WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:05.879 It's with Dan Ray Untell you Mazy Boston's news Radio. 2 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:12.599 Dan, We'll be back on Wednesday, I promise you. I'm Morgan. 3 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.160 I'm filling in for the rest of the show tonight, 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.399 which only has fifty three or so minutes left to it, 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.600 and I'll be here tomorrow from eight until midnight. Dixie 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.519 is here and I usually bring in Dixie on one 7 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:33.679 of two subjects, baseball. He's the most knowledgeable person I 8 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:39.079 know when it comes to baseball, both current and old school. 9 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.200 And he used to be a park ranger for over 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:47.280 thirty some odd years, so his experience about the National 11 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:55.479 Park Service is exemplary. So Dixie is there. I know 12 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:59.200 you researched a lot of information because you were going 13 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.399 to be on tonight. Is there anything we've yet to 14 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:05.959 touch upon. No. 15 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.000 I think we've glanced on several things, the most important 16 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:14.319 of which is the number of people who visit parks 17 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.560 in this day and age, which is over three hundred million, 18 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.239 anywhere from two ninety to three hundred and ten million, 19 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.519 depending on the year, depending on the weather. 20 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:31.599 Only one for every American almost it is almost three 21 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.280 hundred and fifty something on million people. 22 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:39.040 And the backlog and the backlog of things that the 23 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:43.760 National Park needs to fix to welcome those three hundred 24 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.640 million people in the fashion that they should be welcomed. 25 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.040 All right, Now, this is normally where I make you 26 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:57.680 bring up the subject of the Castle Young. Yes, but 27 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.640 you don't bring it up that often because you aren't 28 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.000 volunteering on it anymore. 29 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.439 No, and at this time of year it is closed. 30 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.280 But briefly tell people about the castle and Young. 31 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.639 Well, for those of you who live in the Boston 32 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.400 area or close enough by that you would drive into 33 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:21.960 Boston for a historical tour of sorts. The Boston National 34 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.240 Historical Park is at the Charlestown Navy Yard where all 35 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:30.479 iron sides is all iron sides. The USS Constitution is not, 36 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.360 I repeat, not part of the National Park Service. It 37 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.560 is Department of Defense. It is a flagship of the 38 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.680 entire United States Navy. It's the most fabulous ship afloat, 39 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:45.120 But it is not part of the National Park Service. 40 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.199 It is docked in a national park, that is true, 41 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.879 but it is not part of the Park Service. The 42 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:56.879 park rangers who work at Boston National Historical Park protect it, 43 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.520 they talk about it, they do several things with it, 44 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.639 but they do not have any let's see what is 45 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.800 the word. They do not have any instrumental thoughts or 46 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.639 ideas about the ship. The ship is run by the Navy. 47 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.919 But aside from the ship, about one hundred yards away 48 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:19.919 is the US is Cast and Young, which is part 49 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.360 of the National Park Service. It is a World War 50 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.639 two Fletcher class destroyer that served in the Pacific. During 51 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:34.719 World War two, twenty three soldiers sailors sorry sailors were 52 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.439 killed on board and two Kamikazi attacks. And that ship 53 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:43.560 is available for you to walk on in season and 54 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:45.439 to take tours on in season. 55 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:52.520 What is the beginning and end of quote unquote the season? 56 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:58.919 Well, you know, the weather is strange. Sometimes it is. 57 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:03.240 You can get on it in March through October or 58 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:07.759 even November if the weather stays good in November, and 59 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.360 sometimes if there are on a weekend, if the volunteers 60 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.839 are there and they and they feel that there are 61 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.600 enough visitors that day to open the ship, they will 62 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.279 open it. But it's something you have to call for 63 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:26.199 before May. Usually the ship is opened by mid May. 64 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:35.120 Okay, and I am assuming a November closing, either the 65 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:36.480 first or the thirtieth. 66 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:41.920 Well, except for veterans day. Yes, bye bye bye by 67 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.240 the first except veterans state. He try and keep it 68 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.560 open until then obviously for that reason. 69 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.879 Right, And why is it parked here? 70 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:59.920 Well, uh, there are There are a couple of different reasons, 71 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.720 the most important being that in the Charlestown Navy are 72 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:10.680 during World War Two, fourteen of the exact replicas of 73 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.319 that ship were built Fletcher class destroyer. They were built 74 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.959 all over the country because there were one hundred and 75 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.759 seventy God I haven't done the tour in so long, 76 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.680 I forget, but one hundred and seventy five Fletcher class 77 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.600 destroyers were built around the country, and fourteen of them 78 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:32.160 were in fact built in Charlestown. So even though the 79 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.079 cast in Young, which was built in California, was not 80 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:40.480 built there, there were fourteen ships exactly like it built there, 81 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.879 and it just so happened that it became available. The 82 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.360 park back in nineteen seventy eight was looking for a 83 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.199 drawing card cass and Young became available because the Navy 84 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.319 was going to scrap it, and the Park Service said, 85 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:58.360 wait a minute, hold on a second, we'd like to 86 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.839 have your ship, and so it was brought up here 87 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:05.759 in tow by from Philadelphia and it's been here ever since. 88 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.199 It opened up to the public after three years' worth 89 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:11.519 of work on it so that we could invite people. 90 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.560 It was open to the public in nineteen eighty one. 91 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.360 Hold on there, we need that chip up here. 92 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:19.480 That's right. 93 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.959 Okay, where do you get all this knowledge? I mean 94 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.839 you're not reading this. Oh you know how well? 95 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.160 If you know this stuff, if you do it long 96 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.480 enough and say it enough times, you do remember it. Morgan, 97 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.600 how do you remember all this stuff that you do 98 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.279 in your club shows. Yeah, it's the same thing, and 99 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:47.120 it's much less. It's much less work. If you talk 100 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.399 about a ship every single day for fifteen years, you 101 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.199 should remember what you're talking about. 102 00:06:54.879 --> 00:07:02.040 And I am able to instantly regurgitate. And I'm sticking 103 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.519 to that word information about Dobie Gillis because I watched it. 104 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.519 I loved that show that used to be on five 105 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.720 days a week, and I watched it when it was 106 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:19.720 still in network viewing. It used to be It's ironic 107 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.519 and I just pulled that example out of thin air. 108 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:30.120 But I'm gonna give this point. Dobie Gillis was a 109 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:36.199 show that was able to say one of its contributing 110 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:43.800 actors had that show and the next show on CBS. 111 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.399 It was The CBS Show. It was on from eight 112 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:53.240 thirty to nine on Wednesday nights. The next show that 113 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.720 was on from nine to nine thirty, The Beverly Hillbillies, 114 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:02.439 had this same actor. So he could see himself if 115 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:09.079 he were home on a Wednesday once playing the dean 116 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:15.319 at Spter Pryor Junior College, Raymond Bailey, and then see 117 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:21.480 himself playing the banker Melbourne Drivesdale on the Beverly Hillbillies. Now, 118 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:26.240 all that just proves I have a mind for minutia. 119 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:27.319 That's right. 120 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.200 Nobody cares about any of those details, nobody, but I 121 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:38.840 remember those details. And that's just the way I do 122 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.559 what I do. And now I'm going to take a break. 123 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.919 When we come back, we've got a phone call from Michigan. 124 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.840 So I've got a lot of things to accomplish. And 125 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.200 let me accomplish the first part by saying time and 126 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.960 temperature here on night Side eleven fifteen nineteen degrees. 127 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:02.120 Now back to Dan Ray Window World, Nightside Studios on 128 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:03.919 w b Z News Radio. 129 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.639 All right, let's go to Michigan and speak to Jeff. Jeff, 130 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.799 thank you for calling, good evening and welcome to night's side. 131 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.320 Yeah, you were talking about national parks, yes, and who 132 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:23.080 are the persons that contributed, especially presidents, Supreme Court. 133 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:23.759 Justices, etc. 134 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:30.519 Fdr Not surprisingly because if you look at his Wikipedia 135 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:37.279 page it goes on for pages. He began the CCC, 136 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:43.399 the Civilian Conservation Corps. We're in during the Great Depression, 137 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:50.159 so many families had nobody working that the federal government 138 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.080 had a program called the CCC, which still exists in Michigan, 139 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.039 where if you do not have a male working in 140 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.679 a family, and you have males that are over eighteen 141 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:10.559 years of age, that the government hired one of the 142 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.679 males who were over eighteen, if there were more than one, 143 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.840 would hire at least one, and those people would be 144 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:28.200 put on detail in our national parks. If you go 145 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:33.879 into a national park, you'll find all kinds of trails 146 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:39.440 that it would have stairs and so forth, their railings, bridges, 147 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:45.639 et cetera. That's what the CCC did. And he has 148 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:50.399 part of an anti poverty program. So he killed two 149 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:55.600 birds with one stone by hiring those people. 150 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.519 Dixie. Were you aware of the CCC, Oh. 151 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:00.600 Yes, very much. 152 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.200 So it's called the CCC. You can look it up 153 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:09.240 Civilian Conservation Corps. It's probably it may be the most 154 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.960 impactful of all the contributions with any president to the 155 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:20.399 National park system. And we shouldn't be surprised because, as 156 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.480 I say, if you go to Wikipedia and look up 157 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:27.840 what FDR accomplished. As people said at the time, but 158 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:30.919 if you elected as long as he lives and that's what. 159 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:38.039 Happened, that all of that is true. And not only 160 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.039 is all of that true, but some of the things 161 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:44.399 that those people built back in the thirties and early 162 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:50.279 forties they still exist, and that's right, they still exist, 163 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.440 but they're a little rundown and they need to be 164 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:57.080 replaced in some places. So that's some of the backlog 165 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.240 work that needs to be done. We really should, after 166 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.720 this amount of time and that amount of youth, is 167 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.360 to rebuild some of the stuff that the CCC did. 168 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:13.000 Absolutely, Jeff, I have a question, wait, don't hang up yet. 169 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.960 Yeah, about your. 170 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:21.639 Family affected by the CCC. Did an uncle or father 171 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:25.440 or grandfather get work because. 172 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:25.480 Of the. 173 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:34.000 Well, I don't recall that, but I just urge people 174 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:39.799 because see I grew up in Republican neighborhoods. FDR was 175 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.799 never mentioned. FDR was never mentioned. They didn't want to 176 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:44.279 bring him up. 177 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:46.000 Well, he was a Democrat, and. 178 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:49.799 That's right, and so they didn't want to hear about 179 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:54.039 him because if you got as I say, look, he 180 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:59.840 created social security. That's Medicare is is modeled on social Security. 181 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:04.120 The money that you contribute to social Security is not 182 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.440 just a piece of paper, it's a T bond. And 183 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.120 that's why these people on Wall Street I call them 184 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.080 the criminals of Raw Street. The investment bankers, the equity funds, 185 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:21.399 the hedge funders, they all want that money and they 186 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.600 can't get it as long as it's in T bonds. 187 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.320 So they're going to convince us all so you're not 188 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:31.440 going to get anything, So you'll get you'll you'll give 189 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.360 up everything to get something right. And so I'm just 190 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:40.240 suggesting that people review the history of FDR because it 191 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:40.799 goes on. 192 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.039 For pages as well. 193 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:46.960 It should and that's why he would and it should, 194 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.639 and that's why he was elected as long as he lived, 195 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.840 and it wasn't the wealthy that elected him. 196 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.639 He was the last president to serve. After he was 197 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.600 elected four times, he just didn't serve, that's right. 198 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:06.279 The fourth term, No, I think he worked himself to death. 199 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.519 To tell you the truth, he was working on the 200 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.600 UN when he died. He was in Warren Springs, Georgia, 201 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.519 and at that time he was down there for his 202 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:24.480 polio treatment and he was sitting working on the United Nations, 203 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:29.720 the only institution that we have to end all wars. 204 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.159 And that was occurring at the end of the Second 205 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.360 World War, when we could have beat our chest and 206 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:41.480 said anybody else, and instead he was working on an 207 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:48.840 institution hoping to end all war, not to make more war. 208 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:55.039 That was way off base. That was April twelfth, nineteen 209 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:57.799 forty five. And the reason I know that speaking of 210 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.840 the Cast and Young is because on that date the 211 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:05.879 Cast and Young was hit by a Japanese kamakazi and 212 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.000 one of the sailors was killed. On that date, the 213 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:10.399 day that Roosevelt died. 214 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.080 Wow, that's interesting. And boy, I tell you, if you 215 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:17.440 go and look at the film of his case on 216 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:23.519 coming back from Warren Springs, Georgia, it's so moving because 217 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:31.440 there are people black and white crying on the tracks 218 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:32.600 all the way. 219 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:36.440 Well, as I said, he was elected four times, did 220 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:40.399 not finish out his fourth term. And let's let's pick 221 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:46.320 a number, let's say, thirteen years, thirteen plus years. Under 222 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:52.799 his watch, he had a depression and a World war 223 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:55.320 that is enough. 224 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:57.559 To gray any film. 225 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:04.159 And the fact that ye, he survived both the depression 226 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:10.919 and within a couple of weeks the end. 227 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:16.360 Of World War two, and and he suffered from polio. 228 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:21.159 And he suffered from polio. That lot on his plate, 229 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.000 a lot on his plate. 230 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:28.799 Well at Hyde Park, you see his wife. People asked 231 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:34.080 why his FDR so different from the way he appeared 232 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.720 when he went to Harvard with people that were classmates. 233 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:43.000 They said didn't recognize him, not physically, but because of 234 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:48.120 his behavior and his wife. His wife and a guy 235 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.679 named Rexford Tugwell who was in his cabinet, his first cabinet, 236 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.600 they both thought that the reason that he had changed 237 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:04.880 so much was because of the polio and when because 238 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.240 they didn't know what it was when it first hit, 239 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:12.119 and for years they didn't know. And he was urged 240 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:17.039 to get exercise with when his legs didn't work. So 241 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.359 he used to be in uh in bed and hide 242 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.880 Hyde Park and get on his crutches and go all 243 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:30.039 the way down the road, just their road, to that 244 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.079 house and back on his crutches. 245 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:35.400 When work. 246 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.480 And he was an avid swimmer. 247 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:39.680 That's right, he was. 248 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:45.359 He was constantly and obviously his legs didn't function as 249 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.160 they should have, but his upper body strains. 250 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:50.680 Well. 251 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.039 Yeah, he became quite quite other. 252 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.640 Than the average because he had to do most of 253 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.400 the work of swimming with his arms. 254 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.519 If I might, I'll just add one more thing that's 255 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.680 I think is amazing. Ok Uh, there's a converse. Yeah, 256 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.680 there's a conversation. I think it might have been Tugwell 257 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.359 who brought this up. He wrote a wrote a very 258 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:19.000 good book on Roosevelt called The Democratic. 259 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:19.559 Wrote that. 260 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:27.359 Democratic Roosevelt as opposed to his cousin Teddy. And he 261 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.799 said that at one time, while he was meeting with 262 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:38.160 Roosevelt in the Oval office, Franklin had shown him how 263 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.160 he used to get a book from the bookshelf across 264 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.839 across the room, and he got down off his chair 265 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:52.599 and crawled to the bookshelf and put the book in 266 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.119 his teeth and crawled back. 267 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.440 Necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes, 268 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:04.400 you find a way, but. 269 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.200 He humiliates a man. And you see, so his wife 270 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:13.279 and tug Will both said they thought that Polio had 271 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:18.880 changed him. Yes, well, thank you very much for allowing 272 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.400 me that. Because I didn't know much about Roosevelt, I 273 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.519 had to I read several books on him many and 274 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:29.039 because I was so amazed we ever had a president 275 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:33.359 like this, I couldn't It's hard to fathom because, in 276 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:35.839 my opinion, there are very few presidents that have more 277 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:40.000 than one or two things to recall about them. And 278 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.519 we are still living with Social Security, which is one 279 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.640 of the two best programs in this country. The other 280 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.480 one is Medicare, and Medicare is being destroyed by Medicare 281 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:57.359 advantage because every Medicare advantage program must be subsidized by 282 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:03.400 real Medicare and your private insurers. If you get into 283 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.359 those programs or you're one of the members, you may 284 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.000 get silver sneakers, but you won't get your basic services 285 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:17.079 because you have to go through a primary party to 286 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:20.720 get approval for your and that always takes months. It 287 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:24.559 takes weeks and months to get that approval, and then 288 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.640 you have to sign up with whoever it is in 289 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.079 the group that allows you that service, and that will 290 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:32.440 take you weeks or months. 291 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:34.240 And so. 292 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.519 This is working the wrong way because now Medicare advantage 293 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.839 because of their advertising and because they use the word 294 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.759 medicare in their name. They shouldn't be they shouldn't have 295 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:46.720 been allowed to do that. 296 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:53.200 But I've got news. 297 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:56.240 Thank you, Thank you for your call. 298 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.400 Excellent program, Thank you, goodbye. 299 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.440 All right, if you want to call in, maybe not 300 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:09.680 take as much time as Jeff did just then ten thirty. 301 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:11.279 Well he started on topic. 302 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:14.119 Yeah he didn't. He didn't quite get there. 303 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.240 Eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. We're talking about 304 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.160 the National park system. Now I could switch to baseball 305 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:28.880 right now is the reason I'll switch to baseball because 306 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.880 of tomorrow. But I'm not going to switch to baseball. 307 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.559 Damn the torpedoes full speed over there you go. So 308 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:43.359 I'm about to take my break. This time it will 309 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:47.759 it will not be adjacent to ABC News. We did 310 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:51.599 all that earlier in the eighth hour and the nine 311 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:55.559 hour and then the ten hour. Right now at eleven thirty, 312 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.920 I'm just going to say time here on night Side again. 313 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.200 Eleven thirty, temperature nineteen. 314 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:08.880 Degrees, It's night Side with Boston's News Radio. 315 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:12.960 You know what, Dixie, this is the first time I've 316 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:18.480 had you on talking about National parks where someone didn't 317 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.839 call in and say they're planning a trip in a day, 318 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:25.319 a week, a month or so, and can well give 319 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:28.200 them details on this National park. 320 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.799 Well, we have a half an hour left. Let's see 321 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:32.799 what happens. But first of all, let me say hello 322 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.400 to Jennie and Lawrence and Susan in Brookline. 323 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:42.319 You're on your computer talking to these people while you're 324 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:43.599 on the air with me, aren't you. 325 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:51.839 No, I'm looking at the National Park Service thing here online, Okay, 326 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.440 so that I don't forget to say a couple of 327 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:57.519 things I wanted to say, and that is at the 328 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.920 National Park Service. We have discussed how there are four 329 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.599 one hundred and thirty three parks, but they take up 330 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:07.119 eighty five million acres of land, which if you squished 331 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.200 it all into one place to be a state, it 332 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:17.319 would be the fifth largest state after Alaska, Montana, California, 333 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:19.640 and Texas. It would be number. 334 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.519 Five, bigger than Texas. 335 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:28.359 Yes, no, less than Texas because the next the next 336 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.920 state is New Mexico, and the National Park Service is 337 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:36.359 a few million acres larger than New Mexico, so it 338 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:37.359 would be number five. 339 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:44.759 Now, speaking of New Mexico, I heard this today, Donald 340 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:51.279 Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf 341 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.480 of America. Yes, and I forget the woman who was 342 00:23:55.680 --> 00:24:00.720 President of Mexico said, then what we should do is 343 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:07.519 rename those places that were hours to begin with back 344 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:13.400 in the eighteen hundreds, and that would include New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, 345 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:21.240 and call them whatever names those territories had back then. Now, 346 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:25.759 I think this is politicians licking their finger, holding it 347 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:28.039 up in the air to see which way the wind blows. 348 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:31.480 But I doubt any of that is going to happen. 349 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:37.880 Well I doubted too, But let me give you a prediction. Okay, 350 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:45.160 prediction I get fifty bucks that says, if you're correct 351 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:52.240 about El Trumpo wanting to rename Denali as mout McKinley, 352 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.440 that is not what's really behind this. What's really behind 353 00:24:56.519 --> 00:24:59.880 this is for him to find some political hack senator 354 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.920 or maybe his new Secretary of the Interior to say, 355 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:07.880 why don't we name this mountain after El Trumpo? It's 356 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:10.720 the biggest in North America. Why wouldn't we name it 357 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:11.359 El Trumpo. 358 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.759 I don't think he is that egotistical. 359 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:21.440 You're wrong. You are wrong, Morgan. I'm sorry, but you're 360 00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:22.359 wrong on this part. 361 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:27.119 I don't think he would name a mountain after himself. 362 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:29.920 No, he'll get someone else to do it and say, oh, yeah, 363 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.000 it's about time we did that. 364 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:35.440 Nancy has tapping me on my hand with a look 365 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:38.200 of disbelief that I let these words come out of 366 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:38.640 my mouth. 367 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:43.039 And she is correct also. 368 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:47.119 Because she reminded me he wanted his face added to 369 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:48.000 Mount Rushmore. 370 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:53.480 That's correct. So just remember everything that happens. And by 371 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:57.079 the way, by the way, I am going to give 372 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:02.079 out a grand round of applause that at the Mercenary 373 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:05.720 Minor League football season has now ended and we can 374 00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:06.839 go on with our lives. 375 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.599 Oh you meaning are the fact that Notre Dame lost tonight. 376 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:15.799 Ah, well, that's too bad, what a shame. 377 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:22.519 All I heard was scoring updates and it sounds like 378 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.440 they acquitted themselves as well as they could. 379 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.440 Well they were. They were being beaten senseless for a 380 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:29.839 first three quarters, so. 381 00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:37.480 So uh, Oklahoma let their foot off the accelerator in 382 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:38.319 the last quarter. 383 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:45.240 Well, my my, my distaste for Ohio State is only 384 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.279 beaten by my distaste for Notre Dame. So I don't care. 385 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:51.880 What about your distaste for the New York Yankees. 386 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:54.279 Oh that goes without saying. 387 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:58.519 Yeah, but which is number one in Dixie? 388 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.920 Distaste the Yankees for sure. The New York frauds. You 389 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.559 got the name wrong, New York Frauds. 390 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:09.079 As you can tell people, we have no calls. So 391 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:17.519 if you want to end this silliness. Well, he didn't 392 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:20.039 call about medicare I think. 393 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.640 He might have the question. The question I wanted to 394 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.000 ask him was has he ever had the opportunity to 395 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.720 visit Hyde Park in New York and visit the Roosevelt House. 396 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.240 Well, he was from Michigan, so flip a coin on 397 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:35.640 that one. 398 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:38.799 And also the Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is down the 399 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.039 road a piece from the Franklin or Roosevelt family house. 400 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:47.319 They have a separate house for respect paid to Eleanor 401 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.160