Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll thank you very much. Long time for
Speaker 2: the hockey season, that's for sure. The Bruins, come on,
Speaker 2: Bruins got to do something. All right. Here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I'm reading my Boston Globe this morning. First I read
Speaker 2: the sports page, best sports page in America in my opinion,
Speaker 2: and then I go to the rest of the paper
Speaker 2: and I'm in the business section and I'm on page
Speaker 2: A page in my own Here, I'm on page five,
Speaker 2: B five Business five. This headline is Cape cod Worth
Speaker 2: the miserable traffic. What's that all about? Even after four
Speaker 2: sublime days in Chatham and on Nantucket a Globe writer
Speaker 2: isn't all that sure. Well, we invited the Globe wright
Speaker 2: to join us tonight, but you know he's Friday night,
Speaker 2: not available, no problem. So he talks about this trip
Speaker 2: that he took. He's he drives from the north Shore.
Speaker 2: Maybe he should be thinking more about Maine, I don't know,
Speaker 2: or New Hampshire. But he's driven from the north Shore
Speaker 2: and he ends up down in the down the Cape.
Speaker 2: He went out in Nantucket, which you know is a
Speaker 2: wonderful place to visit. He played golf with his buddies
Speaker 2: who were down there. So this fellow had a great time.
Speaker 2: He took a ferry over to Nantucket, stayed, had a
Speaker 2: bet an overnight in Chatham, early round of golf at
Speaker 2: Cranberry Valley in Harwich with his three old high school buddies.
Speaker 2: He said, a dream trip, an unforgettable experience, which goes
Speaker 2: to show you how bad the traffic was. Because I'm
Speaker 2: still on the fence about whether I would do it again.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, hold on, that's with was four days
Speaker 2: enough to justify the changed human I was when I
Speaker 2: crawled into my driveway five hours later, just barely. I
Speaker 2: think that's my line on the Cape and the islands.
Speaker 2: On the Cape and island sand, and a lot of
Speaker 2: healing has to happen to say it's definitive. I'm running
Speaker 2: this day after I got home, and I'm still recovering emotionally. Oh,
Speaker 2: Billy Baker, I feel sorry for you. First of all,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe the cape's too far away. You live
Speaker 2: on the north Shore. He didn't say where. He said
Speaker 2: he started on the north Shore. We spent some time
Speaker 2: in years past on Martha's vineyard, and I got to
Speaker 2: tell you. My heart was always in my throat to
Speaker 2: make the boat over to the vineyard. And when I
Speaker 2: got there, it was very crowded, I mean very crowded,
Speaker 2: and there were too many New Yorkers. I hate, I
Speaker 2: hate to say that, but it was like every car
Speaker 2: was from New York. And I didn't love the vineyard. Okay,
Speaker 2: probably my politics isn't isn't. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's Martha's vinyard. Okay, it's in Martha's vineyard. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of the folks over there. The cape is
Speaker 2: much more me And maybe what Billy should do is
Speaker 2: spend a few trips to the vineyard and have your
Speaker 2: heart in your throat as you're trying to get to
Speaker 2: to the boat. And now I don't mind, I mean,
Speaker 2: would I prefer no traffic? Yeah, yeah, of course I'm
Speaker 2: not stupid. But if I have to wait an extra
Speaker 2: half an hour to get over the bridge, or ten
Speaker 2: minutes or fifteen or whatever, I'm down with that because
Speaker 2: I know I don't have to worry about a boat.
Speaker 2: If you miss the boat, you don't. You have no guaranteed.
Speaker 2: It's not like, oh I missed the boat. I'm ready
Speaker 2: I'm all set for the next boat. No, you go,
Speaker 2: or at least when I was going to the venue.
Speaker 2: You go to the to the lot, the stand by lot,
Speaker 2: and you get at the end of the stand by line,
Speaker 2: and if you've missed the boat by two minutes, that's it.
Speaker 2: Once you missed the boat, you've heard the phrase, I
Speaker 2: don't want to miss the boat. Okay, once you're on
Speaker 2: the boat, it's lovely. It's about you know, twenty five
Speaker 2: thirty forty minutes over. But you're going down and you
Speaker 2: come over the Sagamore Bridge or the Bourne Bridge, excuse me,
Speaker 2: and you're trying to you're trying to get down some
Speaker 2: of those back roads to get down a woods hole.
Speaker 2: It can really cause a lot out of anxiety. So
Speaker 2: my question to you is really simple. Those of you
Speaker 2: who have been to the Cape, whether you go down
Speaker 2: there for a week in the summer, or you go
Speaker 2: down for a weekend, or you're lucky enough to have
Speaker 2: somewhere that you can go down and spend the entire
Speaker 2: summer down there. Uh, it's well worth. It is Cape
Speaker 2: card worth. The miserable traffic first of all, the traffic
Speaker 2: after after traffic to the vineyard, Cape Guard traffics, nothing
Speaker 2: nothing six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I sure wish
Speaker 2: that Billy had joined us tonight on the show because
Speaker 2: he sounds like a great guy. But it took him.
Speaker 2: I think he said it took like two hours and
Speaker 2: forty five minutes to the north shore. That's not bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's going to be an hour fifty
Speaker 2: from he he left from harm which at noontime and
Speaker 2: he reached the Sagamore Bridge. Oh wait a second, no, okay,
Speaker 2: hold on his maps told him it'll be two hours
Speaker 2: and forty five minutes to the north shore. That wouldn't
Speaker 2: be bad. When he left Harwich at noon and told
Speaker 2: me the same He told him the same thing two
Speaker 2: hours later when he finally reached the Sagamore Bridge. Two
Speaker 2: hours from Harwich to Sagamore. It's thirty miles. That's that's
Speaker 2: a bit much. But what morning was it? Monday morning?
Speaker 2: I don't know, So I want to know your experiences
Speaker 2: and if you feel I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 2: there's one person who's gonna call me and say they're
Speaker 2: not going back to the Cape because of the traffic.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have no interest in going back to
Speaker 2: the venue, to be really honest with you. But would
Speaker 2: I go back, Yeah, I probably would, but I wouldn't
Speaker 2: take my car. I'd probably go over there and walk
Speaker 2: around Vineyard Haven or Oak Buffs and have lunch and
Speaker 2: get back of the boat and come home. Six month seven.
Speaker 2: The only line's open right now six month seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. So this is kind of like an informal
Speaker 2: pole informal pole time right here on Nightside, coming back
Speaker 2: right after these messages, we'll go to right to phone calls,
Speaker 2: I promise.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Billy Baker of the Globe rights how much is Cape?
Speaker 2: Is Cape worth this? How much Cape is required to
Speaker 2: make it worthwhile to go all the way down there
Speaker 2: knowing you're going to get tortured on the way home.
Speaker 2: A day trip is off the table. Incorrect answer, But
Speaker 2: so is a weekend. You're definitely going to hit traffic
Speaker 2: on Friday unless you leave very early or very late.
Speaker 2: Same goes for Sunday. Otherwise each of these rides could
Speaker 2: be hellish at A great Saturday in the Cape is
Speaker 2: not enough for me? To justify a gruesome Friday and Sunday.
Speaker 2: Sounds to me like Billy Billy's had a bad experience.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Joel down in Natick. Joel, what do
Speaker 2: you think is Billy getting a little cranky here? What's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: His story?
Speaker 4: Dan, Yeah, I have two weeks down the Cape of Timeshare. Okay,
Speaker 4: Saturday to Saturday, so we'll we do it's le Saturday
Speaker 4: evening because there's less traffic to get down to the cape.
Speaker 2: Good thinking, good thinking, and.
Speaker 4: All weeks are usually one easily a more day week
Speaker 4: or the week after the loll day and not told
Speaker 4: it's Columbus Day week or do we get the Columbus day.
Speaker 2: So you've already had one week, right.
Speaker 4: That's right. Let me tell you now, let me tell you. Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't mind the traffic, but I thing have bugs
Speaker 4: me the most. It's construction, Okay, yeah, because it looking
Speaker 4: worse than having traffic going through the direction because what
Speaker 4: they do is they cut the lanes down to one
Speaker 4: lane and either direction.
Speaker 2: I would like to think they could get the construction
Speaker 2: done October November, maybe a little bit in December, then
Speaker 2: shut it down for December January February, but when March comes,
Speaker 2: the snow's gone. They got March April in May or
Speaker 2: half of May. They could time that a lot her.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, Joe. That's a great suggestion. Next time
Speaker 2: we have someone from Governor Healey's Transportation Department on, we'll
Speaker 2: have to raise that point.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: One other thing, Dan, so we always make to go
Speaker 4: to the restaurants called seafood SAMs.
Speaker 2: Ever heard of seafood SAMs? Yeah? What town is that in?
Speaker 4: It's in Southing Harmlet.
Speaker 2: Okay, you have heard of that place.
Speaker 5: I haven't been there for part of it.
Speaker 4: Turn twenty eight. The clothes on Mondays but open every
Speaker 4: day in the other days in the week and have
Speaker 4: very good fresh pitch. Anyway, to get to that restaurant,
Speaker 4: we had to go in to the back entrance to
Speaker 4: get there, and they had a sign we are opened
Speaker 4: during this construction nightmare.
Speaker 2: Okay. I think you've sent a message loud and clear, Joe.
Speaker 2: But you think it's still worth it. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: Bill Baker says, it is it. He raises the question
Speaker 2: is it worth it? I assume you say yes, it's
Speaker 2: worth it. When once you get down there.
Speaker 4: It's worth it provided there's no construction going on the
Speaker 4: roads where you're staying.
Speaker 2: So it's so you say it's worth it with an asterisk. Okay.
Speaker 4: The problem. The problem was then we're going to go
Speaker 4: out one way out of the place we were staying. We
Speaker 4: stayed at a place opposite pirates called you heard.
Speaker 2: Yes, I never heard of Pirates Cove. I know where
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, they had construction going in east east directions,
Speaker 4: but not the west. So if you're going to go east,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have chocolate problems. You go west, you don't
Speaker 4: have that many problems to only when you're going to
Speaker 4: try and get back. And then what they do is
Speaker 4: they have detour science for you to try to avoid
Speaker 4: all the construction.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm saying it's worth it with an asterisk.
Speaker 2: Joel and Natick, I'm so glad you had a great
Speaker 2: week in the late May, and you'll have the best
Speaker 2: weather of the summer in October. You know that.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 4: I hope you do too.
Speaker 2: All Right, I'll talk to you soon. Have a great one.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Patty and Wellesley. Patty, welcome back. Hi,
Speaker 2: I'm great I'm doing great, Patty, so wonderful to hear
Speaker 2: your voice. I love your voice.
Speaker 7: Happy summer. Oh me, you me, you talk to you.
Speaker 8: That's done.
Speaker 7: Listen to this. Okay, So tomorrow is the Beach Boys
Speaker 7: and my neighbor has the whole front row five thirty
Speaker 7: and eight thirty bullshows.
Speaker 2: Right, well, where where's where are the Beach Boys playing tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Night at the Mellory tenth.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't forget.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So Brian Wilson passed away, so it's going to
Speaker 7: be a you know, pretty memorable show, right.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, Well, Mike Mike Love is still is still
Speaker 2: out there every.
Speaker 7: Night, right, Yes, I'm Bruce too well.
Speaker 2: Love is one of the original five if I'm not mistaken, Yes.
Speaker 7: I'm Bruce as well. I don't know his last name.
Speaker 2: You know, my favorite Beach Boys song is Cocomo and you.
Speaker 7: Know John Stamos. Can you imagine if he's there, because
Speaker 7: he does a great Cocomo too. It's actually my favorite,
Speaker 7: is it?
Speaker 2: Okay? I told you were in the same same way, Blake, Patty, I'm.
Speaker 7: Telling you we're aligned by the hip.
Speaker 2: That's just what So you're gonna be are you driving down?
Speaker 2: I hope you're staying over in case that anybody has
Speaker 2: a drink or two.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, but I'm senior citizen. I've been drinking
Speaker 7: and at No, I'm just kidding. No, my husband is
Speaker 7: a designated driver. Is that Arnold Palmer guys? Okay, I'm
Speaker 7: a Tito girl.
Speaker 2: So it goes so waite like he can handle a
Speaker 2: couple of Arnold Palmer's and still take the wheel.
Speaker 7: No, Arnold Palmer saws alcohol.
Speaker 2: No, I know that. I know that. I'm only teasing you. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I know what an Arnold Palmer's like, an iced tea.
Speaker 7: Right, Oh yeah, I didn't know if it had that
Speaker 7: you could get an Arnold Palmer with a zing or
Speaker 7: a zang. But this just straight up.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I get it. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And
Speaker 2: you're you're Tito vodka.
Speaker 7: Tito on the rocks a splash eleven.
Speaker 2: That's vodka. Right.
Speaker 7: Yes, there's a great traveling companion. Yes, I can't travel
Speaker 7: without him.
Speaker 2: Love you even more, Patty, love you even more. Your
Speaker 2: husband's a lucky man.
Speaker 7: So listen, don here's the thing. I have to leave
Speaker 7: an hour and a half. Takes an hour and a
Speaker 7: half from Wellesley to Hyanna's right. So, but I work
Speaker 7: all day at a new little shop in Wellesley and
Speaker 7: then Sunday we can't sleep over because they're a swim
Speaker 7: Boston fashion show to have to come back that night
Speaker 7: to get ready.
Speaker 4: For a show.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, so your your front row beach Boys at
Speaker 2: the Melody Tent in Hyenas on Saturday night, Patty, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you people are going to who are going to
Speaker 2: be there are going to come looking for you. People
Speaker 2: who are listenings of mine tonight, who are gonna they're
Speaker 2: gonna look for Patty.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing done.
Speaker 7: Guess what what, There's gonna be traffic, and it's gonna suck,
Speaker 7: And I'm going to be sad because, you know what,
Speaker 7: as Dorothy said, there's no place like home, right, Yes, traffic.
Speaker 7: No one's in the city here, quiet right?
Speaker 2: Well quse what Dorothy said there? She was from Kansas,
Speaker 2: so there's no traffic in Kansas anyway, right?
Speaker 7: True that.
Speaker 2: I love your call, Patty. I love your calls. I
Speaker 2: really do think and have a blast. And when they
Speaker 2: when they sing cocomo, you got to think of me
Speaker 2: tomorrow night.
Speaker 7: Okay, I think of you even without a cocobo but
Speaker 7: I will think of you extra when cocobo comes and
Speaker 7: you know what, I'm going to tape record it and
Speaker 7: then I'm gonna email it to you.
Speaker 2: That sounds great. I'll look forward to be well. Uh
Speaker 2: and again you're blessed to have a designated driver. You
Speaker 2: can you can be ready, you can be ready for showtime. Man,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be great, gonna be great. Thanks, Patty.
Speaker 7: You might wring mad when all else fails. You're right
Speaker 7: on the side there.
Speaker 2: I would be with you any any time you need
Speaker 2: the help. You let me know.
Speaker 4: Okay, don't you worry.
Speaker 7: We'll have about time one day.
Speaker 2: You'll see, all right, Thanks Patty, talk soon. All right,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. Good bye. Let's keep rolling here. We're
Speaker 2: gonna get a bunch of folks in so Patty, obviously
Speaker 2: I didn't ask her the question, but she's gonna she
Speaker 2: is going to see the Beach Boys tomorrow night, and
Speaker 2: that's gonna be an incredible moment in time. Next up
Speaker 2: is John and framing him. Oh Joe, Joe and framing him.
Speaker 2: Hey Joe, welcome. How are you tonight?
Speaker 8: I'm doing pretty good. Danny, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. You got a tough act to follow
Speaker 2: with Patty here, So give it your best shot. Joe.
Speaker 4: She was, she was terrific.
Speaker 8: Listen. I was very upset about the article in the Globe.
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, I retired a few years
Speaker 8: ago after spending thirty five years in the hotel advertising business,
Speaker 8: mostly kid card And first of all that article. Tourism
Speaker 8: is the second largest industry in the state of Massachusetts
Speaker 8: now on Cape Cord. It's not like that every day.
Speaker 8: It depends when you go. Fridays you have a tough
Speaker 8: coming home. Sundays are tough in the summertime, but it's
Speaker 8: not always like that. For example, my wife and I
Speaker 8: came back last week from Dennis Boy. We left Tuesday
Speaker 8: morning at eight thirty. We made it back to fending
Speaker 8: Him in under two hours from Dennis rat. So it
Speaker 8: always depends on when you go to the Cape. I mean,
Speaker 8: there's crowds wherever you go. If you got ninety three
Speaker 8: towards towards Laconia, for example, Jamma people start skiing, you're
Speaker 8: going to get a Jamma people. So that article was very,
Speaker 8: very depressing. As a matter of fact, one more thing,
Speaker 8: I sent that article over to a bunch of Cape
Speaker 8: Card Chamber of Commises. So let's see what they say
Speaker 8: about that. Why do they have to knock tourism. I
Speaker 8: don't understand it.
Speaker 2: I don't look. I mean, maybe he had a bad
Speaker 2: I didn't go over his itinerary, but he saw a
Speaker 2: lot in four days. He spent some time with his
Speaker 2: buddies overnight, and Chatham went over, went out to Nantucket.
Speaker 2: He saw it all, played golf at Cranberry Valley. I
Speaker 2: know who this Joe is now I caught your voice.
Speaker 2: You don't have to tell me because I know exactly
Speaker 2: soon as you said, advertising is my pal, a very
Speaker 2: good friend of mine. I'm so happy that you called.
Speaker 2: We're gonna I'm gonna have breakfast on Saturday morning with
Speaker 2: our mutual friend, and I'm gonna tell him I called
Speaker 2: in on Friday night.
Speaker 4: Be terrific.
Speaker 8: But like I said, it's it's to knock the tourism industry.
Speaker 8: Of course, it's crowded in the summertime, it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Remember remember the remember the line from Yogi Bearer. Yogi said,
Speaker 2: no wonder nobody comes here, it's too crowded. Well that's
Speaker 2: kind of what is a Yogi Bearroism kind of works
Speaker 2: the same way for for tourism. The cape is beautif
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, and it's so much easier
Speaker 2: to get to than Martha's Vineyard. I never missed the ball,
Speaker 2: but I got to tell you they were. There were
Speaker 2: days when it was touch and go, and your heart
Speaker 2: is in your throat, Oh my god, because once you
Speaker 2: miss it stand by line, there's no no priority, no
Speaker 2: priority whatsoever. It's great when the boat pulls away. And
Speaker 2: it's also great when the boat brings you home and
Speaker 2: your back on mainland Massachusetts. So great to hear your voice. Great,
Speaker 2: you sound great, problem you sound great? Will talk soon,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 5: Thanks Joe, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny, you know when a friend of mine
Speaker 2: will listen and call, I'm delighted. Look, we got to
Speaker 2: take a quick break here the two five four line.
Speaker 2: They're full. Okay, I'm gonna get Anthony, John and Larry
Speaker 2: if you'd like to get through right now. Two lines
Speaker 2: open six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. It's simple.
Speaker 2: Six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. Is the
Speaker 2: cape worth the trip? In my mind, no question what soever.
Speaker 2: It is always worth the trip. I think we're blessed
Speaker 2: to have the Cape. I truly believe that, and I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope to hear from here. And if you think
Speaker 2: it's not, if you agree with Billy Baker columns for
Speaker 2: the Globe, feel free. We invited Billy to come on. Hey, look,
Speaker 2: he had plans. I'm not gonna rip him. That's his opinion.
Speaker 2: He's a north Shore guy. Maybe if you maybe there's
Speaker 2: a geographic difference here. We heard from Joel from Natick,
Speaker 2: Patty from Wellesley, and Joe from framing him. Those are
Speaker 2: those are south of the Pike. Maybe that's the key.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Coming back, but we got Salem coming up,
Speaker 2: in New Bedford coming up, we'll see coming back. Right
Speaker 2: after the news at the bottom of the.
Speaker 1: Hour, you're on Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The Redshawks are now down six zip in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: So if you're watching the game, you can turn the
Speaker 2: game off and focus on Nightside. Let's go next too.
Speaker 2: Here we're going to next. We got John up in Salem.
Speaker 2: First guy from the north Shore. John, Welcome, How are
Speaker 2: you on Nightside? Oh? Where's John? Let's put John on
Speaker 2: hold and he's not ready Okay, We're going to go
Speaker 2: next to Larry, back down to the Cape. Larry, how
Speaker 2: are you? I am, well, Dan, Well you you live
Speaker 2: down the Cape, so I don't know if you're eligible
Speaker 2: to offer an opinion here, right.
Speaker 4: And I didn't live here all the time, I know, I.
Speaker 2: Know, only teasing you, Larry, go ahead, that's all right,
Speaker 2: that's all right.
Speaker 4: So people don't realize the people that rent houses like
Speaker 4: for a week. I want to take a whole week
Speaker 4: that's Saturday to Saturday. In my neighborhood, the time shares
Speaker 4: are Friday to Friday. Then you have the weekend warriors
Speaker 4: to come down Friday and leave Sunday. Right, So Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 4: it's always a lot of traffic. When I was we've
Speaker 4: had my house now for oh my god, like thirty
Speaker 4: five years, and I had a business in Chelsea. So
Speaker 4: my wife was a teacher, so they moved down here
Speaker 4: for the summer. My kids grew up here, were lifeguards
Speaker 4: and worked in the restaurants, and I, instead of being
Speaker 4: a weekend Maria, I was fortunate enough that they had
Speaker 4: my own business. I would come down like maybe Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 4: and there'd be no traffic. But the biggest complaint that
Speaker 4: we have. You know, I still have to leave Cape
Speaker 4: My doctors are up there. I had to go up
Speaker 4: to Burlington last week. But we're very, very frustrated that
Speaker 4: the state is taking so long to replace the bridges.
Speaker 4: The bridges were built for fifty year lifespan. They're already
Speaker 4: ninety years old.
Speaker 2: They needed they were built in the early in the
Speaker 2: mid nineteen thirties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, and so we know that they need to
Speaker 4: be replaced. So you're coming down Route three heading to
Speaker 4: the Sagamore Bridge. It narrows down to one lane as
Speaker 4: you're approaching the bridge, and the lanes are very narrow.
Speaker 4: Of a big truck in front of you if it
Speaker 4: gets pretty scary. Sure, So that's kint of the problem.
Speaker 4: So the secret is, Dan, you ready for this.
Speaker 2: I'm always.
Speaker 4: Okay. You got to take the tunnel.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I've died the tunnel a couple of times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have a tunnel path, yeah, funnel path.
Speaker 2: You get it. I was able to get a tunnel
Speaker 2: pass correct. Yeah. And the traffic was very light, very.
Speaker 4: Very I have to tell you Cape Cod is so beautiful.
Speaker 4: That's why I live here. I have friends that come
Speaker 4: down here. Cape Cod is not just about the beaches.
Speaker 4: I mean, I live in Dennisport, Dennis the Tunnel. Dennist
Speaker 4: has eighteen beaches you can take. You can be in
Speaker 4: the Bay side, you can be on the Nantucket Sound side,
Speaker 4: and we have fresh water beaches. But I take my
Speaker 4: friends in the woods mountain biking and they go Larry,
Speaker 4: I never knew that Cape was like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, the Cape has a lot to offer. And
Speaker 2: by the way, in case anyone thought we were being serious,
Speaker 2: there is no tunnel there, though I do see some
Speaker 2: people have it, says Cape called tunnel pass. Yeah, who's
Speaker 2: selling those? But they're yeah, that's pretty creative.
Speaker 4: That's right. And I have in the back of my
Speaker 4: car Dennis Port will always be Exit nine, none of
Speaker 4: the Exit seventy six or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I know, yeah, you're absolutely right. It's so
Speaker 2: they changed all those signs about I guess four or
Speaker 2: five years ago, and at the time, I figured someone's
Speaker 2: making a lot of money on this, and I had
Speaker 2: no idea who was making them, who was scamming that,
Speaker 2: but it just was it was crazy. I loved you.
Speaker 2: Remember the signs that were on one twenty eight back. Oh,
Speaker 2: this has got to be fifteen years ago. You're now
Speaker 2: passing through the watershed area of whatever, you know, the
Speaker 2: Muddy River or whatever it was.
Speaker 5: It was like, I don't really know that.
Speaker 2: I don't really need to know that. I need to
Speaker 2: know what time I'm in. I need to know how
Speaker 2: far away the next exit is, but I don't need
Speaker 2: to know what aqua for I'm driving over.
Speaker 4: And the same thing is, I don't need to know
Speaker 4: what mild Mocker I'm at. And the highway everybody has
Speaker 4: GPS's and everybody has cell phones is really ridiculous. Cape
Speaker 4: Cod is beautiful. And if you want what people should
Speaker 4: say in the Dennis Portiera, because we never have to leave,
Speaker 4: I don't go over the bas River Bridge or the
Speaker 4: Herring River Bridge.
Speaker 5: Well I do.
Speaker 4: I stop at the star Market and Harwich souh. But
Speaker 4: this everything you need right here, he's got. I don't
Speaker 4: know how many restaurants. You have, so many beaches, that's
Speaker 4: the secret.
Speaker 2: Don't no question, no question. And you don't have to
Speaker 2: take a boat, which is the other No boats.
Speaker 5: The boats.
Speaker 2: The boats for me was always tough because I was
Speaker 2: I was always fearful that I was going to miss
Speaker 2: the boat, literally.
Speaker 4: But it keeps me frustrating when you when you're here
Speaker 4: for a week, you're so relaxed and you do have
Speaker 4: to fight the traffic you go home. I can understand
Speaker 4: why the guy was frustrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get that he only did four days,
Speaker 2: but it sounded like he had a great time. Did
Speaker 2: you have a chance to read the article? Did you
Speaker 2: have a chance to read the article in the Globe
Speaker 2: today or no? I think it was online.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was busy all day.
Speaker 2: He talked about that. He liked what he said, but
Speaker 2: the question was for him, is Cape Cod Worth the
Speaker 2: miserable traffic? And now the traffic's a little tough, but
Speaker 2: it's nothing like trying to get to that boat. If
Speaker 2: you make a mistake and you're trying to get to
Speaker 2: the ferry going over to the vineyard and you missed
Speaker 2: that ferry, who you go to the standby line? That's
Speaker 2: where you go, simple as simple as that, you know. Anyway,
Speaker 2: ferry always right here, you boys? Thank you? My friend
Speaker 2: with buck soon okay, all right, all right. All of
Speaker 2: a sudden we had packed lines. A couple of people
Speaker 2: dropped off. John wasn't there don't know where John was.
Speaker 2: He was up on the north Shore. He might have
Speaker 2: got discouraged. So I do have some open lines which
Speaker 2: I can get you in. I'm going to go to
Speaker 2: Anthony new Bedford in a second, but I have two
Speaker 2: lines at six one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: If you've been dialing our six one seven, nine thirty,
Speaker 2: we're talking I'm talking about And if you're just by
Speaker 2: the way, if you're in the car right now, I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from you, and let's find out from you.
Speaker 2: How what give me an on the scene traffic report.
Speaker 2: Billy Baker, a Globe staff writer, wrote a piece that
Speaker 2: appeared in the Globe today. The paper copy is Cape
Speaker 2: cod worth the miserable traffic. I think is well worth it,
Speaker 2: I really do. Even after four sublime days in Chatham
Speaker 2: and on Nantucket, Chatham is like you know, top shelf,
Speaker 2: right at the elbow of the Cape. Even after four
Speaker 2: sublime days in Chatham and on Nantucket, a Globe writer
Speaker 2: isn't all that sure. I think it was pretty clear
Speaker 2: that Billy, who comes from the north Shore, should be
Speaker 2: thinking about Maine and New Hampshire joining the conversation. Here
Speaker 2: it goes Anthony and New Bedford Anthony. Ever get over
Speaker 2: to the Cape.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'll do a great antheon. They you get to get
Speaker 2: over to the Cape, mauch, I assume you do.
Speaker 6: I go.
Speaker 3: I go to the Cape every weekend. And there's a
Speaker 3: place that I go to and it's just I don't
Speaker 3: know if I should say the name, but it's a
Speaker 3: nice restaurant. It's called Tomatoes. And then they got an
Speaker 3: and they got assist a restaurant to Matillios and they
Speaker 3: it's one's a Mexican restaurant. One's an Italian restaurant and
Speaker 3: delicious food, pre entertainment Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, got a huge
Speaker 3: dance floor and they got live entertainment, and and it's
Speaker 3: it's free. Like I said, if you go there, you
Speaker 3: eat the drinks. The staff is wonderful.
Speaker 2: I mean, so what town when you come from New Bedford,
Speaker 2: what town are you heading to?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 2: What part of the cap?
Speaker 3: It's in Sandwich, Maks. You go over the bridge over
Speaker 3: the over Yeah, you go over to Sagamore Bridge into
Speaker 3: Sandwich and I believe it's Route thirty two or something.
Speaker 3: And what a wonderful place. Every I go there every weekend.
Speaker 3: I make a point to go there. They got the
Speaker 3: big dance floor for dancing. I mean I love to dance,
Speaker 3: and they get the life entertainment.
Speaker 2: Do you take your wife? You love one? Are you
Speaker 2: going over there? Pick it up? When meet new people?
Speaker 3: When when my yeah, well I bring my wife all
Speaker 3: the time. When my kids come into town, I bring
Speaker 3: them up there. Any friends and family, I make sure
Speaker 3: they go there, and they always they all have a
Speaker 3: great time. And they have these two main singers. One
Speaker 3: of her names uh Colleen, and uh you got Colleen?
Speaker 3: And a number one singer. He's all over the place,
Speaker 3: Chops Turner and and they call him the voice of
Speaker 3: Massachusetts or whatever. And what a wonderful time.
Speaker 2: A lot. We have a lot of entertainers. Anthony who
Speaker 2: listened to Night Side, Steve Sweeney's always listening, the great
Speaker 2: blues Man, James Montgomery. There's some other folks who who
Speaker 2: I don't know nearly as well, who are out doing
Speaker 2: gigs on Friday night, and and they're listening the way home.
Speaker 2: I never mind plugging local talent.
Speaker 3: And they got, yes, they got Wednesday. They got Wednesday,
Speaker 3: Friday and Saturday, and of course they got Sunday, but
Speaker 3: they got the breakfast, the brunch and stuff and everything.
Speaker 3: But the food is wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2: So how long is you right? Okay, Anthony, give me
Speaker 2: a quick I'm guessing you're an hour and twenty minutes max.
Speaker 5: Between out and no.
Speaker 3: Well, like I said, I go every Saturday, and they
Speaker 3: normally stop like seventh, seven thirty. I'll leave. I'll leave,
Speaker 3: you know a new benefit about seven thirty and I'm
Speaker 3: there by eight o'clock, eight ten, whoa, whoa, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'm telling you. I avoid all the traffic everything,
Speaker 3: and I have a a great time. And you know
Speaker 3: they're open to like eleven thirty and live entertainment, free entertainment.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I think we're I think we've
Speaker 2: given good pluge to both places. They should set you
Speaker 2: up tomorrow night with a couple of.
Speaker 3: Beers away you Dan, Hey, Dan, you need to go
Speaker 3: try it and try the food, especially the bake stuff
Speaker 3: squad with seafood lops them in it. Oh my god, delicious.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, Anthony, Thanks so much for calling. If I
Speaker 2: heard from you before, is this your first time calling?
Speaker 3: That's my first time calling.
Speaker 2: Well, you got at because we want to give you
Speaker 2: a wrong lauch man. Let me tell you well, enjoy
Speaker 2: and enjoy and enjoy, Anthony, come on back. I love
Speaker 2: your passion. That's what I love in callers. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much, my friend.
Speaker 3: Maybe one day we'll see you out there. You never know,
Speaker 3: you'll never know.
Speaker 2: I'm around. I'm around. Thanks, Anthony, Be well, my friend,
Speaker 2: be well, have a good night you too. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, so this one line open at six one seven,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. I got Dan and Easton, I got Al,
Speaker 2: who's on the way to the cave. I'm looking for
Speaker 2: order to see what Al has to say. And I
Speaker 2: got a line or two at six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. Well, let's finish strong. Oh two
Speaker 2: five four ten thirties full, No problem, We'll just keep
Speaker 2: going here. Let's finish strong because we will change topics
Speaker 2: beginning at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's cape rolingh are going to go to
Speaker 2: Jennifer in Winchester. Hi, Jennifer, welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 6: I'm a longtime fan and listener.
Speaker 2: Willie, is this your first time calling.
Speaker 6: It is my first time calling.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I thought I had a Jennifer from Winchester,
Speaker 2: but now I am certain of it.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Welcome, Oh, thank you Dan a huge fan. I
Speaker 6: was calling because I actually just zipped over, zipped over
Speaker 6: the Sagamore Bridge.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: I you said you want to to hear particularly from
Speaker 6: people on the road. Now I've you know, so you know,
Speaker 6: I've been coming down to Cape Cod for over forty
Speaker 6: five years and uh, you know, my my, my two senses.
Speaker 6: You just have to plan accordingly. I'm going to Purtuit tonight,
Speaker 6: so that's the old exit exit too, so you know,
Speaker 6: thank goodness, it's not like going way down to the
Speaker 6: end of the the uh.
Speaker 2: Or leads or town.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly. And you know, so I think you
Speaker 6: just plan accordingly. I mean I literally kind of watched
Speaker 6: my Google Maps all afternoon and just you know, was
Speaker 6: watching to see when a good time would be to
Speaker 6: head out and left, you know, after the rush hour.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm fortunate enough to kind of be flexible
Speaker 6: about when I you know, take off and just head
Speaker 6: down here. And I just you know, I zipped right
Speaker 6: down here is an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: That Friday night. Well, I am by the way you
Speaker 2: once you get over the bridge, the busy reception kind
Speaker 2: of drops off. Unfortunately, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: How how are we coming in over the car radio tonight?
Speaker 6: Well, I have to say to you that I'm actually
Speaker 6: using I'm watching. I'm listening to you through iHeart Radio
Speaker 6: because I love you. I love you so much that
Speaker 6: I like to I listen to you even when I'm
Speaker 6: traveling and in Europe or wherever.
Speaker 4: I you know, I like to listen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, oh you my heart here, Jennifer. I'm serious.
Speaker 4: No, it's true.
Speaker 6: No, it's true.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 6: Dan and uh my father used to as well. He
Speaker 6: was a big fan as well. You may have uh,
Speaker 6: you may have known him. He had a large role
Speaker 6: in the Fourth of July in Boston.
Speaker 5: Fourth of July.
Speaker 2: Oh, if he's who I'm thinking about, is he the
Speaker 2: big guy the fourth of July?
Speaker 5: He is the big was the big guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, very close. He's a very close friend of my
Speaker 2: former boss, Peter Casey, who I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, very very very close. Yeah, Peter is a
Speaker 6: dear friend and dad adores adored Peter. So but my
Speaker 6: family is a huge fan of yours now and always
Speaker 6: has been. And you know, we you know, like I
Speaker 6: said on your subject of what you were wondering about tonight,
Speaker 6: you know, the Cape. I did not know about this
Speaker 6: article and Globe. I definitely want to find it and
Speaker 6: read about it. My family has.
Speaker 4: Also had some.
Speaker 6: Interest in businesses down here, so over the years, you know,
Speaker 6: and and and I really hope people are not deterred,
Speaker 6: you know, by the traffic. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 6: just have to kind of you know, lump it or
Speaker 6: you know, you just kind of work it. And I
Speaker 6: could not agree with you more about the anxiety though
Speaker 6: about trying to catch a ferry Dad, I mean, that
Speaker 6: is just yeah, it's too much, you know.
Speaker 2: So it was fun. It was fun for a little while,
Speaker 2: but after after a while again everybody, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you want to identify your dad, but everybody should
Speaker 2: know O do it. Yeah, you go right ahead, you
Speaker 2: give him the good introduction this. Your dad was an
Speaker 2: amazing individual, obviously someone who was involved in the media,
Speaker 2: but had if it had not been for him and
Speaker 2: for Arthur Feeler, we never would have had the extravagancer
Speaker 2: of the fourth of July.
Speaker 6: On Yeah, my dad, David Mugar, Yeah, on the Esplanaut
Speaker 6: and he you know, he just is actually coming up
Speaker 6: on h Next year will be a big year because
Speaker 6: it's going to be the two hundred and fiftieth. And uh,
Speaker 6: my family continues, My family continues to sponsor just the
Speaker 6: fireworks portion of the event.
Speaker 2: That's a big part of the that's a big part
Speaker 2: of the event.
Speaker 4: Okay, So yes, you know exactly.
Speaker 2: What we're saying. Uh, Jennifer, I'm so happy that you called.
Speaker 2: And uh, I miss your dad. He was even though
Speaker 2: I never worked for him, he's he he influenced my
Speaker 2: life as well. And sometimes when i'm when I talk
Speaker 2: to you and I see you, I can tell you
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 6: I'd like to see you, Dan. Yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 6: see you sometime, you know, Dan, because I you know,
Speaker 6: I'm feeling really sad right now, missing him in partigure
Speaker 6: and you know this coming week is hard.
Speaker 2: And Rob will give you my cell phone number. Rob me,
Speaker 2: Jennifer my cell phone number, Okay, and give me a
Speaker 2: call anytime, Okay, Jennifer, thank you so much.
Speaker 6: And I'd love that. So the traffic's clear tonight, Dan,
Speaker 6: and I will I will get the information from Rob Rober.
Speaker 2: Don't hang up, Rob will give it to you right
Speaker 2: away the cell phone. Rob. Okay, that'd be best. Thank
Speaker 2: you much, Thanks Jennifer, let me go next. Al is
Speaker 2: also on his way to the Cape he al, where
Speaker 2: are you headed at this point?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on ninety three. It's smooth sale and I
Speaker 5: just came through a beautiful city. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 5: It's a blessing every time. But you do have to
Speaker 5: pick your battles. And if I'm stuck in traffic, I
Speaker 5: just kick back and drive like a trucker, is my motto.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah, So where's your destination tonight?
Speaker 5: East Ham, which is overrun with poison ivy and greenheads. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I go up.
Speaker 2: I know east Ham, there's no doubt, no doubt. I
Speaker 2: know east Ham. So you got a little bit of
Speaker 2: a way. What's your GPS? Tell you a couple of
Speaker 2: hours at least? U?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got our twenty seven. I'll go buy play.
Speaker 2: That's great. That just what. We'll keep your company all
Speaker 2: the way. Fair enough, you just we'll get you. We'll
Speaker 2: get you there safe inside. El Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Have you called before since your first time?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Second time?
Speaker 2: Second time. No applause for the second time, but I'm
Speaker 2: looking looking forward to the third time.
Speaker 5: There's one important piece of information. Even though it's smooth sailing,
Speaker 5: there's always a small pack of crazy, aggressive drivers that
Speaker 5: go zipping by. Drives me crazy, Me too, this day,
Speaker 5: me too.
Speaker 2: It's like, where where is it? Where's a state trooper
Speaker 2: when you need them? That's you know, exactly yeah, and
Speaker 2: they and not only I'm not talking about speeding. I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about somebody doing seventy or seventy five. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about weaving in out of traffic doing seventy and
Speaker 2: seven times.
Speaker 5: Absolute pet peeve, unsafe laying changes. It should be banned
Speaker 5: for everyone.
Speaker 2: Totally with you, Totally with you, Al, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Great to hear your voice. Call again anytime. Okay, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: tally helpman talk to you soon, Tally ho. Joe would
Speaker 2: play with Joe love to get you in one more
Speaker 2: in if you can do it in a minute. I
Speaker 2: got one other person who's kind of late as well.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 4: Since seventy five, my Palments took us in the stage.
Speaker 9: Dagon over Martin's Vineyard. We were looking for Quin's house,
Speaker 9: and all the other things, and they have taken anything
Speaker 9: away for the movie. Then when I turned seventeen back
Speaker 9: in seventy nine, we went down to Falmouth for the
Speaker 9: road race and we never never ran into any traffic.
Speaker 9: And then going to the Cape through the eighties and
Speaker 9: so forth, you know all the mill Hill Club and
Speaker 9: Papa Estonian and Jason, all these popular calude rascals and
Speaker 9: we never had any problem but targ of him back then.
Speaker 9: It'll family and my well, my boys down the Cape.
Speaker 9: I always traveled on off hours, you know, late at night.
Speaker 2: Got to be got to do that, Got to do that, Joe,
Speaker 2: I want to get Fred from framing him in for
Speaker 2: about twenty seconds. I thank you much for calling. Appreciate
Speaker 2: your participation tonight. We've got a great cross section of travelers.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, Joe, you too, Bay Bye bye. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me get Fred. I'm going to give you about
Speaker 2: thirty seconds. What can you do with it? You've called
Speaker 2: lake all right after? Go ahead, Fred, h dank. Just
Speaker 2: to let you know. I'm in the car on the
Speaker 2: way to k Excellent.
Speaker 3: We left Framingham around nine o'clock, so it's just about
Speaker 3: an hour gone now and we just passed through Plymouth.
Speaker 5: Well there's no traffic.
Speaker 2: Well guess what we're gonna we'll keep your company all
Speaker 2: the way. Where where's your destination tonight? What town are
Speaker 2: you heading to?
Speaker 5: Heading to Katuit?
Speaker 2: All right, well you're going to be close to where
Speaker 2: Jennifer is going to be tonight. So if you see Jennifer,
Speaker 2: say hello, Fred, We'll keep you company, okay, all the
Speaker 2: way to Katua tonight. Thanks, Thanks Fred, appreciate you're listening tonight,
Speaker 2: said this is your first time calling.
Speaker 4: Yes it is, Well, we had a bunch of first.
Speaker 2: Time calling, so we're going to give you a route
Speaker 2: the claws too from our digital studio audience. Thanks Fred,
Speaker 2: we'll talk again, I hope. Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I hope so have a great one.
Speaker 2: Good night. Okay, that was a great week of back.
Speaker 2: We are going to talk about Donald Trump, who's in
Speaker 2: a bit of a role, had a couple of Supreme
Speaker 2: Court decisions today that I think he liked a lot.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the final day, the final
Speaker 2: decisions of this term of the US Supreme Court, and
Speaker 2: then at eleven tonight going to do a very special
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