Speaker 1: It's nice size Ray. I'm going you easy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Al Griffin. As we head into the
Speaker 2: twentieth and final hour of the week. Before we go there,
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Speaker 2: so what are we going to do tonight here on Nightside.
Speaker 2: This is the twentieth hour. For those of you who
Speaker 2: do not listen regularly, have never listened before, we call
Speaker 2: this the twentieth hour because it's the end of the week.
Speaker 2: It's the end of my on air week. Every week,
Speaker 2: well most every week. We do five programs Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: four hours each from eight to until midnight. Therefore we
Speaker 2: have twenty hours and in the twentieth hour, we try
Speaker 2: to get a little light going into the weekend. The
Speaker 2: topic we're going to talk about tonight in the twentieth hour.
Speaker 2: It is normally we will do things like brushes with celebrity,
Speaker 2: what grinds your gears. We're going to do a different
Speaker 2: topic tonight, and I'm going to give you a chance
Speaker 2: to jump on the topic early and as you dial in,
Speaker 2: we then will give you a quick review of all
Speaker 2: the topics and issues we cover this week, which always
Speaker 2: is extraordinary. But this weekend we revert to daylight savings time.
Speaker 2: And as I think everyone should know, sometime on Sunday morning, miraculously,
Speaker 2: the clock will move from two am to three am.
Speaker 2: That's the hour of sleep that you lose. Back in
Speaker 2: the fall, the clock sit for an hour and you'd
Speaker 2: gain an extra hour's worth of sleep. The fact of
Speaker 2: the matter is daylight savings time doesn't change the amount
Speaker 2: of daylight that we get in any given day. What
Speaker 2: determines our daylight is the time of year and our
Speaker 2: relationship with the sun. So as the sun travels, you know,
Speaker 2: in terms, as we turn around the sun, and it
Speaker 2: would appear the sun stays still, but as the sun
Speaker 2: in effect shines more because as the Earth turns on
Speaker 2: the southern hemisphere, we get less daylight. So in the
Speaker 2: wintertime it's not uncommon at the height of winter to
Speaker 2: have sunrise or around seven am and sunset in the
Speaker 2: afternoon around four pm. So in the deep dark days
Speaker 2: of December we have nine hours of sunlight. And in
Speaker 2: the summertime, when we do daylight savings time in the
Speaker 2: middle of June, we have the sun rising sometimes as
Speaker 2: close to five o'clock if five am in the morning,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't set until nine o'clock at night. So conversely,
Speaker 2: we have the most sun we have. What that's I think, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do the math here. That's three four
Speaker 2: I guess sixteen hours of sunlight. It's just the opposite.
Speaker 2: So the question is when do you want the more sunlight.
Speaker 2: I would be happy with daylight saving time throughout the year,
Speaker 2: meaning I would rather have an extra hour of sun
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. What that would mean would be that
Speaker 2: in December, instead of the sun setting at four to ten,
Speaker 2: it would set at five to ten. It would mean
Speaker 2: that we would be during the summer we would have
Speaker 2: daylight savings time, so we would still have some sunsets
Speaker 2: after eight o'clock inly, you know, late June, early July.
Speaker 2: Now there's it's kind of a fifty to fifty question.
Speaker 2: As President Trump mentioned yesterday, he was doing an availability
Speaker 2: at the in the Oval Office and he was asked
Speaker 2: by a reporter. It was a reporter from one of
Speaker 2: the cable networks what he thought about daylight savings time.
Speaker 2: This is cut number three. You'll get the question and
Speaker 2: the president's answer, when.
Speaker 1: Are you going to get rid of daylight savings?
Speaker 3: Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 4: This should be the easiest.
Speaker 2: One of all.
Speaker 3: But it's a fifty fifty issue. And if something's a
Speaker 3: fifty fifty issue, and so I could get excited about it.
Speaker 4: I assume people.
Speaker 3: Would like to have more light later, but some people
Speaker 3: want to have more light earlier because they don't want
Speaker 3: to take their kids to school in the dark. And
Speaker 3: it's very much it's a little bit one way, but
Speaker 3: it's very much a fifty fifty issue, and it's something
Speaker 3: I can do. But a lot of people like it
Speaker 3: one way. A lot of people like it.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 3: It's very even, and usually I find when that's the case,
Speaker 3: what else do we have to do?
Speaker 2: So first, of all, I'm not so sure this was
Speaker 2: passed by Congress. I'm not so sure that an executive
Speaker 2: order can change this, but we'd have to do some
Speaker 2: legislative research on that. It doesn't sound to me like
Speaker 2: the President is going to change it. There were some
Speaker 2: stories this morning that that suggested this might be the
Speaker 2: last daylight time that we would switch, because the implication
Speaker 2: was we would stay with daylight savings time. I want
Speaker 2: to hear from you. I will tell you I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's fifty to fifty. I want the maximum
Speaker 2: sun later in the day. Look on weekends, if it's
Speaker 2: an extra hour of darkness in the morning that allows
Speaker 2: you to sleep in a little better. Now, the one
Speaker 2: argument against it is that little kids are going to
Speaker 2: school in the morning and that it's more dangerous. So
Speaker 2: sure these statistics back that up. But nonetheless, my bias
Speaker 2: here is very clear. I like the idea of longer
Speaker 2: days during the worst sun year round. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I want daylight savings time year round. I don't like
Speaker 2: the idea of the sun not coming up until seven
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning in the winter. So if we
Speaker 2: stuck with daylight savings time year round. We would we
Speaker 2: would have we would have our It would still be dark,
Speaker 2: it would still be dark in the winter, but we
Speaker 2: would have some extra sunlight in the afternoon. That's when
Speaker 2: I want to maximize sunlight in the afternoon. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm That's my position, So I would like to have
Speaker 2: daylight savings time year round. Those of you who just agree,
Speaker 2: you more than welcome to join the conversation very quickly.
Speaker 2: What did we do this week? Here are just some
Speaker 2: of the topics. We talked with a gentleman named Charles
Speaker 2: Farrell on Monday, truly renaissance man man who was a
Speaker 2: jazz pianist. Also was a boxing manager. Believe it or not,
Speaker 2: how you square those two different occupations in one life,
Speaker 2: I don't know. We talked with Kathy Albert about the
Speaker 2: New England Postcard Club that's having a meeting this weekend.
Speaker 2: We talked with Brian Templeton no relation I do not
Speaker 2: believe to Mike Templeton, our producer tonight. He's a farmer
Speaker 2: from New Hampshire and is renting chickens to people. You
Speaker 2: can have a backyard chicken. We talked backyard chickens during
Speaker 2: the summertime with the unbelievable story. We talked with Kareen
Speaker 2: Karen Kareeene excuse me, Kareene Hajar Editroyal writer of the
Speaker 2: Boston Globe. We talked about Mayor Who's preparations for her
Speaker 2: hearing in washing Washington. On Tuesday, we spent at our
Speaker 2: previewing President Trump's addressed to the Joint Session of Congress.
Speaker 2: We heard his speech during the nine o'clock well into
Speaker 2: the ten o'clock hour, and then the Democratic response with
Speaker 2: Senator Alyssa Slotnick of Michigan, and we had call a reaction.
Speaker 2: On Wednesday night, comedian TJ. Miller joined us. I liked
Speaker 2: that interview a lot. Mike Van Reed talked about National
Speaker 2: Latter Safety Month, doctor Tracy Woodworff talked about get rid
Speaker 2: of those black cooking utensils. They have some plastics in
Speaker 2: it which can be dangerous. And we talked with Lance
Speaker 2: Throukill about trade wars. We also, of course, then spent
Speaker 2: three hours talking about Mayor Woo's performance in Washington, which
Speaker 2: I thought she did pretty well. Of course, the Boston
Speaker 2: taxpayers paid quite a bit of money, about six hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars prepping her and her staff. Last night,
Speaker 2: talked with doctor Laura Nasuti about long wakes in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: emergency rooms. With doctor Scott Bond, He's coming to Boston
Speaker 2: to the Wilberth Theater very soon. He does a program
Speaker 2: on serial killers. Talk with doctor Debor Cardo about anti
Speaker 2: aging pills for dogs, and talk with doctor Ardie Grover
Speaker 2: about daylight saving time. Exactly what we're talking about tonight.
Speaker 2: Last night at nine o'clock, mass State Auditor Diana Desauglio
Speaker 2: I am with the State Auditor on auditing the legislature
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. We talked about DOGE perhaps being a
Speaker 2: little bit out over its skis and their efforts to
Speaker 2: strength the size of government. They actually sent letters to
Speaker 2: volunteers medical volunteers who show up on a moment's notice
Speaker 2: to help out when a crisis occurs anywhere in the country,
Speaker 2: asking what they did last week. Well, they only work
Speaker 2: for the government at a small amount of money when
Speaker 2: they are actually going to areas of the country that
Speaker 2: have been disastered disasters. Tonight, we talked with Lee Richardson
Speaker 2: about swearing. She's a psychologist, a doctor. Swearing linked to
Speaker 2: increase pain tolerance and strength doctor Christina Laporte her new
Speaker 2: book Change of Heart. She is a cardiologist and now
Speaker 2: a novelist. Derek olivera about the ten dirtiest spots in
Speaker 2: hotel room, something to be thinking of as the travel
Speaker 2: season approaches. And talk with Brian Thompson of a ACI
Speaker 2: Weather he's a meteorologist, about those high winds today. And
Speaker 2: just spend two hours with Mark Misselpeck CPA extraordinary a
Speaker 2: tax advice for listeners. So when we get back, the
Speaker 2: only line that is open right now is one at six, one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Are you a fan of daylight savings time,
Speaker 2: meaning more light in the evening and afternoon and less
Speaker 2: light in the morning. I'm a daylight savings guy. I
Speaker 2: wish they would leave it at daylight savings and quit
Speaker 2: switching back and forth because I want the maximum amount.
Speaker 2: The amount of sunlight we get during the days is
Speaker 2: not a function of Congress. It's a function of the universe.
Speaker 2: And in the winter time we get less sunlight. In
Speaker 2: the summertime we get more sunlight. But in terms of
Speaker 2: how we would apportion that sunlight, give me the maximum
Speaker 2: sunlight in the afternoon if you're confused, feel free to
Speaker 2: call in and I'll explain it to you. We'll be back.
Speaker 2: The lines are now full. You can stop stop dialing
Speaker 2: right now. This is our twentieth hour. It's a different
Speaker 2: type of twentieth hour, but god, I think it's a
Speaker 2: good topic to discuss. We'll be back on Nightside right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phones. Let's see Laurie
Speaker 2: from Idaho. I'm guessing Laurie's gonna agree with me. I
Speaker 2: could be wrong. Let's see what she says. Hey, Laurie,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: First and in line, amaze you are dead on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I am not a learning person, mostly because I'm a
Speaker 5: night owl. But no, I would much rather get up
Speaker 5: in the dark and not have it dark at three
Speaker 5: thirty in the afternoon. So absolutely daylight saving all year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, the argument is that when you keep the
Speaker 2: light in the afternoon maximum throughout the year, go to
Speaker 2: daylight savings time throughout the year. Then in the morning,
Speaker 2: kids at the bus stop, it's going to be depending
Speaker 2: upon what time they start school, it's going to be darker,
Speaker 2: they're going to be going to school in the dark.
Speaker 2: At the same time, there'll be more time for them
Speaker 2: maybe to play outside in the afternoon. So there's a
Speaker 2: benefit for kids depending upon whatever. It doesn't change my mind,
Speaker 2: they suspect it doesn't change yours.
Speaker 5: Either well, And depending on where you are in the
Speaker 5: United States, if they turn it back to standard time
Speaker 5: in the winter, there is a point in the winter
Speaker 5: even with the clock change, the kids are standing in
Speaker 5: the dark at the bus stop. So seriously true, very true.
Speaker 5: If you're in the northern part of the United States, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, also the further the further east you are, if
Speaker 2: you're in a time zone, there's also a factor there
Speaker 2: because you know, if you're in a city like I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of maybe Indianapolis, which is Central time, and that
Speaker 2: you can have cities in Kansas with a Central time.
Speaker 2: There's quite a distance between western Kansas and eastern Indiana.
Speaker 5: So all right, yeah, it was like where I am,
Speaker 5: I'm right on the edge of the time zone here,
Speaker 5: so it's light till ten o'clock at night out here
Speaker 5: during early siven times.
Speaker 2: So oh, like yeah, I mean that is so great
Speaker 2: to experience that during the summertime, and when it starts
Speaker 2: to go away in August, you know, when all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you realize that, hey, you know these long
Speaker 2: summer nights, they're not long anymore.
Speaker 5: Now, you know.
Speaker 2: It starts to you know, when it goes past eight
Speaker 2: o'clock and it's light until eight fifteen. At least it
Speaker 2: is here now, and then when it goes back the
Speaker 2: other way, it's a short little period of time there
Speaker 2: and then boom, all of a sudden, you realize we're
Speaker 2: losing three minutes, four minutes a day or whatever whatever
Speaker 2: the number is. And then when you hit that, uh,
Speaker 2: that's that standard time change. It goes from yeah, five
Speaker 2: thirty afternoon and yeah, it's gone, and you know that
Speaker 2: you're in the dead of winter for about two months. Laurie,
Speaker 2: I got you down. I got you for daylight savings time.
Speaker 2: You're with me in this and I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, right, thanks Laura, talk to you too.
Speaker 6: Thank you all right, good night.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven thirty, triple eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: The President said that he thought thinks it's a fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty issue. I'm not so sure we're going to
Speaker 2: find out. Let me go to Florence in Massachusetts, Florence
Speaker 2: next on NIGHTSID.
Speaker 7: With Idanhi, Florence. I'm going I'm going to tell you
Speaker 7: in a half a minute, I wanted to mention to
Speaker 7: you that I come up with another twenty eight hour
Speaker 7: for the future. Just okay, helpful, helpful, helpful household hints,
Speaker 7: good cost effective ideas for people today where everything is
Speaker 7: getting so expensive. And maybe household safety ideas.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, maybe we could yeah, maybe we could put
Speaker 2: those together even.
Speaker 7: For one yet, Yes, that would make a good one.
Speaker 7: I think the callers would like that. Okay, Absolutely, I'll.
Speaker 2: Put that up at some point in the not too
Speaker 2: distant future. Absolutely, the household ideas, different safety, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about daylight saving time? Do
Speaker 2: you like it? Do you do you? Essentially the question
Speaker 2: is do you like the light the extra light we have.
Speaker 2: Do you like it in the morning or in the
Speaker 2: afternoon or in the evening?
Speaker 7: No question about it. I love it in the afternoon.
Speaker 7: I don't like this for thirty in the afternoon to yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So essentially, what it would mean is that it
Speaker 2: would be in the depth of winter. It would be
Speaker 2: light until like five point thirty, so you'd have a
Speaker 2: little opportunity now in the winter, it would be a
Speaker 2: little darker later in the morning. But I think we
Speaker 2: can handle that. So I am a daylight savings guy,
Speaker 2: and I think that it's going to have to be
Speaker 2: battled out in Congress because I think it was. It
Speaker 2: was passed in its most recent It wasn't always this way,
Speaker 2: by the way it used for many, many many years.
Speaker 2: I don't have the history in front of me during
Speaker 2: the news at the bottom of the hour, I will
Speaker 2: get that history. But it came I think it was
Speaker 2: first utilized during World War One, and then it went
Speaker 2: away and then it came back. And the thing that's
Speaker 2: great about it in the spring is that kids after
Speaker 2: the long winter can get out, they can play soccer,
Speaker 2: they can playing softball in baseball, Little League and all
Speaker 2: of that, and then it just works. It works for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you know what I can win this photo
Speaker 2: night size go ahead, right.
Speaker 7: You know what I found out, especially this winter, did
Speaker 7: I find myself doing when I'm up because I'm up early,
Speaker 7: all right, and I'm looking at the window and thing,
Speaker 7: oh boy, five six o'clock, seven o'clock. Oh, let's get money.
Speaker 7: That would I get all excited.
Speaker 2: No, I know exactly what you mean. All right, Florence,
Speaker 2: thank you much, thanks so much.
Speaker 7: We'll talk to Okay, have a great take care, all.
Speaker 2: Right, good ideas. Thank you. Okay, So again we got
Speaker 2: a couple of lines six, one, seven. You have a choice.
Speaker 2: You can have the the winter again. The amount. It's
Speaker 2: not like we get magically an extra sixty minutes of light.
Speaker 2: I think everybody understands that in the winter time we
Speaker 2: have few hours of life. Hey, if you live up
Speaker 2: in northern Canada or live in northern Norway, there's no
Speaker 2: light that you have the well the winter time where
Speaker 2: you might get the sun comes up at eleven fifteen
Speaker 2: and it sets by twelve thirty. No here in New
Speaker 2: England or in the United States, wherever you're calling from.
Speaker 2: I want that extra light in the afternoon year round.
Speaker 2: That's what I want. Let's see what Let me see
Speaker 2: what Steve the truck driver wants, because Steve is a
Speaker 2: road warrior. Steve, welcome, How are you man? How you doing?
Speaker 8: Hi? Hi? Dan?
Speaker 9: Hey listen, I got a few points before you chime in,
Speaker 9: and I'll get off because I'm a regular caller. Now
Speaker 9: I want other people to call in, but one as well.
Speaker 9: You know, Jeff Bagwell played for hot for two Yes,
Speaker 9: that's right, Yeah, absolutely. My son was a son of
Speaker 9: feeling for the Waymouth Wildcats, but he made the Hotford
Speaker 9: team back in seven o eight as a middle left
Speaker 9: handed reliever at Hotford. So I'm well aware of Hotford
Speaker 9: College and when the CPA went there made me think
Speaker 9: of my son, you know, and Jeff Bagwell at Hofford.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a it's a good school. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think the kid that the Red Sox have
Speaker 2: picked up. He pitched for the Braves and did really
Speaker 2: well in the National League, and then I don't know
Speaker 2: if he had some arm trouble or whatever, but he's
Speaker 2: kind of resurrecting his career. I'll get his name in
Speaker 2: a moment. You go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Tell me, thank you, sir.
Speaker 9: So what you feel about this, we think very alike,
Speaker 9: you know that. And I always wonder if it would
Speaker 9: be a topic that you and I don't agree on, so.
Speaker 2: We found it talk.
Speaker 9: I think this time I'm all for the tea.
Speaker 10: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Oh good, great, you I know I do that.
Speaker 9: Okay, I do that with tangwe too.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, okay, so.
Speaker 9: Great talking to you. Hey, hey, when you set up
Speaker 9: that listener brunch. When I'm on my two trip week,
Speaker 9: I get home on Saturday, so Sunday it would work
Speaker 9: perfectly for me. But when I'm on my three trip week,
Speaker 9: I get back Sunday and I can't do I'll still
Speaker 9: do the brunch, but I'll have more rest. So hopefully
Speaker 9: when you plan it, it'll be on my two trip week.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna we're gonna make a decision fairly.
Speaker 6: Soon, okay, okay, all right, I'm.
Speaker 2: Hoping that you'll be able to.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna come either way. So I just like to
Speaker 9: have a little more like another hour rest, you know,
Speaker 9: because of DSc.
Speaker 11: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: I get it. And during the breakthre I'm going to
Speaker 2: get the name of the picture.
Speaker 9: I don't know why, all right, I am too. I
Speaker 9: know I heard he's from Hoford.
Speaker 6: He went to Hartford, you know.
Speaker 10: So anyways, yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get him for you, right, Sean Newcomb, Sean.
Speaker 9: Newcomb, Okay, Sean newclemb all right.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's Middleborough. Was somewhere somewhere in
Speaker 2: that neck of the woods.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: He was really good for two or three years with
Speaker 2: the Braves and then ran into some some arm.
Speaker 9: Real quickly again against baseball. I played in the Pine
Speaker 9: Tree League up in Maine that Tangley has reference on
Speaker 9: the radio, Tom Powell. He didn't know who could really
Speaker 9: pitch fast until he faced he went to UMass and
Speaker 9: he faced Jeff Randon. He said that guy could throw
Speaker 9: fast and the curve ball, you know, and everything.
Speaker 2: Jeff ridden from Dalton, from Dalton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 9: Yeah, alrighty, So I'm on longer than I wanted to be,
Speaker 9: and I always enjoyed talking to you.
Speaker 4: But I'll.
Speaker 9: Chi it will be two miles from Chickapee terminal with Chickapee,
Speaker 9: then I'll head over the Uyork Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, man, that's gonna be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, Nukam is from Middleborough, Middleborough High School,
Speaker 2: so that's what that's what he ended. His first college
Speaker 2: win was a no hitter against Yale.
Speaker 10: So wow.
Speaker 2: His major league stats are pretty darn good and if
Speaker 2: they can bring him back, it'll be great.
Speaker 9: All right, Thank you so much, your screen caller, is
Speaker 9: really wonderful. He told me to be safe on the
Speaker 9: road like you do. And I appreciate you both.
Speaker 10: Well you time in and like that.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you.
Speaker 10: Trust all right, thank you all.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Joe screen tonight, all right, man talk soon, thanks mine.
Speaker 4: All right, see you Dan, be safe. All right.
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break here at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour. You know, we're a couple of minutes late.
Speaker 2: Here Al Griffith, I think he's doing the newscast tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll be back with Al. The only line open is
Speaker 2: six one, seven, nine thirty. Do you like day light
Speaker 2: savings time? I want to? The question simply, is the
Speaker 2: extra light I want in the afternoon year round? Okay,
Speaker 2: it's as simple as that. We don't get extra light.
Speaker 2: We only hit so much light they're based upon. We're
Speaker 2: in the northern hemisphere, as they say, Thank god we're
Speaker 2: not by the Arctic Circle. We wouldn't see light for
Speaker 2: twenty four hours for a good part of the winter.
Speaker 2: I want my extra light in the afternoon, winter, spring, summer, fall.
Speaker 2: Let's get rid of this switch back and forth, and
Speaker 2: let's stick with it. I disagree with President Trump. This
Speaker 2: is not a fifty to fifty decision back of Nightside.
Speaker 2: Right after this, You're.
Speaker 1: On night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w Z Boston's
Speaker 1: news Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, El Griffith. Let's keep rolling. Here're
Speaker 2: gonna go to Jim Hey, Jim, welcome back.
Speaker 11: How are you, sir, Dan Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. So do you want that extra
Speaker 2: sunlight in the afternoon or do you want it in
Speaker 2: the morning? I like, do you like to split it
Speaker 2: up the way we're doing it now?
Speaker 11: I'm indifferent, and I'm very concerned about what other people
Speaker 11: need and what other people want, And so I'll just
Speaker 11: tell you Dan, very few people I think are aware
Speaker 11: of this, but this came This comes up a lot.
Speaker 11: And according to farmer Dave Schumacher, who does a farm
Speaker 11: show on AM five point fifty over by Saint Louis,
Speaker 11: and he has a vegetable farm over on the east
Speaker 11: side in Illinois. It's a very very fertile ground. They
Speaker 11: go a lot of vegetables. He says that dairy farmers
Speaker 11: need that that daylight in the morning in order to
Speaker 11: milk the cows. And I don't know if he was
Speaker 11: joking around about this, but he says that if those
Speaker 11: cows don't get milked, their their nipples will actually explode. So,
Speaker 11: I mean, I think milk and dairy farming is one
Speaker 11: of the few ways where people are getting nutrition in
Speaker 11: this country. So I mean, I mean, I personally don't care.
Speaker 11: We're always pushing it the business that I'm in, we
Speaker 11: always push it for you know, for daylight anyway. But
Speaker 11: I think for those dairy farmers and for farmers in general,
Speaker 11: they need that right in the daytime in the morning, well.
Speaker 2: The milk and the cows at three and four in
Speaker 2: the morning, I believe, in my opinion.
Speaker 11: I don't Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 11: he was joking around about it, but he said, and people,
Speaker 11: I think misunderstand farming. We're not talking about one farmer
Speaker 11: with twenty or thirty cows. These a lot of these
Speaker 11: dairy farms I think have maybe twenty or thirty thousand
Speaker 11: cows on them. Some of these chicken farms have like
Speaker 11: a million chickens. If one chicken gets the burdens through,
Speaker 11: all million chickens have to be killed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, little a little far from where we are, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put you down as even though you're indifferent, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put you down on the side of the dairy farmers.
Speaker 2: Fair enough.
Speaker 11: Leave it alone.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a leave it alone. I'm tutting down is
Speaker 2: leave it alone? Okay?
Speaker 11: You have you have pack lines? Yeah, got pack lines?
Speaker 11: All right, get to the next one.
Speaker 2: Sure will. Thanks very much for the permission to do that. Jim,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Okay, let's keep rolling here. Jim is one
Speaker 2: of my interesting callers. Let me go to Ken from Leminster.
Speaker 2: Ken from Leminster, Welcome Ken. How are you tonight?
Speaker 10: I'm great, Dan. How you doing good?
Speaker 2: What do you think? I'm a daylight savings guy year round?
Speaker 2: Let's let's save that.
Speaker 10: I'm with you. I am with you. But if you're
Speaker 10: looking at this hour as a scientific inquiry, it's a
Speaker 10: little bit skewed because we're all night owls here, remember,
Speaker 10: yeah right, yeah, no, I hear you.
Speaker 2: But I just think that I guess there's there's one
Speaker 2: two states apparently I do not comply with changing here.
Speaker 2: I don't know Arizona, Hawaii and maybe part of Alaska,
Speaker 2: and I think that there was I'm just going through
Speaker 2: all I guess I got to read this during the break.
Speaker 2: There's some sort of a Sunshine Protection Act passed by yeah,
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, passed by by the Senate. It
Speaker 2: was not passed by the House of Representatives. So I
Speaker 2: don't think the president can change this without the agreement
Speaker 2: of Congress.
Speaker 10: To be honest with you, well, I you know, I
Speaker 10: hope that it gets changed, but it probably won't. I'm
Speaker 10: sixty three years old and we've been talking about this
Speaker 10: as far back as I can run.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, yeah. The interesting thing was that I
Speaker 2: learned today was that this all started during the during
Speaker 2: I guess from World War One to nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 2: so for fifty years. Uh, it was all because of
Speaker 2: an effort to concern conserve fuel. Well, times have changed
Speaker 2: since then. Again, I think I think most people are confused.
Speaker 2: I think that people actually think that somehow we get
Speaker 2: an extra hour of sunshine. You know, the amount of
Speaker 2: sunshine doesn't change.
Speaker 10: No, I know that, Dan, you know, strictly speaking, it doesn't,
Speaker 10: but effectively and practically it does because again for all
Speaker 10: of people who aren't mourning, people who sees who cares
Speaker 10: about the sun in the morning.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the way I feel that. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I just didn't have it stay
Speaker 2: darker in the morning so on Saturday and Sunday I
Speaker 2: can sleep in a little later.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that grateful dead sow where Jerry Garcia says, you know,
Speaker 10: draw the curtains, curse the glare, yes, light a candle. H.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing that I hate it. Even if they
Speaker 10: were to settled in one or the other, that would
Speaker 10: make me happy, because I hate this going back and
Speaker 10: forth and losing the hour. Absolutely can't stand because it
Speaker 10: always seems to happen at the worst possible weekend in
Speaker 10: the whole year, where I've got theater tickets and i
Speaker 10: got to go into Boston and it's a late night
Speaker 10: and then I got to get up early the next morning.
Speaker 10: It never fails.
Speaker 2: So well, well, you got to buy your theater tickets
Speaker 2: in October, then, because or that you'll pick up the
Speaker 2: hour of sleep in the You get the extra hour
Speaker 2: of sleep in October. You'll lose it this this weekend.
Speaker 2: But the payoff, even though you lose it this weekend,
Speaker 2: the payoff is we'll have some longer summer nights, which
Speaker 2: is what I'm talking about. Can help me call it?
Speaker 2: Have you called before. I don't recognize the name from Lemonster.
Speaker 10: I do call usually call this time of year because
Speaker 10: quite honestly, you're my salvation Dan, because I give up
Speaker 10: television during Lynch.
Speaker 2: Well, thank god for that. Never give up Nightside though.
Speaker 10: Okay, oh no, you never retire either, Dan.
Speaker 2: Your brain will be better off after forty days or
Speaker 2: forty nights of Nightside. Thank you so much, Ken, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Have a great one. Okay, good night. I
Speaker 2: love that call. I loved that call. Let's keep rolling here,
Speaker 2: Gonna go to Kim in Woburn. Hey, Kim, you're next
Speaker 2: on Nightside. Where do you fall in this great debate?
Speaker 6: I'm daylight saving time all the way.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm with you. We are winning this
Speaker 2: thing big time. I want you to know. Jim was
Speaker 2: like the only dissenter. He simply said leave it alone.
Speaker 2: He's kind of half and half. But everybody else has
Speaker 2: been with us to keep daylight savings time.
Speaker 4: Me right, I'm a mason.
Speaker 6: I work outside, and there's an old thing you gotta
Speaker 6: make it when the sun shines. I wish it was
Speaker 6: daylight stayer in time all year.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly what we're saying. Okay, So what that
Speaker 2: would mean is that in the wintertime, you would you'd
Speaker 2: be starting at you know, eight thirty, you'd still have
Speaker 2: a little bit of light. Light would be coming up
Speaker 2: right the worst wintertime, but then you're going to have,
Speaker 2: you know, more sunshine all throughout the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Once you once, once you get if it's stay daylight
Speaker 2: savings time, you'd probably it would the latest it would
Speaker 2: it would be dark would be in the middle of December,
Speaker 2: and it would be five thirty as opposed to four
Speaker 2: thirty or five fifteen as opposed to four fifteen. So
Speaker 2: you would have as a mason, you're a nine to
Speaker 2: five or eight to five guy, this would work perfectly
Speaker 2: for you. Do you do the big stone walls or
Speaker 2: do you do you know, you know what I would
Speaker 2: think of visiting?
Speaker 6: I do, Uh stone is my specialty. I do stone walls,
Speaker 6: cemented dry anything, any type of stone, blasted legsfield stone,
Speaker 6: I do, chimney, I do says I do, uh patios.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you I have some friends of mine
Speaker 2: who are masons, as a buddy of mine, Mark McCullough. Uh,
Speaker 2: they are, They're they're the best people. I have another friend,
Speaker 2: Robert Derrimo, who's a little west of lives out in Sherborne.
Speaker 2: Great people. I don't know what it is, but I've
Speaker 2: never met a mason who works with their hands who
Speaker 2: I haven't really liked as a person, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when you when you got my uh, when you
Speaker 6: got my when I came on you call me Tim.
Speaker 6: I'm Tim McMahon from Wolgan. Do you remember you gave
Speaker 6: me the night Side cup?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, yeah, I'm sorry I should
Speaker 2: have figured it was Tim, but but it came up
Speaker 2: as Kim. But yeah, absolutely Tim. And we're gonna at
Speaker 2: some point have that cup of coffee. Trust me on that. Okay,
Speaker 2: I remember you.
Speaker 6: Well, that would be great.
Speaker 9: I like I.
Speaker 6: Really like nice side, Dan Ray, the Voice of Reason Peer.
Speaker 2: All right, Tim, I like you too as well.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 6: Enjoy okay, okay, Man, thank you, Thanks Tim, Good.
Speaker 2: Night, great guy. Quick break, coming right back. I'm getting Karen, Steve,
Speaker 2: Charlie and Glenn. You are going to get in, I promise,
Speaker 2: coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Nightside studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Our lines are packed. I have five callers, so I'm
Speaker 2: gonna ask everybody, no longer than a minute and a half,
Speaker 2: are you for daylight savings time, which means more light
Speaker 2: later in the day year round. Let's go to Karen
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. Karen, where you stand or wady you sit
Speaker 2: on this one?
Speaker 12: Karen, I'm with Jim, don't spoil it. I'm from I'm
Speaker 12: from the farm land, so we need I want darkness
Speaker 12: year round, you know. But I realized that the we're
Speaker 12: going to have to at some point, but it doesn't
Speaker 12: have to be so prop If they left it alone,
Speaker 12: it would be a slower you know, not.
Speaker 2: Okay, So when you say leave it alone, you don't
Speaker 2: mind switching an hour forward in March and then an
Speaker 2: hour back spring forward in March fall back.
Speaker 12: I just rather have it stayed dark as long as possible,
Speaker 12: whatever that would be.
Speaker 2: You know, we can't keep it. We only have so
Speaker 2: many hours to the day. It's how we spread them out.
Speaker 12: I just like darkness. So if so, I'm going to
Speaker 12: be with the spoiler there that don't soil alone.
Speaker 2: You will leave it the loan vote? Okay, thanks Garret.
Speaker 12: And they hid Hi Jack Card. Okay, bye, Dan.
Speaker 2: Tank got you. We got that in for you, no problem.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go next to Glenn. Glenn, we gotta be
Speaker 2: a little quick.
Speaker 4: Glenn, answer me and some brainer summertime forever. Oh yeah
Speaker 4: you daylight tall with you? Yeah, yeah, I remember night and.
Speaker 2: You with me, Laurie with with Laurie from my floor,
Speaker 2: Steve in the truck, Ken and Lemons and Tim and Woburn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean well, I I remember nineteen seventy four
Speaker 4: when we tried it in the winter. I remember it's
Speaker 4: they got lighter around just a little before eight, but
Speaker 4: it didn't get dark to a little left of five
Speaker 4: thirty in January. No, that was.
Speaker 2: Probably the same fuel, I assume.
Speaker 4: Maybe yeah, with the energy crisis. Yep.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, we got you in there, Glenn. Thank
Speaker 2: you much, my friend. We'll talk to you. It's good weekend.
Speaker 2: Let's go next to Charlie from Natick. Hey, Charlie, welcome
Speaker 2: and next on nightside.
Speaker 8: My named Dan, Charlie. I'm a dissenter. Okay, Well, Farming
Speaker 8: went on to do twenty years in the Navy. I'm
Speaker 8: early to bed, early to rise. I would stay on
Speaker 8: standard time year round if I could.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, so that's really different. So you're a standard
Speaker 2: You're the first guy who said standard time. So wait
Speaker 2: a second. That means in the spring, kids would have
Speaker 2: to finish their little league games by seven o'clock. They've
Speaker 2: get maybe three innings.
Speaker 6: In right, mm hmm, no kids, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Everybody comes at everything from a different point of view.
Speaker 2: So you're a standard time guy. Okay. Why does your
Speaker 2: time in the navy influence that you? Or you mentioned
Speaker 2: being in the name.
Speaker 8: Thank you for sar wise, I mean the military. So
Speaker 8: you get up a day dark.
Speaker 2: Thirty, healthy, wealthy and wise like that? All right, Georgia,
Speaker 2: you said you did twenty years. Good for you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: saw the world?
Speaker 8: Huh, No, though I ever loved South America.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's all always time. There's always time. Charlie,
Speaker 2: thank you very much for your call. Have you called before?
Speaker 2: I suspect this is my first.
Speaker 8: Time, but I used to be Charlie from Leston.
Speaker 2: Wow. So now okay, so we can't give you a
Speaker 2: round of applause, but that's okay. Thanks very much for
Speaker 2: continuing to listen. Charlie, have a good one.
Speaker 6: Okay, Thank you too.
Speaker 2: Thanks, my friend. Have a great weekend. All right. So
Speaker 2: we got to say staying alone, leave it alone, one
Speaker 2: says standard time, and I think we got at this
Speaker 2: point one, two, three, four, five six. I agree with me.
Speaker 2: More light late in the day. Let's get it two
Speaker 2: more in here real quickly. Steve up in New Hampshire. Steve,
Speaker 2: give us your vote.
Speaker 13: Dan, thank good, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 4: How are you good? Good week?
Speaker 13: I liked your Mayo Wu topic.
Speaker 10: You're earlier this week too.
Speaker 13: By the way, I just want to say, yeah, I
Speaker 13: did a good week.
Speaker 10: I like that.
Speaker 13: I just want to say I can't agree with you
Speaker 13: on this, and I'll give you the reasons why. Number One,
Speaker 13: most people, at least some people are not mourning people.
Speaker 13: And if you have no daylight savings time, you're going
Speaker 13: to have eight fifteen sunrise in December, and there's going
Speaker 13: to be a lot of drowsy drivers. They will there's
Speaker 13: a lot of kiddies waiting for the bus stop in
Speaker 13: the morning. I hate to see somebody get hurt or
Speaker 13: killed along those lines. The second thing I wanted to
Speaker 13: bring up was how about you know, changing the batteries
Speaker 13: in your smoke detectors. They do it every they always
Speaker 13: remind you to do it at that particular time time,
Speaker 13: so that might save a fire and save a life
Speaker 13: that way.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the other thing, so see, do you want
Speaker 2: to leave it alone or do.
Speaker 5: You want to Oh yeah, I want to leave it alone.
Speaker 13: I like I like it just the way it is
Speaker 13: right now. I like it, and I don't as far
Speaker 13: as an earlier sunset in the summer, I like a
Speaker 13: thirty quarter of nine sunsets. I like it as late
Speaker 13: as possible in the summer, that's the time I want
Speaker 13: to enjoy it. And during the winter time it really
Speaker 13: doesn't matter to me because it's too cold out there.
Speaker 13: So I but I appreciate your point of view.
Speaker 2: I got to let you go here because I got
Speaker 2: to get two in real quickly. Okay, thanks man, Thanks Steve,
Speaker 2: thank you, enjoyed the week. Thank you quickly, Joe and Lynn,
Speaker 2: Joe give it me quick.
Speaker 7: Quickly, please, sure, I will, I say, stay on, I'm
Speaker 7: another standard guy, stay on standard time.
Speaker 8: How about that?
Speaker 2: All right? Like you? Okay, that's okay, you're you're you're
Speaker 2: a free thinker. Thanks, thanks Joe, appreciated. All right of
Speaker 2: the night, is going to go Karen in Stone and
Speaker 2: Karen really to sit on this.
Speaker 5: One by it's Sharon.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry. We just split the difference.
Speaker 10: Just split the difference, change it in half an hour,
Speaker 10: and then never change it again.
Speaker 5: Split the difference, okay.
Speaker 2: Half an hour? All right, so we get one hour
Speaker 2: and never change it again. All right, Right, lots of
Speaker 2: good conversation this week. Thank you so much, Karen. You
Speaker 2: have ended a week on a good note. All right.
Speaker 2: How much time I got left here? Mike? You mean
Speaker 2: forty seconds? Okay, so we got to wrap and I
Speaker 2: will tell you that the summertime one, uh, the daylight
Speaker 2: savings time one. But maybe the President was right. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of other points of view here. Want to
Speaker 2: thank Mike Templeton did a good job tonight, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. Want to thank Marita. Want to thank all
Speaker 2: the callers, all the listeners. I'll remind us everyone is
Speaker 2: always to have a great weekend and all dogs, all cats,
Speaker 2: af pets go to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie
Speaker 2: ray Is, who passed fifteen yearschoon in February. That while
Speaker 2: your pets or a pets, they loved you, you love
Speaker 2: them you will see them again. Hopes to again on Monday.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend everyone, Stay warm, stay drive,