Speaker 1: It's with Dan Ray Untell you Mazy Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan, We'll be back on Wednesday, I promise you. I'm Morgan.
Speaker 2: I'm filling in for the rest of the show tonight,
Speaker 2: which only has fifty three or so minutes left to it,
Speaker 2: and I'll be here tomorrow from eight until midnight. Dixie
Speaker 2: is here and I usually bring in Dixie on one
Speaker 2: of two subjects, baseball. He's the most knowledgeable person I
Speaker 2: know when it comes to baseball, both current and old school.
Speaker 2: And he used to be a park ranger for over
Speaker 2: thirty some odd years, so his experience about the National
Speaker 2: Park Service is exemplary. So Dixie is there. I know
Speaker 2: you researched a lot of information because you were going
Speaker 2: to be on tonight. Is there anything we've yet to
Speaker 2: touch upon. No.
Speaker 3: I think we've glanced on several things, the most important
Speaker 3: of which is the number of people who visit parks
Speaker 3: in this day and age, which is over three hundred million,
Speaker 3: anywhere from two ninety to three hundred and ten million,
Speaker 3: depending on the year, depending on the weather.
Speaker 2: Only one for every American almost it is almost three
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty something on million people.
Speaker 3: And the backlog and the backlog of things that the
Speaker 3: National Park needs to fix to welcome those three hundred
Speaker 3: million people in the fashion that they should be welcomed.
Speaker 2: All right, Now, this is normally where I make you
Speaker 2: bring up the subject of the Castle Young. Yes, but
Speaker 2: you don't bring it up that often because you aren't
Speaker 2: volunteering on it anymore.
Speaker 3: No, and at this time of year it is closed.
Speaker 2: But briefly tell people about the castle and Young.
Speaker 3: Well, for those of you who live in the Boston
Speaker 3: area or close enough by that you would drive into
Speaker 3: Boston for a historical tour of sorts. The Boston National
Speaker 3: Historical Park is at the Charlestown Navy Yard where all
Speaker 3: iron sides is all iron sides. The USS Constitution is not,
Speaker 3: I repeat, not part of the National Park Service. It
Speaker 3: is Department of Defense. It is a flagship of the
Speaker 3: entire United States Navy. It's the most fabulous ship afloat,
Speaker 3: But it is not part of the National Park Service.
Speaker 3: It is docked in a national park, that is true,
Speaker 3: but it is not part of the Park Service. The
Speaker 3: park rangers who work at Boston National Historical Park protect it,
Speaker 3: they talk about it, they do several things with it,
Speaker 3: but they do not have any let's see what is
Speaker 3: the word. They do not have any instrumental thoughts or
Speaker 3: ideas about the ship. The ship is run by the Navy.
Speaker 3: But aside from the ship, about one hundred yards away
Speaker 3: is the US is Cast and Young, which is part
Speaker 3: of the National Park Service. It is a World War
Speaker 3: two Fletcher class destroyer that served in the Pacific. During
Speaker 3: World War two, twenty three soldiers sailors sorry sailors were
Speaker 3: killed on board and two Kamikazi attacks. And that ship
Speaker 3: is available for you to walk on in season and
Speaker 3: to take tours on in season.
Speaker 2: What is the beginning and end of quote unquote the season?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, the weather is strange. Sometimes it is.
Speaker 3: You can get on it in March through October or
Speaker 3: even November if the weather stays good in November, and
Speaker 3: sometimes if there are on a weekend, if the volunteers
Speaker 3: are there and they and they feel that there are
Speaker 3: enough visitors that day to open the ship, they will
Speaker 3: open it. But it's something you have to call for
Speaker 3: before May. Usually the ship is opened by mid May.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I am assuming a November closing, either the
Speaker 2: first or the thirtieth.
Speaker 3: Well, except for veterans day. Yes, bye bye bye by
Speaker 3: the first except veterans state. He try and keep it
Speaker 3: open until then obviously for that reason.
Speaker 2: Right, And why is it parked here?
Speaker 3: Well, uh, there are There are a couple of different reasons,
Speaker 3: the most important being that in the Charlestown Navy are
Speaker 3: during World War Two, fourteen of the exact replicas of
Speaker 3: that ship were built Fletcher class destroyer. They were built
Speaker 3: all over the country because there were one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy God I haven't done the tour in so long,
Speaker 3: I forget, but one hundred and seventy five Fletcher class
Speaker 3: destroyers were built around the country, and fourteen of them
Speaker 3: were in fact built in Charlestown. So even though the
Speaker 3: cast in Young, which was built in California, was not
Speaker 3: built there, there were fourteen ships exactly like it built there,
Speaker 3: and it just so happened that it became available. The
Speaker 3: park back in nineteen seventy eight was looking for a
Speaker 3: drawing card cass and Young became available because the Navy
Speaker 3: was going to scrap it, and the Park Service said,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, hold on a second, we'd like to
Speaker 3: have your ship, and so it was brought up here
Speaker 3: in tow by from Philadelphia and it's been here ever since.
Speaker 3: It opened up to the public after three years' worth
Speaker 3: of work on it so that we could invite people.
Speaker 3: It was open to the public in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: Hold on there, we need that chip up here.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Okay, where do you get all this knowledge? I mean
Speaker 2: you're not reading this. Oh you know how well?
Speaker 3: If you know this stuff, if you do it long
Speaker 3: enough and say it enough times, you do remember it. Morgan,
Speaker 3: how do you remember all this stuff that you do
Speaker 3: in your club shows. Yeah, it's the same thing, and
Speaker 3: it's much less. It's much less work. If you talk
Speaker 3: about a ship every single day for fifteen years, you
Speaker 3: should remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: And I am able to instantly regurgitate. And I'm sticking
Speaker 2: to that word information about Dobie Gillis because I watched it.
Speaker 2: I loved that show that used to be on five
Speaker 2: days a week, and I watched it when it was
Speaker 2: still in network viewing. It used to be It's ironic
Speaker 2: and I just pulled that example out of thin air.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna give this point. Dobie Gillis was a
Speaker 2: show that was able to say one of its contributing
Speaker 2: actors had that show and the next show on CBS.
Speaker 2: It was The CBS Show. It was on from eight
Speaker 2: thirty to nine on Wednesday nights. The next show that
Speaker 2: was on from nine to nine thirty, The Beverly Hillbillies,
Speaker 2: had this same actor. So he could see himself if
Speaker 2: he were home on a Wednesday once playing the dean
Speaker 2: at Spter Pryor Junior College, Raymond Bailey, and then see
Speaker 2: himself playing the banker Melbourne Drivesdale on the Beverly Hillbillies. Now,
Speaker 2: all that just proves I have a mind for minutia.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about any of those details, nobody, but I
Speaker 2: remember those details. And that's just the way I do
Speaker 2: what I do. And now I'm going to take a break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we've got a phone call from Michigan.
Speaker 2: So I've got a lot of things to accomplish. And
Speaker 2: let me accomplish the first part by saying time and
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Speaker 4: Now back to Dan Ray Window World, Nightside Studios on
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Michigan and speak to Jeff. Jeff,
Speaker 2: thank you for calling, good evening and welcome to night's side.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you were talking about national parks, yes, and who
Speaker 5: are the persons that contributed, especially presidents, Supreme Court.
Speaker 6: Justices, etc.
Speaker 5: Fdr Not surprisingly because if you look at his Wikipedia
Speaker 5: page it goes on for pages. He began the CCC,
Speaker 5: the Civilian Conservation Corps. We're in during the Great Depression,
Speaker 5: so many families had nobody working that the federal government
Speaker 5: had a program called the CCC, which still exists in Michigan,
Speaker 5: where if you do not have a male working in
Speaker 5: a family, and you have males that are over eighteen
Speaker 5: years of age, that the government hired one of the
Speaker 5: males who were over eighteen, if there were more than one,
Speaker 5: would hire at least one, and those people would be
Speaker 5: put on detail in our national parks. If you go
Speaker 5: into a national park, you'll find all kinds of trails
Speaker 5: that it would have stairs and so forth, their railings, bridges,
Speaker 5: et cetera. That's what the CCC did. And he has
Speaker 5: part of an anti poverty program. So he killed two
Speaker 5: birds with one stone by hiring those people.
Speaker 2: Dixie. Were you aware of the CCC, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yes, very much.
Speaker 5: So it's called the CCC. You can look it up
Speaker 5: Civilian Conservation Corps. It's probably it may be the most
Speaker 5: impactful of all the contributions with any president to the
Speaker 5: National park system. And we shouldn't be surprised because, as
Speaker 5: I say, if you go to Wikipedia and look up
Speaker 5: what FDR accomplished. As people said at the time, but
Speaker 5: if you elected as long as he lives and that's what.
Speaker 3: Happened, that all of that is true. And not only
Speaker 3: is all of that true, but some of the things
Speaker 3: that those people built back in the thirties and early
Speaker 3: forties they still exist, and that's right, they still exist,
Speaker 3: but they're a little rundown and they need to be
Speaker 3: replaced in some places. So that's some of the backlog
Speaker 3: work that needs to be done. We really should, after
Speaker 3: this amount of time and that amount of youth, is
Speaker 3: to rebuild some of the stuff that the CCC did.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Jeff, I have a question, wait, don't hang up yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, about your.
Speaker 2: Family affected by the CCC. Did an uncle or father
Speaker 2: or grandfather get work because.
Speaker 3: Of the.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't recall that, but I just urge people
Speaker 5: because see I grew up in Republican neighborhoods. FDR was
Speaker 5: never mentioned. FDR was never mentioned. They didn't want to
Speaker 5: bring him up.
Speaker 2: Well, he was a Democrat, and.
Speaker 5: That's right, and so they didn't want to hear about
Speaker 5: him because if you got as I say, look, he
Speaker 5: created social security. That's Medicare is is modeled on social Security.
Speaker 5: The money that you contribute to social Security is not
Speaker 5: just a piece of paper, it's a T bond. And
Speaker 5: that's why these people on Wall Street I call them
Speaker 5: the criminals of Raw Street. The investment bankers, the equity funds,
Speaker 5: the hedge funders, they all want that money and they
Speaker 5: can't get it as long as it's in T bonds.
Speaker 5: So they're going to convince us all so you're not
Speaker 5: going to get anything, So you'll get you'll you'll give
Speaker 5: up everything to get something right. And so I'm just
Speaker 5: suggesting that people review the history of FDR because it
Speaker 5: goes on.
Speaker 3: For pages as well.
Speaker 5: It should and that's why he would and it should,
Speaker 5: and that's why he was elected as long as he lived,
Speaker 5: and it wasn't the wealthy that elected him.
Speaker 2: He was the last president to serve. After he was
Speaker 2: elected four times, he just didn't serve, that's right.
Speaker 5: The fourth term, No, I think he worked himself to death.
Speaker 5: To tell you the truth, he was working on the
Speaker 5: UN when he died. He was in Warren Springs, Georgia,
Speaker 5: and at that time he was down there for his
Speaker 5: polio treatment and he was sitting working on the United Nations,
Speaker 5: the only institution that we have to end all wars.
Speaker 5: And that was occurring at the end of the Second
Speaker 5: World War, when we could have beat our chest and
Speaker 5: said anybody else, and instead he was working on an
Speaker 5: institution hoping to end all war, not to make more war.
Speaker 3: That was way off base. That was April twelfth, nineteen
Speaker 3: forty five. And the reason I know that speaking of
Speaker 3: the Cast and Young is because on that date the
Speaker 3: Cast and Young was hit by a Japanese kamakazi and
Speaker 3: one of the sailors was killed. On that date, the
Speaker 3: day that Roosevelt died.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's interesting. And boy, I tell you, if you
Speaker 5: go and look at the film of his case on
Speaker 5: coming back from Warren Springs, Georgia, it's so moving because
Speaker 5: there are people black and white crying on the tracks
Speaker 5: all the way.
Speaker 2: Well, as I said, he was elected four times, did
Speaker 2: not finish out his fourth term. And let's let's pick
Speaker 2: a number, let's say, thirteen years, thirteen plus years. Under
Speaker 2: his watch, he had a depression and a World war
Speaker 2: that is enough.
Speaker 3: To gray any film.
Speaker 2: And the fact that ye, he survived both the depression
Speaker 2: and within a couple of weeks the end.
Speaker 5: Of World War two, and and he suffered from polio.
Speaker 2: And he suffered from polio. That lot on his plate,
Speaker 2: a lot on his plate.
Speaker 5: Well at Hyde Park, you see his wife. People asked
Speaker 5: why his FDR so different from the way he appeared
Speaker 5: when he went to Harvard with people that were classmates.
Speaker 5: They said didn't recognize him, not physically, but because of
Speaker 5: his behavior and his wife. His wife and a guy
Speaker 5: named Rexford Tugwell who was in his cabinet, his first cabinet,
Speaker 5: they both thought that the reason that he had changed
Speaker 5: so much was because of the polio and when because
Speaker 5: they didn't know what it was when it first hit,
Speaker 5: and for years they didn't know. And he was urged
Speaker 5: to get exercise with when his legs didn't work. So
Speaker 5: he used to be in uh in bed and hide
Speaker 5: Hyde Park and get on his crutches and go all
Speaker 5: the way down the road, just their road, to that
Speaker 5: house and back on his crutches.
Speaker 6: When work.
Speaker 2: And he was an avid swimmer.
Speaker 5: That's right, he was.
Speaker 2: He was constantly and obviously his legs didn't function as
Speaker 2: they should have, but his upper body strains.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he became quite quite other.
Speaker 2: Than the average because he had to do most of
Speaker 2: the work of swimming with his arms.
Speaker 5: If I might, I'll just add one more thing that's
Speaker 5: I think is amazing. Ok Uh, there's a converse. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's a conversation. I think it might have been Tugwell
Speaker 5: who brought this up. He wrote a wrote a very
Speaker 5: good book on Roosevelt called The Democratic.
Speaker 2: Wrote that.
Speaker 5: Democratic Roosevelt as opposed to his cousin Teddy. And he
Speaker 5: said that at one time, while he was meeting with
Speaker 5: Roosevelt in the Oval office, Franklin had shown him how
Speaker 5: he used to get a book from the bookshelf across
Speaker 5: across the room, and he got down off his chair
Speaker 5: and crawled to the bookshelf and put the book in
Speaker 5: his teeth and crawled back.
Speaker 2: Necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes,
Speaker 2: you find a way, but.
Speaker 5: He humiliates a man. And you see, so his wife
Speaker 5: and tug Will both said they thought that Polio had
Speaker 5: changed him. Yes, well, thank you very much for allowing
Speaker 5: me that. Because I didn't know much about Roosevelt, I
Speaker 5: had to I read several books on him many and
Speaker 5: because I was so amazed we ever had a president
Speaker 5: like this, I couldn't It's hard to fathom because, in
Speaker 5: my opinion, there are very few presidents that have more
Speaker 5: than one or two things to recall about them. And
Speaker 5: we are still living with Social Security, which is one
Speaker 5: of the two best programs in this country. The other
Speaker 5: one is Medicare, and Medicare is being destroyed by Medicare
Speaker 5: advantage because every Medicare advantage program must be subsidized by
Speaker 5: real Medicare and your private insurers. If you get into
Speaker 5: those programs or you're one of the members, you may
Speaker 5: get silver sneakers, but you won't get your basic services
Speaker 5: because you have to go through a primary party to
Speaker 5: get approval for your and that always takes months. It
Speaker 5: takes weeks and months to get that approval, and then
Speaker 5: you have to sign up with whoever it is in
Speaker 5: the group that allows you that service, and that will
Speaker 5: take you weeks or months.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 5: This is working the wrong way because now Medicare advantage
Speaker 5: because of their advertising and because they use the word
Speaker 5: medicare in their name. They shouldn't be they shouldn't have
Speaker 5: been allowed to do that.
Speaker 3: But I've got news.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for your call.
Speaker 5: Excellent program, Thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 2: All right, if you want to call in, maybe not
Speaker 2: take as much time as Jeff did just then ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Well he started on topic.
Speaker 3: Yeah he didn't. He didn't quite get there.
Speaker 2: Eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the National park system. Now I could switch to baseball
Speaker 2: right now is the reason I'll switch to baseball because
Speaker 2: of tomorrow. But I'm not going to switch to baseball.
Speaker 2: Damn the torpedoes full speed over there you go. So
Speaker 2: I'm about to take my break. This time it will
Speaker 2: it will not be adjacent to ABC News. We did
Speaker 2: all that earlier in the eighth hour and the nine
Speaker 2: hour and then the ten hour. Right now at eleven thirty,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say time here on night Side again.
Speaker 2: Eleven thirty, temperature nineteen.
Speaker 1: Degrees, It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: You know what, Dixie, this is the first time I've
Speaker 2: had you on talking about National parks where someone didn't
Speaker 2: call in and say they're planning a trip in a day,
Speaker 2: a week, a month or so, and can well give
Speaker 2: them details on this National park.
Speaker 3: Well, we have a half an hour left. Let's see
Speaker 3: what happens. But first of all, let me say hello
Speaker 3: to Jennie and Lawrence and Susan in Brookline.
Speaker 2: You're on your computer talking to these people while you're
Speaker 2: on the air with me, aren't you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm looking at the National Park Service thing here online, Okay,
Speaker 3: so that I don't forget to say a couple of
Speaker 3: things I wanted to say, and that is at the
Speaker 3: National Park Service. We have discussed how there are four
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty three parks, but they take up
Speaker 3: eighty five million acres of land, which if you squished
Speaker 3: it all into one place to be a state, it
Speaker 3: would be the fifth largest state after Alaska, Montana, California,
Speaker 3: and Texas. It would be number.
Speaker 2: Five, bigger than Texas.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, less than Texas because the next the next
Speaker 3: state is New Mexico, and the National Park Service is
Speaker 3: a few million acres larger than New Mexico, so it
Speaker 3: would be number five.
Speaker 2: Now, speaking of New Mexico, I heard this today, Donald
Speaker 2: Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf
Speaker 2: of America. Yes, and I forget the woman who was
Speaker 2: President of Mexico said, then what we should do is
Speaker 2: rename those places that were hours to begin with back
Speaker 2: in the eighteen hundreds, and that would include New Mexico, Texas, Arizona,
Speaker 2: and call them whatever names those territories had back then. Now,
Speaker 2: I think this is politicians licking their finger, holding it
Speaker 2: up in the air to see which way the wind blows.
Speaker 2: But I doubt any of that is going to happen.
Speaker 3: Well I doubted too, But let me give you a prediction. Okay,
Speaker 3: prediction I get fifty bucks that says, if you're correct
Speaker 3: about El Trumpo wanting to rename Denali as mout McKinley,
Speaker 3: that is not what's really behind this. What's really behind
Speaker 3: this is for him to find some political hack senator
Speaker 3: or maybe his new Secretary of the Interior to say,
Speaker 3: why don't we name this mountain after El Trumpo? It's
Speaker 3: the biggest in North America. Why wouldn't we name it
Speaker 3: El Trumpo.
Speaker 2: I don't think he is that egotistical.
Speaker 3: You're wrong. You are wrong, Morgan. I'm sorry, but you're
Speaker 3: wrong on this part.
Speaker 2: I don't think he would name a mountain after himself.
Speaker 3: No, he'll get someone else to do it and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's about time we did that.
Speaker 2: Nancy has tapping me on my hand with a look
Speaker 2: of disbelief that I let these words come out of
Speaker 2: my mouth.
Speaker 3: And she is correct also.
Speaker 2: Because she reminded me he wanted his face added to
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3: That's correct. So just remember everything that happens. And by
Speaker 3: the way, by the way, I am going to give
Speaker 3: out a grand round of applause that at the Mercenary
Speaker 3: Minor League football season has now ended and we can
Speaker 3: go on with our lives.
Speaker 2: Oh you meaning are the fact that Notre Dame lost tonight.
Speaker 3: Ah, well, that's too bad, what a shame.
Speaker 2: All I heard was scoring updates and it sounds like
Speaker 2: they acquitted themselves as well as they could.
Speaker 3: Well they were. They were being beaten senseless for a
Speaker 3: first three quarters, so.
Speaker 2: So uh, Oklahoma let their foot off the accelerator in
Speaker 2: the last quarter.
Speaker 3: Well, my my, my distaste for Ohio State is only
Speaker 3: beaten by my distaste for Notre Dame. So I don't care.
Speaker 2: What about your distaste for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3: Oh that goes without saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but which is number one in Dixie?
Speaker 3: Distaste the Yankees for sure. The New York frauds. You
Speaker 3: got the name wrong, New York Frauds.
Speaker 2: As you can tell people, we have no calls. So
Speaker 2: if you want to end this silliness. Well, he didn't
Speaker 2: call about medicare I think.
Speaker 3: He might have the question. The question I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask him was has he ever had the opportunity to
Speaker 3: visit Hyde Park in New York and visit the Roosevelt House.
Speaker 2: Well, he was from Michigan, so flip a coin on
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: And also the Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is down the
Speaker 3: road a piece from the Franklin or Roosevelt family house.
Speaker 2: They have a separate house for respect paid to Eleanor
Speaker 2: versus respect paid to Franklin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that the Hyde Park the family residence is
Speaker 3: the is the Hyde Park one that the Roosevelt family
Speaker 3: was along with Eleanor. But she later had her own
Speaker 3: house down the road for various relationship purposes and for
Speaker 3: recreation purposes as a pool and everything. And I was
Speaker 3: actually at the opening of it back in the eighties. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's very nice very small, but it is another house
Speaker 3: in that area that you can visit as part of
Speaker 3: the National Park Service.
Speaker 2: Where do you see the National Park Service going? I'm
Speaker 2: not looking at the next four years. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say all inclusive, at least a decade from now, what
Speaker 2: can we expect?
Speaker 3: Morgan, that's like asking me how the Red Sox are
Speaker 3: going to do. I don't know who's on the team.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the budget's going to be. I
Speaker 3: don't know who's who they're going to get, who they're
Speaker 3: going to lose. It's impossible to tell what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: All I know is we cannot allow the continuing demise
Speaker 3: of the properties which we are now allowing.
Speaker 2: He was mentioning he the previous call was mentioning all
Speaker 2: the things that were done. You know CCC related there
Speaker 2: in Michigan, as far as the Roosevelt National Park and
Speaker 2: your point that you've heard of that you knew all
Speaker 2: about that, and there again it's proven that disrepair has
Speaker 2: the need of being addressed across the National park system.
Speaker 3: Well, we're still walking on bridges that the CCC created,
Speaker 3: and you can't do that after fifty sixty years. You
Speaker 3: just you have to replace them, especially with the crowds,
Speaker 3: the use that they get by the two hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five to three hundred and ten million people that
Speaker 3: visit these parks every year, they get worn out.
Speaker 2: And once again, I'm going to have you repeat something
Speaker 2: I made you tell me last hour. Tell me these
Speaker 2: three things again that people can do everyday. Citizens. Right
Speaker 2: now I'm being heard in thirty eight states and parts
Speaker 2: of Canada. Let's just stay with the thirty eight states.
Speaker 2: Canada worry about their own national.
Speaker 3: They have a wonderful national park system of their own,
Speaker 3: so yes, they should tend to it.
Speaker 2: Is there national park system better run than hours in Canada?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know that for sure, but I know
Speaker 3: that they have fewer parks, so it is a little
Speaker 3: bit easier to handle fewer parts.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we've got four hundred and twenty four hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty three. Yes, what can Joe and Jane citizen?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 2: You gave us an answer? And what the same three
Speaker 2: examples for anybody who didn't hear what you said last hour?
Speaker 2: Repeat that now please.
Speaker 3: Well, you can keep on visiting the parks that you
Speaker 3: like or the parks that you're near try every once
Speaker 3: in a while ago to a park that's not near you.
Speaker 3: You can volunteer to help out the park in some way,
Speaker 3: and you can join organizations like the National Parks and Foundation,
Speaker 3: the National Parks and Conservation Association because they are they
Speaker 3: back up the parks as best they can. And you
Speaker 3: can also donate money to them and in turn, they
Speaker 3: help parks out.
Speaker 2: And a donation can be a couple of bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be one hundred dollars bill in
Speaker 2: an ovelo. It can be a couple of bucks because
Speaker 2: all donations will add up.
Speaker 3: And when you when you go to any national park,
Speaker 3: there is usually some kind of fee box, not a
Speaker 3: feed box. Well, some parts have fees, most of them don't,
Speaker 3: so there are donation boxes and you just drop a
Speaker 3: dollar or five dollars in and that's fine.
Speaker 2: Okay. I'm going to take a break on this point.
Speaker 2: If somebody wants to call in with the last ten
Speaker 2: minutes of show, you can, or just keep listening. Dixie
Speaker 2: and I will try to be entertaining for the end
Speaker 2: of this Monday version of night Side time and temperature
Speaker 2: eleven nineteen degrees.
Speaker 4: Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Speaker 4: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dixie, guess what we got a call? Yes we do,
Speaker 2: and it's a person you've spoken to before. David and
Speaker 2: San Francisco, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 6: Hello Morgan, Hello Dixie, Hello Nancy, Hello Gray, Elo, Toni
Speaker 6: in Ohio and Glenn and Brighton and Martin's Exchange's birthday
Speaker 6: to everybody, it's same to you. And my question is
Speaker 6: this is to Morgan and Dixie. Why do they call
Speaker 6: the twenty one gun salute?
Speaker 2: You know, Dixie? Do you know?
Speaker 3: Not off hand?
Speaker 2: No? I do?
Speaker 3: Good God, this is the kind of thing that you
Speaker 3: would know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Morgan would know. Okay, Morgan, what is it?
Speaker 2: Because seventeen seventy six the Elaga Jacky of the birth
Speaker 2: of the United States dates. Add those numbers together, one
Speaker 2: plus seven plus seven plus six equals twenty one. I
Speaker 2: don't know why it's it's three volleys of seven. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's a patriotic gesture.
Speaker 2: Okay, is what it is.
Speaker 6: And more you're so good.
Speaker 2: Well, and Charlie Brown's father was a barber, because Schultz's
Speaker 2: father was a barber. Yeah, that was the last question there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and one more just on why Luther Kange's birthdays.
Speaker 6: He was actually born of Michael King Jr.
Speaker 2: I know that, yes, you know that.
Speaker 6: And why how do you get the name Martin Luther?
Speaker 2: I know his father decided to not that change.
Speaker 3: But what was it?
Speaker 6: Well, when Martin, when junior was a child, his father
Speaker 6: went to Germany to actually enhance because he was a
Speaker 6: pastor too, and he went there to actually enhance his
Speaker 6: abilities as a pastor, and he ran into the teachings
Speaker 6: and uh and uh of readings of Martin Luther and
Speaker 6: was very enhanced and decided to take his name. Okay,
Speaker 6: to change his name because Martin Luther was a radical,
Speaker 6: actually yes he was. Yeah, Actually the pope was going
Speaker 6: to have him summoned to Rome and to burn at
Speaker 6: the stake is a heretic, but you know.
Speaker 2: If you know, that's why the pope wants to see
Speaker 2: you don't go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, Luther was actually excommunicated and because he reallysed it
Speaker 6: up against what was called indulgences, which where you had
Speaker 6: to pay for your sins. I was making all the
Speaker 6: priests and the bishop's rich, and he didn't like that.
Speaker 6: So that's what happened.
Speaker 2: But it is topical because today we celebrated Martin Luther
Speaker 2: King's birthday. Now, do you want to talk about national
Speaker 2: parks on any level?
Speaker 6: No, I had my question for you about seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 6: I thought Pixie might know because they do do to
Speaker 6: anyone gun salutes off of ships and stuff, and he
Speaker 6: might have known that. So thank you, Morrian.
Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of what I've built my career upon,
Speaker 2: stupid facts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you are the ringtail Rounder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6: Where does that line come from?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: I don't know where'd that line come from?
Speaker 6: House of Games?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, remember that one we talked about that movie.
Speaker 6: Mike, you are the ringtail router. There you go, the
Speaker 6: hesitated maunt of line. Okay, well, thanks for taking my call, buddy.
Speaker 2: And uh please please, there may have another. That's what
Speaker 2: he said. Was that was why he said that, just
Speaker 2: to be a smart ass to the end.
Speaker 6: No, he was in the Marines, remember.
Speaker 2: I remember that. But somebody has just shot you and
Speaker 2: out of your last dying breath, do you give a
Speaker 2: smart bet answer like police? There may have another?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that that's a line that you give when you're
Speaker 6: in the Marines, after you have you Uh, you are
Speaker 6: either shot or you have to do too many push ups? Please, sir,
Speaker 6: may I have another?
Speaker 2: Then? I didn't know? Well, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yes, remember Mike was in the Marines.
Speaker 2: Yes, his character was anyway.
Speaker 6: Well the character you remember he had when he was
Speaker 6: at the union, uh, the telegraph station. He ran into
Speaker 6: the William Macy character and he said, here, take my money,
Speaker 6: you must take my money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he did that just to show Louise Fletcher's
Speaker 2: character that he was a car artist and he could
Speaker 2: get this guy to give him money.
Speaker 6: Yes, he was showing off to uh, to bargain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, very.
Speaker 6: Good, right, very good? All right, David, take care okay, Saturday, okay, buddy,
Speaker 6: you do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, And Dixie, we have no callers left, so let's
Speaker 2: kill four minutes. Shall we go?
Speaker 3: Right ahead? What do you got?
Speaker 2: Well again, you never really answered. You answered by saying,
Speaker 2: you don't know what. Ten years down the road the
Speaker 2: national parks would look like. I'm gonna pick one. Now
Speaker 2: to the park Yellowstone.
Speaker 3: Okay, you must have the King of the Mountain, the King.
Speaker 2: Of the Mountain. You must have an opinion about Yellowstone
Speaker 2: and what the government will do for it, or is
Speaker 2: the super duper volcano going to happen within the next decade.
Speaker 2: I'm probably They say it could happen within the next
Speaker 2: five to ten years, or it could be one hundred.
Speaker 3: Years, but more like a thousand years.
Speaker 2: And it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if they're that sure that it's coming.
Speaker 3: We're not going to be around what it does, true,
Speaker 3: because it does, we won't be around anyway.
Speaker 2: I plan on being in Vegas. That might be a
Speaker 2: bit too close, yes, a bit a bit. Now, do
Speaker 2: you have a website with people who can communicate with you?
Speaker 3: Just my personal one? I don't think I give that out,
Speaker 3: all right, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't know if you wanted to give it out. Nope, no,
Speaker 2: all right, We'll fine.
Speaker 3: They can they could, They could contact you somehow and
Speaker 3: you could give it out.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no no no. And that
Speaker 2: reminds me just to do my own personal plug. People,
Speaker 2: you want to come see me do trivia not tomorrow
Speaker 2: but any other Tuesday, two sixty nine Washington Street, the
Speaker 2: Midway Restaurant. I'm there from six to seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: And I want to thank Dan for filling in for
Speaker 2: Rob for tonight. Hooray for Dan Jacob, whycoth Gary King
Speaker 2: and you, sir, and I see Christian the cape is
Speaker 2: called back, but not enough time to take him. And
Speaker 2: he already came on once tonight, So Dan, you can
Speaker 2: tell him he won't make it tonight. We apologize. I
Speaker 2: want to thank Nanty, Nancy and Gray sitting next to
Speaker 2: me and the listeners.
Speaker 3: And remember, if someone doesn't call in tomorrow, I'm available
Speaker 3: to talk Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
Speaker 2: A subjected, A subjected, possible subject if if one of
Speaker 2: my other guests don't show. I don't think that's going
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 3: Yes, but in the past it has oh done.
Speaker 2: I've I've had guests not show up where they were confirmed.
Speaker 2: But what are you going to do? But as I
Speaker 2: was about to say, for all the people who listen
Speaker 2: tonight and as well called in, thank you. We do
Speaker 2: radio for you, and I appreciate your participation. And that's
Speaker 2: basically about it. So it's time for these two words
Speaker 2: that I use is my personal salutation by Boston