Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm WBZY Costs Radio.
Speaker 2: It's all right nine o'clock here on a Thursday night,
Speaker 2: and again my thanks to Morgan White. Last night I
Speaker 2: was dealing with a horrific I don't know what it was,
Speaker 2: head cold, bronchitis, I have no idea, but I'm I'm
Speaker 2: not at one hundred percent, but I'm back tonight and
Speaker 2: coming up at ten o'clock. We'll be talking with the
Speaker 2: WBZ car guys. Larry and Scott answered all well, they'll
Speaker 2: be answering all of your questions, any automotive questions you
Speaker 2: might have. And delighted to be joined now by a
Speaker 2: guest hasn't been on the show in a while. He's
Speaker 2: known professional professionally as Joey Voices. Also is a real name,
Speaker 2: Joey Noon, Joey Voices, Welcome back to Nightside. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3: Good damn?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me?
Speaker 2: Well, you're very very welcome. You know, I think most
Speaker 2: people in the night Side audience know who you are,
Speaker 2: and many people in the night Side audience have seen
Speaker 2: you performed. How did you develop this ability where you
Speaker 2: basically do voices of the famous singers that all of
Speaker 2: us know and love, and you move from one to
Speaker 2: the other. How did you develop that? Are you a
Speaker 2: guy that sang in the shower a lot?
Speaker 3: Another kids?
Speaker 5: I grew up in a big family. My father was
Speaker 5: a quarterback from all my high school nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 5: He was a stude then when eight and two my
Speaker 5: brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight kids, four boys,
Speaker 5: four girls. I'm the only one they planned, and I
Speaker 5: was an afterthought in my family. My brothers and sisters
Speaker 5: were all stellar all star athletes MVPs in their sports,
Speaker 5: and I was this little kid who had all this
Speaker 5: to live up to. I was living in the shadow
Speaker 5: of my father and my brothers and sisters, so I
Speaker 5: didn't know who the heck I was.
Speaker 4: But God gave me a talent to be able to sing.
Speaker 4: For some reason.
Speaker 5: Out of one hundred people in my family, including all
Speaker 5: the great grandkids and grandkids, I'm the only one with
Speaker 5: any musical talent. I don't know how the heck that happened,
Speaker 5: but I just think God said, you know what, I
Speaker 5: got to give this kid something because he's he's lost
Speaker 5: in his family, and so he gave me that and
Speaker 5: my brothers and sister's not playing sports anymore. But guess what,
Speaker 5: I'm still singing and I'm still making a career out
Speaker 5: of it nationwide for the last twenty one years, and
Speaker 5: I'm grateful every day. So mimic in the radio is
Speaker 5: really how I developed my talent to be able to
Speaker 5: sound like singers, because the average person who has their
Speaker 5: own vibrato and now the word vibrato means the bounce
Speaker 5: of your voice and it bounces at a certain frequency.
Speaker 5: Well over time, me trying to sound like the radio,
Speaker 5: I actually cross trained my voice to be able to
Speaker 5: change the vibrato of my voice, which is not very common,
Speaker 5: but that's common amongst impressionists. And there's a lot of
Speaker 5: impressions around the country that you know, you know a handful,
Speaker 5: but that are very good at it. And I have
Speaker 5: my very very deeply and we're wire.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a sciens to this. So you've been doing
Speaker 2: this for twenty three years, is that what you said?
Speaker 5: Twenty twelve? Twenty one years, twenty one plus years professionally
Speaker 5: as Joey Voices. But I started my show in two thousand,
Speaker 5: actually two thousands when I started with the Joey and
Speaker 5: Maria's comedy wedding singing in front of audiences around the
Speaker 5: country with the show, and then I started Joey Voices
Speaker 5: really in the three But when I start Danny ganzelp
Speaker 5: Vegas One, I said, Man, this guy is doing what
Speaker 5: I'm just doing. My car and I said, I went
Speaker 5: back to Boston and I started my own show, and
Speaker 5: it's the rest has really been just a success story
Speaker 5: because it's put so many smiles in thousands and thousands
Speaker 5: of people's hearts to help them forget about their cares
Speaker 5: for a while. And they when they you know, at
Speaker 5: the end of their work week, you know, And I'm
Speaker 5: grateful to have been a part of that. And they
Speaker 5: have the fan base that I have and the love
Speaker 5: and adoration I have from people because I love people.
Speaker 5: And what better line of work to be in for
Speaker 5: someone like me grew up in a big family where
Speaker 5: my dad was a trial lawyer and a charismatic guy.
Speaker 5: What better line of work for someone like me to
Speaker 5: be in than entertainment.
Speaker 2: Well that's true. Now let me ask you, how many
Speaker 2: days a year or months a year are you out
Speaker 2: on the road as opposed to you know, working more locally.
Speaker 5: So it was a lot before COVID. Then COVID kind
Speaker 5: of took it away. COVID kind of stole my business
Speaker 5: from me, and so they didn't have an audience anymore.
Speaker 5: So I had to, you know, I just just to
Speaker 5: stay busy. I took a job working for the housing authority,
Speaker 5: and I was I learned how to rewire things and
Speaker 5: change out comage disposals and you know, and just kind
Speaker 5: of just do meaning a label work. And then when
Speaker 5: everything started to open back up, my business started to
Speaker 5: open back up. And once I got a phone call
Speaker 5: from the TV show Chronicle on CHAIRL five back in August.
Speaker 5: They wanted to do a story on my career, and
Speaker 5: I said, wow, that's what a great opportunity. So they
Speaker 5: called me and they came out and they interviewed me,
Speaker 5: and they took about ninety minutes worth of footage and
Speaker 5: they cut it down to two minutes and twenty eight seconds,
Speaker 5: and I said, you know, one of most and the
Speaker 5: most powerful two minutes and twenty eight seconds I could
Speaker 5: have ever imagined out of ninety minutes of footage, you know.
Speaker 5: And so my phone hasn't stopped ringing since.
Speaker 2: That that's a fabulous story and I know that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you've got to be up with our friend Paul Solano
Speaker 2: this weekend at the Pro Street station in mald In,
Speaker 2: your hometown. Bit of a bit of a homecoming. Why
Speaker 2: don't we do this, Joe, Why don't we just take
Speaker 2: a little bit of a break here. You got to
Speaker 2: take a commercial break. And there are folks out there
Speaker 2: who have come to you, gone to one of your shows,
Speaker 2: or maybe gone to more than one of your shows,
Speaker 2: and they'd like to chat with you for a second.
Speaker 2: That's fine. Uh, maybe we can get a couple of
Speaker 2: requested Maybe there's a couple of people out there who's
Speaker 2: favorite singer. You can you can be in a situation.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put you on the spot, but
Speaker 2: maybe we get a few bars bars of Frank Sinatra
Speaker 2: or Elvis or whoever else other people might want you
Speaker 2: love fair enough, So my guess, Joey voices. Last time
Speaker 2: we did this was pre COVID, and I remember we
Speaker 2: were in studio. We had a lot of fun. Uh,
Speaker 2: broadcasting remotely. Joe is I'm not sure where he is,
Speaker 2: but he's he's We're not in the same studio However,
Speaker 2: if you'd like to join the conversation and talk to
Speaker 2: Joey and ask him about the career, it's a I
Speaker 2: guess it would be called a very parapatetic career, meaning
Speaker 2: you move from here to there and uh uh. And
Speaker 2: at its best it's probably really busy. And obviously when
Speaker 2: COVID occurred and a lot of restaurants closed up for
Speaker 2: a while, it probably slowed down. But it's picking back
Speaker 2: up and that's good for Joey and it's good for
Speaker 2: for people want to get out. And if you're around
Speaker 2: this Saturday night before the before Christmas, the Pearl Street
Speaker 2: Station on Summer Street, seven o'clock show and the doors
Speaker 2: open at six thirty. Paul Salana's great friend and a
Speaker 2: great guy up there, and where you got a guy
Speaker 2: like Joey voices, I'm sure they'll they'll pack the place
Speaker 2: and you'll have a lot of fun. We'll take a
Speaker 2: quick break back on nightside. If you like to join
Speaker 2: the conversation and maybe suggest a quick few notes, a
Speaker 2: few bars. We can get Joey to give you a
Speaker 2: little a little one on one example of his work.
Speaker 2: Six thirty six, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty don't
Speaker 2: want to put anyone on the spot, but feel free
Speaker 2: give a call. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios. I'm dumb and bzy news Radio.
Speaker 2: My guess is Joey voices Joey. Everybody is I think
Speaker 2: out Christmas shopping or something, and they don't want to
Speaker 2: a call. So I'm going to ask you who is
Speaker 2: the I'm assuming Sinatra has to be the uh, the
Speaker 2: male singer the you most asked to imitate.
Speaker 6: So Sinatra.
Speaker 5: Sinatra is one of the older ones. A lot of
Speaker 5: the older folks like the Sinatra, but you know the
Speaker 5: gen xers they like like Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers,
Speaker 5: you know, al Green boss guy, so you go, good
Speaker 5: Michael McDonald. But I want them to come and see
Speaker 5: the Sinatra because it's really good. I do Bobby Garren,
Speaker 5: Tony Bennett, uh, you know, Uh Ray, Charles, I do
Speaker 5: a lot of the old time crooners, and I put
Speaker 5: some you know, good comedy spin on it. But I
Speaker 5: don't want to give rid of it with any of
Speaker 5: the comedy away tonight because I want people to come
Speaker 5: and see it live, because that you know, you don't
Speaker 5: want to take away from the luster of it. But
Speaker 5: do you want to hear Michael McDonald, I'll do a
Speaker 5: good Michael McDonald.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go forget it. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers. Uh, he's he's
Speaker 5: actually a wonderful uh uh vocalist. He's very soulful, and
Speaker 5: when he joined the Doobie Brothers it kind of transform
Speaker 5: the band.
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 5: Doobie Brothers loyalists weren't very happy when he joined because
Speaker 5: of what he brought to the table, but anybody who's
Speaker 5: musically inclined understands all that did was just kind of
Speaker 5: help records sell and it just kind of made the
Speaker 5: band even better. Now I'm of that younger generation, Michael
Speaker 5: McDonald's was probably my favorite vocalist male vocalists of all
Speaker 5: time as a singer and a singer impressionist. And here's
Speaker 5: my Michael McDonald impression.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: He sings a member the song I Keep forgetting. Sure
Speaker 5: he just forgotten, We're not in love it and all? Okay, forgotten,
Speaker 5: never never be the same again. Okay forgotten?
Speaker 4: Oh you man, that's a.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 5: That's the people. But but I do a really good
Speaker 5: comedy bit on that, on all the whole sway on
Speaker 5: Michael McDonald. The people will see the nights they come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll say that, we'll say that.
Speaker 5: How about little Bosscats? You like Boss Skaggs. Boss Skaggs
Speaker 5: was really big in the jazz world, and Boss Skaggs
Speaker 5: is something you hear impression is too a lot. But
Speaker 5: he's a voice that I do because I used to
Speaker 5: love him when I was a kid, because I used
Speaker 5: to play his.
Speaker 4: Record over and over.
Speaker 5: Boscats had a funny sounding voice and he used to
Speaker 5: sing the song dirty load. Remember the song dirty lowdown?
Speaker 2: Not feel that one. Sure when you're singing, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: remember it.
Speaker 4: I'm here we go, Are you ready?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Bangers and running around and went the crowd. But y'all
Speaker 4: bess in the stream talking about now, saying about and
Speaker 4: asked that how much you understand and swam and musbling.
Speaker 4: It wasstand down buzzgags, bozzcats.
Speaker 2: A very that's a very different and unique sound. Obviously,
Speaker 2: did you ever run into any of these guys uh
Speaker 2: out on the road who you're you know, who you
Speaker 2: do the impression of? And I mean some of these.
Speaker 5: Guys actually listen to you. I wish that I could
Speaker 5: like say this in a colorful way to kind of
Speaker 5: impress your listeners. I wish I could say that I have,
Speaker 5: but I haven't. I haven't met any of them, and
Speaker 5: you know, I wish that I had, but you know,
Speaker 5: not to say that I won't, but I just haven't.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot of these guys now
Speaker 2: who are uh they're they're not at the end of
Speaker 2: their careers, but but they're not selling out the Gillette stadiums.
Speaker 2: They're not the uh you know, the Taylor Swifts of the.
Speaker 5: World, not the premier performers anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but these guys and women who have great followings nonetheless.
Speaker 2: And I had Engelbert hupper digg on but about a
Speaker 2: year ago and I lost him. Delightful. He took all
Speaker 2: sorts of phone calls from people, and of course a
Speaker 2: lot of the people were just thrilled to talk with them.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that he was in Medford at the
Speaker 2: Chevalier Theater was a great theater. I would be at
Speaker 2: some point along the way, you're going to meet some
Speaker 2: of some of these guys. Obviously, the ones like Sinatra
Speaker 2: et Centa who have passed on. You're not going to
Speaker 2: meet him in this life. But who knows what?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: What is the fad Tom Jones Tom Jones bit, Oh yeah, oh,
Speaker 5: and my show is a riot. I do this funny
Speaker 5: Tom Jones bit. I'm not going to give it away
Speaker 5: right now, but I want people to come to the
Speaker 5: shot see it. It's really comical.
Speaker 2: And shot the Chateau de Ville in framing him. I
Speaker 2: don't remember that.
Speaker 3: He could not know.
Speaker 5: That's before my time.
Speaker 4: I'm fifty two.
Speaker 5: So what year you talking about?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm talking sixties, late sixties and early seventies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before I.
Speaker 2: Sell it out. And he was the guy where women
Speaker 2: would literally throw their underway up on stage.
Speaker 5: Yeah for the room keys at him. I saw him
Speaker 5: perform in nineteen ninety five and the Bank Boston Pavilion,
Speaker 5: you remember that place on the water the air in
Speaker 5: the harbor, and and I took my parents for their
Speaker 5: anniversary and he, let me tell you, that guy had
Speaker 5: to change his shirt about seven times throughout his performance
Speaker 5: because he swept so bad. But he was such a
Speaker 5: hairy guy. But girls, women, they just loved him. They
Speaker 5: just you know, his his his sex appeal was like
Speaker 5: Elvis Presley, but just a little different in a different way.
Speaker 5: Oh that guy could move.
Speaker 2: He's a guy, if I'm not mistaken. He's from Wales,
Speaker 2: so yeah, he had sort of that foreign element to him.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I remember seeing him back in the day.
Speaker 2: And yeah, there were some of these guys that were
Speaker 2: just just fabulous. I mean Jimmy Buffett, who of course
Speaker 2: is now no longer with us.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, Yeah, he was great. I don't
Speaker 5: do Jimmy Buffett, not that they couldn't. I just never
Speaker 5: really thought to do it. But that might be something
Speaker 5: Michael Worker, now that you've mentioned it. But Jimmy Buffetts,
Speaker 5: you know, he's great and he shouldn't be that hot
Speaker 5: to do me.
Speaker 2: The Tom give me a little Tom Jones here.
Speaker 4: So Tom Jones, uh my, my my, your a god.
Speaker 5: So they gotta So when they people come to the show,
Speaker 5: you gotta hear it with the music. But when you
Speaker 5: the show, you got you gotta hear the comedy bit
Speaker 5: that I wrote, the comedy bit that it's it's great,
Speaker 5: it's funny, very funny to do.
Speaker 2: This what this is called a cappella what it's you
Speaker 2: without me?
Speaker 5: So it's not it's not as appealing without the music.
Speaker 5: When you hear the music and you come to the show,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get the full effect of like here, like as.
Speaker 4: If you're at the concert, you hear the music, you're.
Speaker 5: In the voice, You're gonna feel all of it when
Speaker 5: you're there. I'm only giving you kind of shadow are
Speaker 5: looking through, you know, a grimy screen if you will,
Speaker 5: like you're getting kind of just a little bit of
Speaker 5: a visual of it. You gotta experiences.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you Saturday night. So it's two nights from now,
Speaker 2: seven o'clock up at the Pro Street station in Malden.
Speaker 2: Paul Solano is your host up there. Tickets are available
Speaker 2: again if people are looking for somewhere to go. Uh. Great,
Speaker 2: the great location, a great event. He's got a little
Speaker 2: bit of he's got a he's got a stage there,
Speaker 2: which I did not realize. Yeah, I wasn't sure.
Speaker 5: It's a really good room.
Speaker 2: Good room.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're welcome the comedy time again. I mean no,
Speaker 5: everybody there knows. Yeah. Com many time you go up
Speaker 5: on the stage and kind of address the audience if
Speaker 5: you want to before the show. You're always welcome my show.
Speaker 2: So many times, no I appreciate. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: I've been dealing with some I think it's bronchitis, and
Speaker 2: it's been it's been kind of wild. Here. Let me
Speaker 2: get one phone call in here for you. I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that Eric from Wakefield would like to talk with Joey Voices. Correct, Rob,
Speaker 2: I think I've lost hold on. Let me let me
Speaker 2: bring him up. Rob. I don't know where you went,
Speaker 2: but I'm bringing Rob up. Hey, Hi, I'm bringing Eric up. Eric,
Speaker 2: Eric with Joey's voices.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Joey, Joey, it's Eric the Birdman from Wakefield calling.
Speaker 7: You're in. I'm gonna try to make it up to
Speaker 7: your show Saturday night. Everybody out there should get up
Speaker 7: there and see this guy. I'm a big am radio fan.
Speaker 7: I'm a big Joey Voices fan. I'm hoping to get
Speaker 7: up there with my daughter Saturday night. Joey. I'd like
Speaker 7: to hear a little baby a little I'd like to
Speaker 7: hear baby a little Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond and you
Speaker 7: gotta do the de Niro, Rodney.
Speaker 4: James, so little Ronnie James Fields.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'll tell you it's me Ron and I got
Speaker 5: no respect. I'll tell you, yeah, I'll tell you my
Speaker 5: wife and I we were happy for twenty years. Yeah,
Speaker 5: then we met. I'll tell your name easy.
Speaker 7: I love it. I hope to see you Saturday night.
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna I'm gonna hang out the best.
Speaker 7: Thanks Dan, but uh yeah, dude, Jude, give him a
Speaker 7: little de Niro, give him a little Neil Diamond.
Speaker 4: We'll give it a happy I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Give it all man.
Speaker 5: He comes out here to get the whole comment. You
Speaker 5: know you got it, Thank you, thank you for calling
Speaker 5: God bless your brother.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I will let me get one
Speaker 2: more in here for you before I got to let
Speaker 2: you go here. Florence in New Groveland, Florence, you're next
Speaker 2: on nice side with Joey voices, Go right ahead. What
Speaker 2: would you like to hear Florence?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Joey purty here, you let me hear you do.
Speaker 5: Rachel Rachel you want to hear me to read Chiles?
Speaker 3: Okay, he is your favorite.
Speaker 4: I love rachels Rich Arles is great. This is America, sweet.
Speaker 4: You know America. God does set his race on d
Speaker 4: theyre bron You know her brother who from she to
Speaker 4: shot and see thank you very much. I love you
Speaker 4: beautiful all right.
Speaker 2: Florence, thanks very much, Rachel Kelly, Thanks Florence, Bye bye,
Speaker 2: Joey again Saturday night. This Saturday night, the twenty first,
Speaker 2: up in at the Pearl Streets in Malden. I hope,
Speaker 2: I said, Maldon before fifty three Summer Street and Malden.
Speaker 2: Easy to park, easy parking around there, easy to get
Speaker 2: to on the tee seven seven o'clock show, doors open
Speaker 2: at six thirty. Joey has always we'll see you soon.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: You don't want me in that audience because I want to.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what I'm dealing with here, but
Speaker 2: I want to get myself back healthy. I slept sixteen
Speaker 2: hours yesterday. I've never slept that long in my life.
Speaker 5: Oh geez, you must be beautiful beauty sleep.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, let me tell you I was. I
Speaker 2: was a hurting poppy. I'm still a hurting poppy. Actually,
Speaker 2: thanks joe we'll talk soon.
Speaker 5: Chant think you much to go bless the Murk Christmas
Speaker 5: by by you're right back.
Speaker 2: At you, Okay, will we get back. I'm gonna open
Speaker 2: the phone lines up. I think we just got we're
Speaker 2: waiting for the car guys. The car guys are coming
Speaker 2: into and anything you want to talk about in the
Speaker 2: next half hour your choice, coming back on Nightside. Open
Speaker 2: up the phone lines, rob let them come and let
Speaker 2: them bring up whatever topic you want back on Nightside
Speaker 2: right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we got about a I don't know twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes between now on ten o'clock and right after
Speaker 2: the ten o'clock news. We'll be joined by Scott Larry
Speaker 2: Scott Larry Rubinstein, the the WBZ Nights, our car guys,
Speaker 2: So whatever questions you might have about and that's automotive
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, amongst other things. We will spend the last
Speaker 2: two hours of our broadcast year on our twelfth annual
Speaker 2: Night Side Charity Combine, and we will talk with representatives
Speaker 2: of upwards of twenty different charities. It's all always a labor,
Speaker 2: but a labor of love to put that program together.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to a variety of people from different parts
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and what they are doing
Speaker 2: to help their communities, and maybe some of you will
Speaker 2: decide that you'd like to support some of these charities.
Speaker 2: They run the gamut of just about everything you could imagine,
Speaker 2: from lemonade stands up to the South Sudanese in Richmond
Speaker 2: for families, program entrepreneurs. There's all sorts of materials in
Speaker 2: which you could help. Of course, our favorite the Shadow Fund,
Speaker 2: Ian Fidrick, the Fidrich Foundation named after the great tiger
Speaker 2: picture Mark Fidrich who left us much too soon. Adopt
Speaker 2: a platoon southeas style, which is a great charity. The
Speaker 2: Fisher House in Boston, handy capable above the clouds, benings
Speaker 2: with a mission, partakers, companion, and but just a whole
Speaker 2: group of great subjects. Tomorrow night from ten until midnight,
Speaker 2: and it's there will be no phone calls, just be
Speaker 2: an opportunity for each of these great charities to talk
Speaker 2: about their mission, what they do, what group of people
Speaker 2: they try to help, and what they need, whether they
Speaker 2: need volunteers. There's a lot of volunteer opportunities if you
Speaker 2: have if you have some time, and time is the
Speaker 2: greatest I think quality, any quality anyone can have at
Speaker 2: this point, if you have time or if you at
Speaker 2: the end of the year, a loorek going to make
Speaker 2: a donation to support a charity that is doing something
Speaker 2: that you can identify with. That's a great opportunity to
Speaker 2: do that before the end of the year. Now, within
Speaker 2: the twenty or so minutes twenty three minutes we have left,
Speaker 2: I just want to open up the phone lines. We
Speaker 2: have done that a couple of times in the last month.
Speaker 2: Just whatever you want to talk about. If there's a
Speaker 2: subject that you feel we have ignored, feel free to
Speaker 2: make the suggestion. If there's an issue that you feel
Speaker 2: you disagree with me strongly on, that's okay. There's an
Speaker 2: issue feel that you agree with me strongly on, that's okay.
Speaker 2: If you have gone through what I've been going through
Speaker 2: the last seventy two hours, which started out as a
Speaker 2: kind of a head cold and worked into a chess cold.
Speaker 2: I'm told there's a lot of stuff going around. COVID
Speaker 2: is still going around. The Globe still releases every Thursday statistics,
Speaker 2: and I think for last week there were some thirteen
Speaker 2: hundred cases of COVID that were diagnosed in Massachusetts and
Speaker 2: nine people expired off COVID. Yeah, thirteen seventy six confirmed COVID,
Speaker 2: nineteen cases, nine deaths last week. This again has it
Speaker 2: hasn't gone away. I guess we came to understand that
Speaker 2: it wasn't going to go away. That's going to be
Speaker 2: something that we're going to live with, just like the flu.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming and I talk with my doctor today.
Speaker 2: He thinks it's bronchitis from the symptoms that I have
Speaker 2: described to him. Did a chest X ray yesterday, and
Speaker 2: you know, whenever you do a chest X ray, you're
Speaker 2: thinking they want to eliminate pneumonia, and apparently that worked out.
Speaker 2: I tested myself for COVID came back negative. But that's
Speaker 2: how badly I felt and for me to be off
Speaker 2: last night, and again thanks to my good friend Morgan
Speaker 2: White for sitting in for me. That would give you
Speaker 2: some indication. I tend not to want to miss work
Speaker 2: once I started a Monday night. I like the pace
Speaker 2: of the five day week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: because what happens is sometimes on Monday and Wednesday, something
Speaker 2: will Monday or Tuesday something will transpire and you don't
Speaker 2: get around to it, and then you end up doing
Speaker 2: that on Wednesday or Thursday or Friday. So sort of
Speaker 2: the pace of the week is important. And when I
Speaker 2: called in sick yesterday. It's the first time I've done that,
Speaker 2: I think in five years. I'm trying to I want
Speaker 2: to go back and figure out when was the last
Speaker 2: time I had a sick day. I've been blessed with
Speaker 2: great good health and with through all my doctor's appointments.
Speaker 2: Last month, you know, I was down the Cape for
Speaker 2: the summer and I kind of stacked up all my
Speaker 2: doctor's appointments, and all of a sudden, it was like, WHOA,
Speaker 2: this hit me like a ton of bricks. So if
Speaker 2: you'd like to commiserate, that would be great. Love to
Speaker 2: know what you did to get rid of it. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping by no later than tomorrow that I will be
Speaker 2: back feeling. I'm not one hundred percent. I know that
Speaker 2: I'm probably sixty sixty five percent of how I feel,
Speaker 2: and I want to make sure that it's that it
Speaker 2: keeps going in that direction. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. Got one line at six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. Then we'll go to Larry
Speaker 2: down in the Cape. Hey, Larry, welcome, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: night'sat Larry. How are you.
Speaker 8: I'm doing okay?
Speaker 5: Dan?
Speaker 4: How about you?
Speaker 8: It sound a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you're doing better than me. But when
Speaker 2: you say you're doing okay, are you dealing something.
Speaker 4: As well well?
Speaker 8: As you well know, I'm vaccine injured from the Maderna vaccine. Yeah,
Speaker 8: three years now, and yeah at twenty twenty one. Then
Speaker 8: I got long COVID so in twenty twenty three. So
Speaker 8: you just struck a nerve though with me when you
Speaker 8: talked about nobody seems to be talking about it. So
Speaker 8: in the support group that I'm in, I sent you
Speaker 8: an email on this. In US, in the support group
Speaker 8: that I'm in at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, they
Speaker 8: invited a news investigator from one of the major local channels.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I can mention, sure, yeah, go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 8: go ahead, Okay. Mike Boudette from Channel five, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 8: was invited into our support group and we had an
Speaker 8: hour of people about forty of us talking about all
Speaker 8: of their struggles about not being able to get unemployment,
Speaker 8: not being able to get any kind of help from
Speaker 8: the government, and it's been very, very frustrating, and it's
Speaker 8: kind of not in the public eye anymore. And this
Speaker 8: is what's interesting. I met some neighbors that I hadn't
Speaker 8: seen in a while. So they asked her how I'm doing,
Speaker 8: and I said, you know, I'm much better and actually
Speaker 8: seeing a natural path and taking a whole bunch of
Speaker 8: Chinese Arabs. And so I said, have you ever had COVID.
Speaker 8: You won't believe his answer. He goes no. I said, really,
Speaker 8: he goes no. I just have a test. I said,
Speaker 8: Oh my god, this is why it's spread so much.
Speaker 8: So many people think it's nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think we have been loveled into I
Speaker 2: think we have been loaded into a sense of security.
Speaker 2: When you look at these stats from Massachusetts that I
Speaker 2: just read to you. You know, there was a time
Speaker 2: when there were tens of thousands of people contracting COVID
Speaker 2: every week. Now, yes, now, last week thirteen hundred ninety six,
Speaker 2: fourteen hundred people in nine deaths.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think you're right. Most people kind of
Speaker 8: consider it like a cold or a flu. As As
Speaker 8: a matter of fact, my wife and I had to
Speaker 8: drive up to Wallfam today are we'd go to eye
Speaker 8: specialists over in Wallfam. I had some eye surgery back
Speaker 8: a while back. Anyway, I noticed the doctors they're not
Speaker 8: even wearing masks. Anymore, and it's a very casual environment.
Speaker 8: But I want to mention one thing last night. You
Speaker 8: were talking about the poor drivers in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: That wasn't last night, that was two nights ago because
Speaker 2: I wasn't radio last night. Bogin White was here last night.
Speaker 2: That I can tell you for sure.
Speaker 8: Go ahead see the brain fog is still there. And
Speaker 8: you were focusing on the green light situation, which I
Speaker 8: cannot totally understand that. Here is one thing that bugs
Speaker 8: me to no end. You're on a four lane highway
Speaker 8: like one twenty eight and I usually drive in the
Speaker 8: second length from the right, but you always get plenty
Speaker 8: of notice with signs and everything that your exit is
Speaker 8: coming up. Why does everybody have to go from the
Speaker 8: left lane all the way over to get off to
Speaker 8: the exit with like one hundred feet before the exit.
Speaker 8: It is so frustrating.
Speaker 2: Well, people don't think in a dance. It's they don't anticipate,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like that.
Speaker 8: I think it's more like it's all about me.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I'm saying. It is all about them.
Speaker 3: Wow, And they.
Speaker 2: And the idea is that they're the most important person
Speaker 2: on the road. Uh yeah, they like you they have
Speaker 2: to catch you off. It's the same way. It's the
Speaker 2: same symptom. When I talked the other night about people
Speaker 2: who are sitting at green lights, sitting in red lights,
Speaker 2: waiting there the first in line. The light turns and
Speaker 2: it takes them twenty seconds to step in the accelerator.
Speaker 3: What are they doing?
Speaker 2: I mean red light. I assume you're watching the red
Speaker 2: light to see when it turns, because if you're not
Speaker 2: watching the red light, then you shouldn't be in a car.
Speaker 2: But again, it's whatever they're doing, somebody's called them on
Speaker 2: the phone, or they got to make a phone call,
Speaker 2: or they got to check something. They got to check
Speaker 2: to see if they've had an important email or something.
Speaker 2: It's all, yeah, it's about them, Larry Simple.
Speaker 8: Well, your next segment is gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: Back when I was working, I owned the automotive spring
Speaker 8: shop in Chelsea, like forty forty Oddeas So Larry and Scott,
Speaker 8: I'm sure at some point I know they were and
Speaker 8: I sold us to the springtum at one point and
Speaker 8: I know them. Oh it'll be a nice Yeah.
Speaker 2: They're good, Larry. I appreciate it. Hope you hope you
Speaker 2: feel better, that's for sure. And uh thanks, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know you're a Festivus guy, so I got to wish
Speaker 2: you a happy Festivus. You know, when you start celebrating
Speaker 2: quads and let me know, I wish you happy Quads
Speaker 2: of Christmas, Honicle, whatever you celebrate, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: wish you happy.
Speaker 8: Okay, And you're sticking with Festivus holiday for the rest
Speaker 8: of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem. Do you have a big group down
Speaker 2: there in the cable celebrates Festivus?
Speaker 8: Everybody as soon as they see me. That's the first
Speaker 8: thing that I say. Larry, do you have your Festivus poll?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Good? Six months seven two, five four to ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Six months seven nine, three one ten thirty. I think
Speaker 2: you're all ready for Scott and Larry. They'll be here
Speaker 2: right after the ten o'clock news. In the meantime, you
Speaker 2: got me for fifteen more minutes. Anything you'd like to
Speaker 2: talk about. It's open lines. We don't do it often,
Speaker 2: done it a couple of times in the last month.
Speaker 2: Take advantage of it. If you wait until like five
Speaker 2: minutes of ten, probably not going to get on. Give
Speaker 2: us a call. Six month seven two, five four to
Speaker 2: ten thirty six months, seven nineth three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Whatever's on your mind? Coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ the news Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see if folks want to talk about Ron
Speaker 2: up in Salisbury. I see they're doing ran a lot
Speaker 2: of work on Salisbury Beach. Are you close to that?
Speaker 6: Hey, hey Dan? Yeah, just probably about five or ten
Speaker 6: blocks is Ron Tony Giadmo from Salisbury Beach.
Speaker 4: I used to talk to you when you first.
Speaker 6: Came on during the afternoons, uh, for your highlights. I
Speaker 6: just wanted to take a minute to wish you and
Speaker 6: your family a very merry Christmas and a happy and
Speaker 6: healthy New Year and twenty twenty five. I've been listening
Speaker 6: to you for a long long time, and I want
Speaker 6: to wish you and your family nothing but the best.
Speaker 2: My friendly Well, I really do appreciate that. Ron. That's
Speaker 2: really very kind of you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It picks my spirits up tonight because I'm sort of
Speaker 2: a hurt and puppy here, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, I'm looking looking forward to the uh
Speaker 2: to the car guys. But that's great so that that beach. Uh,
Speaker 2: I've followed that story. I know that Bruce har has
Speaker 2: been very much involved in that. And that's a beautiful
Speaker 2: beach up there, and it's it'd be hard beach.
Speaker 6: Bruce has been very good. He's our new senator for
Speaker 6: the district in Salisbury and before that we had our representative,
Speaker 6: which was kill course, but uh, you know, he's brought
Speaker 6: money in, you know, to I think it was a
Speaker 6: million dollars. Uh, you know, to stop you know, backfilling
Speaker 6: in this area because we we almost lost a couple
Speaker 6: of houses there, that's how close it was. And uh sure,
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's gonna wash away again, but
Speaker 6: you know, we're gonna keep our fingers crossed because Salisbury
Speaker 6: Beach is a beautiful place to be, especially those who
Speaker 6: live on the water. And I'm only one block over
Speaker 6: from the water, so it's uh, it's.
Speaker 2: Very if you don't even if you don't live in
Speaker 2: the water at the proximity of the beach, the fact
Speaker 2: that you can get out there and take a walk
Speaker 2: anytime of the year and smell that salt water. That's
Speaker 2: what what's living in Salisbury is all about. So as
Speaker 2: well as the bars date Marsha got.
Speaker 6: Up there exactly exactly. Thanks a lot, Dan, take care
Speaker 6: of yourself, my friend.
Speaker 2: Run very Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for being such a loyal listener these
Speaker 2: these many years. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: That a great night.
Speaker 2: Let me go to George in Westwood. Hey George, how
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Hey? Dan, First and foremost, I hope you get better fast,
Speaker 4: especially before next Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: The only thing, the only view that I can recommend
Speaker 4: right now because I am a big vitamin freak. You
Speaker 4: can call me. See Vitamin D and selenium. Okay, So
Speaker 4: it's a selenium you m at the end. It's a
Speaker 4: it's a big anti oxidant. Okay, you don't want to
Speaker 4: take too much of it, but you know, one dose,
Speaker 4: let's say, you know, in the morning and one night
Speaker 4: before you go to bed. It really really helps Dand
Speaker 4: it's underrated.
Speaker 2: Let's just say that. And it's s A L E
Speaker 2: N I U M.
Speaker 4: I assume S E L E N I U M celen. Okay,
Speaker 4: And what do you get that you can pick him
Speaker 4: about any c v S or anything. Envitamin D. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 4: Vitamin D is also good for the cold. Okay, Vitamin
Speaker 4: D is basically when we get through that.
Speaker 2: I do vitamin D every day. I do C I
Speaker 2: do a multi vitamin. I do fish oil, I do
Speaker 2: magnesium oxide. Yeah, I'm a big vitamin guy. Uh and,
Speaker 2: and I've been very lucky. Every once in a while,
Speaker 2: I get hit with a nasty situation like I'm dealing with.
Speaker 2: But again, it's just been in my head and in
Speaker 2: my chest. So it's I think we're starting to get
Speaker 2: ahead of it. I get what they call a Z
Speaker 2: pack from my dog today, he said, he set that in.
Speaker 2: I got some some codeine which will help me sleep
Speaker 2: a little bit better tonight. We'll get up. We'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But have you have you avoided this this fall? I
Speaker 2: took all my shots. I took my flu shot a
Speaker 2: year ago, I got my RSV shot, I got my
Speaker 2: updated COVID shots, So I figured I was all set.
Speaker 2: I was healthy as a horse the entire year. Only
Speaker 2: the last two days it's it's just been miserable.
Speaker 4: Well, I have to admit I did not take any
Speaker 4: COVID shots. None of my family did, my wife, nor
Speaker 4: my daughter, and actually my wife had to. My wife
Speaker 4: had to retire from Harvard Business School because she refused
Speaker 4: to take the shot.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not fair. By the way, my daughter graduates.
Speaker 4: Let's just say, we're not gonna sue them. We're not
Speaker 4: going to sue them. He was either get either take
Speaker 4: the shot or get fired, they said. But because she
Speaker 4: had you know, she had completed her quarters or whatever
Speaker 4: they call it. You know, she was vested whatever they
Speaker 4: call it. She basically she completed them a few weeks
Speaker 4: before the deadline. So she went to hr HR said,
Speaker 4: you know what, you can retire and you can have
Speaker 4: the the insurance a health insurance package as a retiree
Speaker 4: that covers me as well. It costs me four hundred
Speaker 4: bucks a month then, and I got the best insurance
Speaker 4: in the world. Either. It's all good, exactly, and you
Speaker 4: know what, wait, we're happy. The other thing I wanted
Speaker 4: to say is lattery from the cape. A true festivus guy.
Speaker 4: He called in with his grievance, A true festivous guy. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm the guy who I got it wrong. I'm the
Speaker 4: guy who called up and I said that maybe terrorist
Speaker 4: activity before the elections, we may not have elections. We
Speaker 4: had elections. My man one Okay, I'm still worried between
Speaker 4: now and generally twenty if that's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: I think it's very smoothly. I think people are going
Speaker 2: to be very happy. Uh. And again, he won the election,
Speaker 2: he won the popular vote, he won the electoral college vote.
Speaker 2: I am surprised that he was able to the greatest
Speaker 2: political comeback in the history of the country. I hope
Speaker 2: he has a better second term than he's in a
Speaker 2: fourth term that he had it.
Speaker 4: Well, he's picking his own people now, he's not trusting
Speaker 4: the back established. He's picking his own people. That's a
Speaker 4: good thing about him.
Speaker 2: All Right, Thank you, George, you got it. That's my home.
Speaker 2: You too, you too. Let me go next to Glenn
Speaker 2: and Brighton. Hey Glenn, welcome. How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm in now.
Speaker 3: I'm in a good move because you're doing open lies,
Speaker 3: which is my favorite thing. Because I had to do errands,
Speaker 3: I missed KRISTINUNU did anybody mention he did something I
Speaker 3: disagree with and I he banned Russian made Rodka because
Speaker 3: of Ukraine and I just for those of us like me,
Speaker 3: I'm an isolationist, as you know. I don't think U
Speaker 3: greens our flight. I just you know, I don't buy
Speaker 3: Russian madevot and number one it's too expensive. Number two,
Speaker 3: I hit I don't get you to New Hampshire anymore
Speaker 3: because my driver passed away four years ago, but he
Speaker 3: lived in New Hampshire. But having said that, as someone
Speaker 3: who was born and raised in the freest country in
Speaker 3: the world, I'd like to make my own decision as
Speaker 3: an adult, what kind of outcome I want to buy.
Speaker 3: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: I suspect it probably probably you could buy Russian vodka
Speaker 2: somewhere other than New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: So it's just the idea. And they hadn't live free
Speaker 3: or dnasty. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh, I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. Well, you know what I wish you
Speaker 2: called in. No one did raise the issue with Chris,
Speaker 2: but he had a great hour with him, and I
Speaker 2: hope you can listen to it at the nine o'clock
Speaker 2: hour and Tuesday night night side.
Speaker 3: Of the bed to mean you're going to rerun it?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's good. We're gonna rerun it. I
Speaker 2: think on Sunday night at eleven when we do the
Speaker 2: best off this coming Sunday night. Oh, I believe that
Speaker 2: was the hour we picked for this Sunday night. But
Speaker 2: you also have Nightside on demand on the computer I
Speaker 2: don't have on the internet. You can always listen to
Speaker 2: prior broadcast.
Speaker 3: We take everything now.
Speaker 2: I don't have cast form. No, I get it. I understand.
Speaker 2: I understand Dyke and a proud troglodyte as well, if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: That's why my friends call me troggy pooh. But I
Speaker 3: just wanted to give a shout out to my favorite
Speaker 3: coll Christine and Denim. She's a mega too, She's my
Speaker 3: favorite core.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm sure she's to hear that right now.
Speaker 2: Glad I got to run because I'm up against it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you got it.
Speaker 3: In Okay, Thank you much, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thanks thanks to Let me uh, let me see if
Speaker 2: I get Sean and havel Sean. Are you waiting for
Speaker 2: the car guys or do you want to say something quickly?
Speaker 9: No, I just want to say something quickly. I hope
Speaker 9: you get well soon, my friend and I actually real quickly.
Speaker 9: I actually started listening to you when my wife and
Speaker 9: I were living in Wilmington before twenty twenty and we
Speaker 9: just bought our first home in December of twenty twenty
Speaker 9: in Abril, and I'm listening ever since. And I love
Speaker 9: your show and I want to wish you and your
Speaker 9: family of very merry Christmas and very happy twenty twenty
Speaker 9: five and beyond, and as well as to all the
Speaker 9: listeners out there or Festivus or Honka, whatever you celebrate.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. That's great. Yes, that's what That's
Speaker 2: what Night Side is all about. Whatever you celebrate, we'll congrass.
Speaker 3: Thank you on.
Speaker 2: I'm a Christmas guy and I think you are as well.
Speaker 2: I'm going to wish you in yours.
Speaker 7: I definitely am.
Speaker 9: God bless you my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Seawan. We'll talk soon, Okay.
Speaker 5: Definitely on the other Okay, good night on the other
Speaker 5: side of the ten.
Speaker 2: Here come the car guys, get your questions, get in line.
Speaker 2: We'll be back right after the ten