Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2: All right. We have reached the end of another week
Speaker 2: here on Nightside. It is Friday night, and I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you it has been a tough week, a long week,
Speaker 2: and we will take a couple of days and rest
Speaker 2: and relax. It's the subjects we covered this week, a
Speaker 2: lot of them were tough. I'm not going to go
Speaker 2: over everything we cover this week, just going to hit
Speaker 2: some of the highlights. Normally I will tell you about
Speaker 2: the eight o'clock hours. The one I do want to
Speaker 2: mention is the Mike Timlin event tomorrow on in Hopkins
Speaker 2: in the former Red Sox relief pitcher. This full world
Speaker 2: series rings great guy in a great interview on Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: talked with him about his effort to do the twenty
Speaker 2: second annual event in honor of his mom. Asked away
Speaker 2: from a als that's at Hopkin in High School tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: It's a great time at a great event, and I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope you take an opportunity to get out there,
Speaker 2: particularly if you live in anywhere in that area. We
Speaker 2: dealt with a lot of different issues. As we're just
Speaker 2: hitting on some of the bigger issues. We talked about
Speaker 2: the judge Shelley Joseph hearing in front of the Judicial Commission,
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Judicial Commission here in Massafona, here in the Bay State.
Speaker 2: Talked about the LA riots on Monday night. Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: talked about mass and casts for a couple of hours
Speaker 2: that situation has not gotten any better, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Talked about more reaction to the LA riots as well.
Speaker 2: Then on Wednesday night, we talked with a representative of
Speaker 2: the Pioneer Institute about the fact that our situation in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts economically, for the macro economic perspective, is not great
Speaker 2: and it has not gotten better in our recent years.
Speaker 2: We have falling behind other states. You can read that
Speaker 2: Pioneer Institute article. We talked with Dave Paleologus, the Great Poster,
Speaker 2: about a poll that he has taken here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Rhode Island, and New Hampshire and found that not only
Speaker 2: has Donald Trump's popularity diminished, but Democrats also their popularity
Speaker 2: is diminished. So maybe people are getting just tired of politicians.
Speaker 2: We talked with Scott Kerman. He wrote a book about
Speaker 2: Mike Dukaucus, former governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate called
Speaker 2: the Duke. And then last night we talked with the
Speaker 2: shorty Phil Cracy about Phil Tracy, about the Karen Reid case.
Speaker 2: We talked to that for a couple of hours. Also
Speaker 2: then broke off and talked about Israel, and both of
Speaker 2: those subjects what we spent most of tonight talking about. So,
Speaker 2: without any further ado, I would like to get to
Speaker 2: our twentieth hour topic tonight. Look, today is Friday, the
Speaker 2: third tee. I could easily do I use superstitious, but
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. I want to give
Speaker 2: you a chance to salute your favorite father. I say
Speaker 2: favorite father, I really mean your favorite dad. It might
Speaker 2: be your own dad living or passed on, or it
Speaker 2: could be your father in law. It could be if
Speaker 2: you have a son who is now has children of
Speaker 2: his own. It could be a favorite aunt. It could
Speaker 2: be a favorite uncle, excuse me, a favorite uncle who
Speaker 2: you feel particularly close to. The good part about this is,
Speaker 2: as you know, everything on Nightside is placed up on
Speaker 2: Nightside and demand that is our podcast website, I guess
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, and you can go there.
Speaker 2: Rob will have tonight's programs posted. Tonight's hours posted sometime
Speaker 2: probably by two or three o'clock this morning, before Rob
Speaker 2: goes home for a well deserved rest. Rob was off
Speaker 2: a couple of days this weekend, but he's kind of
Speaker 2: had a tough week too, so we hope he gets
Speaker 2: some good rest this weekend. And the good thing about
Speaker 2: it is you can actually anytime tomorrow or Sunday on
Speaker 2: Father's Day, play your tribute to your favorite father. Simil
Speaker 2: as that. So I'm going to open up the lines,
Speaker 2: and I know what happens often here is that everybody
Speaker 2: waits and then finally they get some courage up and
Speaker 2: they're calling at eleven forty five. Please don't do that.
Speaker 2: Give you time to talk about your favorite father. All
Speaker 2: of us only have well most of us only have
Speaker 2: one father. Some of us have more. Some children have
Speaker 2: a dad who passes away and they have a stepdad
Speaker 2: or whatever, so whomever it might be, I had one
Speaker 2: dad who was a dad who grew up during the Depression,
Speaker 2: fought in World War Two. It was prett He's tough dad.
Speaker 2: Kind of the nineteen fifties, not the nineteen fifties. Robert
Speaker 2: young father knows best, but you know, kind of, hey,
Speaker 2: this is what you got to do and you got
Speaker 2: to do it this way. But through it all, whatever
Speaker 2: disagreements we might have had, and we did have some,
Speaker 2: I knew that he loved me and my brother. It
Speaker 2: was a little bit of tough love in there, but
Speaker 2: that's what you know. Different different people have different experiences.
Speaker 2: So he hopefully is in a much better place. He
Speaker 2: passed away in the year two thousand, lived a long life,
Speaker 2: grew up poor, went off to war, married and raised
Speaker 2: a family, and always provided for the family. And again,
Speaker 2: he wasn't sort of what you would call your touchy
Speaker 2: feely give me a hugs on dad, But he was
Speaker 2: a dad who nonetheless by his actions, you knew that
Speaker 2: he loved his family and loved his children. So that's
Speaker 2: my tribute to my favorite father. Six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty triple eight nine two nine ten
Speaker 2: thirty or six one, seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's get it going after the break. I want to
Speaker 2: hear from men and women on this. Sometimes it's easy
Speaker 2: to talk about the moms, particularly the moms of a
Speaker 2: certain generation, because they were the kinder gentler, in many cases,
Speaker 2: the kinder gentler partner in the relationship but I want
Speaker 2: to devote this to Father's Day, so your favorite father,
Speaker 2: whomever that might be. I'm going to take a very
Speaker 2: quick break and I'll be right back. If you have
Speaker 2: called this week already, you know everybody gets a hall
Speaker 2: pass in the twentieth hour, and that's my thought tonight.
Speaker 2: I could have done superstits Friday the thirteenth, superstitions, but yeah,
Speaker 2: we're doing Father's Day, and I know you will not
Speaker 2: just point and as they say, if your dad, if
Speaker 2: you have the good fortune, if your dad's still being alive,
Speaker 2: you can do a tribute tonight and you can then
Speaker 2: play that tribute over the weekend for your dad and
Speaker 2: he can listen to your voice. Who knows, maybe he's
Speaker 2: listening to the show right now. We'll be back on
Speaker 2: Nightside right after this is a quick break, coming right back.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox were lucky tonight. They won two to
Speaker 2: one in extra innings, so they had a good Friday
Speaker 2: the thirteenth, and they have two more games with the
Speaker 2: New York Yankees at Fenway Park over the weekend. It
Speaker 2: looks as if the weather's going to work and hopefully
Speaker 2: it even looks as if the weather will work for
Speaker 2: all of us this weekend. That is going to be
Speaker 2: a nice day on Sunday and tomorrow the second half
Speaker 2: of the day will be fine. So we're we're going
Speaker 2: into a weekend. This might be the best weekend to
Speaker 2: have had it around these parts in a long time.
Speaker 2: So your favorite father, let's keep rolling here. Assume in
Speaker 2: most cases it will be your dad. It might not
Speaker 2: be your dad, That's okay, your favorite father. I make
Speaker 2: it very illiterative. Glenn, you were first up here on
Speaker 2: Brighton here, Glenn from Brighton here on night Side. Who
Speaker 2: would they favorite father be? Glenn?
Speaker 3: My gym teacher and wrestling coach. Michael Cataizolo he passed away,
Speaker 3: do you he knows you? I don't know if you
Speaker 3: remember him, but h okay, it was it was at
Speaker 3: Perkins for sixty years.
Speaker 2: Was he really? Wow? And what was his name again?
Speaker 3: Michael Catarizolo? We called him mister c.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can I can understand why Catisolo? Okay, Rich
Speaker 2: knows him? Okay? And your dad you you did? You?
Speaker 2: You were a boarding student at Perkins, correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, for seventeen years?
Speaker 2: Okay, how much interaction did you have with your dad?
Speaker 3: Well, my dad would be my favorite dad, had he
Speaker 3: had he not married a mean woman after my mom
Speaker 3: passed away when I was nine a breast cancer. Four
Speaker 3: years later, he married a mean woman. I mean she
Speaker 3: used to tie me how long I was in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: She used to chase me around the house with a
Speaker 3: wet towel, hit me with.
Speaker 2: A yeah, okay, okay, okay, I got that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this this gym teacher and wrestling coach, mister keataizau Zolo.
Speaker 2: Good good, good good. I didn't realize that you were
Speaker 2: a wrestler. Glenn.
Speaker 3: Well, that's another thing. My stepmother called the director of Perkins,
Speaker 3: Benjamin Smith, and told him to kick me off the
Speaker 3: team because I was going to beat my dad up.
Speaker 3: If he gave me an order, I wouldn't do it, which.
Speaker 2: Is not true.
Speaker 3: But I got kicked I actually got kicked off the
Speaker 3: principle of Perkins. I mean that he was an appeaser.
Speaker 3: Now he worked. He knew my dad before I was
Speaker 3: born in the forties, so you know, anything that he
Speaker 3: was told to do, he kept the peace. I crossed
Speaker 3: Perkins five points.
Speaker 2: They forfeited, Okay, Glenn, this I'm looking for some upbeat stories.
Speaker 2: This is not an upbeat story. But you did find
Speaker 2: a male who served as a role model for you
Speaker 2: in your life, and that, I mean, yeah, that's important.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't do this today, but back in sixty eight
Speaker 3: when I was fifteen, he invited me to his apartment
Speaker 3: one Sunday night and gave me coffee and cigarettes. Now
Speaker 3: I know that was before the you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get it, I totally get it, all right, Glenn. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that things didn't work out with your dad,
Speaker 2: but and you have I wish there was something I
Speaker 2: could say to make it right. I can't. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: happy that there was someone in your life who served
Speaker 2: as a male role model for you. And sounds like
Speaker 2: you're wrestling coach and Jim Teacher was a really good
Speaker 2: role model.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Very quickly, after my stepmother died of lukemia, my dad
Speaker 3: cried on my shoulder and apologized. He says, I wasn't
Speaker 3: she made me. You know she was not, and you
Speaker 3: were right about her.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well again, I want to be a little more positive,
Speaker 2: So I think we're going to move on here.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sorry I'm not trying to bring it down.
Speaker 2: I'm just no, no, no, no no. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: you've been through a lot, my friend, and I thank
Speaker 2: you for sharing because I think what a lot of
Speaker 2: people say, Gee, maybe maybe my dad had a flaw
Speaker 2: here or there, but Glenn had a tough he was
Speaker 2: dealt a tough card. Let's put it like that. Have
Speaker 2: a good weekend, pal, we'll talk so him. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. Let me go to Ron Ron, your dad.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about your favorite father.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 6: Dan, my dad's name is Bob uh and he continues
Speaker 6: to inspire me at ninety years old. Believable. He's still
Speaker 6: his work ethic. He still goes into the office periodically.
Speaker 6: I'll call it home and say his dad there, and
Speaker 6: you know he's gone to the office. Amazing. He directed
Speaker 6: a choir for fifty years. It really helped us become
Speaker 6: musicians at a certain time. Started a company from scratch
Speaker 6: because he hadn't do when there were still sixth of
Speaker 6: the eight of us there. And talk about confidence, he
Speaker 6: always gave me the mindset that there isn't anything that
Speaker 6: you can't do if you set your mind to it.
Speaker 6: And his famous statement that I'll never forget is regardless
Speaker 6: of what I was doing, going to take an exam
Speaker 6: or whatever. He would say, Ron, just do your best.
Speaker 6: And somehow I felt that, you know, a good deal
Speaker 6: of relief as I went off to do whatever I
Speaker 6: need to do.
Speaker 2: Well. I think I think that it is I think
Speaker 2: I think at this day and age, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of dads and who put pressure on their kids. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that it's it's important to realize that and
Speaker 2: and this is something that hey, you know, I should
Speaker 2: have been done a better job at that. Every child
Speaker 2: has different abilities and different gifts and sometimes, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I I've pushed my kids to play a lot of sports.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I did. But at the same time, the
Speaker 2: time that they spent playing sports, they might have pursued something.
Speaker 2: I kept them busy. I felt that, you know, keeping
Speaker 2: kids busy and tired and getting a good night's sleep
Speaker 2: was important. But it sounds to me like your dad
Speaker 2: hit the right notes and uh basically said to you,
Speaker 2: took some pressure off off. You said, do your best.
Speaker 4: Yeah this day.
Speaker 6: Wow, Well that's.
Speaker 2: That's great, that's great. And I know you came from
Speaker 2: a big family too.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: He was there, eight of us.
Speaker 6: He was married to my mom for seventy years before
Speaker 6: she passed. And to your point about treating everyone the same,
Speaker 6: we were all treated the same. In fact, such a
Speaker 6: work ethic. Can you imagine we had an assembly line
Speaker 6: for washing dishes after after Sunday dinner and coming home
Speaker 6: from mass I think you have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't leave that all to one person.
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like you, you know, with eight
Speaker 2: of you, ten of you, with your parents around the table,
Speaker 2: it was like a restaurant. Well good for you, and
Speaker 2: I'll bet you your your family. Everybody, everybody chipped in
Speaker 2: and they did it willingly.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And like you say, we all have our different strengths.
Speaker 6: I believe it or not. I'm the more serious one.
Speaker 6: Sometimes when I meet with them these days, I sit
Speaker 6: down and I'm wondering, chee did I grow.
Speaker 7: Up with them? You know.
Speaker 6: It's but we all had our different personalities and strengths
Speaker 6: and at the same time we were a team and
Speaker 6: we still are a team.
Speaker 2: So that's that for a family. That's very much. Thank you, Bob,
Speaker 2: Thank you Ron, really and say say hello to your dad, Bob.
Speaker 2: Tell him I said, Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 6: Okay, I will you Dan, happy father today.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you soon, have a good one. Goodnight, let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here. Florence in Groveland. Hi Florence. So are you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: I'm good, Dan, hanging in there.
Speaker 2: It's been a long week. Who's your who's your father?
Speaker 9: Well? My dad he was very special to me, super
Speaker 9: super father, and I lost him. He passed away when
Speaker 9: I was nineteen.
Speaker 2: That's a tough age. That's a tough age to lose
Speaker 2: your dad.
Speaker 9: And he had cancer. He had to go to the
Speaker 9: hospital a lot, and I went with him all the time.
Speaker 9: We went with him with his one of his homie buddies,
Speaker 9: and you know, it was tough trying to get through
Speaker 9: losing them, and it devastated me. And he was the
Speaker 9: most wonderful dad a girl could ever have.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's that's a perfect tribute.
Speaker 9: Yeah. And I can also mention my sons, my two sons.
Speaker 9: One hell bring up his girlfriend's son, and my other son.
Speaker 9: He has four children, and his oldest one he adopted
Speaker 9: and then he had three of its own.
Speaker 2: And that's a special parent. When they when they adopt people,
Speaker 2: they adopt children. There they're making a huge difference in
Speaker 2: people's lives. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And you know what his adopted son said when he
Speaker 9: knew he was going to be adopted, He said he
Speaker 9: wanted the last same last name as his family, as
Speaker 9: his sister and his other two brothers. And he was
Speaker 9: so happy. And you know, he looked at that.
Speaker 2: So he and adopted the family name of the family
Speaker 2: who adopted him, which is great.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Oh that's great. Always being very crazyful.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks Florence.
Speaker 9: You've been lucky.
Speaker 2: You've been lucky in terms of your dad and in
Speaker 2: terms of your son. You should be very proud.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you have a nice out of the state.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Florence. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Hey,
Speaker 2: have a great good night. By bye. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Bill in Pennsylvania. We got caught. We got opened
Speaker 2: one opening in both at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty and one at six month, seven nine, three
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Hey Bill from Pennsylvania. Welcome, How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing good?
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 4: Hey. My dad was a great, a great guy. He
Speaker 4: he came over this country just after World War One
Speaker 4: with my grandfather and grandmother and settled up in Milwaukee
Speaker 4: and Wisconsin. He graduated from Marquette University at twenty years old. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he graduated from uh Marquette at twenty years old,
Speaker 4: came down to Pennsylvania, got into the steel business and
Speaker 4: uh then later on uh moved up to Erie, Pennsylvania
Speaker 4: and started his own uh machine shop up there. And
Speaker 4: I'll tell you he was he was a great guy.
Speaker 4: He was tough as tough as nails, but he had
Speaker 4: a heart of gold and he would help his Uh.
Speaker 4: He only had five or six guys working for him,
Speaker 4: and they all loved him. And and uh he he
Speaker 4: he went through a lot of true I'm not going
Speaker 4: to go over to tragedies, but uh he he went
Speaker 4: through more tragedies and and most people and uh had
Speaker 4: great faith in uh in Jesus and took us kids
Speaker 4: to Mass all the time. After a lot of the tragedies.
Speaker 4: But uh uh he was uh and and and the
Speaker 4: good news was that I got to take care of
Speaker 4: him his last five years. And uh, well he's this
Speaker 4: So he would say, he would say, alcheme on, let's
Speaker 4: let's take a ride. And and then after uh and
Speaker 4: half an hour in the car, Dan he goes, what
Speaker 4: are we doing, just driving around aimlessly. Again.
Speaker 2: What country did you did your your dad and his
Speaker 2: parents emigrate from.
Speaker 4: Oh, they came from They came from Germany, UH after
Speaker 4: World War One. And my grandfather was a was a barber.
Speaker 4: He was a great guy too. My grandfather was in
Speaker 4: the UH. He actually with the Germans. Dan, but wonderful
Speaker 4: guy he he was.
Speaker 2: If he was living in Germany. If he was living
Speaker 2: in Germany during World War One, he probably didn't have
Speaker 2: much your choice that.
Speaker 4: He was. He was a great man. And I know
Speaker 4: I'm going to see him again.
Speaker 2: So well, that's that's the most important thing. That is
Speaker 2: the most important gift that a parent can give children,
Speaker 2: I think is a strong faith. Bill.
Speaker 4: All right, Dan, you have Happy Father's Day to you.
Speaker 2: Happy Father's Day to you. My friend will talk again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill, all right, day, all right, good night,
Speaker 2: all right. The only line open is six one, seven thirty.
Speaker 2: We got the news coming up here. I want to
Speaker 2: get as many Father's Day stories in and again, those
Speaker 2: of you who have a father who's still alive, think
Speaker 2: about calling and UH tell us who your favorite dad is,
Speaker 2: favorite father and if it happens to be your dad
Speaker 2: or father, who's still alive. You can play this for them.
Speaker 2: Just go to Nightside on demand dot com and you
Speaker 2: can queue it up for them someday on Father's Day.
Speaker 2: And I think that might be a great gift that
Speaker 2: you could provide courtesy of Nightside, free of charge. Back
Speaker 2: on Nightside after.
Speaker 1: This, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Yeah, let's keep rolling. We're doing
Speaker 2: basically Father's Day tributes. If you are lucky enough to
Speaker 2: have had a dad growing up, or someone in your
Speaker 2: life who is uh was a male figure and you'd
Speaker 2: like to wish them happy Father's Day, you are more
Speaker 2: than welcome to join the conversation. My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: We will keep it rolling here on Nightside, coming right
Speaker 2: to the calls. We've got it without any further Ado,
Speaker 2: let me go to Joe and Plymouth A Joe, welcome
Speaker 2: next on Nightside. Gor ahead, Joe.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dan, I don't want to father. Growing up, he
Speaker 7: was the second son of uh, you know, for six
Speaker 7: of them, and my godfather his older brother, and he
Speaker 7: went off the Korea and my father didn't because you
Speaker 7: were the youngest son and charried in the name on
Speaker 7: and Anyway, my godfather came back from Korea, which he
Speaker 7: showed playing for the Army hockey team for three years.
Speaker 7: That was the service as the veteran.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad way to do your service.
Speaker 3: That's what.
Speaker 2: Did he play hockey in high school or college or did?
Speaker 2: That's not the sort of game that you.
Speaker 7: That you pick up late in life even, No, he
Speaker 7: played it. He played at BC.
Speaker 2: Oh really, whoa Okay, must have been a pretty good player.
Speaker 2: So he he's played at BC.
Speaker 7: Wow, yeah, he wrapped. He wrapped later, you know, from
Speaker 7: from thirty five forty years or whatever, you know, college hockey.
Speaker 2: What was what's his last what's his last.
Speaker 7: Name, mcgaffigan, Billy mcgaffigan. Okay, it would be he'd be
Speaker 7: in his he'd be in his late mid to late nineties,
Speaker 7: if he was a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that's that's quite a quite a career,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. That's for sure. What's his first name, Joe?
Speaker 2: What was his first name? Billy? Okay, I got it, Bill, Bill.
Speaker 7: My father was Joe. My father was Joe. I mean,
Speaker 7: you are in mixed up. I was till I was
Speaker 7: leading up to my father's story. So my my father,
Speaker 7: my uncle got back from Korea. My m and my
Speaker 7: father bought season tickets to the Bones in nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 7: Oh that nineteen the nineteen sixty they bought season tickets
Speaker 7: to the Boston Patriots.
Speaker 2: You yes, you could back in those days. Yeah, those
Speaker 2: are great, that's great.
Speaker 7: Nineteen sixty six, at age four, I went to my
Speaker 7: first Bruins game. My father took me to see none
Speaker 7: other than Bobby or Yes, yes, exactly. So I saw
Speaker 7: him for ten years, and but my father showed me
Speaker 7: how to be your father and Shoe what not important?
Speaker 2: How many children? How many children do you have yourself? Joe?
Speaker 7: Three three?
Speaker 2: Well, happy happy Father's Day to you, and thanks for
Speaker 2: calling in. And I remember in your dad, I do.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate you taking the time. Be well, my friend. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks Joe. All right, let's keep the only
Speaker 2: line is six point seven two, five, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Gonna go next to another Joe. We'll go from Joe
Speaker 2: in Plymouth to Joe and Boston. Joe in Boston, you
Speaker 2: were next on nightside. Go ahead, Joe, all right, I'll
Speaker 2: be Joe.
Speaker 10: You'll miss today.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, I know what Joe, this is Happy Father's
Speaker 2: Day to you.
Speaker 10: Ah, well, it was I called to say happy father
Speaker 10: say to you because I know you're a good one.
Speaker 11: And by the way, I might not be modest, but
Speaker 11: I am one myself.
Speaker 4: I think that I'm a pretty good time myself.
Speaker 2: Well, I know your your children, met your children, and
Speaker 2: I can testify to that. I think you've done a
Speaker 2: great job with those kids.
Speaker 12: And uh and going back, I mean, my dad was
Speaker 12: an amazing guy.
Speaker 10: Even though my parents'.
Speaker 11: They divorced when I was a young child, my father
Speaker 11: was the most responsible guy in available to me in
Speaker 11: a big example. I mean, I can ask for any
Speaker 11: better father.
Speaker 10: I lost them.
Speaker 12: It's going to be all the stands.
Speaker 10: It's going to be nine years.
Speaker 12: And before that, my grandpa was.
Speaker 2: My word.
Speaker 11: So I mean, you know, all their dads out there,
Speaker 11: just be a good dad.
Speaker 4: To your kids.
Speaker 10: You know, that's all there is.
Speaker 2: It's a big responsibility. It's a tough job. I mean,
Speaker 2: dads are expected to do a lot more these days
Speaker 2: than they did in the past. I mean in the
Speaker 2: pasty of the providers, but now dads are expected to
Speaker 2: do some things that maybe they were not expected to
Speaker 2: in the past.
Speaker 12: And if there's one thing like for instance, with me
Speaker 12: on my case, I have a grandson that he's fifteen.
Speaker 12: That's one that you know, and with this kid.
Speaker 10: I'm involved. And I then even though with my lane
Speaker 10: of work, I make a point to driving to school,
Speaker 10: to your school, to Boston Latin school in because sometimes
Speaker 10: he's fifteen. Now I don't have you know, if we're
Speaker 10: at the house, he's doing his own thing. But I
Speaker 10: get that half an hour just to myself, just him
Speaker 10: and I and I teach.
Speaker 11: I mean, we talk so much about life. He's very mature.
Speaker 11: And that's what I said, Dad, you know.
Speaker 10: He's supposed to do it. I'm proud of it. I
Speaker 10: will call myself a good dad.
Speaker 2: Well, but but I feel good about it. Well that
Speaker 2: that is the best investment that you could make in
Speaker 2: terms of time. I gotta tell you, those are those
Speaker 2: are I wish I could have those days back, but
Speaker 2: but you know, once they're gone, they're gone. Joe.
Speaker 12: So yeah, because my own kids, I didn't have the
Speaker 12: time because I was so busy doing work. But you know,
Speaker 12: with him, I can do that, and you know, and
Speaker 12: I loving every second of it. And my main reason
Speaker 12: to call is just to wish you happy.
Speaker 10: If how to stay Dan.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I thank you, Joe, right back at you,
Speaker 2: and we will see each other hopefully before the summer
Speaker 2: is over. Okay, I'm looking.
Speaker 12: Forward to I love you and I appreciate it that
Speaker 12: I wish you all the best.
Speaker 2: Right back at you all those points. Thanks Joe, We'll
Speaker 2: talk soon. I also want to take a moment and
Speaker 2: commend my son who has two children, our grandson Benjamin,
Speaker 2: who is soon to be three, be three on the
Speaker 2: fourth of July, and a new little addition to the family,
Speaker 2: beautiful baby girl, a daughter, a granddaughter for us Caroline
Speaker 2: Ruth and my son Daniel and his wife Lindsay. Daniel's
Speaker 2: a good dad. He is a very attentive dad, probably
Speaker 2: more than I was. And so he's also my favorite,
Speaker 2: my favorite living father. Let's put it like that. I'll
Speaker 2: put it like that, all right, All now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, I got some open lines here, and this
Speaker 2: is crazy. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten, thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven nine three one ten thirty Alex and
Speaker 2: millis Alex your favorite dad? Who would that be your
Speaker 2: favorite father?
Speaker 8: My dad's girls. He would have been ninety seven this
Speaker 8: coming Sunday. Happy heavenly Birthday to him and Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 8: He raised on one of six siblings, and he put
Speaker 8: us all through school. He came to this country, u uh,
Speaker 8: you know on like a ten ten spot and uh,
Speaker 8: you know, worked at Jimmy's Harbor Side and then decided
Speaker 8: to get his own restaurant. And like I say, all
Speaker 8: through school.
Speaker 2: What what restaurant was that? When? When was he Alex?
Speaker 2: When was Jimmy's? Was my favorite restaurant for many years
Speaker 2: the Dualist family ran that restaurant and they were, you know,
Speaker 2: Jimmy and Charlie Dulis. Uh what years was your dad?
Speaker 8: Did your dad work at Jimmy's back in the late sixties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he opened his own restaurant.
Speaker 8: Which restaurant was actually it was actually a coffee shop
Speaker 8: breakfast place, and it was in Dorchester over by Saint
Speaker 8: Mark's who probably familiar, uh, just between Fields Corner and Aschmont.
Speaker 8: And then finally and then a second place after that
Speaker 8: in Rossendale and it's by Rossie Square. So in both
Speaker 8: cases he worked so hard, he never really took much time,
Speaker 8: you know, because he wanted to make sure we were
Speaker 8: taken care of, and we all were participating in the
Speaker 8: restaurant as kids.
Speaker 2: And he would have been you said, he would have
Speaker 2: been ninety seven ninety so, yeah, he was born then
Speaker 2: in he was born in.
Speaker 8: Nineteen twenty eight, yes, nineteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, but how long did he live? Did he live?
Speaker 2: Did he live?
Speaker 8: He would have been ninety seven years old, so he
Speaker 8: lived ninety six and a half.
Speaker 2: Oh, so he's just recently passed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this past six six months ago.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry to hear that, but boy, what a great
Speaker 2: run for him, Alex. He has been very proud of
Speaker 2: you and your siblings and sounds like a worked up guy.
Speaker 2: What did he do with Jimmy's by the way, was
Speaker 2: he was he.
Speaker 8: He worked at the kit shut it off as a
Speaker 8: dishwasher and then became a cook.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Actually, Jack Bordon, I think, if my memory serves me,
Speaker 8: did a piece of my dad, you know, at his restaurant,
Speaker 8: at his breakfast place you look at Grochester. Yeah, and
Speaker 8: with all my siblings and you know, we still have
Speaker 8: the old tapes and stuff.
Speaker 2: Je I worked with Jacket Channel four for many years.
Speaker 2: He was who's an older reporter when I was when
Speaker 2: I was a young rookie reporter. Really nice guy. He
Speaker 2: was very interested in the concept of the sky, and
Speaker 2: he always tried to encourage people to look up and
Speaker 2: realize how beautiful the sky was. That was Jack's that
Speaker 2: was Jack's yea in his life besides his fans. Well, Alex,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you very much. I wish your dad
Speaker 2: was still with us, but I'll tell you if he's
Speaker 2: listening tonight in a better place, he's got to be
Speaker 2: very proud that you took the time to call. Thanks, Alex,
Speaker 2: thank you much.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Happy Father's Day.
Speaker 2: Happy Father's Day to you as well. All right, now,
Speaker 2: I have wide open lines, so if we if you want,
Speaker 2: I'll talk for the next ten minutes, which will be fine. Uh,
Speaker 2: but I would prefer to hear from you at six
Speaker 2: one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. Again, I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people are a little shy to to talk about
Speaker 2: their dad, or maybe they have someone else in their
Speaker 2: life who is a father figure.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Those stories are important stories as well. So uh, well
Speaker 2: we get some lines six one seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: It's up to you. It's I can't dial the phone
Speaker 2: for you, but you can dial the phone for me.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, we have full lines. Thank you
Speaker 2: all very much. Let's get going here and let's get
Speaker 2: everybody in this unbelievable John and Lexington. John, thanks for
Speaker 2: calling in next on Nightside, right ahead.
Speaker 4: Sure, anytime. Yeah, my dad was somebody that wasn't you know,
Speaker 4: the typical of the of his generation. He was born
Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty. Not the easiest to grow up with.
Speaker 4: You know, life was tough, and he lost a lot
Speaker 4: all through his life and had probably permanent PTSD, starting
Speaker 4: from you know, losing family members as a kid and
Speaker 4: so forth. And then the Navy after that, where he
Speaker 4: was a celestial navigator if you can believe that. Then
Speaker 4: in the North Atlanta using the Sexton and the book
Speaker 4: in any encyclopedia you can imagine. And then he was
Speaker 4: in the Pacific and his ship was blown up and
Speaker 4: he was a great swimmer from college. So he swam
Speaker 4: for twenty four hours until the fuel boats saw him.
Speaker 4: He swam after the fuel boat that was it was
Speaker 4: running away from the from the you know, his ship
Speaker 4: was just you know, blown to pieces, and he lost
Speaker 4: a lot of his mates. They were in the in
Speaker 4: the in the raft and was able to get the
Speaker 4: fuel boat boat back to them and rescued him. A
Speaker 4: lot of them just lost their minds and go overboard,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But anyway, he married and had five children. He was
Speaker 4: an architect here in in Boston for many years. And
Speaker 4: as we got he moved along and I moved along
Speaker 4: an age we stayed together, and we became closer as uh,
Speaker 4: his life, you know, as life happened, and my four
Speaker 4: other brothers were very distanced, and I stayed close to him,
Speaker 4: so I missed him every day.
Speaker 2: Oh what a great story. What it sounds like an
Speaker 2: unbelievably unbelievably great, unbelievable Hey, thanks for sharing that story, John,
Speaker 2: that I mean, what a what a life you just
Speaker 2: laid out here.
Speaker 8: That's an amazing Yeah, like those guys in that generation,
Speaker 8: he just he just answered that. He just answered the call.
Speaker 8: That's that's what he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Tom, Yeah, and it's I can My dad
Speaker 2: spent two and a half years in China, Bourman, India,
Speaker 2: and uh, I know exactly the personality you're talking about Hey, John,
Speaker 2: appreciate your call so much. That was a great call.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Thank you, John. Good night, have
Speaker 2: a great weekend, Happy Father's Day. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Lisa and evert Lisa your next time, nightside. We're going
Speaker 2: to get you in a couple more in at least.
Speaker 2: Hi Lisa, Hi Nan, how are you. I'm doing great good.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to shout out to everybody, all the fathers,
Speaker 5: Happy Father's Day. Great and I won't take too much time.
Speaker 5: I just want to talk briefly quickly about my dad.
Speaker 5: He's been gone since twenty twenty, and he was a
Speaker 5: great father. Worked very hard in his life. He worked
Speaker 5: at and underwent devil Ham for many years and then
Speaker 5: he went he was a cop, Barrel's cop, and then
Speaker 5: he went to doing state police. So he he did
Speaker 5: a lot and to support his family and did a
Speaker 5: great job. Great job.
Speaker 2: Wow. So that's so typical of that generation. So typical,
Speaker 2: just put their head down and did what had to
Speaker 2: be done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know, back then, you know, you know
Speaker 5: we had you know, my mom was a stay at
Speaker 5: home mom. So you know, he he did everything and
Speaker 5: he did it great. And you know, he passed away
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty from kidney did he was he did
Speaker 5: dialysis for many many years, so it did catch up
Speaker 5: with him, but you know, unfortunately, but you know, he
Speaker 5: had a lot of years and you know, he was
Speaker 5: a great dad.
Speaker 2: So well, thank you for joining us, Lisa. I'm so
Speaker 2: glad that you that you took the time. And hopefully
Speaker 2: he's in a better place than he's hearing you tonight.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, thank you, thanks Lisa, Thank.
Speaker 2: You very much, appreciate your call. All right, let me
Speaker 2: go to Stephanie in Eastbridge Water. Stephanie, you're next on nice,
Speaker 2: I go right ahead.
Speaker 13: Hi, Dan, happy father, say to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Tell us about what what Who
Speaker 2: was your favorite father?
Speaker 13: My favorite father is my dad Paul, who's almost gone.
Speaker 13: Sorry two years now.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's okay, Yeah, that's okay, right ahead.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 13: It's really tough sometimes, you know, as as you know.
Speaker 6: Ho I'm sure.
Speaker 13: Anyways, my dad's a great dad. He was married to
Speaker 13: my mama, was almost fifty fifty nine years and huge
Speaker 13: family man, very proud army guy. He was in Vietnam,
Speaker 13: which he so come to Louis body disease, which was
Speaker 13: from agent orange. Unfortunately, but he got from the from
Speaker 13: the army, so he really fought hard for my mom
Speaker 13: to get that. And I'm very proud family guy.
Speaker 7: We had.
Speaker 13: We had twenty cousins in my on my mom's side,
Speaker 13: and he was there for them all and he was
Speaker 13: just I can't even say I'm enough about my dad.
Speaker 7: Amazing.
Speaker 2: Stephanie, you said it well. I'm glad you shared with
Speaker 2: us tonight. Thanks so much. And I'm sure he's listening
Speaker 2: in a better place.
Speaker 6: Yep, he is.
Speaker 7: I know he is.
Speaker 2: Thanks much better, be well, be well, Thank you for calling.
Speaker 2: These are that we've saved the best calls for last.
Speaker 2: Dennis and Lowell. Dennis want to get you in here
Speaker 2: under the wire.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Dennis, Absolutely, Thank you. Dan. Happy Father's Day, right,
Speaker 4: I got you, go right ahead. Similar story to the
Speaker 4: other three callers. My father was in the Navy during
Speaker 4: World War Two on a destroyer they got sunk in
Speaker 4: the Mediterranean. He was a great twimmer, so you know,
Speaker 4: he got picked up threading water. He also was a policeman,
Speaker 4: you know, for thirty five years. And I you know,
Speaker 4: I now have two grandchildren. I get a brag about them.
Speaker 4: They're playing in the championship lacross game football Ricker tomorrow
Speaker 4: at Maritimes.
Speaker 2: What a great way for you to celebrate Father's Day.
Speaker 4: You bet you all right? Thank you very much, Dan Dennis.
Speaker 2: Happy Father's Day to you. Talk soon. How much time
Speaker 2: we got a couple of minutes, one minute, I leen,
Speaker 2: I can give you about thirty seconds. I lean you
Speaker 2: the last call of the night.
Speaker 14: Okay. Well, I have fond memories of my father taking
Speaker 14: us out to look at the star in our backyard,
Speaker 14: and he definitely stimulated my lifelong interest in science.
Speaker 4: And he what a great legacy.
Speaker 14: Yes, absolutely, And he also took me to work where
Speaker 14: he worked in an electro plating company, and I learned
Speaker 14: about that as a very young child. I'm very appreciative.
Speaker 2: All right, well, I appreciate propreciative of your calling. We
Speaker 2: will talk soon. You got in under the wire. Thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks Alien, have a great weekend. Good night. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: done for the night. As always, Rob, thanks for getting
Speaker 2: back get better this weekend. Rest up, all dogs, all cats,
Speaker 2: all pets, All all pets go to heaven. I also
Speaker 2: want to thank Karen, who has did a great job
Speaker 2: this week for us in Marita's absence. All dogs, all cats,
Speaker 2: All pets go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rais
Speaker 2: who passed fifteen years ago in Febu. That's where all
Speaker 2: your pets are passed. They loved you and you loved them.
Speaker 2: We'll see you again on Monday night. Everyone, have a
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