2: This is WBC in Boston. We're ten thirty on the
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Speaker 2: this is Nightside and we'll be back right after this
Speaker 2: quick newscast on a couple of messages at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the Hour.
Speaker 1: Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, we talked a little earlier tonight about Giving Tuesday
Speaker 2: and the day of the annual effort by Dana Farburn
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Fund on to raise some money. We talked
Speaker 2: last hour with the representative of the Globe Santa Lindam
Speaker 2: matchin and now Christmas not only is good for children,
Speaker 2: but it's also good for everyone, and maybe you'd like
Speaker 2: to be a Santa to a Senior program helper. We're
Speaker 2: talking with Kathy Butler. She's director of client care at
Speaker 2: Home Instead in Waltham, Massachusetts. First of all, Kathy, welcome
Speaker 2: to Nightside and tell us exactly what Home Instead is
Speaker 2: in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Hi, Dan, how are you.
Speaker 2: We're doing great, Kath, Thanks very much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for having me so be a Santer to
Speaker 6: a Senior. I guess it started like twenty one years
Speaker 6: ago where Home Instead is an international company and we
Speaker 6: have about seventeen franchises alone in Massachusetts. I'm actually in Lexington,
Speaker 6: but our owners own the Walfam office also.
Speaker 1: Okay, so just like you.
Speaker 6: Said, yeah, all the programs for.
Speaker 4: Kids, but we deal with the seniors because.
Speaker 6: Home instead provides care giver services to seniors in their home,
Speaker 6: sometimes in assistant livings and just like the title says,
Speaker 6: you could stay home instead and be safer and who
Speaker 6: can help families versus being in nursing home or sometimes
Speaker 6: assisted living And so a lot of times some of
Speaker 6: our referrals have no seniors in our areas who are
Speaker 6: isolated or don't have family nearby, or maybe not financially able.
Speaker 6: So this program is great because we work with nonprofits
Speaker 6: and gyms and stores and set up trees and their
Speaker 6: customers or their clients take bulbs that the seniors' names
Speaker 6: are on with something they wish for, and then we
Speaker 6: collect the gifts and we actually go to nursing homes
Speaker 6: and assistant livings and wrap the gifts with other seniors
Speaker 6: and then deliver them to the appropriate Sometimes some of
Speaker 6: the seniors the names come from council and agings or
Speaker 6: nursing homes, some assisted livings as well.
Speaker 2: So so the procedure is that your clients are our
Speaker 2: people who you serve throughout the year which allow them
Speaker 2: to live independently, maybe in their own home or maybe
Speaker 2: in an assisted living facility. But some of them, uh
Speaker 2: maybe don't have a lot of family in the area,
Speaker 2: and for them, Christmas or for that matter, I guess
Speaker 2: Honaker or whatever other homely they celebrate might might not
Speaker 2: be what it is for many people, and maybe they
Speaker 2: don't have they're not surrounded by family and friends. Those
Speaker 2: are the folks who I assume you're focusing.
Speaker 4: On correct exactly, yes, and.
Speaker 6: Oftentimes, like for for Lexington, we have trees where we
Speaker 6: put the bulbs and people take it at Winchester Savings
Speaker 6: Bang People Fit, which is a senior gym in Wooburn
Speaker 6: Uville Place and it's an assisted living in Lexington, and
Speaker 6: then Rockland Trust and Waltham and Waltham at the Athletic clubs.
Speaker 6: So the trees are set up there and we we
Speaker 6: decorate them. We put them up and then we put
Speaker 6: these paper bulbs on them that have the seniors' names,
Speaker 6: just their first names and last name, and like if
Speaker 6: they want a sweater or if they want slippers or
Speaker 6: they some some of the masks for radios and CD players.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure if those are still out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, so well, yeah, their radios still work, trust me, am.
Speaker 2: Radios and all that I don't know about. But radios work.
Speaker 2: We're talking on a lot of radios right now. Will
Speaker 2: you realize that they're not Kathy so uh so these
Speaker 2: so individuals who are interested. I hope you have a
Speaker 2: website where folks they have to physically go to one
Speaker 2: of these locations to get a name, uh and the
Speaker 2: the requested gift.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, yes, they so.
Speaker 2: I just want to walk them through it. If someone's
Speaker 2: interested here, what is the website is? You know you
Speaker 2: can you can run the names of those locations again,
Speaker 2: but no one's going to write them down. I'd rather
Speaker 2: just have you give me a website. I assume those locations,
Speaker 2: the different banks and and gyms, et cetera, where these
Speaker 2: trees are uh in the in the Metro West area. Uh,
Speaker 2: they must be listed, I assume on your.
Speaker 6: Website right, Yes, And and you can go to home
Speaker 6: instead dot com and you can plug in the Lexington office,
Speaker 6: or you could do Lexington home instead dot com Mass,
Speaker 6: or you could do wallfam and you could see on
Speaker 6: there there's a section via Santa Bostaus that that says
Speaker 6: where the trees are set up. And also it's for
Speaker 6: it's for people. We work with a lot of counsel
Speaker 6: and agents that identify scews to us too, and oftentimes
Speaker 6: they reach out and look at the website and get
Speaker 6: in touch with us if they want SoRs to get
Speaker 6: gifts as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the again, I'm just trying to I'm very
Speaker 2: very concrete. Okay, I'm not I'm not good at abstractions. So,
Speaker 2: people who want to participate and and help uplift someone's
Speaker 2: holiday season, do you list on the website, you know,
Speaker 2: the names of the individual. You know, Mary wants a
Speaker 2: pair of slippers, or you know, Joe is looking for
Speaker 2: a new pickleball paddle or something, or do you Yeah,
Speaker 2: they physically have to go to one of these locations
Speaker 2: and to be able to look at the tree, I assume,
Speaker 2: and then pick the name of the person and the
Speaker 2: gift that they would could most easily get. Is that
Speaker 2: the way it works.
Speaker 6: Exactly the latter. So, yeah, we don't have all the
Speaker 6: names listed on our websites, but it tells them, It
Speaker 6: tells anybody that looks at the website how the program works.
Speaker 6: And sometimes if the trees aren't listed, it's got our
Speaker 6: phone number and they could call us as well. And
Speaker 6: a lot of times that triggers you know, people wanting
Speaker 6: to know more about our services home instead and you
Speaker 6: know how we can help them. We actually get a
Speaker 6: lot of calls during the holidays when people are together
Speaker 6: and realizing that their mom or dad or their loved
Speaker 6: one is not doing as well as they thought they were,
Speaker 6: you know, at home, and that's what they want to
Speaker 6: stay at home and as well as we support the
Speaker 6: families too.
Speaker 2: But just coming back to this program. So the individual
Speaker 2: who's interested in bringing some joy and happiness to a
Speaker 2: senior citizen, we're all going to be there at some
Speaker 2: time if we live long enough. They get the name
Speaker 2: and they know what the gift is. So they go
Speaker 2: out and they buy the gift. Let's say, if they
Speaker 2: look and someone's looking for pir of slippers or a
Speaker 2: bathroom or whatever, and then they do they wrap it
Speaker 2: and bring it back to the to the home instead office.
Speaker 2: What after they buy the gift, what's their responsibility?
Speaker 6: So they take the ball, they buy the gift, like
Speaker 6: let's say that it's for Mary, a senior, and so
Speaker 6: she wants a woman's size small sweater. So they'll go
Speaker 6: buy the gift and they don't wrap it.
Speaker 5: They just put the ball.
Speaker 6: They take the bulb of the paper ball back on
Speaker 6: the gift and they bring it back to wherever whatever
Speaker 6: tree they got like Winchester Savings Bank or oh okay,
Speaker 6: there's a box there, or they put it under the tree.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then we collect them and we're the ones are
Speaker 6: the office or volunteers or like I said, I do
Speaker 6: wrapping parties at local assistant livings, and we wrap the gift,
Speaker 6: put the ball back on and deliver it back to
Speaker 6: wherever that came from, like a council and aging at
Speaker 6: that's where the senior name came from.
Speaker 2: Okay. So so basically there's a lot of the work
Speaker 2: involved in terms of the wrapping the gift and delivering
Speaker 2: the gift. The person never sees, never meets the senior
Speaker 2: for whom they purchased the gift, but they know in
Speaker 2: their heart that on that morning of Christmas or Hanka
Speaker 2: or Kwanza or whatever it is, uh, there will be
Speaker 2: a gift delivered uh to that senior uh and and
Speaker 2: and it'll warm their heart a little bit. So that's
Speaker 2: a great program. That's a great program. Yeah, I'm sorry
Speaker 2: if I if I struggled with the details, but I
Speaker 2: like to make sure people understand what's involved. So it's
Speaker 2: pretty simple. You just go to one of the locations
Speaker 2: that are listed at I assume your website is home
Speaker 2: instead dot com. Is that correct? Yes, just a wild
Speaker 2: guest there, Cally. I want you to know a good thing.
Speaker 2: I got it right. And and then so they go
Speaker 2: to a location that they're familiar with, they they they
Speaker 2: identify the gift they want to buy for the senior,
Speaker 2: they buy it, they bring it back to that same location.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's it's pretty easy for anyone who
Speaker 2: wants to make this Christmas a little more special, this
Speaker 2: holiday season, a little more special for someone who may
Speaker 2: not have the family support that a lot of people have. So, Kathy,
Speaker 2: thanks very much for explaining it. I know I probably
Speaker 2: asked more questions than I have a right to, but
Speaker 2: I want to make sure my audience understands what they
Speaker 2: can do and how much how simple some of these
Speaker 2: these efforts can be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, absolutely, I appreciate that. And we get a
Speaker 6: lot of thank you from the seniors that receive the gifts,
Speaker 6: and we usually bring them to the places that host
Speaker 6: of the trees. So it is a really nice, good
Speaker 6: feel kind of situation.
Speaker 1: For seniors.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 5: We really appreciate the support.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, Kathy, Thank you very much. Again, home Instead
Speaker 2: dot Com you can buy I can purchase a gift
Speaker 2: for a senior that may may really we make this
Speaker 2: this season special for someone who otherwise might not be special.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Kathy. We appreciate your time tonight.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks Dan, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you. When we
Speaker 2: get back, when we talk about Billy Bush. No, not
Speaker 2: that Billy Bush from the tape with Donald Trump. Billy Bush,
Speaker 2: who's member of the Bush dynasty, founder of the of
Speaker 2: the Bush Family Brewing and Distilling Company. He's an heir
Speaker 2: to the iconic Anheuser Bush legacy and an author. And
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have some very interesting things to
Speaker 2: say about the family of which he's still a member
Speaker 2: as far as I understand it. We'll talk with Billy
Speaker 2: Bush right after the break here on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on w b Z, the news Radio.
Speaker 2: Delighted to welcome to the program. Billy Bush, as I
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, not the Billy Bush on the bus with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. A different Billy Bush. Billy Bush Bush has
Speaker 2: written a book called Family Reigns, the extraordinary rise and
Speaker 2: epic Fall of an American dynasty, and we're talking Bush beer.
Speaker 2: Billy Bush, Welcome to Nightside. How are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. This is the story of that iconic
Speaker 2: Anheuser Busch dynasty, written for the first time by a
Speaker 2: Bush Air. This is not a complimentary book about your family,
Speaker 2: it would appear tell us about it.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't say it's not a complimentary book. I'm
Speaker 5: very proud of my family and for what the family
Speaker 5: has accomplished over many generations, keeping a company, a business
Speaker 5: in the family for five generations, six Bush leaders, and become,
Speaker 5: you know, revolutionizing the beer industry the way Anheuser Bush did.
Speaker 5: I think it's a great accomplish and I think I'm
Speaker 5: very proud of that, and and I'm proud of the
Speaker 5: fact that my family, we're all wonderful American patriots, hard workers.
Speaker 5: They believed in this country. They believe that hard work
Speaker 5: and determination and innovation would get them somewhere. And that's
Speaker 5: why my great grandfather immigrated from Germany in the first place.
Speaker 5: To live the American dream. And you know, and that's
Speaker 5: what we received, and the whole family is much better
Speaker 5: off for it. And you know, financially, there's no doubt
Speaker 5: about it. Now, is it all a storybook growing up
Speaker 5: in a family like us, No, it's not. And it
Speaker 5: could be. It could be difficult, It can be challenging.
Speaker 5: Sometimes business and family were indistinguishable. So it was almost
Speaker 5: like when I was raised that I was raised by
Speaker 5: a I was an employee, if you will, and and
Speaker 5: that's just the way it was. But that was part
Speaker 5: of growing up in the family. And I don't regret it.
Speaker 5: I don't treat my kids of Christy and I my
Speaker 5: wife and I have seven kids.
Speaker 2: And we raised you got a big, big family, a
Speaker 2: big brood billy.
Speaker 5: We sure do, we sure do. And uh, you know,
Speaker 5: my mom and dad had seven kids. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Seven is heaven, I guess. But yeah, now we have
Speaker 5: seven kids and it's pretty amazing. And I actually have
Speaker 5: the two grandkids with us right now. My kids, my
Speaker 5: son and his wife from California, they're living out there
Speaker 5: in California now and they're here. So, you know, big
Speaker 5: families are amazing, and you know, the thing is growing
Speaker 5: up the way I did. Uh, it was the family
Speaker 5: and the business for pretty much the same thing. We
Speaker 5: represented Annazer Bush, We worked, our home was opened up
Speaker 5: to the public, uh, to market the products at Annazer
Speaker 5: Busch Bludweiser, namely. And that's just you know, the way
Speaker 5: life was.
Speaker 2: And so let me bill me, let me jump in
Speaker 2: for a couple of questions. This I find this fascinating.
Speaker 2: So you know Budwiser beer Anheiser Busch, which everybody knows.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Saint Louis Cardinals used to be owned
Speaker 2: by Anheuser Bush. If I'm not mistaken, it was Bush
Speaker 2: Stadium for a long time. I mean, so you you
Speaker 2: you always been the beer has always been identified with baseball, correct.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's correct. My dad bought the Saint Louis
Speaker 5: Cardinals back in nineteen fifty three, and that's what gave
Speaker 5: me the inspiration to open up our home, Grants Farm,
Speaker 5: to the public because he invited the baseball Cardinal team
Speaker 5: out to Grant's farm. And one of the wives actually
Speaker 5: was Red Shandy. He's a great second baseman who played
Speaker 5: for the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: And became became the manager of the Cardinals as well,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5: That's correct. And he was the he was His wife
Speaker 5: was the inspiration to open up a grands farm for
Speaker 5: my dad. She said, you should open this place up
Speaker 5: to the public, and you know that gave him the
Speaker 5: idea and he opened it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got you. You guys had you broke broke
Speaker 2: the Red Sox Hearts in nineteen sixty seven, you know,
Speaker 2: Bob Gibson and uh uh and Roger Marrish you know,
Speaker 2: was in right field after a great career in the
Speaker 2: American League with the Cardinals, and you had you had
Speaker 2: Ken Boyer at third base. Those are the teams that
Speaker 2: I grew up with. And of course before that stand
Speaker 2: usual and I mean that's that's that's a big part
Speaker 2: of the legacy of the Bush family. Now, Budweiser is
Speaker 2: no longer owned by the family. I believe it's now
Speaker 2: a Belgian company.
Speaker 5: Correct, that's correct. It's a Belgian run by Brazilians and
Speaker 5: it's called in BEV. Well, it's annaser Busch in BEV actually,
Speaker 5: so they bought the company back in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, and I wish the Bush family still owned it,
Speaker 2: to be really honest with you. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I have contributed more than a few beers to the
Speaker 2: legacy of the family over the years as well as
Speaker 2: you know, following baseball pretty closely. Is everybody okay in
Speaker 2: the family at this point? Whenever you have a big,
Speaker 2: successful family, this oftentimes, as we've found with you know,
Speaker 2: presidential families to think of, you know, the Carters or
Speaker 2: the Reagans have had, you know, children who kind of
Speaker 2: go off and do their own thing. Has the family
Speaker 2: stayed pretty much together? You know, everybody thinks, well, you're rich,
Speaker 2: so everything's fine, But that doesn't necessarily always work that way,
Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it doesn't always work that way. And unfortunately
Speaker 5: we haven't. A lot of us haven't stayed very close.
Speaker 5: We had kind of falling out over our home that
Speaker 5: we grew up on Grant's Farm, which my great which
Speaker 5: my grandfather bought back at the turn of the twentieth century,
Speaker 5: and he bought it because you listen to us, Grant
Speaker 5: built house right there on Grant's farm, which still stands today. Again,
Speaker 5: it's the place that my father opened to the public.
Speaker 5: And we had a big kind of falling out over
Speaker 5: Grant's farm and where it was going to go, how
Speaker 5: it was going to end up, and so, you know,
Speaker 5: we're all kind of separated at this point. We don't
Speaker 5: a lot of us don't talk to each other, but
Speaker 5: you know, I will say, and I'm very thankful. Everybody
Speaker 5: seems healthy, everybody's happy, everybody has families, and so everybody's
Speaker 5: doing their own thing.
Speaker 6: Do we do this the beer business?
Speaker 5: I'm actually I am actually continuing the beer business, the
Speaker 5: beer tradition with my family. We have a small craft
Speaker 5: brewery out on our farm in Saint Charles, Missouri, where
Speaker 5: people come out and they enjoy the farm and the
Speaker 5: beauty around the farm and animals there, and they drink
Speaker 5: the beer that we make right there on the farm.
Speaker 5: We also are putting into distillery. We have our own
Speaker 5: whiskey out there, and you know, great, what's the.
Speaker 2: Name of the what's the name of the craft beer?
Speaker 2: We may have some beer aficionados.
Speaker 5: Darn right, well, the it's it's called Bush Family Brewing
Speaker 5: into silling. And the beer we make, we make the
Speaker 5: Adolphice Pilsner, which is a wonderful German pills Ar pilsner.
Speaker 5: We make the the Gussy Bavarian locker, which is the Hell.
Speaker 2: Of Fear all family names. I love that.
Speaker 5: That's correct, that's correct. But really the only place right
Speaker 5: now you can get it is right there from the
Speaker 5: from the farm itself. We're thinking about this, going back
Speaker 5: to distribution. We also make a great beer that we
Speaker 5: did have in distribution for a long time, never out
Speaker 5: in Boston, but in in Missouri, Texas, Illinois, Kansas, and Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of beer in New England. So
Speaker 2: don't don't forget us, Bill, if you if you spread
Speaker 2: out a little bit. Look, the book is called Family Reigns,
Speaker 2: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's out, it's available, And if you have an interest
Speaker 2: in things dealing with Bush Beer, Anheuser Busch, Saint Louis Cardinals,
Speaker 2: I think it's a great great uh, a great read. Uh.
Speaker 2: And I'll just leave you with two words. Dal Maxville,
Speaker 2: probably hessenl Maxville. What a great but a great second basement.
Speaker 5: And you all got to keep the New England Patriots.
Speaker 5: I know my cousin, Jimmy Orthwine bought the team way
Speaker 5: back when and he was thinking.
Speaker 2: About d.
Speaker 5: You talking about moving Tom to Saint Louis in August.
Speaker 5: My brother told him if he moves them to Saint Louis,
Speaker 5: he would he would basically be fired from the company
Speaker 5: because he was on the board at anazer Bush, because
Speaker 5: Boston threatened to boycout annazer Bush and not anyway.
Speaker 2: I remember that I have a great friend of mine
Speaker 2: from Boss from the Hodtiston area, Mark Sweeney, who played
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals, came up with the Cardinals and in
Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties and National League outfield. A great family
Speaker 2: here in New England. So we got I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know, market, all these great guys now one
Speaker 2: of your broadcasters for the Cardinals, to believe it or not.
Speaker 2: So it's a small world. Thank you much for John.
Speaker 2: Theyver get to Boston. We'll talk to you in person.
Speaker 5: Okay, that'd be amazing. Thank you very much for having
Speaker 5: me on. Take care and Merry Christmas to all you
Speaker 5: in Boston.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to the Bush family. That's for sure. All right.
Speaker 2: We are gonna talk when we come back about the
Speaker 2: car industry with another very important individual, Ernie Bach. Ernie
Speaker 2: Bark Junior will join us talking about Trump taxes and tariffs.
Speaker 2: Coming back right after the nine o'clock news here on
Speaker 2: a Monday night, December second,