Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 2: I'm going Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, Madison. Hope you have a
Speaker 1: good weekend as well. My name's Dan Ray, the host
Speaker 1: of the program called Nightside with Dan Ray, the aptly
Speaker 1: named program. Just got back from out of the country
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. I'll talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit later, but I was up dealing with a
Speaker 1: very serious issue, which I will talk with you about.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Gary Tangway who sat in with
Speaker 1: us last night actually Wednesday night and Thursday, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate Gary doing that. And without any further ado, I
Speaker 1: want to go to a great guest talking about a
Speaker 1: fabulous event upcoming next week here in Boston. I'm delighted
Speaker 1: to be joined by none o than Jerry Greenfield. Jerry
Speaker 1: is the co founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream
Speaker 1: that needs no introduction at all. Jerry. Good evening, sir.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I am so excited about the annual Jimmy Fun scuper
Speaker 3: Bowl coming up next week.
Speaker 1: Well, you guys, and because you're now an international phenomenon,
Speaker 1: but you're a Vermont company, a New England company. How
Speaker 1: many years have you been involved? You and Ben been
Speaker 1: involved with the Jimmy fun Scooper Bowl.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I can't even remember. We weren't one
Speaker 3: of the original companies. We probably came in the third
Speaker 3: or fourth year. But it's something we look forward to
Speaker 3: every year. I don't know if people know about this.
Speaker 3: This is the biggest ice cream event in the universe.
Speaker 3: It's a fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund and Dana Farber
Speaker 3: Cancer Institute, and it happens in Boston every summer. It's
Speaker 3: the official beginning of the summer season. It's three days
Speaker 3: Tuesday June third, Wednesday June fourth, and Thursday June fifth
Speaker 3: at Boston City Hall Plaza. There's not just Ben and Jerry's.
Speaker 3: There's like ten other ice cream companies h and you
Speaker 3: pay one fee twenty bucks for adults, fifteen bucks for kids.
Speaker 3: All the money goes to the Jimmy Fund. All the
Speaker 3: ice cream companies donate their ice cream and you can
Speaker 3: eat as much as you want.
Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable event. It began in nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: and so far the Scuper Bowl, of which you have
Speaker 1: been such an integral part, has raised for the Dana
Speaker 1: Farber Cancer Institute seven and a half million dollars to
Speaker 1: support cancer care and research. And it is a fabulous event,
Speaker 1: no question about it. I happen to think that Ben
Speaker 1: and Jerry's is the best ice cream is. Actually, when
Speaker 1: I was a TV reporter, you will not remember this.
Speaker 1: We went up to do a story with you in
Speaker 1: Ben and Jerry. I'm thinking it's like nineteen eighty five
Speaker 1: or something maybe, and we actually flew in by helicopter
Speaker 1: onto the company. We made it kind of an interesting
Speaker 1: arrival and the helicopter land and safe and got us
Speaker 1: back home safely. But yeah, Ben and Jerry's will be there,
Speaker 1: that'd be a whole just many of the other ice
Speaker 1: creams manufacturers will be there. And I don't even want
Speaker 1: to ask you how much ice cream you have contributed
Speaker 1: over the years, but you focus, well, can I.
Speaker 3: Talk a little about all the other ice cream companies,
Speaker 3: because as you say, it's not just Ben and Jerry's,
Speaker 3: and I want to plug all of them.
Speaker 1: Let's give them all a plug.
Speaker 3: You know, Wigghams is going to be there, EDI's Friendlies
Speaker 3: hogandas Holy cow Hood, Lactade, McConnell's, Tillamook is there for
Speaker 3: the first time, and all the companies bring at least
Speaker 3: fall four flavors, so you are guaranteed to find something
Speaker 3: that's going to knock your socks off. And as I say,
Speaker 3: you can eat as much as you want. And most
Speaker 3: people say there are no calories when you eat ice
Speaker 3: cream at the Jimmy Fun scuper Bowl.
Speaker 1: I happen to be a believer in that, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I have ice cream down. Is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite health foods because it's refreshing, it's dairy based,
Speaker 1: and all of those food pyramids that I saw growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid always said dairy was right at
Speaker 1: the top. And I know they weren't lying to us,
Speaker 1: and it just makes all the sense in the world.
Speaker 1: And again next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, you can buy tickets
Speaker 1: in advance. I guess you can buy them there. There's
Speaker 1: also one a Scoopid Night within a twenty one plus
Speaker 1: happy hour event on June fifth. I'm not even going
Speaker 1: to what's going to be going on there, but that's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun as well. This
Speaker 1: is this is just just a great event for you guys,
Speaker 1: for all that you've done for the for the Jimmy Fund.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you know, and so it's not just
Speaker 3: raising money, it's not just eating ice cream. It's a
Speaker 3: real sense of community and people pulling together. I think
Speaker 3: you know, pretty much all of us have been touched
Speaker 3: in one way or another by family friends we know
Speaker 3: who've had cancer, and it's nice to be able to
Speaker 3: come together and celebrate, eat ice cream and also raise
Speaker 3: some money for a great cost.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, again, you guys have been great over the years.
Speaker 1: I know that some of your fans want me to
Speaker 1: ask this question. I don't want to put you in
Speaker 1: the spot, but will you be there at the Scooper
Speaker 1: Bowl on any of the days? I'm sure you got
Speaker 1: a business to run your copy there all three days.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be there Monday, the day before to
Speaker 3: try to get things set up, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: see if I can stick around, but I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to make sure everything is looking good
Speaker 3: for when we start on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Well. Also, I looked at the long range weather forecast
Speaker 1: and the weather's the forecast is there's a lot of
Speaker 1: rain tomorrow because it's a Saturday here in New England.
Speaker 1: That's all we do with it rain.
Speaker 3: Absolutely early in the week.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to be moving into some ice
Speaker 1: cream weather and the lines Ben and Jerry's are going
Speaker 1: to be great. The ice cream is going to be great.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thanks. We did this a
Speaker 1: year ago. I think it's wonderful when a company like
Speaker 1: yours is so much part of the community and participates
Speaker 1: and helps a lot of people along the way.
Speaker 3: That's thank you for your kind where you know, as
Speaker 3: I said, we're happy to do it with all these
Speaker 3: other ice cream companies who all do a great job,
Speaker 3: and it's nice I can promote them as well as
Speaker 3: Ben and Jerry's because they really deserve it well.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That's great a great competitive spirit. It's
Speaker 1: always good to acknowledge the other guy. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: people are going to be lined up for the Ben
Speaker 1: and Jerry. So anyway, thank you so much. Jerry. I
Speaker 1: appreciate as always your cooperation and a lot of times
Speaker 1: when we're plugging an event like this, we don't get
Speaker 1: one of the principles, and you've always been very accessible
Speaker 1: and available. I just want to say thanks very much.
Speaker 3: It is my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Right on beginning Tuesday, the scuper Bowl, Jerry Greenfield and Jerry's.
Speaker 1: When we get back. Not exactly sure we were going
Speaker 1: into lineup. I think we're going to go to our
Speaker 1: first guest. We had a little bit of a problem
Speaker 1: with the phones. It's on us, not on them. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking with Jack Zach Dowell Doell from US World
Speaker 1: and News Report about the safest cars. This is the teenagers.
Speaker 1: This is a time of year which can be very
Speaker 1: scary for parents because the young people want to drive,
Speaker 1: and in many cases they're going to be getting their
Speaker 1: own car and either going off to work or maybe
Speaker 1: heading off to college. They want to make sure it's safe.
Speaker 1: So we get a lot of great information for you.
Speaker 1: Whether you are a teenager or you are a parent
Speaker 1: or a grandparent of a teenager, stay with us. We're
Speaker 1: going to be providing you with all the information and
Speaker 1: the safest cars this year's edition of US News and
Speaker 1: World Report. My name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks is
Speaker 1: juggling things back in the control room as always. He's
Speaker 1: at the headquarters, the iHeart headquarters in Medford, Massachusetts. Reminds
Speaker 1: you that if you haven't already procured the new and
Speaker 1: improved iHeart app on whatever tablets, whatever computers, cell phones,
Speaker 1: et cetera, you'll want it this weekend, make a point,
Speaker 1: make a point of getting the new and improved iHeart app,
Speaker 1: and make us your first preset. Make WBC Boston's News
Speaker 1: Radio your first preset, and which means that wherever you
Speaker 1: are in the world, we will only be a fingertip
Speaker 1: away the length of your arm to your telephone, or
Speaker 1: to your cell phone, or to your tablet or wherever
Speaker 1: you might be your laptop. Anywhere in the world, you'll
Speaker 1: keep in touch with all of us here in New England.
Speaker 1: So with that, take a quick break. We're going to
Speaker 1: be back in just a couple of minutes with Zach Dowell.
Speaker 1: I hope that I'm pronouncing that name correctly from the
Speaker 1: US News and World Report.
Speaker 2: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right. By the way, I didn't ever get a
Speaker 1: chance in our scramble there at the top of the
Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour. Before we get to our next guest,
Speaker 1: let me just tell you that at nine o'clock time,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the newest controversy dealing with
Speaker 1: the market basket feud family feud market Basket? Is this
Speaker 1: a repeat of twenty fourteen? We will find out, But
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that at nine o'clock and then tonight
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock we'll be talking with the futurist Kevin Surrily.
Speaker 1: We spoke with Kevin a couple of weeks ago talking
Speaker 1: about the future of medicine. There's some amazing things going
Speaker 1: on in medicine which we're going to talk about, specifically
Speaker 1: things that maybe not all, not all of you have
Speaker 1: heard about these things, and some of these things are
Speaker 1: going to be predictive, meaning you'll be able to take
Speaker 1: some tests which will be able to tell you going
Speaker 1: forward whether you may be vulnerable to this disease or
Speaker 1: that disease, which raises some interesting moral questions as to
Speaker 1: whether or not you even want to know. So we'll
Speaker 1: do that during the ten o'clock hour and probably a
Speaker 1: little bit in the eleven o'clock hour tonight. But I
Speaker 1: am delighted to welcome Zach Dole. Zach, I mispronounced your
Speaker 1: name because it was spelled d e L. But it's
Speaker 1: it's spelled like I guess it's pronounced like Bob Dole
Speaker 1: or Elizabeth Dole.
Speaker 4: Correct, no relationship, Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having welcome. Sorry about our confusion we had
Speaker 1: some trouble with our phone lines. It was not on
Speaker 1: your end whatsoever. So US News and World Report does
Speaker 1: so many surveys, and the one that we're talking about
Speaker 1: tonight is very timely, and that is the Safest Automobiles
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Best Cars for Teens. What what? What?
Speaker 1: What actually standards did you use to decide not you
Speaker 1: weren't going like the fastest cars, the car that could
Speaker 1: kick it up to ninety five and twenty seconds already day.
Speaker 1: I assume right, safety must be a young factor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, So we created these Best Cars for Teams
Speaker 4: awards to help parents and teams make an informed first
Speaker 4: car purchase, and we focused on safety, affordability, and reliability.
Speaker 4: So to even be considered for an award, these vehicles
Speaker 4: have to rate highly for crash test safety. They have
Speaker 4: to have advanced safety features like forward collision warning, automatic
Speaker 4: emergency braking, things like that. They have to have a
Speaker 4: good reliability rating, which we get from our partner Jdpower,
Speaker 4: and they also have to be affordably christ So all
Speaker 4: of our winners start between twenty and forty thousand dollars. So, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: And these are new cars. We're not talking about used cars.
Speaker 1: We're talking about new cars here, So let's let's kind
Speaker 1: of go through some of the categories because you do
Speaker 1: have both SUVs and more traditional models. You have small SUVs,
Speaker 1: small cars, mid size SUVs, and mid size cars. Let's
Speaker 1: just start off with the twenty twenty five best New
Speaker 1: Cars for teens. So in the category of the least
Speaker 1: expensive but one of the safest cars is a Kia Soul.
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with that car. Tell us what makes
Speaker 1: that so attractive?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So in the basically going from cheapest to the
Speaker 4: most expensive, we've got the Kia Soul, the Hondai Tucson,
Speaker 4: Hondai Tucson Hybrid, and Super Forester in our SEV category.
Speaker 4: And like you said, the Soul is a great starting
Speaker 4: point because it starts around twenty thousand dollars, you're really
Speaker 4: going to have a hard time spending vehicles that are
Speaker 4: our price less than that nowadays as far as new
Speaker 4: cars go, and it's really packed with safety features, it's
Speaker 4: got great reliability, and it's just an easy car to
Speaker 4: get in and drive. So we think that's a great
Speaker 4: option for kids starting out. And in the new car category,
Speaker 4: we have the Toyota Corolla Hybrid, day A Lantra, the
Speaker 4: Honda Civic Hybrid, and Toyda Camera. So again a great
Speaker 4: jumping off point for younger drivers getting used to the
Speaker 4: road and wanting to have something that's safe, affordable, and
Speaker 4: something that the parents can like as well.
Speaker 1: I want to ask a question I'm sure is in
Speaker 1: the minds of some of our listeners right now, and
Speaker 1: that is that whenever I get a new car, even
Speaker 1: though I've driven for many years, it's a little overwhelming,
Speaker 1: particularly with a lot of the electronics that are now
Speaker 1: almost standard on some of these cars. Are these cars
Speaker 1: that you've identified which are safe and reliable in all
Speaker 1: of that, Are they also, I guess, consumer friendly for
Speaker 1: kids who are getting in a car. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have They're gonna have to pay attention on the road,
Speaker 1: they got to look out, they got to learn to
Speaker 1: drive defensive. He's a lot going on. Are they so
Speaker 1: computer literate. We're talking kids now eighteen to twenty two
Speaker 1: years old who are going to be getting that first
Speaker 1: If they're lucky new car either somehow they've hit the
Speaker 1: lottery of their parents are going to be very nice
Speaker 1: to them. Are any of these cars sort of knew
Speaker 1: what cars might have been when you and I were younger,
Speaker 1: or maybe when I was younger and there was very
Speaker 1: little electronics. There was the phenomenon and cigarette lighter and
Speaker 1: radio and that was about it. I'm just wondering, so
Speaker 1: is this a factor at all in your decisions?
Speaker 4: So yes and no. All these cars are going to
Speaker 4: have features that that we think we'll keep driver's attention
Speaker 4: up instead of looking down at their phone. So you
Speaker 4: have Apple car Play and Android Auto, which are a
Speaker 4: really great way to integrate smartphone features into the dashboard
Speaker 4: of the car. So you know, it's good to stay connected.
Speaker 4: It's good to have your gts right where you can
Speaker 4: see it in your line of sight. We don't want
Speaker 4: people looking down at their laps, at their phones or
Speaker 4: or what have you. So yes, there's going to be
Speaker 4: a lot of new technology in any new vehicle nowadays.
Speaker 4: But we feel very confident that these are are more
Speaker 4: approachable than most. But as a personal note, I would say,
Speaker 4: when you're buying a vehicle, it's really important to just
Speaker 4: get behind the wheel of anything that you're interested and
Speaker 4: just see what feels right to you. You know, you
Speaker 4: may really like one vehicle and really hate another, and
Speaker 4: they can both be great, safe, reliable vehicles, but there's
Speaker 4: just you never know until you get behind the wheel,
Speaker 4: behind the vehicle and drive.
Speaker 1: Now. One are the things I think. What are the
Speaker 1: tips I would give to anyone who's getting in the
Speaker 1: car behind the car for the first time. Are your sidelines,
Speaker 1: depending upon you know where you're more comfortable looking, what
Speaker 1: is precluding your your line of vision? I think sitelines
Speaker 1: are just really important when you when you fimiliar your
Speaker 1: eyes yourself with a car, tell me I'm right, tell
Speaker 1: me I'm wrong. What do you say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, one hundred percent. And you know there are
Speaker 4: features nowadays like blind spot monitoring that can sort of
Speaker 4: take some of the harder to see areas out of
Speaker 4: the equation and you can just you know, there's a
Speaker 4: camera there where they're never used to be ten fifteen
Speaker 4: years ago. But absolutely it's good to get behind the wheel,
Speaker 4: see what you can see, see what you can't, and
Speaker 4: identify those blind spots because if you, you know, buy
Speaker 4: a car today, drive it for ten years, you're going
Speaker 4: to be living with those blind spots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you also have four cars A Best
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Best Used Cars for teams, a small suv,
Speaker 1: a mid sized suv, a small car and mid sized car,
Speaker 1: and a couple of them. They're twenty twenty two cars
Speaker 1: except for one, which is a twenty twenty one. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about let's say the small suv, the small suv
Speaker 1: or the best suv is the as you have listed
Speaker 1: is the Hyundai to Sun Hybrid, that yeah, twenty five version,
Speaker 1: which is going to run anyway between thirty and thirty five.
Speaker 1: If you drop back three years and get used Hondai
Speaker 1: Tucson Hybrid, drop back to a twenty twenty two used
Speaker 1: what will that cost you?
Speaker 4: It's really going to depend on mileage and where you
Speaker 4: are in the in the country park, but you can
Speaker 4: usually knock you can probably knock ten thousand dollars at
Speaker 4: least off off the stick or that. So that's that's
Speaker 4: a pretty good savings of over just three years of
Speaker 4: you know, the lifespan of the new vehicle. So yeah,
Speaker 4: in our use category, we're highlighting the twenty twenty two
Speaker 4: Hondai Tucson Hybrid, the twenty twenty two Hondai a launch
Speaker 4: A Hybrid, the twenty twenty two Hondai Santa Fe Hybrid,
Speaker 4: and the twenty twenty one Subrew Legacy.
Speaker 2: So Honday's really.
Speaker 4: Hondai's really had a good showing in that category, and
Speaker 4: I think that really stands to show that they have
Speaker 4: a lot of value proposition built in.
Speaker 1: Now it's funny. I'm looking at these cars, both the
Speaker 1: best new cars and the best used cars. So I
Speaker 1: see Hyundai, I see Toyota, Subaru, a Honda, and a Kia.
Speaker 1: Kia is a Korean car, correct, Yes, Toyota is. I'm
Speaker 1: not a car expert. Toyota is that Japanese?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1: Hyundai is Korean?
Speaker 4: Yep. You're beatty thousands so far right.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna keep rolling there. Subaru Subaru is that Japanese?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: Man, I've heard all of these that I'm really guessing here.
Speaker 1: But the point is, you don't have a bunch of
Speaker 1: American car You don't have any American cars here, which
Speaker 1: says a lot about where we are in the world.
Speaker 1: You're looking at the best and the safest, which I respect.
Speaker 1: And I'm not asking you why American cars aren't included,
Speaker 1: but are American cars. We have a ways to go
Speaker 1: to catch up with some of these foreign automobile manufacturers, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think so. You know, we had eight spots to
Speaker 4: fill in this, and we took the best of the best.
Speaker 4: So when you have, you know, hundreds of vehicles really
Speaker 4: on sale and only eight spots to highlight the best
Speaker 4: of them, it's kind of going to be a look
Speaker 4: at the draw sometimes. These are all fantastic vehicles.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Chevy Tracks is another great small suv. It didn't quite
Speaker 4: make the top here, but you know, if you're going
Speaker 4: out you want to buy an affordable, safe, reliable, small
Speaker 4: TV Chevy Tracks. There you go. Okay, you know, the
Speaker 4: American brands have shifted away from some of the smaller cars,
Speaker 4: so you know, by nature they're just not participating in
Speaker 4: those segments anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's great. Look, this was a good interview because
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from it, and if I learned
Speaker 1: something from it, my audience will as well. Jack Dole
Speaker 1: US News and World Report. This was released just this
Speaker 1: week of mistake in May twenty eighth, So this is
Speaker 1: hot off the presses and it's available. What's the website
Speaker 1: where can people go?
Speaker 4: It's cars dot usnews dot com. You can read about
Speaker 4: all these cars and more.
Speaker 1: Sounds great, Zach. I appreciate your time tonight, your great interview.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it so much. We'll talk again.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: You're welcome when we get back on to talk with
Speaker 1: Jack Dougherty, the CEO of College Hype, celebrating Dorchester Day
Speaker 1: this Sunday. For those of you in Dorchester listen up,
Speaker 1: or those of you who might be going to Dorchester
Speaker 1: on this Sunday you want to listen up. We got
Speaker 1: some really interesting news for you.
Speaker 2: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Way Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Delighted to welcome a friend of many years, the CEO
Speaker 1: of College Hype, which provides all sorts of assistance to
Speaker 1: the Shadow Fund and to everyone here on Nightside, Jack Dougherty. Jack,
Speaker 1: welcome going to Nightside.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir, Dan?
Speaker 5: I'm doing excellent and as always, thanks so much for
Speaker 5: having me on the show. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you you're a great company. You
Speaker 1: produce wonderful products. Dorchester Day is this Sunday, and you've
Speaker 1: been participating as a Dorchester based company in Dorchester Day.
Speaker 1: I guess now for what thirty five years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty five years. You got it, Dan, What were
Speaker 2: you doing.
Speaker 1: Thirty five years ago? It was a little different college
Speaker 1: hype back then than it is.
Speaker 5: Today, right, Yes, that's a good point. It was a
Speaker 5: little different. Thirty five years ago. I had just gotten
Speaker 5: out of Westfield State College. We had started our business
Speaker 5: there selling funny T shirts. At least we thought they
Speaker 5: were funny, and we'd sell a couple hundred shirts junior
Speaker 5: and senior year, and we kind of wanted to keep
Speaker 5: it going when we got out, and so we decided
Speaker 5: to come up with a shirt for Dorchester Day. And
Speaker 5: we did a basic shirt that had on the front
Speaker 5: to gentlemen having a coffee and it said Dotchesterday, two pm.
Speaker 5: And then on the back it said Dotchester Day two am.
Speaker 5: And the coffee was spilling. Might have had a little
Speaker 5: Bailey's and the coffee was spilling everywhere, and they were
Speaker 5: they were having a little tussle. So that that began
Speaker 5: thirty five years ago, off first Douchesterday T shirt, and
Speaker 5: since then we've been we've been, we've been selling shirts
Speaker 5: up and down Dorchester av I will tell you, Dan,
Speaker 5: just when we started, we back in the back in
Speaker 5: the day, we'd come up with an idea. We'd print
Speaker 5: them in my mother's basement or at Beacon Sports with
Speaker 5: Frank Brellow and blob Boneaz. We'd get the shirts, we'd
Speaker 5: put them in Duffel bags. We'd walk up and down
Speaker 5: the street for four or five six hours, and then
Speaker 5: we'd go to the parties at night and try to sell,
Speaker 5: you know, our one hundred hundred and fifty shirts. And uh,
Speaker 5: it was just a lot of fun and it was exciting,
Speaker 5: and we would get all our friends involved, and you know,
Speaker 5: when it came time to pay them. I didn't really
Speaker 5: know much about business. I was a history major coming
Speaker 5: out of school. So we'd get them a free T
Speaker 5: shirt and a beverage and on we would go. And
Speaker 5: then another year we would do it all over again.
Speaker 1: Well, this year's going to be a little bit different,
Speaker 1: so you won't have the college high tent out on
Speaker 1: Dorchester Avenue or anything like that. But tomorrow, no tomorrow,
Speaker 1: if people decide to stop by your business, which is
Speaker 1: right on Gallivan Boulevard, I think everybody in Dorchester, right
Speaker 1: near Adam's Corner, if they you got a deal. So,
Speaker 1: if anybody still has one of the Dorchester Day shirts
Speaker 1: from the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2: This goes back to nineties.
Speaker 1: Yes, George Bush and Bill Clinton president, and they either
Speaker 1: wear that shirt or bring that shirt in. You got
Speaker 1: a deal for them. What's the deal?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the original there was thirty five percent off.
Speaker 5: But if they are nice enough to so they get
Speaker 5: thirty five percent off of anything in the store, because
Speaker 5: we've been doing this for thirty five years. But if
Speaker 5: they come in in they wear wearing a shirt that
Speaker 5: they purchased and they still still have it, we'll give
Speaker 5: them thirty five percent off, but we'll also take an
Speaker 5: additional fifteen percent off if they mentioned the godfather of
Speaker 5: talk radio, Dana, so they could get fifty percent off.
Speaker 5: So you could spend a couple hundred bucks with ha.
Speaker 5: Somebody spend four hundred dollars today in the store. So
Speaker 5: if you spend four hundred, you're really paying a two
Speaker 5: hundred because you're getting fifty percent off. So again, you
Speaker 5: have to have a shirt.
Speaker 1: They have to wear too.
Speaker 4: Godfather.
Speaker 1: Yes, they have got to wear it.
Speaker 5: Okay, they have to wear Yeah, they have to wear it.
Speaker 6: If they want to bring it in, that's.
Speaker 5: Fine too, but it has to be one. From nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety to nineteen ninety nine, and back then we did
Speaker 5: some funny t shirts. One was Bears Bears, Bouts.
Speaker 2: And the Boys.
Speaker 5: The other was a perception reality shirt. The perception was
Speaker 5: all these big strong men on the on the front
Speaker 5: and on the back. The reality was they they were
Speaker 5: a little bit, a little bit out of shape and
Speaker 5: they were having a long, long day on Dutchester today
Speaker 5: back in the day. So if they wear one of
Speaker 5: those shirts, we'll we'll take again fifty percent off. And
Speaker 5: if but they have to man the godfather of talk radio,
Speaker 5: Dan Rey and and it will be a great, great,
Speaker 5: great great discount for them.
Speaker 1: Well that's a moniker. I might adopt that. I've always
Speaker 1: thought of myself as No.
Speaker 2: We talked about that. I thought, yeah, we talked about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack, your company has been a huge success as
Speaker 1: a Boston based company. You you now have a significant
Speaker 1: number of people who you employ. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have to go into the UH to the to the
Speaker 1: specifics of the company, but you're growing. You you provide
Speaker 1: all sorts of services, just encapsulated real quickly so people
Speaker 1: UH refresh their recollection. You'll you have a I know
Speaker 1: a place in Weymouth, a printing area in Weymouth. Do
Speaker 1: you also have a store down there at this point
Speaker 1: or no.
Speaker 5: No, So what we have in in Weymouth is we
Speaker 5: have our screen print facility. We have four two automatic
Speaker 5: machines and a couple of manual machines, and then we
Speaker 5: also have six embroidery machines which we were able to print.
Speaker 5: We're able to sew out eighteen shirts at the time.
Speaker 5: So we do a lot of work with corporations, we
Speaker 5: do work with charities, and we do a lot of
Speaker 5: work with sports teams as well.
Speaker 1: And of course for you, the mothership is right there
Speaker 1: on Gallovan Boulevard.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, five Fony Galvin Boulevard and you can get
Speaker 5: there a number of ways online too, with Dorchester Apparel
Speaker 5: dot com or College Hype dot com.
Speaker 1: And it goes. I always pushed my listeners to go
Speaker 1: to Nightside gear dot com because Nightside sweatshirts and the
Speaker 1: Nightside hats and hooded sweatshirts and T shirts and coffee mugs.
Speaker 1: You've been a great partner for us over the years,
Speaker 1: and the proceeds of any Nightside material sales goes to
Speaker 1: help out the Shadow Fund, which is I know a
Speaker 1: charity that you guys have have helped out a lot,
Speaker 1: and the charity that my listeners have contributed to and
Speaker 1: helped out, and it says that's a great, great success
Speaker 1: story for a guy to come out of Westfield State.
Speaker 1: When you were at Westfield State, that's when your business
Speaker 1: really started, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, we had some you know, like I said,
Speaker 5: we were doing some work with the football team and
Speaker 5: we did some shirts towards the end of our senior
Speaker 5: year and one of the shirts was the potties over
Speaker 5: Now what do we do? And that was a big seller.
Speaker 5: And that's what, you know, kind of fueled us getting
Speaker 5: into selling the Dotchester Day shirts and also then we
Speaker 5: you know, threw it into sealthy apparel dot com selling
Speaker 5: shirts and sealthy. But but I will say Dan this weekend,
Speaker 5: we have a lot of nice shirts for people for
Speaker 5: all over Boston, but the parishes of Dorchester is a
Speaker 5: big success. The all roads lead to Dorchester t shirts,
Speaker 5: the mugs, the Triple Decker T shirts and one of
Speaker 5: our biggest shirts right now that's selling as well as
Speaker 5: Dorchester Day shirts is our gas tank shirts where we
Speaker 5: were able to donate five thousand dollars to the Boys
Speaker 5: and Girls Clubs of Dorchester for their new Dorchester Field House.
Speaker 5: So every shirt that's sold there we raise a few
Speaker 5: pennies for the the organization to help out.
Speaker 1: Well, you've been very supportive. I know of Martin Richards
Speaker 1: family and Bill Richards. Richard you work very closely with
Speaker 1: and you're very charitably inclined. Jack. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you played football at Westfield State, so it wasn't you
Speaker 1: were you. You not only were a participant, but also
Speaker 1: you were printing some t shirts for the football teams.
Speaker 5: And the reason I printed shirts, I think I told
Speaker 5: just before. The reason is I was always the third stringer.
Speaker 5: When I made it the second string, it was like
Speaker 5: hitting the number. I think I started one game my
Speaker 5: senior year. So for all your listeners, if you try
Speaker 5: to google me, you probably won't find anything. I did
Speaker 5: have ten tackles on special teams, but other than that,
Speaker 5: we don't we don't talk about us.
Speaker 1: Anyone who has ten tackles and special teams is considered
Speaker 1: sort of a special sort of player.
Speaker 6: That's sure that over four years, Dan, that's what.
Speaker 1: No, No, still, that's that's sort of like the Kamakazi squad,
Speaker 1: you know, what I mean you were, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: you can survive anything.
Speaker 5: I know. I do want to give a quick shout out.
Speaker 5: Our friend Joe Fuley turned fifty today. People thought he
Speaker 5: was I think you thought he was party you said,
Speaker 5: but yeah, he turned fifty. So we had a big
Speaker 5: party from at Weymouth facility.
Speaker 1: You say how to Joe, and say ha to Kathleen
Speaker 1: Hickey and all everyone else over there who treats me
Speaker 1: so well.
Speaker 5: So will Kathleen. Kathleen and Margaret. Kathleen's only fIF forty eight,
Speaker 5: and Margaret, I think is forty nine so and Jody's
Speaker 5: Jody's going to be fifty soon. So we get a
Speaker 5: lot of people under fifty. Joe's one of the older.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have stuck with you times as well. Jack,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of friends. Because everybody will say
Speaker 1: to me when I when I mentioned in the show
Speaker 1: that they'll say, do you really know Jack Dougherty. I'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know Jack Dougherty, trust me.
Speaker 5: Base Thanks man, Yeah, Dan, thank you so much. Great chat,
Speaker 5: and we'll talk to him all right, Thanks very much.
Speaker 1: We get back. We're going to talk about a very
Speaker 1: serious situation that you need to avoid. This weekend and
Speaker 1: actually later on during the month of June. That is
Speaker 1: the reconstruction of the Newton Wellesley Bridge at the intersection
Speaker 1: of one twenty eight and the Massachusetts Turnpike. We're going
Speaker 1: to be talking with Jonathan Golliver of the Massachusets Department
Speaker 1: of Transportation about why why everyone should stay at least
Speaker 1: twenty miles away from that intersection if you're smart and
Speaker 1: can avoid it. We'll be all with Jonathan Galliver right
Speaker 1: after this.
Speaker 2: It's nice eye with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Well, we have a traffic alert. Hearken close to your radio,
Speaker 1: keep your eyes on the road, but you want to
Speaker 1: listen to with Jonathan Golliver, my guest. He is the
Speaker 1: Massachusete Department of Transportation Highway Administrator, and in about thirteen
Speaker 1: minutes the Turnpike is going to be impacted, as will
Speaker 1: one twenty eight. Jonathan, I'm sure this is an evening
Speaker 1: that you've looked forward to for some time. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to night's side.
Speaker 6: Hey Dan, thanks for having me on. And yeah, we
Speaker 6: are counting down the minute. Just right about nine o'clock,
Speaker 6: things are going to get pretty tight out there on
Speaker 6: the turnpike. Things are going to down in one lane
Speaker 6: each direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I watched one of the reports that I with
Speaker 1: my old colleague Ted Weyman, and he had some people
Speaker 1: who said they had not heard about this. That has
Speaker 1: to be your greatest fear. I mean, there's been plenty
Speaker 1: of publicity about it. Where are these people been that
Speaker 1: haven't heard about what's going to happen? And for those
Speaker 1: who haven't, let's go one as you hit it for me?
Speaker 1: What happens in about twelve minutes from right now? And
Speaker 1: how long would it last?
Speaker 6: All right, Well, hopefully we're only talking to the stragglers
Speaker 6: at this point, and everybody has heard about it. We've
Speaker 6: got a pretty big media blitz at this point.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is so, this is part of a bigger project.
Speaker 6: There's a four hundred million dollar project. This is a
Speaker 6: train tunnel that passes underneath the turnpike for the It's
Speaker 6: the train that runs from the Western Line into Boston
Speaker 6: and the South station, and that particular train tunnel needs
Speaker 6: to be replaced. It's at the end of its life.
Speaker 6: So we are going to be just right at nine pm.
Speaker 6: We're going to be deploying zipper lanes that have been
Speaker 6: pre staged out there, going to constrain the pike down
Speaker 6: one lane in each direction. That's going to be in
Speaker 6: place throughout the weekend and right up until five am
Speaker 6: Monday morning so that we can demolish the first half
Speaker 6: of that train bridge train tunnel. We're going to come
Speaker 6: in and bring new prefabricated units into place and restore
Speaker 6: the road all back to its conditioned by five am
Speaker 6: on Monday.
Speaker 2: That's half of it.
Speaker 6: Then we're going to be coming back in three weeks
Speaker 6: on June twentieth and doing it again for the other half,
Speaker 6: for the other side. So this week this weekend is
Speaker 6: all about getting the westbound side of the turnpike on
Speaker 6: that train tunnel done next time when it's going to
Speaker 6: be getting the east outside done.
Speaker 1: How much is the bad weather, particularly the bad weather
Speaker 1: in the next twelve hours going to impact this effort,
Speaker 1: So we'll be.
Speaker 6: In good shape the big the next the next few
Speaker 6: hours are going to be doing the demolition and actually,
Speaker 6: if anything, the water helps us a little bit. So
Speaker 6: the if it was if it was winds, especially tomorrow,
Speaker 6: we'd be very concerned, but we're not seeing anything like
Speaker 6: that in the weather. We really are contractor this is
Speaker 6: obviously a really big thing when you have cranes out
Speaker 6: there when you have bad weather. So they have a
Speaker 6: special service just to get them make sure that they're
Speaker 6: going to be in the clear. And they made that
Speaker 6: call earlier this week that things were going to be
Speaker 6: We're going to be a green light for them and
Speaker 6: we we we're looking forward to it. We're going to
Speaker 6: be happy to get this done.
Speaker 1: So the key for everybody, the word has to people
Speaker 1: have to understand this is real, This is this is
Speaker 1: not scaring people. If they're crazy enough to not take advice,
Speaker 1: they could be tied up on one twenty eight is
Speaker 1: the Is the pike also going to be impacted as
Speaker 1: well or is it just primarily one twenty eight, So.
Speaker 6: It's actually primarily the turnpike. Yeah, one twenty eight will
Speaker 6: be impacted as well, but the turnpike is the big one,
Speaker 6: so that that's where this that's where the main impacts
Speaker 6: will be. So either if you're going east east to
Speaker 6: west on the turnpike is when you're going to be
Speaker 6: really in trouble. But you're going to see one twenty
Speaker 6: it's going to get a lot of congestion around it too.
Speaker 6: So people that would normally get off and on that
Speaker 6: on that exit from one twenty eight to the pike
Speaker 6: are going to you know you're going you're going to
Speaker 6: see some serious congestion. So but the turnpike itself, that's
Speaker 6: where it really is, and we we've done some projections.
Speaker 6: You get about one hundred thousand vehicles a day going
Speaker 6: through there on a weekday, and on the weekend it
Speaker 6: drops off a little bit, but it's still very very
Speaker 6: busy roadway. It's still around seventy five eighty thousand vehicles
Speaker 6: and if everybody shows up, you're you're looking at delays
Speaker 6: that that are easily into the two or three hour range.
Speaker 2: We've got a really.
Speaker 6: Good track record asking with the public, asking them to
Speaker 6: stay away from areas like this during these critical times,
Speaker 6: and we're hopeful that people are going to take our advice.
Speaker 6: They've again we've done this a number of times now,
Speaker 6: and that they will they will stay away and that'll
Speaker 6: leave it manage all for people that do actually have
Speaker 6: to be on the roadway.
Speaker 1: Now. I know people have nightmare memories of the Big
Speaker 1: dig which lasted for years and was cost overruns. This
Speaker 1: is nothing like that. This is a dramatic impact over
Speaker 1: I guess it's going to be somewhere around a sixty
Speaker 1: hour period beginning in about eight minutes from now until
Speaker 1: Monday morning, five am, So if you all can avoid
Speaker 1: the one twenty eight mass Pike area. How long has
Speaker 1: this tunnel that's about to be demolished, How long is it?
Speaker 1: What was its life span? How many years did it
Speaker 1: provide service?
Speaker 6: So this was put in place right at the beginning
Speaker 6: of the turnpike when the turnpike was put in, So
Speaker 6: it's you know, creeping up on seventy five years old, so,
Speaker 6: which is about what we try to get most infrastructure.
Speaker 6: We try to get it about between a fifty and
Speaker 6: a seventy five year lifespan. So it's done its job.
Speaker 6: We've done a lot of maintenance on this interchange, in particular,
Speaker 6: if you drive this interchange on a regular basis, we've
Speaker 6: done a lot of work on it over the years
Speaker 6: to keep it open. And it's just the whole thing,
Speaker 6: not just this tunnel, but that whole interchange. It's why
Speaker 6: we're replacing. It is just really at the end of
Speaker 6: its life and that needs this work done.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then when you wrap it up on Monday morning,
Speaker 1: at five am. At some point it'll get back to
Speaker 1: normal relative normal on the pike in on twenty eight
Speaker 1: and then later in June. You do it, you do
Speaker 1: the other side. What is the weekend in June? And
Speaker 1: we should talk in advance of that as well, but
Speaker 1: go when is that?
Speaker 6: So that's the weekend of June twentieth, and it will
Speaker 6: be the exact same thing, just on the opposite side
Speaker 6: of the roadway and again going in at nine pm
Speaker 6: on a Friday and opening up by five am on Monday.
Speaker 6: And you know, one thing to one thing to note
Speaker 6: da in that's that's that's Uh. We put a ton
Speaker 6: of work into picking the weekends, not not just planning
Speaker 6: for the work, but making sure that the weekends that
Speaker 6: we're picking have the least amount of impacts going on.
Speaker 6: There's always something going on in the region. You know,
Speaker 6: there's this is this is like planning a wedding. There's
Speaker 6: there's it's going to inconvenience somebody no matter what you do.
Speaker 6: But this these two weekends that we've picked have the
Speaker 6: least amount of events going on and therefore the least
Speaker 6: amount of traffic statistically, so we know it's going to
Speaker 6: be an inconvenience for some people, and and and for
Speaker 6: those people that are inconvenice, we hope that they take
Speaker 6: a lot of extra time to get to where they're going.
Speaker 6: But this these are the two best weekends that we
Speaker 6: could pick to get this work done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the graduation season, I believe is pretty much over,
Speaker 1: and obviously you want to get that done before we
Speaker 1: start for the summer driving season. And fourth of July
Speaker 1: and every weekend in the summer. Ideally, last question, Jonathan, Ideally,
Speaker 1: if all of this worked perfectly, and I realize that
Speaker 1: when I asked your question, your answer is going to
Speaker 1: be zero. But realistically, if you could cut it down
Speaker 1: from one hundred thousand cars a day, you know, tomorrow
Speaker 1: and Sunday, if you could get it down to what
Speaker 1: fifty thousand cars, would that be considered a success or
Speaker 1: would still have fifty there's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of backup.
Speaker 6: Well, even with fifty, there's going to be a lot
Speaker 6: of backup. We'd honestly like to get it closer to
Speaker 6: somewhere around twenty five thirty. So if we could get
Speaker 6: about a sixty percent diversion, that about sixty percent of
Speaker 6: the people that are normally there'd be someplace else. We're
Speaker 6: going to consider that a success. And again, it's not
Speaker 6: going to be without congestion no matter what you do there.
Speaker 6: When you reduce it by two thirds, you're going to
Speaker 6: see it. But we want to keep it manageable for
Speaker 6: the people who have to use the road. We're really
Speaker 6: asking if you don't have to be in that area,
Speaker 6: go be someplace else, take an alternate route, but really
Speaker 6: don't don't go passing through there if you don't need to.
Speaker 1: Oh, Jonathan, I really appreciate it. You have sounded the
Speaker 1: alarm now twice on night side. Any of my listeners
Speaker 1: who get caught there anytime, we'll throw them one twenty eight. Now,
Speaker 1: good luck with that, folks. But get off if you can,
Speaker 1: and stay off it tomorrow and Sunday, and don't even
Speaker 1: think about getting back on it until sometime sometime on
Speaker 1: Monday morning.
Speaker 5: I know this.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of coordination, and you're in We
Speaker 1: talked a couple of years ago about all the work
Speaker 1: that was done on the tunnels. You know, you're always
Speaker 1: in these high traffic areas doing very critical work. And
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people who are not
Speaker 1: going to pay attention are going to end up instead
Speaker 1: of taking four and a half hours to drive to
Speaker 1: New York, they end have taken eight hours to drive
Speaker 1: to New York or something like that. But they will
Speaker 1: only have themselves to blame. So this is the real deal, folks.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gulliver is a pretty serious guy about this stuff,
Speaker 1: and he's not overstating it whatsoever. You won't find me
Speaker 1: anywhere near these locations in the next sixty hours, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: and I wish you. I wish you all the best
Speaker 1: to you and everyone out there. It's got to be miserable,
Speaker 1: particularly if you get rainy weather tomorrow. So good luck
Speaker 1: with it. I hope it goes if far exceeds your expectations,
Speaker 1: let me put it like that, and if we've had
Speaker 1: a little bit to do with it, I'm very happy
Speaker 1: to have contributed.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thanks Dan, all right.
Speaker 1: My friend, we will we'll talk soon, Okay, we'll talk
Speaker 1: in advance of the June weekend as well. Jonathan Gulliver,
Speaker 1: he is with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. He's the
Speaker 1: highway administrator. He's very clear, stay away, stay absolutely away
Speaker 1: from that intersection of one twenty eight in the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Speaker 1: You don't even want to go near it. Please take
Speaker 1: his caution, and take his caution seriously. Or right, we
Speaker 1: get back to talk about another big fight, another big
Speaker 1: fight for the Demulis Supermarket. And I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of Demoulis Supermarkets, and therefore I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 1: the CEO, Arthur Demolis. But maybe some of you look
Speaker 1: at it differently. We're going to open it up and
Speaker 1: talk about that right after the nine o'clock news here
Speaker 1: on Nightside. Stay with us. We've got a good night
Speaker 1: coming up for you folks.