Speaker 1: It's nice size. We did Ray and Undoing and Mazy
Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Al Griffin. Yet five areas ever, is
Speaker 2: tough to win a game. Tough tough to win a game.
Speaker 2: But hey, tomorrow's another day. It's still early. It's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. It's still early. Okay, we have reached
Speaker 2: the twentieth hour, and I think everybody who listens to
Speaker 2: Night's I knows it. In the twentieth hour, we try
Speaker 2: to lighten things up a little bit, get you to
Speaker 2: the weekend with some positive phone calls, and so we
Speaker 2: will do brushes with celebrity tonight. Haven't done it in
Speaker 2: about three months. It happens to be my favorite topic.
Speaker 2: I came up with the topic many many years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm quite proud of it, and I'm quite proud of
Speaker 2: some of the callers that we have who have met
Speaker 2: some very interesting people under different circumstances. Sometimes that met
Speaker 2: him outside of baseball park, sometimes that met him on
Speaker 2: the streets, sometimes they've been on an airplane. I want
Speaker 2: to know the most interesting person and the most interesting
Speaker 2: celebrity that you have met, and also whether or not
Speaker 2: they treated you well. So we call that the good
Speaker 2: the bad and the ugly. I mean, if someone who
Speaker 2: had some celebrity was gracious and kind, that's great. If
Speaker 2: they were a jerk, you could tell us they were
Speaker 2: a jerk, simple as that. So suffice it to say,
Speaker 2: we will open up the phone lines as always six
Speaker 2: one seven, two, five, four ten thirty, six one seven
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. And by the way, the
Speaker 2: celebrity that you met doesn't have to be the Queen
Speaker 2: of England. I mean all of us in our lives
Speaker 2: have bumped into someone who was a celebrity. It might
Speaker 2: be a local athlete, it might be an actor, it
Speaker 2: could be a singer. Sometimes it's a politician. And what
Speaker 2: was your experience? That's the it's it's just I think
Speaker 2: it's a great topic. We have two lines six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty and six one seven nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty. As we line up our phone calls. What
Speaker 2: I would like to do, as I often do, is
Speaker 2: there's one to kind of review the week a little
Speaker 2: bit as quickly as I can. Here we started off
Speaker 2: on Monday night at eight o'clock talking with Matt Brown,
Speaker 2: a young guy from Nowood, Massachusetts who was paralyzed in
Speaker 2: a hockey accident back when he was only fifteen years old.
Speaker 2: He's written a book called Line Change, which is a
Speaker 2: great book for any young person to read. Matt Brown
Speaker 2: now runs the Matt Brown Foundation and it is a
Speaker 2: wonderful foundation. He will be in the marathon. He'll have
Speaker 2: a team in the marathon. I think he's now been
Speaker 2: involved in five marathons, so feel free to check out
Speaker 2: that book, Line Change. We talked about workplace bullying. We
Speaker 2: talked with Bob Monroe, the chair of the Conquered two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty Executive Committee. Big two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 2: anniversary coming up on this April twenty April April nineteenth.
Speaker 2: The day will be celebrated on the twenty first, but
Speaker 2: the actual two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is on April nineteenth.
Speaker 2: The Battle of Concord and then Lexington. We talked about
Speaker 2: workplace in civility. We spent an hour on Monday night
Speaker 2: talking about the disclosures from Red Sox Center Field, Red
Speaker 2: Sox left Field to Jared Durant, who had admitted in
Speaker 2: a documentary that he had contemplated suicide. Spent a couple
Speaker 2: of hours talking about Big Drop of the market on Monday.
Speaker 2: We spent two hours doing that. On Tuesday night, talked
Speaker 2: about the TikTok deadline being extended, a book by Jonathan
Speaker 2: Horn about the fate of the Generals, Douglas MacArthur and
Speaker 2: Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright. Very interesting. Talk with doctor Martin Dibbs
Speaker 2: about a surgical robot assisting in a liver transplant. And
Speaker 2: talked with Michael Arkush about the Golf one hundred. I
Speaker 2: had a lot of fun with that. If you're a golfer,
Speaker 2: that's a book you might want to think about. Nine
Speaker 2: NPM on Tuesday night, we talked about a story that
Speaker 2: was in the Globe today. Beth Ttell talked about checking
Speaker 2: in with people on the Karen Read case, people who
Speaker 2: had strong feelings a year or so ago when that
Speaker 2: decision came down, and whether or not people had changed
Speaker 2: their minds in their thoughts on that case. Talk with
Speaker 2: Jason Kelly about the bankruptcy of the site twenty three
Speaker 2: in Me and how you can get all of your
Speaker 2: information back from twenty three in Me as it goes
Speaker 2: into bankruptcy. That is a a company that people sent
Speaker 2: their DNA voluntarily to find out their Ancestry non ancestry
Speaker 2: dot com twenty three in me. The market was down
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, so we had another hour about the market
Speaker 2: being down big on Tuesday at eleven on Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: talked about tariffs and cars with John Vincent of US
Speaker 2: News and World Report. Talked with a Globe correspondent Adelaide
Speaker 2: Parker about Boston's first pod hotel. Talk with sale the
Speaker 2: Mayor Dominic Pengalo about Salem four hundred and talked with
Speaker 2: Doug Canter about credit card costs they're going up. Talk
Speaker 2: with Ed Flynn he wants more ethics amongst the Boston
Speaker 2: City Council. That of the day that it was announced
Speaker 2: that Tanya Fernandez Anderson has been indicted for a federal
Speaker 2: corruption charges. Talk with Jared Dillion about President Trump's decision
Speaker 2: at Delay Tactics. That was the day the stock market
Speaker 2: went up. We talked about that at eleven o'clock last night.
Speaker 2: Talked with Cheryl Lang about the Stepping Strong Center, which
Speaker 2: came out of the tragedy of the Boston Marathon. Talk
Speaker 2: with l Ellis Les I should say ls Nazemy about
Speaker 2: the foundation to be named later. Talked with Ed Grokowski
Speaker 2: about take a child, the work day and beyond coming
Speaker 2: up later this month. And talked about with Dennis Holland
Speaker 2: about the Great Detachment. We may talk to him again.
Speaker 2: Talked about that Canton train truck collision. That will be
Speaker 2: the story that we will highlight on Sunday night at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock and we run the best of nights. There
Speaker 2: were a lot of great calls in that hour. Talked
Speaker 2: last night with Tatsu Ikeda about his newsletter which is
Speaker 2: on substack, and we had his take on the market
Speaker 2: and he was a really great guest. And we talked
Speaker 2: last night at eleven about the reaction to the stock
Speaker 2: market drop on Thursday. So there were three days that
Speaker 2: dropped and then two days including today that it bounced
Speaker 2: back up. Early this evening. Talked with the dean of
Speaker 2: the medical School at the University of Michigan, doctor Marshall Unki.
Speaker 2: We will have him back. Talk with Colt Stevens about
Speaker 2: that Monster Jam going on tomorrow at Chillette Stadium you
Speaker 2: can check it out. And talk with Chris Porter about
Speaker 2: Lowellstown and City Festival that's coming up not this weekend
Speaker 2: but next weekend. And talk with doctor Farmi Faua about
Speaker 2: Skippy Meals. She's a cardiologist can make people more susceptible
Speaker 2: to heart attacks. And talked for an hour with Chris Muse.
Speaker 2: I'm a Superior Court judge who was the lawyer who,
Speaker 2: along with his dad, Bob Muse, freed It took a
Speaker 2: herculean effort to free Bobby joe Leister. Also former Springfield
Speaker 2: mayor Mike Albano who was on the Governor's Council who
Speaker 2: voted the commutation for Bobby joe Leister. Justice under God.
Speaker 2: That's a great book if you're a lawyer, if you
Speaker 2: ever thought about being a lawyer, or if you just
Speaker 2: want to understand how Bobby joe Leister was unjustly incarcerated
Speaker 2: for fifteen years for murder he didn't commit, and how
Speaker 2: he then came out and spent thirty years helping people
Speaker 2: in the inner city. It was a great article. And
Speaker 2: talked last hour with Mark Filman about from Charlie Allen
Speaker 2: Renovations of Cambridge. He's a design build contractor. So that's
Speaker 2: been the week. Hope you've enjoyed it as much as
Speaker 2: I have. Now we're going to go to brushes with
Speaker 2: celebrity and we're going to start it off with Joe
Speaker 2: and Belmont. Joe, you did get to call back? Everybody
Speaker 2: gets a hall pa here in the eleven o'clock hour
Speaker 2: on Friday night. Who's your Brushwood celebrity?
Speaker 3: Joe Danzi Man. If he can't do it, no one can.
Speaker 3: The Irish singer, uh, Brendan Boyer was called Island's Elvis Presley.
Speaker 3: He bought me drink? He did? He bought you a
Speaker 3: drink at the Statust Hotel in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Well, good for you, Joe. That sounds like a great
Speaker 2: experience and he treated you well. Now is he a singer?
Speaker 2: Is he? The Irish singer that I know is John McCormick,
Speaker 2: who's a great Irish tenor. Is that what this guy
Speaker 2: is as well?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, he was one of Ireland's famous rock and roll singers.
Speaker 3: I guess he did a lot of Elvis stuff in
Speaker 3: Irish songs.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you Irish songs that l elve is
Speaker 2: near to my heart. And his last name is Boyer.
Speaker 3: Did you say he is Brendan Boyer? B O y
Speaker 3: e R b o y e A right.
Speaker 2: It's like the Great Baseball family. Ken and Cleet Boyard,
Speaker 2: a couple of third Basement, one with the Cardinals, one
Speaker 2: with the Yankees. Joe, you got us off to a
Speaker 2: nice strong start. Thank you much as always appreciated, Joe.
Speaker 5: Talk soon, my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Dan, right back at you, Joe. We'll take a quick break.
Speaker 2: Coming right back on Nightside. More brushes with Celebrity. The
Speaker 2: only line is six, one, seven, two, ten thirty. I
Speaker 2: want to hear who you met during your life doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be recent. It could be twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: it could be thirty years ago, or it could be yesterday.
Speaker 2: Your brush with celebrity and how did they treat you?
Speaker 2: We call it the good, the bad, and the ugly. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Joe had a nice meeting with an Irish singer, Brendan
Speaker 2: Boyer in Vegas. That sounds like fun. Back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Right after this, it's night Side with.
Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Greg in Ontario. Hey, Greg, welcome back.
Speaker 2: Who's your brush with celebrity? Greg?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I had a handful of them, but the most
Speaker 6: the ones that stand out in my mind are Dicky
Speaker 6: Betts and Dan Toller of the album Brothers Band.
Speaker 2: I haven't realize Yeah right, yeah, they were huge.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my brother lives down in Florida, and he became
Speaker 6: friends with Kim Betts, which is Dicky Dicky's daughter. And
Speaker 6: in twenty fourteen, I got a phone call from my
Speaker 6: brother and I got my huge Alvin Brother's fan and
Speaker 6: so it was my brother and he said, you got
Speaker 6: to get down her, bro because I've been invited to
Speaker 6: Dickie's annual friends and family barbecue. Yeah, Spirit Ranch down
Speaker 6: in Sarasota, Florida. So so I get down there and
Speaker 6: go and I bring my guitar and we go there.
Speaker 6: He put a great spread on was all for charity.
Speaker 6: And the beautiful thing about this Dan it was I
Speaker 6: lived my dream. After Dicky Betts and his band played,
Speaker 6: which is great Southern, you can get up on stage
Speaker 6: and anybody who played an instrument you could jam out.
Speaker 6: So I got on stage with Dickey Bats and we
Speaker 6: were just jamming up with a couple other guys that
Speaker 6: were you know, we're guests as well, and it was
Speaker 6: unbelievable to saw my guitars and showed me how to
Speaker 6: play my favorite song, which is Jessica by the Olmn Brothers.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm telling you, Greg, that sounds like a great time.
Speaker 2: How long ago was this did you say what year
Speaker 2: was this?
Speaker 6: This is a back twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say that's a memory, memory of a lifetime.
Speaker 2: I'm jealous. I'm not a musical guy, but I know
Speaker 2: who the Allman Brothers are were and great, great, great band,
Speaker 2: No doubt Greg is always I thank you much. I
Speaker 2: figured you're going to tell me a hockey player living
Speaker 2: up in Ontario.
Speaker 6: Well, actually I played with Timmy Kerr in the seventies.
Speaker 6: He was my friend, childhood friend. He played for the
Speaker 6: Philly Flyers for about I get to about ten eleven
Speaker 6: years and so yeah, I guess I played minor hockey
Speaker 6: with him up here, Triple A Hawk, and then he
Speaker 6: got drafted, Uh you know, way back in late seventies,
Speaker 6: early eighties.
Speaker 2: So he had eleven years with the fly He had
Speaker 2: eleven years with the Flyers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he had three fifty goal seasons and he almost
Speaker 6: broke h He almost went ahead of Gretzky one year
Speaker 6: for goals.
Speaker 2: I think it was give me his give me his
Speaker 2: name again.
Speaker 6: What's the name names Tim Kerr t I M K
Speaker 6: E r R.
Speaker 2: All right, Well you know that one I missed. Flyers
Speaker 2: were a tough team. Uh, boy, I had to be
Speaker 2: honest with you. I ripped hockey players, but he was.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's right there, right there. Uh, pretty pretty good
Speaker 2: sized guy six three and a winger, and yeah, you
Speaker 2: got him right here. He had a good career. He
Speaker 2: was the eighties and wrapped up with the Rangers and
Speaker 2: the Whalers. That's three hundred How many goals you get here?
Speaker 2: Am I reading this right? Three hundred and seventy goals?
Speaker 2: Not bad? Whoa good one?
Speaker 7: That's ignition.
Speaker 6: But you know, I remember back in the day we
Speaker 6: were playing actually we were playing for the Old MAHA
Speaker 6: championship here in Ontario. I'm going back to nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 6: and he was our ringer on our team. I mean
Speaker 6: in Mitchell hockey. The guy would score from the redline.
Speaker 6: I kid you not. And so like, right in the
Speaker 6: middle of the Old maj playoffs, like we're on the road
Speaker 6: to win the championship. We ended up pointing it. But
Speaker 6: the Kingston Canadians, which is the Ohl club up here
Speaker 6: at Junior Club, they came and shouted him and they
Speaker 6: took him from us that year. And I'm like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, you guys can't do that. You're killing us here.
Speaker 2: But tell you what he had. He had four fifty
Speaker 2: plus goal seasons from eighty three and eighty four through
Speaker 2: the eighty six eighty seven season. Fifty four, fifty four,
Speaker 2: fifty eight, and fifty eight. That's pretty consistent. Whoa a
Speaker 2: good player? Yeah, good player, Hey, Greg, thank you much.
Speaker 2: That's a great and thank you so much. Two of them,
Speaker 2: two of them. Doctor you soon keep rolling. He You're
Speaker 2: going to go to Kenon Leminster Kenyon next on Night's side,
Speaker 2: you're Brushwood celebrity.
Speaker 8: Dan, you got to give me about three minutes to
Speaker 8: set up this thing, because what happened and the way
Speaker 8: it happened is just as good as who I met. Okay,
Speaker 8: December third, nineteen seventy two. The only time I've seen
Speaker 8: a Patriots game, I was eleven years old. It was
Speaker 8: it back to the old Shafer Stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, when the luminum seats, Yeah, luminum seats, I
Speaker 2: remember those, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8: They're just this leechers and I'm eleven years old. It's
Speaker 8: the Dolphins undefeated season, and of course the Patriots lost
Speaker 8: to the Dolphins that day necessarily, but if you remember
Speaker 8: the old Shaffer Stadium with the parking too, oh yes,
Speaker 8: my Dad, me and my cousin David, and we can't
Speaker 8: find a parking area. We down Route was it root one?
Speaker 2: Root one always was, always is always shall be.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So we're down like a mile and a half down
Speaker 8: Route one, praying for a parking space. There's this little
Speaker 8: gas station, a Texico station on the left. It says
Speaker 8: Rico Petrocelli Texaco, and so we now baseball dan to
Speaker 8: me back when I was eleven, that was that was
Speaker 8: the be all and end all. I played shortstop in
Speaker 8: Little league. And so we pull in there, and you know,
Speaker 8: I got to go to the bathroom so bad that
Speaker 8: I says, guys, can I just go into the bathroom
Speaker 8: real quick? And my father jokes, he says, maybe you'll
Speaker 8: meet Rico Petrocelli because it's Rico petrocell tex obviously owns it.
Speaker 8: So I go in there and who is standing there
Speaker 8: and a three piece suit looking over the books? But
Speaker 8: Rico Petrocelli, now dummy, and me right, I'm so starstruck
Speaker 8: that I go to the bathroom with my mouth slack jawed,
Speaker 8: and I go in, I come out. I'm like a zombie.
Speaker 8: I wandered back to the car and my dad jokes.
Speaker 8: He says, was Rico in there?
Speaker 2: And I says he was?
Speaker 8: And of course they thought I was kidding. I said, no,
Speaker 8: he was.
Speaker 7: He says, did you talk to him?
Speaker 8: He got his autograph? And I says no. My mon says,
Speaker 8: you idiot. We all get out of the car and
Speaker 8: we go in there and my father introduces me to
Speaker 8: Rico Petrocelli and I shake it. Rico didn't say a word,
Speaker 8: he just smiled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good guy though. Rico's great, great.
Speaker 8: Guy, and like my dad's like he plays short stuff too.
Speaker 8: You know you're his hero, YadA, yeah, yaha.
Speaker 2: And so you know how many how many kids have
Speaker 2: told how many dads have told Rico Petrocelli the kid
Speaker 2: played shortstop? Absolutely number six.
Speaker 8: Rico just takes out a piece of paper out of
Speaker 8: the death he signs, He signs his autograph, hands it
Speaker 8: to me, smiles, shakes my hand again, and off to
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 3: We went.
Speaker 2: Great, great, great story, great story. Ken. You did it
Speaker 2: in about two minutes and fifty three seconds, perfect perfect timing.
Speaker 2: Thanks Beal, we'll talk sooner. Great one. Uh, next time
Speaker 2: I see Rego, I'm going to mention this story to
Speaker 2: him and see if you remember show. Okay, I promise,
Speaker 2: good ahead, Okay, goodbye. Let's keep rolling here, Let's keep
Speaker 2: rolling six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine three ten thirty George in Westbridgewater. George,
Speaker 2: you're brush with celebrity. Who would that be? George?
Speaker 10: Well, the time of my life was. I spent sixty
Speaker 10: years as a professional clown and magician. And I traveled
Speaker 10: to New York City to buy magic one day and
Speaker 10: the owner of the magic studio says, boy, am I
Speaker 10: glad to see you. He says, I got somebody in
Speaker 10: the other room that you've got to come in and
Speaker 10: teach him to do some magic. Yeah, the bests in
Speaker 10: New England, he says, come on in. So I walked
Speaker 10: into this room totally blind to who is going to
Speaker 10: be there, and the guy goes, hey, camp. I brought
Speaker 10: in the best clown magician I could find, the teacher
Speaker 10: to do some magic, and he turned around his muhammad
Speaker 10: a lead.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 10: He shook hands and his hands swallowed mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he had the hand like you wouldn't believe. I said, boy,
Speaker 10: with hands like that, we can disappear anything. And we
Speaker 10: spent I spent six hours going over children's magic with him.
Speaker 10: Not many people mill it, but he was a great philanthropist.
Speaker 10: He used to take kids from Hollam to his training
Speaker 10: camp and he'd give them a free summer of camping, food, clothing, everything,
Speaker 10: and he would go there about once a week or
Speaker 10: once a month or whenever he could and do magic
Speaker 10: for them.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 10: And so that's why he wanted to learn magic. And
Speaker 10: when he got through, when he got through doing the
Speaker 10: magic and so forth, he said, what do you want
Speaker 10: picked anything in the store of yours And I said no,
Speaker 10: I said, the only thing I want is an autograph.
Speaker 10: So he signed to one of the magic catalogs for me,
Speaker 10: and on the front of the catalog was a picture
Speaker 10: of zig Freed and Roy. And the next year I
Speaker 10: was in Vegas and I took that with me and
Speaker 10: I asked the girl to take it out to zig
Speaker 10: Freed and Roy and asked them if did signed the
Speaker 10: autograph on the other side of the page, and she'd
Speaker 10: come back and she gave me back the money, and
Speaker 10: she says, you can't do that, and I said, oh,
Speaker 10: they wouldn't take it. No, No, you got to come backstage,
Speaker 10: and they want you to come and tell them how
Speaker 10: you got uh Muhammad Ali's autograph on the other page.
Speaker 10: Whoa I got to sit in the dressing room with
Speaker 10: zig Freed and Roy and one of the big cats
Speaker 10: and explain how I gave me who whoa.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Were you saying
Speaker 2: one of the big cats were in the dressing room
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes they had. One of the cats was their pet,
Speaker 10: and it was de Claude.
Speaker 2: He was would give claud Did it have any teeth? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 2: But oh, George, George, you're a brave man. I would
Speaker 2: have gone in there unless they had Muhammad Ali with
Speaker 2: me as a bodyguard.
Speaker 10: When you got the time, I'll tell you the story
Speaker 10: about the Unpaided Lion Act that I used to perform with.
Speaker 2: Okay, George, next time, that's a good one. I met
Speaker 2: Ali in an elevator in New Orleans during the nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight Republican Convention. He went there. He was a
Speaker 2: friend of believe it or not, Utah Senator Frank Hatch.
Speaker 2: Got on the elevator, I was holding my year and
Speaker 2: a half old son in my arms. It was just Muhammed,
Speaker 2: you know, the champ myself and my son for a
Speaker 2: few floors, and of course I knew exactly who he was.
Speaker 2: Introduced myself and he was getting on in his you know,
Speaker 2: he would have been dealing, slowing down a little bit.
Speaker 2: I did a little shadow boxing with Daniel, my son Daniel,
Speaker 2: and you know, of course he's very gentle and you
Speaker 2: know he's jabbing away a little bit. Really nice guy.
Speaker 2: So every time I tell my son, do you remember
Speaker 2: when you shadow box with Muhammad Ali? He looks at
Speaker 2: me like I'm crazy. A lot of people do that
Speaker 2: to me. George. We'll talk soon, buddy, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: That fabulous story, fabulous story. We'll be back on Night's Side.
Speaker 2: Only line is six one, seven nine.
Speaker 1: And you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna pick up the pace a little bit.
Speaker 2: Your brush with celebrity Diane is in Berricka. Diane. Who
Speaker 2: was it that you met and what were the circumstances?
Speaker 9: Oh boy, I could be on this show for four
Speaker 9: hours with all the people I met.
Speaker 2: Oh I know who this is. You have done nothing
Speaker 2: but meet celebrities. Give me your give me your top
Speaker 2: three in the last year. Okay, let's let's narrow it down.
Speaker 9: Diane, go ahead, Okay, Bob crafts Okay. Golf and Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: Where you meet Tyson?
Speaker 9: He was at the Patriots game in Miami with a son.
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. How did Tyson treat you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 11: He was nice.
Speaker 9: It's like he stops the pitches and you know he
Speaker 9: you know, he was going through the tunnel to get in.
Speaker 9: You know, because I was on the field, I get
Speaker 9: to go to the warm up in Miami, so he,
Speaker 9: you know, wanted to get in the tunnel. I think,
Speaker 9: you know, to go talk to the players because they
Speaker 9: it was like towards the end. But the funny thing
Speaker 9: that happened this year, I took my eight year old grandson.
Speaker 9: So he's obsessed with Tyreek Hill. So because we were
Speaker 9: there with the Patriots, I told him, please don't put
Speaker 9: on the jersey until, you know, maybe the game starts. Well,
Speaker 9: an hour after being on the field, he put on
Speaker 9: the Tyreek jersey. Well, just as he did that, bought
Speaker 9: Craft comes out and I don't know why he thinks
Speaker 9: he knows me, but he comes over, gives me a hug,
Speaker 9: and then he fist bumped like a lot of people
Speaker 9: that were there. So then my grandson was standing in
Speaker 9: there with his fist up and so I said to him, oh,
Speaker 9: this is my grandson Payton. And he looked them up
Speaker 9: and down and he kept walking, and so my grandson
Speaker 9: yelled to him and he goes, you're gonna read me
Speaker 9: hanging Bob, and everybody started laughing. He because he was
Speaker 9: living a Dolphin jersey. He wouldn't pay absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like you got to come dressed properly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, eight years old, and he knows he had the
Speaker 9: Brady jersey on before, you know, like.
Speaker 2: You, Bob Kraft is the Patriots older he I'm sure
Speaker 2: he felt a little disrespected. Well, Scott Zolac is a
Speaker 2: good guy too. Zolac is one of the real good
Speaker 2: guys in the business.
Speaker 3: So uh oh.
Speaker 9: I met Mike Tyson in the hotel and he turns
Speaker 9: around to me and he goes, aren't you Diane. And
Speaker 9: my grandson's like, how do you know football players.
Speaker 2: Do what you tell him? What you tell him?
Speaker 9: I said, well, you know, I've been working there for
Speaker 9: twenty five years, so of course I know them.
Speaker 2: You bet you, you bet you great.
Speaker 9: I loved David ninety four. You know he got like
Speaker 9: eleven autographs, like all the players were so nice.
Speaker 2: Dam But you know, Diane, you and I could do
Speaker 2: brushes with celebrity every night for the next year and
Speaker 2: you could come up with it.
Speaker 9: But people don't know my friend Diane.
Speaker 2: By Diane has worked a lot of the events around
Speaker 2: the country. That is how she makes her living, moving
Speaker 2: from rock concerts to two big events of all all
Speaker 2: types and sizes. Diane, I got packed lines, so I
Speaker 2: got to let get go.
Speaker 9: But now I know that I thought you would like that,
Speaker 9: and I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: Hi absolutely and say hi to Peyton for us. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. I will talk to you soon. Let's
Speaker 2: keep rowling here. Going to David in Watertown. David, you
Speaker 2: were next on Nightside. I always good to hear from Watertown.
Speaker 2: Who's your brush with celebrity? David?
Speaker 12: Oh, Dan, I'm a long time, first time caller.
Speaker 2: This is your first time when we got at the studio,
Speaker 2: audience and stop giving you a standing ovation.
Speaker 12: I've been listening to you since you started, and I
Speaker 12: just wanted to tell you that my family met you
Speaker 12: around nineteen ninety five when you were reporting for Bus
Speaker 12: there was a hurricane coming in in Falm at the
Speaker 12: Tides Motel and we were staying there. Yeah, and you
Speaker 12: interviewed my daughter at the time. She was eleven years old,
Speaker 12: and I just wanted to tell you she is now
Speaker 12: a sister with Malarauga.
Speaker 2: No, I know, Mother Olga. I know you do.
Speaker 12: That's why I called you.
Speaker 2: Oh what a great story. So she's down at the
Speaker 2: convent and I assumed the confident in Quinsy.
Speaker 12: They're in Quincy now, yeah, oh, I know, well, and
Speaker 12: it was ironic that you met her when she was eleven,
Speaker 12: and I know that you know Mologa very well.
Speaker 2: Has she told Mother Olga? Has she told Mother Olga
Speaker 2: that she and I are old friends?
Speaker 12: She probably did, I'm not sure, but he is Sister
Speaker 12: Elizabeth Francis.
Speaker 2: Well, please say hello to Sister elizabeths Francis from me.
Speaker 2: Where did she go to school? Because I'm so impressed.
Speaker 12: With Fount Alpernia in Newton, and then she went to
Speaker 12: Sacred Heart in Connecticut.
Speaker 2: Great great colleges.
Speaker 12: She graduated with her master's from Boston College and before
Speaker 12: she she just became a nun. She's been there about
Speaker 12: eleven years. But she just made her final vows two
Speaker 12: or three years ago.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just take a quick story, David, so
Speaker 2: you know, and maybe you can pass this on. As
Speaker 2: you know, there was a period of time where their
Speaker 2: rectory was next door to our home.
Speaker 12: I know that when she was there, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and when they would go away on
Speaker 2: retreat in the summertime, Mother Olga drafted me to be
Speaker 2: sort of their caretaker, to make sure that no one
Speaker 2: bothered the house right. And and then she would say
Speaker 2: that when you know, when you go in every day
Speaker 2: to check things around, you would say, you know, please
Speaker 2: please sit in the chapel and send some some time
Speaker 2: meditating with Jesus. And I did that every day, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and it was well worth it. And Mother Olga was
Speaker 2: a special person in all of her nuns, the daughters
Speaker 2: of Mary of Nazareth. They're all very accomplished young women
Speaker 2: from great colleges. They're intelligent, and they're so dedicated to her.
Speaker 2: And of course the story Mother Ogre is an extraordinary story.
Speaker 2: That is amazing, David, that is amazing. I actually remember
Speaker 2: that story. And I'll tell you why I remember that story.
Speaker 2: One of the portions of that story, if it's the
Speaker 2: same story. I found a baseball game going on that
Speaker 2: on that night in advance of that storm, and there
Speaker 2: was a baseball team, an amateur baseball team from Australia
Speaker 2: that was playing on the cape, playing a local, you know,
Speaker 2: amateur team down in Folmouth. And I remember interviewing some
Speaker 2: of the Australian players as well as your daughter. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that probably was the same story, David. That is a
Speaker 2: great story. Please say how to your daughter for me.
Speaker 12: I'll do that, Dan, please send it A nice talking
Speaker 12: to you and you do a great job there, and
Speaker 12: I really enjoy you every unit I listened to you well, David.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I really hope to meet you someday.
Speaker 2: I often head over to Watertown to a gym over there,
Speaker 2: so maybe sometime I'll see you.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: There's a dunkin Donuts right by the gym, and oftentimes
Speaker 2: as a reward, I stop in there. So if you
Speaker 2: haven't said yes, I do, yes, I do. You gotta
Speaker 2: have a reward. Okay, that's right, that's right. Thanks David.
Speaker 2: What's a wonderful story. I'm happy Happy Easter to you
Speaker 2: as well, okay, and the blessed Easter. Thank you very much.
Speaker 12: Thank you bye, good night.
Speaker 2: All right. That's it's amazing the people that I have
Speaker 2: met along the way. Eleven year old girl who now
Speaker 2: twenty years later she's a Catholic nun. Paul and Nashville,
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Paul, you're next on nightside.
Speaker 4: Welcome, Okay. Nineteen sixty eight, when Nixon was armed for president,
Speaker 4: went down to Rivera College and met him and his
Speaker 4: wife and his daughter and the press people out there.
Speaker 4: I went to sea. I don't think an autography said
Speaker 4: get lost, So I headed to amends room and I
Speaker 4: walked bumped into Mike Wallace. He got his autograph.
Speaker 2: Mike Wallace was a friend. He and I did a
Speaker 2: piece on sixty Minutes together on the Salvati case. I
Speaker 2: really got to know Mike during that story. Wonderful guy.
Speaker 2: So they wouldn't let you get Nixon's autograph?
Speaker 4: Was that that said get lost?
Speaker 2: You said, Who's whose autograph were you looking for? You
Speaker 2: missed it?
Speaker 4: Chet Huntley?
Speaker 2: Oh, chet Huntley? Oh so Hutley Hutley blew you off?
Speaker 2: But Wallace was was nice. Well, isn't that interesting? Okay?
Speaker 4: So the second one was I saw America up in
Speaker 4: Manchester in nineteen eighty eight and I bumped into Dewey Banal.
Speaker 4: He's part of America, got his autograph.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Paul, these are good ones. You know,
Speaker 2: when you guys in New Hampshire, you get to see
Speaker 2: all the presidential contacts. That's one of the great things
Speaker 2: about seeing most. Most people could say, oh yeah, I've
Speaker 2: had President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama. You know at
Speaker 2: my kitchen table. That's that's retail politics at its best.
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy four, I was servant most in Alaska
Speaker 4: and I came up and fifty feet of Harry Reasoner.
Speaker 2: You got, well, you got I think all three networks.
Speaker 2: Reason was an ABC, Hotly I think was NBC, and
Speaker 2: Wallace was CBS three, the three big covered. Paul, great,
Speaker 2: great stories. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: A great weekend. Let me get one more in here
Speaker 2: before the break if I can. I'm gonna get Sharon
Speaker 2: in debt him. Sharon, who's your celebrity you'd like to
Speaker 2: talk about?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 6: How are you Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm great, Sharon, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 13: I'm acres from Stone.
Speaker 9: But do you know.
Speaker 2: My man, let me just say this, My pal Rob
Speaker 2: wrote dead him, So I gotta throw Rob under the
Speaker 2: bus here, Sharon from Stonehem. It's a little different side
Speaker 2: of the city.
Speaker 13: Rob Okay, Hey, if I mentioned the name Ray Mercer,
Speaker 13: do you know.
Speaker 4: Who that is?
Speaker 2: Ray Mercer? If you mentioned Robbie Mercer, I would have
Speaker 2: said the New York Yankees, But I should Ray Mercer.
Speaker 13: Give me a Ray Mercer was a boxer and he
Speaker 13: was in the Olympics and he did phenomenal for us
Speaker 13: in the Olympics. How about so I'm at him a
Speaker 13: number of times. How about Mickey Ward?
Speaker 2: Mickey Ward, of course from Lowell. He was a boxer
Speaker 2: and Lowell great boxer pound for pound absolutely, So you're
Speaker 2: a boxing So.
Speaker 13: No, I am a national anthem singer and I have
Speaker 13: sung and they've both been at events that I have
Speaker 13: sung at. And Mickey Ward actually now when he sees me,
Speaker 13: he goes, oh, you're the national anthem singer. He won't
Speaker 13: know my name, but he knows that. But more importantly,
Speaker 13: more precious to my heart, was I met Michael J.
Speaker 2: Fox. Yeah, Wow, that's a great one one.
Speaker 13: And I met him on the vineyard years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 13: my daughter's actually connected a number of times. My parents
Speaker 13: had a place on the vineyard but my daughter was
Speaker 13: a gymnastics coach and his daughter was during the camp
Speaker 13: and he's there and Tracy was there, and I was
Speaker 13: all of a sudden starstruck and I'm like, I'm my god,
Speaker 13: there's Tracy and.
Speaker 2: Michael is Michael Fox's what Michael j Fox's what?
Speaker 13: Yep yep. And I was like, don't do it, don't
Speaker 13: do it. Because so they were videoing. Michael was videoing
Speaker 13: the gymnastics event and his friend was like, hey, Michael,
Speaker 13: the you know, the shaky thing isn't working, and he
Speaker 13: took the camera from him and Michael went out into
Speaker 13: the open area and I followed him. I'm like, don't
Speaker 13: do it, Sharon, don't do it. And I did and
Speaker 13: I went out and I'm like, Hi, I just want
Speaker 13: to tell you I'm so impressed with everything you've done.
Speaker 2: And he said.
Speaker 13: Ye, sorry, and he goes he goes, Hi, I'm Michael,
Speaker 13: and he just put out his hand and I shook
Speaker 13: his hand and I said Hi, I'm Sharon. And he
Speaker 13: just puts everything at ease, and he was the most
Speaker 13: he is the most wonderful man going through the most
Speaker 13: horrible disease.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh that's great. You know you know something, Sharon.
Speaker 2: That's a great Those are three great stories that just
Speaker 2: looked up Brady Mercer nineteen eighty eight Summer Summer Olympics. Yeah, excellent, Sharon,
Speaker 2: I got it. Ron, I took you quickly there. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry about the confusion and Sharon rather stone him and
Speaker 2: get him. But it's Sharon from Stoneham. Great stories. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much, Sharon, Thank you great, you too, have a
Speaker 2: good weekend. Okay, we're gonna take quick break. I got
Speaker 2: Ron and Weymouth, Christina, Denim and Ron and Newton, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna get them all in. I promise. Right after this.
Speaker 1: Break, you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WZ
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna try to wrap it up here. We're
Speaker 2: gonna go for we have four callers. Let's get them
Speaker 2: all in, Ron and Newton. Ron. Who's your celebrity this week? Oh,
Speaker 2: I got to hit the right button. That's my mistake.
Speaker 5: Ron, you were next on I SI Hi, Dan, a
Speaker 5: great topic. My celebrity is Jim Lovell from Apaulo thirteen.
Speaker 2: Wow. Boy, that's out of this world.
Speaker 9: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have a book right in front of me. He signed.
Speaker 5: It happened to be at a disaster response conference for
Speaker 5: a week one conference and a buddy of mine from
Speaker 5: San Diego said, one morning, Hey, I've got tickets to
Speaker 5: the annual Hall of Fame induction for the astronauts, and
Speaker 5: you want to go? I said sure. So we had
Speaker 5: a breakfast and add some you know, some discussions, they
Speaker 5: had some some lectures, and then they had a book
Speaker 5: signing and terrific. Show my hand. I've got his book
Speaker 5: Apollo thirteen right in front of me.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: Now, wow, that's that's that's one for. That's one for.
Speaker 2: That's one for the family lineage. I'll tell you that's
Speaker 2: that's got to stay in the family library.
Speaker 5: Okay, Dan, I still get the boarding pass for that flight.
Speaker 2: That's great. I'm like, I'm like you. You you keep
Speaker 2: it all together. You go back and say that was
Speaker 2: the plane, that was the book. That's perfect. And maybe
Speaker 2: you got the ticket to the breakfast as well.
Speaker 5: I probably do.
Speaker 2: Alright, Ron, I gotta run here, I gotta get three
Speaker 2: more in, buddy. That's a great one. Jim lovel Wow,
Speaker 2: thanks buddy. Talk soon. Let's go to Christine and Dead
Speaker 2: and Christine, who's your celebrity this week. I have cool
Speaker 2: Oh go ahead, gotta be quick, okay, sure the best yep, okay,
Speaker 2: that's that's the that's from the Willnda family, the high
Speaker 2: Wire yep.
Speaker 9: Okay, yes, yes, mister Rogers.
Speaker 2: Mister Rogers, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: And Joey McIntyre.
Speaker 2: That's that's getting local. How'd you meet mister Rogers?
Speaker 14: My t TD Teeker was his brother. He came to
Speaker 14: his house one time. We were at by teacher's house
Speaker 14: and he said he had brother was going to combine
Speaker 14: and surprise us.
Speaker 5: And it was Fred Rogers And was his brother living
Speaker 5: den him was Frock Storry.
Speaker 2: Wow, didn't know that that you can't. That's a tough
Speaker 2: one to beat. That's a tough one to beat. Christine,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. That of all. Look Bobby yours
Speaker 2: the best, no question, will lend up mister Rogers though,
Speaker 2: that's tough to top. Okay, thanks, thanks Christine. Well I
Speaker 2: makes up Ron and Weymouth rom again you and at
Speaker 2: least one more Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Ron, Okay, Mine is more like I met a VAP
Speaker 7: by telephone. As strange as it seems, that was a
Speaker 7: cap on his help. After I get out of the
Speaker 7: Air Force. I worked in North Hollywood. I was ripping
Speaker 7: out Ero Flynn's old house was up an Appian Way.
Speaker 2: I believe it was h and uh Ern.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Ero Flynn, Ero Flynn's house. And the guy who
Speaker 7: bought it was the writer Sterling Silopon. So I was
Speaker 7: working as a coppertain's helper then, and he said they
Speaker 7: all went out and they said hey. Sterling said to me,
Speaker 7: if someone calls, just take the message from him because
Speaker 7: I got to go. So I'm the only one there.
Speaker 7: So the phone rings, I answered it and he says hello.
Speaker 7: I said hello. I said hello. He said hello. He says,
Speaker 7: I hear ancho.
Speaker 6: Who's this?
Speaker 7: He says this the butler. I said no, this is
Speaker 7: the competent.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 7: He says, this is mister Mayor. This is mister Mayor.
Speaker 5: Is Sterling there? I said no. He had to go out.
Speaker 7: He said take the message. He said tell him mister
Speaker 7: Mayor called about the sixty six job. And I said okay.
Speaker 7: So Sterling came back in a very nice guy chills
Speaker 7: and he said any calls. I says, yeah, I'm mister
Speaker 7: Mayor called about the sixty sixth job or something like that.
Speaker 7: He says, oh, you mean the route sixty sixth I'm writing,
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'll call him right away. And she said,
Speaker 7: next time your boss goes down and get some pots
Speaker 7: down in the downtown. He says, just take one of
Speaker 7: the jags where the jaguar. So I was able to
Speaker 7: get a ride in stealing green, beautiful, green light, green Jaguar.
Speaker 7: I'll never forget that. Talk about a vip ron.
Speaker 2: That's that's the day to remember, buddy. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Thank you man. I have a great weekend.
Speaker 7: I never forget that, never forget so funny. You're so gracious,
Speaker 7: mister mayor MGM.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, talk to you soon. Next up, final one
Speaker 2: of the night Wolf in Boston. Wolf. Have I ever
Speaker 2: had your called before? Is this the first time for Wolf?
Speaker 11: This is my first time?
Speaker 2: Got a round of appla for Wolf? Who would it be? Wolf?
Speaker 11: Mentally eighties my treance at the time. She's working at
Speaker 11: al Touredos Route one in Norwood. Remember the place I've.
Speaker 2: Heard of it? Yes, I don't think I've ever been there,
Speaker 2: but I know where you mean.
Speaker 11: Go ahead, so anyway you should pickle up round one,
Speaker 11: she caused me. At eleven, She says, you're not going
Speaker 11: to believe this. Peter Chris is there from Kiss, right,
Speaker 11: so I grew up with Kiss. You know, I think
Speaker 11: i've seen him at twelve years old. Anyway, I go
Speaker 11: there and people getting autographs. It's not too busy. So
Speaker 11: when I go up there, he's signed an autograph from
Speaker 11: me and he points to the goal with him. He said,
Speaker 11: this is my wife, Lydia. I think he said Lydia.
Speaker 11: So he signed my autograph and he asked me for
Speaker 11: my address. But I looked back at Lydia and I
Speaker 11: said Beth, and she nodded her head to get the reference.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 11: Know, Chiss man, I'm Beth the only number one son
Speaker 11: Peter Chris Wild. It doesn't matter. But out of twee.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it,
Speaker 2: I got it all right, all right?
Speaker 11: Well, anyway, he left my girlfriend a real good tip
Speaker 11: that Christmas. We got a Christmas card from Peter christ.
Speaker 2: Wow. That's a great one, welf. Thanks man. I'm flat
Speaker 2: out a time. The show's over, but thank you so much.
Speaker 2: It was a strong one to end on. Talk soon Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks very much, have a great one. We are done
Speaker 2: for the night. Done, for the week. I want to
Speaker 2: thank all the callers, all the listeners want to thank
Speaker 2: Rob and Marita. Karen helped out this week as well.
Speaker 2: I will end as always, all dogs, all cats, all
Speaker 2: pets go to heaven. That's my pell Charlie ray Is
Speaker 2: who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where your
Speaker 2: pets are who are pasted. They loved you when you
Speaker 2: loved them. I do believe you'll see them again. I
Speaker 2: will be on Facebook night Side with Dan Ray in
Speaker 2: about two minutes. Join me. There have a little special
Speaker 2: information for some of my special callers. We will see
Speaker 2: you Monday night of great weekend. Everyone,