Speaker 1: It's nice size, Dan Ray, I'm going mazy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back, everybody. We have reached the twentieth
Speaker 2: hour of the week here on Nightside, and I think
Speaker 2: all of you who are regular Nightside listeners know that
Speaker 2: at the twentieth hour of the week we take kind
Speaker 2: of a pause from our sometimes contentious conversations and we
Speaker 2: first of all, we look back. And one of the
Speaker 2: big stories this week has been the Stewart health crisis,
Speaker 2: which tonight seems to have perhaps come to some form
Speaker 2: of a resolution. We'll have to see if all of
Speaker 2: the machinations work out. But I will remind you that
Speaker 2: we started off this week by talking about a blind
Speaker 2: high school football team out in California that did very
Speaker 2: very well, although excuse me, a deaf team, so that
Speaker 2: all of the players were deaf and yet they were
Speaker 2: able to function very effectively. We talked about the bull
Speaker 2: Riders coming back to Manchester, New Hampshire. We talked about
Speaker 2: Smoky the Bear eightieth birthday this month, and talked with
Speaker 2: doctor Vince Callahan about back to school anxiety. I've spent
Speaker 2: a little bit of time recapping the Night Side trip
Speaker 2: to with listeners to Italy earlier this week. If you
Speaker 2: want to listen to NY of these hours, of course,
Speaker 2: you always can go over the weekend to Nightside on demand.
Speaker 2: We then spent at least an hour and a half
Speaker 2: talking about the crisis, the Steward Hospital crisis here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: We asked the question about whether it's okay to steal
Speaker 2: another candidate's idea. You know, I guess was on Monday,
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris came out with a strong statement saying
Speaker 2: that there should be no taxes on tips, you know,
Speaker 2: for waitresses, uber drivers, lift drivers, people at casinos. Well,
Speaker 2: the problem was that Donald Trump had articulated that point
Speaker 2: of view of a few months prior. But that's okay.
Speaker 2: Then we talked on Tuesday night with Nicole Davis about
Speaker 2: TSA complaints at Logan Airport. We talked about membership sharing
Speaker 2: and how some of these companies like Netflix and Costco
Speaker 2: are trying to tighten that up. Talked about super ages,
Speaker 2: super agers, people who can live well into the eighties
Speaker 2: and nineties with doctor Patrick Porter, talk with Scott Barredale
Speaker 2: about on a political marketing. Then we had an hour
Speaker 2: with Professor John McDonald the Harvard chan School of public Health.
Speaker 2: That will be our hour of the week that we're
Speaker 2: going to focus on Sunday night. So if you want
Speaker 2: to listen to the best of Nightside on Sunday night
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock, you'll hear that hour again. And then
Speaker 2: we did speak again for another half hour about the
Speaker 2: Sewart health crisis, and then talked about bike lanes in Boston.
Speaker 2: It was an interesting article by Brian McGrory in the
Speaker 2: Boston Globe. He is not an opponent of bike lanes,
Speaker 2: but feels that bike lanes on Boylson Street are a mistake.
Speaker 2: Talk with John Hancock on Wednesday night, gentleman named John
Speaker 2: Hancock about Boston potholes. Talk with John Risby, he's a professor,
Speaker 2: about the fact that the Trump campaign uses music from
Speaker 2: some musicians who are not happy about that. Talk with
Speaker 2: doctor Judith Woloff about second guessing. I've talked with David
Speaker 2: Steinman about the dangers and classrooms, all sorts of amazing.
Speaker 2: It seems the dangers everywhere. Had Congressman Laurie Trahan, Democrat
Speaker 2: from the third district here in Massachusetts on about the
Speaker 2: Seward healthcare There were three hospitals in her district. Then
Speaker 2: We talked about the cost of migrants and the fact
Speaker 2: that the Healthy administration has not been in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form transparent about how much it's cost, who's
Speaker 2: been paid. That was a great article in the Boston
Speaker 2: Globe on Wednesday, and we talked about that for two
Speaker 2: and a half hours last night. Talked with Matt Ben's
Speaker 2: about that crazy whether we had here yesterday. Talked with
Speaker 2: John Ferrell about seniors in the workplace, older retired people
Speaker 2: who are going back to work. Talked about the topless
Speaker 2: protests which will take place on Boston Common beginning at
Speaker 2: one o'clock tomorrow. Well, some women are apparently are going
Speaker 2: to march to the State House topless. Talk with Spencer
Speaker 2: Buell of the Boston Globe about some New England, old
Speaker 2: time New England jingles who are still stick in people's ear.
Speaker 2: Talk with Jeff Robbins, syndicated national columnists who writes for
Speaker 2: the Boston Herald, about Jewish concerns over the support that
Speaker 2: this Democratic ticket, if it elected, the Harris Waltz ticket,
Speaker 2: would give to the state of Israel. And then I
Speaker 2: asked for two hours last night, how's your economy? How
Speaker 2: is your economy not the economy generally. Then tonight we
Speaker 2: talked with doctor Michael Barrett again of the Chance School
Speaker 2: of Public Health, Harvard Chant School of Public Health, about
Speaker 2: the lack of primary care physicians here in the Boston
Speaker 2: area and probably elsewhere around the country. Talk with Paula
Speaker 2: Fleming about some dangers back to school laptops. Kids are
Speaker 2: given laptops at a younger and younger age, and it
Speaker 2: can lead them down to some places maybe that are
Speaker 2: not all that good. We'll talk with Kevin Eckert of
Speaker 2: Hawaii about that ba tree that was burned so badly
Speaker 2: that banion tree. Is trying to make it back. Still
Speaker 2: an open question, but it's beginning to look good. And
Speaker 2: talk with Tom Rayhill with a group of Florida python
Speaker 2: hunters in the swamps of the Everglades tonight. Unbelievable. Then
Speaker 2: we spent an hour on the Steward deal, which was
Speaker 2: announced tonight. We've talked about that all week and then
Speaker 2: last hour. Could Donald Trump actually be forced to campaign
Speaker 2: for jail if he is sent to jail? Now eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock hour, We're going to wrap it up, finish strong.
Speaker 2: At least I hope we are invite all of you
Speaker 2: to call and tell me what is on your bucket list.
Speaker 2: I don't want your life time bucket list. You know,
Speaker 2: the bucket list of people want to I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know. They want to go to the South Pole
Speaker 2: before they die, they want to go to the North Pole.
Speaker 2: They want to stand under the Arc de Triomph in Paris,
Speaker 2: or whatever. They want to see Big Ben in London. No,
Speaker 2: what's your bucket list for? This summer? Twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: is moving kind of quickly now as it tends to.
Speaker 2: We only got a couple of weeks left in August,
Speaker 2: and then it'll be Labor Day, will be into September.
Speaker 2: The presidential election will carry us well into October and November,
Speaker 2: and summer will be over. So my question tonight for
Speaker 2: all of you is what have you decided have you
Speaker 2: thought about doing this summer that you have yet to do.
Speaker 2: That's the question. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty.
Speaker 2: The only two lines open are six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three to one ten thirty. I'm going to start it
Speaker 2: off here. I'm not going to make Hank work any longer.
Speaker 2: In response to your email, the answer is no, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, but I want to hear what
Speaker 2: you want to talk about? What's on your bucket list?
Speaker 2: Haag for twenty twenty four that you have not done
Speaker 2: yet this summer.
Speaker 3: How are you, Hank, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: Dad.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, my bucket got a couple of holes at the
Speaker 3: bottom of it. So I don't want to be a
Speaker 3: Debbie Dowter. But you know I've been. I was in
Speaker 3: the hospital for several months this year. Yes, and you
Speaker 3: are making but my bucket list is very simple. I
Speaker 3: like to be able to walk ten feet without holding
Speaker 3: on to a chair, a walker or a wheelchair. I
Speaker 3: love to make my own breakfast in the morning. Right
Speaker 3: now I could just about reach bull cereal. So my
Speaker 3: bucket list is just a very simple one. I want
Speaker 3: to thank God at least I'm alive, but I have
Speaker 3: no other great things. Maybe at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: if things go well, I'm going to go up to
Speaker 3: Copis Tower a couple of my buddies.
Speaker 2: But if that happens this year, next year, or whatever.
Speaker 2: I think it's amazing that you would call in on
Speaker 2: this because someone who I know, you're a personal friend,
Speaker 2: and you had a tough year, but you have made
Speaker 2: a remarkable, comeback to get to where you are and Hank,
Speaker 2: my money's on you, and I wouldn't be a bit
Speaker 2: surprised if by I'm going to call the end of
Speaker 2: summer Columbus Day. Some people say it's Labor Day. I
Speaker 2: think the end of summer is Columbus Day because September
Speaker 2: is a beautiful month. And I'd be willing to bet
Speaker 2: you a couple of dollars that by Columbus Day you'll
Speaker 2: walk those ten feet on your own and maybe more.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll take.
Speaker 3: To lose on that one.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm rooting for you. You know that, Hank.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you for taking a call. I'm a good
Speaker 3: week at stay safe.
Speaker 2: You bet you? Thanks so much, Ank, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Again, that's a great call to start off with. A
Speaker 2: lot of us are going to say I want to
Speaker 2: go here, I want to go there. I want to
Speaker 2: hear those calls. Yeah, but not all of us. It's
Speaker 2: funny what our focus is when you think about it,
Speaker 2: depending upon our circumstances. I'll tell you what my bucket
Speaker 2: list for this summer was. My bucket list this summer
Speaker 2: was the trip to Italy that we completed last week
Speaker 2: last Sunday. We left Italy on Sunday, and I'll be
Speaker 2: happy to talk about that at some depth, but I'd
Speaker 2: prefer to hear from you. It was my big bucket
Speaker 2: list that had to be done this summer. It's done, okay.
Speaker 2: I don't have much left of my bucket list this summer.
Speaker 2: I just want to get through the summer, stay healthy
Speaker 2: and joy enjoy my family, Mustard the dog, and my
Speaker 2: grandson Benjamin when we get a chance to see him
Speaker 2: and his family. So I have a simple bucket list.
Speaker 2: Maybe yours is a simple too. You could share that,
Speaker 2: or maybe there's a big trip in mind, or maybe
Speaker 2: there's something that you need to go see. We had
Speaker 2: hoped to have Keith Lockhart on from Tanglewood last night.
Speaker 2: He had a family emergency and couldn't join us. But
Speaker 2: he'll be out at Tanglewood on August thirty. First. I
Speaker 2: hope to have him on before talking about that night,
Speaker 2: which will be a very special night later this month.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on. Join the conversation. The
Speaker 2: only line open right now, there's one line at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: two thirty. We're coming right back on night side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: On Fulfilled bucket List. Let's go to Glenn and Bright Glenn.
Speaker 2: What's the bucket list thing that you need to complete
Speaker 2: before the end of the summer.
Speaker 4: Well, there are two things, and they will both promised
Speaker 4: to me by a friend, Rom the pharmacist, our mutual friend.
Speaker 4: One of them is you know, the traffic guy Jack Hart.
Speaker 4: He have these trolley tours from early April to the
Speaker 4: end of November. True, and I'd like to go on them. Also,
Speaker 4: the Winnakers play some Italian restaurant every Thursday night from
Speaker 4: six to eight. It's it's above my pay price, pay
Speaker 4: break pay range. But Ron City take Me promised me
Speaker 4: that I could list to the Winnaker brothers. All right,
Speaker 4: I hope I can.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of realistic items. I mean that's those
Speaker 2: are going to happen for you. I'm concerned. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I think you're gonna I think you're gonna be okay,
Speaker 2: particularly if if Ron made the promise. He is a
Speaker 2: promised keeper, trust.
Speaker 4: Me on that, I know. But he's also going to
Speaker 4: you know, busy.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I understand that. But that's that's
Speaker 2: what's amazing about him is he's such a good person
Speaker 2: and a good guy. And again the old question is
Speaker 2: what the difficult circumstances somebody.
Speaker 4: You had me through? Thanks to him, I went to
Speaker 4: a baseball game and when he couldn't do it, he
Speaker 4: had John.
Speaker 2: All good people, all all good people. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you had a phone call back from that person
Speaker 2: who I mentioned. That's okay, I'm sure you'll you'll, you'll
Speaker 2: get that. They were talking about doing that in September.
Speaker 2: So Gwinn might might have gotten a new uh piano
Speaker 2: tuning customer.
Speaker 4: Uh and uh September.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they're talking about.
Speaker 4: Oh that's why him got all you said on vacation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think they were talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: getting a lining up in September. All right, oh all right, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, buddy, Thanks, thanks good bucket list questions. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Laureate Idaho. I kind of imagine
Speaker 2: what could be on laurie'spocket list.
Speaker 6: Laurie, Well, so we have a little bit of a
Speaker 6: well if I mean, it's a combination the person who
Speaker 6: spoke to last week who did the book on the
Speaker 6: delf the deaf football team at either side. He talked
Speaker 6: about Galadet. My grandpa was was born deaf, and he
Speaker 6: went to Galliadette and then he graduated from there and
Speaker 6: he ended up coaching football in the high school he
Speaker 6: taught at back in Furbow of Minnesota. And so I
Speaker 6: was absolutely amazed to find that the huddle was created
Speaker 6: there at Galliadet.
Speaker 2: So I went on line.
Speaker 6: I did well, I didn't either, and I knew he
Speaker 6: graduated there and we have his we have his diploma
Speaker 6: and all the stuff. And so I did go online
Speaker 6: and I found it, excuse me, a hoodie with the
Speaker 6: gallion at Home of the Hoodies or Home of Ale.
Speaker 6: So I did that, and so that was an unexpected
Speaker 6: buckett I didn't know about.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what's what is left of the bucket list?
Speaker 2: This summer? What's what's what do you got? Summer?
Speaker 6: It was well after last summer, is you know, I
Speaker 6: had the two hip surgeries within like the three months.
Speaker 6: So this summer I've been biking, I've been swimming, I've
Speaker 6: been outside. It's it's that that has been a bucket itself.
Speaker 2: And then a great summer to be able not only
Speaker 2: to do that after you went through that, that surgery,
Speaker 2: those surgeries, yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean good, I mean yeah, good, good, good surgeon, good pet.
Speaker 6: It was all a very good thing. And so my
Speaker 6: my final appointment in one of them, and he said, well,
Speaker 6: you know what, you know, go do all the fun
Speaker 6: things and summer you'd like to do swim, bike walk
Speaker 6: because he knows I don't ski. So that was good.
Speaker 6: And then so the Dave Matthews concert in George, Washington
Speaker 6: is a memorial Dawkins.
Speaker 7: So I have tickets for that.
Speaker 2: So that's a big in what what what.
Speaker 8: Town it's in?
Speaker 6: Well, it's in it's the gorge. It's in Washington and
Speaker 6: the name of the town is George, Washington. It's it's
Speaker 6: not far from the Idaho border, and it's up to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's in the state of Washington, not Washington.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, it's in the state of Washington.
Speaker 6: Very it's a big it's it's a beautiful ample, it's
Speaker 6: a it's a gorgeous along one of the rivers there.
Speaker 2: And so, okay, Dave Matthews been big band for a
Speaker 2: long time. What's the capacity at that location that Amphitheater.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's hard. I don't know exactly how
Speaker 6: many tickets because there are there are lawn seats, there
Speaker 6: are cheers. It's an amphitheater. It's an outdoor theater, so
Speaker 6: there are lawn seats, there are cheer seats, and then
Speaker 6: you can there are parts three you can just park
Speaker 6: on the It's sort of like maybe Tangle would oversize
Speaker 6: and okay, it's it's huge, but you know, and I
Speaker 6: saw him Ami park.
Speaker 2: The tickets.
Speaker 7: How expensive are the tickets if you buy them early enough,
Speaker 7: they're less than three hundred dollars for two days.
Speaker 2: Oh there's two days.
Speaker 6: Or three, sometimes three. I don't know if he's doing
Speaker 6: three this year. But yeah, now this is his huge
Speaker 6: end of his summer tour thing. And he used to
Speaker 6: do it at Red Rocks in Colorado, and now he's
Speaker 6: he's gotten up to George and done it there because
Speaker 6: I don't know why he's dad, but yeah, he can do.
Speaker 2: What he wants. It's Dave Matthews. That's the key. All right,
Speaker 2: thank you follow it? Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I want to report on how good it was, and
Speaker 2: we want some pictures. That's what I got to.
Speaker 7: See it's always good.
Speaker 9: He's always good.
Speaker 2: How many day concerts have you attended in your life?
Speaker 6: Well, there were two nights in Fenway. I did one
Speaker 6: at Red Rocks and this is this is my third
Speaker 6: major real concert. They're hard tickets to come by. He
Speaker 6: was in Massachusetts whatever it was at the one of
Speaker 6: the Lower Theater, and then he was up in the
Speaker 6: in the New Hampshire thing this year and I tried
Speaker 6: to get there and you couldn't get tickets for almost
Speaker 6: a year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: So I did finally get tickets to the Gorge this year.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, you know. You think about Taylor Swift and
Speaker 2: all of that and and the craziness of her of
Speaker 2: the error tours, et cetera. But there are other bands
Speaker 2: that are around the country who are great bands, uh
Speaker 2: and and they're tough to get tickets too as well.
Speaker 6: Well I'm I'm I'm a little bit younger than the
Speaker 6: Grateful Dead series, so he's kind of my Grateful Dead.
Speaker 6: He's he's not the Tonal Star, but he is a
Speaker 6: great jam brand band and he does he he just
Speaker 6: he I just I didn't know him until there was
Speaker 6: one stupid concert that got played on an al broadcast
Speaker 6: somebody way back when they started, and I just fell
Speaker 6: in love with him, and I just I don't follow
Speaker 6: him all around the country because I don't. Can't, I can't.
Speaker 6: But he's my grateful Dead Well.
Speaker 2: I got it, I got it. Hey. I had a
Speaker 2: buddy of mine who was a camera guy a Channel
Speaker 2: four for many years. I forget. He had done like
Speaker 2: gone to like fifty Dead concerts over his lifetime. And
Speaker 2: I have a nephew who is a big Dave Matthews fan.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you to Dave Matthews songs, but.
Speaker 4: He's a big Dave.
Speaker 6: Well you know them if you heard them.
Speaker 2: Oh, you always know him if you hear him. But
Speaker 2: it's like trying to pick him out of the ear.
Speaker 2: I love you. Calls enjoyed. It's tomorrow night is the night?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, it's over. It's Labor Day weekend. It's
Speaker 6: a Labor day weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well enjoy What a what a great way to
Speaker 2: end your summer up there?
Speaker 4: Uh I think that's okay.
Speaker 7: Thank you sounds great.
Speaker 6: Thanks, welcome back. We have missed you.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to be back. It's been a long week.
Speaker 2: My week started uh at about two am on Sunday
Speaker 2: morning in Naples or other than the Mouthy Coast, which
Speaker 2: was about eleven o'clock Sunday night time. And I've made
Speaker 2: it through the week. That's all I can ask, thanks, Laurie.
Speaker 6: Not many people can say they've started their Monday on
Speaker 6: the Mouthy Coast. So you're you're good, that's true, right,
Speaker 6: thank you, good night.
Speaker 2: Good night, six one seven, ten thirty. We got a
Speaker 2: bunch of open lines at six one seven, two five
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. I'm looking for your bucket list for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, not your lifelong bucket list, but something
Speaker 2: that you want to accomplish this summer, something you're planning
Speaker 2: for this summer. For Hankett was walking a few steps.
Speaker 2: For Glenn, it's going to a couple of events here
Speaker 2: in the Boston area, and Laurie to a Dave Matthews
Speaker 2: concert and an amphitheater in western the state of Washington.
Speaker 2: Those are very different, so as they say, different people.
Speaker 2: For me, the big bucket list tour was going to
Speaker 2: Italy with nightside listeners. And I got to tell you
Speaker 2: it's in the rearview, Mara, but I'll remember it from
Speaker 2: my Lifetime Mike in Plymouth next nightside. You got a
Speaker 2: bucket list for twenty twenty four for us?
Speaker 3: I do did.
Speaker 10: First of all, I just wanted to mention I did
Speaker 10: that Amfi Coast trip last year with my wife. I'm fabulous,
Speaker 10: loved it. I'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 2: What months were you there?
Speaker 11: If I come?
Speaker 2: What month were you there if I could ask?
Speaker 10: We went in June one year, and the second year
Speaker 10: we went in August.
Speaker 2: Little warm when you were there in augustyle boat, but
Speaker 2: it was, it was beautiful, but it was. What's amazing,
Speaker 2: by the way, to me is how they could build
Speaker 2: those homes and those hotels and those structures and the
Speaker 2: sides of those mountains.
Speaker 10: Positano absolutely incredible, isn't it. Did you go to positan.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 10: The homes are built right into the cliffs. It's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: How they do it, when they did it? God, we
Speaker 2: know point what what? What beautiful architecture? So what's your
Speaker 2: bucket list this year? This summer?
Speaker 10: So I've been so I've been to France a couple
Speaker 10: of times on cruises in the Mediterranean, stopping in Nice
Speaker 10: and Marseille and places like that never been to Paris,
Speaker 10: decided on a whim a couple of weeks ago that
Speaker 10: we're going to go to Paris after the Olympics. Hopefully
Speaker 10: the crowds will be down and it will be a
Speaker 10: good time to visit. Always wanted to go to the
Speaker 10: Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triont from the Louver
Speaker 10: in Versailles, which we are going to do.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 10: But I also found that I also found a fourteen
Speaker 10: hour day trip from Paris to the Normandy Beaches to
Speaker 10: see the d Day beaches in the cemeteries, something I
Speaker 10: have always wanted to do, And to tell you the truth,
Speaker 10: then I think I'm more excited about that than I
Speaker 10: am the Eiffel Tower on the Louver. It's only a
Speaker 10: three hour drive from Paris, apparently a three and a
Speaker 10: half hours a day tour, and I'm really looking forward
Speaker 10: to seeing, you know, that point of Hawk where those
Speaker 10: those rangers and marines and climb that cliff you know,
Speaker 10: to save to save Europe.
Speaker 2: Basically, wait, wait do you see wait do you see
Speaker 2: ponk' Hawk? I've been to ponk to Hawk. I've also
Speaker 2: been to the US cemeteries and when you see the
Speaker 2: the crosses and the stars that David lined up in
Speaker 2: such precise, precise military formation, and you realize the sacrifice
Speaker 2: that was made. I was there and it would have
Speaker 2: been nineteen I'm guessing eighty one or eighty two h
Speaker 2: our way out there, and it was incredible to see.
Speaker 10: And yeah, it's going to be a solemn day, I think,
Speaker 10: but to truly appreciate, you know, what those eighteen and
Speaker 10: nineteen year old kids did way back then, the greatest generation.
Speaker 10: It's just it's something that I've had a tremendous amount
Speaker 10: of rees back for in my whole life, but really
Speaker 10: never thought I'd get a chance to see it. And now,
Speaker 10: all of a sudden, on a spur of the moment trip,
Speaker 10: I'm going to be able to do it. I'm very
Speaker 10: I'm very excited about it, and I'm really looking forward
Speaker 10: to it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna You're gonna have it. You will have an
Speaker 2: amazing time. I think it's extraordinary that that you're able
Speaker 2: to pull this off. How many days will you be
Speaker 2: in France altogether in Paris and.
Speaker 10: We're gonna be We're gonna be seven nights staying in Paris,
Speaker 10: but we're gonna do two day trips to Normandy, uh one,
Speaker 10: to the battlefields and the beaches, and the second day
Speaker 10: we're going to go to San Michel.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you bring a camera, bring a camera, lifelong,
Speaker 2: lifelong memories there. And by the way, all those eighteen
Speaker 2: and nineteen years year olds who hit you know, Omaha
Speaker 2: Beach and everything on on, none of them, none of
Speaker 2: them had. They were all looking for safe spaces, but
Speaker 2: not the safe spaces that college students are looking for today.
Speaker 2: You know they No, it's a different generation. It was
Speaker 2: the greatest generation after all. Mike, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: That's an inspiring phone call. Really something a lot of
Speaker 2: people will will identify. Well, thank you, my friend. We'll
Speaker 2: talk again.
Speaker 10: Okay, have a great trip.
Speaker 2: Call us when you get back. Okay, thanks, all right,
Speaker 2: we got to take a break. News at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the hour. Back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Or what a sad story that is. Thanks Al Grifford.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the calls. They'll go to Clara
Speaker 2: down in Florida.
Speaker 5: Clara, my friend, welcome back, my friend, Well, welcome back
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 2: How's Florida treating you.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's hot, hot, hot and human. It
Speaker 5: is like hell, well, I'll tell you oh year round.
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna love you love it if you're there
Speaker 2: in January and February. May not love it as much
Speaker 2: in July and August. But I was in a in
Speaker 2: a hotspot over in Europe, in roaming it and in
Speaker 2: the Moufy Coast. So I feel your pain, Clara, I
Speaker 2: really do. What's what's my bucket list for this summer
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four that you have yet to accomplish?
Speaker 5: Well, goddwelling with my inability to walk properly, I would
Speaker 5: love to go to santabel Island to go shelt shelling
Speaker 5: picking up my shells on the beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Are you close to santabel.
Speaker 5: I'm about forty five minute drive.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I'm only a two minute I'm only a two minute
Speaker 5: drive to Fort Myers and I saw the Red Sox
Speaker 5: spring training stadium.
Speaker 2: That'll be nice when that comes to life next February
Speaker 2: in March, if you're down there, since I've been, I'm
Speaker 2: down here, I've been out to Santabelle. It's a beautiful,
Speaker 2: full there's a nice bridge out there. I think we've
Speaker 2: just been restored. Yeah, that's that's a that's a nice
Speaker 2: part of Florida. How warm was it today?
Speaker 10: In where you are today?
Speaker 5: It was eighty six? Yesterday it was close to one hundred.
Speaker 2: We hit one hundred a couple of times in Italy
Speaker 2: on the mountain coast.
Speaker 5: We're getting we're getting in the eighties all next week,
Speaker 5: high eighties.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's better than a hundred. Did you survive
Speaker 2: the storm? I know when we were in Europe we
Speaker 2: kept reading about Hurricane Debbie hitting Florida. Did you get
Speaker 2: hit with that?
Speaker 9: Well, we drove.
Speaker 5: We left Connecticut Sunday and drove straight through to Florida
Speaker 5: through the hurricane and nikes, oh my god, caroln we
Speaker 5: followed it all the way down to Florida. It was
Speaker 5: so scary. There were so many jackknife tractor trailers that
Speaker 5: was at one point we couldn't see in front of us.
Speaker 5: But my brother and his son are are pretty are
Speaker 5: pretty good drivers and are used to be because they used.
Speaker 10: To live in Florida.
Speaker 5: Wow, well they're used to driving in hurricanes. But it
Speaker 5: was scary as all. Heck.
Speaker 2: Well, Clara, thank glad you made it. Enjoy your time
Speaker 2: down there and we will talk soon. I'm so glad
Speaker 2: to be back in touch.
Speaker 5: Yes, i am as well. Thank you for back.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks Clara. Great to hear you.
Speaker 5: Okay, hell good night and get some sleep.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 9: That's okay.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Alyssa in Worcester. Uh we got the
Speaker 2: only lines open now we're six, one, seven nine, Kill
Speaker 2: them up, Alyssa. What's on your bucket list for this summer?
Speaker 11: Hi? Dan, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Alyssa. Thanks for calling in. What what
Speaker 2: are you working on? Did you have an accomplish yet?
Speaker 11: Well for this summer. I was thinking about it when
Speaker 11: you when you pose the question. And two things that
Speaker 11: I really would love to do before summer ends. Is
Speaker 11: first thing, I need to swim in the ocean again
Speaker 11: before summer ends. Being out in Worcester. I grew up
Speaker 11: on the Cell Shore, but I'm out in Worcester now
Speaker 11: and I just missed being so close to the ocean,
Speaker 11: so I need to get back into the ocean before
Speaker 11: the end of the summer. And I also would really
Speaker 11: love to visit the Island Creek Oyster Farm in Duxbury
Speaker 11: before the end of the summer, because it's beautiful there
Speaker 11: and some nice fresh oysters are just amazing, especially when
Speaker 11: you when did they're coming right off the farm. So
Speaker 11: those are those are my two bucket list items for
Speaker 11: the rest of the summer.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you can accomplish both those just
Speaker 2: with a trip to Duxbury. You got to for there.
Speaker 2: You gonna have a great doubleheader when you think about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, help, we visited. I didn't realize that oysters
Speaker 2: are grown from like seeds. Last year on the Cape
Speaker 2: we went to an oyster farm where they actually grow oysters.
Speaker 2: I I get, I guess they have. They buy oyster
Speaker 2: seeds and they grow them. As I understand it is
Speaker 2: that how you understood? And I always figured they they
Speaker 2: found them in shells, you know, in some sort of
Speaker 2: a sea bed. But they actually can they can farm oysters.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's really interesting. There's a farm I can't the
Speaker 11: name is escaping me right now, but there's a farm
Speaker 11: out in care Haven that they grow I don't know
Speaker 11: if seeds is the right word, but for but for
Speaker 11: lack of better words, seeds. Yes, they start the seeds
Speaker 11: and they grow them up a little bit. I think
Speaker 11: it takes I think it takes like three or four
Speaker 11: years for them to fully mature. So but they start
Speaker 11: the season and they actually sell them to Island Creek,
Speaker 11: so they they get the Island Creek gets the oyster
Speaker 11: seeds from all different farms from I think all over
Speaker 11: Massachusetts and then uh grows grows up the oysters until
Speaker 11: they're until they're ready to be harvested.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was I was thinking
Speaker 2: one thing that that I think I want to do
Speaker 2: this summer. I'm a big fan of I'm cape Cod
Speaker 2: Chips and I think that, Yeah, there's a tour here
Speaker 2: in the Cape of the cape Cod Chip factory. I've
Speaker 2: never Yes, have you done that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I have. When I was a child, I did. I
Speaker 11: I remember, I remember my mom taking me as a child. Actually,
Speaker 11: it's funny that you mentioned that. Do you do you
Speaker 11: follow the Celtics point guard Peyton Pritchard at all?
Speaker 2: I know? Uh, well, I know of him. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: about so he.
Speaker 11: Him and his now wife got married over the weekend
Speaker 11: this past weekend, and his wife grew up I believe
Speaker 11: she grew up in Nauset down in Nauset and for
Speaker 11: their rehearsal dinner, their like I guess main uh one
Speaker 11: of their like main picturesque events that they had at
Speaker 11: their rehearsal dinner was custom cavia and cape cod potato chips.
Speaker 11: And that was their their like fancy thing at their
Speaker 11: rehearsal dinner that they did, so very uh, very quintessential
Speaker 11: cape Cod.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I understand that he hangs out on the cape.
Speaker 2: As matter of fact, it was in a little store
Speaker 2: here and they had a Peyton Pritchard sandwich. I forget
Speaker 2: what type it was, but I asked him. They said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: he comes in a lot, so he's he's hanging on
Speaker 2: the cape. Let's put him like that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think he has a house on the Cape.
Speaker 11: I'm not sure what town, but I think I'm pretty
Speaker 11: sure he does.
Speaker 2: I think it's in central, one of those center center
Speaker 2: towns on the Cape. But look, look, I think you're
Speaker 2: gonna get your bucket list things done, okay, swimming in
Speaker 2: the ocean in Duksbury and going through the oyster farm.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be all set. ALYSSA. Great to
Speaker 2: hear your voice as always, Thanks for being such a
Speaker 2: loyal listener.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks Dan, have a good night.
Speaker 2: You two have great weekend. Enjoy The weather's going to
Speaker 2: be good this weekend, so let's get let's take advantage
Speaker 2: of it. Thanks, talk to you soon, good night. Thanks
Speaker 2: to all Right, we are going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: I have Larry and Justina, and I got one open
Speaker 2: line at six one seven, two, five four to ten thirty,
Speaker 2: and I got two open lines at six one seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. I try to come up
Speaker 2: with different topics on the eleventh hour, and this topic's
Speaker 2: been a little slower than normal, but that's fine. So
Speaker 2: if you'd like to get in, you can six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty. One line there and six one
Speaker 2: seven well that's just filled. And six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. Do you have a bucket list
Speaker 2: something that you've thought about doing this summer that you
Speaker 2: haven't you haven't completed, So it's a summer of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four bucket list. The good thing about the summer
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four bucket list it can be turned
Speaker 2: into a summer of twenty twenty five bucket list pretty easily.
Speaker 2: The big bucket list that people have is the one
Speaker 2: before they pass on. Well, when you pass on that
Speaker 2: bucket list, that bucket list survives. We'll be back at night's.
Speaker 2: I joined the conversation.
Speaker 1: Coming back now, back to Dan Ray live from the
Speaker 1: Window World, Night six Studios on WBZ the news Radio.
Speaker 2: Back we go. We do have full lines. Let's keep
Speaker 2: her only here, going to go to Larry at Dennisport.
Speaker 2: Larry going to get you in here and four others.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, Larry.
Speaker 8: Dan, next time you're on the cape, go out to
Speaker 8: Crow's Pasture in East Dennis and you'll see acres of
Speaker 8: oyster farms. Just make sure it's low tide.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 8: So I have two things in my bucket list. I
Speaker 8: accomplish one of them today. Today is my anniversary, our
Speaker 8: wedding anniversary. Wow, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 2: Every number, what's what's the number?
Speaker 8: Fifty four?
Speaker 2: WHOA? That's great?
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: I think it might last at fifty four.
Speaker 8: So every year I do a you know, an avid cyclist,
Speaker 8: I do a road ride equal to the years that
Speaker 8: I'm married.
Speaker 2: WHOA.
Speaker 8: Well, Unfortunately, as you well know, I have long term
Speaker 8: side effects from number durna vaccine, and it's affected my
Speaker 8: cop and my exercise ability. But I'm still out there.
Speaker 8: So I couldn't do the fifty four miler this year.
Speaker 8: So I said, what am I going to do? So
Speaker 8: my friend comes up with this great idea. He says, Larry,
Speaker 8: here's what you do. Fifty four five plus four is nine.
Speaker 8: Go out and do a nine mile mountain by ride
Speaker 8: and we'll call it an accomplishment. So I did it today.
Speaker 8: I rode my favorite place to punk Hoorn in Horowich
Speaker 8: and brewster excellent. Here's next. Yep, that one. Yeah, so
Speaker 8: here's my next one. So today's our anniversary. So you know,
Speaker 8: is one of the long term side effects I have
Speaker 8: as I wasted my taste and smell. I haven't been
Speaker 8: out to eat much. So I said to my wife, Okay,
Speaker 8: on certain nights my taste is good. We're going to
Speaker 8: do short notice. We're going to go out to a
Speaker 8: restaurant to celebrate our anniversary sometime this week, right, you
Speaker 8: ready for this last weekend, she tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 8: H oh, well, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: Put it off a couple of weeks, Larry, and you'll
Speaker 2: be all said, okay, So.
Speaker 8: She's feeling better today. So hopefully next week we're going
Speaker 8: to go out and have dinner and accomplish that bucket list.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, sounds great. Two good bucket list items. Thanks Larry,
Speaker 2: talk soon.
Speaker 8: Okay, bye, right.
Speaker 2: Good, let's go. Next up is Justina in Weymouth. Hi Justina,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 6: I'm well, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Thank you for calling. And you've got
Speaker 2: a bucket list for the summer of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 12: In fact, I do I pretty much, you know, accomplished.
Speaker 12: You know a lot of things this summer. I'm a teacher.
Speaker 12: I hike a lot, so that's great. But my bucket
Speaker 12: list has to do with a project I do with
Speaker 12: my student, some high school art teacher and I started
Speaker 12: this project, the Art of Veteran Project, which I have
Speaker 12: my students research veterans, interview them, and then we.
Speaker 6: Hopefully last year we had a small show.
Speaker 12: But we also sat with our local vecsends for our
Speaker 12: lunch in the schools go for a little while.
Speaker 8: But my bucket.
Speaker 12: List would be to have a meeting with you to
Speaker 12: tell you more about the project and maybe have you
Speaker 12: as one of the veterans this year.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm honored, I am absolutely honored. Where your your hangout?
Speaker 2: One in the South Shore? Yep, you know what I have. Rob,
Speaker 2: will give you my direct line, give me a call
Speaker 2: and let's see what we can do. And maybe what
Speaker 2: I can do is have you on the show and
Speaker 2: talk about it a little bit and let people know
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 6: Okay, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 2: All right now you hang on.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much, Rob.
Speaker 2: Robi my direct number and I'll call and I will
Speaker 2: get back to you sometime early next week, I promise. Thanks. Justina, Wow,
Speaker 2: that's that is a great, great bucket list item. She's
Speaker 2: doing a lot of great work there. Next up is
Speaker 2: Joe in Plymouth again, just down on the South Shore?
Speaker 2: Is it where Joe? You're next on NISA? Go right ahead?
Speaker 9: Oh, good evening.
Speaker 2: Then, Hey, Joe, what's your bucket list for this summer?
Speaker 9: So a couple of things. One's been a bucket list
Speaker 9: for quite a while, just haven't had the chance to
Speaker 9: do it. And that would be two. Uh, go in
Speaker 9: the water. You're not sugar, Maybe just a snowke on
Speaker 9: masks and Finns and watch a great white just observe them.
Speaker 2: You're a better man than I am. Joe. I'll look
Speaker 2: at pictures. That's that. You're not going to do that,
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 9: I would do it? Yeah, absolutely, Joe. Then, ever since
Speaker 9: the movie Jaws, I've been fascinated by great white.
Speaker 2: Please be careful. Make sure either you or the white
Speaker 2: are the great wike? Is it? Great white is in
Speaker 2: a cage?
Speaker 9: Okay, well you've seen the video out there, you shock.
Speaker 9: Wasn't this a great white going by the boat?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yep?
Speaker 9: And then the shock that came to show you saw
Speaker 9: that one? Probably right?
Speaker 2: Yes I did, Yes, I did.
Speaker 9: Neither were neither were gray whites. But when the shock
Speaker 9: gets in the boat, you know how strong they are?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have some idea, Yes I do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they haven't they don't have the water holding them back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm with you. I'm with you on that. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of others. I got it. You
Speaker 2: certainly had the bravest man who's called the show in
Speaker 2: a long time. Okay, gotta keep rolling though. Okay, thanks Joe.
Speaker 2: I have a good one. Mike and Michael in Boston.
Speaker 2: Michael got you and two more, go right ahead.
Speaker 7: Michael, good evening, Dan, how.
Speaker 2: Are you good?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: Actually calling you has been on my bucket link since
Speaker 7: March and then against the song in June. And I
Speaker 7: never get around to your on another topic, or I say,
Speaker 7: well that's it's not going to be appropriate. Sometimes you
Speaker 7: have an open UH topic I can't get through or whatever.
Speaker 7: But uh, last March, we had what I considered to
Speaker 7: be a medical breakthrough. We had a pig pigs kidney
Speaker 7: transfer transplanted to a human being.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sadly that gentleman lived for a few weeks
Speaker 2: but then passed.
Speaker 7: Yes, he lived for two months, but the news told
Speaker 7: us he didn't die from the transplanted kidney. They never
Speaker 7: told us what he died for. And there was never
Speaker 7: any discussion on the pig's kidney to the UH to
Speaker 7: the human being. You had doctors on of all kinds,
Speaker 7: and I enjoyed those topics, particularly the ophthalmology doctor I forget,
Speaker 7: I forget his name.
Speaker 2: So you want to have someone on to talk about
Speaker 2: the big big kidney transplant?
Speaker 10: Am I right?
Speaker 7: You never discussed it?
Speaker 8: You never did never.
Speaker 2: Never did you know? What? We'll try to see if
Speaker 2: we can get something on that.
Speaker 7: Okay, there's so much involvement here. It's very interesting when
Speaker 7: you get into it, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Michael, I promise we'll give it a shot. Is
Speaker 2: this your first time calling the show.
Speaker 7: No, I've called before.
Speaker 2: Okay, do me a favor. You also give me a
Speaker 2: call next week so we can talk off here. Rob
Speaker 2: will give you my direct line. Okay. I got to
Speaker 2: get two more in. Thanks Michael, don't hang up, don't
Speaker 2: hang up. Let's go next. Jim in Kansas City Gym.
Speaker 2: You're a little late. What's your bucket.
Speaker 13: List, Jim Dan, I'll be brief. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 13: Welcome back. I can't I just can't pass up the
Speaker 13: opportunity people. I think people underestimate what we have, what
Speaker 13: you have on your show. Just I kind of lived
Speaker 13: my life intentionally. I lived my life backwards. I partied
Speaker 13: and just did all my bucket list stuff when I
Speaker 13: was young, and now I'm just grinding it out. Work
Speaker 13: work work, work work. But uh so I can tell
Speaker 13: you either what I'm doing it for work, or I
Speaker 13: could tell you some of the things that I did.
Speaker 2: Right, You've got to give it to me quick, Jim.
Speaker 2: I got thirty seconds left and one other person. Give
Speaker 2: it to me quick.
Speaker 13: Mark Leeville death Ride. All right, Okay, get your next
Speaker 13: get your next guy, bye bye.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Jim. That's a good one. Karen. I
Speaker 2: got a maybe twenty seconds for you. What's your boy?
Speaker 14: Make it sure I because I've had some physical therapy
Speaker 14: the summer. There's some things I'd like to do. Visit
Speaker 14: friends in Lemester that I've wanted to visit, visit some
Speaker 14: friends in the Boston area. And I'll be going out
Speaker 14: to Maine in September to visit my step daughter.
Speaker 2: So so I'm traveling. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Get out there and have some fun. Karen, have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. Okay, oh you too, talk soon. All right.
Speaker 2: Done for the week, everybody. It was a great week
Speaker 2: on night's side. Great to be back. I want to
Speaker 2: thank all of you listen and thank Rob. Thank Karen.
Speaker 2: To tell me who produced the program today. My name
Speaker 2: is Dan Ray. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
Speaker 2: to heaven. That's my pal Charlie Rays, who passed fourteen
Speaker 2: years ago in February. That's where all your pets are
Speaker 2: who were passed. They love you and you love them.
Speaker 2: I do believe you'll see them again. See again on
Speaker 2: Monday night. Also, if you'd be so kind, have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. You deserve it. Thanks everybody, see you Monday night.